Cool Courses - Summer Session 2012
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Session I - May 14 - June 9, 2012
ANTH 1010 - Introduction to Anthropology
Times and Days: 1:00 - 3:15 – MTWRF (May 14 - June 9, 2012))
Instructor: Allison Alexy
This is a broad introductory course covering race, language, and culture, both as intellectual concepts and as political realities. Topics include race and culture as explanations of human affairs, the relationship of language to thought, cultural diversity and cultural relativity, and cultural approaches to current crises
ANTH 3590 - Islam and the Colonial Encounter
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 - MTWRF (May 14 - June 9, 2012)
Instructor:
This class explores the complex historical encounter between Muslims and the West in various colonial settings, especially in South Asia and the Middle East. The historical encounter between Muslims and the West was characterized by conflict, cooperation and exchange, and the colonial period created the conditions for the rise of diverse and often conflicting interpretations of Islam. Today, these different interpretations of Islam have become the topic of heated political debate throughout the Muslim world. Through a cultural and historical approach that focuses on the colonial period, this class aims to give students the critical tools to understand the diverse manifestations of Islam in the modern world.
ARTS 2511 - Earth Art and Photography
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (May 14 - June 9, 2012)
Instructor: William Wylie
Course meets ongrounds from May 14- May 18 and travels to Colorado May 21 - June 1, 2012. Jue 4 - June 8 the course will again be held ongrounds.See details in program page here www.virginia.edu/summer/photography.html
COMM 2730 - Personal Finance
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (May 14 - June 9, 2012)
Instructor: Richard DeMong
A survey of contemporary wealth-enhancing strategies, such as best borrowing practices; investment alternatives for short-, medium- and long-term goals; and tax and timing considerations required in the general design of an investment portfolio throughout the individual's life cycle. Guidelines are reviewed for insurance coverage and best investment management of stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. Current tax-deferred savings opportunities, such as 401(k)s and IRAs, are explored. Prerequisite: Non-Commerce students, 4th or 5th Year.
COMM 4641 - Public Speaking and Persuasion
Times and Days: 1:00 - 3:15 - MTWRF (May 14 - June 9, 2012)
Instructor: Rob Patterson
The course utilizes several active learning activities when considering classical rhetorical elements, audience analysis, speech organization, and strategies for improvement in the structure and delivery of extemporaneous and impromptu speeches. Students work with conceptual methods, observe exemplary models of good speech making, explore personal communication apprehension, and hone individual rhetorical style.
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DRAM 1010 - Introduction to Theatre
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (May 14 - June 9, 2012)
Instructor: L. Douglas Grissom
Investigates theatre arts and their relation to contemporary culture, emphasizing play analysis, types of production, and the roles of various theatre artists.
DRAM 2020 - Introduction to Acting
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45- MTWRF (May 14 - June 9, 2012)
Instructor: Sandi Carroll
Explores basic theories and techniques of acting through exercises, improvisations and scenes from contemporary dramatic literature
ENAM 3880 - Southern Story Cycle
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45- MTWRF (May 14 - June 9, 2012)
Instructor: Jennifer Greeson
This course will examine short-story cycles: collections of short fiction through which an author establishes a place, a time, and a community, but without the consistent focus on character and plot typical of a novel. We will think about the form and its use by major Southern authors, particularly Toomer, Faulkner, Hurston, Porter, Wright, O'Connor, and McCullers. This course will fulfill the second writing requirement.
ENGN 3600 - Studies in Short Fictionn - Contemporary Short Story
Times and Days: 1:00 - 3:15 - MTWRF (May 14 - June 9, 2012)
Instructor: Elizabeth Denton
We will read and discuss short stories by influential living writers from countries around the world, including Nigeria, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, Japan, China, the U.S. and more. Discussions will focus on issues of craft as well as analytical criticism of the stories. In class and out of class writing assignments will require students to take both creative and critical approaches.
ENLT 2100 - Introduction to Literature
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 - MTWRF (May 14 - June 9, 2012)
Instructor: Walter Jost
This course encourages thoughtful and informed discussion of the chief genres of imaginative literature--chiefly drama, fiction, and poetry. We will read a small number of books but spend considerable time making sense of each of them. Satisfies the prerequisite for the English major. Satisfies the Second Writing Requirement.
EVSC 1010 - Introduction to Environmental Science
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 - MTWRF (May 14 - June 9, 2012)
Instructor: Thomas Smith
Introduces the principles and basic facts of the natural environment. Topics include earth materials, land forms, weather and climate, vegetation and soils, and the processes of environmental change and their implications to economic and human systems.
EVSC 4559 - Hazards on Earth
This course has been cancelled.
HIAF 3021 - History of Southern Africa
Times and Days: 1:00 - 3:15 – MTWRF (May 14 - June 9, 2012)
Instructor: John Mason
Studies the history of Africa generally south of the Zambezi River. Emphasizes African institutions, creation of ethnic and racial identities, industrialization, and rural poverty, from the early formation of historical communities to recent times.
