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2021-2022 Edgewood College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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ENG 303 - Intro to the Study of Language
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Challenges commonly held assumptions about language through an exploration of how we use and perceive our primary medium of communication. Topics include language learning, dialects, language change, language and the brain, conversational interactions, and the basic areas of linguistics: sound, meaning, word building, and word order.
Prerequisite(s): W tag or concurrent enrollment in W-tag course.
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ENG 304 - Grammar for Teachers
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 2
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Provides a solid base in grammar and the best practices for teaching grammar. Topics include parts of speech, punctuation, phrasal grammar, dialects and education, and cognitive grammar.
Prerequisite(s): W tag or concurrent enrollment in W-tag course.
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ENG 305 BX - Fiction Writing
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This is a writer’s workshop for students interested in writing short fiction. The student’s own original stories will be analyzed and discussed in both peer-review groups and an all-class workshop setting. In addition to writing stories of their own, students will be expected to write short critical responses to all work by their peers. Students will also read and analyze stories by professional writers.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 205 .
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ENG 306 - Poetry Writing
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
A workshop course for students interested in writing poetry.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 205 .
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ENG 308 2X - Writing for Community Workshop
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Focuses on organizational and professional writing. Course is built around a major project for a community organization that will include a variety of media and written forms. Emphasis is on writing for professional and public audiences, including document design and applicable technology.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of COR 1 or COR 199 or COR 199 in progress; two full-time semesters of college credit, excluding retro credits, AP credits, and college credit earned while in high school; W tag.
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ENG 312 - Topics in Journalism
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Topics in journalism, varying by semester. Offerings might include environmental journalism, minority journalism, countercultural journalism, and advocacy journalism, including studies of how subcultures and marginalized interest discourse through media with the constantly changing mainstream in American culture.
Prerequisite(s): W tag.
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ENG 325 - Topics in Ethnic American Lit
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
A study of selected works from one of the following ethnic literary traditions in the United States: African American literature, Asian American literature, Latino/Hispanic American literature, or Native American literature.
Prerequisite(s): W tag.
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ENG 325A CDQ - Asian American Writers
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course offers a study of selected works of various genres (e.g., fiction, poetry, drama, and film) by Asian American women and men of diverse ethnicities. Emphasizing the intersections of race, gender, class, and sexuality, and informed by critical studies of race and ethnicity, feminist criticism, and cultural studies, we will explore the following main questions: What are the major themes and issues in Asian American literature and literary studies? What textual strategies do Asian American writers employ to represent Asian American self-identities and cultural politics? In what ways do these writers challenge or accommodate dominant representations of Asian American women and men as raced and gendered subjects? In what ways do the subject positions of the writers, characters, and readers impact our understanding of Asian American texts? Cross-listed ETHS325A
Prerequisite(s): ENG 110 and Sophomore standing.
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ENG 327 CQ - Tpc: Literature and Gender
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
A study of literary works from a variety of periods and genres in relation to issues of gender. Specific iterations of the course could include emphases on gender, sexuality and representation; queer theory; feminist theory, especially feminist narrative theory; textuality and sexuality; women’s writing and society; or tough guys in literature. All possible versions of the course will require attention to how literature represents, reinforces, and/or attempts to subvert social roles attached to gender and sexuality.
Prerequisite(s): W tag.
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ENG 327A CQ - Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course looks at writings by and about women in America during the long nineteenth century when the roles and expectations of women were changing dramatically. Before Mary Shelley’s radical novel, Frankenstein (1818), her mother Mary Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) and thereby helped found the modern movement to examine the social and political roles and rights of women. From this point forward, literature by and about women took up the “Woman Question” in a variety of ways. This course contributes to the pre-1865 literature requirement.
Prerequisite(s): W tag.
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ENG 331 CX - Literary Figures
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Concentrated study of a single major author, including literary works, cultural and historical contexts and influences. Possible course offerings include Shakespeare, Chaucer, Milton, Austen, Melville, Shaw, Joyce, Woolf, Twain, Faulkner, and Morrison.
Prerequisite(s): W tag.
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ENG 331B CX - Literary Figures: Shakespeare
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Reading and writing about Shakespeare’s plays. Selections will include a cross-section of comedies, tragedies, histories, and romances, as well as sonnets and longer poetry.
Prerequisite(s): W tag.
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ENG 333 G - English as a Global Language
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
One facet of globalization is linguistic globalization, and the increasing prominence of English as the lingua franca of the world is as full of benefits and dangers as is globalization itself. We will explore the historical context and cultural foundation of the global spread of English as well as the cultural legacy of the language in both English and non-English speaking countries. This will include an examination of the growing prominence of English in different regions of the world including South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia in terms of English varieties or “Globish” as well as the impact English has had on the native languages, national attitudes toward the English and Americans, cultural resistance, economic mobility, and the likelihood that one’s second language will be English to the exclusion of others. We will also study specific settings requiring a common language, such as aviation and travel.
Prerequisite(s): W tag.
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ENG 358 CX - Medieval Literature
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Works from European literature before 1485. The course may include Old English poetry, Chaucer, the Pearl-poet, Malory, and a variety of writers from non-English traditions. It will also emphasize cultural and linguistic contexts, historical development, and political and economic background. This course contributes to the pre-1865 literature requirement.
Prerequisite(s): W tag.
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ENG 359 CX - Renaissance Literature
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
A selection of works from British literature, ranging from the last years of the fifteenth century, through the Elizabethan age. The course may draw from a wide variety of poetry, drama and prose, including More, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe and others. It will emphasize literary form and style, as well as cultural and social contexts. This course contributes to the pre-1865 literature requirement.
Prerequisite(s): W tag.
