ADST 1550 New Orleans Hip Hop I
New Orleans Hip Hop I
This course surveys major locations, musical influences, and aesthetic elements of New Orleans hip hop culture, with special emphasis on Bounce and the defining features of local spoken word. The course includes a required service learning component, which guides students through the completion of a public event designed to showcase New Orleans hip hop's educational and entertainment value.
credit hours: 3

ADST 2000 Introduction to African and African Diaspora Studies
Introduction to African and African Diaspora Studies
This course serves as an introduction to the study of Africa and its Diaspora and is intended to help students understand the complexities of interdisciplinary approaches to area studies. Emphasis will be placed on the complementary nature of such scholarship and a portion of the course is devoted to learning how the same issue or thematic is treated in diverse ways depending on the disciplinary perspective of the scholar.
credit hours: 3

ADST 2010 Methods in African and African Diaspora Studies
Methods in African and African Diaspora Studies
This course introduces students to major theories and methods in African and African Diaspora Studies. 
credit hours: 3

ADST 3100 Issues in Afro-Atlantic Studies
Issues in Afro-Atlantic Studies
An exploration of some of the central themes of Afro-Atlantic Studies through the study of selected issues arising out of the Afro-Atlantic moral, cultural, political, and religious experience.
credit hours: 3

ADST 3200 Issues in African Studies
Issues in African Studies
An exploration of some of the central themes of African studies through the study of selected issues arising out of the African moral, cultural, political, and religious experience.
credit hours: 3

ADST 3300 Issues in African Diaspora Studies
Issues in African Diaspora Studies
An exploration of some of the central themes of African Diaspora Studies through the study of selected issues arising out of the African Diasporic moral, cultural, political, and religious experience.
credit hours: 3

ADST 3550 Third World Cinema
Third World Cinema
This course surveys the cinematic practices of the developing nations of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. The filmic practice, at once revolutionary and ideological, has not only produced some of the world's most striking filmic innovations, but is now recognized as having initiated a new phase and expanded definitions of the art of cinema. The issues to be addressed include: the development of a national cinema, the impact of politics on film style, video and television culture, the commonalities and differences in modes of production, the relationship of film to the societies' values and cultures and the role of cinema as a mediation of history.
credit hours: 3

ADST 3750 From Community to Stage
From Community to Stage
This course introduces students to the story circle methodology as formulated by the Free Southern Theater and Junebug Productions. Students also learn the history of the Free Southern Theater and the Black Arts Movement in the South. Collaboration with local artists will result in the production of an original theatrical performance at the end of the semester.
credit hours: 3

ADST 3890 Service Learning
Service Learning
Students complete a service activity in the community in conjunction with the content of a three-credit corequisite course.
Pre-requistites: Departmental approval.
credit hours: 3

ADST 4180 African Cinema
African Cinema
This course will provide a critical and interdisciplinary look at the development of African cinema from its inception in the 1960s to the present. In looking at this period, we will move from the sociopolitical upheavals of late colonialism to the recent phase of introspection and diversification. The relationship of cinematic practices to transformation in the social and economic sphere will be examined, as well as the creation of distinctively African film styles based on oral traditions. In pursuing these topics, we will consider the impact of technology, history and culture, ties to the cinema of other developing nations and co-productions.
credit hours: 3

ADST 4300 Cultural Politics and Film
Cultural Politics and Film
This course is designed to explore developments in the cross-cultural use of media from Hollywood feature films to ethnographic documentaries, from Caribbean liberationist literature to African allegories of colonialism, and from indigenous use of film and video to Black Diasporan oppositional film practice. Issues to be addressed include Afrocentrism, Eurocentrism, ethnocentrism, multiculturalism, racism, sexism, gender, and class bias.
credit hours: 3

ADST 4400 Afro-Brazilians
Afro-Brazilians
Once heralded internationally as a “racial democracy,” Brazil has been the subject of an ongoing critical re-evaluation that has revealed a vast gap between the national ideal and the social reality. The ideas of “race” and the various forms of institutional and quotidian racism in Brazil make for compelling contrasts and comparisons with the United States. This course will focus on a wide range of themes, issues, and problems in Afro-Brazilian Studies since the abolition of slavery in 1888. Combining cultural history, anthropology, sociology, literature, and popular music, this course will offer a multidisciplinary approach to black culture and race relations in Brazilian society.  
credit hours: 3

ADST 4560 Internship Studies
Internship Studies
An experiential learning process coupled with pertinent academic course work. Open only to juniors and seniors in good standing.
Notes: A maximum of six credits may be earned in one or two courses toward the African and African Diaspora Studies major. See also the college requirements for internships.
Pre-requistites: Approval of instructor and director.
credit hours: 3

ADST 4570 Internship Studies
Internship Studies
An experiential learning process coupled with pertinent academic course work. Open only to juniors and seniors in good standing.
Notes: A maximum of six credits may be earned in one or two courses toward the African and African Diaspora Studies major. See also the college requirements for internships.
Pre-requistites: Approval of instructor and director.
credit hours: 1-3

ADST 4810 Special Topics in African and African Diaspora Studies
Special Topics in African and African Diaspora Studies
Special topics in African and African Diaspora studies; also cross-listed with special topics from other departments when related to African and African Diaspora studies. This course is required for African and African Diaspora majors. African and African Diaspora minors are encouraged but not required to take this course.
Notes: May be used to fulfill African and African Diaspora studies distribution requirements in consultation with the program director.
credit hours: 3

ADST 4820 Special Topics in African and African Diaspora Studies
Special Topics in African and African Diaspora Studies
Special topics in African and African Diaspora studies; also cross-listed with special topics from other departments when related to African and African Diaspora studies. This course is required for African and African Diaspora majors. African and African Diaspora minors are encouraged but not required to take this course.
Notes: May be used to fulfill African and African Diaspora studies distribution requirements in consultation with the program director.
credit hours: 3

ADST 4830 Service Learning Capstone for ADST with 5110 add-on
Service Learning Capstone for ADST with 5110 add-on
This course deepens students' understanding of core tensions, issues, and themes in African and African Diaspora Studies and provides a framework for students to apply this understanding to the completion of a community-based service-learning project. The course meets the second-tier requirement for graduation; thus, a prerequisite for enrollment is completion of the first-tier service-learning requirement.
Notes: Students may fulfill the capstone requirement if co-registered with ADST 5110.
Pre-requistites: First tier Service-Learning requirement completed.
Co-requisites: Students wishing to use this course to fulfill the Capstone credit must also register ADST 5110 (0 credit).
credit hours: 3

ADST 4840 Orality and Literacy in African and African Diaspora Studies
Orality and Literacy in African and African Diaspora Studies
This course introduces students to fundamental issues, concepts, themes, and genres of black vernacularism, including spirituals, the blues, spoken word, griot, and oral tradition. The course also orients students to the fundamental tension between orality and literacy, which shapes and distinguishes black literary traditions.
credit hours: 3

ADST 4910 Independent Studies
Independent Studies
Open to advanced student with approval of the director and subject to availability of faculty mentor.
credit hours: 1-3

ADST 4920 Independent Studies
Independent Studies
Open to advanced student with approval of the director and subject to availability of faculty mentor.
credit hours: 3

ADST 5110 Capstone
Capstone
credit hours: 0

ADST 6050 Black Feminism and Social Movement in the United States
Black Feminism and Social Movement in the United States
This course surveys major thought and development in black feminism to understand its application to political, social, and economic issues relevant to black women's lives. 
credit hours: 3

ADST 6090 Criminal Justice and African and African Diaspora Studies
Criminal Justice and African and African Diaspora Studies
This course broadens ADST course offerings at advanced levels; in addition, it enhances the disciplinary range of ADST courses.  
credit hours: 3

ADST H4990 Honors Thesis
Honors Thesis
For especially qualified juniors and seniors with approval of the director and the Honors Committee. Students must have a minimum of a 3.000 overall grade-point average and a 3.500 grade-point average in the major.
credit hours: 3

ADST H5000 Honors Thesis
Honors Thesis
For especially qualified juniors and seniors with approval of the director and the Honors Committee. Students must have a minimum of a 3.000 overall grade-point average and a 3.500 grade-point average in the major.
credit hours: 3

AMST 2010 Issues of American Identity
Issues of American Identity
An exploration of one of the central themes of American studies, the American identity, through the study of selected issues arising out of the American moral, cultural, political, and religious experience.
credit hours: 3

AMST 3010 Special Topics in American Studies
Special Topics in American Studies
Seminar primarily for American studies majors, generally taken in the junior year, comprising a detailed exploration of some one topic or theme relevant to the American scene.
credit hours: 3

AMST 3110 New Orleans as a Cultural System
New Orleans as a Cultural System
Analyzing the City as a cultural system, the course explores the nature of the intersections among diverse cultural phenomena such as space, ritual, food, and music.
credit hours: 3

AMST 4560 Internship Studies
Internship Studies
An experiential learning process coupled with pertinent academic coursework. Open only to juniors and seniors in good standing. Registration is completed in the academic department sponsoring the internship on TUTOR.
Notes: A maximum of six credits may be earned in one or two courses.
Pre-requistites: Approval of instructor and program director.
credit hours: 3

AMST 4570 Internship Studies
Internship Studies
An experiential learning process coupled with pertinent academic coursework. Open only to juniors and seniors in good standing. Registration is completed in the academic department sponsoring the internship on TUTOR.
Notes: A maximum of six credits may be earned in one or two courses.
Pre-requistites: Approval of instructor and program director.
credit hours: 3

AMST 4910 Independent Studies
Independent Studies
Open to qualified juniors and seniors only.
credit hours: 3

AMST 4920 Independent Studies
Independent Studies
Open to qualified juniors and seniors only.
credit hours: 3

AMST 5010 Seminar in American Studies
Seminar in American Studies
Seminar primarily for American studies majors, generally taken in the senior year, involving an in-depth study of a major motif, movement, or problem in American intellectual or religious thought. The production of an acceptable research paper demonstrates competence in American studies.
credit hours: 3

AMST H4990 Honors Thesis
Honors Thesis
Only one of these courses will count towards requirements for the major.
credit hours: 3

AMST H5000 Honors Thesis
Honors Thesis
Only one of these courses will count towards requirements for the major.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 1010 Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Introduction to Biological Anthropology
This course provides an introduction to the study of Homo Sapiens from an evolutionary, biological, behavioral, and biocultural perspective. Topics covered include: the history of evolutionary thought, basic human genetics, the anatomy and behavioral ecology of the living primates, human evolution via the study of fossil hominins, modern human variation and adaptation, and the study of the human skeleton in forensic anthropology and bioarchaeology.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 1020 Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
The observed range of variation of ways of life around the world. The cross-cultural investigation of becoming and being human. Comparative treatment of social organization, subsistence activities, values, and religion.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 1030 Languages of the World
Languages of the World
This course aims to equip students with some basic facts about the world's languages, a fundamental prerequisite to understanding the nature of human language. We will be examining: (1) the diversity of languages across space and time, and (2) the fundamental similarities of languages. We will address a range of questions about language through an exploration of the following areas: language families and historical relationships, linguistic typology, language universals, sound and structure features of the world's languages, and writing systems.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 1040 Ancient Societies
Ancient Societies
Introduction to key transformations in human history and prehistory as they have been identified and discussed by anthropological archaeologists. Consideration of basic principles of archaeology, human evolution and expansion, origins of agriculture and sedentary village societies, development of archaic states and ancient civilizations. Of interest to majors and prospective majors in anthropology and related fields.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 1140 Freshman Seminar
Freshman Seminar
Description varies; specific description available when offered.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 2020 Visual Languages Across Cultures
Visual Languages Across Cultures
Most research on language takes speech as the main domain of investigation. However, humans use not only speech but also meaningful hand movements called 'gestures' when they communicate. Furthermore,there are many communities where the speech is absent in linguistic communication. For example, deaf communities across the world use sign languages that are produced and perceived only in the visual-spatial modality. This course aims to give n interdisciplinary and state of the art overview of the role of the body in the structuring and functioning of the human language faculty. The course will present cross-cultural and cross-linguistic findings from these new fields relating them to discussions of embodied cognition and semantics, situated use of language, the link between language and action and their neural correlates. This course fullfills the departmental goal of providing its students with the knowledge of appreciation for the cultural and linguistic diversity of humanity.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 2030 The Anthropology of Women and Men
The Anthropology of Women and Men
A cross-cultural survey of women in society and culture among hunters and gatherers, pastoral nomads and agriculturalists of Oceania, the Near East, Africa, and the New World. Kinship and female symbolism in Africa, women and men in myths in traditional societies. Cross-cultural variability of women's roles and status and the variability of women's and men's language and behavior.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 2100 Myth and Life
Myth and Life
Traditional oral narratives in their social and cultural context. The functions of myth in developing individual character and supporting social values. The structure of myth. Causes and limits of change.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 2340 Introduction to Archaeology
Introduction to Archaeology
Introduction to basic principles of archaeological method and theory. Consideration of the history of archaeology, major paradigms in archaeological thought, basic techniques of fieldwork, basic techniques in analyzing archaeological finds, and intellectual frameworks for interpreting patterns in archaeological datasets. Consideration of selected case studies. Of interest to majors and prospective majors in anthropology, and potentially to majors in classical archaeology and related fields.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 2360 Ancient Trade and Commerce
Ancient Trade and Commerce
Introduction to the study of regional and interregional trade and exchange in ancient times based on archaeological evidence. This course considers diverse theories and methods developed to make archaeological inferences about ancient trade and exchange and examines how the study of trade and exchange informs us about sociopolitical systems and economic relations and how they vary over time and space. Of interest to majors and prospective majors in anthropology and related fields.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 2880 Writing Practicum
Writing Practicum
Writing practicum.
Notes: Fulfills the college intensive-writing requirement.
credit hours: 1

ANTH 3010 Hunters and Gatherers
Hunters and Gatherers
Comparative study of selected modern and past groups of hunter-gatherers. Anthropological approaches to understanding subsistence practices, social organization, and cultural change in non-agricultural societies. Both ethnographic and archaeological cases will be considered.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3050 North American Indians
North American Indians
Native North American cultures from the time of European contact to the 20th century. Cultural variation from the Arctic to northern Mexico and the adjustments to modern life.
Notes: See ANTH 6050.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3060 South American Indians
South American Indians
Ethnology of the indigenous peoples of lowland South America and adjacent southern Central America. The course examines cultural developments from prehistory to the present. Models for the classification of indigenous cultures, societies, and languages are critically reviewed.
Notes: See ANTH 6060.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3070 Contemporary Chinese Society
Contemporary Chinese Society
Brief introduction to Chinese history and mainstream cultural traditions. Anthropological examination of the shared and contrasting identities and experiences of peasants, urbanites, and the members of different ethnic groups.
Notes: See ANTH 6070.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3080 East Asia
East Asia
Anthropological examination of East Asia, focusing on China, Japan, and Korea. Topics include mainstream philosophical traditions, individual and society, ethnicity and nationalism, gender and globalization.
Notes: See ANTH 6080.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3090 Selected Cultural Systems
Selected Cultural Systems
Systematic treatment of specific cultures of the past and present.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3110 Cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa
Cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa
A survey of the cultures of sub-Saharan Africa from the time of European contact to the present. A detailed study of selected African cultures, identifying, and explaining cultural diversity and unity of African cultures, and comparing African cultures with cultures of other geographic areas. Inequality, development, the family, gender roles, kinship systems, and world view are considered.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3120 Anthropology of Sex and Reproduction
Anthropology of Sex and Reproduction
An exploration of the interrelatedness of biological, behavioral, cultural, social, and political aspects of human sex and reproduction. Current issues, such as new reproductive technologies, the biology and culture of pregnancy and childbirth, mate choice, will be examined from within an evolutionary framework and/or using a cross-cultural approach.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3140 Primate Behavior and Ecology
Primate Behavior and Ecology
An introduction to the social and physical diversity of the Order Primates, emphasizing the biology, ecology, and behavior of living nonhuman primates. Social structure will be explored from an evolutionary perspective, and the ecological and social constraints on behavioral flexibility will be examined. Examples will cover both field and laboratory investigations of nonhuman primates.
Notes: Students may not take both ANTH 3140 and ANTH 6140 for credit.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3160 Peoples of the Pacific
Peoples of the Pacific
Introduction to the cultures of Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, and Australia from the first settlement to the emergence of modern nation-states.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3180 Ethnic China
Ethnic China
This seminar course examines the socio-cultural diversity of China from an anthropological perspective and a multi-ethnic approach.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3190 Economic Anthropology
Economic Anthropology
The study of economic behavior in band, tribal, and peasant societies. Emphasis on the impact of culture and environment on economic decision-making in the Third World. Competing theoretical approaches, particularly evolutionary, ecological, substantivist and Marxist are critically reviewed.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3200 Magic, Witchcraft and Religion
Magic, Witchcraft and Religion
This course is an exploration into religion and the occult. We will examine a wide range of topics, such as hauntings, spirit possession, the role of evil in the moral imagination, and the construction of symbols as well as various practices associated healing, witchcraft (or sorcery) accusations, and the experience of suffering and death. Anthropological approaches challenge the categories of "religion" and "witchcraft", which stem from Western conceptions of reality, Christianity, and ethnocentric views of the "other".
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3220 Ethnology of Insular Southeast Asia
Ethnology of Insular Southeast Asia
Peoples and cultures of Island or Maritime Southeast Asia, from the Andaman Islands in the west to the Bismarck Archipelago in the east. Biogeographic distinctions between Indo and Austro SE Asia; evolutionary implications for people and fauna. Paleolithic, Neolithic, bronze, and iron ages from 40 kya to 1st millennium CE. Early developments in Austro-Asiatic and Austronesian languages. Commercial contacts with ancient Rome, India, China. Impacts of Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity. Prehistoric and early colonial entrepôts. Colonial development of ethnicities associated with Chinese, Arabic, Malay, Tamil, Aslian, Kmer, Portuguese, Dutch, and English. Identity issues, ethnohistory and ethnobiology  of Aslian (Orang Asli) peoples to the present.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3230 Zooarchaeology
Zooarchaeology
This provides basic instruction in the identification of large mammal remains commonly recovered from archaeological sites. In addition, a taphonomic approach to zooarchaeology is stressed, with an emphasis on understanding and interpreting the formation of archaeological faunal assemblages.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3260 Highland Mexican Prehistory
Highland Mexican Prehistory
Patterns and processes of cultural development in the highlands of central Mexico, western Mexico, and Oaxaca as known from archaeological and ethnohistorical data. Early cultures, Toltecs, Aztecs, Mixtecs, Zapotecs.
Notes: See ANTH 6260.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3280 Middle American Indians
Middle American Indians
Colonial and modern indigenous cultures of Mexico and Central America.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3290 The Nature of Language
The Nature of Language
Language as a reflection of the human mind and the role of language in defining the essence of humanity. Language and the expression of social values. Emphasis on analysis of primary linguistic data. Critical examination of theories of linguistic structure.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3300 History of Writing
History of Writing
This course looks at the different systems of writing which have been used in various cultures through time with attention to the materials and purpose in relation to the cultures. Orientation to and practice in decipherment are included. Finally, the issues of modern script development are introduced.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3310 Introduction to Historical Linguistics
Introduction to Historical Linguistics
Historical Linguistics traces language change over time. Reconstruction through comparative method and internal paradigm examination is used to retro-project earlier stages of a language or a language family, elucidating interrelationships among languages, paths of migration, spheres of influence, and varieties of contact. Reconstructed vocabulary yields inferences about ancient homelands, social organization, and culture constructs. The processes observed in language change yield insights into human cognition and the language faculty.
Notes: Capstone for LING (5110 option).
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3330 Anthropology of Gender
Anthropology of Gender
A theoretical and ethnographical examination of how gender is constructed across cultures. Topics include sex and gender, gender identity, bodily experiences, masculinity and femininity, gender roles, kinship and gender, gender stratification, and gender equality, as well as gender, ethnicity, and class.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3350 Culture and Religion
Culture and Religion
Religions, ideas, ritual, and organization of primitive peoples; nativistic and messianic movements; function of religion in social systems.
Notes: See ANTH 6350.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3360 Anthropology of Cities
Anthropology of Cities
This course focuses on anthropological approaches to cities and urban life. Topics include the cultural meanings of public space and the built environment, processes of social differentiation and class formation, the role of capital, and the emergence of social movements. The second half of the course is organized around a comparison of four ethnographic case-studies of cities outside the United States and Europe. Throughout the semester, studies will also discuss how anthropological approaches may be applied to New Orleans.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3370 Locating Southeast Asia
Locating Southeast Asia
This course examines contemporary Southeast Asia. As one of the most diverse regions in the world, the region confounds easy characterization. The first part of the course provides students with a broad overview of the social, cultural, and political institutions of the region with a focus on Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam. The second part turns to contemporary issues including political and economic development, religious change, and cultural constructions of identity. Readings include academic essays, short stories, and full-length ethnographies.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3380 Cultural Dynamics
Cultural Dynamics
An exploration of the development in the western tradition of ideas concerning culture, its variation, and change. The courses focuses on the specific insights of anthropology with regard to the study of change processes such as innovation, directed culture change, nativism, and revitalization. The relevant contributions of other social sciences will also be considered.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3395 Ethnography of Performance and Identity in New Orleans and French Louisiana
Ethnography of Performance and Identity in New Orleans and French Louisiana
This course focuses on symbolic meaning in the vernacular expressive culture or folkloric forms of community groups in New Orleans, French Louisiana, the Gulf South region and selected out migrant locations. It addresses differential identities of tribal, ethnic, regional, religious, linguistic, occupational, class and gender affiliations--and examines aesthetic forms as a primary means to do so. Some of these are largely intangible such as music and dance, ritual and festival, narrative and jokes; others are tangible or material culture to varying degrees such as the built environment (houses, boats, landscape use), crafts, costumes and cuisine. All are examined via ethnographic and historical writing, oral histories and documentary media as to how shared cultural knowledge is performed in an array of contexts. These include dancehalls, Carnival parades, second lines, work settings, festivals, neighborhood museums, sacred spaces and so on.
Notes: Capstone.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3400 Language and Culture
Language and Culture
Acquiring and using techniques of conducting linguistic field work. Investigation of one or more languages by working with native speakers. Emphasis on defining problems, developing and testing hypotheses.
Notes: Capstone for LING and ANTH as a 5110 add-on.
Pre-requistites: ANTH 1030 or ANTH 3290 or instructor permission.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3440 Dialectology
Dialectology
Introduction to language variation both geographically and socially. The course looks at the history and methods of dialectology as well as the ways speakers demonstrate identity through speech patterns.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3441 Lexicography: Dictionaries and How to Make Them
Lexicography: Dictionaries and How to Make Them
Lexicography is the making of dictionaries. Dictionaries take many forms and fulfill many functions. Dictionaries have evolved new formats; professional lexicographers share word gleaning with internet users. Dictionaries may be monolingual, di-, tri-, or multi-lingual, etymological or encyclopedic, synchronic or diachronic, prescriptive or descriptive, terminological or generic. Dictionary construction requires a number of skills which co-vary with the type of dictionary to be produced. This course provides an overview of dictionaries, their forms, formats and histories, while fostering a basic skill set for harvesting words and compiling lexicons. Dictionaries provide a cognitive map to communities of speakers, both past and present.
Notes: Writing Practica Option.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3450 Methods of Observation in Behavioral Research
Methods of Observation in Behavioral Research
This course focuses on the development, design, analysis, and presentation of research on behavior using observational methods. While these methods can be used on captive populations (zoo, research center) they are also appropriate for studies of free-ranging animals, including human beings. The student will be exposed to the specific challenges of observational research, and learn appropriate levels of analysis.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3470 The Many Faces of Islam
The Many Faces of Islam
Islam is a fundamental human experience in diverse socio-historic and cultural milieux. Ethnographies of Muslim communities highlight the heterogenity of Islamic perspectives and traditions. Focus on culturally situated Islamic practices and belief systems fosters a critical understanding of the emergent Islamic identities and their historico-cultural underpinnings.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3480 African Modernities
African Modernities
This course focuses on the problem of conceptualizing modernity in Africa. Examining cases from throughout the continent, we will consider cultural developments such as romantic love, fashion, and consumption as well as new forms of religiosity and novel developments in established religions, economic change, state corruption, and violence.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3510 Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism
Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism
Theoretical and ethnographic examinations of race, ethnicity, and nationalism. Topics also include multiculturalism, globalization, and diasporas.
Notes: See ANTH 6510.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3520 Diaspora Yoruba
Diaspora Yoruba
Familiarizes students with the fundamentals of Yoruba language and culture; shows students how Diaspora dynamics have changed Yoruba language and culture; uses Diaspora Yoruba to teach students the principles of language death and innovation involving tones, vowels, nasalization, word formation, and sentence structure.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3530 Arts of Native North America
Arts of Native North America
A survey of the great range of media and the many forms of aesthetic expression developed by the indigenous peoples of what today are the United States and Canada. The course examines the functions of art in smaller-scale societies and illustrates aspects of their dynamics. Changes in arts due to European contact, attempts at revivals of specific genres, and the emergence of named artists in the 20th century are also addressed.
Notes: See ANTH 6530.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3535 Native American Languages and Linguistics
Native American Languages and Linguistics
This course will explore the richness of the linguistic diversity still preserved in the Native American languages of this hemisphere. Two thirds of the Native American languages spoken at time of European immigration have perished. Today even languages with large communities of fluent speakers face heavy assimilatory pressures. Language loss and simplification are rapidly changing the wordscape of the Americas.
Notes: Writing Practica Option.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3540 Indians of the Great Plains
Indians of the Great Plains
Popularly considered as the very image of the American Indian, 19th-century Great Plains cultures were a recent and, tragically, short-lived florescence, made possible largely by the introduction of the horse. Horses encouraged the development of a new lifestyle and attracted immigrant peoples from every direction. The course will examine traditional cultures, the change to a nomadic equestrian existence, and the ways in which diverse immigration groups quickly developed very similar ways of life.
Notes: See ANTH 6540.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3560 Environmental Archaeology
Environmental Archaeology
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3590 Introduction to Syntax
Introduction to Syntax
Introduction of transformational generative syntax, with examples from selected areas of English grammar. Formal models in grammatical description. Emphasis on the logic of linguistic argumentation.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3630 Linguistic Phonetics
Linguistic Phonetics
The course offers an overview of articulatory and acoustic phonetics with emphasis on matching acoustic cues closely with the articulatory gestures. The first part of the course will study the articulatory and acoustic cues to range of English and non-English speech sounds with information about the normal range of variation. The second part will focus on collecting and interpreting acoustic data, and using such data as evidence to solve phonological problems in normal and pathological speech.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3640 Studies in Phonology
Studies in Phonology
This course provides an introduction to phonological analysis and theory, with strong emphasis on description and analysis of data from a wide variety of languages. Major issues to be addressed include universal principles of human phonological systems, language-specific variation, constraints on representation of rules, the relationship of phonology to morphological and syntactic components of the grammar, and the historical underpinnings of current theoretical models.
Pre-requistites: ANTH 3630.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3660 Discourse Analysis: Pragmatics of Language Use
Discourse Analysis: Pragmatics of Language Use
Study of written and spoken texts from a variety of languages and language use contexts. Focus on structural aspects of language (noun phrase construction and anaphora, topicalization, focus constructions, word order, deictics, and definite reference) as they relate to the situated use of language.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3670 Language and Its Acquisition
Language and Its Acquisition
This course provides an introduction to issues such as the genetic basis of language ability and acquisition; neurological aspects of linguistic knowledge; first language acquisition. Emphasis will be laid on child language data collection, description and analysis. Other issues covered are: (1) language acquisition in special populations (deaf children, blind children, children with mental retardation, children with autism and children with specific language impairment); (2) childhood bilingualism. 
Notes: Capstone for LING (5110 option).
Pre-requistites: ANTH 1030, ANTH 3290 or instructor permission.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3680 Language and Power
Language and Power
Exploration of the ways that language indexes, reflects, and constructs power. Cross-cultural study of the interrelationship of social ascriptions, attitudes toward groups and their members, and the speech patterns of in-group/out-group members. Examination of the manipulation of power and its linguistic correlates in the domains of medicine, the media, education, and the law. Effects of language policy, especially officialization and standardization, on speakers of minority languages or codes.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3690 Language and Gender
Language and Gender
An exploration of the structures of language, phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic, as they index, inter-relate with, and construct gender identities cross-culturally.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3700 Environmental Anthropology
Environmental Anthropology
Critically reviews case studies of ecosystemic and energetic relations between human populations, cultures, and the environment in diverse ethnographic settings of the world, such as Amazonia, the Great Basin, New Guinea, and Southeast Asia. Examines the historical emergence of ecological paradigms in anthropology. Compares the modern contributions of cultural ecology, evolutionary ecology, ethnoecology, and historical ecology. Evaluates potential contributions of ecological anthropology to general ecology.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3710 Historical Ecology of Amazonia
Historical Ecology of Amazonia
Interactions between local peoples and Amazonian landscapes from prehistory to the present. Amazonian landscapes as an analytic unit will be examined from the interdisciplinary perspective of historical ecology. Changes and development of forests and savannas since the arrival of human beings. Historical, ecological, cultural forces involved in biological and edaphic diversity in modern forests. Long-term effects of prehistoric and historic human occupations and manipulation of landscapes. Implications for conservation and development.
Notes: See EBIO 3710/6710 and ANTH 6710.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3720 Adaptation and Human Variability
Adaptation and Human Variability
Biological adaptations of living human populations to their environments, and the interaction of these adaptations with cultural patterns. Relationships of body size, form, and composition to climatic and nutritional factors in various geographical groups of modern man. Major adaptive problems facing the human species are discussed and implications for the future explored.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3730 Principles of Forensic Anthropology
Principles of Forensic Anthropology
Introduction to forensic anthropology, a subdiscipline of physical anthropology concerned with the identification of human skeletal remains in medico-legal contexts. Surveys the history of the field and the techniques used to determine age, sex, and physical characteristics of an individual from skeletonized remains, as well as methods used for positive identification, estimating time since death, and determining cause and manner of death.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3745 Bioarchaeology of Mummies
Bioarchaeology of Mummies
Mummified human remains open a fragile window into the past. They provide unique information about the physical characteristics, health and diet of ancient peoples, as well as information on cultural modification of the body (head shaping, piercing, tattooing, hair styles), funerary practices, and cultural concepts of death and the afterlife. Mummies can be investigated from various perspectives (textual, iconographic, biomedical, ethnographical, archaeological), but are studied most effectively using a multidisciplinary approach involving archaeologists, biological anthropologists, conservators, and specialists in medical imaging, paleogenetics and geochemistry. Bioarchaeology, the application of biological anthropology to archaeological research questions, is a term commonly used today to describe this multidisciplinary approach to studying the dead. This course will examine preserved human bodies from around the world, with an emphasis on scientific studies that seek to reconstruct their life histories and postmortem treatment.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3750 Bones, Bodies, and Disease
Bones, Bodies, and Disease
Survey of the field of paleopathology, the study of health and disease in ancient populations. Topics include methods for identifying evidence of injury and disease in bones, teeth, and mummified tissue; ancient medicine and surgery; chemical approaches to reconstructing diet; and human health trends through time.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3755 Human Osteology
Human Osteology
The objective of this course is to learn the anatomy of the human skeleton and dentition and the techniques physical anthropologists use to excavate, identify, and analyze human skeletal remains. You will learn how to identify the various bones of the skeleton, how to distinguish human from non-human bone, how to determine sex and estimate age at death; and how to measure bones in order to reconstruct living stature and physical characteristics from skeletal remains. Examples from archaeological excavations and forensic cases will be used to illustrate the kinds of information human skeletons can provide about ancient and modern populations. Practical and written exams and laboratory exercises hone your skills at recognizing anatomical landmarks, identifying fragmentary osteological material. measuring bones, and conducting a detailed skeletal inventory. 
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3760 Primate Evolution and Adaptation
Primate Evolution and Adaptation
This course will focus on the anatomy, evolution and adaptive radiation of the Order Primates. Basic information on living primates and detailed investigation of the primate fossil record will be presented. The dynamic nature of the field will be the subject of class discussion and investigative essays.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3780 Language Death
Language Death
Every fortnight a human language dies. Half the languages spoken in the Western Hemisphere at the turn of the 19th century have died. This course examines the forces that lead to language death, strategies that speakers whose linguistic heritage is endangered may deploy to revitalize their languages, and tools that linguists have used to preserve the knowledges of human speech communities.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3850 The Four Field Model
The Four Field Model
Philosophical underpinnings of general anthropology. Epistemological ramifications of four anthropological fields (subdisciplines) as complete coverage of the subject matter. Contingency vs. rationale in the amalgamation of the four fields, as distinctive and definitive of the holistic study of Homosapiens. Initial development of the model in the British Isles; institutionalization in 20th century North America. Connections to study of natives of the New World and salvage ethnography. Growth and specialization in subdisciplines. Debates over the logic and practicality in continuing cohesion of the model. May be taken as capstone, with ANTH 5110. Students who sign up for the capstone, will have an extra class session, times listed under ANTH 7850.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 3880 Writing Practicum
Writing Practicum
Notes: Fulfills the college intensive-writing requirement.
Pre-requistites: Successful completion of the First-Year Writing Requirement.
Co-requisites: Three-credit departmental course.
credit hours: 1