HIME 2012 - Palestine, 1948
Times and Days: 1:00 - 3:15 - MTWRF (May 14 - June 9, 2012)
Instructor: Alon Confino
This course explores the dramatic war of 1948 in Palestine from the UN partition resolution of November 29, 1947 to the cease-fire agreements in early 1949. It covers the political, military progression of the war, within international and decolonization contexts, while paying special attention to the two major outcomes of the war and how they came about: Jewish independence and Palestinian dispossession.
MDST 2000 - Introduction to Media Studies
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (May 14 - June 9, 2012)
Instructor: Bruce Williams
Introduces students to the topics, themes, and areas of study that are central to an understanding of media in contemporary society. Focuses on the forms, institutions, functions, and impact of media on local, national, and global communities.
MDST 3306 - Sexuality, Gender, Class and Race in the Teen Film
Times and Days: 1:00 - 3:15 – MTWRF (May 14 - June 9, 2012)
Instructor: Andrea Press
The focus of this class will be on viewings and analyses of films featuring images of teens produced between the 1930 and the present. Students will be asked to reflect on their own experience as adolescents, and to reflect on the power mass media has to influence one’s self-interpretation of experience. In particular, we will be interested in the power the mass media have to spark and organize which have been termed in the cultural studies literature “subcultures of resistance” to the dominant culture, particularly among adolescent fans and viewers. Our focus then will be on “cult” and other popular films which have spawned networks of adherents, viewers, and cultural practitioners based around the characters, world-views, and perspectives created by these works of popular art. Students will be asked to analyze and mine their own experience, and that of their friends and contemporaries, for evidence of such media-inspired organization, and to study in an ongoing, ethnographic fashion, this sort of evidence of film’s power to shape our ongoing cultural experience of adolescence, and the meanings we assign to it.
MUSI 2570/3090 - Performance in Africa
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (May 14 - June 9, 2012)
Instructor: Michelle Kisliuk
Explores music/dance performance in Africa through reading, hands-on workshops, discussion, and audio and video examples. The course covers both 'traditional' and 'popular' styles, through discussion and a performance lab.
PHIL 1510(1) - How to Argue Well
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (May 14 - June 9, 2012)
Instructor: Charles Rathkopf
This course introduces the principles of logic in an informal setting. Drawing on newspaper articles, novels, and other popular media, we will learn to identify individual premises from a text and test whether the conclusion follows logically. By analyzing and constructing arguments systematically, we learn how to be persuasive without being dogmatic.
PLAP 3160 - Politics of Food
Special Program - Morven Farms
This course looks at the production and consumption of food in a political context. We will explore legislation, regulation, and other policies that affect the food system and examine their implications for the environment, public health and democratic politics. We will look closely at controversies over agricultural subsidies, labeling requirements, farming practices, food safety, advertising and education
PLAP 4140 - Gender and American Political Behavior
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 - MTWRF (May 14 - June 9, 2012)
Instructor: Nicholas Winter
Prerequisite: one course in SWAG or American political behavior
(PLAP 2270, 3140, 3150, 4120, 4150, 4360).
A survey of the way gender ideas shape political behavior in the American political system, historically and today.
PLIR 3770 - Russian-American Relations
Times and Days: 1:00 - 3:15 – MTWRF (May 14 - June 9, 2012)
Instructor: Allen Lynch
Analyzes Soviet-U.S. and Russian-U.S. relations, with a focus on the post-1945 period; Cold War and contemporary issues. Prerequisite: Some background in international relations or the history of Russia; PLIR 3760 or 3400 recommended.
PLIR 4500 - Politics of Power Transitions
Times and Days: 8:00 - 10:15 – MTWRF (May 14 - June 9, 2012)
Instructor: Brandon Yoder
This course examines the theoretical processes by which power transitions promote international conflict, and applies these logics to the contemporary rise of China in order to understand how amiable and cooperative US-China relations can be maintained. While international relations theory and history both suggest that power transitions increase the likelihood of conflict, particularly war, there are cases and conditions in which power transitions have occurred peacefully, and cooperation between rising and declining states has been sustained. Which of these general outcomes will characterize US-China relations as China’s power approaches that of the US both informs and depends on the present foreign policies that each country adopts. In order to formulate optimal foreign policies that maximize mutual benefits from the international order and minimize costly conflict, we must understand the factors that cause conflict and cooperation, the effect of power transitions on these factors, and the specific context in which China’s rise is taking place. To that end, this course intertwines theoretical concepts with scholarly discussion of real-world US-China relations, and draws on historical analogies that provide insight on both. Although the course requires only basic background in international relations, any more advanced knowledge of international relations theory or modern world history should prove useful.
PLPT 3020 - Modern Political Thought
Times and Days: 1:00 - 3:15 – MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: George Klosko
Studies the development of political theory from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century.
PSYC 2100 - Introduction to Learning
Times and Days: 1:00 - 3:15 – MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: Cedric Williams
Analyzes the concepts, problems, and research methodology in the study of processes basic to learning and motivation.
