Courses - Fall 2008

The following is a list of courses for the Fall 2008 semester categorized by School of Thought.

Cognitive Science (CS)

 * Cognitive Science Fiction ~ CS-0104
 * Programming Web Pages for Poets, Artists, and Scientists ~ CS-0106
 * Philosophy of Education ~ CS-0117
 * Introduction to Neuropsychology ~ CS-0130
 * From Descartes to Kant ~ CS-0138
 * Animal Cognition ~ CS-0139
 * Intuitive Judgments and Rational Decisions ~ CS-0154
 * Consumption and Happiness ~ CS/SS-0163
 * Introduction to Experimental Psychology ~ CS-0165
 * Computer Animation I ~ CS-0174
 * Philosophy of Mind ~ CS-0202
 * How People Learn: Introduction to Cognition Instruction ~ CS-0208
 * Computer Vision: Making Computers See ~ CS-0214
 * Freedom of Expression ~ CS-0221
 * Field Methods in Linguistics ~ CS-0236
 * Cognitive Development ~ CS-0238
 * Minds, Brains, and Machines: The 50 Key Ideas ~ CS-0245
 * Artificial Intelligence in 3D Virtual Worlds ~ CS-0263
 * The Plastic Brain: Culture, Experience, and Environment in Mind/Brain Development ~ CS-0269
 * Cognition and Behavior in Domesticated Animals ~ CS-0279
 * Non-Fiction Film ~ CS/HACU-0282
 * Truth and Meaning ~ CS-0325
 * Special Topics in Childhood, Youth, and Learning: An Integrated Division III Seminar ~ CS/HACU/SS/IA/NS-0356
 * Culture, Brain, and Development: Developmental Psychopathology ~ CS/NS/SS-105T
 * The Social Mind: Evidence from Autism and Williams Syndrome ~ CS-108T
 * Tabloid News, Nonrational Politics ~ CS-119T
 * Inquiring Minds-Find Out What Other Students Think and Do ~ CS-122T

Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies (HACU)

 * Chorus ~ HACU-0101
 * Introduction to Writing ~ HACU/IA/WP-0103
 * Drawing I ~ HACU-0104
 * Introduction to Analog/Digital Media Arts ~ HACU-0106
 * Hand Made Films ~ HACU-0108
 * Introduction to Media Production: Imaging Truth (or Reality and Other Inventions) ~ HACU-0109
 * Musical Beginnings ~ HACU-0119
 * The Postcolonial Turn ~ HACU-0140
 * The Novel in the United States, 1900-1945 ~ HACU-0141
 * Mysteries of Petersburg ~ HACU-0148
 * Introduction to "Asia" Through Music and Performing Arts ~ HACU-0149
 * Postcolonial Feminist Philosophy ~ HACU-0165
 * The Body in Modern Art ~ HACU-0166
 * Creative Betrayals: Secular Jewish Literature From the Bible to Modernity ~ HACU-0186
 * Myth, Belief, and Reality in World Literature ~ HACU-0187
 * Jazz Ensemble Seminar I ~ HACU-0192
 * High Spirits: Reading &amp; Writing About Spiritual Experience ~ HACU/IA/WP-0199
 * Modern Dance Technique I ~ HACU-0201
 * Artists' Books ~ HACU-0204
 * Architectural Design: Basic Approaches ~ HACU/IA-0205
 * Introduction to Painting ~ HACU-0208
 * Video I ~ HACU-0209-1 &amp; 2
 * Film Workshop I ~ HACU-0210-1 &amp; 2
 * Still Photography I: Digital Photography ~ HACU-0211-1&amp; 2
 * Modern Dance IV: High Intermediate ~ HACU-0216
 * Mandala, Mummy and Magical Medicine: Studying Buddhism Through Material Objects ~ HACU-0230
 * Dissident Poetics: Aesthetics of Liberation in Third Cinema ~ HACU-0232
 * Myths of America ~ HACU-0238
 * The Posthuman Condition ~ HACU-0244
 * Framing Blackness: African Americans and mass Media in the 20th Century ~ HACU-0245
 * Contemporary Germany: History, Society, Culture(1918-present) ~ HACU/SS-0247
 * Dance Improvisation in History and Practice ~ HACU/IA-0250
 * The Improviser's Laboratory ~ HACU-0251
 * Media Production II: The Narrative ~ HACU-0253
 * Photography Workshop II: Large Format Photography and Alternative Photographic Printmaking ~ HACU-0254
 * Film Workshop II: Recycled Images ~ HACU-0255
 * Ancient Epic I ~ HACU-0256
 * Magic Realism and the World ~ HACU-0261
 * Americans Abroad: 19th-and 20th-Century Literary Representations ~ HACU-0263
 * Tonal Theory I ~ HACU-0264
 * Master Musicians of Africa I: West Africa ~ HACU-0269
 * Issues in Popular Music ~ HACU-0271
 * Music Journalism for Radio ~ HACU-0272
 * The Past Recaptured: Photographs, Facts and Fictions ~ HACU/IA/SS-0276
 * Human Action and the Will in Aristotle and Medieval Philosophy ~ HACU-0277
 * Mutations in Expression--Unpacking Cross-Polination inýDesign and Representation ~ HACU-0279
 * Immigration Nation: Ethnic Stereotypes, U.S. Politics, and the Media ~ HACU/SS-0280
 * Non-Fiction Film ~ HACU/CS-0282
 * Bollywood and Beyond: Cinema, Society, and Culture in India ~ HACU-0283-1
 * Intermediate Painting ~ HACU-0284
 * A Private Performance for the Camera: Directing the Selfýthrough Still and Moving Image ~ HACU-0287
 * Shakespeare and Woolf ~ HACU-0288
 * Architecture + Design: Systems, Sustainability, and Campus Life ~ HACU-0289
 * Augustine and Camus ~ HACU-0292
 * State of Poetry ~ HACU-0293
 * Works on Paper ~ HACU-0297
 * Advanced Painting ~ HACU-0304
 * Division III Dance Seminar ~ HACU-0320
 * The Bauhaus ~ HACU-0321
 * Identity Beyond Identity Politics ~ HACU-0329
 * The Collector: Theory and Practice ~ HACU-0334
 * Division III Projects: Photography and Mixed Media: Sequence/Structure/Juxtaposition ~ HACU-0335
 * Special Topics in Childhood, Youth, and Learning: An Integrated Division III Seminar ~ HACU/CS/NS-0356
 * Somatics: Thinking Body/Moving Mind ~ HACU-120T
 * The Walking Arts ~ HACU-121T
 * Introduction to Buddhist Meditation Traditions ~ HACU-122T
 * Commodities of Desire: Gendered Signs, Racialized Representations and Popular Culture ~ HACU-123T
 * Apocalypse and Utopia: German Art in the Twentieth Century ~ HACU-124T
 * Reading, Writing, Blogging Dance ~ HACU-125T
 * Southern Writers: Sense of Place ~ HACU-126T
 * Alienation ~ HACU-127T