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ENG 360 CX - 17th Century British Literature
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
A survey of selected writers of late Renaissance and 17th century Britain, from the Stuart period through the English Civil War and the Restoration. This tumultuous and action-packed age was filled with unparalleled achievements in the theatre, milestones in publishing, political and religious unrest, the beginnings of global trade, and colonization of the New World. The course will include authors such as Jonson, Donne, Marvell, Wroth, and Milton. This course contributes to the pre-1865 literature requirement.
Prerequisite(s): W tag.
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ENG 361 CX - Restoration & 18th Centry Brit Lit
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
A survey of British literature of the “long 18th century,” from the Restoration through the 1700s. Enormous cultural transformations, from the explosion of print culture, to the philosophical and scientific revolutions of the Enlightenment, to experiments in modern democratic thought, to the speed of travel and international trade, mark the era as one of the most turbulent and exciting in Western history. The course will include authors such as Behn, Defoe, Swift, Pope and Johnson. This course contributes to the pre-1865 literature requirement.
Prerequisite(s): W tag.
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ENG 362 CX - Romantic and Victorian Literature
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course examines a selection of literature from the British long nineteenth century, from the late eighteenth century Romantics to the end of the Victorian era in 1901, and may cover a full survey of this period or only one part (e.g. only the Romantic or the Victorian period). Readings may include: John Keats, William Blake, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Thomas Hardy, or any of the many other writers of the period.
Prerequisite(s): W tag.
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ENG 363 - Modernism
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
A study of literary modernism during the beginning of the twentieth century that may include emphases on any of the following: the Harlem Renaissance, the relationship between realism and modernism, the gender of modernism, and/or transnational influences on modernist writing.
Prerequisite(s): W tag.
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ENG 367 CX - American Literature to 1865
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Encompassing a wide range of literary movements and authors from the 1600s through the end of the American Civil War in 1865, this course may be organized as a survey course looking at writers from each period or may focus on one or more periods in depth. From the early settlers seeking religious or economic freedoms to the tumultuous revolutionary period to the establishment of a distinctive American literature and culture in the nineteenth century, the territories that became the United States forged new political and social frontiers that are reflected in a wide range of imaginative literary works. This course contributes to the pre-1865 literature requirement.
Prerequisite(s): W tag.
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ENG 368 - American Literature, 1865-1914
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course begins with the post-Civil War period of tumult and moves through the rise of realism in the late nineteenth century and Modernism in the early twentieth century. Writers in this period struggled to find innovative ways to get at the basic truths of life experience by experimenting with new forms of writing and new subjects to examine. This period of radical thinking and cultural revolutions produced creative experiments from Mark Twain, Henry James, Kate Chopin, Gertrude Stein, and T. S. Eliot among many others. This course may look at a survey from all periods or choose to focus in more depth on one or more periods.
Prerequisite(s): W tag.
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ENG 370 - Topics: World Literatures in English
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
An examination of a particular national literature other than that of the United States or Britain, or a survey of literature by writers from a variety of regions around the globe. Specific courses might include Irish Literature or Postcolonial Literatures.
Prerequisite(s): W tag.
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ENG 370A CGX - Tpc World Lit: Modern Irish Lit
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Irish Literature may be viewed as the first postcolonial literature of the 20th century and provides a well-focused lens for an examination of contemporary global issues. Students will read not only those iconic writers associated with the Irish Literary Revival of the period immediately preceding and following the Easter Rising of 1916 (Yeats, Joyce, Synge, and company), but also those later 20th century writers who have chronicled the extraordinary changes in Irish culture and society. As Ireland has moved into the 21st century, so has Irish literature admitted the diverse voices of an ethnically, racially, and culturally changing nation. Indeed, a central question is the following: who are the Irish? It’s not as simple as it sounds.
Prerequisite(s): W tag.
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ENG 370B CGX - Tpc: Postcolonial Fiction
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course will provide students with an opportunity to explore fiction from the former British colonies and from Great Britain itself. In order to experience the literature of this course as fully as possible, our readings of the primary texts will be informed by historical grounding, geographical/political contexts, as well as cultural and literary theory to do with postcolonial subjectivity. How do we, in North America, read the work of those in other parts of the world and learn from what they have to tell us?
Prerequisite(s): W tag.
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ENG 371 CX - Postmodern and Contemporary Lit
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course will discuss postmodern and contemporary themes such as the search for meaning, revisionism, consumerism, community, and the relationship between literature and cultural change. We will look closely at issues of form and genre and will discuss critical terms including magical realism, postcolonialism, and poststructuralism.
Prerequisite(s): W tag.
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ENG 377 C - Issues & Themes in Literature
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Some of the earliest novels, even before the genre had a name, were fictionalized travel narratives. These novels were read alongside, sometimes interchangeably with, chronicles of real-life experience. Tales of travel and adventure have enjoyed popularity for centuries: they show us the hopes and fears of every era as their denizens venture into the unknown. They reflect a culture’s values and prejudices as characters confront both foreignness and their own limitations. What remains to be explored and understood in the literature of our increasingly globalized world? This course will take on a broad historical swath of fiction and non-fiction in an effort to find out.
Prerequisite(s): W tag.
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ENG 377A CX - Thm: Romantic,Transcendental,Gothic
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course will look at a let of three literary traditions that overlapped during the late eighteenth and early to mid-nineteenth centuries: Romanticism, Transcendentalism, and Gothicism. These traditions are closely linked to each other: late 18th century British Romanticism gave rise to an American Romantic tradition. Romanticism also gave rise to British as well as American Gothic traditions.
Prerequisite(s): W tag.
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ENG 377B CX - Thm: The Shakespeare Effect
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course addresses the issue of literary adaptation. Using plays by Shakespeare as case studies, students will examine the way artists in different genres (including film, fiction, and musical theater) adapt and reimagine Shakespeare for different eras and audiences.
Prerequisite(s): W tag.