PSYC 4001 - Sex Myths - Controversies in Human Sexuality (May 14 - June 9, 2012)
Times and Days: 8:00 - 10:15 – MTWRF
Instructor: James Freeman
Various controversial topics in human sexuality will be explored. Students will read articles from the popular press, the web, and academic journal articles to critically evaluate an issues involving human sexuality.
RELB 2252 - Buddhism in Film
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (May 14 - June 9, 2012)
Instructor: Kurtis Schaeffer
This course is an introduction to Buddhism and an exploration of the place of Buddhism within contemporary Asian, European, and North American cultures through film. The goals are 1) to identify longstanding Buddhist narrative themes in contemporary films, 2) to consider how Buddhism is employed in films to address contemporary issues, and 3) to gain through film a vivid sense of Buddhism as a complex social and cultural phenomenon.
RELC 3030 - Jesus as a Historical Figure (May 14 - June 9, 2012)
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF
Instructor: Harry Gamble
Topics include the problems of sources and methods; modern development of the issue of the historical Jesus; and the character of Jesus' teaching and activity.
SOC 3180 - Sociology of Emotions
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (May 14 - June 9, 2012)
Instructor: Benjamin Snyder
The course explores the role of emotions in social interaction as well as how societies and cultures shape emotional expression. The objective is to decode the subtle rules of emotional display implicit in many social interactions and excavate the cultural meanings of particular emotions such as love, sympathy, shame, boredom, and sadness. Readings include theoretical and empirical work from sociologists, anthropologists,and social psychologists.
SWAG 2559 - Women and Mourning
This course has been cancelled.
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Session II - June 11 - July 7, 2012
AAS 2559 - SCANDALOUS: Race, Sex, Shame, and Spectacle in America
This course has been cancelled.
AAS 3559 - Food and Meaning in Africa Diaspora
Times and Days: 1:00 - 3:15 – MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: Lisa Shutt
This course investigates the traditions and symbolics of food and eating in Africa and throughout the African Diaspora, examining historical processes which have led to certain foodways and examining the way that these traditions play out on the ground today.Course description coming soon.
ANTH 2500 - The Maya Today
Times and Days: 10:30 – 12:45 - MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructors: Lydia Rodriguez and Sergio Lopez
The Maya have always excited the imagination of Western observers, ever since the two civilizations came into contact five centuries ago. But who are the Maya, and what does it mean to be Maya in the twenty-first century? This course covers fundamental aspects of Maya culture, with an emphasis on how the Maya have been represented by Western media. We will talk about the cultural aspects of Maya civilization that have attracted the most attention from the Western world, and how these have been described by anthropologists, journalists, and filmmakers.
ANTH 2589 - Archaeology of the Human Habitat
Times and Days: 1:00 - 3:15 – MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor:John McLean Stoetzel
Environmental archaeology is the study of past human interactions with the natural world- a world that includes plants, animals, and landscape. This course will examine the methods we use to reconstruct this ancient relationship through lectures, hands-on labs, and class discussions. We will survey a wide variety of topics in archaeology with themes that focus on environmental responses to technological revolution (fire, agriculture/ animal husbandry, metallurgy, etc.) and environmental roles in the rise and fall of civilizations. Is far as methods go, topics will include archaeobotany, archaeozoology, geoarchaeology, and digital approaches landscape reconstruction.
ANTH 2590 - Gender and Culture
Times and Days: 1:00 - 3:15 – MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: Allison Alexy
This course is an introduction to theories of sex, gender, and sexuality in cultural anthropology. Starting from the premise that gender is not a biological given but rather a social construction, we will explore how sex, gender, and sexuality are socially constructed and experienced by reading ethnographic texts and watching films. We will use these texts to trace the overwhelming significance of attention to "gender" in anthropology today.
ARCH 5422 - Computer Animation: Design in Motion
Times and Days: 9:30 - 11:45 - MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: Earl Mark
Course Website
Arch 5422 is a small workshop/seminar that explores moviemaking through exercises in computer animation. Approximately four independently developed short animations constitute the work of the term culminating in a one to five minute time-length final movie project. Movie projects may range in creative subject areas. For example, built and landscape architectural places may be experienced according to our own changing eye point of view, the transformation of light and objects, as well as the movement of other people. In addition, objects found in architecture and nature reveal formal, tectonic and spatial orders that can be understood through animated sequences that depict varying intervals of time.Story telling, whether by means of simple character animation or more complex scene description, may be related to these contextual aspects of either real or imagined environments. An in-depth exploration of NURBS three-dimensional modeling and rendering will be the basis for representing built and natural environments, sculpting characters and creating complex geometrical forms. Subject areas for individual projects may range from short narrative movies to the analysis of mico-scale environments or larger scale architectural and landscape architectural settings. The work of the seminar will be informed by screenings of student work and of other movies. Discussion of perceptual phenomenon will provide a framework for the development and critique of individual work.
ARTH 2282 - The Age of Rubens and Rembrandt: Baroque Art in the Netherlands.
This course has been cancelled.
ARTS 1610 - Introduction to Drawing
Times and Days: 1:00 - 3:15 – MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: Akemi Rollando
Introduces the materials and techniques of drawing, provides training in the coordination of hand and eye, and encourages development of visual analysis. Emphasizes understanding form, space, light and composition.