ANTH 4060 Proseminar in Anthropology
Proseminar in Anthropology
It is a four-field seminar course, covering archaeology, linguistics, physical anthropology and socio-cultural anthropology. Topics vary with the current research interests of the faculty presenting the course. Students do primary and secondary research, present their findings orally and in writing. This course draws together the four subdisciplines of anthropology, integrating them in the approach to a body of theory, an array of methods and an emerging set of data congruent with the topical theme.
Notes: This course is required for the major and fulfills the capstone requirement.
Pre-requistites: Junior or senior anthropology major status.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 4080 Race and Nation in the Spanish Caribbean
Race and Nation in the Spanish Caribbean
This course provides a comparative survey of the interwoven dynamics of race, class and national formation in the making of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. Drawing on a range of readings in history, media studies, music, fiction writing and poetry as well as anthropology, this course will explore the overlapping historical contexts of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic in addition to related impacts of Haiti and its Revolution. The focus of attention will be placed on the on-going centrality of racial dynamics in these island nations from slave-based sugar plantations to reggaetón music.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 4120 Conquest and Colonialism
Conquest and Colonialism
Comparative and global perspectives on the archaeology of culture contact and colonialism.
Notes: Usually offered in conjunction with ANTH 7120. (counts as capstone)
credit hours: 3

ANTH 4130 North American Prehistory
North American Prehistory
A survey of the archaeology of Canada and the United States from the appearance of man in the New World to the arrival of the Europeans.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 4150 African Prehistory
African Prehistory
Survey of African prehistory from the earliest tool-makers (Olduvai Gorge, etc.) to protohistoric times. Emphasis on Africa south of the Sahara for later prehistory. Africa's role in human origins, development and spread of food-producing economies, the African Iron Age, early contacts with Arabic and European peoples.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 4210 Seminar in Historical Ecology
Seminar in Historical Ecology
credit hours: 3

ANTH 4260 Archaeology of the U.S. Southwest
Archaeology of the U.S. Southwest
This course looks at the development of prehistoric and early historic cultures of the U.S. Southwest. Both archaeological and early historical evidence of indigenous peoples and early explorers will be examined.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 4270 Roots of Western Civilization
Roots of Western Civilization
Cultural history of Southwestern Asia and Europe from the Mesolithic, through the development of food production, to the beginnings of civilization. Emphasis upon the beginnings of complex societies and urban life and their early, pre-Roman development in Europe.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 4410 Olmec and Maya Civilization
Olmec and Maya Civilization
Examines the development of highly advanced cultures and societies in one of the centers of native American civilization. Although the presentation stresses archaeological data, the course considers pre-Hispanic aesthetic achievements, social organization, values, written records, and adaptation to varying environments.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 4510 Species and Species Concepts in Human Paleontology
Species and Species Concepts in Human Paleontology
The number of proposed fossil hominid/hominin species has mushroomed in recent years yet the recognition of species in the human fossil record remains a daunting task. However, in order to reconstruct the phylogenetic (ancestor-descendent) relationships among humans, our ancestors, and close collateral relatives, we must group hominin fossils into meaningful taxonomic categories, ones that likely reflect truly monophyletic (shared common ancestor) descent patterns. This course explores different evolutionary species concepts and their applicability to human paleontology. Current approaches to the reconstruction of phylogenetic relationships are then discussed, and the taxonomic status of hominin species is assessed.
Notes: This course can be taken to fulfill the capstone requirement.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 4560 Internship
Internship
Internships in anthropology are available to qualified juniors and seniors on a limited basis for individual projects conducted in association with various private firms, public and private organizations, or governmental institutions in New Orleans. Students will work under professional supervision at these sites, and consult with a faculty sponsor. Requirements include a written report on the experience, and an evaluation by the supervisor.
Notes: Credit for major elective requirement only.
Pre-requistites: Approval of instructor.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 4570 Internship
Internship
Internships in anthropology are available to qualified juniors and seniors on a limited basis for individual projects conducted in association with various private firms, public and private organizations, or governmental institutions in New Orleans. Students will work under professional supervision at these sites, and consult with a faculty sponsor. Requirements include a written report on the experience, and an evaluation by the supervisor.
Notes: Credit for major elective requirement only.
Pre-requistites: Approval of instructor.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 4610 Ceramic Analysis
Ceramic Analysis
A laboratory course dealing with the descriptive analysis of archaeological ceramics. Introduction to aspects of ceramic technology, classification, description, and the use of ceramics in archaeological research. Emphasis will be on practical methods and techniques for analyzing, describing, reporting, and graphically representing ceramic artifacts.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 4620 Lithic Analysis
Lithic Analysis
A laboratory course dealing with the technological analysis of lithic artifacts. Introduction to fracture mechanics and flint napping, debitage analysis and classification. Application of principles and methods of technological classification, description, and graphical representation to archaeological specimens and modern replicates.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 4880 Writing Practicum
Writing Practicum
Notes: Fulfills the college intensive-writing requirement.
Pre-requistites: Successful completion of the First-Year Writing Requirement.
Co-requisites: Three-credit departmental course.
credit hours: 1

ANTH 4910 Independent Studies
Independent Studies
By arrangement.
credit hours: 1-3

ANTH 4920 Independent Studies
Independent Studies
By arrangement.
credit hours: 1-3

ANTH 4930 Languages of Louisiana
Languages of Louisiana
Examines the current and historical linguistic situation in Louisiana, from indigenous languages spoken at the time of contact with Europeans to the present. Covers basic features of the languages as well as their social settings. Students will further conduct independent field research projects, alone or in small groups, focusing on languages spoken in southern Louisiana, in particular in the city of New Orleans.
Notes: Capstone.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 4950 Special Projects
Special Projects
By arrangement.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 4960 Special Projects
Special Projects
By arrangement.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 6010 Quantitative Methods in Anthropology
Quantitative Methods in Anthropology
An introduction to mathematical methods relevant to anthropology.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 6020 The Neandertal Enigma
The Neandertal Enigma
The Neandertals are the best-understood group of non-modern fossil hominids, having been known to science since 1856. Yet even today they inspire many provocative questions. Who were the Neandertals? How were they different from us? Did they have language? How and why did they disappear? Were they our ancestors, or did our ancestors out compete them? And if the Neandertals were not our ancestors, then who were? These are some of the questions we will explore in this class on the classic cavemen"."
credit hours: 3

ANTH 6060 South American Indians
South American Indians
Notes: See ANTH 3060 for description.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 6070 Contemporary Chinese Society
Contemporary Chinese Society
Notes: See ANTH 3070 for description.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 6100 South American Archaeology
South American Archaeology
Survey of South American archaeology with primary focus on the Andean area. Overview of culture history from the Paleoindian period through the Spanish conquest.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 6130 Southeastern United States Prehistory
Southeastern United States Prehistory
Survey of the various problems of archaeology of the Southeastern United States.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 6180 Ethnic China
Ethnic China
This seminar course examines the socio-cultural diversity of China from an anthropological perspective and a multi-ethnic approach. 
credit hours: 3

ANTH 6210 Development of Anthropological Theory
Development of Anthropological Theory
Origin and development of anthropology since the Renaissance.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 6230 Archaeological Theory
Archaeological Theory
An introduction to theoretical basis of modern archaeology. The implications of theory for excavation, analysis, and interpretation.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 6240 Technical Analyses for Archaeology
Technical Analyses for Archaeology
A survey of scientific analytic techniques that have been adapted for application to common archaeological problems such as site discovery, dating, site formation processes, artifact source and function, and subsistence and diet. Examination of methodological literature and case studies.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 6250 Old World Paleolithic Prehistory
Old World Paleolithic Prehistory
This course offers a synthetic review of the archaeological prehistory and biological evolution of our species. The course examines topics in paleoanthropology ranging from the ancestors of australopithecines in the Miocene to the emergence of complex hunter-gatherer societies at the end of Pleistocene.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 6260 Prehistory of Highland Mexico
Prehistory of Highland Mexico
Notes: See ANTH 3260 for description.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 6270 Culture and Romantic Love
Culture and Romantic Love
Comparative study of romantic love with a focus on non-Western societies. Topics include the debate over the universality of romantic love; cultural delineations, evaluations, and expressions of passionate love, companionate love, and sexual desire; socio-cultural regulations of love, sex, marriage, and non-heterosexual intimacy; romantic love, social change, and globalization.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 6320 Social Structure
Social Structure
History of the development of the structural/functional paradigm in social anthropology. Diachronic versus synchronic models, statistical versus normative models, decision models, networks, psychological reductionism.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 6340 Medical Anthropology
Medical Anthropology
Survey of the relationships among disease, curing, culture and environment. Topics include problems of adapting modern medicines to diverse cultures; explication of the social and cultural correlates of physical and mental health and disease (social epidemiology); cross-cultural variation in disease concepts, medical practices, role of patients, and mental health; health and nutritional implications of planned culture change; contributions of anthropology to health-policy decisions of development organizations.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 6350 Culture and Religion
Culture and Religion
Notes: See ANTH 3350 for description.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 6395 Ethnography of Performance and Identity in New Orleans and French Louisiana
Ethnography of Performance and Identity in New Orleans and French Louisiana
This course focuses on symbolic meaning in the vernacular expressive culture or folkloric forms of community groups in New Orleans, French Louisiana, the Gulf South region and selected out migrant locations. It addresses differential identities of tribal, ethnic, regional, religious, linguistic, occupational, class and gender affiliations--and examines aesthetic forms as a primary means to do so. Some of these are largely intangible such as music and dance, ritual and festival, narrative and jokes; others are tangible or material culture to varying degrees such as the built environment (houses, boats, landscape use), crafts, costumes and cuisine. All are examined via ethnographic and historical writing, oral histories and documentary media as to how shared cultural knowledge is performed in an array of contexts. These include dancehalls, Carnival parades, second lines, work settings, festivals, neighborhood museums, sacred spaces and so on.
Notes: Capstone.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 6400 Language and Culture
Language and Culture
credit hours: 3

ANTH 6415 Pidgins and Creoles
Pidgins and Creoles
An overview of the world's pidgin and creole languages and a survey of the theories of their origins. Capstone in Linguistics and Anthropology.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 6420 Linguistic Field Methods
Linguistic Field Methods
Acquiring and using techniques for conducting linguistic field work. Investigation of one or more languages by working with native speakers. Emphasis on defining problems, developing and testing hypotheses.
Notes: Capstone for LING (5110 option).
Pre-requistites: ANTH 1030, ANTH 3290, or instructor permission.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 6480 Human Functional Morphology
Human Functional Morphology
This course covers the functional anatomy of the human body, with emphasis on the structure, function, evolution, and development of the musculo-skeletal and nervous systems. The principle of biological uniformitarianism is used to correlate hard tissue (i.e., teeth and bone) structure with soft tissue function, since soft tissues are only rarely recovered in archaeological or paleontological settings.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 6500 Human Evolution
Human Evolution
An investigation into the evolution of modern Homo sapiens (italics) over the last ten million years. Emphasis will be placed on the fossil record of human and nonhuman primates, the role of changing environments, and migration patterns. Models from technologically simple" cultures and modern nonhuman primates will be included in the consideration of developing social organizations."
credit hours: 3

ANTH 6510 Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism
Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism
See ANTH 3510 for description.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 6520 Ethnographic Methods
Ethnographic Methods
Theory and techniques involved in collecting, analyzing, and reporting ethnographic data. Validity, reliability, and precision of participant observation; probes and freelists; sampling frames and types of samples appropriate to the unit of analysis; surveys questionnaires; selection of key informants; interdisciplinary methods; research design. Consideration of ethical issues, potential conflicts of interest, and university review board procedures and policies. Classroom exercises and field projects.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 6530 Native North American Art
Native North American Art
Notes: See ANTH 3530 for description.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 6540 Indians of the Great Plains
Indians of the Great Plains
Notes: See ANTH 3540 for description.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 6700 Spoken Nahuatl
Spoken Nahuatl
The essentials of Nahuatl phonology, morphology, and syntax. Conversational practice and laboratory sessions along with emphasis on linguistic analysis of the language.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 6710 Historical Ecology of Amazonia
Historical Ecology of Amazonia
Notes: See ANTH 3710 for description.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 6720 Spoken Yoruba
Spoken Yoruba
This course provides an introduction to the Yoruba language. Emphasis on grammar and vocabulary development, listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Practice in oral discussion will be enhanced by weekly dramatical presentations, poetry recitals, and story-telling.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 6800 Spoken Yucatecan Maya
Spoken Yucatecan Maya
The essentials of Yucatecan Maya phonology, morphology, and syntax. Oral/aural exercises and conversational practice with a native speaker.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 6810 Introduction to Maya Hieroglyphs
Introduction to Maya Hieroglyphs
A survey of present knowledge about the nature of the pre-Columbian Maya writing system, including calendrical notation, astronomical calculations, the structure and content of phoneticism, and its relationship to other Mesoamerican writing systems.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 6840 Beginning Kaqchikel (Maya) Language
Beginning Kaqchikel (Maya) Language
Kaqchikel is one of the four largest Mayan groups in Guatemala, having over a million self-identified members, about half of whom speak their native mother tongue. Taught in three Kaqchikel communities in Guatemala, this six week course enables students to achieve conversational fluency and elementary reading/writing skills.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 6880 Writing Practicum
Writing Practicum
Notes: Fulfills the college intensive-writing requirement.
Pre-requistites: Successful completion of the First-Year Writing Requirement.
Co-requisites: Three-credit departmental course.
credit hours: 1

ANTH 7090 Analysis of Selected Cultural Systems
Analysis of Selected Cultural Systems
credit hours: 3

ANTH 7100 Quantitative Methods in Archaeology
Quantitative Methods in Archaeology
credit hours: 3

ANTH 7130 North American Prehistory
North American Prehistory
A survey of the archaeology of Canada and the United States from the appearance of man in the New World to the arrival of the Europeans.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 7150 Prehistory of Africa
Prehistory of Africa
credit hours: 3

ANTH 7160 Physical Anthropology
Physical Anthropology
credit hours: 3

ANTH 7170 Seminar in Archaeology
Seminar in Archaeology
credit hours: 3

ANTH 7190 Economic Anthropology
Economic Anthropology
credit hours: 3

ANTH 7270 Later Prehistory of Europe and the Near East
Later Prehistory of Europe and the Near East
credit hours: 3

ANTH 7290 Linguistic Analysis
Linguistic Analysis
credit hours: 3

ANTH 7310 Prehistory of Languages
Prehistory of Languages
credit hours: 3

ANTH 7380 Cultural Dynamics
Cultural Dynamics
credit hours: 3

ANTH 7410 Prehistory of Eastern Mesoamerica
Prehistory of Eastern Mesoamerica
credit hours: 3

ANTH 7440 Problems in Old World Prehistory
Problems in Old World Prehistory
credit hours: 3

ANTH 7560 Environmental Archaeology
Environmental Archaeology
credit hours: 3

ANTH 7590 Syntactic Theory
Syntactic Theory
credit hours: 3

ANTH 7610 Ceramic Analysis
Ceramic Analysis
credit hours: 3

ANTH 7620 Lithic Analysis
Lithic Analysis
credit hours: 3

ANTH 7630 Linguistic Phonetics
Linguistic Phonetics
credit hours: 3

ANTH 7640 Studies in Phonology
Studies in Phonology
credit hours: 3

ANTH 7650 Morphology
Morphology
credit hours: 3

ANTH 7660 Discourse Analysis
Discourse Analysis
credit hours: 3

ANTH 7670 Language and its Acquisition
Language and its Acquisition
credit hours: 3

ANTH 7680 Language and Power
Language and Power
credit hours: 3

ANTH 7690 Language and Gender
Language and Gender
credit hours: 3

ANTH 7700 Ecological Anthropology
Ecological Anthropology
credit hours: 3

ANTH 7750 Human Paleopathology
Human Paleopathology
credit hours: 3

ANTH 7780 Language Death
Language Death
Every fortnight a human language dies. Half the languages spoken in the Western Hemisphere at the turn of the 19th century have died. This course examines the forces that lead to language death, strategies that speakers whose linguistic heritage is endangered may deploy to revitalize their languages, and tools that linguists have used to preserve the knowledges of human speech communities.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 7850 The Four Field Model
The Four Field Model
Philosophical underpinnings of general anthropology. Epistemological ramifications of four anthropological fields (subdisciplines) as complete coverage of the subject matter. Contingency vs. rationale in the amalgamation of the four fields, as distinctive and definitive of the holistic study of Homosapiens. Initial development of the model in the British Isles; institutionalization in 20th century North America. Connections to study of natives of the New World and salvage ethnography. Growth and specialization in subdisciplines. Debates over the logic and practicality in continuing cohesion of the model.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 7930 Languages of Louisiana
Languages of Louisiana
Examines the current and historical linguistic situation in Louisiana, from indigenous languages spoken at the time of contact with Europeans to the present. Covers basic features of the languages as well as their social settings. Students will further conduct independent field research projects, alone or in small groups, focusing on languages spoken in southern Louisiana, in particular in the city of New Orleans.
Notes: Capstone.
credit hours: 3

ANTH 7950 Special Projects
Special Projects
credit hours: 3

ANTH 7960 Special Projects
Special Projects
credit hours: 3

ANTH 9980 Master's Research
Master's Research
credit hours: 0

ANTH 9990 Dissertation Research
Dissertation Research
credit hours: 0

ANTH H4910 Independent Studies
Independent Studies
Open to students in the Honors Program with approval of instructor.
credit hours: 3

ANTH H4920 Independent Studies
Independent Studies
Open to students in the Honors Program with approval of instructor.
credit hours: 3

ANTH H4990 Honors Theses
Honors Theses
Notes: For senior honors candidates. Intensive reading and research in a selected field of anthropology.
credit hours: 3

ANTH H5000 Honors Theses
Honors Theses
Notes: For senior honors candidates. Intensive reading and research in a selected field of anthropology.
credit hours: 3

APMS 3500 Jazz Improvisation
Jazz Improvisation
Students will work with instructors individually and in small groups to develop the ability to logically respond to the harmonic, melodic, rhythmic, and formal implications inherent in specific types of musical material. Students will also examine compositional techniques characteristic of the jazz idiom. This course may be taken twice for credit.  
credit hours: 2

APMS 4300 Senior Recital Capstone
Senior Recital Capstone
Senior Recital.  Student must complete Junior Recital APMS 321-01 and one semester of MUSC 4234-01.-
Pre-requistites: APMS 2210-01, APMS 3210-01 and APMS 4234-01.-
credit hours: 3

APMS 4910 Independent Study/Lecture Recital Prep/Lecture Recital
Independent Study/Lecture Recital Prep/Lecture Recital
This course is offered to transfer students or students going abroad, who will have missed one of their required 8 courses in private lessons necessary for the BFA in the track of Performance. It takes the place of ONE of the pre-senior year lessons courses.
credit hours: 3

APMS 2171-01 Vocal Ensemble
Vocal Ensemble
Ensemble courses are open, for credit, to all students of the University.
Notes: Can be taken up to 8 times for credit.
credit hours: 3

APMS 2172-01 Men's Chorus
Men's Chorus
Ensemble courses are open, for credit, to all students of the University.
Notes: Can be taken up to 8 times for credit.
credit hours: 3

APMS 2173-01 Instrumental Ensemble
Instrumental Ensemble
Ensemble courses are open, for credit, to all students of the University.
Notes: Can be taken up to 8 times for credit.
credit hours: 3

APMS 2173-02 Instrumental Ensemble
Instrumental Ensemble
Ensemble courses are open, for credit, to all students of the University.
Notes: Can be taken up to 8 times for credit.
credit hours: 3

APMS 2173-03 Instrumental Ensemble
Instrumental Ensemble
Ensemble courses are open, for credit, to all students of the University.
Notes: Can be taken up to 8 times for credit.
credit hours: 3

APMS 2174-01 Tulane-Newcomb Choir
Tulane-Newcomb Choir
Ensemble courses are open, for credit, to all students of the University.
Notes: Can be taken up to 8 times for credit.
credit hours: 3

APMS 2181-01 Drum Ensemble
Drum Ensemble
Ensemble courses are open, for credit, to all students of the University.
Notes: Can be taken up to 8 times for credit.
credit hours: 3

APMS 2182-01 Concert Band
Concert Band
Ensemble courses are open, for credit, to all students of the University.
Notes: Can be taken up to 8 times for credit.
credit hours: 3

APMS 2183-01 Marching Band
Marching Band
Ensemble courses are open, for credit, to all students of the University.
Notes: Can be taken up to 8 times for credit.
credit hours: 3

APMS 2184-01 Big Jazz Band
Big Jazz Band
Ensemble courses are open, for credit, to all students of the University.
Notes: Can be taken up to 8 times for credit.
credit hours: 3

APMS 2185-01 Jazz Combo
Jazz Combo
Ensemble courses are open, for credit, to all students of the University.
Notes: Can be taken up to 8 times for credit.
credit hours: 3

APMS 2185-02 Jazz Combo
Jazz Combo
Ensemble courses are open, for credit, to all students of the University.
Notes: Can be taken up to 8 times for credit.
credit hours: 3

APMS 2186-01 Orchestra
Orchestra
Ensemble courses are open, for credit, to all students of the University.
Notes: Can be taken up to 8 times for credit.
credit hours: 3

APMS 2187-01 Musical Theatre Workshop
Musical Theatre Workshop
Ensemble courses are open, for credit, to all students of the University.
Notes: Can be taken up to 8 times for credit.
credit hours: 3

APPD 6240 MONITORING AND EVALUATION IN DEVELOPMENT
MONITORING AND EVALUATION IN DEVELOPMENT
credit hours: 3

APPD 6310 ETHNIC CONFLICT
ETHNIC CONFLICT
credit hours: 3

APPD 6350 INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
credit hours: 3

APPD 6420 DATA DRIVEN APPROACHES TO DISASTER MITIGATION IN INTERNATIONAL SETTINGS
DATA DRIVEN APPROACHES TO DISASTER MITIGATION IN INTERNATIONAL SETTINGS
credit hours: 3

APPD 6430 ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: NON-PROFIT INSTITUTIONS AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: NON-PROFIT INSTITUTIONS AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
credit hours: 3