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ENG 379 - Independent Study: English
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor.
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ENG 380 CUX - Literary Criticism and Theory
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course builds on the theoretical principles taught in ENG 280 or ENG 281 to further provide students with the critical tools used in upper-division literature course work. It is devoted to examining critical perspectives and theories in detail, including New Criticism, New Historicism, queer and gender studies, psychoanalytic criticism, feminism, and deconstruction, exploring them through primary readings and case studies. Students will develop a greater understanding of the critical frameworks that provide the assumptions, strategies, and governing questions for the practice of interpreting texts.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 280 or ENG 281 .
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ENG 391 - Literary Genres
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
A study of literature through the lens of genre, such as the novel, film as literature, contemporary drama or poetry, popular genres, including fantasy or horror.
Prerequisite(s): W tag.
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ENG 391A U - American Romantic Film Comedy
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
The formula for this uniquely American genre was brainstormed on the set by director Frank Capra’s writers scripting a day ahead of shooting “It Happened One Night,” starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. This template emerged during a molten period that realigned the rituals of romance, gender, and class, as couples initially clashed and quarreled before softening up. Tweaked over the decades, the basic formula remains intact: chances are examples are playing in theaters here this week.
Prerequisite(s): W tag.
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ENG 395 CEX - Environmental Literature
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course covers literature that puts the environment at the center of discourse and considers humans as part of(rather than apart from) nature and ecosystems. Specific iterations of the course might focus on nature writing, urban environments, deep ecology, eco-feminism, eco-criticism, and/or activist literature.
Prerequisite(s): W tag.
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ENG 401 - Teaching of Composition
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Application of composition research to the teaching of composition today, along with an examination of materials and techniques. This course should be completed before student teaching.
Prerequisite(s): W tag.
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ENG 406 BX - Advanced Fiction Writing
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This is an advanced fiction writing workshop for students interested in writing short stories or chapters of a novel. While the emphasis is on realistic fiction, students may choose to write in various genres such as science fiction, fantasy, or mystery. Students will also read and analyze stories by both established writers and accomplished student writers.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 205 .
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ENG 410 - Advanced Journalism
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
A project-oriented seminar for long investigative projects.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 201 .
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ENG 415A CDQ - Black Women Writers
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course offers a study of selected novels, short stories, and essays by African American women writers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Emphasizing the intersections of race, gender, class, and sexuality, and informed by critical studies of race and ethnicity and Black feminist criticism, we will explore the following main questions: What are the major themes and issues in Black women’s literature? What textual strategies do African American women writers employ to represent Blackness, womanhood, and Black womanhood? In what ways do these writers challenge or accommodate dominant discourses of race, gender, class, and sexuality? What does it mean to be a Black feminist reader, and what does it mean for non-Black and/or non-female readers to interpret Black women’s writings? Cross-listed ETHS 415A and WS 415A
Prerequisite(s): Completion of W Tag.
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ENG 416 CGX - Lit & Cult of Early Translantc Worl
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This advanced course examines transatlantic literature (between Europe, Africa, and the Americas) during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (specifically, the period of the Enlightenment). Literature of this period reflected radical new social and political realities: 1) Globalization on the heels of the age of exploration 2) the exploitative side of this age and the slave trade 3) focus on writings by and about evolving gender roles. This is a broad topics course that would allow various iterations. The emergence of new literary and cultural forms makes this an especially dynamic period. The study of literature of the period is likewise an especially rich frame for looking at this period because new genres emerged alongside new cultural and political forms.
Prerequisite(s): W tag.
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ENG 443 - Focused Study: Ethnic American Lit
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
A close examination of a particular ethnic American literary period, genre, or theme, such as the Harlem Renaissance, immigrant narratives, or Asian Americans in popular culture. Cross-listed ETHS443A
Prerequisite(s): W tag.
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ENG 443A CDQ - Passing Narr: Ethnic Am Literature
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
The term passing refers to the disguises of elements of an individual’s presumed “natural” or “essential” identities, such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and/or class. In this course, we will study selected works of various genres (fiction, memoir, and film) which narrate and negotiate acts of passing. Attending to the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexuality in passing narratives and situating these texts in their historical, cultural, and critical contexts, we will examine the ways in which women and men from diverse ancestries in American literature and culture imagine the possibilities of passing while grappling with its complexities and limitations. We will explore the following key critical questions: What motivates passing, and what are the possibilities, consequences, and limitations of passing? What are the similarities and differences between racial and gender passing? In what ways do passing narratives destabilize the binaries of White/non-White, man/woman, authenticity/counterfeit and call into question the “absoluteness” of identity categories? In what ways does passing remain relevant in today’s U.S. cultural and sociopolitical contexts? Cross-listed ETHS 443A
Prerequisite(s): ENG 110 and sophomore standing.
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ENG 443B CDX - Foc Stud: Ethnic Am Studies-Slavery
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course will examine a range of scenes of slavery as depicted in literary fiction, period accounts, historical documentation, photography and other imagery, and critical theory. This range of texts and images will reveal the lived experiences of slaves across time periods and different geographic locations. We will examine how slaves were transported to the Americas (particularly North America), how their enslavement was achieved materially and psychologically, how their bodies were treated and abused, how they were viewed by sympathizers and opponents of slavery, how the idea of slavery figured in debates about the establishment of the new United States, how they revolted and rebelled and how these rebellions were quashed, how they were controlled through legal and cultural circumscription, how they sought control of their own circumstances and destinies, how they sought escape and sometimes succeeded, and how they wrote accounts of their experiences in an effort to be heard. Cross-listed ETHS 443B CDX
Prerequisite(s): W tag.
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ENG 470 - Focused Study of World Literature
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
A study of masterpieces from the Western and/or non-Western traditions, selected for their cultural or literary significance. This course may be organized around a central theme or question, such as the nature of literary tragedy or the role of the individual in the community.