ARTS 2670/3670/4670 - Printmaking
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: Dean Dass
Includes relief printing, advanced lithography techniques, including color lithography, color etching, monotypes, and further development of black and white imagery. Printmaking professors and course content vary from semester to semester. Prerequisite: ARTS 267, 268.
ASTR 1210/6210 - Introduction to Sky and Solar System
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: TBA
A study of the night sky primarily for non-science majors. Provides a brief history of astronomy through Newton. Topics include the properties of the sun, earth, moon, planets, asteroids, meteors and comets; origin and evolution of the solar system; life in the universe; and recent results from space missions and ground-based telescopes.
ASTR 3420/6420 - Life Beyond Earth
Times and Days: 13:00 - 15:15 – MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: TBA
Open to non-science students. Studies the possibility of intelligent extraterrestrial life; methods and desirability of interstellar communication; prospects for humanity's colonization of space; interaction of space colonies; and the search for other civilizations. Prerequisite/corequisite: A 100- or 200-level ASTR course or instructor permission.
CLAS 2010 - Greek Civilization - This course has been cancelled.
CLAS 3150 - Ancient Epic and Popular Culture - This course has been cancelled.
DRAM 2080 - Circus in America
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: LaVahn Hoh
Introduces the circus as a form of American entertainment. Focuses on its development, growth, decline, and cultural influences.
DRAM 2210 - Scenic Technology
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: Steven Warner
Studies the basic techniques for moving set design from drawing to finished environment, including drafting, carpentry, painting, and dressing. Lab required. Prerequisite: DRAM 2010 and 2020, or instructor permission.
DRAM 2710 - Scriptwriting for Film and TV
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: L. Douglas Grissom
A writing workshop focusing on dramatic writing for film and television. Students will study script structure using established texts in the field. Students will also read classic screenplays and teleplays and will study the finished product on video. Students will write short dramatic scenes in class and prepare scenarios and fully written scenes in screenplay and teleplay format.
ENAM 3140 - African-American Literature II
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: Lisa Woolfork
This class will explore the work of selected black women writers from 1950 until the present, including Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Ann Petry and Pearl Cleage. What are the important issues in the way these writers represent experience, and how have those issues changed over the last sixty years? Short stories, essays, films and other media forms will be the basis for discussion and assignments. Satisfies the prerequisite for the English major. Satisfies the Second Writing Requirement.
ENEC 3400 - Restoration Drama
Times and Days: 1:00 - 3:15 – MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: John O'Brien
We will read selected English dramas written and performed from 1660 to 1780, and attend to the ways in which the theater reflected, but also refracted, condensed, contained and otherwise mediated problems and questions that occupied the culture at large. Plays will include The Country Wife, All for Love, The Way of the World and School for Scandal.
ENLT - 2555 - Short Fiction and Global Literary Culture
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: Victoria Olwell
This course has two purposes: to introduce students to the methodologies of literary studies and to examine how short stories have contributed to what some authors, publishers, taste-makers, and readers consider a global literary culture. Students will practice techniques of scholarly investigation and writing as they study contemporary short stories and the global literary culture in which they circulate. Satisfies the prerequisite for the English major. Satisfies the Second Writing Requirement.
EVSC 1300/4559 - Earth's Weather and Climate
Times and Days: 1:00 - 3:15 – MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: David Hondula
Long-term global climactic controls and short-term severe weather events such as hurricanes and tornadoes are treated in terms of the physical laws governing the motions of the atmosphere and the energy driving the system. Discusses climactic and atmospheric events that severely impact human behavior. Explores responses by early and modern humans to perturbations in the weather and climate. Examines utilization of renewable energy residing in the sun, wind, and water; and advertent and inadvertent weather modification.
EVSC 2900 - Beaches, Coasts, and Rivers
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: Heather Sullivan
Studies the geologic framework and biophysical processes of the coastal zone, and the role of the major river systems in modifying the coastal environment. Emphasizes human modifications, including case studies along the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts.
GETR 3559 - What Goes In, Comes Out - This course has been cancelled.
HIEU 2001 - Western Civilization I
Times and Days: 8:00 - 10:15 – MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: Rosemary Lee
Surveys the fundamental institutions and ideas that have shaped the Western world. Topics include great religious and philosophical traditions, political ideas, literary forms, artistic achievements and institutional structures from the world of the ancient Hebrews to the eve of the modern world (ca. 3000 b.c. to 1600 a.d.).
HIUS 2001 - American History to 1865
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: Michael Caires
Studies the development of the colonies and their institutions, the Revolution, the formation and organization of the Republic, and the coming of the Civil War.
HIUS 3651 - African American History to 1865
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: Claudrena Harold
Studies the history of black Americans from the introduction of slavery in America to the end of the Civil War.