APPD 6610 ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
credit hours: 3

APPD 6620 POLITICAL RIGHTS, DEMOCRACY AND CIVIL SOCIETY
POLITICAL RIGHTS, DEMOCRACY AND CIVIL SOCIETY
credit hours: 3

APPD 6630 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ASSISTED INDIVIDUAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ASSISTED INDIVIDUAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING
credit hours: 3

APPD 6640 ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT I
ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT I
credit hours: 3

APPD 6650 ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 11
ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 11
credit hours: 3

APPD 6660 ADVANCED TOPICS IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
ADVANCED TOPICS IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
credit hours: 3

APPD 6670 INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC RELATIONS
INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC RELATIONS
credit hours: 3

APPD 6670 INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC RELATIONS
INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC RELATIONS
credit hours: 3

APPD 6680 FIVE DECADES OF DEVELOPMENT
FIVE DECADES OF DEVELOPMENT
credit hours: 3

APPD 6690 DEVELOPMENT PLANNING AND IMPLE-MENTATION METHODS
DEVELOPMENT PLANNING AND IMPLE-MENTATION METHODS
credit hours: 3

APPD 6700 INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL
INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL
credit hours: 3

APPD 7980 INDEPENDENT STUDIES
INDEPENDENT STUDIES
credit hours: 3

APPD 7990 Independent Studies
Independent Studies
credit hours: 3

ARBC 1010 Elementary Arabic I
Elementary Arabic I
Basic introduction to the Arabic language. Emphasis on listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
credit hours: 3

ARBC 1020 Elementary Arabic II
Elementary Arabic II
Second semester of Arabic language.
Notes: Ability to read and write Arabic required.
Pre-requistites: ARBC 111 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ARBC 2030 Intermediate Arabic I
Intermediate Arabic I
Fourth semester of Arabic language. Continues development of reading and writing Arabic, but emphasis is placed on oral performance.
credit hours: 3

ARBC 2040 Intermediate Arabic II
Intermediate Arabic II
A continuation of skills developed in ARBC 2030, which is a prerequisite for ARBC 2040. The Arabic language is used as the medium of instruction, and in addition to the further development of reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills, a greater emphasis is placed on culture.
Pre-requistites: ARBC 2030, Intermediate Arabic I
credit hours: 3

ARBC 3010 Special Topics in Arabic Studies
Special Topics in Arabic Studies
Special topics in language, literature, and culture of the Arab world.
Pre-requistites: ARBC 2030.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 1010 Art Survey I: Prehistory through the Middle Ages
Art Survey I: Prehistory through the Middle Ages
An introduction to the history of painting, sculpture and architecture from the Old Stone Age through the ancient Mediterranean world to the end of the medieval period in Western Europe. Considers issues including technique, style, iconography, patronage, historical context, and art theory.
Notes: Required for majors in the history of art.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 1020 Art Survey II: Renaissance to the Present
Art Survey II: Renaissance to the Present
An introduction to the history of Western European and American painting, sculpture and architecture from the Renaissance through the baroque, rococo, and early modern periods to the late 20th century. Considers issues including technique, style, iconography, patronage, historical context, and art theory.
Notes: Required for majors in the history of art.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 2910 Special Topics in the History of Art
Special Topics in the History of Art
Special topics in the history of art. Subjects will vary and may not be available every semester. Individual topics will be listed in the Schedule of Classes.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3120 Etruscans and Early Rome
Etruscans and Early Rome
A survey of the cultures of Pre-Roman Italy from the Bronze Age to the fall of Veii. The course focuses on the material cultures of Etruscan and Latin Settlements form ca. 900 to 300 B.C.E. Topics include: Etruscan language, economy and trade, sculpture, painting, and Etruscan religion, as well as major social and historical developments in Etruria, Latium, and archaic Rome.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3130 Egypt Under the Pharaohs
Egypt Under the Pharaohs
The culture of ancient Egypt from the pre-dynastic period through the end of the New Kingdom. The course emphasizes the sculpture, architecture, and painting of the pharaonic periods. Other areas covered are: Egyptian literary and historical documents, Egyptian religion, and major social developments.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3160 The Aegean Bronze Age
The Aegean Bronze Age
The cultures of the Cycladic Islands, Crete, and the Greek mainland during the Bronze Age (ca. 3200-1150 B.C.E). Emphasis will be on the major and minor arts of the Minoans and Mycenaeans and how this material can be used to reconstruct the societies, cultures, and religions of the Aegean Bronze Age.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3170 Greek Art and Archaeology
Greek Art and Archaeology
Greek arts (architecture, sculpture, and painting) and material culture in the light of social, intellectual, and historical developments from the end of the Bronze Age (ca. 1200 B.C.E.) to the end of the Hellenistic period (31 B.C.E.).
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3180 Roman Art and Archaeology
Roman Art and Archaeology
Architecture, sculpture, and painting in Rome and the Roman Empire, their sources, and their history from the Etruscan period through the 4th century C.E.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3190 Pompeii: Roman Society and Culture in Microcosm
Pompeii: Roman Society and Culture in Microcosm
A survey of Roman culture through the study of the town destroyed by Mt. Vesuvius in 79 C.E. The focus is on the society, politics, religion, domestic life, entertainment, economy, and art of Pompeii and the surrounding region in the early imperial period.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3200 Early Christian and Byzantine Art
Early Christian and Byzantine Art
A survey of art and architecture in the Mediterranean from the third through the fourteenth centuries, with a focus on the rise of Christian art in the late Roman world and the art of the Byzantine state.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3210 Art and Experience in the Middle Ages
Art and Experience in the Middle Ages
A survey in which both modern and historical categories of experience are used to understand the art of the Middle ages, especially as it manifested itself in the most characteristic of all medieval forms, the church. Along a chronological and geographical trajectory from Early Christian Rome to Gothic Paris this course will move through topics such as memory, poetry, pilgrimage, the body, gesture, devotion, narrative and liturgy.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3220 Romanesque and Gothic Art
Romanesque and Gothic Art
This course will examine painting, sculpture, architecture, mosaics, tapestries, metalwork, ivories, and stained glass windows of the late Middle Ages in Europe. Through weekly readings and discussions will also explore themes such as religion, women, the Classical tradition, and cross-cultural contact. Various critical and theoretical approaches to art history will be considered.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3230 Visual Culture in Golden Age Spain
Visual Culture in Golden Age Spain
This course will study the cultural role of images, largely painting, in Spain during the period 1500-1700. Topics to be explored include: the pictorial use of mythological themes in the projection of imperial power, the importance of portraiture in the legitimization of the Spanish monarchy, the art market and the social status of the artist. While painting will be our main focus, we will examine other visual documents such as maps and read literary works that illuminate the functions of images in the period.
Notes: Counts as elective credit towards the art history major.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3310 Art of the Early Renaissance in Italy
Art of the Early Renaissance in Italy
Painting and sculpture in Italy from 1250 to 1500 with some attention given to architecture.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3320 16th-Century Italian Art
16th-Century Italian Art
Painting and sculpture in Italy from the High Renaissance to the Counter Reformation.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3330 Italian Renaissance Architecture
Italian Renaissance Architecture
A survey of the major architects and their principal achievements in theory and design during the period 1400-1600.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3360 Art and Desire at the Renaissance Courts
Art and Desire at the Renaissance Courts
An overview of the art and culture of the European courts between about 1300 and 1700, with a particular focus on the themes of love and eroticism.  Artists to be discussed include Mantegna, Raphael, Titian, and others. 
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3380 Italian Renaissance Art
Italian Renaissance Art
This class is an introduction to the art of Italy and southern Europe between about 1300 and 1575. It will provide a first overview and survey of Italian Renaissance art. It is intended for undergraduates, and no prior knowledge of the historical period is expected. The class is organized chronologically, and spans the period from 1300 to around 1550. Each class is also organized around either a particular maker (Giotto or Leonardo, for instance), a particular place (Venice, Rome, small courts like Rimini or Mantua), or a larger theoretical issue such as the relations of art and power or the role of erotic art in early-modem culture.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3410 Theatres of the Baroque
Theatres of the Baroque
This course surveys the visual and material culture of the Baroque world, roughly the period 1575-1750, considering the diverse locales, styles and objects of Baroque artistic production, as related to early modern notions of theatricality. The course is composed of two acts. First, we will investigate the visual culture of several key cities (Rome, Antwerp, Madrid, Mexico City, Munich and Versailles). In the second half of the course will focus on diverse spaces of baroque theatricality (churches, theaters, palaces, civic spaces and the art collection itself). Through these case studies, the course aims to explore how the local economic, religious, political and social contexts for artistic production interact with global networks of exchange and the performance of individual and national artistic identity.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3420 Van Eyck to Buegel
Van Eyck to Buegel
This course explores the artistic production of the Low Countries, Germany and France in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, including painting sculpture, manuscripts, metalwork, tapestries and printmaking. The course will focus on a range of topics, including: technical and iconographic innovations in artistic production, art's devotional function, the changing market for art in this period as well as the early impact of the Reformation on the visual arts in the Low Countries and Germany.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3430 Rubens to Rembrandt
Rubens to Rembrandt
This course explores the artistic production of the early modern Spanish Netherlands and the Dutch Republic, focusing on key artists (including Rubens, Anthony Van Dyck, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Vermeer), as well as emerging critical literature on the function and value of art/artists. This course will consider how art was bought and sold; how art was evaluated for its commercial and aesthetic value.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3440 Italian Baroque Art
Italian Baroque Art
Survey of Italian painting and sculpture in the seventeenth century. Topics include artistic responses to the Counter-Reformation, the Carracci reform of painting, Caravaggio and Caravaggism, the tension between realism and classicism, Bernini, and theoretical approaches to baroque style.
Notes: Counts toward the course distribution requirement in group B: Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Art.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3510 Romanticism and Realism
Romanticism and Realism
The background and foundation of modern art. Consideration of the influence of social, cultural, and political forces on 19th-century European painting and sculpture from 1789 to 1863.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3540 Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
This course will analyze art produced in Europe from the mid-19th century through the early 20th century, with a particular emphasis on French painting. We will consider the work and reputations of key artists such as Manet, Monet, Cassatt, Seurat, and Cézanne, situating their work in relation to the political, socio-economic, and cultural changes that took place during this period.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3560 Twentieth-Century Art
Twentieth-Century Art
Symbolism, art nouveau, the development of fauvism, expressionism, cubism, futurism, constructivism, de stijl, dada, surrealism, abstract expressionism, pop, minimal, conceptual, and the other artistic styles and movements in the 20th century in Europe and America, with emphasis on painting and sculpture and the forces and theories that influenced them. Some consideration of architecture.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3600 American Art, 1700-1950
American Art, 1700-1950
An analysis of visual and material culture from the first European artists in the colonies to the onset of World War II. Considers the transformation of cultural forms from the old world to the new in developments such as the formation of a national iconography as seen in portraiture, genre painting, landscape painting and the development of a distinctive modernist tradition specific to the United States. This course will examine the ways in which art and material culture reflect the social, intellectual, and political life of the nation up to World War II. 
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3610 American Art from the Civil War to World War II
American Art from the Civil War to World War II
This course will analyze the development of art and architecture in America in the years following the Civil War and the ways in which that art reflects the social, intellectual, and political life of the nation up to Would War II. Topics will include Realism, images of the American city and of the frontier, the birth of the skyscraper, the Harlem Renaissance, Regionalism, and Abstract Expressionism.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3620 Contemporary Art Since 1950
Contemporary Art Since 1950
Explores the developments in the visual arts in the U.S. and Europe since 1950. Concentrates upon the social historical formation of artistic development beginning with the aftermath of World War II, and continuing to the present. Emphasizes movements such as Pop, Minimalism, Earth art and Postmodernism. Issues surrounding the objects will include poststructuralism, post-colonialism as well as African-American, feminist, and gay and lesbian strategies for self-representation.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3650 Early Twentieth Century European Modernism
Early Twentieth Century European Modernism
This course will explore the developments in the visual arts in Europe from 1890 to 1945. We will concentrate upon the social-historical formations of artistic production beginning in the late-nineteenth century with Post-Impressionism and continuing into the first half of the twentieth century examining movements such as Fauvism, Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, Russian Suprematism.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3700 Pre-Columbian Art
Pre-Columbian Art
An introduction to the art and architecture of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica (Mexico and Central America) with an emphasis on Mexico. The course focuses on the historical, political, and religious contexts of the visual arts and addresses the function of these artworks as ideological statements.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3710 Colonial Art of Latin America
Colonial Art of Latin America
Renaissance and baroque architecture, painting and sculpture of the metropolitan centers of the Spanish and Portuguese colonies from the 16th to the early 19th century with a major emphasis on Mexico.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3760 Art in Latin America, 1900-50
Art in Latin America, 1900-50
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3770 Art in Latin America since 1950
Art in Latin America since 1950
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3850 African Art
African Art
This course introduces students to the visual and performative arts of sub-Saharan Africa with primary emphasis on sculpture, pottery, leadership arts, and ritual performances. The timeframe extends from the 10th century to the present, though most of the objects would have originated prior to the 20th century and have undergone varying degrees of transformation under colonialism.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3860 Arts of the African Diaspora
Arts of the African Diaspora
This course seeks to introduce students to the geographical and cultural notion of African Diaspora. It addresses such issues as migration, creolization, hegemony, and resistance. It also examines indigenous art forms including popular urban forms and performance.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3870 20th-Century African-American Art
20th-Century African-American Art
This course is a survey of African-American art in the United States in the 20th century. The chronological development of African-American art parallels the chronology of twentieth-century American art. The course is organized around social, cultural, and political issues and themes, including the relation of art to identity politics.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3871 Introduction to African American Art and Visual Culture, c. 1700-1940
Introduction to African American Art and Visual Culture, c. 1700-1940
This course explores the production of visual and material culture related to the African American presence in what is now the United States from the eighteenth century through the mid twentieth century. The course considers visual materials made by African American artists and artisans as well as materials by non-African Americans that feature African American subject matter (and the relationship between these two types of visual production). We will work to understand the objects featured in this course within both the specific context of the history of African American art and visual culture and the larger context of American art history in general. Arranged roughly chronologically but more strongly guided by a thematic and topical approach, the course aims to communicate basic content information while providing students with an understanding of the kinds of dominant questions and concerns engaged by current African American art scholarship.
Notes: Counts as an elective in ADST
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3872 Art of the African Diaspora, c. 1925 to Present
Art of the African Diaspora, c. 1925 to Present
Does it necessarily make sense to consider the work of artist of African descent together as a unit (in other words, should this course exist?)? What persistent themes, issues, and debates inform the work by African diaspora artist? What makes art "Black" (or "African" or "African American")? Is an artist of African descent necessarily a "Black artist"? Do artist of African descent have a particular obligation to make artwork that advances a black cultural or political agenda? Is not doing so in and of itself a political statement? How might a landscape or Abstract Expressionist work be racially charged? How do vectors of identity other than race inform the work of African diaspora artist? How does the artwork studied in this course fit into the context of other art histories? Through these questions and others, this course explores the major themes and issues that have occupied artists of African descent as well as examines individual artists' motivations and intentions.
Notes: Counts as an elective in ADST
credit hours: 3

ARHS 3910 Special Topics in the History of Art
Special Topics in the History of Art
Special topics in the history, criticism, or theory of art. The subjects will vary and may not be available every semester. Individual topics will be listed in the Schedule of Classes.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 4560 Internship Studies
Internship Studies
An experiential learning process coupled with pertinent academic course work. Open only to juniors and seniors in good standing.
Notes: A maximum of six credits may be earned in one or two courses. Only one internship may be completed per semester.
Pre-requistites: Approval of instructor and department.
credit hours: 1-3

ARHS 4570 Internship Studies
Internship Studies
An experiential learning process coupled with pertinent academic course work. Open only to juniors and seniors in good standing.
Notes: A maximum of six credits may be earned in one or two courses. Only one internship may be completed per semester.
Pre-requistites: Approval of instructor and department.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 4880 Writing Practicum
Writing Practicum
Fulfills the college intensive-writing requirement.
Pre-requistites: Successful completion of the First-Year Writing Requirement.
Co-requisites: Three-credit departmental course.
credit hours: 1

ARHS 4910 Independent Studies
Independent Studies
Open to qualified juniors and seniors with approval of instructor and chair of department.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 4920 Independent Studies
Independent Studies
Open to qualified juniors and seniors with approval of instructor and chair of department.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 5760 Modern Art, Cezanne to the Present
Modern Art, Cezanne to the Present
credit hours: 3

ARHS 6040 Spaces of Art
Spaces of Art
This course will provide a capstone experience for undergraduate majors in art history through an investigation of the various places Western art has been made, exchanged and critically evaluated, from the late medieval period to today. Each week, students will consider distinct space-for example, the studio, the academy, the auction house-its definition, history and conceptual impacts on the history of Western art. Students will analyze the material and intellectual culture of each of these spaces, utilizing key case studies drawn from the fifteenth to the twenty-first centuries.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 6050 Scandals of Modern Art
Scandals of Modern Art
In this capstone seminar, we will examine key works of controversial modern art from the 19th century to the present. Over the course of the semester, we will explore the scandals that surrounded the work of Edouard Manet, Henri Matisse, Marcel Duchamp, Constantin Brancusi, Richard Serra, Maya Lin, and Sally Mann, among others. 
Notes: Fulfills the capstone requirement.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 6190 Seminar in Aegean and Greek Archaeology
Seminar in Aegean and Greek Archaeology
Topics include: Problems in Aegean Archaeology; Major Monuments in Greek Sculpture; Greek Vase-Painting; The Athenian Acropolis.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 6200 Seminar in Roman Art and Archaeology
Seminar in Roman Art and Archaeology
Topics include: Etruscans and Early Rome; Ancient Painting and Mosaics; Roman Emperors as Builders; Roman Commemorative Monuments.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 6210 Medieval Pilgrimages:Saints, Bones, and Art
Medieval Pilgrimages:Saints, Bones, and Art
This course will examine some of the most popular medieval Christian pilgrimage centers of Europe. We will focus mostly on Santiago de Compostela and Rome, with brief looks at other pilgrimage centers such as Jerusalem, Assisi, and Canterbury. Topics to be covered include the cult of the saints, the pilgrimage roads, architectural settings and their decoration as well as reliquary shrines and related works of art, images and their use in imaginary or mental pilgrimage.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 6220 Women and Gender in Medieval Art
Women and Gender in Medieval Art
This seminar will focus on the relationships between gender and the production and reception of medieval European art and architecture. Topics to be explored include images of women, works of art commissioned by women, images made for women, architectural spaces designed for women and/or men specifically (i.e. monastic architecture), women as artists, etc. Comparative material known to have been made for/by men specifically will also be explored as we consider the meaning of the concept of gender. Feminist theory and various contemporary critical approaches to gender and medieval art will enhance our exploration of specific works.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 6230 Art and Architecture of Medieval Italy
Art and Architecture of Medieval Italy
This course will examine the art and architecture of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance in Italy from approximately 1250 to 1350 A.D./C.E. We will focus particularly on the rise of the mendicant orders in the thirteenth century and their impact on art and the narrative of the Renaissance.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 6510 Seminars in the History of Art
Seminars in the History of Art
credit hours: 3

ARHS 6540 Paris: Capital of the Nineteenth Century
Paris: Capital of the Nineteenth Century
This seminar explores the transformation of Paris during the second half of the nineteenth century into a great modern metropolis. Throughout the course we analyze the ways that the architecture, painting, photography, literature, and visual culture of the era shaped and reflected various facets of this modern city.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 6550 The Work and Mythology of Vincent Van Gogh
The Work and Mythology of Vincent Van Gogh
This seminar explores the brief but productive career of Vincent van Gogh and the mythology that developed around him during and after his lifetime.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 6620 Reading Abstract Expressionism
Reading Abstract Expressionism
Examines the ways in which Abstract Expressionism has been interpreted, both from the view of American critics and historians and their European counterparts. Emphasizes the extent to which formalist criticism evolved around Abstract Expressionism, and that only recently have scholars challenged those apolitical reading of this art, considering the political and economic factors which contributed to its international predominance on the global stage. Artists will include De Kooning, Frankenthaler, Hofmann, Krasner, Newman, Pollock, and Still.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 6650 Postmodern Formations: Art Since 1980
Postmodern Formations: Art Since 1980
Examines both European and American conceptions of postmodernism, as it originated in post-structural and psychoanalytic theory. Emphasis will be place upon artists working since 1980, including Basquiat, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman, Warhol and the politically based art project of Gran Fury, the Guerrilla Girls and the Names Project. Interpretive strategies will be taken from readings in European literary theory, with emphasis place upon the shift in criticism in art-making, away from Europe, toward an ideology formed around the issues of racial, sexual, and gender performance of identity.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 6720 Seminar on Aztec Arts
Seminar on Aztec Arts
Intensive investigation of Aztec arts as fundamental manifestations of Aztec imperial ideology (especially political and religious). The course concentrates on the urban iconographic programs developed in sculpture and architecture and considers the role of ritual and performance within these programs. It also reviews the sixteenth century sources (pictorial and alphabetic) that are used to understand Aztec culture.
Pre-requistites: ARHS 3700 or approval of instructor.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 6730 Seminar in Mexican Manuscript Painting
Seminar in Mexican Manuscript Painting
Detailed investigation of the pictorial codices painted in Mexico in the 15th and 16th centuries. The course examines the pictorial conventions and grammar used by the Mexican scribes to record knowledge. It analyzes the tradition of manuscript painting as it developed in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and then as it adapted to new functions and changed audiences in the early colonial period. Specific topics will vary from time to time.
Pre-requistites: ARHS 3700 or approval of instructor.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 6780 Latin American Avant-Gardes of the 1920s
Latin American Avant-Gardes of the 1920s
credit hours: 3

ARHS 6810 Seminars in the History of Art
Seminars in the History of Art
Advanced topics in the history, criticism, or theory of art. The subjects of the seminars vary according to the needs of the students and the scholarly interests of the individual instructor. Specialized topics are listed in the Schedule of Classes.
Pre-requistites: Successful completion of the First-Year Writing Requirement.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 6820 Seminars in the History of Art
Seminars in the History of Art
Advanced topics in the history, criticism, or theory of art. The subjects of the seminars vary according to the needs of the students and the scholarly interests of the individual instructor. Specialized topics are listed in the Schedule of Classes.
Pre-requistites: Successful completion of the First-Year Writing Requirement.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 6830 Seminars in the History of Art
Seminars in the History of Art
Advanced topics in the history, criticism, or theory of art. The subjects of the seminars vary according to the needs of the students and the scholarly interests of the individual instructor. Specialized topics are listed in the Schedule of Classes.
Pre-requistites: Successful completion of the First-Year Writing Requirement.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 6840 Seminars in the History of Art
Seminars in the History of Art
Advanced topics in the history, criticism, or theory of art. The subjects of the seminars vary according to the needs of the students and the scholarly interests of the individual instructor. Specialized topics are listed in the Schedule of Classes.
Pre-requistites: Successful completion of the First-Year Writing Requirement.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 6850 Seminars in the History of Art
Seminars in the History of Art
Advanced topics in the history, criticism, or theory of art. The subjects of the seminars vary according to the needs of the students and the scholarly interests of the individual instructor. Specialized topics are listed in the Schedule of Classes.
Pre-requistites: Successful completion of the First-Year Writing Requirement.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 6860 Seminars in the History of Art
Seminars in the History of Art
Advanced topics in the history, criticism, or theory of art. The subjects of the seminars vary according to the needs of the students and the scholarly interests of the individual instructor. Specialized topics are listed in the Schedule of Classes.
Pre-requistites: Successful completion of the First-Year Writing Requirement.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 6870 Seminars in the History of Art
Seminars in the History of Art
Advanced topics in the history, criticism, or theory of art. The subjects of the seminars vary according to the needs of the students and the scholarly interests of the individual instructor. Specialized topics are listed in the Schedule of Classes.
credit hours: 3

ARHS 6875 Race and National Mythologies in American Art and Visual Culture
Race and National Mythologies in American Art and Visual Culture
How does American art and visual culture implicitly and explicitly reify notions of America as a "white" nation, and how has this changed over time? How have images shaped and been shaped by historic moments of racially-implicated upheaval or conflict (e.g. Westward Expansion; the abolition movement, the Civil War and Emancipation; periods of mass immigration)? How has the idea of what it means to be "American" been defined against the racialized images of American "Others"? Can contemporary artists of color successfully appropriate and re-deploy racist imagery? This seminar considers these and other questions in investigating constructions and representations in American art and visual culture from the 16th century to the present. We will explore the ways in which these images are implicated as both products and producers of fundamental mythologies about the United States as a nation and about what it means to be "an American" (and who gets to be one). (Counts as Capstone)
Notes: Counts as an elective in ADST
credit hours: 3

ARHS 6876 Interracial Themes in Western Art and Visual Culture
Interracial Themes in Western Art and Visual Culture
This course investigates the depiction of interracial contact and the mixed-race body in modern Western art, primarily American and British. (Counts as Capstone)
Notes: Counts as an elective in ADST
credit hours: 3

ARHS 6880 Writing Practicum
Writing Practicum
Notes: Fulfills the college intensive-writing requirement.
Pre-requistites: Successful completion of the First-Year Writing Requirement.
Co-requisites: Three-credit departmental course.
credit hours: 1

ARHS 7920 Special Research in Art History
Special Research in Art History
credit hours: 3

ARHS 7930 Special Research in Art History
Special Research in Art History
credit hours: 3

ARHS 9980 Master's Research
Master's Research
credit hours: 0

ARHS 6020P Art and Belief in the Western Tradition
Art and Belief in the Western Tradition
This course will examine a selection of major monuments and works in the Western tradition in the context of systems of belief, such as mythology, philosophy, and religion. This is a capstone experience limited to undergraduate majors in art history.
Notes: Fulfills the capstone requirement.
credit hours: 3

ARHS H4990 Honors Thesis
Honors Thesis
Open to qualified students with approval of department, instructor, and Honors Committee.
credit hours: 3

ARHS H5000 Honors Thesis
Honors Thesis
Open to qualified students with approval of department, instructor, and Honors Committee.
credit hours: 3

ARST 1050 Beginning Drawing
Beginning Drawing
For majors and non-majors. In this course we will be working from life. The goal is to acquire and develop conceptual and technical skills necessary to translate three dimensional forms to a two dimensional surface.
credit hours: 3

ARST 1060 Beginning Drawing
Beginning Drawing
This course further explores the primary elements of drawing: line, form, value, and texture as a means of perception, understanding, representation, and communication. Emphasis will be placed on creating a correspondence between subject, method, and intent.
Pre-requistites: ARST 1050.
credit hours: 3

ARST 1130 Foundations of Art: Ceramics
Foundations of Art: Ceramics
This course focuses on design elements and principles of organization within the context of contemporary ceramic art. Students will be introduced to a variety of ceramic materials, processes and aesthetic concerns. Emphasis is given to the relationships between ceramics and other art mediums.
credit hours: 3

ARST 1170 Foundations of Art: Glass
Foundations of Art: Glass
This course focuses on the history and theory of glass art, and also introduces basic techniques with attention given to issues of composition, perception, communication, and expression. Emphasis also will be placed on the relationships between glass art, other art mediums, and the history of art.
credit hours: 3

ARST 1250 Foundations of Art: Painting
Foundations of Art: Painting
An introduction to color and color theory in painting. Since color constitutes a major means of expressive communication in the visual arts, the painting projects encourage personal responsiveness to color and explore how it enriches our understanding of the natural world.
credit hours: 3

ARST 1350 Foundations of Art: Photography
Foundations of Art: Photography
This course focuses on the history and theory of photography, and also introduces basic techniques, with attention given to issues of composition, perception, communication, and expression. Emphasis also is placed on the relationships between photography, other art mediums, and the history of art.
credit hours: 3

