Courses Approved by Academic Affairs in the

2012-2013 Academic Year

 

The following is a summary of new courses and/or existing course changes approved by the Committee on Academic Affairs during the 2012-2013 academic year.  Course descriptions for these courses will be available in PeopleSoft one week after date of approval. The

 

 

Approval Date

Course

Title

Notes

Instructor

10-01-2012

AFS 110

Intro to Africa

 

Thornberry

01-28-2013

AMST 207

Baseball and American

 

Hatch/Deutchman

02-11-2013

ANTH 319/ANTH 419

Feminism and Anthropology

 

J Rodriguez

09-17-2012

ANTH 200

Researching the Cultural Diversity of Rome

 

Anderson

10-01-2012

ANTH 416

Visual Anthropology

 

Maiale

10-01-2012

ARCH 351/ENV 351

Sustainable Comm. Dev. Methods

 

Varner

10-01-2012

ARCH 412

The Social Construction of Space

 

Blankenship

02-11-2013

ARTH 103/ASN 103

Intro to Asian Art

 

L Blanchard

02-11-2013

ARTH 237

Princely Art

 

L Leopardi

02-11-2013

ARTH 248

Ancient Egypt

 

L Leopardi

02-11-2013

ARTH 254

Islamic Crossroads

 

L Leopardi

02-11-2013

ARTH 303/ARTH 403

Gender & Ptg in China

 

L Blanchard

10-01-2012

ARTH 315 / ARTH 415

Arts and the Senses

 

Leopardi

02-18-2013

ARTS 166

Intro to Video 1

 

C Chin

02-11-2013

ASN305/HIST305

Showa Through the Silver Screen

 

Yoshikawa

02-18-2013

BCH 460

Senior Seminar

 

E Pelkey

10-01-2012

BIDS 213

Birth of Romance

 

Wells

02-11-2013

BIDS 250

Composing Works

 

Olivieri/Davenport

02-11-2013

BIDS 288

White Mythologies

 

K Freeman/J Rodriguez

02-18-2013

BIOL 320

Agroecology

 

E Newell

01-28-2013

CHEM 325

Physical Biochemistry

 

vanGiessen/K Slade

02-11-2013

DAN 110

Intro Global Dance

 

K Johnson

02-11-2013

DAN/DAT 907

Into Jamaican Dance

 

K Johnson

02-11-2013

DAN/DAT 955

Global Dance Tech

 

K Johnson

02-11-2013

ECON 313

African American Economic History

 

K Grayson

01-28-2013

EDUC 209

Gender and Schooling

 

N Rodriguez

09-24-2012

EDUC 331

Rethinking Families

 

Rodriguez

02-18-2013

ENG 104

Literature and Social Movements

 

A Creadick

02-25-2013

ENG 107

From Novel to Film

 

N Minott-Ahl

10-01-2012

ENG 110

Things Fall Apart

 

Manring

10-01-2012

ENG 115

Stories of Illness

 

Berry

10-01-2012

ENG 158

Experience of War in Literature

 

Weiss

05-17-2013

ENG 160

FYS Creative Writing

 

Goldman/Cowles

10-01-2012

ENG 236

Imagining the Middle East

 

Ivanchikova

10-01-2012

ENG 246

Critical Theory

 

Ivanchikova

10-04-2012

ENG 270

Monstrous Femininity

 

Ivanchikova

10-01-2012

ENG 328

Health and Social Justice

 

Berry

10-15-2012

ENG 357->

ENG 212

Shakespearean Adaptation

 

Carson

10-01-2012

ENG 393

Hybrid Forms Workshop

 

Cowles

03-11-2013

ENG 403

Senior Seminar on LGBT Lit and Film

 

E Patterson

10-01-2012

ENG 415

Sr. Fiction Seminar

 

Conroy-Goldman

02-18-2013

ENG 456

Jr/Sr Seminar: Reading Faulkner

 

A Creadick

10-01-2012

ENG 105

Global English

 

Basu

10-01-2012

ENG 111

The Short Story

 