MDST 2502 - Rigged to Blow: American Gangster Films
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: William Little
This course offers in-depth examination of an enduring, flexible genre in American cinema: the gangster film. The aim of this study is three-fold: 1. To trace the genre’s development from the early silent film period to the present as a means of exploring artistic and technological achievements marking the history of American film; 2. To explore the extensive influence the genre has had on the nature of the American film industry, from the industry’s implementation of the Production Code in the 1930s to the growth of independent cinema in the latter part of the twentieth century and to examine how the genre informed the relationship between French New Wave Cinema and New Hollywood Cinema; 3. To explore how the representation of gangster life on screen articulates crucial anxieties, frustrations, and desires circulating in American society at the time of the film’s creation. To pursue this last aim, students will consider carefully a number of issues dramatized in and/or raised by the films studied, including the following: the dream of social mobility; the myth of self-reinvention; the romance of the nuclear family; the politics of cultural assimilation; the individual’s relationship to the modern city; the relationship between the law and violence; the performance of codes of masculinity; the criminal organization as model of corporate enterprise; the increasing interface of bodies and machines and the impact of technology on the sense of self.
Students will be expected to conduct patient, rigorous analysis of the form and content of the assigned films. To facilitate this practice, viewings will be supplemented by essays of film criticism and by theoretical readings drawn from a variety of disciplines, including cultural studies, religious studies, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. Possible films include: Mervyn LeRoy’s, Little Caesar, William Wellman’s, The Public Enemy, Robert Siodmak’s, The Killers, Raoul Walsh’s White Heat, John Boorman’s Point Blank, Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde, Francis Ford Coppola’s, The Godfather, Martin Scorsese’s The Departed, The Hughes Brothers’ Menace II Society, Sam Mendes’s Road to Perdition, The Wachowski Brothers’ Bound, Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction
Required Text (book available at UVA Bookstore):
Jonathan Munby, Public Enemies, Public Heroes: Screening the Gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of Evil
MDST 3559 - Fake News, Politics, and Popular Culture
This course has been cancelled.
MUSI 2120/3120 - History of Jazz
Times and Days: 1:00 - 3:15 – MTWRF (Ju11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: John D'Earth
Survey of jazz music from before 1900 through the stylistic changes and trends of the twentieth century; important instrumental performers, composers, arrangers, and vocalists. No previous knowledge of music required.
MUSI 2390/3390 - Music and Computers
Times and Days: 1:00 - 3:15 – MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: Yury Spitsyn
Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Students gain hands-on experience with synthesizers, music notation software, and the control of MIDI instruments via computer.
PHIL 1510(2) - Ethics of War
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: Nicholas Frank
War is an ugly reality. Is there any meaningful way to talk about morality and war? Is it ever morally permissible or morally required for a nation to go to war? Are there things soldiers should or should not do in war? These are questions that will be explored in this course with the goal of gaining an understanding of the restrictions morality imposes before, during and after war.
PHIL 1510 - The Good Life(3)
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: Stacie Thyrion
What makes a life good or worth living? In this course we will consider two aspects to this question - first, what the good life is in terms of living a morally good life, and second, what makes a person happy or well off in her life.
PLAP 3350 - The American Congress - This course has been cancelled.
PLIR 4500 - Warfare in the Modern World
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: Zuri Linetsky
The course deals with the dominant forms of conflict since the end of the Cold War: civil wars and insurgencies. It will address how these wars are fought by rebels and states, as well as the theoretical and policy implications associated with this type of warfare. The course will begin by introducing students to historical works on insurgency and civil war, and subsequently progress to newer works on the causes, outcomes, and duration of civil wars and insurgencies.
PLIR 4500 - . Humanitarian Intervention and International Relations
Times and Days: 1:00 - 3:15 – MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: TBA
Course description coming soon.
PSYC 4275 - Exploring Neural Code - This course has been cancelled.
RELC 1050 - Introductions to Christian Traditions
Times and Days: 1:00 - 3:15 – MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: Valerie Cooper
Explore Christianity in its modern and historical contexts, combining an examination of current historical and theological scholarship, worship, and practice. The emphasis is on modern American Christianity.
SOC - 1010 - Introduction to Sociology
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: Jeffrey Olick
Studies the fundamental concepts and principles of sociology with special attention to sociological theory and research methods. Survey of the diverse substantive fields in the discipline with a primary emphasis on the institutions in contemporary American society.
SOC 3020 - Introduction to Social Theory
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: Stephan Fuchs
Introduces the major theoretical issues and traditions in sociology, especially as developed in the writings of Marx, Weber, and Durkheim. Sociology majors are expected to take this course in their third year.
SOC 3400 - Gender and Sexuality
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: Matthew Morrison
Prerequisite: At least 3 credits in Sociology or permission of instructor.
Focuses on the construction of gender and sexuality, and of the many ways human groups regulate and attach meanings to these categories. Some general themes addressed will be: contemporary and historical definitions of gender, sex, and sexuality; gender socialization; the varieties of sexual identities and relationships; embodiment, childbearing, and families in the contemporary United States.
SOC 3410 - Race and Ethnic Relations
Times and Days: 13:00 - 15:15 – MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: Hephzibah Strmic-Pawl
Introduces the study of race and ethnic relations, including the social and economic conditions promoting prejudice, racism, discrimination, and segregation. Examines contemporary American conditions, and historical and international materials.