Prerequisite(s): W tag.
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ENG 476 - Advanced Writing Workshop
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Directed study in the writing of various literary forms, such as the informal essay, nature writing, scriptwriting, genre fiction, the long poem, the novella, or other forms.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 205 .
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ENG 477 - Seminar in Literary Studies
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
A special study of a literary period, figure, genre, or group, of some other special literary focus.
Prerequisite(s): W tag.
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ENG 478 - Independent Study - English
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
A program of independent reading/research in a genre, or an author, or a period if a comparable course is not offered in the same year. This program may be one or two semesters in length.
Prerequisite(s): a literature course at the 300/400 level or consent of instructor.
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ENG 479 - Independent Study - English
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
A program of independent reading/research in a genre, or an author, or a period if a comparable course is not offered in the same year. This program may be one or two semesters in length.
Prerequisite(s): a literature course at the 300/400 level or consent of instructor.
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ENG 480 - Focused Study of Literary Criticism
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
A study of a particular approach or issue in contemporary criticism and theory, such as feminist theory, gender studies, trauma studies, or migration and diaspora.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 280 or ENG 281 and a prior course in Women’s and Gender Studies.
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ENG 480A GQU - Focused Std Lit Crit: Cntm Glob Fem
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course is an exploration of the methods, concepts, and experiences of feminism as it is practiced all over the world in different ways. The historical development and cultural mappings of feminism since the second wave will be our main concern, but we will maintain specificity by focusing on particular locations, and on locational concerns. Feminist theorists from a variety of disciplines including philosophy, literature, political science, history and sociology will provide groundwork for our explorations, which will be filled out through case studies, historical texts and literary narratives. Cross-listed ETHS481/WS480
Prerequisite(s): W tag and ENG 280 or ENG 281 .
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ENG 481 3K - Advanced Studies in English
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
A senior seminar focused on the current themes in English studies that incorporates scholarship and methodologies from all of the sub-disciplines: literature, journalism, creating writing, and teaching. The first half of this course will explore different approaches to the course theme and the second half will be a workshop focused on student projects.
Prerequisite(s): COR 2 and ENG 280 or ENG 281 .
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ENG 489 - Interdisciplinary Study
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
An investigation combining two or more disciplines, such as gender and communication, Psycho-linguistics, or a course combining literature with philosophy, sociology, history, or one of the other arts.
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ENG 490 - Internship
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
A planned and faculty-supervised program of work that utilizes skills learned in earlier English course work.
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SAENG 347 - Study Abroad-Fren Writrs & Frn Ntns
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ENVS 101 1ER - Spirituality and Ecology
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
While focusing on Eco-Spirituality and Environmental Justice, this COR 1 course introduces the Dominican Liberal Arts tradition: building a more just and compassionate world through the integration of spirituality, study and service, in a community searching for truth. Through grappling with ecological concerns, students discover connections between their own spiritualties and what they are learning about the environment through various disciplines and their active collaboration in making the world a better place. We join Dominicans and others exploring “Is there a way to reverse global warming?” “Who suffers or benefits most from the way things are?” “What is ‘green’ living?” “What will motivate & empower us to reduce our own carbon footprints?” Cross-listed RS101
Prerequisite(s): Freshman standing.
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ENVS 102 1E - Food: You Are What You Eat
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
You really are what you eat. In this course students will set out on a journey to explore their relationship with food. The journey will take students on a tour of the Earth’s atmosphere, soils, and waters; inside human cells to examine how food is utilized, and to remote corners of the globe to evaluate the far-reaching effects that food choices have on the planet. Connections with food are explored both within the local community and around the world. Decisions regarding what we eat every day have considerable effects on our health, the environment, and the well-being of those involved in the production, processing, and transportation of our food. Students will consider how food provisioning has changed throughout human history, how the rise of agriculture changed the way we feed ourselves, and what this has meant for human health and ecological systems. A personal exploration of how food shapes our lives and communities. Cross-listed BIO 102 1E
Offered Fall
Prerequisite(s): This course is for first semester freshmen or freshmen transfer students.
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ENVS 110 EPU - Environmental Ethics
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
What ways of thinking help us participate responsibly in the web of life on Earth? This course will help us recognize the interdependence of human society and the natural environment and the ways in which principles of ecological sustainability are essential to building a just and compassionate world. Our course will begin with developing an understanding of the multidisciplinary context of environmental ethics, and then we will explore fundamental worldviews of our relationship with and responsibility to the natural world. We will then look at specific areas of concern and case studies where you will be given the chance to examine an issue from different philosophical perspectives. This course will develop your ability to think philosophically; to understand several philosophical traditions in ethics; and to apply your abilities and understandings to environmental issues. Cross-listed PHIL110
Prerequisite(s): T tag course.
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ENVS 201 - Living Sust in Dominican Studium I
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 2
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
The first of a two-semester seminar which integrates the study and practice of eco-spiritualties and application of the principles of sustainability. Open to students from every religious and spiritual tradition, this course builds on the features of the Dominican Studium: Community, Contemplation, Study, and Mission. The first semester includes weekly seminars, a one-day Saturday retreat, regular gatherings for contemplative rituals and eco-celebrations as well as community meetings to deal with the practicalities of living as sustainably as possible. Cross-listed RS201
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisites: COR 1 or equivalent required of students in their second or third year; Students apply in March for admission to the “Sustainable Living and Learning “Studium” in Dominican Hall and register in April for RS 201.
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ENVS 201 2ER - Living Sust in Dominican Studium I
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 2
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
The ENVS 201/ENVS 202 sequence satisfies the 2, E, and R tags. To receive these tags, a student must enroll in and successfully complete both the fall and spring courses. If you wish to receive the tags for this sequence (which is set up as two separate courses), enroll in ENVS 201 (with no tags) at this time and ENVS 202 2ER in Spring. The tags will be added to your record after successful completion of ENVS 202 2ER in the Spring term.