ARST 1370 Foundations of Art: Printmaking
Foundations of Art: Printmaking
This course is designed as an introduction to a wide range of techniques in printmaking. It is developed to give the student an overview of the possibilities with the processes of relief and intaglio printing. Through a series of demonstrations, projects, critiques, and slide lectures the student will explore the rich diversity of the medium and become exposed to the strong tradition of printmaking. Areas covered include: linoleum cuts, woodcuts, collagraph, mono type, dry point, engraving, and etching.
credit hours: 3

ARST 1490 Foundations of Art: Sculpture
Foundations of Art: Sculpture
An introductory study of three-dimensional form and spatial relationships making use of a variety of media and processes. Slide lectures supplement studio work and present examples of contemporary sculpture within a historical context.
credit hours: 3

ARST 1550 Foundations of Art: Digital Arts I
Foundations of Art: Digital Arts I
This course introduces students to different aspects of design in the digital realm from digital imaging to time-based media. Visual skills, critical voice and basic computer skills are necessary for this class.
credit hours: 3

ARST 2050 Intermediate Drawing: Color
Intermediate Drawing: Color
Incorporating color theory and experimentation, the course will explore the expressive and conceptual potential of color use in drawing media.
Pre-requistites: ARST 1050 and 1060.
credit hours: 3

ARST 2070 Descriptive Drawing
Descriptive Drawing
An exploration of drawing in both an historical and contemporary context as a means of perception, analysis, representation, and communication. Coursework investigates the relationships of the subject to technique and the visual to conceptual. Emphasis is placed on providing a systematic analysis of each subject through the use of multiple approaches.
Pre-requistites: ARST 1050 and 1060.
credit hours: 3

ARST 2080 Life Drawing
Life Drawing
A study of the anatomy and structure of the human form with a view toward understanding and employing the human image in its historical, humanistic function as a vehicle of expression.
Pre-requistites: ARST 1050 and 1060.
credit hours: 3

ARST 2130 Intermediate Ceramics
Intermediate Ceramics
The course focuses on the use of the potter's wheel in developing ceramic forms. A variety of techniques and forms will be covered with emphasis on their aesthetic and conceptual potential in the field of ceramic art. Historical and contemporary approaches are presented in slide lectures and demonstration.
Pre-requistites: ARST 1130.
credit hours: 3

ARST 2140 Intermediate Ceramics
Intermediate Ceramics
The course focuses on hand working processes with plaster molds and use of extruded elements in the development of original works. Press molding and slip casting will be covered. Students participate in developing clays, glazes and firing procedures.
Pre-requistites: ARST 1130.
credit hours: 3

ARST 2150 Intermediate Ceramics: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture
Intermediate Ceramics: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture
This course introduces students to issues and formats in contemporary ceramic sculpture. Students will develop original works in clay within the formats of wall platters, figurative sculpture and site specific installations. The course will make use of skills developed in ARST 1130 with some new construction, glazing and firing processes introduced, and students sharing responsibility for clay making and firing of the finished pieces. The development and articulation of original ideas will be emphasized through and studio work time, demonstrations, discussions, slide lectures and critiques.  
Pre-requistites: ARST 1130 or equivalent. 
credit hours: 3

ARST 2170 Intermediate Glass
Intermediate Glass
The goal of this class is to achieve a functional understanding of glass art. This general course focuses on blowing, casting, and forming glass. Attention is given to using the approaches to glass for individual expression.
Pre-requistites: ARST 1170.
credit hours: 3

ARST 2180 Intermediate Glass
Intermediate Glass
The goal of this class is to achieve a functional understanding of glass art. This general course focuses on blowing, casting, and forming glass. Attention is given to using the approaches to glass for individual expression.
Pre-requistites: ARST 1170.
credit hours: 3

ARST 2270 Intermediate Painting
Intermediate Painting
This course focuses on the formal and expressive qualities of both nature-based and pure abstraction. Abstraction is investigated through historic and contemporary ideologies, technical issues and the use of nontraditional materials. Systematic exploration of a variety of approaches will serve as a structure for development of the student's own goals and sensibility.
Pre-requistites: ARST 1250.
credit hours: 3

ARST 2280 Intermediate Painting
Intermediate Painting
An exploration of basic visual and philosophical concepts involved in creating paintings with an introduction to the technical aspects of painting in oils, i.e., preparing a canvas, media, and mixing and applying paint.
Pre-requistites: ARST 1250.
credit hours: 3

ARST 2350 Intermediate Photography
Intermediate Photography
continuation of traditional photographic procedures exploring more complex visual and technical issues, augmented by the employment of supplementary imaging tools and alternative processes.
Pre-requistites: ARST 1350.
credit hours: 3

ARST 2370 Intermediate Printmaking
Intermediate Printmaking
An in-depth exploration of the printmaking medium covering technical, historical, and conceptual issues. A strong emphasis is placed on students developing a personal voice through their work. An intensive study in the art of stone and plate lithography.
Pre-requistites: ARST 1370 or two courses in drawing.
credit hours: 3

ARST 2380 Intermediate Printmaking
Intermediate Printmaking
An in-depth exploration of the printmaking medium covering technical, historical, and conceptual issues. A strong emphasis is placed on students developing a personal voice through their work. An intensive study on fine art silk screen.
Pre-requistites: ARST 1370 or two courses in drawing.
credit hours: 3

ARST 2490 Intermediate Sculpture
Intermediate Sculpture
This course explores and expands on the basic concepts, techniques, and processes of sculpture. Students work with projects that develop understanding of both sculptural ideas and materials. A wide variety of media and approaches are explored in this course, including wood, plaster, welding and casting metals, mixed media, and working from the figure.
Pre-requistites: ARST 1490.
credit hours: 3

ARST 2500 Intermediate Sculpture
Intermediate Sculpture
This course explores and expands on the basic concepts, techniques, and processes of sculpture. Students work with projects that develop understanding of both sculptural ideas and materials. A wide variety of media and approaches are explored in this course, including wood, plaster, welding and casting metals, mixed media, and working from the figure.
Pre-requistites: ARST 1490.
credit hours: 3

ARST 2550 Digital Arts II
Digital Arts II
This course emphasizes interactivity and interface design with respect to multimedia and the World Wide Web. Students will create interactive based projects that combine visual and textual elements in creative, critical and innovative ways. Questions of navigation, functionality, usability, and interaction will be technically and theoretically addressed.
credit hours: 3

ARST 3010 Special Courses
Special Courses
Coursework for additional credit in conjunction with 2000- or 3000-level studio courses.
Pre-requistites: Approval of instructor.
credit hours: 3

ARST 3020 Special Courses
Special Courses
Coursework for additional credit in conjunction with 2000- or 3000-level studio courses.
Pre-requistites: Approval of instructor.
credit hours: 3

ARST 3130 Advanced Ceramics
Advanced Ceramics
Further examination of the aesthetic and conceptual applications of the ceramic medium. The development of individual concerns and vocabulary of form will be stressed. Clay and glaze formulation will be covered. Students are responsible for developing clays and glazes and firing their work.
Pre-requistites: ARST 2130.
credit hours: 3

ARST 3140 Advanced Ceramics
Advanced Ceramics
Development of advanced throwing techniques and concepts related to creating original works on the potter's wheel. More complex forms, as well as glazing and firing processes will be covered. Lectures, demonstration and critiques will supplement studio work time.
Pre-requistites: ARST 2130 or 2140.
credit hours: 3

ARST 3150 Ceramic Firing Technology: Theory and Practice
Ceramic Firing Technology: Theory and Practice
Gas, wood, and electric kiln design, and construction. Firing theory and process will precede specific analysis of the artist's needs, and demonstration and practice of kiln construction and firing.
credit hours: 3

ARST 3170 Advanced Glass
Advanced Glass
This class further develops the student's ability to study methods and processes for forming molten glass into sculpture. Instruction in glass casting and blowing are taught with a focus on creating specific ideas.
Pre-requistites: ARST 2170 and 2180.
credit hours: 3

ARST 3180 Advanced Glass
Advanced Glass
This class further develops the student's ability to study methods and processes for forming molten glass into sculpture. Instruction in glass casting and blowing are taught with a focus on creating specific ideas.
Pre-requistites: ARST 2170 and 2180.
credit hours: 3

ARST 3250 Advanced Painting
Advanced Painting
Principles of picture building and creative composition with a study of media and methods that best stimulate individual expression and predilections.
Pre-requistites: ARST 2270 and 2280.
credit hours: 3

ARST 3260 Advanced Painting
Advanced Painting
Principles of picture building and creative composition with a study of media and methods that best stimulate individual expression and predilections.
Pre-requistites: ARST 2270 and 2280.
credit hours: 3

ARST 3350 Advanced Photography: Chemical Processes
Advanced Photography: Chemical Processes
Emphasis will be placed on advanced exposure and developing controls and printing techniques. Non-traditional and non-conventional image-making processes will be explored, such as multiple printing, tinting, toning, non-silver techniques, and the Sabattier effect. The use of medium and large-format equipment will be introduced, as will advanced studio lighting techniques.
Pre-requistites: ARST 2350.
credit hours: 3

ARST 3360 Advanced Photography: Digital Processes
Advanced Photography: Digital Processes
Building on a foundation of traditional photography, students will be involved with digital imaging as another tool in the process of fine art photographic printmaking. Digital capturing, editing, and outputting will be explored.
Pre-requistites: ARST 2350.
credit hours: 3

ARST 3370 Advanced Printmaking
Advanced Printmaking
A detailed study of the variety of printmaking methods, exploring conceptual and/or personal visions. A strong emphasis is placed on combining techniques, expanding material vocabulary, and experimenting with new processes. Seminars covering both historical and contemporary issues of printmaking will be presented to broaden the student's critical dialogue.
Pre-requistites: ARST 2370 and 2380.
credit hours: 3

ARST 3380 Advanced Printmaking
Advanced Printmaking
A detailed study of the variety of printmaking methods, exploring conceptual and/or personal visions. A strong emphasis is placed on combining techniques, expanding material vocabulary, and experimenting with new processes. Seminars covering both historical and contemporary issues of printmaking will be presented to broaden the student's critical dialogue.
Pre-requistites: ARST 2370 and 2380.
credit hours: 3

ARST 3400 Printmaking - The Art of the Book
Printmaking - The Art of the Book
This Course is an in-depth exploration into the Art of the Book and Book Arts. The course will incorporate various binding techniques with conceptual and formal projects. A History of Book Arts will be presented as well as examples of popular trends in hand made books. Instruction will be given on setting type and using the letterpress. Also covered will be page design, page flow, and digital development of images and text. Readings will accompany slide lectures and demonstrations.
credit hours: 3

ARST 3490 Advanced Sculpture
Advanced Sculpture
Further exploration of metals fabrication and casting, carving techniques, additive processes, and environmental art. Seminars, field trips, and slide lectures will supplement the course.
Pre-requistites: ARST 2490 and 2500.
credit hours: 3

ARST 3500 Advanced Sculpture
Advanced Sculpture
Further exploration of metals fabrication and casting, carving techniques, additive processes, and environmental art. Seminars, field trips, and slide lectures will supplement the course.
Pre-requistites: ARST 2490 and 2500.
credit hours: 3

ARST 3550 Time-Based Media
Time-Based Media
This is a class with an emphasis on digital video, animation and image sequencing. Students will be expected to create time-based projects that combine visual and temporal elements in creative, critical and innovative ways.
credit hours: 3

ARST 3560 Print-Based Media
Print-Based Media
This is a class with an emphasis on book design, multi-page documents, and large scale print graphics. Students will be expected to create print-based projects that combine visual and typographic elements in creative, critical, and innovative ways.
Pre-requistites: ARST 2550.
credit hours: 3

ARST 3650 Mural Painting and Drawing
Mural Painting and Drawing
credit hours: 3

ARST 3900 Studio Internships
Studio Internships
Studio internships are available for individual projects done in association with various firms and institutions in New Orleans. Students will work under professional supervision at these sites, and consult with an art studio faculty member. Requirements include a written report on the experience, and an evaluation by the supervisor.
Notes: For elective credit only.
Pre-requistites: Approval of instructor.
credit hours: 3

ARST 4130 Studio Ceramics
Studio Ceramics
Advanced level work for ceramics majors, emphasizing individual expression and development of ideas. Independent project work within a class situation.
Pre-requistites: ARST 3130 and 3140.
credit hours: 3

ARST 4140 Studio Ceramics
Studio Ceramics
Advanced level work for ceramics majors, emphasizing individual expression and development of ideas. Independent project work within a class situation.
Pre-requistites: ARST 3130 and 3140.
credit hours: 3

ARST 4170 Studio Glass
Studio Glass
Continuing instruction in glass casting and forming techniques. The emphasis will be on professional presentation of specific ideas.
Pre-requistites: ARST 3170 and 3180.
credit hours: 3

ARST 4180 Studio Glass
Studio Glass
Continuing instruction in glass casting and forming techniques. The emphasis will be on professional presentation of specific ideas.
Pre-requistites: ARST 3170 and 3180.
credit hours: 3

ARST 4250 Studio Painting
Studio Painting
Advanced work for majors.
Pre-requistites: ARST 3250 and 3260.
credit hours: 3

ARST 4260 Studio Painting
Studio Painting
Advanced work for majors.
Pre-requistites: ARST 3250 and 3260.
credit hours: 3

ARST 4350 Studio Photography
Studio Photography
Individual projects in a class situation. Each student explores special interests with the opportunity of working with other advanced students doing diverse projects arrived at in consultation with faculty.
Pre-requistites: ARST 3350 and 3360.
credit hours: 3

ARST 4360 Studio Photography
Studio Photography
Individual projects in a class situation. Each student explores special interests with the opportunity of working with other advanced students doing diverse projects arrived at in consultation with faculty.
Pre-requistites: ARST 3350 and 3360.
credit hours: 3

ARST 4370 Studio Printmaking
Studio Printmaking
Personal exploration into the expansive world of printmaking. Emphasis is placed on personal growth and development both on the conceptual and technical level. The course consists of individual and group projects in a class setting.
Pre-requistites: ARST 3370 and 3380.
credit hours: 3

ARST 4380 Studio Printmaking
Studio Printmaking
Personal exploration into the expansive world of printmaking. Emphasis is placed on personal growth and development both on the conceptual and technical level. The course consists of individual and group projects in a class setting.
Pre-requistites: ARST 3370 and 3380.
credit hours: 3

ARST 4490 Studio Sculpture
Studio Sculpture
Individual exploration within a cooperative format. Attention given to the development of personal style with seminars supplementing studio research.
Pre-requistites: ARST 3490 and 3500.
credit hours: 3

ARST 4500 Studio Sculpture
Studio Sculpture
Individual exploration within a cooperative format. Attention given to the development of personal style with seminars supplementing studio research.
Pre-requistites: ARST 3490 and 3500.
credit hours: 3

ARST 4910 Independent Studies
Independent Studies
Open to especially qualified juniors and seniors with approval of instructor and chair of department.
credit hours: 3

ARST 4920 Independent Studies
Independent Studies
Open to especially qualified juniors and seniors with approval of instructor and chair of department.
credit hours: 1-3

ARST 4930 Senior Capstone Experience
Senior Capstone Experience
This course constitutes a capstone experience for senior B.A. students in Studio Art. The course will culminate in an exhibition of the students' work in the B.A. Exhibition in the Carroll Gallery which the students will design, install, promote, and document. The course will also cover contemporary art criticism, assisting students in understanding their work in the broader context of contemporary art. Students will visit and critique professional exhibitions, develop the ability to present their own work in a slide presentation and a digital portfolio, and study other professional art practices, resources, and opportunities.
credit hours: 3

ARST 5010 Major Project
Major Project
Notes: Required of each candidate for the B.F.A. degree.
credit hours: 3

ARST 5020 Major Project
Major Project
Notes: Required of each candidate for the B.F.A. degree.
credit hours: 3

ARST 6010 Special Advanced Courses
Special Advanced Courses
Pre-requistites: Approval of instructor.
credit hours: 1-3

ARST 6020 Special Advanced Courses
Special Advanced Courses
Pre-requistites: Approval of instructor.
credit hours: 3

ARST 7400 Special Problems
Special Problems
credit hours: 3-6

ARST 7410 Special Problems II
Special Problems II
credit hours: 3-6

ARST 7420 Special Problems II
Special Problems II
credit hours: 3-6

ARST 7430 Photography
Photography
credit hours: 3-6

ARST 7450 Photography
Photography
credit hours: 3-6

ARST 7800 MFA Seminar
MFA Seminar
credit hours: 3

ARST 9980 Master's Research
Master's Research
credit hours: 0

ARST H4990 Honors Project
Honors Project
Students propose studio thesis projects at the end of the junior year. Projects are reviewed by an honors committee at the end of the fall semester of the senior year and a recommendation is made on whether to continue. Finished thesis projects are evaluated by the honors committee on a pass or fail basis.
credit hours: 3

ARST H5000 Honors Project
Honors Project
Students propose studio thesis projects at the end of the junior year. Projects are reviewed by an honors committee at the end of the fall semester of the senior year and a recommendation is made on whether to continue. Finished thesis projects are evaluated by the honors committee on a pass or fail basis.
credit hours: 3

ASTA 1460 Contemporary Asian Communities
Contemporary Asian Communities
This course provides a sociological introduction to America's rapidly growing Asian American populations and to the major issues facing these populations.
credit hours: 3

ASTA 1800 Introduction to Asian Studies
Introduction to Asian Studies
This course is designed to provide a general introduction to the field of Asian Studies and to familiarize students with its primary regions: East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Each of these regions is complex, rich in history and diverse cultures, and important in the global community. Introduction to Asian Studies provides students with a framework with which they can understand each major area in terms of aesthetic expression, cultural and linguistic groups, economics, geography, history, politics, philosophy, and religion.
credit hours: 3

ASTA 3000 Chinese Literature in Translation
Chinese Literature in Translation
This course provides an overview of Chinese literature from its beginnings in early Chinese history to the present.
credit hours: 3

ASTA 3050 Advanced Chinese Language I
Advanced Chinese Language I
First semester advanced instruction in the Chinese language, including conversation, reading, and writing.
Pre-requistites: Completion of the first two years of Chinese instruction, or equivalent, plus permission of instructor.
credit hours: 3

ASTA 3060 Advanced Chinese Language II
Advanced Chinese Language II
Second semester advanced instruction in the Chinese language, including conversation, reading, and writing.
Pre-requistites: Completion of first semester advanced Chinese, or equivalent, plus permission of instructor.
credit hours: 3

ASTA 3180 Peoples of South Asia
Peoples of South Asia
A survey of the peoples and cultures of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sikkim, and Sri Lanka. Emphasis is placed upon the social organization and cultural history of the diverse peoples who have inhabited the Indian Triangle.
credit hours: 3

ASTA 3510 Pre-modern Japanese Culture
Pre-modern Japanese Culture
An examination of the culture and society of Japan before the modern era.
credit hours: 3

ASTA 3520 Modern Japanese Culture
Modern Japanese Culture
Study of contemporary Japanese culture and society.
credit hours: 3

ASTA 3540 Anime, Japan and Globalization
Anime, Japan and Globalization
This course will engage the interdisciplinary field of anime, globalization, and cultural policy studies to better understand the broader relationship between popular media, culture and politics. We will engage with select anime texts and articles to better understand how anime has developed into a global medium, and further analyze these texts through readings that deal with Japan's postwar development. Students will develop a better understanding of the history of Japanese anime as well as the global market flows that influenced the current development of anime into a massive international phenomenon. 
credit hours: 3

ASTA 3810 Modern Chinese Literature and Society
Modern Chinese Literature and Society
This course is a general introduction to the modern Chinese fiction, poetry, and prose from the early twentieth century to the present.  
credit hours: 3

ASTA 3910 Special Offerings in Asian Studies
Special Offerings in Asian Studies
Courses offered by visiting professors.
credit hours: 3

ASTA 3920 Special Offerings in Asian Studies
Special Offerings in Asian Studies
Courses offered by visiting professors.
credit hours: 3

ASTA 4500 Special Topics in Japanese Literature
Special Topics in Japanese Literature
credit hours: 3

ASTA 5100 Senior Colloquium in Asian Studies
Senior Colloquium in Asian Studies
Prof. Dimitrov. Pre-requisite: Senior Asian Studies major status. The Senior Colloquium affords graduating seniors an opportunity to integrate and synthesize the knowledge they have acquired through their Asian Studies coursework by engaging in a theoretically rigorous reflection of the major issues confronting scholars doing research on contemporary Asia and by producing either a substantial piece of writing or a creative work related to Asian Studies. In addition to these classroom activities, students apply the skills and knowledge they acquired in the classroom to the analysis and understanding of real world Asian Studies events occurring outside of the classroom. This aspect of the course is an experiential independent study inn which students attend three events relating to the field of Asian Studies and analyze their experiences in the context of knowledge gained in Asian Studies courses. Capstone Course.
Pre-requistites: Senior Asian Studies Major Status
credit hours: 3

ASTA 6210 The PRC: China under Communism
The PRC: China under Communism
In 1949, as Mao Zedong declared the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Chinese people were once again under a united government, ending decades of civil strife and foreign aggression. Yet the year 1949 represented only the military victory of the CCP, and in the following decades the new rulers of China would attempt to recreate state and society on a previously unimaginable scale. This course explores the dramatic years following the establishment of the PRC and follows the mass campaigns and political upheavals that marked Chinese history under the rule of the Communist Party. Attention will be given to both mass movements in the countryside and events that largely affected urban dwellers and intellectuals. Overall, this course aims at understanding the large-scale structural changes of the revolutionary era of 1949 to 1976 and its aftermath, as well as what these changes meant for the lives of individual Chinese citizens.
credit hours: 3

ASTA 6930 Regime Change in Asia
Regime Change in Asia
credit hours: 3

ASTA H4910 Independent Studies
Independent Studies
credit hours: 3

ASTA H4920 Independent Studies
Independent Studies
credit hours: 3

ASTA H4990 Honors Thesis
Honors Thesis
credit hours: 3

ASTA H5000 Honors Thesis
Honors Thesis
credit hours: 3

ASTC 1010 Beginning Chinese I
Beginning Chinese I
Designed for students to acquire a knowledge of the fundamentals of the Chinese language to be demonstrated in four areas of basic language skills: oral and listening comprehension, speaking, writing (Chinese characters), and some reading ability.
credit hours: 4

ASTC 1020 Beginning Chinese II
Beginning Chinese II
A continuation of the objectives presented in Beginning Chinese I. Attention is given to practical and topics-oriented conversational skills, moods of speech, and complex level of syntax.
Pre-requistites: ASTC 1010 or placement.
credit hours: 4

ASTC 2030 Intermediate Chinese I
Intermediate Chinese I
An intensive study of conventional Chinese characters, additional grammar, and an exposure to simplified Chinese characters. Continued emphasis on reading, writing, listening, and speaking abilities.
Pre-requistites: ASTC 1020 or passing proficiency test.
credit hours: 4

ASTC 2040 Intermediate Chinese II
Intermediate Chinese II
A continuation of the objectives presented in Intermediate Chinese I. Attention is given to improvement of the student's ability to read and write in modern Chinese.
Pre-requistites: ASTC 2030 or equivalent.
credit hours: 4

ASTC 3010 Chinese Conversation and Composition I
Chinese Conversation and Composition I
Development of conversational, reading and writing skills in Chinese.
Pre-requistites: ASTC 2040 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ASTC 3020 Chinese Conversation and Composition II
Chinese Conversation and Composition II
A continuation of objectives in ASTC 3010, intended to provide an advanced level of skills in Chinese.
Pre-requistites: ASTC 3010 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ASTC 3050 Advanced Chinese Language I
Advanced Chinese Language I
First semester advanced instruction in the Chinese language, including conversation, reading, and writing.
Pre-requistites: Completion of the first two years of Chinese instruction, or equivalent, plus permission of instructor.
credit hours: 4

ASTC 3060 Advanced Chinese Language II
Advanced Chinese Language II
Second semester advanced instruction in the Chinese language, including conversation, reading, and writing.
Pre-requistites: Completion of first semester advanced Chinese, or equivalent, plus permission of instructor.
credit hours: 4

ASTC 3511 Introduction to Chinese Linguistics
Introduction to Chinese Linguistics
Designed to help Chinese learners understand Chinese grammar in a systematic manner as well as gain a theoretical perspective on Chinese language structure, give linguistic students a sense of how Chinese languages, in particular, Mandarin Chinese works and help (future) Chinese instructors gain the meta-linguistic knowledge in teaching Mandarin language.
credit hours: 3

ASTC 4070 Advanced Chinese Reading and Writing
Advanced Chinese Reading and Writing
ASTC 4070 is designed for students who have completed three years of mandarin Chinese learning or equivalent. The course will continue improving students' proficiency in mandarin Chinese and knowledge of Chinese culture and society. The registration of the course requires permission of the instructor.  
Pre-requistites: ASTC 3060.
credit hours: 3

ASTJ 1010 Beginning Japanese I
Beginning Japanese I
Emphasizes conversational Japanese. Includes study of basic grammar and introduction of hiragana, and katakana.
credit hours: 4

ASTJ 1020 Beginning Japanese II
Beginning Japanese II
Emphasizes conversational Japanese based on text in hiragana, katakana, kanji. Includes study of complex grammar and introduction of approximately 100 kanji.
Pre-requistites: ASTJ 1010 or equivalent.
credit hours: 4

ASTJ 2030 Intermediate Japanese I
Intermediate Japanese I
Conversation, reading, and writing based on text in hiragana, katakana and kanji. Continuation of study of complex grammar and introduction of approximately 100 additional kanji.
Pre-requistites: ASTJ 1020 or equivalent.
credit hours: 4

ASTJ 2040 Intermediate Japanese II
Intermediate Japanese II
Conversation, reading, and writing based on text in hiragana, katakana, and kanji. Continuation of study of complex grammar and introduction of approximately 150 additional kanji.
Pre-requistites: ASTJ 2030 or equivalent.
credit hours: 4

ASTJ 3050 Advanced Japanese I: Speaking and Listening
Advanced Japanese I: Speaking and Listening
Development of conversational, reading and writing skills in Japanese.
Pre-requistites: ASTJ 2040 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ASTJ 3060 Advanced Japanese II: Reading and Writing
Advanced Japanese II: Reading and Writing
A continuation of objectives in ASTJ 3010, intended to provide an advanced level of skills in Japanese.
Pre-requistites: ASTJ 3010 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ASTJ 6070 Languages and Linguistics of Japan
Languages and Linguistics of Japan
This course is meant to give students a better understanding of the phonetic, phonologic, morphologic, syntactic, semantic, historical, political, and sociological aspects of spoken and written languages in Japan. While the majority of the focus will be on modern written and spoken forms of Japanese, students will also be introduced to bungo (Classical Japanese), as well as kanbun (Chinese used by people in Japan), Ainu Itak, Ryukyuan, Korean, and localized English creoles. In doing so, we will analyze unique and shared features of these languages, while familiarizing ourselves with basic notions and terminology used in Japanese linguistics. Learners of the Japanese language will benefit from this course by gaining a better understanding of linguistic features and learning about how society and history have transformed the languages of Japan. The course will be taught primarily in English, however the prerequisites include an introductory course in linguistics and/or rudimentary knowledge of Japanese and modern phonetic scripts (katakana and hiragana). Significant emphasis will be placed on reading, processing, and discussing academic works on language. Each week two or three students will be asked to present the readings for that week, before we go into a discussion. Grades will be based on presentations of readings and a final research paper of 18-25 pages in length.
Pre-requistites: ANTH 1030 and/or ASTJ 1010 or equivalent. 
credit hours: 3