SWAG 2100 - Introduction to Gender Studies
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: Amanda Davis
An introduction to gender studies, including the fields of women's studies, feminist studies, LGBT studies, & masculinity studies. Students will examine historical movements, theoretical issues, & contemporary debates, especially as they pertain to issues of inequality & to the intersection of gender with race, class, sexuality, & nationalism. Topics will vary according to the interdisciplinary expertise & research focus of the instructor.
SWAG 3130 - Geographies of Desire: Race, Gender, Place, Identity
This course has been cancelled.
SWAH 1010 - Introduction to Swahili
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: Michael Wairungu
Prerequiste: Limited or no previous knowledge of Swahili.
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Session III - July 9 - August 3, 2012
AAS 2559 - Black Feminity and Masculinity
Times and Days: 1:00 - 3:15 – MTWRF (July 9 - August 3, 2012)
Instructor: Lisa Shutt
This course will address the role the media has played in creating images and understandings of “Blackness” in the United States, particularly where it converges with popular ideologies about gender.
ANTH 2800 - Introduction to Archaeology
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (July 9 - August 3, 2012)
Instructor: Abigail Holeman
Topics include alternative theories of prehistoric culture change, dating methods, excavation and survey techniques, and the reconstruction of the economy, social organization, and religion of prehistoric societies.
ANTH 3340 - Ecology and Society: An Introduction to the New Ecological Anthropology
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (July 9 - August 3, 2012)
Instructor: Erik Stanley
Forges a synthesis between culture theory and historical ecology to provide new insights on how human cultures fashion, and are fashioned by, their environment. Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or significant/relevant exposure to courses in EVSC, BIOL, CHEM, or HIST (which tie in to concerns of this course), or instructor permission.
This course introduces anthropological perspectives to 21st century issues of Ecology and Society. In both local and global case studies, we will explore topics including parks, overpopulation, food, sustainability and transportation. Student will apply lessons learned to class projects focusing on issues of development and environment here in Virginia. The course emphasizes the close reading, written analysis, and classroom discussion of primary texts.
ARTH 1051 - History of Art I - This course has been cancelled.
ARTH 2774 - Stardom and American Film - This course has been cancelled.
ARTS 1610/2620 - Mountain Lake Summer Drawing (July 23 - August 3, 2012)
This two week course is held at Mountain Lake Biological Station
Instructor: Megan Marlatt
Drawing provides students with a foundation of skills, judgment and observational abilities that are essential to artistic expression. ARTS 1610 is required for every Studio Art major. This course leads to work in more advanced drawing, as well as work in other media. ARTS 1610 and ARCH 1020 count as equivalent courses
ARTS 2810/2812/3810/3812/4900 - Sculpture
This two week course is held at Mountain Lake Biological (July 9 - July 20, 2012)
Instructor: William Bennett
Prerequisite: ARTS 161, 162
Investigates the sculptural process through modeling, carving, fabricating and casting. Examines traditional and contemporary concerns of sculpture by analyzing historical examples and work done in class.
ASTR 1220/6220 - Introduction to Stars, Galaxies, Universe
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (July 9 - August 3, 2012)
Instructor: TBA
A study of stars, star formation, and evolution primarily for non-science majors. Topics include light, atoms, and modern observing technologies; origin of the chemical elements; supernovae, pulsars, neutron stars, and black holes; structure and evolution of our galaxy; nature of other galaxies; active galaxies and quasars; expanding universe, cosmology, the big bang, and the early universe.
ASTR 3480 Introduction to Cosmology
Times and Days: 1:00 - 3:15 – MTWRF (July 9 - August 3, 2012)
Instructor: TBA
Open to first-year students; primarily for non-science students. A descriptive introduction to the study of the ultimate structure and evolution of the universe. Covers the history of the universe, cosmological speculation, and the nature of the galaxies. Provides a qualitative introduction to relativity theory and the nature of space-time, black holes, models of the universe (big bang, steady-state, etc.) and methods of testing them.
BIOL 3559 - Urban Ecology
Times and Days: 10:00 - 12:15 - MTWRF (July 9 - August 3, 2012)
Instructor: Melissa Aikens
Humans are the ultimate ecosystem engineers, altering habitat structure through the process of urbanization. This course will explore the unique ecology of the urban environment. Emphasis will be on how urbanization affects the abiotic and biotic environment and how developers and city planners address these issues. Topics that will be covered include: invasive species, urban forests, aquatic habitats, disease ecology, human-wildlife conflicts, habitat fragmentation, and urban planning. Prerequisite: BIOL 2020
CLAS 2040 - Greek Mythology
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (July 9 - August 3, 2012)
Instructor: Hilary Bouxsein
Introduces major themes of Greek mythological thought; surveys myths about the olympic pantheon and the legends of the heroes. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at www.virginia.edu/classics.
DRAM 1020 - Oral Interpretation
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (July 9 - August 3, 2012)
Instructor: Richard Warner
For non-majors. Enhances communication skills through basic voice and speech exercises leading to staged readings of prose, poetry, comedy, and drama.
