Preliminary Course Announcement
January Term 2009

Course descriptions will be posted by July 7, 2008.

ANTH 255
The Anthropology of Music: Music and Race in the US

SherriLynn Colby-Bottel

ANTH 272
Ecopolitics and Culture in the Amazon

Matthew Meyer

ANTH 289
Unearthing the Past

Rachel Most

ARAB 310
Arabic Media and Culture

Omima Elaraby

ARTS 161/162
Intro Drawing I and Intro Drawing II

Megan Marlatt

BIOL 349/EVSC
Biological and Environmental Conservation in the Chesapeake Bay Region

Fred Diehl & David Smith

COMM 366
The Advice Business

Elizabeth Thurston

DRAM 332
The Art of Dress:  Conformity & Individuality

Gweneth West

DRAM 346
Mask Performance in Theatre

Marianne Kubik

EALC/RELB (Course Number TBA)
Contemporary Tibet: Reframing the Crisis and Possibilities for Social Change

Tashi Rabgey
David Germano

EDIS 290
Beyond the Second Year

Karlin Luedke

ENSP 106
Public Speaking

Margaret Gardiner

EVSC 105/STS 200
Ethics, Protocols and Practice of International Education

Robert J. Swap

HIST 318
Why Did They Kill? Understanding Perpetrators of Genocide

Jeffrey J. Rossman

IMP 221
Introduction to Global Health:  Identifying and Measuring Global Health Challenges and Creating Solutions

Bryette Lorntz

INST 204
The American Health Care System

Robert Powers

MATH 270
Euclidean and Noneuclidean Geometry

David Sherman

NUIP 315
HIV/AIDS: A Personal and Social Perspective

Reba Childress

PHYS (Course number TBA)
Designing a Physics Engine for Gaming and Computer-Based Simulations

Michael A. Balazs

PLAP 324B
Virginia Government and Politics

Ken Stroupe

PLCP 324A
Post-Soviet Political Challenges: Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, Separatism and Irredentism

Yuri Urbanovich

PLCP 441
Nation-Building in Iraq

David Waldner

PSYC 315
Language of Tourism: Psychological/Psycholinguistic Perspective
Beverly Colwell Adams

SLAV 225
The Dark Side of the 20th Century: Between Auschwitz and the Gulag
Dariusz Tolczyk

SPAN 201
Intermediate Spanish

Enrollment in SPAN 202 in the Spring 2009 Semester Required
Instructor TBA

SOC 225/MUSI 225
Digital Vernacular Music-Culture
Carey Sargent & Wendy Hsu

SPAN 313
Conversation and Culture: Coverage and the Latino Community
Amy Frazier-Yoder

STS 2XX
Science, Intention, and Ethics: Copenhagen September 1941

Patricia C. Click

STS 214/EVSC 107
Earth Systems Technology & Management

Michael E. Gorman

 

Study Abroad in January Term 2009

Complete program descriptions, costs, and application requirements will be posted by August 1, 2008.

AAS 403Z
Community as Classroom: Urban Studies and Service Learning in Cape Coast, Ghana
Cape Coast, Ghana
Scot A. French

ANTH 391Z
The Archaeology of  Sugar and Slavery in Colonial Jamaica
University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
Jillian Galle &  Fraser Neiman

ARTH 335Z
Renaissance Art on Site
Florence, Italy
Francesca Fiorani & Lisa Reilly

COMM 380Z
The Challenges of Managing Sustainable Development
Bluefields, Nicaragua
Robert Brown

ENSP (Course number TBA)
Literature in Ireland
Dublin and Galway, Ireland
Elizabeth Fowler & Victor Luftig

GETR 270Z
Berlin, Geography of a Modern Metropolis
Berlin, Germany
Chad Wellmon

SYS 481Z
Case Study of Agricultural Production, Manufacture, and Distribution
Mendoza, Argentina
Reid Bailey

Engineering (STS)/Nursing/Institutional Studies (Course numbers TBA)
Guatemala: An Introduction to Its People, Culture and Environment
The Alti plano Region of Guatemala
David R. Burt, Dana Elzey, Doris Greiner