ASTV 1010 Beginning Vietnamese I
Beginning Vietnamese I
The study of grammar, vocabulary, phonetics, and diacritical marks necessary to read, write, and speak the Vietnamese language.
credit hours: 3

ASTV 1020 Beginning Vietnamese II
Beginning Vietnamese II
A continuation of the study of grammar, vocabulary, phonetics, and diacritical marks begun in ASTV 1010.
Pre-requistites: ASTV 1010 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ASTV 2010 Intermediate Vietnamese I
Intermediate Vietnamese I
An intensive grammar review with readings from Vietnamese texts and a development of conversational skills.
Pre-requistites: ASTV 1020 or placement.
credit hours: 3

ASTV 2030 Intermediate Vietnamese II
Intermediate Vietnamese II
A continuation of the objectives presented in Intermediate Vietnamese I. Attention to speaking, reading, and writing. Drills and daily dialogues. Students will become acquainted with the geography, economy, literature, history, and culture of Vietnam.
Pre-requistites: ASTV 2030 or placement.
credit hours: 3

BRAZ 2010 Introduction to Brazilian Studies
Introduction to Brazilian Studies
An expansive interdisciplinary introduction to the history, politics, society, literature, and cultures of Brazil, the largest nation of Latin America.
credit hours: 3

BRAZ 4130 Perspectives on Brazilian Culture
Perspectives on Brazilian Culture
Summer Study Abroad Program only. This course provides an introduction to Brazilian culture by focusing on various types of cultural production.  
credit hours: 3

BRAZ 4810 Special Topics in Brazilian Studies
Special Topics in Brazilian Studies
Courses offered by visiting or permanent faculty. For description consult the director of Brazilian Studies.
credit hours: 3

BRAZ 4910 Independent Studies
Independent Studies
Pre-requistites: Approval of director of Brazilian Studies.
credit hours: 3

BRAZ 4920 Independent Studies
Independent Studies
Pre-requistites: Approval of director of Brazilian Studies.
credit hours: 3

BRAZ 6950 Special Offerings in Brazilian Studies
Special Offerings in Brazilian Studies
Courses offered by visiting professors or permanent faculty. May be cross listed with other 6000-level courses. Consult director of Brazilian Studies for description.
credit hours: 3

BRAZ 6960 Special Offerings in Brazilian Studies
Special Offerings in Brazilian Studies
Courses offered by visiting professors or permanent faculty. May be cross listed with other 6000-level courses. Consult director of Brazilian Studies for description.
credit hours: 3

CLAS 1010 The Rise of Rome
The Rise of Rome
Not open to senior history majors. This survey devotes itself to the emergence of Hellenistic civilization and the growth of Roman power in the Mediterranean. Special attention is given to the Hellenistic impact upon Rome, the evolution of Roman institutions, and the transition from republic to empire.
credit hours: 3

CLAS 1030 The Greeks
The Greeks
A look at life in ancient Greece. Topics include war, politics, religious festivals, athletics, courts and trials, wealth and poverty, freedom and slavery, gender and sexuality, theatre, family life, education, and science.
credit hours: 3

CLAS 1040 Mythology
Mythology
A study of the origins of Greek mythology and the importance of myth for Greek and Roman culture.
credit hours: 3

CLAS 2220 New Testament: An Historical Introduction
New Testament: An Historical Introduction
This course is a literary and historical introduction to the canonical New Testament. It will engage issues of authorship, dating, theology, genre, and special problems related to the scientific" (or scholarly) study of the New Testament. There will be some engagement with literature outside of the canonical New Testament but only as it relates to special issues and topics in New Testament interpretation."
credit hours: 3

CLAS 2320 Greek Temples and Festivals
Greek Temples and Festivals
In this course we will look at ancient Greek religious behavior and what it can tell us about Greek society when studied in its historical context. Topics include mythology and the gods, sanctuaries, temples, and offerings, ritual and cult activities, festivals, civic religion, and belief and the individual.
credit hours: 3

CLAS 2330 Alexander the Great: History and Tradition
Alexander the Great: History and Tradition
Alexander the Great (356-323) is justifiably one of the most celebrated figures of antiquity. Conquering all of the Greek world and Asia from the Mediterranean to the Indus River in Pakistan by the age of 30, he unquestionably changed the world, bringing Greeks, Macedonians, Persians, Egyptians and Jews into close contact and exchange. But who was the historical Alexander? Was he a charismatic strategist, a genius and visionary? Or a paranoid, alcoholic, and violent megalomaniac who brought about the end of his dynasty and left his empire, and much of the world, in chaos? Many wrote about his life in exploits, but the problematic nature if the ancient sources presents serious difficulties in reconstructing an account of the 'historical' Alexander. We will explore various genres (history, fiction, myth, biography) and sources (literary, visual, archaeological) to analyze critically the sources and uses of Alexander in various periods and places of history.
credit hours: 3

CLAS 2810 Special Topics
Special Topics
Topics are at an introductory level appropriate for first-year students and sophomores. Topics will focus on particular areas and issues in the fields of ancient culture, religion, and history.
credit hours: 3

CLAS 3020 The High Roman Empire
The High Roman Empire
This course introduces the institutional, social, and cultural changes of the empire from Augustus to Diocletian. Emphasis is placed upon the birth of imperial administration, cultural change and continuity, and the rise of Christianity.
credit hours: 3

CLAS 3050 Archaeology Lab: Ashkelon, Israel
Archaeology Lab: Ashkelon, Israel
The field archaeology lab in Ashkelon Israel will introduce students to process of artifact analysis, cataloguing, and recording. Students will work alongside professional staff sorting, cleaning, registering, and analyzing finds from the current excavations such as pottery, figurines, glass, worked stone, faunal remains, and other objects. Students will learn how to make preliminary readings of the artifacts and will also be introduced to methods of scientific analysis, including flotation, petrography, xrf, 3d scanning, and ftir analysis.
Co-requisites: CLAS 4050: Introduction to Field Archaeology
credit hours: 3

CLAS 3060 Greek Tragedy and Comedy
Greek Tragedy and Comedy
Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes read in the light of Aristotle's Poetics and of modern criticism.
credit hours: 3

CLAS 3080 Inventing Socrates
Inventing Socrates
Socrates has for centuries been considered emblematic of the intellectual accomplishments of ancient Greek civilization. His name and his eponymous method of inquiry are familiar to every student of the western tradition and yet he left behind no record of his teachings . Instead, his image and indeed his legacy has been shaped by the accounts of other-former students, bemused comedians, admirers and even a few detractors. Plato is of course foremost among these, employing his great teacher as the central figure in most of his philosophical works. In this course, we will examine the many faces of Socrates bequeathed to us by his contemporaries, investigate the world of 5th century Athens in which he lived, and survey important moments in his posthumous reception from antiquity to the present.
credit hours: 3

CLAS 3090 Law and Society in Ancient Rome
Law and Society in Ancient Rome
This course investigates the social and cultural values of the Roman world by studying Roman private law. The course also examines the development of Roman courts in the empire and the influence of Roman law on modern legal systems.
credit hours: 3

CLAS 3120 Etruscans and Early Rome
Etruscans and Early Rome
A survey of the cultures of pre-Roman Italy from the Bronze Age to the fall of Veii. The course focuses on the material cultures of Etruscan and Latin Settlements from ca. 900 to 300 B.C.E. Topics include: Etruscan language, economy and trade, sculpture, painting, and Etruscan religion, as well as major social and historical developments in Etruria, Latium, and archaic Rome.
credit hours: 3

CLAS 3140 Jews in the Greco-Roman World
Jews in the Greco-Roman World
This course will explore Jewish interaction and conflict with Greeks and Romans from the Babylonian exile through the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem. We will examine the rich body of literature and material culture from this period to reconstruct the Jewish experience in both Palestine and the Diaspora communities in Egypt, Greece, and Rome. THe course will consider text written by Jews as well as Greeks and Romans, representing both sides of the exchange, and archaeological evidence that sheds light on daily life in the period. Topics will include:the Maccabean Revolt, the Hasmonean dynasty, Herod the Great, the Alexandrian riots of 38 CE, Jewish religion and sectarianism, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Jewish Revolts.
Notes: Counts in Ancient Judaism in the Jewish Studies major.
credit hours: 3

CLAS 3160 The Aegean Bronze Age
The Aegean Bronze Age
The cultures of the Cycladic Islands, Crete, and the Greek mainland during the Bronze Age (ca. 3200-1150 B.C.E.). Emphasis is on the major and minor arts of the Minoans and Mycenaeans and how this material can be used to reconstruct the societies, cultures, and religions of the Aegean Bronze Age.
credit hours: 3

CLAS 3170 Greek Art and Archaeology
Greek Art and Archaeology
Greek arts (architecture, sculpture, and painting) and material culture in the light of social, intellectual, and historical developments from the end of the Bronze Age (ca. 1200 B.C.E.) to the end of the Hellenistic period (31 B.C.E.).
credit hours: 3

CLAS 3180 Roman Art and Archaeology
Roman Art and Archaeology
Architecture, sculpture, and painting in Rome and the Roman Empire, their sources, and their history from the Etruscan period through the 4th century C.E.
credit hours: 3

CLAS 3190 Pompeii: Life in a Roman Town
Pompeii: Life in a Roman Town
A survey of Roman culture through the study of the town destroyed by Mt. Vesuvius in 79 C.E. The focus is on the society, politics, religion, domestic life, entertainment, economy, and art of Pompeii and the surrounding region in the early imperial period.
credit hours: 3

CLAS 3200 Greek Religion
Greek Religion
This course examines Greek religion in its social and historical context, utilizing an interdisciplinary approach incorporating archaeological, artistic, literary, and epigraphic evidence. The course begins with a survey of the major concepts connected with Greek religion, including the types of beings offered worship, the delineation of sacred space, and the forms of ritual. Emphasis is placed on the social and political function of ritual, that is, on ritual as the enacted representation of cultural values and social roles. The second section of the course investigates the major Greek divinities, their iconography, mythology, and cult. The course concludes with a study of the phenomenon of mystery cults, surveying the forms of these cults in the Greek world and discussing their continuation under the Romans.
credit hours: 3

CLAS 3230 Ancient Christianity
Ancient Christianity
This course is designed to introduce students to the history of the Ancient Christian movement within the Roman Empire. It illustrates the historical developments through the discussion of the use of the scripture, the production of new literature and emergence of the canon of the New Testament writings from the second through the fourth centuries.
credit hours: 3

CLAS 3310 Tyrants and Democrats in Ancient Greece
Tyrants and Democrats in Ancient Greece
This course examines the origins and characteristics of basic Greek forms of government in their historical context, concentrating on tyranny and democracy in the archaic and classical periods. The course stresses the development of Greek political institutions and political thought.
credit hours: 3

CLAS 3320 The Greek Way of Death
The Greek Way of Death
Death-ritual was an important social institution in ancient Greece. Through their funerals and tombs, the ancient Greeks negotiated social relationships and political ideologies, celebrated the state and the legacies of individuals, and grappled with the uncertainties and fragility of life. In this course we will look at textual and archaeological evidence from the ancient Greek world as we explore attitudes toward life and death and how important customs, rituals, and traditions function in society.
credit hours: 3

CLAS 3510 The Ancient Novel
The Ancient Novel
We are all familiar today with the literary form called the novel: a lengthy fictional narrative in prose. It was ancient Greek and Latin authors, however, who first created this form. Many of these works survive and they always intrigue and delight readers with their highly sophisticated plotting of love affairs, comical depictions of pirates, and teasing explorations of sexuality. We will closely read, in English translation, the major ancient novels and some of their literary predecessors in order to understand the originality of the form and content of the novels. The class concludes with a consideration of the ancient novel's contribution to the development of fiction in the West.
credit hours: 3

CLAS 3610 Sex and Gender in Antiquity
Sex and Gender in Antiquity
Through readings and discussions of primary sources (literature, legal texts, medical texts, inscriptions, art) and recent scholarship, we will explore the ideals and reality of gender roles and sexuality within the historical context of ancient Greece and Rome. Topics will include the history of sexuality, laws pertaining to gender roles, homosexuality, bisexuality, sexual practices, representations of gender and sex in literature and art, family, biology and attitudes about gender and sex. 
credit hours: 3

CLAS 3810 Special Topics
Special Topics
Topics will focus on particular areas and issues in the fields of ancient culture, religion, and history.
credit hours: 3

CLAS 3880 Writing Practicum
Writing Practicum
Notes: Fulfills the school intensive-writing requirement.
Pre-requistites: Successful completion of the First-Year Writing Requirement.
Co-requisites: Three-credit departmental course.
credit hours: 1

CLAS 4050 Introduction to Field Archaeology in Ashkelon, Israel
Introduction to Field Archaeology in Ashkelon, Israel
This is an interdisciplinary course of archaeological fieldwork based in experiential learning at a complex, multi-period Tell site on the southern Levantine coast. Syudents work five full days plus half-day in the field uncovering artifacts and learning the skills necessary for all students and scholars interested in continuing active fieldwork or advanced studies in archaeology. the fieldwork aspect of the course is supported by lectures' and workshops by resident staff and visiting/guest scholars on the archaeology, geography, and history of ancient Israel. Phoenicia, and Philistia. Three field trips to other archaeological sites in Israel help students in this course to contextualize the work being done at Ashkelon and broaden participants' understanding of Israel and archaeological work being conducted in the region. They can expect to leave with a deep understanding of method, theory, and history of archaeology.
Co-requisites: CLAS 3050: Archaeology Lab in Ashkelon Israel
credit hours: 3

CLAS 4060 Classical Epic
Classical Epic
Homer, Apollonius of Rhodes, Virgil, and Lucan, with selected prose belonging to the heroic tradition. A comparison with primitive epics of other cultures and with later literary epics.
credit hours: 3

CLAS 4080 Seminar in Ancient Society and Economy
Seminar in Ancient Society and Economy
Topics include: The Family in Ancient Rome; Roman Imperial Society and Economy; Greeks, Romans, Barbarians.
credit hours: 3

CLAS 4130 Egypt Under the Pharaohs
Egypt Under the Pharaohs
The culture of ancient Egypt from the pre-dynastic period through the end of the New Kingdom. The course emphasizes the sculpture, architecture, and painting of the pharaonic periods. Other areas covered are: Egyptian literary and historical documents, Egyptian religion, and major social developments.
credit hours: 3

CLAS 4190 Seminar in Aegean and Greek Archaeology
Seminar in Aegean and Greek Archaeology
Topics include: Problems in Aegean Archaeology; Major Monuments in Greek Sculpture; Greek Vase-Painting; The Athenian Acropolis.
credit hours: 3

CLAS 4200 Seminar in Roman Art and Archaeology
Seminar in Roman Art and Archaeology
Topics include:  Ancient Painting and Mosaics; Building the City of Rome; Roman Sculpture in Context. 
credit hours: 3

CLAS 4320 War and Power in Ancient Greece
War and Power in Ancient Greece
In this course we will look at ancient Greek warfare and state formation, including how states developed and changed, how and why the ancient Greeks interacted and fought with each other and with outsiders, and what were the immediate outcomes and long-term consequences of endogenous and exogenous power struggles. Students will gain an understanding of the particular roles played by factors such as geography, military innovations, socio-political institutions, individual leaders, ideological shifts, and specific series of decisions and events. 
Pre-requistites: CLAS 3310 or HISA 3080. 
credit hours: 3

CLAS 4810 Special Topics
Special Topics
Topics will focus on particular areas and issues in the field of ancient culture, religion, and history.
credit hours: 3

CLAS 4880 Writing Practicum
Writing Practicum
Notes: Fulfills the school intensive-writing requirement.
Pre-requistites: Successful completion of the First-Year Writing Requirement.
Co-requisites: Three-credit departmental course.
credit hours: 1

CLAS 4900 Senior Capstone Seminar in Greek and Roman Culture
Senior Capstone Seminar in Greek and Roman Culture
A seminar on a broad topic in Greek and Roman culture.  The course fulfills the writing-intensive requirement for the School of Liberal Arts. Topics include: War and Power in Ancient Greece, Civic Ideals in the Greek and Roman Worlds, The World of Augustus. 
Notes: This course fulfills the department's capstone requirement but is also open to non-majors. It may be taken again with a different subject.
credit hours: 4

CLAS 4910 Independent Studies
Independent Studies
Open to superior students provided approval of department is granted and an appropriate faculty director is available.
credit hours: 3

CLAS 4920 Independent Studies
Independent Studies
Open to superior students provided approval of department is granted and an appropriate faculty director is available.
credit hours: 3

CLAS 4930 Directed Undergraduate Research
Directed Undergraduate Research
This course involves independent study based on work that the student has done during the previous summer, such as in an archaeological excavation.
credit hours: 3

CLAS 5010 Special Readings in Classics
Special Readings in Classics
credit hours: 3

CLAS 6080 Seminar in Ancient Society and Economy
Seminar in Ancient Society and Economy
See CLAS 408 for course description.
credit hours: 3

CLAS 6190 Seminar in Aegean and Greek Archaeology
Seminar in Aegean and Greek Archaeology
See CLAS 4190 for description.
credit hours: 3

CLAS 6200 Seminar in Roman Art and Archaeology
Seminar in Roman Art and Archaeology
See CLAS 4200 for description.
credit hours: 3

CLAS 6810 Special Topics
Special Topics
Topics will focus on particular areas and issues in the fields of ancient culture, religion, and history.
credit hours: 3

CLAS 6880 Writing Practicum
Writing Practicum
Notes: Fulfills the school intensive-writing requirement.
Pre-requistites: Successful completion of the First-Year Writing Requirement.
Co-requisites: Three-credit departmental course.
credit hours: 1

CLAS H4990 Honors Thesis
Honors Thesis
Notes: Admission by approval of department and Honors Committee.
credit hours: 3

CLAS H5000 Honors Thesis
Honors Thesis
Notes: Admission by approval of department and Honors Committee.
credit hours: 3

CLST 4800 Special Topics in Cultural Studies
Special Topics in Cultural Studies
An in-depth examination of specific cultural studies topics which may be drawn from any of the areas of concentration, for example the body in the Western tradition or the rhetoric of scientific invention.
Notes: May be taken twice for credit on different topics.
credit hours: 3

CLST 5900 Cultural Studies Research Seminar
Cultural Studies Research Seminar
This seminar will enable students to integrate the multi-disciplinary course work taken as a cluster area of concentration. Students will meet regularly with the professors, either individually or in groups, and will be expected to produce a substantial research paper. This paper should demonstrate their ability to synthesize diverse disciplinary and theoretical approaches to some aspect of the cluster area and to analyze its relationship to a specific cultural context.
credit hours: 3

COMM 1150 Introduction to Cinema
Introduction to Cinema
Historical survey of international cinema focusing on political, social, economic, technological, and aesthetic factors. Major film movements and historical developments from 1895 to the present are covered including U.S. silent cinema, Soviet montage, German expressionism, French impressionism and surrealism, the transition to sound, classical Hollywood cinema, the impact of WWII, Italian neorealism, the French New Wave, art cinema, new German cinema, and new Hollywood cinema.
credit hours: 3

COMM 2010 Public Opinion and the Media
Public Opinion and the Media
This course critically examines the ways in which public opinion is measured, constructed and used in politics; and the media's role in the shaping of public opinion.
credit hours: 3

COMM 2220 New Media and Internet Studies
New Media and Internet Studies
An investigation of the histories and theories associated with the Internet and other forms of new media. The main course objectives are to learn how to analyze Internet settings and employ new media methods. Conceptions of new technologies and newness will be theorized and examined. We consider how new media technologies are identified as tools and the ways they are critiqued for producing gendered, racial, and sexual identities. Topics include: afrofuturism, cyberfeminism, science fiction, the web, social networking, fan fiction, hypertext, Internet authorship, and surveillance.
credit hours: 3

COMM 2230 Interpersonal Communication
Interpersonal Communication
Introduction to theories and models of interpersonal communication which enhance understanding and development of interpersonal relationships. Course content covers topics such as listening behavior, intrapersonal processing, dyadic interaction, conflict management, intercultural, intimate and nonverbal communication.
credit hours: 3

COMM 2300 Political Communication
Political Communication
A survey of theories, empirical research, and critical analysis of contemporary political communication processes in the United States. Topics may include the role of the media in electoral campaigns, strategies of presidential communication, as well as the relationship between media and political institutions, including Congress and the Courts. News coverage of social movements and political protest will also be discussed. The course covers a variety of political communication genres, such as journalism, political advertising, talk shows and political websites.
credit hours: 3

COMM 2400 Topics in International Film Movements and National Cinemas
Topics in International Film Movements and National Cinemas
This course focuses on specific film movements in international cinema, with an emphasis on understanding stylistic and aesthetic innovations in their social-historical context. Topics may include European film movements, Chinese cinemas and others.
Notes: May be repeated for credit if different topic with the permission of the Film Studies Director.
credit hours: 3

COMM 2500 Film and Society
Film and Society
This class investigates various social issues that emerge from an examination of films produced in the United States, Europe and the developing world. Students consider societal forces such as class, race, gender, youth, family, prejudice, education and homelessness. The cinematic depiction of these factors as well as the connection between cinematic language, syntax, structure and a film’s ultimate meaning or message are explored.
credit hours: 3

COMM 2550 Introduction to Television
Introduction to Television
This course is an introduction to the study of television as a unique audio-visual culture with its own history, aesthetics, and meaning production. Students will learn about the television industry, its audiences, and its programming. Examples from television programming from the 1950s to the present will supplement readings.  
credit hours: 3

COMM 2600 Rhetorical Principles of Writing for News Media
Rhetorical Principles of Writing for News Media
Applies principles of classical and contemporary rhetorical theory to problems of writing for news media. Incorporates grammar review. Writing requirements include major news story, major feature story and numerous smaller assignments. Emphasis on writing for print media, but stylistic techniques for broadcast media also covered.
credit hours: 3

COMM 2650 Mass Communication Law
Mass Communication Law
Studies federal and state regulation of both print and broadcast media in the United States to understand how legal mandates and constraints have defined the roles of media in society. Historical and contemporary analyses include laws in areas such as libel, privacy, free press versus fair trial, access to government information, regulation of advertising and regulation of broadcasting.
credit hours: 3

COMM 2700 Visual Communication
Visual Communication
This course examines the history and theory of visual communication and its application in a variety of cultural contexts. Topics include the transition from print to visual media, the development of visual literacy and the role of emerging technology. Students will complete applied projects using photography, video and electronic media, digital imaging, and web-based visual technology.
credit hours: 3

COMM 2810 Special Topics
Special Topics
A detailed study of particular issues, problems and developments in the history, theory and criticism of communication. Topics may be drawn from any of the departmental areas of concentration, for example, the concept of invention, the rhetoric of religion, non-verbal communication, mass media and culture and similar themes. May be taken twice for credit on different topics.
credit hours: 3

COMM 2820 Special Topics
Special Topics
A detailed study of particular issues, problems and developments in the history, theory and criticism of communication. Topics may be drawn from any of the departmental areas of concentration, for example, the concept of invention, the rhetoric of religion, non-verbal communication, mass media and culture and similar themes. May be taken twice for credit on different topics.
credit hours: 3

COMM 2890 Service Learning
Service Learning
Credit attached to courses with a 40-hour service learning component.
credit hours: 0

COMM 2900 Communication Studies
Communication Studies
Communication Studies introduces students to the theoretical underpinnings of the Department of Communication. The course explores communication through its tri-part focus on relationships and identities (individuals), texts, and industries and structures (contexts). The course introduces key concepts and keywords for continuing in the major.  
credit hours: 3

COMM 3140 Cross-Cultural Analysis
Cross-Cultural Analysis
A critical examination of communication in intercultural, interethnic and international contexts. An overview of models and approaches designed to explain cultural differences in communication, with emphasis on the dimensions of symbolization, acculturation, prejudice, stereotyping and ideology. Conceptual frameworks are applied and tested within a range of cultural populations as defined by race, ethnicity, gender, physical disability, sexuality, socio-economic class and geographic location.
credit hours: 3

COMM 3150 Film Analysis
Film Analysis
Introduction to film analysis designed to help students develop a visual literacy with regard to film and a critical understanding of how films produce meanings. Focus is on formal analysis of film including elements such as narrative, mise-en-scène, editing, camera movement, sound and on key critical and theoretical approaches such as neoformalism and psychoanalysis. Classical Hollywood cinema and avant-garde and independent film making traditions are studied in order to focus on the politics of form." A required film journal helps students develop analytical and critical skills. Required course for the film studies minor."
credit hours: 4

COMM 3160 Technology Analysis
Technology Analysis
The study of technology as material culture through its production, dissemination and uses. Theorizes ways of approaching technology as symbolic tools, as material goods and as part of a cultural geography. Contextualizes digitalization in terms of social, political and economic discourses. Includes research methods for analyzing technology.
credit hours: 3

COMM 3200 Media Literacy/Media Education I
Media Literacy/Media Education I
This is the first semester of a two-semester course that introduces students to media literacy--what it is, media education, and basic media pedagogy. In the second semester, students put to use the media literacy knowledge gained in the first semester by applying those pedagogical considerations in the classroom, assessing student outcomes, and effectively teaching media literacy concepts.
Notes: Enrolling for both semesters, Junior Standing, and Service Learning all required. 20-hours service learning 1st semester; 40-hours 2nd semester.
credit hours: 3

COMM 3240 Interaction Analysis
Interaction Analysis
Focus on the investigation, interpretation and critical assessment of human interaction. Emphasis is given to interaction occurring in the relational contexts of marriage, friendship and the organization. Study includes the cultural and ideological elements, the models of communication used to explain interaction and the analysis of everyday communication phenomena in each context.
credit hours: 3

COMM 3250 Rhetorical Criticism
Rhetorical Criticism
The description, analysis, interpretation and evaluation of persuasive uses of language. Emphasis on classical, situational, generic, dramatistic and ideological methods of criticism. Judgments about aesthetic, pragmatic, logical and ethical dimensions of rhetoric.
credit hours: 4

COMM 3260 Media Analysis
Media Analysis
The study of the structure of media industries and their contents based on humanistic and social science approaches. Theorizes major trends in industry ownership and practices; the effects of political economy on textual symbols, discourses and genres; the function of media programming in reinforcing or altering perceptions of ideas, events, and people. Familiarizes students with research methods for analyzing media.
credit hours: 3

COMM 3270 Authors and Genres
Authors and Genres
Questions of authorship and of genre are two key paradigms of film criticism. This course examines the aesthetic and theoretical bases for notions of authorship and genre in the cinema including romantic theories of art, auteur criticism, structuralism and post-structuralism. It also considers the historical development of the oeuvre of individual directors as authors" (e.g. Hitchcock) and of particular film genres both in Hollywood cinema (e.g. film noir) and in non-mainstream and non-U.S. cinema. Genres and directors studied will change. May be repeated up to two times on different topics with approval of the Film Studies Director."
credit hours: 3

COMM 3280 Media Histories
Media Histories
This course looks at media histories, with a focus on the different kinds of stories we tell about media, its contents and contexts. The course explores historical trends, the nature of histiography (the study of history) and some fundamentals of historical research.
credit hours: 3

COMM 3290 Digital Production for Non-Profits
Digital Production for Non-Profits
This course emphasizes the role of communication in building understanding and nurturing change. It will consider the art of expressing ideas combined with the science of transmitting information. In this hands-on experience, students will analyze a communication situation or problem and then design and implement a communication plan that will help the nonprofit community partner achieve positive social change, fulfill its mission, advance its program and policies, and make its value known.
Notes: Service Learning is a required element in this course. Junior standing required.
Pre-requistites: THEA 2070.
credit hours: 3

COMM 3300 Comparative Political Communication
Comparative Political Communication
Examination of the links between media and political systems, based on a comparative approach. Offers a detailed comparison of political communication processes in different regions of the world and identifies how social, cultural and economic contexts are central to understanding the role of the media in political processes.
credit hours: 3