DRAM 2010 - Performance: Image to Form
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (July 9 - August 3, 2012)
Instructor: Gweneth West
Examines the translation of dramatic image into theatrical form as explored through elements of storytelling, script analysis, 2- and 3-D design, and the experience of performance.
DRAM 2020 - Introduction to Acting
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45- MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: Mike Long
Explores basic theories and techniques of acting through exercises, improvisations and scenes from contemporary dramatic literature.
DRAM 3070 - African American Theatre
Times and Days: 1:00 - 3:15 – MTWRF (June 11 - July 7, 2012)
Instructor: Theresa Davis
Presents a comprehensive study of 'Black Theatre' as the African-American contribution to the theatre. Explores the historical, cultural, and socio-political underpinnings of this theatre as an artistic form in American and world culture. Students gain a broader understanding of the relationship and contributions of this theatre to theatre arts, business, education, lore, and humanity. A practical theatrical experience is a part of the course offering. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
DRAM 3652 - Production Management - This course has been cancelled.
ENLT 2555 - Popular Song Lyrics
Times and Days: 1:00 - 3:15 – MTWRF (July 9 - August 3, 2012)
Instructor: :Jon D'Errico
This course will explore the lyrics of popular songs of the rock era. Among the issues we will consider are how lyricists inherited and sometimes transformed tropes of marginality, gender, race, and class. We will draft and revise two 10-page papers. Satisfies the prerequisite for the English major. Satisfies the Second Writing Requirement.
ENMC 3559 - Global Identities
Times and Days: 1:00 - 3:15 – MTWRF (July 9 - August 3, 2012)
Instructor: Christopher Krentz
This course will explore literary works and feature films from Africa, India, Latin America, and the Caribbean over the last half century. We will consider short texts by authors like Wole Soyinka, Edwidge Danticat, and Gabriel García Márquez and view films like The Chess Players to see how people from these vastly different regions convey who they are. All works will be in English or English translation
ENSP 3850 - Film Noir From Chinatown to Sin City
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (July 9 - August 3, 2012)
(Students must also attend weekly screenings on Tuesdays, 7:00PM - 9:00PM.)
Instructor: Walter Korte
An analysis of Film Noir in Hollywood from the Seventies to the present, concentrating on how the typical noir concerns with alienation, obsession and criminality are expressed visually. Films will include Blade Runner, The Usual Suspects, Seven, Memento and L. A. Confidential.
ENWR 2700 - Introduction to News Writing
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (July 9 - August 3, 2012)
Instructor: C. Brian Kelly
Enrollment limited to 22 students.
Intermediate-level writing in news-media format, beginning with traditional hard-news stories and progressing to political stories and features. Both overnight and in-class writing assignments. Workshop environment.
Satisfies the Second Writing Requirement.
EVSC 2050/4050 - Introduction to Oceanography
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (July 9 - August 3, 2012)
Instructor: Stephen Macko
Analyzes the principles that govern the world's oceans and their integration into an understanding of the major marine environments. Topics include marine pollution, global climate, and marine policy.
EVSC 3020/5020 - Geographic Information Systems Methods
Times and Days: 08:00 - 10:15 – MTWRF (July 9 - August 3, 2012)
Instructor: Matthew O'Connell
Explores the theory of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and their applications in a range of disciplines using various GIS software packages. Example applications are from physical and social sciences, often with a focus on the Charlottesville-Albemarle area. For students interested in immediate applications of GIS in their work. Experience with word processing, file managers, and other computing skills is essential. Prerequisite: The equivalent of the College natural science/mathematics and social science area requirements.
GETR 3590 - Violent Theater - This course has been cancelled.
HIAF 2001 - Early Africa History
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (July 9 - August 3, 2012)
Instructor: James LeFleur
Studies the history of African civilizations from the iron age through the era of the slave trade, ca. 1800. Emphasizes the search for the themes of social, political, economic, and intellectual history which present African civilizations on their own terms.
HIEU 2002 - Western Civilization II
Times and Days: 1:00 - 3:15 – MTWRF (July 9 - August 3, 2012)
Instructor: Harold Mock
Surveys the political and cultural history of the Western world in modern times. Emphasizes the distinctiveness of Western civilization, on the reasons for the rise of the West to global domination, and the relative decline of the West in recent times.
HISA 3121 - Women and Power in India
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (July 9 - August 3, 2012)
Instructor: Richard Barnett
Surveys the evolving definitions and roles of women in the major social and cultural traditions of South Asia, i.e., India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka
HIUS 2002 - American History Since 1865
Times and Days: 8:00 - 10:15 – MTWRF (July 9 - August 3, 2012)
Instructor: James Allison
Studies the evolution of political, social, and cultural history of the United States from 1865 to the present.
MDST 2810 - Cinema as an Art Form
Times and Days: 1:00 - 3:15 – MTWRF (July 9 - August 3, 2012)
Instructor: Robert Kolker
A course in visual thinking; introduces film criticism, concentrating on classic and current American and non-American films.
