Course Descriptions and Information
for Arts and Humanities Courses

Fall Term 2024-2025


CRN:	15701
Section:	ARTD 112 01
Title:	Photography I
General Course Objectives:	The students will develop technical, visual, and conceptual skills in visual storytelling.
Description of Subject Matter:	This is an entry-level art course that employs photography as a creative medium to express oneself. The students will be encouraged to view their environment – not through the lens of an outsider viewing a novelty, but to give us, as viewers, special access to their world.
Instructional Materials and Sources:	Adobe Photoshop is required. DSLR camera is recommended. Technical Demonstrations, visual lectures, and presentations, assignment critiques, and critical articles will be provided.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities

CRN:	15767
Section:	ARTD 120 01
Title:	Painting I
Instructor:	Kell, Anna K.
General Course Objectives:	An introduction to painting from observation. Emphasis on color theory, translation of form, mark-making, and composition.
Description of Subject Matter:	Color composition, still-life, landscape, and portrait.
Method of Instruction and Study:	Studio practice and instruction, introduction of various painting techniques, study of historical and contemporary painting.
Instructional Materials and Sources:	Stretched canvas, boards, oil paint and medium, brushes, etc.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities

CRN:	16759
Section:	ARTD 130 01
Title:	Printmaking I
Instructor:	Lopez, Eddy A.
General Course Objectives:	An introduction to printmaking for the beginning level student. The course will emphasize the development of basic skills in printmaking, etching, and relief printing.
Description of Subject Matter:	A variety of assignments will be presented to students using printmaking as a way to visualize ideas.
Method of Instruction and Study:	Lecture, discussion and demonstration of the concept and technique. Students will be responsible for the verbal articulation of their own work and the work of others during class critiques on the prints in progress. Reproductions and actual prints in the Samek Art Museum and Special Collections will be studied. Students will be evaluated on the development and proficiency of visual expression in printmaking.
Instructional Materials and Sources:	Students are responsible for some materials. Most specialized materials are provided in a workshop setting.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities

CRN:	15845
Section:	ARTD 131 02
Title:	Drawing I
Instructor:	Kell, Anna K. Lopez, Eddy A.
General Course Objectives:	This is a basic course designed to introduce drawing materials and skills as well as fundamental principles of composition. It is geared to develop an ability to observe, to coordinate visual sensitivity with technical discipline and to build a visual vocabulary. The student will gradually develop a greater sensitivity and assurance in drawing and will be challenged to use materials and techniques expressively and creatively.
Description of Subject Matter:	A variety of problems will be presented to introduce the student to drawing as a process of visualizing ideas. Primary emphasis will be on problems dealing with form and space. Subject matter is objective and will include work from still-life, the figure, landscape and interiors.
Method of Instruction and Study:	Structured problems will include both class work and drawings done outside of class. Students will be responsible for verbal articulations of their own work and the work of others during weekly critiques on drawing in progress. Slide reproductions of recent and master drawings and field trips wills supplement studio work. Students will be evaluated on their development of visual expressions in drawing.
Instructional Materials and Sources:	Paper, drawing boards, various drawing materials.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities

CRN:	15668
Section:	ARTD 150 01
Title:	Sculpture I
Instructor:	Meiser, Joseph D.
General Course Objectives:	This course will introduce students to a variety of sculptural materials and processes, impart a critical understanding of how meaning is created in a work of art, and increase students’ familiarity with contemporary sculpture.
Description of Subject Matter:	A variety of problems are presented to introduce the student to sculpture as a process of visualizing ideas. Students learn how to create objects with structural and visual integrity acquire dexterity in the manipulation of a range of tools and materials; simultaneously, students learn to imbue their artwork with meaning, and gain the visual literacy required for the effective interpretation of works of art. The topic of sculpture is explored from a variety of perspective: as an individual investigation, and as a means of influencing society, and as a proactive of cultural significance.
Method of Instruction and Study:	Over the course of the semester, students conceive and execute multiple projects that merge traditional and contemporary artistic practices. Emphasis is placed on creating sculptural works that are both visually compelling and intellectually engaging. Students complete writing assignments to increase their awareness of contemporary art, brainstorming exercises to facilitate creative problem solving, participate in discussions and critiques to gain skill in the analysis of visual works, and augment class activities by attending art-related events.
Instructional Materials and Sources:	Paper, drawing pencils, sire, cardboard, foam. Most major materials supplied, however students must acquire specific hand tools.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities

CRN:	15483
Section:	ARTH 101 01
Title:	World Art I
Instructor:	Boxer, Carly B. Wargula, Carolyn J.
General Course Objectives:	This course teaches students to think critically about images and objects in historical context. By the end of the semester, students will have 1) gained a broad knowledge of images, objects, and sites produced around the globe before 1400 CE 2) learned to analyze works of art according to formal principles and with a critical eye to the historical forces that shaped their production 3) become aware of the religious, social, and political consequences of artistic change over time.
Description of Subject Matter:	From the earliest prehistoric cave paintings to the great shrines and cathedrals of the Middle Ages, people across the world made images, objects, and sites that reflected and shaped the social, political, and religious forces of their time. This course examines the history of premodern art across the globe through the lens of historical change. Covering a period of over 40,000 years, we will investigate how and why people have made art, the changing meanings and values given to artworks, and what messages works of art have conveyed. A key tenet of the course is that the works of art we study can serve as historical evidence for understanding the past; learning to look at premodern art with skill and historical sensitivity is therefore essential to our understanding of the past.
Method of Instruction and Study:	Lectures and discussion; weekly quizzes; 3 short written responses; visits to the Samek and Special Collections; formal project proposal; final digital project.
Instructional Materials and Sources:	Critical essays, academic studies, primary source documents, and occasional recordings in video or audio format; all available on course Moodle.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities

CRN:	14945
Section:	CBST 199 01
Title:	Intro Critical Black Studies
Instructor:	Brady, Nicholas A.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities

CRN:	15053
Section:	CBST 204 01
Title:	Racism(s) Across the Americas
Instructor:	Rojas, David M.
General Course Objectives:	Improve skills of writing, oral communication, and critical thinking • Analyze the history of the US nation from the perspective of marginalized groups • Gain familiarity with critical race studies scholarship
Description of Subject Matter:	We explore how the idea of “America” is entangled with racialized systems of domination. Looking into anti-racist ideas and actions today, the course critically explores the shared histories and common futures of diverse peoples across the Americas.
Method of Instruction and Study:	Class time includes a mix of lecture, discussion, student presentations, and small group discussions. Students are expected to read assigned materials prior to each meeting as well as to complete scheduled assignments that are to be submitted online. These assignments will help students prepare for the classroom-based activities as well as for the quizzes and papers that they are expected to complete.
Instructional Materials and Sources:	Course materials include films, short videos, documentaries, book chapters, journal articles, and news pieces.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities

CRN:	16689
Section:	CLAS 141 01
Title:	Ancient Cities
Instructor:	Tardio, Katie
General Course Objectives:	Students are introduced to Near Eastern and Greco-Roman civilization through study of their major urban centers. The course serves to expose students to multidisciplinary study of the ancient Mediterranean world through archaeology, history, and anthropology.
Description of Subject Matter:	This course is a survey of ancient Mediterranean civilizations from the Neolithic through the Byzantine period as viewed through the lens of their settlements. The survey is archaeological in nature, focusing on the ruined remains of ancient cities and how the disciplines of archaeology and anthropology help us interpret these fragmentary remains. The course will focus on representative urban centers of the ancient Near East, Egypt, and the classical worlds of Greece and Rome. The course takes us from the transition from hunter-gatherer societies to urbanized, state-level societies in the Near East to the transfer of imperial power from Rome to Constantinople in the 4th century CE.
Method of Instruction and Study:	Instruction is based primarily on illustrated presentations and group learning activities. A final project asks students to apply their newly acquired knowledge to the investigation of an ancient archaeological site.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities

CRN:	16690
Section:	CLAS 217 01
Title:	Greek History
Instructor:	Daly, Kevin F.
General Course Objectives:	Ideas about Greek history have permeated our modern lives through television, movies, and literature. But the ancient “Greeks” rarely thought of themselves as a single people. Even so, common concepts bound the Greek peoples together and give us insight into their political and military decisions, their societal norms, and their lasting impact.
Description of Subject Matter:	In this course, we will analyze the social, political, and economic movements which developed the Greek world from the Mycenaeans to Alexander the Great. Through literature, archaeology, and epigraphy, we will look at how “Greek” identity was formed, changed over time, and led to great wars. Focusing primarily on historical changes over time, we will see how these changes gave birth to cultural phenomena, such as art, tragedy, comedy, and philosophy.
Method of Instruction and Study:	Lecture and discussions of readings/primary sources.
Instructional Materials and Sources:	a textbook; texts in translation
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities

CRN:	16692
Section:	CLAS 221 01
Title:	Heroic Epic
Instructor:	Daly, Kevin F.
General Course Objectives:	In this class we will read, analyze, and compare heroic epic poems from Greeks, Romans, and other cultures. Central texts will include The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Argonautica, The Aeneid, and The Tain. Students will learn to recognize, characterize, and explain the shared traditions of epic and the variations in form and content which various cultures bring to the form.
Description of Subject Matter:	Various cultures have produced poems known as epics. Most focus on past times and heroic actions. In many cases, epics help define what a culture expects and values. As both a product and a result of culture, epics demand interpretation. Moreover, the form is hardly as limited as some suspect. Epics of varied cultures are often aware of one another and reflect and reimagine past iterations of the form.
Method of Instruction and Study:	Close reading, writing, lecture, and class discussion. Assessment will involve writing, exams, and presentations.
Instructional Materials and Sources:	Iliad. Homer, translated by R. Lattimore. 2011. University of Chicago Press. Odyssey. Homer, translated by R. Lattimore. 2007. Harper. Jason and the Golden Fleece. Apollonius of Rhodes, translated by R. Hunter. Oxford. Aeneid. Virgil, translated by R. Fitzgerald. 1990. Vintage. The Tain. Translated by C. Carson. 2009.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities

CRN:	16812
Section:	CLAS 255 01
Title:	Archaeology of Food
Instructor:	Tardio, Katie
General Course Objectives:	Students are introduced to the archaeological materials and methodology used in the study of food in the ancient Mediterranean. This course serves to expose students to the multidisciplinary study of the ancient Mediterranean and the production, distribution, and consumption of foodstuffs through archaeology, history, and anthropology.
Description of Subject Matter:	The first half of this course is a survey of the archaeological materials and methods used in the study of ancient food production, distribution, and consumption. The second half grounds the material and methodological framework in representative cultural case studies from urban and rural centers in the Near East, Egypt, and the classical worlds of Greece and Rome.
Method of Instruction and Study:	Instruction is based primarily on illustrated lectures, group learning activities, exams, and small projects throughout the semester.
Instructional Materials and Sources:	No textbooks.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities

CRN:	14182
Section:	DANC 120 01
Title:	Modern Dance Technique I
Instructor:	Knox, Kelly H.
Description of Subject Matter:	Beginning level technique emphasizing the basic principles of different modern dance styles, dynamics and alignment through floorwork, locomotor patterns, improvisation, and movement combinations.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities

CRN:	14188
Section:	DANC 140 01
Title:	Ballet Technique I
Description of Subject Matter:	Beginning level ballet course emphasizing fundamental classical ballet technique and vocabulary necessary for performance.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities

CRN:	10269
Section:	DANC 250 01
Title:	History of Dance
Instructor:	Knox, Kelly H.
General Course Objectives:	The study of dance as both reflective of cultural history and as an art form from pre-literate societies to the present. Focus is on dance as an emblem of basic cultural identity, social order and power, and culturally gender-specific moves; an expression of religious worship; a classical art form, and a medium for personal expression and cultural fusion within the context of both Western and non-Western societies.
Description of Subject Matter:	Survey of Western and non-Western dance forms both as reflective of cultural history and as an art form from ancient times to the present.
Method of Instruction and Study:	Lectures, readings, research, written papers, oral presentations and group discussion; analysis and critique of performances, video, film, photography, slides, etc.
Instructional Materials and Sources:	Required Text: Jones, Gerald. 1992. DANCING: The Pleasure, Power and Art of Movement. New York: Abrams. Supplementary readings and visual sources selected by instructor.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities

CRN:	16551
Section:	DANC 263 01
Title:	Brazilian Arts Movement Fusion
General Course Objectives:	Students will demonstrate the ability to use concepts and tools of inquiry from at least one discipline to examine the beliefs, history, social experiences, social structures, artistic or literary expressions, and/or traditions of one or more cultures or societies located outside the United States.
Description of Subject Matter:	This is an experiential course that investigates the history and socio-political contexts of Brazilian movement forms through embodiment. The students are introduced to the movement techniques of Brazilian martial art forms such as of Capoeira, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Candomblé and other physical practices integrated in Brazilian culture while simultaneously learning how the movements developed historically as a self defense and resilience against oppression. The physical movements are taught and practiced in conjunction with their meanings and social contexts through demonstrations, videos, discussion, and execution. Students learn of Capoeira's origins in Salvador, within the Brazilian state of Bahia, and explore how the moves evolved from enslaved people's disguised defense to a formalized structure and even incorporated into concert dance through both adaptation and appropriation. Daily sessions within the course are mainly focused on practicing the movements of Brazilian movement forms with additional videos, articles, and discussions that inform the embodied experience. In one particular exercise, students learn two distinct phrases of movement. Eventually the students are placed in pairs and while one execute phrase A, their partner is sparring with the oppositional / counter moves in phrase B to learn and understand the full context of the movement sequences as a mechanism for self-defense.
Method of Instruction and Study:	Formative Assessment Means: Class Discussion, Journals, Simulations, Video viewings Summative Assessment Means: Presentations and Final movement demonstrations
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities

CRN:	16552
Section:	DANC 275 01
Title:	Dance Conditioning
Instructor:	Martincich, Dustyn R.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities

CRN:	14160
Section:	EAST 254 01
Title:	Shinto to Shogun: Premod Japan
Instructor:	Orr, James J.
General Course Objectives:	To learn the basic history of pre-modern Japan and to appreciate the historical rootedness of Japan’s artistic and political heritage. Some general questions we will address: How did a scattered tribal society on the periphery of Chinese civilization cohere into an identifiably Japanese political entity and culture, and how did this polity and culture evolve across the centuries? What major eras do historians see in premodern Japanese history, and what is the rationale for this periodization? What were the characteristics of pre-modern Japan that help to explain the Japan of today? What was the human impact on the ecology of the Japanese archipelago and how did the environment impact Japanese political history? What are the stories of the past that are remembered in Japan today?
Description of Subject Matter:	Introduction to the major cultural products of premodern Japan—architecture, art, zen, dramatic arts (kabuki, noh), samurai culture, waka poetry. Archeological and architectural evidence of continental influences, Sui and Tang dynasty influences on early Japanese polity and culture, Japanese foundation mythologies, the Heian culture of classical Japan, warrior and aristocratic culture and its economic bases, the emergence of various strains of Buddhism and Confucianism, civil war in the 16th century, and the following Tokugawa era of peace and uneven prosperity.
Method of Instruction and Study:	Mainly seminar-style discussion of related readings and lecture; quizzes, exams, and a term paper/project.
Instructional Materials and Sources:	Varley, Paul. Japanese Culture 4th ed. plus articles on Moodle. Other reading assignments will be available on Moodle or accessible via the library's online digital databases (e.g., JSTOR). Students will also from time to time need to find historical items on museum and archive websites listed on the syllabus and on Moodle.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities

CRN:	16754
Section:	EAST 255 01
Title:	Modern Japanese History
Instructor:	Orr, James J.
General Course Objectives:	Achieve familiarity with the major developments in modern Japanese history, from the middle 19th to the middle 20th centuries.
Description of Subject Matter:	This course looks at modern Japanese history from the middle 19th century through World War Two, as the story of the government leadership's conscious attempt to create a modern capitalist imperial state, with the social engineering and the fostering of traditions to support it, and the creative counterpoint arising from members of the modernizing Japanese society. Students are challenged to relate changes and continuities in the national culture--in class and gender relations, in senses of civic and ethnic national identities, in attitudes toward the non-Japanese world, and in the arts--to the more conventional economic and political history. In creating a modern nation-state, Japanese leaders were deeply influenced by 19th century Euro-American notions in political economy, law, philosophy, art, theater and literature, and Japanese society contributed to modern global culture in all these fields.
Method of Instruction and Study:	Class will consist of discussion based on period and scholarly readings (i.e., primary and secondary documents), and lectures. Students will need to finish assigned readings before class and to think about how they help create a picture of Japanese history.
Instructional Materials and Sources:	Main text is Andrew Gordon's A Modern History of Japan, but most readings will be scholarly articles and primary documents (English translations). Supplementary art, photography, recordings of popular music, schematics of urban design, and online resources of contemporary culture will also be used.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities Global and Societal Perspectives

CRN:	16755
Section:	EAST 256 01
Title:	Contemporary Japanese History
Instructor:	Orr, James J.
General Course Objectives:	To gain a rich understanding of contemporary Japan by examining basic political, economic, technological, social, and cultural developments of Japan from the time of WWII to the present.
Description of Subject Matter:	Film will be our main entry into cultural changes over time, but assignments and course material will also include short stories, popular song and music, architecture and urban space, art, manga and political cartoons, and anime.
Method of Instruction and Study:	Some lecture, more discussion of primary sources (film, photography, architecture, art, song, cartoon, and anime) and secondary (analytical) works. Films will be part of the assigned "readings" most weeks, available by video-stream on Moodle.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities Global and Societal Perspectives

CRN:	16871
Section:	ENCW 101 01
Title:	Creative Writing
Instructor:	Hauser, Brian R.
General Course Objectives:	This course will serve as a general introduction to the reading and writing of short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and screenwriting. Rather than focusing on traditional analysis of creative work, this course will offer students a pathway to understanding through active creative engagement, learning by doing.
Description of Subject Matter:	Students will read a wide variety of contemporary short fiction, poems, essays, and short scripts, as well as brief essays and interviews on the craft of writing.
Method of Instruction and Study:	The course will involve regular engagement in reading, writing, discussing, and revising. Writing assignments will be both in-class and out-of-class. Students will be required to reflect on their writing and reading process in regular journal entries. Revision of main assignments will be based on feedback both from the instructor and peers. Students will complete and revise one short story, three poems, and either one nonfiction essay or one short script.
Instructional Materials and Sources:	Books, supplemental handouts. Please also list what requirement this course fulfills. ARHC W2 Humanities(DB)-English, Arts&Humanities-Learning Goals, Arts & Humanities, Engineering Humanities Course, English Department
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Writing Level 1

CRN:	16304
Section:	ENFS 130 01
Title:	Intro to Film/Media Studies
Instructor:	Faden, Eric S.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities

CRN:	16265
Section:	ENLS 101 01
Title:	Law and Literature
Instructor:	Hamilton, Ted E.
General Course Objectives:	Students will gain an understanding of law as an object of literary fascination; will learn about the differences between legal and literary rhetoric and writing; and will gain skills in textual comparison, legal and literary analysis, and analytical writing.
Description of Subject Matter:	This course explores the relationship between law and literature, from literature’s fascination with trials and legal process to the law’s use of narrative, rhetoric, and imagination. Students will study texts from various time periods and cultural settings that explore the meaning of justice, the nature of legal institutions, and the power of law in society.
Method of Instruction and Study:	This is a discussion-based course with regular reading and writing assignments.
Instructional Materials and Sources:	Novels, poetry, judicial opinions, and secondary literature. Please also list what requirement this course fulfills. ARHC; W2
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities Writing Level 2

CRN:	16266
Section:	ENLS 101 02
Title:	Remix: Black Lit & Black Music
Instructor:	Butcher, Kenton
General Course Objectives:	Music has been implicitly and explicitly called the muse of African American literature, and this course explores the nature of the relationship between Black American music and literature. In what ways does Black music contain literary elements, and how does music reverberate within Black literature? By studying poetry, prose, and drama, this course will analyze the echoes between Black music and Black literature from blues, folk, and jazz to hip hop.
Description of Subject Matter:	In addition to the primary texts, students will also read contemporary criticism by contemporary scholars such as Margo Crawford as well as foundational essays on music by authors like Ralph Ellison, Amiri Baraka, and Albert Murray. The syllabus also includes excerpts from foundational theoretical books like Black Noise by Tricia Rose, Grey Album by Kevin Young, In Search of the Black Fantastic by Richard Iton, among others.
Method of Instruction and Study:	There will be some lecture to provide historical and critical context, but the bulk of the classes will be discussion based. To encourage preparation for in-class participation, students will write a set number of responses (roughly 4-5 sentences each) to readings of their choosing. Responses can share observations regarding intertextual connections or patterns between texts; connections between the novel and previous coursework, study, or personal experiences; general questions or confusion about a work or passage; close readings; and so on. Students will also work to draft and revise a final paper in collaboration with the instructor. Finally, students will compile and present their own “mixtape” based on our readings and their own musical taste.
Instructional Materials and Sources:	Coval, Kevin et. al., editors. The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip Hop. New York: Haymarket, 2015. Jess, Tyehimba. Leadbelly. New York: Wave Books, 2005. Morrison, Toni. Jazz. New York: Vintage, 2004. Wilson, August. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. New York: Plume, 1985. Young, Kevin, editor. Blues Poems. New York: Everyman’s Library, 2003. ———. Jazz Poems. New York: Everyman’s Library, 2006. Other texts will be available on the course website. Please also list what requirement this course fulfills. W-2 RPI
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities Writing Level 2

CRN:	16815
Section:	ENLS 101 03
Title:	Intro to Multiethnic American
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities Writing Level 2

CRN:	16377
Section:	ENLS 115 01
Title:	Introduction to Poetry
Instructor:	Loney, Emily L.
General Course Objectives:	What is a poem? How do we interpret poems? And how do we write about the feelings and interpretations that poems spark? In this class we will read a range of poems from different eras and in different styles, exploring building blocks of poetry such as rhyme, imagery, form, and figurative language and analyzing how writers bring these separate elements together to create meaningful poems. We will consider what a poem is, how writers use the formal aspects of poetry to make meaning, and how we as readers can express our thoughts about and reactions to poems.
Description of Subject Matter:	Reading poems from medieval England through to 21st-century America, in this class we will put different forms and styles of poetry in conversation with each other to better understand what poetry is, what poetry does, and how we talk about poetry. In addition to exploring formal aspects of poetry, such as rhythm, rhyme, and genre, and devices such as imagery and figurative language, our course will take brief interludes to explore how society has talked about poetry over the last few centuries: how poetry, for example, has been understood to offer either a vision of an ideal world or a window that allows us to see our world as it truly is.
Method of Instruction and Study:	This class is designed to welcome students of all levels of comfort and familiarity with reading poetry. We will read some canonical poems you may have read before, and some poems that you almost certainly have not. Students will participate in full-class discussions and small group work and will complete both informal short writing assignments and more formal essays. This class will help students gain confidence and experience in talking and writing about literature.
Instructional Materials and Sources:	Our reading list includes short poems by many writers, including Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Terrance Hayes, Langston Hughes, William Shakespeare, and Mary Wroth. We will also read Beowulf in depth, look at artist books in Special Collections, and walk the Poetry Path around Lewisburg. Please also list what requirement this course fulfills. W2, ARHC
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Writing Level 2