COMM 3320 Politics of Popular Culture
Politics of Popular Culture
This course will introduce students to critical thinking through the theories of cultural studies, ranging from culturalism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, gender and sexuality, and postcolonialism to postmodernism. Theories of cultural studies critically contextualize, examine, and theorize culture as it influences and shapes our everyday lives and social structures. Students will learn about the various approaches to analyzing culture based on the canonical works of cultural study theorists and how to apply their critical theories to contemporary examples.
credit hours: 3

COMM 3400 Communication and Leadership in Groups and Organization
Communication and Leadership in Groups and Organization
Group and organizational communication analyzes how the actions of people are coordinated and controlled to achieve collective outcomes. It is also concerned with the way individuals are shaped by their interactions with the groups and organizations around them. This seminar will help you learn how communication is key to understanding how groups and organizations work which can enhance your ability, as a Public Service Fellow, to engage in the work of your resource/discussion group in this seminar as well as your campus or community-based organizations during the semester. All Public Service Fellows must enroll in a required platform course. By completing this course students receive four credit hours and fulfill the second tier of the graduation requirement. The program includes 3 class credits for an academic leadership course, and 1 service learning credit for assistance on a community project.
Co-requisites: COMM 3410 and COMM 4890
credit hours: 3

COMM 3440 Critical Race Theory
Critical Race Theory
Critical race theory was a term that was coined to refer to an area of legal studies developed by African American, Latino, and Asian American scholars to address questions of racial injustice. But the broader field of critical race theory today incorporates multi-disciplinary scholarship that works to create critical knowledge about social inequalities and racialized power relations.
Notes: An elective in ADST
credit hours: 3

COMM 3510 Environmental Communication
Environmental Communication
The purpose of this course is to provide an understanding and analysis of communication processes used in defining environmental issues and shaping environmental policies. Topics include defining nature and environment; diverse audiences and environmental messages; developing strategies for risk communication; and creating effective environmental campaigns. Case studies of successful and unsuccessful environmental communication will be examined.
credit hours: 3

COMM 3550 Third World Cinema
Third World Cinema
This course surveys the cinematic practices of the developing nations of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. The filmic practice, at once revolutionary and ideological, has not only produced some of the world's most striking filmic innovations, but is now recognized as having initiated a new phase and expanded definitions of the art of cinema. The issues to be addressed include: the development of a national cinema, the impact of politics on film style, video and television culture, the commonalities and differences in modes of production, the relationship of film to the societies' values and cultures and the role of cinema as a mediation of history.
credit hours: 3

COMM 3650 Feminist Documentation and New Media
Feminist Documentation and New Media
A service-learning, praxis-oriented course in which students develop analytical and reflective skills by critiquing and creating feminist documentation in various media. Study of history and theory of feminist documentary filmmaking and new media will be complemented with learning production and post-production skills. Weekly volunteer work will be done with an organization serving women and girls in New Orleans.
credit hours: 3

COMM 3800 Cinema Reception and Cultural Memory
Cinema Reception and Cultural Memory
This course investigates historical changes in film audiences, film exhibition and film reception from the silent to the contemporary period as well as the issue of cultural memory and cinema. Issues focusing on who the audience for cinema has been during different historical periods, that changes have taken place in the venues in which films have been shown and cinema reception as cultural history are explored. The course also theorizes questions of reception and memory in terms of psychoanalysis, oral history and the public sphere. This course includes an optional service learning component. COMM 3150, Film Analysis, is recommended but not required.
credit hours: 3

COMM 3810 Special Topics
Special Topics
A detailed study of particular issues, problems, and developments in the history, theory, and criticism of communication. Topics may be drawn from any area of communication, for example, the concept of invention, the rhetoric of religion, non-verbal communication, mass media and culture, and similar themes. 
Notes: May be repeated for credit on different topics.
credit hours: 3

COMM 3820 Special Topics
Special Topics
A detailed study of particular issues, problems, and developments in the history, theory, and criticism of communication. Topics may be drawn from any area of communication, for example, the concept of invention, the rhetoric of religion, non-verbal communication, mass media and culture, and similar themes.
Notes: May be repeated for credit on different topics.
credit hours: 3-4

COMM 3880 Writing Intensive
Writing Intensive
credit hours: 1

COMM 3890 Service Learning
Service Learning
Students complete a service activity in the community in conjunction with the content of a three-credit co-requisite course.
Pre-requistites: Departmental approval.
credit hours: 1

COMM 4170 U.S. Film History
U.S. Film History
This course covers major formal, industrial and cultural issues in the history of cinema in the United States from 1895 to the present Course topics include the formal distinctiveness of the early period, the emergence of continuity editing and the classical Hollywood style, post-classical cinema, monopolistic industry practices, exhibition venues, the studio system, synchronized sound, contemporary independent production, and the relationship between film and commodity culture. Case studies on censorship, the representation of race and black radical politics, and female spectatorship integrate formal, industrial and cultural analysis.
Notes: COMM 3150 is recommended.
credit hours: 3

COMM 4180 African Cinema
African Cinema
This course will provide a critical and interdisciplinary look at the development of African cinema from its inception in the 1960s to the present. In looking at this period, we will move from the sociopolitical upheavals of late colonialism to the recent phase of introspection and diversification. The relationship of cinematic practices to transformation in the social and economic sphere will be examined, as well as the creation of distinctively African film styles based on oral traditions. In pursuing these topics, we will consider the impact of technology, history and culture, ties to the cinema of other developing nations and co-productions. This course satisfies the capstone requirement.
credit hours: 3

COMM 4190 Introduction of Latin American Film
Introduction of Latin American Film
The development of cinema in Latin American from its arrival as an imported technology to the present. Films studied in relation to the sociopolitical environment and emphasis placed on close analysis as well as a contextual understanding of the material. Topics include the struggle to create national film industries, the “art film” and New Cinema movements, and recent trends in countries such as Mexico and Argentina.
credit hours: 3

COMM 4200 Media Literacy/Media Education II
Media Literacy/Media Education II
This is the second semester of a two-semester course that introduces students to media literacy--what it is, media education, and basic media pedagogy. In the second semester, students put to use the media literacy knowledge gained in the first semester by applying those pedagogical considerations in the classroom, assessing student outcomes, and effectively teaching media literacy concepts.
Notes: Enrolling for both semesters, Junior Standing, and Service Learning all required. 20-hours service learning 1st semester; 40-hours 2nd semester. Capstone.
Pre-requistites: COMM 3200.
credit hours: 3

COMM 4220 Aging in the Twenty-First Century US
Aging in the Twenty-First Century US
Examines historical and contemporary representations of aging in US culture. Primary areas of investigation include identity and relationships across the life cycle, the emergence of aging as pathology, consumerism and aging, and age discrimination. The course considers these areas by drawing from and integrating conceptual frameworks in health communication, psychology, medicine, and cultural studies.
credit hours: 3

COMM 4230 Cinema, History, Archive
Cinema, History, Archive
This course focuses on cinema as a site for interrogating historical, textual, institutional, and theoretical issues about the archive. Topics include tropes of archive, the media/ted archive, films as cultural memory, histories of cinema archives, the electronic archive, theories of the archive, and archives in relation to power and knowledge. Film examples are drawn from contemporary Hollywood cinema, silent cinema, classical Hollywood cinema, experimental documentary, and independent and avant garde cinema.
Notes: Capstone for Film Studies and Communication.
credit hours: 3

COMM 4260 Communication, Culture and the Body: Healthy Bodies
Communication, Culture and the Body: Healthy Bodies
An investigation of how human bodies communicate cultural identities and relations historically and across spaces. May repeat under a different topic (COMM 4261, 4262) for credit. This course satisfies the capstone requirement.
credit hours: 3

COMM 4261 Communication, Culture and Body: Feminism, Sci Fi and Technology
Communication, Culture and Body: Feminism, Sci Fi and Technology
An investigation of how human bodies communicate cultural identities and relations historically and across spaces. May repeat under a different topic (COMM 4260, 4262) for credit. This course satisfies the capstone requirement. 
credit hours: 3

COMM 4262 Communication, Culture and Body: Dangerous Bodies
Communication, Culture and Body: Dangerous Bodies
An investigation of how human bodies communicate cultural identities and relations historically and across spaces. May repeat under a different topic (COMM 4260, 4261) for credit. This course satisfies the capstone requirement.
credit hours: 3

COMM 4263 Communication, Culture and the Body: Aging Bodies
Communication, Culture and the Body: Aging Bodies
An investigation of how human bodies communicate cultural identities and relations historically and across spaces. May be taken for capstone credit.
credit hours: 3

COMM 4300 Cultural Politics and Cinema
Cultural Politics and Cinema
This course examines the relationship between media, society, and political discourse as they manifest in the complexities of cultural production beyond US borders. As such, it will be framed around issues pertaining to historical formation and broader political dynamics. This course presumes familiarity with methods of film or media analysis. May repeat under a different topic (COMM 4301, 4302) for credit. This course satisfies the capstone requirement.
Notes: Fulfills capstone requirement for FMST. For capstone credit, students should also register for FMST 5110 with 0 credits. Also fulfills capstone requirement for the Communication major. See listing under Communication.
credit hours: 3

COMM 4301 Global Media, Politics, and Culture: Media and Democracy in Latin America
Global Media, Politics, and Culture: Media and Democracy in Latin America
This course examines the relationship between media, society, and political discourse as they manifest in the complexities of cultural production beyond US borders. As such, it will be framed around issues pertaining to historical formation and broader political dynamics. This course presumes familiarity with methods of film or media analysis. May repeat under a different topic (COMM 4300, 4302) for credit. This course satisfies the capstone requirement.
credit hours: 3

COMM 4302 Global Media, Politics and Culture: Immigration Discourse in Europe
Global Media, Politics and Culture: Immigration Discourse in Europe
This course examines the relationship between media, society, and political discourse as they manifest in the complexities of cultural production beyond US borders. As such, it will be framed around issues pertaining to historical formation and broader political dynamics. This course presumes familiarity with methods of film or media analysis. May repeat under a different topic (COMM 4300, 4302) for credit. This course satisfies the capstone requirement.
credit hours: 3

COMM 4303 Global Media, Politics and Culture: Globalization and Malaysian Film
Global Media, Politics and Culture: Globalization and Malaysian Film
This course engages students in cross-cultural analysis and introduces the unique postcolonial and multicultural context of Malaysian cinema. We will examine historical and current globalization through the lens of the new and acclaimed wave of independent and experimental films that have been earning accolades in international festivals around the world. The course will examine key issues pertaining to gender, ethnoracial, religious and national identities in Malaysia, as well as the cultural geopolitics of the relationship between the West" and "East""
Notes: An elective in Asian Studies
credit hours: 3

COMM 4350 Gender and the Cinema
Gender and the Cinema
Explores the position of women in Hollywood and other cinemas by studying the evolution of women's cinema and of feminist film theories from the 1920s to the present. The history of feminist film analysis, focusing on theoretical-sociological, psychoanalytic, semiological underpinning of feminist critiques of both commercial and independent avant-garde film practices.
credit hours: 3

COMM 4550 Advanced Topics in Television Studies: Feminist and Gender Studies
Advanced Topics in Television Studies: Feminist and Gender Studies
This course offers advanced study of television as a unique audio-visual culture with its own history and styles. This course presumes basic knowledge of television terms and methods of media analysis. May repeat under a different topic (COMM 4551, 4552, 4553) for credit. This course satisfies the capstone requirement.
credit hours: 3

COMM 4551 Advanced Topics in Television studies: Post-Network Televisuality
Advanced Topics in Television studies: Post-Network Televisuality
This course offers advanced study of television as a unique audio-visual culture with its own history and styles. This course presumes basic knowledge of television terms and methods of media analysis. May repeat under a different topic (COMM 4550, 4552, 4553) for credit. This course satisfies the capstone requirement.
credit hours: 3

COMM 4552 Advanced Topics in Television Studies: the Public Sphere
Advanced Topics in Television Studies: the Public Sphere
This course offers advanced study of television as a unique audio-visual culture with its own history and styles. This course presumes basic knowledge of television terms and methods of media analysis. May repeat under a different topic (COMM 4550, 4551, 4553) for credit. This course satisfies the capstone requirement.
credit hours: 3

COMM 4553 Advanced Topics in Television Studies: Brazilian TV and Culture
Advanced Topics in Television Studies: Brazilian TV and Culture
This course offers advanced study of television as a unique audio-visual culture with its own history and styles. This course presumes basic knowledge of television terms and methods of media analysis. May repeat under a different topic (COMM 4550, 4551, 4552) for credit. This course satisfies the capstone requirement.
credit hours: 3

COMM 4560 Communication Internship
Communication Internship
This course will challenge the student to apply intelligently the principles, methods, and skills that they have learned in academic settings to the practical experience of an internship with a nonprofit, social service organization. Topics include learning about communication within a complicated political and cultural context, how context affects rhetorical strategies, adaptive communication among diverse social groups, and how these experiences work to prepare the student for a career in a communication field.
Pre-requistites: Permission of instructor, junior or senior standing, 3.0 GPA. 
credit hours: 3

COMM 4570 Service Learning Internship in Communication
Service Learning Internship in Communication
Provides combination of academic work and practical experiences in communication with specific service learning organizations.
Notes: Must meet college and departmental requirements.
Pre-requistites: Obtain approvals of academic supervisor and department.
credit hours: 3

COMM 4610 National Cinemas in Latin America
National Cinemas in Latin America
A detailed historical, thematic, and stylistic analysis of individual national cinemas in Latin America (Cuban cinema, Brazilian cinema, Mexican cinema, for example). Emphasis will be placed on understanding the development of national cinema industries and movements in the context of other social, economic, political, and aesthetic forces.
Notes: May be repeated for credit if the national cinema studied is different. COMM 4190, Intro to Latin American Cinema, is highly recommended, although not a prerequisite.
credit hours: 3

COMM 4750 New Media Theory
New Media Theory
This course will explore the conceptual frameworks and theories that are essential to an understanding of modern media, a succession of new media including photography, film and digital media. We will focus on theories of semiotics, ideology, psychoanalysis, narrative, modernism, and postmodernism, which have formed the bases for analyzing forms of reproduction from the mechanical to the digital. We will consider the interrelationships—linkages and ruptures—between different media and the process of remediation in which the content of a new medium is the older medium that it has replaced. We will end by examining digital media in the context of social/cultural/political formations—gender, race, community, public sphere and global flows. This course satisfies the capstone requirement. 
credit hours: 3

COMM 4770 Theories of Consumption and Production
Theories of Consumption and Production
This course analyzes theoretical constructions of media audiences and media producers historically and in contemporary contexts. Liberal, Marxist and feminist paradigms will be explored along with a variety of research methods used in audience and producer studies. This course satisfies the capstone requirement.
Pre-requistites: COMM 3260.
credit hours: 3

COMM 4810 Special Topics in Communication
Special Topics in Communication
A detailed study of particular issues, problems and developments in the history, theory and criticism of communication. Topics may be drawn from any of the departmental areas of concentration, for example, the concept of invention, the rhetoric of religion, non-verbal communication, mass media and culture and similar themes. May be taken twice for credit on different topics. This course satisfies the capstone requirement.
credit hours: 3

COMM 4820 Special Topics in Communication
Special Topics in Communication
A detailed study of particular issues, problems and developments in the history, theory and criticism of communication. Topics may be drawn from any of the departmental areas of concentration, for example, the concept of invention, the rhetoric of religion, non-verbal communication, mass media and culture and similar themes. May be taken twice for credit on different topics. This course satisfies the capstone requirement.
credit hours: 3

COMM 4850 Cinema, Technology, Modernity
Cinema, Technology, Modernity
Focus on cinema as a cultural practice during the early and late periods, especially as it has shaped perception and experience. Films are assessed for the way they reenact the logic of key technologies and for the way they represent technologies. Cinema is also viewed as a technology of vision in its own right. In particular, 19th century optical toys, the railroad, photography, the computer and cinema are assessed in relation to shifting conceptions of space and time, modes of experience, the terms of everyday life, and the status of mass culture and reproduction in the modern and postmodern periods. This course satisfies the capstone requirement.
credit hours: 3

COMM 4860 Film Theory
Film Theory
An advanced course focusing on contemporary French, British and U.S. film theory. Topics include realism and phenomenology, Russian Formalism, neoformalism, structuralism, narratology, Marxism and ideology, psychoanalysis, cinema semiotics, feminism and poststructuralism. Debates covered assess film as a text; the relationship between film and the spectator; and the implications of cinema as a historical phenomenon, including the status of digital cinema. Early, classical Hollywood, contemporary, and avant-garde films screened. A required film journal helps students develop analytical skills. Required for the Film Studies major or minor.
Pre-requistites: COMM 3150.
credit hours: 4

COMM 4880 Writing Intensive
Writing Intensive
credit hours: 1

COMM 4890 Service Learning
Service Learning
credit hours: 1

COMM 4910 Independent Studies
Independent Studies
Open to qualified juniors and seniors only.
credit hours: 1-3

COMM 4920 Independent Studies
Independent Studies
Open to qualified juniors and seniors only.
credit hours: 1-3

COMM 4990 Honors Thesis
Honors Thesis
This course will enable students to integrate knowledge about the specific nature of film as a medium and the history of theoretical debates that have shaped the study of film and of cinema. It will also provide students with an opportunity to apply the formal and theoretical knowledge gained from the two required courses for the major to consider new theoretical problems about cinema, revisions, and reassessments of earlier debates in film studies and related fields, questions of national cinema, and/or new developments in filmmaking. This course, which carries 0 credit, is combined with a capstone designated course (3 credits) or a special topics course that is designated as a capstone (3 credits). Fulfills capstone requirement for FMST when approved as film topic. In this case and for capstone credit, students should also register for FMST 5110 with 0 credits.
credit hours: 3

COMM 5000 Honors Thesis
Honors Thesis
This course will enable students to integrate knowledge about the specific nature of film as a medium and the history of theoretical debates that have shaped the study of film and of cinema. It will also provide students with an opportunity to apply the formal and theoretical knowledge gained from the two required courses for the major to consider new theoretical problems about cinema, revisions, and reassessments of earlier debates in film studies and related fields, questions of national cinema, and/or new developments in filmmaking. This course, which carries 0 credit, is combined with a capstone designated course (3 credits) or a special topics course that is designated as a capstone (3 credits). Fulfills capstone requirement for FMST when approved as film topic. In this case and for capstone credit, students should also register for FMST 5110 with 0 credits.
credit hours: 4

COMM 5110 Capstone
Capstone
The zero credit add-on that designated an approved upper-level course to satisfy the capstone requirement. Consult the department for this list of courses.
credit hours: 0

COMM 6210 Seminar in Communication Studies
Seminar in Communication Studies
An intensive study of a specific issue or set of issues in rhetoric and public address, interpersonal communication, or mass communication (e.g. propaganda, legal communication research), or of an individual theorist (e.g. Aristotle, Kenneth Burke), or genre of discourse (e.g. ideological argumentation, the rhetoric of social movements). May be taken twice for credit on different topics. This course satisfies the capstone requirement.
Pre-requistites: approval of instructor.
credit hours: 3

COMM 6220 Seminar in Communication Studies
Seminar in Communication Studies
An intensive study of a specific issue or set of issues in rhetoric and public address, interpersonal communication, or mass communication (e.g. propaganda, legal communication research), or of an individual theorist (e.g. Aristotle, Kenneth Burke), or genre of discourse (e.g. ideological argumentation, the rhetoric of social movements). May be taken twice for credit on different topics. This course satisfies the capstone requirement.
Pre-requistites: approval of instructor.
credit hours: 3

COMM 6910 Communication Independent Study (Graduate)
Communication Independent Study (Graduate)
credit hours: 1-3

COMM 6920 Communication Independent Study (Graduate)
Communication Independent Study (Graduate)
credit hours: 3

COMM H4990 Honors Thesis
Honors Thesis
For especially qualified juniors and seniors with approval of the department and the Honors Committee.
credit hours: 3

COMM H5990 Honors Thesis
Honors Thesis
For especially qualified juniors and seniors with approval of the department and the Honors Committee.
credit hours: 3

DANA 2400 Beginner/Intermediate Pilates
Beginner/Intermediate Pilates
Priority is given to theatre and dance majors. A comprehensive study of the fundamentals of mat work designed by Joseph Pilates: alignment, posture and the balance of stretch, strength and control. Emphasis is given to the principles behind the Pilates Method of Body Conditioning: centering, concentration, control, precision, breath and flow. The course will guide students to an intermediate level of work.
credit hours: 3

DANA 2500 Intermediate Yoga
Intermediate Yoga
This is an intermediate level vinyasa style yoga class that places an emphasis on the yoga asanas. We will use the breath to flow through sequences of yoga postures, including sun salutations, standing asanas, balancing asanas, arm balances, back bends, and inversions. This will be a rigorous physical experience, and as the semester progresses, advanced yoga postures will be introduced. Priority is given to dance majors and minors. 
credit hours: 1

DANC 1510 Dance Composition I
Dance Composition I
An introduction to dance composition with an emphasis on spatial design, sources of movement, viewing choreography, and the basic elements of space, time, shape, and motion.
Pre-requistites: Approval of instructor.
credit hours: 3

DANC 1520 Dance Composition II
Dance Composition II
A continuation of Dance 1510 with emphasis on dynamics, rhythm, sound sources for choreography, and the structure of a dance work.
Pre-requistites: DANC 1510 or DANC 2010.
credit hours: 3

DANC 1810 Tap Dance I
Tap Dance I
A beginning course in tap introducing basic rhythmic movement skills necessary for various tap styles.
Notes: May be taken for credit two times.
credit hours: 2

DANC 1910 African Dance I
African Dance I
Introduction to basic technique and African ethnic dance forms including three traditional dances.
Notes: May be taken for credit two times.
credit hours: 2

DANC 1920 Brazilian Dance
Brazilian Dance
Introduction to Brazilian dance, focusing especially on samba, the overview of history and cultural context.
Notes: May be taken for credit two times.
credit hours: 2

DANC 1930 Ballet I
Ballet I
An introduction to classical ballet. Basic theory and techniques of classical ballet as well as the appreciation of the art form.
Notes: May be taken for credit two times.
credit hours: 2

DANC 1950 Jazz Dance I
Jazz Dance I
An introductory course to the basic foundations of jazz dance, emphasizing body placement, isolations, and rhythmic qualities of jazz.
Notes: May be taken for credit two times.
credit hours: 2

DANC 1970 Modern Dance I
Modern Dance I
Introduction to modern dance technique, with emphasis on alignment and basic elements of space, shape, time, and motion. Includes theory and application of dance as an art form.
Notes: May be taken for credit two times.
credit hours: 2

DANC 2010 Performance I
Performance I
A structured and at times spontaneous exploration of space, time, shape, sound, scenario, motion, and expenditure of energy to the end of attracting and holding the attention of the audience.
Notes: Students may not receive credit for both DANC 1510 and THEA 2010/DANC 2010.
credit hours: 3

DANC 2030 Movement for Actors
Movement for Actors
This course is intended to introduce physical technique within the craft of acting, through investigation into physical structure, function and use, and exploration of physical character.
credit hours: 1

DANC 2210 Introduction to Dance - Ballet
Introduction to Dance - Ballet
An introduction to classical ballet including beginning ballet technique and an overview of ballet history from its inception to the present day.
credit hours: 3

DANC 2220 Introduction to Dance - Modern Dance
Introduction to Dance - Modern Dance
An introduction to modern dance including beginning modern dance technique and an overview of modern dance history from its inception to the present day.
credit hours: 3

DANC 2230 Introduction to Dance - Jazz Dance
Introduction to Dance - Jazz Dance
An introductory course for students who seek information regarding the different aspects of the dance world, including different genres (ballet, modern, jazz, and world dance). Special emphasis is given to the role of American Vernacular dance - jazz dance and its identity in the dance scene of America.
credit hours: 3

DANC 2520 Dance Composition II
Dance Composition II
credit hours: 3

DANC 2810 Tap Dance II
Tap Dance II
credit hours: 2

DANC 2820 Tap Dance II
Tap Dance II
A continuation of the development of movement skills and an expanded tap vocabulary.
Notes: May be taken for credit four times.
Pre-requistites: DANC 1810.
credit hours: 3

DANC 2910 African Dance II
African Dance II
Continuation of the development of African dance skills with emphasis on understanding and demonstrating basic components necessary to choreograph traditional African dance movements.
Notes: May be taken for credit six times.
credit hours: 2

DANC 2930 Ballet II
Ballet II
Continuation of 1930.
Notes: May be taken for credit four times.
credit hours: 2

DANC 2950 Jazz Dance II
Jazz Dance II
A continuation of the development of movement skills with emphasis on alignment and expanded jazz dance vocabulary.
Notes: May be taken for credit four times.
credit hours: 2

DANC 2970 Modern Dance II
Modern Dance II
Continuation of 1970.
Notes: May be taken for credit four times.
credit hours: 2

DANC 3050 Environmental Performance
Environmental Performance
Environmental Performance is an interdisciplinary course that may in any semester combine theatre, dance and other performing arts as these concern environmental issues. Students will study environmental topics and then use composition and improvisation techniques to create a performance project based on the environmental issues studies. All students must be interested in collaborating and be willing to move. Dance experience is not necessary. Course may involve community partners and/or public service.
credit hours: 3

DANC 3240 American/Afro-Caribbean Social and Vernacular Dance Forms
American/Afro-Caribbean Social and Vernacular Dance Forms
This course will study, compare selected social and vernacular dances from early American vernacular jazz dance and selected Afro-Caribbean dance idioms: Coursework includes assigned reading, lecture, research, videotape viewing and studio dancing.  
credit hours: 3

DANC 3330 Dance Pedagogy
Dance Pedagogy
A seminar and practicum course providing opportunities for dance students to acquire skills in dance teaching methodologies and strategies. Topics include organization of subject matter, weekly and unit lesson planning, development of assessments, utilization of information technology for instruction, working with diverse populations of students. Activities include observation in college classrooms (shadowing), seminars and conferences with teachers in field, in-class/micro/peer teaching, and 50 hours of field work including observation and consultation with dance field professor and field-experience teaching of assistant teaching at NOPS in discipline-based orcurriculum-based programs.
Pre-requistites: DANC 2010, 2520, and 3520.
credit hours: 3

DANC 3520 Dance Composition III
Dance Composition III
An in-depth study of dance composition with an emphasis on choreographic design and dynamics, creating new movement materials, working with music, and choreographing complete solo works.
Pre-requistites: DANC 2010.
credit hours: 3

DANC 3550 Laban Movement Studies
Laban Movement Studies
Laban Movement Analysis (LMA), developed by Rudolph Laban, is a theoretical framework and language for describing movement through movement experiences, observations and theoretical discussions. It is a system of observing, analyzing, and synthesizing patterns of movement within the context of the actions. The goal of LMA is to be fully embodied, to access maximum movement potential, to find authentic movement, and to integrate the body and mind in the study of effort, shape, and space.
credit hours: 3

DANC 3610 Children's Dance Methods and Practicum (Grades 4-5)
Children's Dance Methods and Practicum (Grades 4-5)
This practicum course provides opportunities for dance candidates to acquire skills in teaching methodologies and strategies specific to dance education in grades 4-5. Course activities include observation and consultation with content field professor and field experience at school setting developing assessments and lesson plans along with teaching. This course requires 40 hours of field experience in the upper elementary grades (4-5) in addition to the 50 field experience hours in EDUC 3500 which occur in grades K-3.
Pre-requistites: EDLA 2000, EDLA 2890 or EDUC 3250, EDUC 3400, EDUC 3800 and 3820, DANC 2010 and DANC 2520 and level III modern dance proficiency.
Co-requisites: EDUC 3500.
credit hours: 1