MUSI 1310 - Basic Musical Skills
Times and Days: 1:00 - 3:15 – MTWRF (July 9 - August 3, 2012)
Instructor: Aurie Hsu
Prerequisite: No previous knowledge of music required.
Not open to students already qualified to elect MUSI 231 or 331. Study of the rudiments of music and training in the ability to read music.
MUSI 2340 - Learn to Groove
Times and Days: 1:00 - 2:30 – MTWRF (July 9 - August 3, 2012)
Instructor: Robert Jospe
Study of rhythmic patterns associated with rhythms from West African, the Caribbean, Brazil, and the United States, through theory and performance
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PHIL 1510(4) - Mind and Body
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (July 9 - August 3, 2012)
Instructor: Stephen Duncan
Many people think that there is an intuitive difference between the mind and the body. Others think that the mind is simply part of the body. In this course we will look at the relationship between the mind and body. We will look at a variety of arguments on this topic, and we will pay special attention to the assumptions underlying these arguments.
PHIL 1510(5) - The Philosophy of Art
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (July 9 - August 3, 2012)
Instructor: Edith Nally
What is art? What makes something a work of art? Are some works of art better than others? This course will cover these and other contested questions in aethetics and the philosophy of art.
PHIL 1510(6) - Ethics, Responsibility, and Punishment
Times and Days: 1:00 - 3:15 – MTWRF (July 9 - August 3, 2012)
Instructor: Douglass Reed
After beginning the course with an overview of ethical theories (subjectivism, deontology, utilitarianism, and virtue theory) we will turn to issues related to moral responsibility and punishment. Some of the main questions we will consider: Are we ever morally responsible for our actions? What, if anything, justifies punishment? Is punishment by death permissible? Is forgiveness morally required? Since we will give life to these philosophical issues by drawing examples from drama, including the current series Dexter, we will end the course by considering the nature and value of the drama and the role it might play in our ethical reflection.
PLAP 2500 - Political Advertising and Democracy
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (July 9 - August 3, 2012)
Instructor: Paul Freedman
This seminar will explore the role of political advertising in American democracy. We will look at ad
messages as strategic political communications, analyzing both classic and contemporary ads as we
investigate ad content and the strategic decisions behind ad creation and dissemination. We will explore
the effects (if any) of political advertising on citizens’ attitudes and behavior. We will pay careful
attention to different approaches to studying political ads, and consider the implications of alternative
research methods.
PLAP 3310 - American Presidency
Times and Days: 1:00 - 3:15 – MTWRF (July 9 - August 3, 2012)
Instructor: Justin Peck
Prerequisite: Two courses in PLAP, or instructor permission.
Examines the power, purposes, and problematics of the presidency as a role of national leadership in the American and political constitutional system. While the emphasis is on the modern presidency (1933-present), attention is given to its historical development.
PLCP 2500 - The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union
Times and Days: 1:00 - 3:15 – MTWRF (July 9 - August 3, 2012)
Instructor: Yuri Urbanovich
This course compares the origins and consequences of the rise of nationalism, separatism, secessions, and irredentist claims in the Russian Federation and other former Soviet republics, at the end of the Cold War.
PLPT 4030 - Democracy and it's Critics
Times and Days: 1:00 - 3:15 – MTWRF (July 9 - August 3, 2012)
Instructor: Mary Scudder
Prerequisite: One course in PLPT or instructor permission.
Surveys the major contributors to democratic theory, the central problems that any democratic theory has to answer, and the criticisms leveled at the various philosophical attempts to give a firm ground for democratic practices.
PSYC 2600 - Introduction to Social Psychology
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (July 9 - August 3, 2012)
Instructor: Jennifer Joy-Gaba
Surveys major topics in social psychology, including personal perception and social cognition, attitudes and persuasion, interpersonal influence, interpersonal attraction, and helping relationships. Considers research theory and applications of social psychology.
RELG 2255 - Religion and Film
Times and Days: 1:00 - 3:15 – MTWRF (July 9 - August 3, 2012)
Instructor: Emily Gravett
The course will introduce students to the relationship between religion and film. We will watch several films in class and, after learning the basics of film analysis, we will be able to perceive and interpret how films portray religions, religious peoples, and religious categories, and even to consider what religion and film have in common as experiences. Viewing of the films will be supplemented by short lectures and class discussion.
RELI 2070 - Classical Islam
Times and Days: 10:30 - 12:45 – MTWRF (July 9 - August 3, 2012)
Instructor: Abdulaziz Sachedina
Studies the Irano-Semitic background, Arabia, Muhammad and the Qur'an, the Hadith, law and theology, duties and devotional practices, sectarian developments, and Sufism.
SOC 2520 - Death and Dying - This course has been cancelled.
SOC 4850 - Media, Culture, and Society
Times and Days: 1:00 - 3:15 – MTWRF (July 9 - August 3, 2012)
Instructor: Fan Mai
Studies the linkage between mass communications and social life. Particular emphasis will be placed upon how electronic media affect public discourse and how electronic media affect behavior by rearranging social situations. Prerequisite: Six credits of sociology courses or instructor permission.