CRN:	16269
Section:	ENLS 199 01
Title:	Intro to Literary Studies
Instructor:	Machado, Elena Ponnuswami, Meenakshi
General Course Objectives:	Shakespeare wrote plays that delighted the royalty as much as ordinary people. Who loves literature today, and how? How do we study literature in a classroom? Why are literature and lit studies so often the subject of heated controversy? And who gets to make decisions about what literature is, who gets to read it, and how it should be studied? Our course will explore these and other questions, surveying poetry, fiction, and drama from the medieval period to the present. The course introduces students to the Literary Studies major, including key skills such as close reading, literary analysis, and research. We will also consider broader questions concerning what Literary Studies does and should mean -- how concepts and practices of literary production and criticism have evolved over the centuries in response to historical circumstances and changing audiences.
Description of Subject Matter:	Our readings will focus on a single theme: love. In the first half of the semester, we will explore examples of the literature of love from the medieval period through the 20th century. We will read works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Austen, Faulkner, Baldwin, Morrison, and others. We will discuss topics such as close reading, canon-formation, periodization, and the formation of literary studies as a discipline. The second half of the semester will focus on contemporary works and contemporary debates about literature and love. Texts for the second half will be chosen collectively by the class.
Method of Instruction and Study:	Two or three texts per week; daily annotations and reading responses; three papers. Expect plenty of reading, writing, and discussion.
Instructional Materials and Sources:	Texts required for the first half of the semester. Texts for the second half TBD.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities Writing Level 2

CRN:	16271
Section:	ENLS 203 01
Title:	Race and Time Travel Fiction
Instructor:	Machado, Elena
General Course Objectives:	This section of ENLS 203 “Introductory Topics in Race and Literature” focuses on literature that imagines time travel to different pasts, presents, and futures, in order to challenge readers’ assumptions about race.
Description of Subject Matter:	We will read writers of color from the United States, England, and Canada who adapt the concept of time travel to challenge past and contemporary ideas about race. We will read utopic and dystopic narratives about time travel back to eras of colonialism and slavery as well as texts that imagine future lands where technology and science introduce new forms of violence and oppression. We will read the work of literary and cultural studies scholars in order to think more deeply about the intersection of race with, sexuality, and politics. Our class discussions will engage questions like: How do time travel stories envision the roots and futures of racism as a social problem? How do the stories imagine the possibility for inter- and intra-ethnic solidarity? How do the writers map out the possibilities for and obstacles to social change?
Method of Instruction and Study:	This class introduces you to literary studies as a humanistic discipline that contextualizes and interprets literature and other cultural texts. Following the methodology of literary studies, you will perform close readings of aesthetic strategies and strategic word choices within this fiction. The course also centers on how literature, in this case, time travel fiction, addresses race as a social construct with concrete, material impacts on human lives and psyches. By reading assigned secondary sources, you will acquire the vocabulary and concepts specific to literary and ethnic studies in order to become conversant enough to apply these concepts to analyzing the course texts. The course is discussion-based and active participation will be highly valued in terms of the quantity and quality of your contributions. In-class and homework activities will model the interpretive skills and techniques needed for formal essay assignments. Writing-to-learn activities (note-taking, drafting, revision) will be used to help students practice disciplinary modes of argument and analysis. You will have the opportunity to draft ideas for your writing assignments via in-class exercises, Moodle journal entries, as well as peer review sessions. You will be encouraged to develop your tools of critical analysis so that you will be able to recognize, evaluate, and produce critical arguments of your own regarding the literature. The major assignments for the semester may include a collaborative keyword map, dialogue essay assignments (where students apply critical concepts to analyzing one course reading), and a library research group project.
Instructional Materials and Sources:	We will read a variety of 20th and 21st century speculative fiction concerned with time travel. The authors will include will reflect the diversity of the minority populations within the United States, England, and Canada. Some of the writers may include Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, N.K. Jemisin, Ken Liu, and Charles Rice González. We will also read assigned literary and cultural studies critics who write about race, time travel, and/or science fiction and these may include Ibram X. Kendi, María Lugones, and Mariana Ortega. Requirements this course fulfills: • ENLS Major: Count as Race/Ethnic Literature Course. • ENLS Major Concentration in Race and Literature: Fulfills ENLS 203 course requirement • W2 course • Evidence-based course • CCC Requirements: RPI, DUSC, AHLG. AHRC • FRST • Counts towards Race and Ethnicity Studies Minor’s Race & Ethnicity Core or Comparative/Theoretical Requirements
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Writing Level 2

CRN:	16817
Section:	ENLS 213 01
Title:	Multiethnic American Lit
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities Writing Level 2

CRN:	16273
Section:	ENLS 271 01
Title:	19th Century Women Writers
Instructor:	Zimmerman, Virginia L.
General Course Objectives:	Appropriate for non-majors and majors alike, this course focuses on British women writers of the nineteenth century. Each of these authors faced obstacles associated with their gender, and each of them depicted a complex range of challenges encountered by women. Students will become familiar with women’s issues, including topics such as sexuality, marriage, education, and aging. Our primary methodology will be close reading.
Description of Subject Matter:	We will read British texts from the mid-nineteenth century that foreground women’s experiences: three novels -- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell, and The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) -- as well as Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh, a verse novel, and the poem “Goblin Market” by Christina Rossetti. We will also pay close attention to the authors’ biographies and to short primary texts that will amplify the women’s issues central to our primary texts.
Method of Instruction and Study:	Class will be primarily discussion based with some mini-lectures and student presentations. Students will also have opportunities to lead discussion. There will be frequent guided critical reading exercises, two short essays, and three in-class exams.
Instructional Materials and Sources:	Please note that students will be required to purchase or rent hardcopies of the assigned editions of the texts for this course. Please also list what requirement this course fulfills. AHLG
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities

CRN:	16792
Section:	GRMN 276 01
Title:	German Jewish Identities
Instructor:	Slodounik, Rebekah A.
General Course Objectives:	Exploration of German Jewish literature and culture from the early twentieth century to contemporary Jewish life in German-speaking countries today.
Description of Subject Matter:	What is German Jewish literature and culture? What does it mean to be Jewish in German-speaking countries in 2024? How do selected writers reflect on their ethnic, religious, and national identities and how do they respond to external factors, such as antisemitism and genocide? How do they approach Jewish joy? This introductory course explores constructions of German Jewish identities, yesterday and today, through a wide variety of texts. All readings will be in English. No prerequisites. Texts include selections from history, philosophy, and literature, including Franz Kafka, Hannah Arendt, and Max Czollek. This course can count towards the Race and Ethnicity Studies minor; the German Studies major; the German Studies minor; and the Jewish Studies minor.
Method of Instruction and Study:	In English. Requirements include short response essays, Moodle posts, and a final project.
Instructional Materials and Sources:	Books available for purchase at the bookstore. Other readings posted on Moodle as needed.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Global and Societal Perspectives

CRN:	16346
Section:	HIST 132 01
Title:	Europe in the Twentieth C.
Instructor:	Dosemeci, Mehmet
General Course Objectives:	A broad survey of modern European history, this course asks what Europe’s recent past has to offer us today. While emphasis will vary by instructor, topics and themes will include: European empires, nationalism, and decolonization; revolution and world war; the rise and fall of liberalism, communism, and fascism; the construction of the welfare state, the European Communities, and Fortress Europe.
Description of Subject Matter:	This course will provide a basic knowledge of modern European history, tracing how a continent built through imperial plunder was torn apart by two world, one cold, and multiple civil wars. In examining this history, students will discuss and evaluate the incredible array of ideologies, institutions, and practices Europeans invented for the purposes of liberation and domination.
Method of Instruction and Study:	Discussion and Lecture
Instructional Materials and Sources:	Primary and secondary texts, film, political posters
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities

CRN:	16339
Section:	HIST 192 01
Title:	World History II
Instructor:	Del Testa, David W.
General Course Objectives:	By the end of the semester, a student in World History I: the World since 1500CE should have a good historical appreciation of the connection of the Old and New Worlds through the process of colonialism, the consequences of globalization, and growth and consequences of increasingly urban, cosmopolitan, and interconnected societies.
Description of Subject Matter:	World History II: the Ancient World to 1500CE focuses on the history of the globalization of societies, cultures, and economies after 1500CE, emphasizing trade and exchange while examining local innovations, adaptations, and hybridization. The course considers carefully the relationship of changing religious belief to cultural practices and social concerns; the interplay of economy, technology, and environmental transformation; and, the impact of political change, especially imperial and colonial enterprises, to the course of world history.
Method of Instruction and Study:	Lecture and discussion
Instructional Materials and Sources:	Textbook, primary source reader, supplementary primary source material.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities

CRN:	16347
Section:	HIST 216 01
Title:	The Hundred Years' War
Instructor:	Goodale, James A.
General Course Objectives:	To acquire a base of knowledge about the war and late-medieval politics and diplomacy; to critically examine and analyze historical evidence in the form of primary documents and visual images; to learn to write articulately and persuasively, based on a critical understanding of the material; to identify and explore different cultural perspectives; to recognize and appreciate ambiguities of interpretation.
Description of Subject Matter:	This course focuses on the 100 Years War (1337-1453) and the Black Plague of 1348-49 that occurred in its middle through a cultural perspective. The course will feature works of medieval literature, medieval historiography, myths and legends, art, and religious writings as a means of understanding how people of various rank and nationality experienced the war and the plague, and how they made sense of these events. The course will also focus upon the political, economic, social, religious, and literary changes that the war and the plague engendered. Special units of the course will focus on changes to knighthood and chivalry, and to the experience of women.
Method of Instruction and Study:	Lectures and Discussions
Instructional Materials and Sources:	Instructional Materials and Sources: Primary source materials, art, movies
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities

CRN:	16342
Section:	HIST 276 01
Title:	Popular Culture in Africa
Instructor:	Fourshey, Cymone
General Course Objectives:	• Interpret texts (Music, novels, film, fashion, games, graffiti, slogans, etc..) with awareness of the texts' basic orientation in the world (historical, philosophical, religious, linguistic, etc.). • Use concepts and tools of inquiry to examine the beliefs, history, social experiences, social structures (Race, Class, Gender), artistic or literary expressions, and/or traditions of various African and Diasporan communities. • Understand and examine the ways in which individuals interact with, and are shaped by, social groups, institutions, and social structures and how these social constructions shape history, space, values, culture, and behavior. • Use appropriate tools of inquiry to understand the interdependent nature of the global system and the consequences this interdependence has for political, economic, and social problems.
Description of Subject Matter:	This course examines some of the most significant aspects of popular culture in Africa and the Diaspora. This course is an exercise in looking closely at and asking questions about popular culture as a social, political, cultural, artistic, and personal act of resistance and protest as well of one that is visionary towards the future in Africa and its Diasporas.
Method of Instruction and Study:	Discussion, Group work, occasional lecture.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities

CRN:	16335
Section:	HIST 280 01
Title:	Mexico & Central America
Instructor:	Osei, Cassie
General Course Objectives:	Develop a critical analysis of Mexico and Central America’s key economic, political, cultural, and policy developments through a survey of the region’s history from 1519 to present.
Description of Subject Matter:	In the United States, our perception of Mexico and Central America is shaped by our interests: migration and border walls, drug wars and trade deals, tacos and calendars that prophesize the end of the world. But beyond these tropes, what else can we learn about our neighbors south of us? This course provides a survey of Mexican and Central American history from the perspectives of its inhabitants, from 1519 to the present. Through engagement of primary sources, debates of key topics, and cultural immersion, we will get a sense of Mexican and Central American trajectories on their own terms.
Method of Instruction and Study:	In person, lecture, and student-facilitated discussions
Instructional Materials and Sources:	Jürgen Buchenau, Mexican Mosaic: A Brief History of Mexico (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012) Mireya Loza, Defiant Braceros: How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2016) Rigoberta Menchu, I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (New York: Verso Books, 2010) Other course materials will be posted on Moodle. Textbook costs will never be a barrier to engaging this course. If you find that you cannot afford the texts, please get in touch so we can arrange alternative avenues to access them.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities

CRN:	16784
Section:	HUMN 100 04
Title:	Intro to Text Analysis
Instructor:	Jakacki, Diane K.
General Course Objectives:	In this Digital Humanities course designed for students across disciplines, students will discover how we use computer programs and tools to address - to analyze - complex and research challenges in the humanities and social sciences. We will decode and encode texts to better understand how we read, and in the process challenge our preexisting understandings of literature, history, politics, and culture.
Description of Subject Matter:	We learn about our world – we make sense of our world – through texts. Texts are made up of sentences and words and letters. We compile these words – these “code snippets” – into complex sets of instructions that help us to understand our world. We encode our lives – we inscribe our existence – through letters and numbers and symbols. Then we share these code snippets with one another, to share with one another our understandings and ask of others our questions about the world. We share our beliefs, our visions, our codes of conduct. We look for ways to reach out and express ourselves, and to understand one another. That is writing. That is encoding. That is analysis.
Method of Instruction and Study:	In this course students will learn how to analyze text using a variety of TEI-XML scripting and markup languages. We will work individually and in groups to break down (decode) and build up (encode) texts in order to analyze them and share our analysis. You will write and think about writing in different ways. You will examine large-scale scholarly Digital Humanities projects to get a better understanding of why it is so important to engage in these types of en- and de-coding. Class work will be broken down into learning how these scripting and markup languages work, applying that learning to texts that you and I choose, reading about the work that others do and have done in the Digital Humanities related to text analysis, talking and writing about your experiences and readings, as well as annotating your code so that it makes sense to others (because writing code is writing.)
Instructional Materials and Sources:	Students do not have to be experienced with coding languages or be experienced with literary or historical texts to excel in this course. Students will also undertake a series of pertinent readings and write response papers. Texts will be available via eBook or PDF. No books or software program licenses need be purchased for this course. Course satisfies W2 requirement and counts toward the DH minor and CDHU major
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities

CRN:	15834
Section:	HUMN 100 05
Title:	Inventing the Global South
Instructor:	Leraul, D. Bret B.
General Course Objectives:	In this course students will: (1), understand today’s world as the product of colonization, decolonization, and post+colonialisms; (2), practice intercultural and historical empathy as we adopt perspectives from the Global South and challenge Eurocentric histories and worldviews; (3), think comparatively, synthetically, and systemically through world history and the history of ideas; (4), communicate effectively in lucid prose and articulate speech; (5), exercise intellectual independence by conducting original research.
Description of Subject Matter:	When once we spoke of the Third World, today we speak of the Global South. This course traces the political and intellectual history of the Global South so that we can better understand our globalized present. Over the course of our 500-year journey, you will be introduced to methods and theories central to the humanities today. Few events have had the world-shaping impact of European colonialism. We start in the 16th century to explore the roots of capitalism in the colonization of the Americas and the Atlantic slave trade. The emergent world-spanning empires ruled for centuries over vast swaths of humanity for the benefit of the few, until 19th- and 20th-century national liberation struggles managed to decolonize Africa, Asia and Latin America. 20th-century postcolonial societies birthed rich new artforms, militant worldviews, and a phalanx of solidarity against the neocolonial ambitions of Cold War powers. While decolonization revolutionized geopolitics, now we all must work to decolonize our minds. By turning away from Western models of development, knowledges and practices authored in the Global South may guide us toward ecological justice and sustainable futures.
Method of Instruction and Study:	Thought-provoking texts, seminar-style discussions, structured writing assignments, and independent research will help students hone their voices as they enter into the conversations that constitute the world republic of letters. Instruction will blend in-person and online environments, structured and autonomous work, collective and individual projects.
Instructional Materials and Sources:	Students will work with landmark primary texts ranging across genres, media, and disciplines, from scholarly works in history and philosophy to literature, visual art, and film.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities Writing Level 2