DANC 3620 Dance for Children
Dance for Children
Practical experience teaching dance to children. Students plan and teach dance to children in a workshop setting.
Pre-requistites: Approval of instructor.
credit hours: 3

DANC 3800 Modern Dance III
Modern Dance III
Continuation of the development of modern dance skills with emphasis on alignment and an expanded movement vocabulary. Combining the different elements of dance: time, space, and motion. Includes theory of dance as an art form. Class meets 2 times per week.
Notes: May be taken for credit six times.
credit hours: 1

DANC 3810 Tap Dance III
Tap Dance III
An intermediate course in tap dance with emphasis on alignment and rhythmic skills.
Notes: May be taken for credit six times.
Pre-requistites: Previous training in tap and other dance forms required.
credit hours: 2

DANC 3820 Ballet III
Ballet III
Continuation of the development of classical ballet technique with emphasis on alignment and expanded movement vocabulary. Includes theory of ballet and appreciation of ballet as an art form. Class meets 2 times per week.
Notes: May be taken for credit six times.
credit hours: 1

DANC 3830 Intensive Modern Dance III
Intensive Modern Dance III
Continuation of the development of modern dance skills with emphasis on alignment and an expanded movement vocabulary. Combining the different elements of dance: time, space, and motion. Includes theory of dance as an art form. Class meets 4 days per week.
Notes: May be taken for credit six times.
credit hours: 3

DANC 3840 Intensive Ballet III
Intensive Ballet III
Continuation of the development of classical ballet technique with emphasis on alignment and expanded movement vocabulary. Includes theory of ballet and appreciation of ballet as an art form. Course meets 4 days per week.
Notes: May be taken for credit six times.
credit hours: 3

DANC 3890 Service Learning
Service Learning
Students complete a service activity in the community in conjunction with the content of a three-credit croquets course.
Pre-requistites: Departmental approval.
credit hours: 0

DANC 3950 Jazz Dance III
Jazz Dance III
A study of jazz dance at the intermediate level, including warm-ups, isolations, and locomotor movements specific to the jazz dance style. Historical developments of jazz and musical theatre dance are emphasized.
Notes: May be taken for credit six times.
credit hours: 1

DANC 3960 New Orleans Jazz Dance Project: Newcomb College Summer Dance Festival
New Orleans Jazz Dance Project: Newcomb College Summer Dance Festival
The New Orleans Jazz Project: Newcomb College Summer Dance Festival is presented for two weeks annually in June offering an intensive schedule of technique classes in jazz, African, musical theatre, tap, hip hop, and modern dance forms, with repertory classes which culminates in performance by the participants. Lecture-demonstration projects, special lectures, and professional performances complete programming for evening events. Final decision on placement of students in technique and repertory classes will be determined by the faculty at the beginning of the workshop.
Notes: The minimum requirement for credit is three classes per day, one repertory class and/or rehearsals, attendance for all evening sessions and special events, and performance in repertory concert. Combined activities total 76 hours.
credit hours: 3

DANC 3970 Professional Track Project
Professional Track Project
An intensive three-week dance residency and performance tour throughout the southeast that culminates in a public performance in New York City. The project serves as a bridge for pre-professional dancers between the University and the professional career in dance.
Pre-requistites: Approval of dance faculty.
credit hours: 3

DANC 3990 Dance Performance Practicum
Dance Performance Practicum
Practical performing experience in dance. Required for the dance minor.
Notes: May be taken for credit two times.
credit hours: 1

DANC 4320 Movement Stories
Movement Stories
An interdisciplinary studio course that examines creation of and communication of stories through movement and theatre approaches with emphasis on creativity and invention.
credit hours: 3

DANC 4520 Composition IV
Composition IV
A continuation of DANC 3520 with emphasis on group forms, sound sources for dance and development of fully designed dance pieces.
Pre-requistites: DANC 2010 and 3520.
credit hours: 3

DANC 4560 Internship Studies
Internship Studies
An experiential learning process coupled with pertinent academic course work, e.g. Internship seminars offered by the Tulane University Center for Public Service for fulfillment of second tier public service. Only one internship may be completed per semester.
Notes: A maximum of three credits may be earned in one course.
Pre-requistites: Approval of the instructor and department by proposal.
credit hours: 1-3

DANC 4570 Internship Studies
Internship Studies
An experiential learning process coupled with pertinent academic course work, e.g. Internship seminars offered by the Tulane University Center for Public Service for fulfillment of second tier public service. Only one internship may be completed per semester.
Notes: A maximum of three credits may be earned in one course.
Pre-requistites: Approval of the instructor and department by proposal.
credit hours: 3

DANC 4580 Dance Company
Dance Company
Performing experience, advanced-level dance techniques and practical experience in dance production.
Notes: By audition or invitation of the dance faculty. May be taken for credit eight times.
Co-requisites: Intermediate or advanced technique class.
credit hours: 1

DANC 4590 Senior Production
Senior Production
A continuation of dance composition with emphasis on development, research and production of senior concert pieces with written analysis of process.
Notes: May be taken for credit two times.
Pre-requistites: DANC 2010, 3520, 4520.
credit hours: 3

DANC 4600 Choreography and Media
Choreography and Media
An introduction to dance for camera in its various forms. It provides a brief overview of aesthetic, historic, and cultural representations of the body through image and media and offers a context in which to explore visual imagery and narrative within the frame of camera/screen.
credit hours: 3

DANC 4650 Capstone Choreographic Project
Capstone Choreographic Project
credit hours: 3

DANC 4710 Dance History: Primitive through 19th Century
Dance History: Primitive through 19th Century
A survey of dance, including the anthropological aspects of dance, in primitive cultures and the development of dance in the Western World.
Pre-requistites: DANC 1050, 2210, 2220, or 2230.
credit hours: 3

DANC 4720 Dance History: 20th-Century United States
Dance History: 20th-Century United States
A survey of dance in the 20th-century United States emphasizing the development of modern dance, its impact on classical ballet and on dance in the Western World.
credit hours: 3

DANC 4800 Modern Dance IV
Modern Dance IV
A kinesthetic, non-stylized approach to movement. Exploration of complex movement skills integrating alignment, dynamics, spatial design, and rhythmic structure. Includes theory and appreciation of dance as an art form. Class meets 2 days per week.
Notes: May be taken for credit eight times.
credit hours: 1

DANC 4810 Special Topics
Special Topics
Specialty courses in dance techniques, projects, and dance related subjects as designed by dance faculty.
credit hours: 3

DANC 4820 Ballet IV
Ballet IV
Classical ballet technique with emphasis on alignment, complex movement combinations, and precision in execution. Includes pointe work and theory of ballet as an art form. Class meets 2 days per week.
Notes: May be taken for credit eight times.
credit hours: 1

DANC 4830 Intensive Modern Dance IV
Intensive Modern Dance IV
A kinesthetic, non-stylized approach to movement. Exploration of complex movement skills integrating alignment, dynamics, spatial design, and rhythmic structure. Includes theory and appreciation of dance as an art form. Class meets 4 days per week.
Notes: May be taken for credit eight times.
credit hours: 3

DANC 4840 Intensive Ballet IV
Intensive Ballet IV
Classical ballet technique with emphasis on alignment, complex movement combinations, and precision in execution. Includes pointe work and theory of ballet as an art form. Class meets 4 days per week.
Notes: May be taken for credit eight times.
credit hours: 3

DANC 4850 Capstone Special Topics
Capstone Special Topics
Specialty courses in dance techniques, projects and dance related stubjects as designed by dance faculty. A senior level course that may combine academic and/or experiential course work as internship or senior seminar or independent study that would fulfill a capstone experience. Course will contain advanced work that demonstrates cumulative and integrated knowledge. A complete description will be given when offered by respective professor.
Pre-requistites: Approval of instructor and department required.
Co-requisites: DANC 5110 (0 credits) for capstone credit.
credit hours: 3

DANC 4900 Building Community in the Arts
Building Community in the Arts
This course will be taught in coordination with courses offered at Xavier and Dillard Universities. The course examines the theory and practice of community-based arts, civic engagement in higher education, and the relationship between art and community development. Students will work in teams with local artists on Home, New Orleans?, a multi-disciplinary, art-and-community-development project grounded in 4 selected New Orleans neighborhoods, the 9th Ward, the 7th Ward, Central City and Lakeview.
Notes: Upper level course in the fine arts that fulfills Fine Arts and Public Service and for the BA and BFA dance major may serve to fulfill the Capstone Experience in their senior year.
credit hours: 3

DANC 4910 Independent Study
Independent Study
Independent practical and research study in dance or dance-related areas.
Notes: Open to qualified juniors and seniors with approval of instructor.
credit hours: 1-3

DANC 4950 Jazz Dance IV
Jazz Dance IV
An advanced study of dance devoted to movement exploration involving spatial, dynamic, and rhythmic combinations of various jazz and musical theatre dance styles. Historical study of jazz dance development is emphasized.
Notes: May be taken for credit eight times.
credit hours: 1

DANC 4960 Tap Dance IV
Tap Dance IV
An advanced course in rhythm tap with emphasis on complex rhythm patterns requiring intricate foot articulations and stylistic dance movements.
Notes: May be taken for credit eight times.
Pre-requistites: Approval of instructor.
credit hours: 1

DANC 5110 Capstone
Capstone
Co-requisites: An approved Dance capstone course.
credit hours: 0

DANC 5140 Secondary Methods of Teaching II: Dance Methods
Secondary Methods of Teaching II: Dance Methods
A seminar and practicum course providing opportunities for secondary teacher candidates to acquire skills in teaching methodologies and strategies specific to dance instruction. Topics include organization of subject matter, weekly and unit lesson planning, development of assessments, utilizing information technology for instruction, and working with diverse populations of students. Course activities include observation in college classrooms, conferences with content field specialists, teaching in a secondary classroom, discussion/reflections, demonstration of effective use of standards documents, inquiry activities and a review of effective pedagogical and school improvement literature. This course requires fifty hours of field experience in a middle or high school classroom.
Notes: Education undergraduates must also register for the within course service learning/practicum component EDUC 5890-06.
Pre-requistites: EDLA 2000, EDLA 2890 or EDUC 3250, PSYC 3200, PSYC 3390, EDUC 3400, 3500, 3800, 3820, DANC/EDLA 3610 and progress towards dance degree requirement of Tulane University, including intermediate or advanced proficiency in ballet or modern dance, dance history, survey/language of performance, advanced proficiency in dance composition, performance experience, production and design, and production practicum.
credit hours: 3

DANC 6210 Seminar I: Text and Movement Studies/Solo Performance
Seminar I: Text and Movement Studies/Solo Performance
A graduate level course where choreographers work on individual and collaborative projects that examine the relationship between a variety of texts, existent and original, and communication through movement.  Projects/studies are presented throughout the semester.  Taught in conjunction with MFA in Playwriting, and with direct in-program experience with Performance I (DANC/THEA 2010) for undergraduate students.
Pre-requistites: IDP MFA Acceptance/Department approval required.
credit hours: 3

DANC 6220 Seminar II: Writing About Dance
Seminar II: Writing About Dance
This seminar introduces graduate students to dance research and dance theory by examining the work of contemporary scholars/researchers, dance historians, and dance critics.  The class will cover several aspects of writing about dance, including: research methods; writing a literature review; writing about live performance; writing about dance history; analyzing choreography; writing dance descriptions; writing about the dancing body; and taking theoretical approaches to create original scholarship.
Pre-requistites: IDP MFA Acceptance/Departmental approval required.
credit hours: 3

DANC 6410 Choreography and Media
Choreography and Media
This course provides an introduction to dance for camera in its various forms, from the video-taping and editing of dance for the purpose of documentation, to the creation of dances made specifically for the screen. It provides a brief overview of aesthetic, historic and cultural representations of the body through image and media, and offers a context in which to explore visual imagery and narrative within the frame of the camera/screen, in contrast to that of the proscenium stage. This material is intended as a springboard for further in-depth exploration.
Pre-requistites: IDP MFA Acceptance/Departmental approval required.
credit hours: 3

DANC H4990 Honors Thesis
Honors Thesis
Pre-requistites: Approval of department and Honors Committee.
credit hours: 3

DANC H5000 Honors Thesis
Honors Thesis
Pre-requistites: Approval of department and Honors Committee.
credit hours: 3

DMPR 3910 SPECIAL TOPICS
SPECIAL TOPICS
Specialty courses for undergraduates in Digital Media Production techniques and projects as designed by visiting or permanent faculty teaching in the program. Topics may be drawn from any area of film, television and multimedia production, for example, cinematography, film scoring, sound design, documentary filmmaking, The Purpose and Practice of the Movie Business, and similar topics. Prerequisites vary on the topic. May be repeated for credit on different topics.
credit hours: 3

DMPR 3920 SPECIAL TOPICS
SPECIAL TOPICS
Specialty courses for undergraduates in Digital Media Production techniques and projects as designed by visiting or permanent faculty teaching in the program. Topics may be drawn from any area of film, television and multimedia production, for example, cinematography, film scoring, sound design, documentary filmmaking, The Purpose and Practice of the Movie Business, and similar topics. Prerequisites vary on the topic. May be repeated for credit on different topics.
credit hours: 3

ECON 1010 Introductory Microeconomics
Introductory Microeconomics
An introduction to theory of prices and the allocation of resources. Topics include the pricing of goods and services, the determination of wages and returns to capital, market structure, and international trade.
credit hours: 3

ECON 1020 Introductory Macroeconomics
Introductory Macroeconomics
An introduction to theory of aggregate income, employment, and the price level. Topics include unemployment, alternative monetary and fiscal policies, and economic growth.
credit hours: 3

ECON 1030 Honors Introductory Microeconomics
Honors Introductory Microeconomics
No prerequisites. Open to students with an honors standing only. A reading intensive introduction to microeconomics.
Notes: The course satisfied the ECON 1010 requirement. Students cannot take both ECON 1010 and ECON 1030.
credit hours: 3

ECON 1040 Honors Introductory Macroeconomics
Honors Introductory Macroeconomics
Open to students with an honors standing only. A reading intensive introduction to macroeconomics.
Notes: The course satisfies the ECON 1020 requirement. Students cannot take both 1020 and 1040.
Pre-requistites: ECON 1010 or ECON 1030.
credit hours: 3

ECON 1050 Introduction to Microeconomics for Public Policy
Introduction to Microeconomics for Public Policy
An introduction to theory of prices and the allocation of resources with applications to public policy. Topics include the pricing of goods and services , the determination of wages and returns to capital, market structure, efficiency and equity, welfare economics, externalities, and public goods.
Notes: Counts as course for the new Summer Public Policy Minor
credit hours: 3

ECON 3010 Intermediate Microeconomics
Intermediate Microeconomics
An exposition of modern microeconomic theory. Theory of consumer choice, production cost, product markets, and input markets.
Notes: Students may not receive credit for both Economics 3010 and 3030.
Pre-requistites: ECON 1010 or ECON 1030.
credit hours: 3

ECON 3020 Intermediate Macroeconomics
Intermediate Macroeconomics
An exposition of modern macroeconomic theory. Theory of national income, employment, and the price level. The role of monetary and fiscal policy in economic stabilization and growth.
Pre-requistites: ECON 1020 or ECON 1040.
credit hours: 3

ECON 3030 Intermediate Microeconomics with Calculus
Intermediate Microeconomics with Calculus
An exposition of modern microeconomic theory using calculus. Topics include theory of consumer choice, firm production cost, competitive and noncompetitive market structures, markets with public goods or externalities, and general equilibrium.
Notes: Students may not receive credit for both ECON 3010 and ECON 3030.
Pre-requistites: ECON 1010 or ECON 1030 and MATH 1210.
credit hours: 3

ECON 3100 Economics of Money and Banking
Economics of Money and Banking
Covers both theory of monetary systems and the current structure of United States financial institutions. General topics to be included are monetary systems, financial intermediation and resource allocation, informational value of economy-wide financial markets, the term structure of interest rates, United States financial institutions and their relation to the federal reserve system, regulatory issues, and current tactics in monetary control.
Pre-requistites: ECON 1020 or ECON 1040.
credit hours: 3

ECON 3230 Introduction to Econometrics
Introduction to Econometrics
A one semester introduction to econometric theory and practice. After a brief review of probability theory and descriptive and inferential statistics, we will lay the theoretical foundation for the most commonly used tool in applied economics: linear regression. Our study of linear regression will be based on the Gauss-Markov conditions. The final portion of the course will cover applications and special cases of linear regression. The course will make extensive use of the statistical software Stata.
Pre-requistites: Microeconomics, ECON 1010; A course in statistics.
credit hours: 4

ECON 3320 Urban Economics
Urban Economics
A review of the determinants of the location, size, growth, and form of urban areas. Study of the major issues of contemporary urban life: physical deterioration, growth of ghettos, congestion, pollution, transportation, and land use.
Pre-requistites: ECON 1010 or ECON 1030.
credit hours: 3

ECON 3330 Environment and Natural Resources
Environment and Natural Resources
An introduction to the economic theory of how and why people make decisions that have consequences for the natural environment and the availability of renewable and nonrenewable natural resources. Analysis will include valuation of pollution damages and controls, the use of environmental valuations to determine optimal rates of extraction and utilization of natural resources. The course will apply analytical results to current environmental and natural resources issues.
Pre-requistites: ECON 1010 or ECON 1030.
credit hours: 3

ECON 3340 Government in the Economy
Government in the Economy
An analysis and description of the role of government in the economy with specific applications to the United States. Sources of market failures such as public goods, externalities, and non-competitive practices are discussed. Other topics include theories of public choice, anti-trust legislation, regulation, the pricing of public sector output, and cost-benefit analysis.
Pre-requistites: ECON 1010 or ECON 1030.
credit hours: 3

ECON 3350 Law and Economics
Law and Economics
Economic analysis of legal rules and institutions. Topics include property law, tort law, liability rules, the Coase theorem, and accident and nuisance law. Selected applications of current interest.
Pre-requistites: ECON 1010 or ECON 1030.
credit hours: 3

ECON 3360 Current Economic Issues
Current Economic Issues
An analysis of contemporary macroeconomic and microeconomic issues. Topics will reflect current economic issues.
Pre-requistites: ECON 1020 or ECON 1040.
credit hours: 3

ECON 3370 The World Economy
The World Economy
This course offers a non-technical introduction to the analysis of international economic issues. While we will be primarily interested in developing standard economic approaches to these issues we will also offer a variety of other useful approaches from political science, sociology, and less mainstream parts of economics. Among specific issues to be treated: protectionism, multinational firms, debt crisis, international macroeconomic policy coordination and European integration.
Pre-requistites: ECON 1010 and ECON 1020.
credit hours: 3

ECON 3420 Economic History of the United States
Economic History of the United States
A description and analysis of the principal features of the American economic experience. The colonial relationship with England. The economics of slavery. The industrialization and urbanization of America. Attention also is given to the insight into contemporary problems that can be gained by an examination of our historical experience.
Pre-requistites: ECON 1020 or ECON 1040.
credit hours: 3

ECON 3540 Development Economics
Development Economics
An analysis of the problems of generating economic growth in less developed countries. Alternative strategies for promoting economic growth. The impact of the industrialized Western World on the economic development of poor countries.
Pre-requistites: ECON 1010 or ECON 1030.
credit hours: 3

ECON 3580 Labor and Population in Latin America
Labor and Population in Latin America
An examination of labor markets and demographic problems in Latin America. The course explores in depth dual labor markets, labor union activity in Latin America, migration and fertility change. Basic demographic methods to analyze migration and fertility are taught and the demographic experiences of selected Latin American countries reviewed.
Pre-requistites: ECON 1010 or ECON 1030.
credit hours: 3

ECON 3590 Economic Development of Latin America
Economic Development of Latin America
An introduction to economic issues that are of particular concern to Latin America. Emphasis is placed on understanding the position of Latin America within the world economy by studying measures of development and poverty, discussing theoretical models of structural economic change, and examining changes in international trading relations. As Economics 3590 is a survey course, it is best taken before ECON 4580 and ECON 4660.
Pre-requistites: ECON 1020 or ECON 1040.
credit hours: 3

ECON 3610 Games and Strategic Behavior
Games and Strategic Behavior
This course provides an introduction to game theory -- the formal study of strategic situations -- and its applications.  The course will cover the basic analysis of simultaneous and sequential move games with perfect and imperfect information.  This material will be followed by a number of applications which illustrate how the use of game theory can help us to improve our understanding of strategic behavior in economic, political, and social situations.-
Pre-requistites: ECON 1010 and MATH 1210 (Calculus).-
credit hours: 3

ECON 3720 Contemporary Japanese Economy
Contemporary Japanese Economy
The course provides an objective analysis of the causes and consequences of the post-war Japanese economic development. It examines the historical and institutional background of the contemporary Japanese economy and brings global economic perspective to bear on the U.S.-Japan economic relationship. The course concludes with an assessment of the lessons learned from the Japanese model and its relevance to the U.S. economy.
Pre-requistites: ECON 1020 or ECON 1040.
credit hours: 3

ECON 3740 Asia-Pacific Economic Development
Asia-Pacific Economic Development
The course analyzes economic development in the Asia-Pacific region. It examines the sources of economic growth, financial market conditions and the nature of growing interdependence in the region.
Pre-requistites: ECON 1020 or ECON 1040.
credit hours: 3

ECON 3810 The Economics of Labor
The Economics of Labor
A survey and economic analysis of some contemporary labor market issues. Topics include labor force participation and the economics of retirement, the supply and demand for labor, the demand for education and investment in human capital, unions and collective bargaining, the structure of compensation, occupational choice, job turnover and labor mobility, an introduction to theory of job search as well as various other theories of unemployment. The course focuses on theoretical and empirical aspects of labor economics and is only peripherally concerned with institutional, legal or management aspects.
Pre-requistites: ECON 1020 or ECON 1040.
credit hours: 3

ECON 3820 Economics of Education
Economics of Education
An examination of education from an economics viewpoint. Topics include school finance, school reform, factors that influence school outcome, efficient school size and the relationships between public and private schools.
Pre-requistites: ECON 1010 or ECON 1030.
credit hours: 3

ECON 3830 Economics of Gender
Economics of Gender
The goal of this course is to explore and understand the similarities and differences between men and women from economic perspectives. Based on economic theory and empirical analysis, this course examines how gender differences lead to different economic outcomes for the sexes and evaluates the effectiveness of government and corporate policies aimed to improved the welfare of women.
Pre-requistites: ECON 1010 and ECON 1030.
credit hours: 3

ECON 3880 Writing Practicum
Writing Practicum
Writing practicum. Fulfills the college writing requirement.
credit hours: 1

ECON 3890 Service Learning
Service Learning
Students complete a service activity in the community in conjunction with the content of the corequisite course.
credit hours: 0

ECON 3910 Independent Studies
Independent Studies
credit hours: 1-3

ECON 3920 Independent Studies
Independent Studies
credit hours: 1-3

ECON 3970 Special Studies in Economics
Special Studies in Economics
credit hours: 3

ECON 3980 Special Studies in Economics
Special Studies in Economics
credit hours: 3

ECON 4010 Advanced Topics in Microeconomics
Advanced Topics in Microeconomics
Explores microeconomic issues, including multivariate optimization, fundamentals of general equilibrium theory and game theory, public goods and externalities. Students work with professional material, and learn to prove economic statements and to understand and report research results in economic theory. ECON 6010 is the master's-level equivalent, open to graduate students only.
Pre-requistites: ECON 3010, MATH 1210.
credit hours: 3

ECON 4220 Industrial Organization
Industrial Organization
An examination of the extent of competition and monopoly in different industries. The effects of different forms of governmental regulation and control upon industrial performance. Some empirical evidence pertaining to selected industries. ECON 6220 is the master's-level equivalent.
Pre-requistites: ECON 3010 or ECON 3030.
credit hours: 3

ECON 4230 Econometrics
Econometrics
Building on the statistical techniques learned in Economics 3230, the course concentrates on the principal methods used to correct violations of the basic assumptions of ordinary least squares. ECON 6230 is the master's-level equivalent.
Pre-requistites: ECON 3230 or MATH 3010, or MATH 1110 and MATH 1120.
credit hours: 3

ECON 4240 Financial Decision Making in Firms
Financial Decision Making in Firms
Financial analysis, planning and control in modern business firms includes valuation, cost and allocation of capital, and capital markets. ECON 6240 is the master's-level equivalent.
Pre-requistites: ECON 1010 or 1030, ECON 3010 or 3030, ECON 3230 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ECON 4250 Decisions Under Uncertainty
Decisions Under Uncertainty
The theory and practice of decision-making under uncertain conditions. Applications and examples are drawn from the realm of personal, business, medical and environmental decision-making. ECON 6250 is the master's-level equivalent.
Pre-requistites: ECON 1010 or 1030, ECON 3010 or 3030, ECON 3230 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ECON 4300 Regulation
Regulation
Provides students with an overview of government regulation and the regulatory process, particularly those regulations focusing on health, safety and the environment. We will use theories and evidence from economics, law and policy to help students answer five questions relating to regulation: Why regulate? How are regulatory rules made? How are regulations enforced? How do we determine whether regulations are successful? What alternatives exist to regulation? Students will have an opportunity to apply what they have learned to a regulatory area of their own choosing. ECON 6300 is the master's-level equivalent.
Pre-requistites: ECON 3010.
credit hours: 3

ECON 4330 International Trading Relations
International Trading Relations
An examination of the principles of international trade and the international arrangements that have been established to guide international trade. Specific topics include comparative advantage, the effects of tariffs and quotas, and the substitution of the movement of goods for the movement of capital and labor. ECON 6330 is the master's level equivalent.
Pre-requistites: ECON 3010 or 3030.
credit hours: 3

ECON 4340 International Monetary Relations
International Monetary Relations
An examination of macroeconomic models and policy in the open economy. Topics include the Keynesian approach, purchasing power parity, the monetarist model of the balance of payments, the Mundell-Flemming model, international interdependence and policy coordination, and the exchange rate determination.
Pre-requistites: ECON 3020.
credit hours: 3

ECON 4410 Topics in Mathematical Economics
Topics in Mathematical Economics
A mathematical approach to microeconomic theory with an emphasis on static and dynamic optimization. ECON 6410 is the master's-level equivalent.
Pre-requistites: ECON 3010 or 3030, MATH 1210 and 1220, or approval of instructor.
credit hours: 3

ECON 4500 Health Economics and Policy
Health Economics and Policy
Provides an overview of the field of health economics. Economic theories and tools will be used to study behavior and outcomes in health care markets. Institutional features of the U.S. health care system will be examined. General topics include the demand for health care, determinants and consequences of health, medical technology, the role of health insurance, the behavior of health providers, managed care, comparative health care systems and health policy and reforms. ECON 6500 is the master's-level equivalent.
Pre-requistites: ECON 3010 or ECON 3030.
credit hours: 3

ECON 4510 Advanced Topics in Macroeconomics
Advanced Topics in Macroeconomics
Structure and operation of macroeconomic system, covering both closed and open economies. ECON 6510 is the master's-level equivalent.
Pre-requistites: ECON 3020.
credit hours: 3

ECON 4520 Economics of Public Expenditures
Economics of Public Expenditures
An examination of the economic bases for and evaluation of government expenditure programs. Topics include the rationale for government intervention into the economy, difficulties involved in setting appropriate levels of government activity, and how particular programs should be evaluated and financed. ECON 6520 is the master's-level equivalent.
Pre-requistites: ECON 3010 or 3030.
credit hours: 3

ECON 4530 Economics of Taxation
Economics of Taxation
An analysis of major tax structures used in or proposed for the U.S. Economy. Each tax and the system as a whole will be judged according to the criteria of economic efficiency and tax equity. While emphasis will be national taxes, the local property tax will also be considered. Major alternatives to the present structure will be evaluated.
Pre-requistites: ECON 3010 or 3030.
credit hours: 3