Offered Fall
Prerequisite(s): Completion of COR 1 or COR 199 or COR 199 in progress; two full-time semesters of college credit, excluding retro credits, AP credits, and college credit earned while in high school. Students apply in March for admission to the “Sustainable Living and Learning Studium” in Dominican Hall and register in April for RS 201 .
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ENVS 202 2ER - Living Sust in Dominican Studium II
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 2
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
The second of a two-semester sequence associated with the Sustainable Living and Learning Community in Dominican Hall. Continuing the intensive study of eco-spiritualties and efforts to live sustainably during the Fall in RS 201 , student’s partner with others in the wider community in a variety of sustainability efforts through research and practical assistance. In addition to weekly seminars, students summarize their learning, beliefs and actions for the annual Student Academic Showcase and write a COR 2 Statement to articulate their own spirituality, worldview, beliefs and values. Note Well: Students must take both RS 201 and RS 202 in order to fulfill requirements for the COR 2, E and R tags. Cross-listed RS 202
Prerequisite(s): ENVS 201 or RS 201
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ENVS 203 E - Debating the Earth: Pol Pers on Env
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
In this course, we shall explore how a diverse array of competing political perspectives views the relationship of humans to the natural environment in terms of both the sources of and the solutions to our current ecological crisis. In investigating these different paradigms and how each constructs the issues, we will come to better understand how these views shape public policy, political movements, public opinion, and even international relations. Cross-listed PS 201
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ENVS 206 EV - Natural Communities of Wisconsin
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
An exploration of Wisconsin’s wetlands, lakes and streams, prairies, savannas, and forests. In field trips and labs, we practice identifying local plants and animals, see some of the science behind our understanding of these biological communities, and support collaborative efforts to preserve our natural heritage. Cross-listed BIO206
Offered Fall, Summer
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ENVS 216 EV - Environmental Geology
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Environmental geology focuses on the interaction between humans and geological processes that shape Earth’s environment. An emphasis is placed upon both how integral earth processes are to human survival and the fact that humans are an integral part of a complex and interactive system called the Earth System. The study of Environmental Geology brings important knowledge and information to the search for solutions to many of the problems facing humanity today. Challenges such as expanding populations, resource distribution and use, energy and water availability and earth processes (especially flooding, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, etc.) that pose serious risks to life and property are addressed. Possible solutions are explored that work within ecological realities and prioritize the ability to meet the needs of the current population without reducing the options available to future generations. Cross-listed GEOS206
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ENVS 250 EV - Intro to Environmental Science
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Humans are intimately connected to the natural world. We not only depend on the environment for our existence and well-being, we are part of the environment and our actions can affect it profoundly. This course explores the connections between humans and our environment by exploring basic ecological principals and applying them to many of the major environmental issues currently faced by humanity. Cross-listed BIO250
Offered Fall, Spring
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ENVS 265 E - Natural Resources and Society
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 2
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
A seminar designed to investigate the ecological, cultural, geographic and economic background of the conservation of natural resources. Some of the specific issues that will be explored are: resource allocation and energy production; water issues; intergenerational externalities and food production; and population pressures. A special section will be devoted to producer and consumer cooperatives and alternative institutional responses to many of these pressing issues. Cross-listed GEOG265
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ENVS 275 E - Dendrology: Trees & Shrubs of Wisc
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 2
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 2
A field course in the identification of trees, shrubs, and woody vines native to Wisconsin and the Great Lakes region as well as some of the common non-native horticultural and invasive species. Emphasis is on observation of plant characteristics permitting easy identification and discussion of the natural history, ecology, distribution, and human uses of each species. The course will also introduce students to basic forest ecology, management, and conservation principles, with emphasis on sustainable use of forests in the Great Lakes region and worldwide. Cross-listed BIO275
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ENVS 303 2E - Food and Social Justice
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Every day, the dietary choices we make have consequences for us, our communities, the environment, and people across the globe. An examination of agriculture, the food industry, and advertising reveals the causes of numerous social problems for a culture over-fed yet under-nourished by the food we produce. Yet Dane County and Madison boast some of the most progressive food practices in the nation that we’ll see first-hand. From CSAs to farmers’ markets to the Feed Kitchen, Madisonians work hard to protect our foodshed. Cross-listed SOC 303
Prerequisite(s): Completion of COR 1 or COR 199 or COR 199 in progress; two full-time semesters of college credit, excluding retro credits, AP credits, and college credit earned while in high school.
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ENVS 306 2E - Environmental Justice
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
In our own communities and around the world, people are disproportionately affected by environmental problems if they are communities of color and/or socio-economically disadvantaged. These environmental injustices harm human and environmental health and contribute to global inequalities. The environmental justice movement is connecting and empowering marginalized communities throughout the world through a shared experience and is empowering those communities to demand a healthier world. This course uses interdisciplinary readings, community experiences, class discussions, and personal reflection to explore the impact of the environmental justice movement on our world and global communities.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of COR 1 or COR 199 or COR 199 in progress; two full-time semesters of college credit, excluding retro credits, AP credits, and college credit earned while in high school.
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ENVS 323 - Exploring Iceland: Art and Science
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course is the spring semester-long preparation for travel to Iceland. The human benefit, dependence, and effect on natural resources will be studied simultaneously with learning about culture, science, and the principles of digital photography. Travel destinations will include several unique natural sites, history, culture, and art exhibits, as well as activities such as a glacier hike, exploring waterfalls, swimming, relaxing in hot tubs, hiking and more. Cross-listed GS 333
Prerequisite(s): Successful application. Students will enroll in ENVS 323/GS 333 followed by ENVS 324 /GS 334 , and will receive the B, E, and G tags after the successful completion of ENVS 324 /GS 334 .