Prabhakar

10-01-2012

ENV 351 / ARCH 351

Sustainable Comm. Dev. Methods

 

Varner

09-24-2012

ENV 200

Environmental Science

 

Halfman

09-24-2012

ENV 201

Environment and Society

 

Lewis

10-15-2012

FSCT 302

Art Work: Gender, Performance and Capitalism

New Topic

Pittman

02-18-2013

FSEM 142

The Algorithmic Life

 

D Eck

03-25-2013

FSEM 146

Thomas Jefferson and his World

M Crow

03-25-2013

FSEM 150

Art on the Edge

K Cowles

03-25-2013

FSEM 163

Retellings

A Ivanchikova

04-01-2013

FSEM 165

Feeling the Beat: Music and Metaphor

Lofthouse

03-25-2013

FSEM 166

Miracle Drugs

E Pelkey

04-15-2013

FSEM 167

Class, Culture, and Work

 

D Ost

04-15-2013

FSEM 170

Truth in the Middle Ages

 

S Whitten

04-15-2013

FSEM 171

The Origins of Theories

 

B Caloia

04-15-2013

FSEM 172

The Secret Life of Food

 

R Lewis

04-15-2013

FSEM 175

Climate Change: Science and Politics

 

N Metz

04-15-2013

FSEM 176

How We Talk and Learn About Climate Change

 

D Finkelstein

04-15-2013

FSEM 177

Composing Oneself

 

H Dickinson

04-15-2013

FSEM 178

In the Eyes of the Law

 

B Kinne

04-15-2013

FSEM 179

Biophysics of Human Motion

 

I Dumitriu

10-15-2012

GAL 208

Space in the Page

 

Ruth

02-11-2013

HIST 235

Civil War & Reconst.

 

L Free

02-11-2013

HIST 306

Sem: U.S. Civil War

 

L Free

02-11-2013

HIST 308

Historian’s Craft

 

Kadane

03-11-203

HIST 315

Contemporary America

 

S Frug

02-11-2013

HIST 346

US Constitution to 1896

 

M Crow

02-11-2013

HIST 347

US Constitution since 1896

 

M Crow

03-11-2013

HIST 467

American Pragmatism

 

S Frug

02-11-2013

HIST305/ASN305

Showa Through the Silver Screen

 

Yoshikawa

04-22-2013

LGBT  201

Transgender Identities

 

Holland

04-22-2013

MDSC 150

The Visual Story

 

M Jimenez

09-20-2012

MDSC 309

Media Industries & Alternatives

 

Patti

10-01-2012

MDSC 314

Script to Screen II: The Workshop

 

Jimenez

10-01-2012

MES 102

Introductory Arabic II

 

Kadalah

02-18-2013

PHIL 208

The Scientific Revolution

 

G Frost-Arnold

09-24-2012

PHIL 321

Environmental Theory and Policy

 

Culoia

02-25-2013

PHYS 113

Suns and Planets

 

L Hebb

03-11-2013

PHYS 120

Physics of Dance

 

I Dunitriu

09-17-2012

POL 280

Contemporary Int'l Relations

Revised

Lee

03-11-2013

REL 215

Japanese Religion

 

J Krummel

11-19-2012

REL311->REL 282

Hinduism & Popular Narratives

 

Dobkowski

10-01-2012

ROM 204

Verdi’s Shakespeare

 

Forbes

09-17-2012

ROM 208

Italian Creativities

 

Welsh/Anderson

09-17-2012

ROM 209

In Search of Rome

 

Welsh

09-24-2012

ROM 222

Italian City Change

 

Massari

02-25-2013

SOC 238

Immigration and Ethnicity

 

E Kosta

10-01-2012

WMST 204

Politics of Health

 

Hayes-Conroy

10-01-2012

WMST 212

Gender and Geography

 

Hayes-Conroy

02-18-2013

WMST 218

Queer Theater & Film

 

M Baron

02-18-2013

WMST 219

Black Feminism and Theater

 

M Baron

10-01-2012

WMST 362

Topics in Feminist Health

 

Hayes-Conroy