CRN:	16785
Section:	HUMN 150 01
Title:	Making Modern Worlds
Instructor:	Hunter, John C.
General Course Objectives:	Who is human? What is science? Where does value come from? These are but a few of the questions that frame the cultural formation we call “modernity.” This course looks at four constitutive Western concepts of the modern world, but in a global context: the European Renaissance (and the colonizing of the New World that made it possible); the Scientific Revolution (and the non-Western contributions to it that are often ignored); the Enlightenment (and the fundamental inequalities that underpin its discourse of human rights); and the quest for equality for women, people of color, and the working class (and the colonial liberation movements that accompanied them).
Description of Subject Matter:	We will study artistic, autobiographical, philosophical, political, and scientific works by (among others) Machiavelli, Galileo, Kant, Mary Shelley, Fredrick Douglass, Marx, and Darwin. We will investigate the powers and limits of human reason and emotion, the nature of a just and humane society, the role of class, gender, and race in constructing the self, and the creative and destructive consequences of discovery and exploration. The Western perspectives will be balanced by texts from Asia and the Global South.
Method of Instruction and Study:	There will not be lectures; there will be a shared process of discovery through which we build a sense of how the contemporary world was constructed. Vigorous class discussion is expected from everyone!
Instructional Materials and Sources:	Paperback texts from the Bookstore and pdfs on a Google folder
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities Writing Level 2

CRN:	16937
Section:	MUSC 120 01
Title:	Music-Making for Beginners
Instructor:	Roseth, Nicholas E.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities

CRN:	15902
Section:	MUSC 121 01
Title:	Fundamentals of Music Theory
Description of Subject Matter:	The study of the fundamentals of music, including standard staff notation, simple and compound meter, spelling triads, and simple harmonic progressions. The skills in this course are required for MUSC 200. Does not fulfill any requirement for the music major or music minor.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities

CRN:	15820
Section:	MUSC 126 01
Title:	Popular Music in America
Instructor:	Yamin, Tyler
General Course Objectives:	Studying the history of popular music in America, examining the cultural context in which it was created, and throwing a closer look at the intersection of music and race as a prism through which to interpret and understand the past and present of the US.
Description of Subject Matter:	This course is a survey of American popular music styles from the nineteenth century through the mid-1990's. We will listen closely to a wide variety of music, from the earliest recordings to the present day, and will study lyrics, styles, instruments, and forms. We will also spend a fair amount of time not listening to music and talking about the interplay between culture, race and music. By the end of this course students will be able to define what it is that moves them when they listen to music and learn to recognize different musical genres, styles and place them in the cultural context of their time.
Instructional Materials and Sources:	American popular music : from minstrelsy to MP3, 6th edition
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities

CRN:	16662
Section:	MUSC 135 01
Title:	Introduction to Teaching Music
Instructor:	Roseth, Nicholas E.
General Course Objectives:	Identify and describe various aspects of effective teaching and learning processes (e.g., pacing, feedback, question skills, classroom management, learning theory, sequencing, assessment, curriculum design) in music contexts, both in theoretical and live teaching contexts. Describe and critically evaluate models of music education (e.g., Orff, Dalcroze, Kodaly, Suzuki, Music as a Second Language, rehearsals, applied teaching, non-performance classes) in a variety of music contexts. Critically evaluate issues of access in music education as they relate to diversity, equity, and inclusion (e.g., race and ethnicity, class, special education, LGBTQ and gender identities, etc.). Discuss the relevance of a philosophy of music education and articulate a current personal philosophy of music education. Perform and teach a variety of music instruments (e.g., classroom instrument, ukulele, drums, technology) with a learner(s) ranging from kindergartens to senior citizens.
Description of Subject Matter:	This course provides basic foundations in the discipline of music teaching, learning, and pedagogy to students within the context of music education in the United States. Open to all students, no prior background in music or teaching is necessary.
Method of Instruction and Study:	Lecture, discussion, readings, musical activities, observation, peer teaching, and practicum.
Instructional Materials and Sources:	All materials (readings, instruments, etc.) will be provided.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities

CRN:	14750
Section:	PHIL 100 01
Title:	Faith, Reason and Morality
Instructor:	Nguyen, Jen B.
Description of Subject Matter:	Religion has been an important part in many cultures and civilizations. To this very day, religion continues to play a powerful role in people’s lives. This course examines some key questions that philosophers, past and present, have posed about religion. For example, is it rational to believe in God? Does morality depend on God?
Method of Instruction and Study:	Classroom time is divided between lecture and group discussions. Students are expected to carefully read texts in advance and participate actively in the classroom. No prior experience with writing at the college level is assumed, and we will spend time on how to write essays in philosophy.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities

CRN:	10888
Section:	PHIL 100 03
Title:	Law, Morality, Society
Instructor:	Turner, Jeffrey S.
General Course Objectives:	This section of PHIL 100 is designed to introduce you to some of the important texts and ideas of philosophy, and to help you to develop an understanding of how philosophers present and defend their ideas. The course centers around the relationships between the concepts of law, morality, and society.
Description of Subject Matter:	Plato’s “allegory of the cave” in the Republic presents us with a way of understanding both the claims of philosophy in general and, perhaps, its claims concerning law, morality, and society. Plato sees philosophy as a kind of “conversion experience” in which one’s horizons are opened up so that one can understand more clearly the nature and limits of ordinary life. We might see this initial moment as a turning away from, or concern with something beyond, the social norms of a culture embodied in its laws. This “looking towards the light” then appears as a turn towards morality, understood as an individual experience of a reality not captured by the public realm of the law. But for Plato we cannot remain in the realm of the sun: in the end a purely individual morality is insufficient. We must “go back down into the cave,” to the realm of society. Though the cave we return to will appear to be different from the one we left, we cannot forget our fellow “prisoners”: our moral claims must be shared with others if they are to be truly philosophical.
Method of Instruction and Study:	Classroom time is divided between lectures, discussions, and in-class debates. Active class participation, careful reading of texts, and well-constructed essays are expected of students. There will be two in-class essays, and a final exam.
Instructional Materials and Sources:	Hobbes, "Leviathan" Hume, "An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals" Kant, "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals" Schopenhauer, "The World as Will and Representation, Vol. I" Durkheim, "The Division of Labor in Society" Plato, "Charmides" Smith and Smith, ed., "Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Moral Issues"
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities

CRN:	16709
Section:	PHIL 100 04
Title:	Knowledge,Responsibility,Illus
Instructor:	Ward, Katherine
General Course Objectives:	Develop a familiarity with historical and contemporary approaches to philosophy. Increase proficiency in reading and interpreting philosophical arguments. Acquire strategies for sustaining meaningful and productive philosophical discussions.
Description of Subject Matter:	This course is an introduction to some central questions of philosophy. We will use the limited series DEVS as a jumping-off point to address questions in three major branches of philosophy: metaphysics, ethics, and epistemology.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities

CRN:	14751
Section:	PHIL 100 06
Title:	World Philosophy
Instructor:	Groff, Peter S.
General Course Objectives:	This section of PHIL 100 is designed to introduce you to philosophy through four different traditions: Greek, Arabic, Indian and Chinese
Description of Subject Matter:	This class looks at the emergence of philosophy within four different traditions around the world: Greek, Arabic, Indian and Chinese. We will be reading a wide range of philosophical texts: a Platonic dialogue on the death of Socrates, a philosophical tale of solitude and knowledge from medieval Islamic Andalusia, key selections from the Upanisads (read through the lens of the Advaita Vendanta school), some Buddhist sutras, a record of Confucius' conversations with students and friends and a fantastic classic of Daoism called the Zhuangzi. In exploring these four intellectual traditions, we will be focusing on a number of fundamental philosophical questions: How should we live (i.e., in what does the good life consist for human beings)? What is death and what should our orientation towards it be? What does it mean to be free and how can this goal be achieved? Where relevant, we will raise related questions regarding the nature of knowledge, selfhood, and reality.
Method of Instruction and Study:	Classroom time is divided between lectures and discussions. Active class participation, careful reading of texts, and well-constructed essays are expected of students. There will be roughly a dozen on-line quizzes on the readings and 4 in-class exams, each preceded by a trivia review
Instructional Materials and Sources:	Course readings will be drawn from the following texts: Plato, Phaedo (Focus Philosophical Library), Ibn Tufayl, Hayy Ibn Yaqzan (Chicago University Press), Confucius, The Essential Analects (Hackett) and Zhuangzi, Basic Writings (Columbia University Press) Additional readings on classical Indian thought will be provided as PDFs through Moodle.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities

CRN:	16715
Section:	PHIL 100 07
Title:	Self, Identity, Authenticity
Instructor:	Burgos, Adam B.
General Course Objectives:	In this course we will have several different goals. Some of them are more specific and relate to particular skills that the study of philosophy can provide (Φ), while others are more general and are achieved through adopting a broader philosophical orientation toward other aspects of the world (Δ). You will learn how to: Φ: • Closely read texts in order to isolate key terms and claims • Identify and reconstruct the premises and conclusions of arguments • Analyze arguments for their strengths and weaknesses • Recognize different types of argumentative strategies • Synthesize arguments and information into written form as well as your own words Δ: • Recognize and analyze your presuppositions and assumptions • Think more deeply about things to which you see easy answers • Clarify your own views about philosophical claims regarding the world • Appreciate the extent to which our everyday lives are imbued with philosophical meaning and significance • Learn some of the ways that philosophy has historically dealt with major questions
Description of Subject Matter:	What does it mean for me to be me, you to be you, for us to be us, as well as to recognize one another as such? These questions bring together many of core issues of philosophy, such as the nature of truth, the nature of knowledge, and the nature of freedom, each of which has been discussed and argued about by philosophers for thousands of years in many different ways and toward many different ends. We will develop ideas about who we are as human animals, who we are as individuals and societies, and how we can harness our freedom in order to live our lives as authentically as we can, if such a thing is even possible.
Method of Instruction and Study:	Classroom time is divided between lectures, discussions, and group activities. Active class participation, careful reading of texts, and well-constructed essays are expected of students.
Instructional Materials and Sources:	All readings will be posted as PDFs on Moodle
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities

CRN:	10889
Section:	PHIL 100 09
Title:	Mind and World
Instructor:	Leddington, Jason
General Course Objectives:	To develop an understanding of some core problems in philosophy and, in so doing, to develop your capacity to think and write clearly about difficult and complex ideas. In particular, you will practice analyzing and critically assessing arguments—skills essential to scholarly writing in any discipline, and to problem-solving in general.
Description of Subject Matter:	This course focuses on the nature of the mind and its relationship to the world we inhabit. Topics include consciousness, artificial intelligence, personal identity, free will, and knowledge and skepticism. Course materials include a variety of classic and contemporary philosophical texts as well as other media (mainly film and TV).
Method of Instruction and Study:	Class meetings will be lecture and discussion-based with occasional small group-work. Final grades will be based on participation, short writing assignments, and two papers.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities

CRN:	11100
Section:	PHIL 100 10
Title:	Philosophy of Space and Time
Instructor:	Balcells, Maria L.
General Course Objectives:	Students in this course will become familiar with the variety of ways that space and time have been understood historically both in philosophy and science. Students will also develop an understanding and appreciation for the ever-changing evolution of our ideas of space and time and the relationship between philosophy and science.
Description of Subject Matter:	In this course we will critically examine various historical and contemporary theories of space and time. We will look at questions such as: Is space a distinct substance? Are space and time real things or constructs of the mind? What is the shape of space? Are space and time infinite or finite? Is there an edge of the universe? Is there a beginning of time? Does time flow like a river? Or is it laid out like a road? Do things in the past exist? Do things in the future exist? Is time travel possible? We will look at the role that space and time play in our scientific theories and how philosophical theories have informed and utilized scientific results.
Method of Instruction and Study:	A combination of lecture and discussion.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities

CRN:	16890
Section:	PHIL 100 11
Title:	Epistemic In/Justice
Instructor:	Lintott, Sheila M.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities

CRN:	10071
Section:	PHIL 103 01
Title:	Logic
Instructor:	Slater, Matthew H.
General Course Objectives:	This course introduces students to modern logic and critical thinking. By taking it, you will improve your ability to read critically, reason well, and dissect and evaluate arguments. These are skills that are useful in all walks of life.
Description of Subject Matter:	Logic is the study of good reasoning as it is revealed through language. Good reasoning can be studied in a variety of ways; this course serves as a general introduction to formal (symbolic) and informal approaches to logic.
Method of Instruction and Study:	A mix of lecture and in-class problem solving sessions.
Instructional Materials and Sources:	TBD
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities

CRN:	10988
Section:	RELI 100 01
Title:	Intro to the Bible
Instructor:	Ulmer, Rivka
General Course Objectives:	This course provides an academic introduction to the Bible. Through critical, literary, archaeological, and historical analysis of biblical texts, we will learn how and why these writings have been esteemed as one of the most important collections of literature shaping the ethical, religious, political, and imaginative concerns of Western civilization.
Description of Subject Matter:	We will seek to understand the Bible as (1) a collection of historical, poetical, mythical and satirical stories, arising out of the ancient near East and designed to bring people to belief in the reality and power of a divine reality; (2) a necessary ambiguous work, the interpretation of which has been and continues to be a source of unity and division among people the world over; (3) a representative set of diverse strands of historical remembrances, interpreted and re-interpreted in light of critical historical events and serving first as an oral and later as a written account of the life, beliefs, and hopes of Judaism and Christianity. Specific topics include discussions of the Bible as a source of divine authority and truth for practicing communities; the collection, translation, interpretation, and transmission of biblical texts through time, and the definitive processes through which they became canonized Scripture. We will discuss methodologies (dream interpretation, meta-narrative, archaeology, feminist and male studies, history, Ancient Near Eastern myth, comparative law, poetic structure) in biblical literature.
Method of Instruction and Study:	A combination of assigned readings, lectures and work-shop discussions will be used to engage the texts under study. Various video clips will be utilized as well.
Instructional Materials and Sources:	The following are representative of the secondary literature used previously:The New Oxford Annotated Bible, academic articles, and websites at the Society of Biblical Literature.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities

CRN:	16633
Section:	RELI 100 02
Title:	Judaism, Christianity, Islam
Instructor:	Olson, Caitlyn M.
General Course Objectives:	This course offers an introduction to the intertwined histories and self-understandings of Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Moving from ancient times to the present day, we take three illustrative moments as our focus. Each of these case studies also involves cultivating key skills in Religious Studies. We begin with the early formation of the three religious traditions and practice reading sacred texts from an academic perspective. Then we study the medieval-era Crusades to examine lived relations within and among religious groups. Finally, we turn to the modern Israeli-Palestinian conflict and analyze the diverse roles that religion plays (and doesn’t play) in people’s lives.
Instructional Materials and Sources:	Students will read deeply in the primary texts of all three religions, encountering each in their complexity and diversity.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities

CRN:	16438
Section:	RELI 200 01
Title:	Buddhism
Instructor:	Young, Stuart H.
General Course Objectives:	1. Students will gain a basic understanding of the main traditions, doctrines, practices, material cultures, and histories of Buddhism. 2. As an Arts & Humanities Division course: Students will interpret texts with awareness of the texts’ basic orientation in the world (historical, philosophical, religious, linguistic, etc.). Students will construct arguments and evaluate canons using the evidence and tools of critical analysis appropriate to the object of inquiry. And students will develop an appreciation of the fundamental ambiguities and complexities involved in all human attempts to answer questions about knowledge, values, and life. 3. As a Global Connections course: Students will use concepts and tools of inquiry from the discipline of religious studies to examine the beliefs, history, social experiences, social structures, artistic or literary expressions, and/or traditions of one or more cultures or societies located outside the United States. 4. Students will strengthen writing, reading, speaking, listening, critical thinking, and information literacy skills necessary for collegiate-level academic work.
Description of Subject Matter:	This course is an introduction to Buddhist teachings, practices, and material cultures, from the beginnings of the religion to the present day. We will examine Buddhism’s historical foundations in ancient India, later Mahayana and Vajrayana movements, and important developments across China, Japan, and Tibet. We will also address questions concerning Buddhist modernism and Buddhist practice in contemporary America. Particular attention will be paid to issues of continuity and diversity within Buddhism and how practitioners from different times and places have variously redefined what the Buddha taught.
Method of Instruction and Study:	This course will combine lecture and seminar formats, assigned readings of primary and secondary sources, group-work activities, and various kinds of writing exercises.
Instructional Materials and Sources:	We will draw on secondary scholarship such as Salguero, Buddhish, and read primary Buddhist scriptures like the Lotus Sutra and Discourse on Mindful Breathing. We will also examine multimedia that articulate material and audiovisual dimensions of Buddhism.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities

CRN:	16439
Section:	RELI 234 01
Title:	Animals and Religion
Instructor:	Young, Stuart H.
General Course Objectives:	1. Students will critically and empathetically examine the relationships between animals and religion, focusing on Buddhism in Asia. 2. As an Arts & Humanities Division course: Students will interpret texts with awareness of the texts’ basic orientation in the world (historical, philosophical, religious, linguistic, etc.). Students will construct arguments and evaluate canons using the evidence and tools of critical analysis appropriate to the object of inquiry. And students will develop an appreciation of the fundamental ambiguities and complexities involved in all human attempts to answer questions about knowledge, values, and life. 3. As a Global Connections course: Students will use concepts and tools of inquiry from the discipline of religious studies to examine the beliefs, history, social experiences, social structures, artistic or literary expressions, and/or traditions of one or more cultures or societies located outside the United States. 4. Students will strengthen writing, reading, speaking, listening, critical thinking, and information literacy skills necessary for collegiate-level academic work.
Description of Subject Matter:	Religions are full of animals and animals are full of religion. This course is about the relationships between the two, focusing on Asian Buddhisms in particular. It explores how Buddhist humans have revered, protected, domesticated, and memorialized nonhuman animals, while also objectifying, subjugating, and sacrificing animals to human desires. This course further examines nonhuman animals as subjective persons, powerful agents in their own rights who have deeply influenced religious beliefs, practices, and material cultures, and have even become something like religious practitioners themselves. No prior knowledge of Buddhism is necessary.
Method of Instruction and Study:	This course will combine lecture and seminar formats, assigned readings of primary and secondary sources, group-work activities, and various kinds of writing exercises
Instructional Materials and Sources:	We will draw on anthologies of secondary scholarship such as Animals and Religion (Routledge, 2024) and A Communion of Subjects: Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics (Columbia, 2006), as well as primary Buddhist compilations like the Jātakamālā and Nihon Ryōiki.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities

CRN:	16635
Section:	RELI 256 01
Title:	Islam in America
Instructor:	Olson, Caitlyn M.
General Course Objectives:	Muslims have a long history in the United States. This course offers an introduction to that history, as well as the opportunity to think about why that history is so often overlooked or marginalized in the mainstream American imagination. Our framework for tackling this question will be the latest research on Islamophobia, which suggests understanding Islamophobia as a form of racism. We will seek to grasp what exactly that theory means and test its applicability to various historical case studies. Among the histories to be covered are those of enslaved West African Muslims in the pre-Civil War South, various Muslim groups who have immigrated to the U.S. over the centuries, and American Muslim communities such as the Nation of Islam.
Instructional Materials and Sources:	Students will read deeply in historical primary sources, encountering American Muslim voices in all their complexity and diversity.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities

CRN:	16788
Section:	RUSS 125 01
Title:	Russia Today
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities Global and Societal Perspectives

CRN:	16789
Section:	RUSS 255 01
Title:	Dangerous Texts: 20C Rus Lit
Instructor:	Murphy, Lenora C.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities

CRN:	11981
Section:	THEA 145 01
Title:	Bucknell Backstage
Instructor:	Hansum, Heath J.
General Course Objectives:	The objective is for students to learn how to demonstrate effective application of methods and practices in technology and design through laboratory projects and presentations, and also to learn how to demonstrate effective technological or stage management techniques.
Description of Subject Matter:	Areas of study will include, but no be limited to: Stage management, stage lighting, sound engineering, properties, painting, stagecraft, rigging and wardrobe.
Method of Instruction and Study:	Laboratory experience in faculty/staff mentored environment.
Instructional Materials and Sources:	Active hands-on learning environment. Show up, get involved, and actively learn about the production process.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities

CRN:	16544
Section:	THEA 149 01
Title:	Intro to Theatre & Reviewing
General Course Objectives:	Upon completion of this course, students will have a foundational understanding of theatre in its definition, tracing it through history, and how it varies in genre and location. Moreover, students will be able to identify those roles involved in the creation of theatre and be able to engage with theatre through those roles throughout the semester. Focus will be placed on writing both performance reviews and performance proposals as a part of the W1 requirement of the course.
Description of Subject Matter:	An introductory study of theatre (playwriting, directing, acting, movement, design, criticism); stresses the elements of drama, their interaction, and their realization in a theatrical production. Students will view and respond to performances in writing using a variety of critical strategies.
Method of Instruction and Study:	This course includes reading and viewing of performances both during and outside of class time. Class sessions will include lectures, discussion, collaborative group activities and with this course being a W1, a particular focus on writing.
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities Engineering Humanities

CRN:	15757
Section:	THEA 251 01
Title:	Costume Design
Instructor:	Holzwarth, Carly N.
General Course Objectives:	This course examines costume design for performance through the main areas of skills/techniques, processes/procedures, analysis/research, and history. In addition to lectures and discussions, students will receive hands-on lab experiences with materials used by costume designers while working to create costume designs for specific theoretical performances.
Description of Subject Matter:	This course seeks to introduce costume design within theories of performance and dress interwoven into more praxis-based applications. The balance of theory, context, history, and critical analysis with skills, techniques, processes, and art-making provides students with an understanding of the role of costume design within performance beyond superficial knowledge. Students will think critically about the landscape of costume design as they visualize themselves within it through their designs.
Method of Instruction and Study:	Through written work and discussion, students will develop techniques for communicating our visual ideas to others. Rendering skills will be taught and refined in order to communicate our design ideas to others. Additionally, this course will cover visual, historical, and literary research methods, sources of inspiration, and the creative process.
Instructional Materials and Sources:	Though there are no required textbooks for this course, art materials will be required throughout the semester. A large portion of materials will be provided for student use; however, the following materials will be required for each student to supply for themselves: pencils, pens (ink), sketchbook, and erasers. More materials will be needed on an individual needs basis during the project series
Requirements:	Arts and Humanities

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