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ENVS 324 BEG - Exploring Iceland: Art and Science
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 0
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course is the second part of the Exploring Iceland experience, traveling for 8-10 days in early summer and 2-3 days of coursework at Edgewood. Students will apply their knowledge from GS333 to their experience on the ground in Iceland. Travel destinations will include several unique natural sites, history, culture, and art exhibits, as well as activities such as a glacier hike, exploring waterfalls, swimming, relaxing in hot tubs, hiking, and more. Cross-listed GS 334 BEG
Prerequisite(s): successful application
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ENVS 325 - Environmental Economics
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 2
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Examines the mechanisms societies employ to allocate limited natural resources among unlimited demands. By seeing environmental issues as economic issues, this course identifies the incentives faced by consumers and producers that lead to environmental problems and how alternative incentives might alleviate problems like pollution, global warming, and vanishing rainforests; or to promote sustainable resource use. Cross-listed ECON325
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ENVS 328 EG - World Food Systems
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
In the last decades, the food system has undergone significant structural changes: agriculture has become a heavily-mechanized industry and the number of miles food travels from producer to consumer has multiplied. As buyers, we are no longer constrained to the local food variety or its seasonal availability. In addition, as incomes in poor countries have risen, people’s diets have become increasingly diversified with a greater reliance upon processed foods. In this course we will use basic economic theory to analyze world food production and distribution. We will explore and compare the benefits and problems experienced by rich and poor nations due to transformations of the food system. Topics to be discussed include international food aid programs, growth of urban food markets, and impact of government policies in food prices, health, labor structure, and the environment. Cross-listed ECON 328
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ENVS 330 2EG - Sustainability: Global-Local Connect
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course explores how people relate to each other and with the natural world, and how these relationships reflect our values and shape our future. Starting from the premise that we are in the midst of historically unprecedented ecological and social crises that threaten modern civilization, if not our survival as a species, we will examine grassroots movements in different cultures aimed at addressing these crises at both the local and global levels, with particular focus on the U.S. and Latin America. Students will become familiar with key concepts of ecological and cultural sustainability, and apply these concepts in community-based projects that address local needs.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of COR 1 or COR 199 or COR 199 in progress; two full-time semesters of college credit, excluding retro credits, AP credits, and college credit earned while in high school.
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ENVS 333 E - Ecological History of Civilization
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
A global examination of the evolutionary and biological foundations underlying the multi-ethnic societies and diverse cultures observed in the modern world. Beginning with human evolution, this course will follow the sweep of human history through the origins of agriculture and the rise and fall of civilizations to the modern industrial condition. Focusing on biological and ecological processes and the human decisions that have led to the present, this course also explores the challenges faced by a growing and increasingly globalized human population as we move toward the future. Cross-listed BIO333
Offered Fall
Prerequisite(s): BIO 151 or consent of instructor.
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ENVS 352 EJ - Environmental Politics
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course examines the political dynamics that underlie environmental policymaking in the United States. Major issues in environmental policy, including public lands, wildlife, pollution and energy will be examined, as well as the role of governmental institutions, interest groups and the public in formulating environmental policy. Cross-listed PS352
Offered Spring
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ENVS 353 EJ - Sprawl, Land Use and Society
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 2
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course examines the environmental and social consequences of suburban sprawl and the patterns of mobility associated with it. In doing so, we will closely explore the role of public policies at the local, state, and federal levels in creating, supporting and now questioning this entire system. Cross-listed GEOG 353 , PS 353
Offered Spring
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ENVS 450 E - Ecology
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
No species exists in isolation; life on Earth depends on interconnections between organisms and their environment. This course explores this interdependence by considering ecological principles as they pertain to individual organisms, populations, communities, ecosystems, and the biosphere. Special attention is given to the role of humans in global ecological systems. Many topics are explored through field-based research in local natural communities. Cross-listed BIO 450
Offered Fall
Prerequisite(s): See BIO 450 .
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ENVS 460 - Special Topics-Permaculture Design
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 2
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
An intensive 8-day exploration of permacultural design principles and applications. Students will learn how thoughtful planning can preserve and enhance both people and nature by careful use of resources based on nature’s design. Students will complete a design project.
Prerequisite(s): Consent of the Instructor.
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ENVS 469A - Topics-Permaculture Design
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 2
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
An intensive 8-day exploration of permacultural design principles and applications. Students will learn how thoughtful planning can preserve and enhance both people and nature by careful use of resources based on nature’s design. Students will complete a design project.
Prerequisite(s): Consent of the Instructor.
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ENVS 469B - Topics: Sustainable Development
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course provides the foundation for the Sustainability Leadership Program. We introduce major approaches to and measures of sustainability (e.g., ecological design, permaculture, biomimicry, life-cycle costing, triple bottom line, natural capitalism, ecological footprint, bioregionalism, The Natural Step, Transition movement); explore relationships among sustainability, economic development, and social justice; and apply systems thinking and sustainability principles to specific issues. We also use existing models and team projects to examine how personal values, goals, and communication styles influence our roles as change agents; and we practice a variety or methods (e.g. Scenario Thinking, Appreciative Inquiry, World Cafe, Open Space) that can promote networking, public participation, planning, and group decision-making on sustainability issues. This is a mostly residential course designed to create a community of reflective learners that support each other in becoming effective as social entrepreneurs and sustainability change agents. Cross-listed SUST 650
Prerequisite(s): Admissions into Sustainability Leadership Program or consent of the instructor.