Interdisciplinary Arts (IA)

 * Elementary Spanish IA-0101
 * Elementary Spanish II IA-0102
 * Introduction to Writing IA-0103
 * Elementary Chinese II IA-0112
 * American Sign Language Level II IA-0124
 * Theatre of the Eye IA-0125
 * Drawing Foundation IA-0160
 * Design Fundamentals I IA-0180
 * Integration of Creative Drama and Core Curriculum IA-0183
 * Ideas in Sculpture and Design IA-0184
 * Staging Original Drama IA-0198
 * Intermediate Spanish I IA-0201
 * Intermediate Spanish IA-0202
 * Teaching Art in the Elementary School IA-0211
 * Color Practice &amp; Theory IA-0219
 * Painting: Content/Process IA-0226
 * Using Suspense in Story IA-0227
 * Storytelling as Performance: Voice, Body, Narrative IA-0228
 * Object and Environment IA-0229
 * Designing With Light IA-0231
 * Creative Electronics IA-0235
 * The Practice of Literary Journalism IA-0236
 * Appropriate Technology in the Developing World IA-0237
 * Social Entrepreneurship: Starting Your Own Socially Responsible Enterprise IA-0240
 * White on Black IA-0247]
 * Poetry Workshop: Writing Poems about Visual Art (aka Ekphr) IA-0255
 * Sound Design for Theatre IA-0256
 * The Past Recaptured: Photographs, Facts and Fictions, 1935-1943 IA-0264
 * Point of View in Fiction: A Course in Reading and Writing IA-0265
 * Making A Scene IA-0268
 * Documentary Drama IA-0275
 * Whatnot in the Speech-Grille IA-0286
 * Design Response IA-0293
 * Advanced Intermediate Chinese IA-0312
 * Advanced Drawing IA-0319
 * Art/Nature/Technology IA-0338
 * Advanced Seminar In Writing (Div III Concentrators) IA-0399

Outdoors Program/Recreational Athletics (OPRA)

 * Beginning Shotokan Karate OPRA-0101
 * Intermediate Shotokan Karate OPRA-0102
 * Advanced Shotokan Karate OPRA-0104
 * Hatha Yoga OPRA-0106
 * Hatha Yoga OPRA-0107
 * Intermediate Hatha Yoga OPRA-0109
 * Continuing Hatha Yoga-Open Level Class OPRA-0111
 * Aikido OPRA-0113
 * Beginning Kyudo: Japanese Archery OPRA-0115
 * Intermediate Kyudo OPRA-0116
 * RAD Basic: Self Defense for Women OPRA-0118
 * T'ai Chi OPRA-0120
 * Beginning Whitewater Kayaking OPRA-0123
 * Beginning Whitewater Kayaking OPRA-0124
 * Beyond Beginning Whitewater Kayaking OPRA-0126
 * Outdoor Adventure Sampler OPRA-0132
 * Beginning Swimming OPRA-0141
 * Lifeguard Training OPRA-0145
 * Openwater SCUBA Certification OPRA-0149
 * Top Rope Climbing OPRA-0152
 * Lead Rock Climbing Intensive OPRA-0156
 * Mountain Biking OPRA-0157
 * Ice Climbing OPRA-0158
 * Bicycle Maintenance OPRA-0161
 * Indoor Soccer OPRA-0162
 * Basic Fitness and Training OPRA-0174
 * Strength Training OPRA-0176
 * Fundamentals of Basketball OPRA-0181
 * Wilderness First Aid OPRA-0184
 * Outdoor Leadership OPRA-0218