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ENVS 469C - Topics: Ecological Sustainability
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
In the second course of the Sustainability Leadership Program, we use an ecological framework to explore the scientific basis of sustainable systems and the extension of principles of ecology and natural systems at multiple levels of organization, with emphasis on the fundamental roles of energy flow, nutrient dynamics, and hydrological cycles in ecosystem and biosphere function. We work extensively with principles of ecological design, resilience, and restoration; and we critically analyze key sustainability indicators and reporting frameworks (e.g., ecological and carbon footprints, green building certifications, Global Reporting Initiative, Genuine Progress Indicator). Key related concepts considered in some depth include: ecosystem services; adaptive management; regeneration; permaculture; biomimicry; integral ecology; indigenous knowledge systems; ecospirituality.
Prerequisite(s): SUST 650 .
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ENVS 469D - Topics: Social & Econ Sustainability
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ENVS 469E - Topics: Sustainability Ldsp Capstone
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ENVS 479 - Independent Study - Environmental S
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
The study of selected topics in Environmental Studies under the direction of a faculty member in the program.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor.
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ENVS 489 - Undergraduate Research
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Independent research related to environmental studies to be completed in collaboration with a faculty member or researchers from other agencies.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor.
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ETHS 150B 1D - Rethinking the Border: US Immigratn
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Though the traditional US immigrant narrative focuses on those immigrants who came into Ellis Island, in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, this course turns its gaze to the long US-Mexican border (understood both as a physical barrier between the two countries, but also a psychological reality) and the crucial role of Mexican immigrants in shaping the US, not only in the traditional ‘borderlands’ of California and the Southwest, but across the country. While we focus on the experiences of Mexican immigrants, we also give attention to the larger historical context of US immigration. Through an exploration of a range of immigrant expressions (songs, narratives, fiction, documentaries, interviews), this course examines the roles and contributions of Mexican and other immigrants in US history. Against the backdrop of an increasingly multicultural United States, we consider the breadth and depth of cultural history and experience that make up the US, even as we examine the ways in which immigrants (both historically and today) come under attack.
Offered Fall
Prerequisite(s): This course is for first semester freshmen.
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ETHS 200 D - Ed & Identity in Plralistic Society
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Students will examine, interact with, and explore the pluralistic and diverse educations and identities of peoples in Wisconsin, the United States, and beyond through the lenses of privilege, oppression, and opportunity before and beyond the 21st century. Individual and institutional discrimination will be examined through culturally significant identity vistas that include race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, language, and ability. Through self-analysis and reflection, historical investigation linked with analysis of contemporary schools and society, school/community-based experiences, and communication-skill building, students will learn how to be culturally responsive to the contexts of communities and the dynamics of difference. Course meets Wisconsin DPI American Indian Tribes requirement. Course will have a primary emphasis on Wisconsin Teacher Standards 3, 6, and 10 and will involve fieldwork. Cross-listed ED200
Offered Fall
Prerequisite(s): sophomore standing or consent of the School of Education.
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ETHS 202 DP - Philosophy and Mass Incarceration
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course examines the philosophical questions raised by criminal law. This course will examine how various philosophers and social theorists have justified criminal punishment. We will pay special attention to how liberal democratic societies reconcile commitments to individual liberty with practices of confinement. We will connect this study to moral, political, and experiential reflections on mass incarceration, especially as they relate to racial, sexual, and class hierarchies in the US. This course will include a community learning project. Cross-listed CJ 200 and PHIL 200
Prerequisite(s): PHIL 101
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ETHS 204 DH - History of Amer Social Movements
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
A survey of US social movements, with emphasis on post WWII movements. Cross-listed HIST204
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ETHS 222 GJ - Intro to Cultural Anthropology
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course provides an introduction to the nature and diversity of human society and culture through an examination of specific cross-cultural cases. It includes a comparative study of social, political and economic organization, patterns of religious and aesthetic orientations, gender issues, relations with the natural environment, as well as the process of sociocultural persistence and change. Special consideration will be given to the circumstances faced by contemporary small-scale societies. Cross-listed ANTH222
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ETHS 242 CDX - Literature of American Minorities
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course provides an introduction to literatures of ethnic minorities in the US, including Native American, African American, Hispanic American, and Asian American literatures. We will read a number of significant 20th and 21st century texts that have shaped ethnic minority traditions and have become part and parcel of American literature. We will explore such major issues as identity, culture, history, race, gender, sexuality, and class. We will examine how these texts present specific ethnic experiences via diverse literary means and innovations and by doing so contribute to American literature and culture. Cross-listed ENG242
Prerequisite(s): ENG 110 or W cornerstone.
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ETHS 250 - Themes and Issues in Ethnic Studies
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
A study of historically marginalized racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. through the exploration of various topics, such as ethnic autobiography, slave narratives, the Civil Rights movement, Chicano art, or the graphic novel.
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ETHS 253 AD - Multicultural Art in North America
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course provides an inclusive, multicultural introduction to art of North America, with emphasis on ways that art is related to the historical, social, and cultural contexts in which it is created. Rather than attempting to consider all of the art produced over this long span of time, we will focus on particular aspects of American art, foremost among these the visual manifestations of the cross-cultural encounters between diverse peoples as central to the history of art of this continent. We will consider the relationships between American art and European art, and visual art and material culture as the expressions of particularly “American” identities by American artists and craftspeople of various ethnicities. Our study will emphasize the historical and cultural contexts in which this diversity of art has been produced. We consider such questions as: How have the social dynamics of race and ethnicity, along with gender and class, shaped the experiences of American artists and their audiences at various historical moments since pre-contact through the modern period? How do artists’ social positions inform their artistic responses to questions of modernity? What does art by artists of diverse ethnicities tell us about the historic and contemporary experiences of various cultural groups in the US? As well as exploring movements in art of North America and the work of individual artists of various ethnicities, this course introduces the students to methodological and theoretical issues underlying the study of art in North America, and ways that consideration and critical analysis of multiple disciplinary and social perspectives can enrich our understanding of this art. Readings, class discussions, group inquiry projects, and other assignments will emphasize the development of reflective, creative, and critical approaches to the study of visual art. Cross-listed ART 253
Offered Spring
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ETHS 260 CD - Topics in Ethnic Literatures
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
A course focusing on the intersection between literature and ethnicity or Ethnic Studies. Specific versions of the course might focus on topics like the Multiethnic Graphic Novel, American Slave Narratives, or the Literature of Immigration. Cross-listed ENG 260
Prerequisite(s): W tag or concurrent enrollment in W-tag course.
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ETHS 262 - Foundations of ESL & Bilingual Educ
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course introduces students to the historical, political, and social issues that contributed to the formulation of local, state, and federal educational policies for linguistically and culturally diverse students. The aspects of language acquisition theories as they relate to specific program models are included through a prism of cultural and linguistic relevant pedagogy and educational empowerment through family and community engagement. Cross-listed ED262
Prerequisite(s): Preliminary Entry to Teacher Education.
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ETHS 271 2DH - Asian American Experience
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
A course that examines major issues in the history of the Asian American experience from the middle of the 19th century to present. Cross-listed HIST 251
Prerequisite(s): Completion of COR 1 or COR 199 or COR 199 in progress; two full-time semesters of college credit, excluding retro credits, AP credits, and college credit earned while in high school.
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ETHS 271B H - Topic: African Americans and Film
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
The course examines the portrayals of African Americans in Cinema/TV over the past century. Students will also become well-versed in African American history as a whole to better contextualize the films they study in the semester. In addition, the course seeks to demonstrate the continuity and change in African American history and in Hollywood’s portrayal of Black people. For instance, how did African Americans respond to the depiction of Blacks in Birth of a Nation and Shaft? How (and why) has Hollywood shifted its portrayal of people of color over the years? Finally, this course will emphasize the differences between primary and secondary documents as well as the pros and cons that each may have for students of history. Cross-listed HIST 271 H
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ETHS 290 DGJ - Race and Racisms
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course introduces the critical study of race and ethnicity in the United States and other parts of the world. Using an intersectional framework, global considerations, and sociological as well as other disciplinary concepts and methods, the course guides our understanding of the history and current development of the discipline of ethnic studies; fundamental concepts and issues in ethnic studies; racial dynamics and the historical, social, and cultural experiences of historically marginalized racial and ethnic groups in the United States and around the world.
Key themes and issues include: What is ethnic studies, how has it evolved over time and in the age of migration and globalization, and why are global perspectives essential in the critical study of race and ethnicity? What is race? How have racial ideologies and racisms evolved since the beginning of European colonialism and the U.S. history? In what ways do racialized policy and institutions create and perpetuate racial inequality in education, employment, housing and wealth, the criminal justice system, health and environment, and immigration policy? In what ways do other countries compare with the United States in racial dynamics? Finally, what are the visionary frameworks and our own roles for achieving racial justice?
Offered Fall, Spring
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ETHS 301 BD - Tap Dance: Techniq & Cult Perspectiv
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course, for students with little or no knowledge of tap dance, spans the development and place of the form from its early roots in the Americas of 1600 to the present. It combines pedagogical study of the multi-cultural elements of this art from participatory studio work to build basic understanding of music, movement and cultural sensitivity. An American hybrid art form, the course illuminates the intersection of history and culture. Cross-listed THA301A
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ETHS 309 D - Race and Ethnicity
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course engages students in an analysis of historical and contemporary experiences of race and ethnicity in the United States as influenced by changing migration trends and economic developments. Special consideration is given to the social construction of racial categories; issues of whiteness; and multiracial identity. Cross-listed SOC309
Prerequisite(s): One of the following: SOC 201 , ANTH 222 , PSY 101 .
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ETHS 317 D - Intercultural Communication
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course is the study of how individuals perceive and react to cultural rules, and how those perceptions and reactions affect the ways they communicate with one another. The general goals of the class are for students to develop understanding of the role that identity plays in intercultural communication, develop understanding of how cultural rules affect communication, learn how cultures differ from each other and how they come together and coexist, and develop competence in communicating with people of various cultures in the United States and beyond. Cross-listed COMMS317
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ETHS 319 AGQ - (Post)colonial Cinema and Asia
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Geisha, Madame Butterfly, China dolls, Arabian bazaars, exotic sampans, mysterious mountain peaks—-these are just some of the recurring images of Asia, or “the Orient,” in the European and American popular imagination. The place of Europe’s oldest, richest colonies and the U.S. military adventures and territorial expansions, Asia has become not only an integral part of the imperial West’s material culture and civilization but also its exotic, mysterious, feminine, and ultimately inferior Other. A persistent critic of the Western supremacist ideologies has been Edward Said, who refers to the West’s imperialist and masculinist constructions of the East as Orientalism, a set of terms, ideas, and principles that contain and control the Otherness of the Orient.
In what ways has the colonial West’s conceptualization of the East persisted or changed in contemporary cinema since Said’s epochal critique over four decades ago? How has Said’s notion of Orientalism been extended and modified in postcolonial and postcolonial feminist film studies? How is the Orientalist discourse reproduced, complicated, and challenged in Western and Eastern film? In what ways do race, gender, and nation intersect in Orientalist cinematic narratives? In what specific historical and geopolitical contexts do cinematic texts portray (anti-) Orientalist images and visions of Asia? In what ways are such inquiries relevant or urgent as we negotiate the complex relations between women and men as well as the East and the West in today’s cultural and geopolitical contexts?
In this course, we will explore these key critical questions and understand film as an important cultural, as well as art, form for the production, dissemination, and critique of Western European and American knowledge about genders, sexualities, and nations. Cross-listed THA 319
Offered Other
Prerequisite(s): W tag
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