Natural Science (NS)

 * Puzzles and Paradoxes ~ NS-0112
 * Complementary Medicine: Science, History, and Practice ~ NS-0120
 * Human Biological Variation ~ NS-0123
 * Women's Health in America ~ NS-0129
 * Local Food Systems ~ NS-0136
 * Earth &amp; Life Through Time ~ NS-0145
 * Sustainable Water Resources Design ~ NS-0157
 * Quantum Mechanics for the Millions ~ NS-0183
 * Topics in Renewable Energy ~ NS-0184
 * Ever Since Darwin ~ NS-0198
 * Physics II ~ NS-0205
 * Ecology ~ NS-0207
 * Organic Chemistry I ~ NS-0212
 * Physiology ~ NS-0221
 * Nutritional Anthropology ~ NS-0233
 * Neuroendocrinology of Behavior ~ NS-0244
 * Adolescent Development ~ NS-0246
 * Epidemiology ~ NS-0248
 * Watershed Hydrology ~ NS-0255
 * Calculus II ~ NS-0261
 * Statistics and Experimental Design ~ NS-0265
 * Bringing Astronomy Down to Earth: The Art of Communicating Science Through Electronic Media ~ NS-0267
 * Introduction to Geographic Information Systems and Natural Resource Management ~ NS-0268
 * Elements of Sustainability ~ NS-0276
 * Molecular Ecology ~ NS-0293
 * Sustainable Agriculture and Organic Farming ~ NS-0294
 * Modern Algebra ~ NS-0317
 * Advanced Calculus ~ NS-0324
 * Immunology ~ NS-0329
 * Local Food Systems ~ NS-0336
 * Ecological Applications Science Seminar ~ NS-0352
 * Sustainable Water Resources Design ~ NS-0357
 * Molecular Evolution ~ NS-0372
 * New Ways of Knowing Integrative Seminar ~ NS-386
 * Ever Since Darwin ~ NS-0398

Social Science (SS)

 * Life Stories From Latin America ~  SS-0106 &amp; SS-0108
 * Real Kids ~  SS-0118
 * Third World, Second Sex: Does Economic Development Enrichýor Impoverish Women's Lives? ~  SS-0119
 * Interpreting the Movement: Civil Rights and Black ~  SS-0127
 * Saving the Planet: Environmental Policy and International Law  ~  SS-0129
 * Land Stories, Land Rights ~  SS-0147
 * Blacks and Asians: Re-Mapping US Racial Formations ~  SS-0148
 * Democrats and Democratization: Iran and Turkey in Comparison ~  SS-0150
 * Consumption and Happiness ~  SS/CS-0163
 * Creative Memoir and the Invention of Self ~  SS-0178
 * Critical Psychology ~  SS-0186
 * China Rising: Reorienting the 21st Century ~  SS-0187
 * Introduction to Colonial South Asian History ~  SS-0194
 * Ways of Knowing in the Social Sciences ~  SS-0204
 * The Theory and Practice of Therapeutic Writing ~  SS/WP-0213
 * Buddhism and Ecology ~  SS-0220
 * The Battle Between Science and Religion in Sexuality and Reproduction ~  SS-0224
 * Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Children ~  SS-0225
 * Bioexchange: Property, Gifts, Value ~  SS-0227
 * Economic Development ~  SS-0238
 * Constructing the Appropriate City: Competing Urban Visions ~  SS-0241
 * Critical Pedagogy in Action ~  SS/IA-0242
 * Contemporary Germany: History, Society, Culture (1918-present) ~  SS/HACU-0247
 * Reading, Writing and Citizenship: Black Educational Histories ~  SS-0248
 * 20th Century Political Philosophy: Nationalism, Exclusion, Diaspora ~  SS-0249
 * Making Landmarks, Doing History ~  SS-0254
 * Anthropology of Faith ~  SS-0261
 * U.S Imperialism and Hawai'i ~  SS-0272
 * Cuba Transnational ~  SS-0274
 * The Past Recaptured: Photographs, Facts, and Fictions ~  SS/HACU/IA-0276
 * Immigration Nation: Ethnic Stereotypes, U.S. Politics, and the Media ~  SS/HACU-0280
 * Practicing Everyday Politics: Islamists and Secularists ~  SS-0288
 * China Project Workshop ~  SS-0299
 * Mentored Independent Study ~  SS-0304
 * Women and Work ~  SS-0311

Writing Program (WP)

 * Introduction to Writing WP-0103
 * Writing Project Workshop WP-0201

Experimental Program in Education and Community (EPEC)

 * EPEC Spring 2005
 * EPEC Fall 2006
 * EPEC January 2007
 * EPEC Spring 2007
 * EPEC January 2008
 * EPEC Spring 2008
 * EPEC Fall 2008
 * EPEC January 2009
 * EPEC Spring 2009