ECON 4570 Internship Studies
Internship Studies
An experiential learning process. Open only to juniors and seniors in good standing.
Co-requisites: SRVC 4890.
credit hours: 1-3

ECON 4580 Labor and Population in Latin America
Labor and Population in Latin America
Writing Intensive. An analysis of the economic relation between labor markets, population movements, poverty, and human capital formation. Theoretical foundations are developed and applied in several Latin America contexts.
Pre-requistites: ECON 3010 or approval of instructor.
credit hours: 3

ECON 4600 Inequality and Poverty in Latin America
Inequality and Poverty in Latin America
Latin America is the region with the highest levels of income inequality and where inequality has been most persistent. Through comparative and in-depth country studies this course analyzes the dynamics of income inequality and poverty in the region focusing on the role of markets and the state. The course includes a review of quantitative methods to measure inequality and poverty and the theories and methods to analyze their determinants. Using a qualitative scorecard, students will learn to assess government efforts to reduce inequality and poverty. The course is largely non-technical and open to graduate and undergraduate students in the social sciences. ECON 6600 is the master's-level equivalent.
Pre-requistites: ECON 1010 and ECON 1020, or permission of instructor.
credit hours: 3

ECON 4610 Game Theory
Game Theory
Introduces the student to the use of game theory in diverse areas such as modern economic research, political science and sociology and, with a suitable reinterpretation of players' objectives, evolutionary processes. Successful students will also be able to understand the games used in these literatures as well as develop their own models of strategic situations. ECON 6610 is the master's-level equivalent.
Pre-requistites: ECON 3010 or 3030.
credit hours: 3

ECON 4660 Seminar on Latin American Economies
Seminar on Latin American Economies
A complement to other courses in the Latin American economics sequence focusing on a particular country or sub-region. ECON 6660 is the master's-level equivalent.  
Pre-requistites: ECON 3010 or 3030.
credit hours: 3

ECON 4670 Writing with Data
Writing with Data
To learn how large databases are employed to guide economic policy-making. Secondary objectives include developing an understanding of how economic theory is integrated with econometric techniques, basic statistical programming, and learning about a Latin American country. Students that successfully complete this course will have learned how to read analytical research papers that are based on large numerical database by writing such an original research paper themselves. They will also develop an elementary working knowledge of UNIX and SAS. ECON 6670 is the master's level equivalent.
Pre-requistites: ECON 3010; ECON 3230 is helpful, as is a working knowledge of Spanish or Portuguese.
credit hours: 3

ECON 4960 Capstone
Capstone
Open to senior majors only. There is no master's level equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ECON 4970 Special Studies in Economics
Special Studies in Economics
credit hours: 3

ECON 4980 Special Studies in Economics
Special Studies in Economics
credit hours: 3

ECON 6300 Regulation
Regulation
This course will provide students with an overview of government regulation and the regulatory process, particularly those regulations focusing on health, safety, and the environment. We will use theories and evidence from economics, law, and policy to help students answer five questions relating to regulation: Why regulate? How are regulatory rules made? How are regulations enforced? How do we determine whether regulations are successful? What alternatives exist to regulation? Students will have an opportunity to apply what they have learned to a regulatory area of their own choosing.
Pre-requistites: ECON 3010.
credit hours: 3

ECON 6600 Inequality and poverty in Latin America
Inequality and poverty in Latin America
Comparative analysis and in-depth country studies of inequality and poverty in Latin America. Topics include measures of inequality and poverty; causes and consequences of inequality and poverty; and, assessment of public policies and their effectiveness. The course is largely non-technical and open to graduate and undergraduate students in the social sciences.
Pre-requistites: ECON 1010, ECON 1020, or instructor's approval.
credit hours: 3

ECON 7160 Econometrics I
Econometrics I
credit hours: 3

ECON 7170 Econometrics II
Econometrics II
credit hours: 3

ECON 7510 Advanced Price Theory
Advanced Price Theory
credit hours: 3

ECON 7520 Advanced Price Theory II
Advanced Price Theory II
credit hours: 3

ECON 7530 Advanced Income and Employment Theory I
Advanced Income and Employment Theory I
credit hours: 3

ECON 7980 Independent Studies
Independent Studies
credit hours: 1-3

ECON 7990 Independent Studies
Independent Studies
credit hours: 1-3

ECON 9980 Master's Research
Master's Research
credit hours: 0

ECON 9990 Dissertation Research
Dissertation Research
credit hours: 0

ECON H4910 Independent Studies
Independent Studies
Open to outstanding juniors and seniors.
credit hours: 3

ECON H4920 Independent Studies
Independent Studies
Notes: Open to outstanding juniors and seniors.
credit hours: 3

ECON H4990 Honors Thesis
Honors Thesis
Credit is not given for H4990 until satisfactory completion of H5000.
Pre-requistites: Approval of department and Honors Committee.
credit hours: 3

ECON H5000 Honors Thesis
Honors Thesis
Credit is not given for H4990 until satisfactory completion of H5000.
Pre-requistites: Approval of department and Honors Committee.
credit hours: 3

ECON H5000 Honors Thesis
Honors Thesis
Notes: Credit is not given for H4990 until satisfactory completion of H5000.
Pre-requistites: Approval of department and Honors Committee.
credit hours: 3

ENGL 1010 Writing
Writing
ENGL1010 is a 4-credit hour course that satisfies the freshman writing requirement and must be taken in the fall or spring of the freshman year. It introduces students to the writing of academic arguments, including analytic reading and research techniques for a variety of disciplines in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Students with an AP credit score of 4 or 5 in English do not have to take ENGL 1010. Some entering students will be required to take CESL 1000 before taking ENGL 1010. Questions should be directed to the student advisor and the Director of Freshman Writing, Professor T.R. Johnson, in the Department of English.
credit hours: 4

ENGP 4400 Music and Digital Signal Processing
Music and Digital Signal Processing
This course will introduce the student to the breadth and depth of signal processing used in musical applications.  The course will cover fundamentals of signal processing and familiarize the student with classic computer music theories as well as state-of-the art topics for sound synthesis, analysis, and composition.  Students will work in Matlab, or their preferred language.  No prior experience with Matlab is required. 
credit hours: 3

ENGP 4410 Music Performance Systems
Music Performance Systems
This course is a HCI (Human Computer Interface)-based course with a concentration in musical applications.  The course will be hands-on, writing code, building circuits with conjunction of microcontrollers and sensors. 
credit hours: 3

ENLS 1190 Freshman Writing Seminar
Freshman Writing Seminar
An introduction to the writing of academic arguments, including analytical reading and research techniques. Focus on the goals and skills appropriate to writing in a variety of disciplines in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 2000 Literary Investigations
Literary Investigations
An introduction to the analysis and interpretation of literary texts; the relevance of literature to individuals, communities, and nations; and the critical thinking, writing, and research skills used in literary study. Topics include critical approaches to interpretation; formal qualities of texts; historical, political, and social contexts; and relationships to other forms of expression. Each section investigates literature through specific issues, themes, or topics. 400-level courses assume familiarity with skills, methods, and terms of literary analysis covered in ENLS 200.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 2010 Introduction to British Literature I
Introduction to British Literature I
An introduction to the history of British literature from the Anglo-Saxon and medieval periods through the 18th century. Emphasis on the development of genres, literary conventions, and the relations between historical conditions and literary production.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 1010 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 2020 Introduction to British Literature II
Introduction to British Literature II
An introduction to the history of British literature from the 19th century to the present. Emphasis on the development of genres, literary conventions, and the relations between historical conditions and literary production.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 2030 Introduction to American Literature
Introduction to American Literature
An introduction to the history of American literature from the colonial period to the present. Emphasis on the development of genres, literary conventions, and the relations between historical conditions and literary production.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 2630 Expository Writing
Expository Writing
A course in methods of written analysis.
credit hours: 4

ENLS 3010 Special Topics
Special Topics
Specific topics announced each semester, such as science fiction, literature and war, etc.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 3110 Introduction to the Novel
Introduction to the Novel
A study of novels written in English representing the variety of fictional techniques and structures.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 3120 Introduction to the Short Story
Introduction to the Short Story
A study of the short story as a genre. Some attention to theories of the short story and to the elements that distinguish it from other forms of narrative prose.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 3130 Introduction to Drama
Introduction to Drama
A study of plays written in English representing the variety of dramatic types and forms.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 3140 Introduction to Poetry
Introduction to Poetry
A study of poems, selected from the whole range of poetry in English representing the variety of poetic techniques and structures.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 3230 Shakespeare: Selected Plays
Shakespeare: Selected Plays
A study of plays in a variety of genres, including tragedy, history, comedy, and romance.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 3300 Editing
Editing
credit hours: 3

ENLS 3610 Introduction to Creative Writing
Introduction to Creative Writing
A craft class in the writing of short fiction and poetry. Exercises to develop each student's personal voice. Group criticism of student work.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 3620 Workshop in Creative Writing
Workshop in Creative Writing
Intensive workshop in creative writing, usually with a visiting professor.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies. May be repeated for credit on different topics.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 3630 Advanced Expository Writing
Advanced Expository Writing
A course in written analysis on social and cultural concerns.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Fulfills the college intensive-writing requirement
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 3640 Screenwriting
Screenwriting
Expressive strategies and formal considerations relevant to writing for television and cinema. Workshop format requires sustained analysis of professional screenplays as well as student work.
Pre-requistites: ENLS 361 or 410.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 3650 Persuasive Writing
Persuasive Writing
Emphasis on principles of reasoning and strategies of written argument. This course satisfies the Louisiana State Department of Education's requirement of advanced composition for certification in English.
Notes: Fulfills the college intensive-writing requirement. Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 4

ENLS 3670 Technical Writing
Technical Writing
Communicating technical information in abstracts, executive summaries, technical memoranda, process descriptions, amplified technical definitions, progress reports, feasibility studies and proposals. Major emphasis given to research reports and editing procedures.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 3730 Introduction to African-American Literature
Introduction to African-American Literature
The historical development of literary traditions of African-American writing from slave narratives through contemporary authors. Emphasis on a variety of oral and written genres.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 3750 American Life in American Literature, 1620-1864
American Life in American Literature, 1620-1864
Notes: Equivalent: six credits of American literature approved by the American Studies Director.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 3760 American Life in American Literature, 1865-1940
American Life in American Literature, 1865-1940
A study of American literature (principally fiction) that emphasizes its reflection of the social, cultural, and intellectual characteristics of American life from the Civil War to the Second World War.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 3880 Writing Intensive Practicum
Writing Intensive Practicum
Notes: Fulfills the college intensive-writing requirement. Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: Successful completion of the First-Year Writing Requirement.
Co-requisites: Three-credit departmental course.
credit hours: 1

ENLS 3890 Introduction to Women's Literature
Introduction to Women's Literature
A study of the representations of women in 19th- and 20th-century literature in a variety of genres, with emphasis on texts written by women.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 0

ENLS 3900 Service Learning
Service Learning
Students complete a service activity in the community in conjunction with the content of the three-credit co-requisite course.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4010 Special Topics
Special Topics
Specific topics announced each semester, such as literature and the Bible or the epic tradition.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4030 Literary New Orleans
Literary New Orleans
A study of literary works which are set in New Orleans or otherwise have connections with the city.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4060 The Teaching of Writing
The Teaching of Writing
This course prepares students to become teachers of writing by introducing them to fundamental theories and practices in the discipline of rhetoric and composition.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4080 Modern Literature
Modern Literature
Study of poets, novelists, and dramatists writing in English since 1900.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4090 Contemporary Literature
Contemporary Literature
British, American, and continental poetry, prose, and drama since 1945.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4100 Literature and Film
Literature and Film
Study of the relationship between written narratives, principally short stories and novels, and film, with special attention to the distinctive effects and limitations of each medium and to the problems that screenwriters and directors encounter in adapting a written work to a visual form. Consideration of theoretical literature on the problem of adaptation.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4110 Middle English Literature
Middle English Literature
Major works of Middle English literature 1100 1500, exclusive of Chaucer, from The Owl and the Nightingale through the works of Sir Thomas Malory. Readings in Middle English.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4120 Medieval Literature
Medieval Literature
Major works in Old and Middle English literature, as well as relevant continental literature. Readings in translation.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4130 Renaissance Literature
Renaissance Literature
British poetry, prose and drama of the 16th and early 17th centuries.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4140 17th-Century Literature
17th-Century Literature
British poetry, prose, and drama to 1660.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4150 Early Modern Drama
Early Modern Drama
Study of drama, one of the chief genres of the period, from late medieval to late 18th century.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4170 18th-Century Novel
18th-Century Novel
The novel from Defoe through Austen.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4190 Restoration and 18th-Century Literature
Restoration and 18th-Century Literature
British poetry, prose, and drama from 1660 through 1800.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4210 19th-Century Novel
19th-Century Novel
The major authors of the 19th-century British novel, including Austen, Scott, Dickens, Collins, Eliot, Thackeray, Hardy, and Conrad. The course emphasizes the invention and transformation of genres (domestic, Gothic, historical sensation, realist) in historical and cultural context.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4220 19th-Century Literature
19th-Century Literature
Emphasizes the dominant literary modes of the period, including cross-cultural and transnational relationships contributing to their development.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4230 Romantic Literature
Romantic Literature
Representative works of the period from the French Revolution to the ascension of Queen Victoria by major authors such as Radcliffe, Blake, Paine, Austen, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Edgeworth, Keats, Percy Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Byron, and Scott in historical and cultural context.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4240 Victorian Studies
Victorian Studies
British poetry, prose, and drama from 1830-1914. Representative works treated in the historical and cultural context of the Victorian expansion of the British Empire and its aftermath.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4250 Modern British Literature
Modern British Literature
Twentieth-century British fiction, poetry, and drama.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4260 Modern Irish Literature
Modern Irish Literature
This course will concentrate for about half the semester on the poetry and plays of W.B. Yeats and the fiction of James Joyce. The remainder of the term will be devoted to the plays of J.M. Synge, Lady Gregory, and Sean O'Casey as well as one or two other writers, such as George Bernard Shaw, James Stephen, Samuel Beckett, or Seamus Heaney. Attention will be given not only to the works themselves but also to their cultural and historical contexts.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4300 African Literature
African Literature
A study of the literatures from Africa, primarily Anglophone, with some texts in translation included.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4310 American Literature to 1820
American Literature to 1820
Representative works from the colonial period to 1820.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4360 Antebellum American Literature
Antebellum American Literature
American literature of the mid-19th century.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4370 19th-Century American Literature
19th-Century American Literature
American literature of the 19th century.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4400 Modern American Literature
Modern American Literature
Representative works of the 20th century.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4410 Contemporary American Literature
Contemporary American Literature
Major tendencies in American poetry, fiction, and drama since 1945.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4420 Southern Literature
Southern Literature
A survey of Southern writers and their works from the period of exploration and settlement to the present.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4430 Caribbean Literature
Caribbean Literature
A study of the literatures from the Caribbean, primarily anglophone, although texts from other areas of the Caribbean may be studies in translation. The Caribbean will be explored as part of the Americas, and connections will be made with New Orleans in particular and the American South in general.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4440 Issues in African-American Literature
Issues in African-American Literature
Analysis of specific issues in relation to works by African-American writers, such as: questions of audience, the relation between literary production and its political context, the representation of relations between African-American men and women, the reception and influence of African-American works in American culture.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4450 Chaucer
Chaucer
A study of Chaucer's major works, with emphasis on The Canterbury Tales.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4460 Shakespeare I
Shakespeare I
Treatment of plays from different genres and in different historical, literary, and cultural contexts.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4470 Shakespeare II
Shakespeare II
Treatment of plays from different genres and in different historical, literary, and cultural contexts.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4480 Milton
Milton
A study of Milton's major works in poetry and prose.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4490 Earlier Major Authors
Earlier Major Authors
Study of one or two major authors of the period, such as Malory, Spenser, Pope, Fielding, and Austen.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies. May be repeated for credit with a different author.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4500 Later Major Authors
Later Major Authors
Study of one or two major authors of the period, such as Wordsworth, Dickens, Dickinson, Melville, Eliot, Yeats, Woolf, Faulkner, and Morrison.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies. May be repeated for credit with a different author.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4510 Later Major Authors
Later Major Authors
Study of one or two major authors of the period, such as Wordsworth, Dickens, Dickinson, Melville, Eliot, Yeats, Woolf, Faulkner, and Morrison. May be repeated for credit with a different author.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4570 Internship Studies
Internship Studies
An experiential learning process coupled with pertinent academic course work. Open only to juniors and seniors in good standing. Registration is completed in the academic department sponsoring the internship.
Notes: A maximum of six credits may be earned in one or two courses. Only one internship may be completed per semester.
Pre-requistites: Approval of department.
credit hours: 1-3

ENLS 4610 Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop
Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop
A seminar focused on production and criticism of student work, including reading and analysis of fictional models.
Notes: May be repeated for credit.
Pre-requistites: ENLS 361 or 362, and approval of instructor.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4620 Advanced Poetry Writing Workshop
Advanced Poetry Writing Workshop
A seminar focused on production and criticism of student work, including reading and analysis of poetic models.
Notes: May be repeated for credit.
Pre-requistites: ENLS 361 or 362, and approval of instructor.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4660 Topics in Advanced Creative Writing
Topics in Advanced Creative Writing
A workshop emphasizing the writing of creative nonfiction, biography, autobiography, screenplays, long poems, and novels. The class is designed to allow students to work in genres not emphasized in ENLS 461 Advanced Fiction Writing or ENLS 462 Advanced Poetry Writing.
Notes: May be repeated for credit on different topics.
Pre-requistites: Approval of instructor.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4710 Introduction to Literary Theory
Introduction to Literary Theory
Investigation of assumptions and methods of selected ancient and modern critics. Some practical criticism to allow the students to become more aware of the implications of their own assumptions about literature and criticism.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4720 Feminist Literary Theory
Feminist Literary Theory
An examination of the major projects of feminist literary theory: uncovering or rediscovering women's literature; engaging in feminist re-readings of canonical texts; describing a feminist poetics. Attention to the history of feminist criticism.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4750 New Media Theory
New Media Theory
This course will explore the conceptual frameworks and theories that are essential to an understanding of modern media, a succession of new media including photography, film, and digital media.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4760 Topics in Literary Theory
Topics in Literary Theory
Sustained study of topics such as representation, interpretation, intention, theories of language, and literary theory and philosophy.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4810 Introduction to Cultural Criticism
Introduction to Cultural Criticism
Examination of the major concepts of culture from the late 19th century to the present as they relate to the analysis of cultural practices and literary texts. Specific emphasis on the interdisciplinary nature of cultural analysis, the relation between elite and popular cultures, dominant formations and the resistance to them, and intercultural encounters.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4820 Colonial and Post-Colonial Discourse
Colonial and Post-Colonial Discourse
Methods of analysis appropriate to the study of the literature produced by intercultural exchanges between Western and non-Western cultures. Specific emphasis on the Anglophone literature of the Caribbean, Africa, and India.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4830 Race, Class, and Gender
Race, Class, and Gender
Study of the textual representations of three forms of difference - race, class, and gender - and their intersections with issues of power and agency.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4840 Performance Studies
Performance Studies
Study of the various categories that encompass performance, such as dance, drama, ritual, festival, and parade, and of texts that embody, describe, or enact performances.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4850 Cultural Politics and Practice
Cultural Politics and Practice
Study of the intersections and negotiations between cultural production and political institutions. Specific topics include literary representations of disease or poverty, and literature and the law.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4860 Topics in Cultural Studies
Topics in Cultural Studies
Sustained study of topics such as nationality, popular culture, cultural institutions, and postmodernism.
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: English 101 or equivalent.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4870 Global Literatures
Global Literatures
The Global Literatures course explores several major literary traditions as they come in contact with one another: the course typically includes Western, Arabic-Islamic, Chinese, and Latin American Literatures in historical and cultural context.
Pre-requistites: ENLS 2000.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 4910 Independent Studies
Independent Studies
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: Approval of instructor and chair of department.
credit hours: 1-3

ENLS 4920 Independent Studies
Independent Studies
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Pre-requistites: Approval of instructor and chair of department.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 5010 Capstone Seminars
Capstone Seminars
Specific subjects are announced each semester.
Notes: Course enrollment limited to 15. Meets capstone requirement.
Pre-requistites: ENLS 200.
credit hours: 4

ENLS 5020 Seminars
Seminars
Specific subjects are announced each semester.
Notes: Course enrollment limited to 15.
Pre-requistites: ENLS 200.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 5110 Seminar in British Literature to 1800
Seminar in British Literature to 1800
Pre-requistites: ENLS 200.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 5310 Seminar in American Literature to 1820
Seminar in American Literature to 1820
Pre-requistites: ENLS 200.
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6020 Structure of the English Language
Structure of the English Language
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6050 History of the English Language
History of the English Language
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6070 Introduction to Old English
Introduction to Old English
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6080 Modern Literature
Modern Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6090 Contemporary Literature
Contemporary Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6100 Literature and Film
Literature and Film
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6120 Medieval Literature
Medieval Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6130 Renaissance Literature
Renaissance Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6170 18 Century Literature
18 Century Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6190 Restoration and 18th Century Literature
Restoration and 18th Century Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6210 19th Century Novel
19th Century Novel
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6220 19th Century Literature
19th Century Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6230 Romantic Literature
Romantic Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6240 Victorian Studies
Victorian Studies
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6250 Modern British Literature
Modern British Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6310 American Literature
American Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6360 American Renaissance
American Renaissance
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6370 19th Century American Literature
19th Century American Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6400 Modern American Literature
Modern American Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6410 Contemporary American Literature
Contemporary American Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6420 Southern Literature
Southern Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6440 African-American Literature
African-American Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6450 Chaucer
Chaucer
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6460 Shakespear
Shakespear
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6470 Shakespear
Shakespear
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6480 Milton
Milton
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6490 Early Major Authors
Early Major Authors
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6500 Later Major Authors
Later Major Authors
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6510 Later Major Authors
Later Major Authors
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6620 Creative Writing
Creative Writing
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6710 Introduction to Literary Theory
Introduction to Literary Theory
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6720 Femminist Literary Theory
Femminist Literary Theory
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6760 Topics in Literary Theory
Topics in Literary Theory
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6810 Introduction to Cultural Criticism
Introduction to Cultural Criticism
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6820 Colonial and Post - Colonial Discourse
Colonial and Post - Colonial Discourse
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6830 Race, Class, and Gender
Race, Class, and Gender
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6840 Performance Studies
Performance Studies
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6850 Cultural Politics and Practice
Cultural Politics and Practice
credit hours: 3

ENLS 6860 Topics in Cultural Studies
Topics in Cultural Studies
credit hours: 3

ENLS 7050 Bibliography and Methods of Literary Research
Bibliography and Methods of Literary Research
credit hours: 3

ENLS 7150 Theories of Rhetoric and Compostion
Theories of Rhetoric and Compostion
credit hours: 3

ENLS 7250 Seminar in Medieval Literature
Seminar in Medieval Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 7260 Seminar in Medieval Literature
Seminar in Medieval Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 7270 Seminar in Medieval Literature
Seminar in Medieval Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 7280 Seminar in Medieval Literature
Seminar in Medieval Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 7350 Seminar in Renaissance Literature
Seminar in Renaissance Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 7360 Seminar in Renaissance Literature
Seminar in Renaissance Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 7360 Seminar in Renaissance Literature
Seminar in Renaissance Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 7370 Seminar in Renaissance Literature
Seminar in Renaissance Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 7380 Seminar in Renaissance Literature
Seminar in Renaissance Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 7450 Seminar in 18th Century Literature
Seminar in 18th Century Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 7460 Seminar In 18th-Century Literature
Seminar In 18th-Century Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 7470 Seminar In 18th-Century Literature
Seminar In 18th-Century Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 7480 Seminar In 18th-Century Literature
Seminar In 18th-Century Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 7550 Seminar in 19th-Century Literature
Seminar in 19th-Century Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 7560 Seminar in 19th-Century Literature
Seminar in 19th-Century Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 7570 Seminar in 19th-Century Literature
Seminar in 19th-Century Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 7580 Seminar in 19th-Century Literature
Seminar in 19th-Century Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 7750 Seminar in American Literature
Seminar in American Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 7760 Seminar in American Literature
Seminar in American Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 7770 Seminar in American Literature
Seminar in American Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 7780 Seminar in American Literature
Seminar in American Literature
credit hours: 3

ENLS 7990 Independent Studies
Independent Studies
credit hours: 3

ENLS 9980 Master's Research
Master's Research
credit hours: 0

ENLS 9990 Dissertation Research
Dissertation Research
credit hours: 0

ENLS H4990 Senior Honors Thesis
Senior Honors Thesis
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Meets capstone requirement.
Pre-requistites: Approval of department.
credit hours: 3

ENLS H5000 Senior Honors Thesis
Senior Honors Thesis
Notes: Exemption from the prerequisite may be requested from the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Meets capstone requirement.
Pre-requistites: Approval of department.
credit hours: 3

EVST 1010 Introduction to Environmental Studies
Introduction to Environmental Studies
credit hours: 3

EVST 1040 Global Environmental Change
Global Environmental Change
credit hours: 3

EVST 1120 Historical Geology
Historical Geology
credit hours: 3

EVST 1140 Historical Geology Lab
Historical Geology Lab
credit hours: 1

EVST 1890 Service Learning
Service Learning
credit hours: 0

EVST 2010 Disease Ecology and Public Health
Disease Ecology and Public Health
credit hours: 3

EVST 2020 Evolution in Human Health and Disease
Evolution in Human Health and Disease
credit hours: 3

EVST 2030 Natural Disasters
Natural Disasters
credit hours: 3

EVST 2050 Global Change Biology
Global Change Biology
credit hours: 3

EVST 2060 Introductory Geography
Introductory Geography
credit hours: 3

EVST 2070 Weather and Climate
Weather and Climate
credit hours: 3

EVST 2080 Conservation of Biological Diversity
Conservation of Biological Diversity
credit hours: 3

EVST 2220 Energy Markets and Institutions
Energy Markets and Institutions
credit hours: 3

EVST 2500 Environmental Chemistry
Environmental Chemistry
credit hours: 3

EVST 2600 Environmental Sociology
Environmental Sociology
credit hours: 3

EVST 2610 Natural Resource Conservation: Theory and Practice
Natural Resource Conservation: Theory and Practice
credit hours: 3

EVST 2890 Service Learning
Service Learning
credit hours: 3

EVST 3030 Literature and the Environment
Literature and the Environment
credit hours: 3

EVST 3040 Survey of Environmental Health Sciences
Survey of Environmental Health Sciences
credit hours: 3

EVST 3050 Environmental Performance
Environmental Performance
credit hours: 3

EVST 3100 Urban Geography
Urban Geography
credit hours: 3

EVST 3140 Primate Ecology and Behavior
Primate Ecology and Behavior
credit hours: 3

EVST 3180 Plants and Human Affairs
Plants and Human Affairs
credit hours: 3

EVST 3300 Natural Landscapes and Built Form
Natural Landscapes and Built Form
credit hours: 3

EVST 3330 Environment and Natural Resources
Environment and Natural Resources
credit hours: 3

EVST 3340 Humanity's Place in Nature
Humanity's Place in Nature
credit hours: 3

EVST 3510 Environmental Communication
Environmental Communication
credit hours: 3

EVST 3550 Archaeology of Cultural Landscapes
Archaeology of Cultural Landscapes
credit hours: 3

EVST 3560 Environmental Archaeology
Environmental Archaeology
credit hours: 3

EVST 3570 Mississippi River in History
Mississippi River in History
credit hours: 3

EVST 3600 Forestry and Public Policy
Forestry and Public Policy
credit hours: 3

EVST 3670 Sustainable Cultures and Communities
Sustainable Cultures and Communities
credit hours: 3

EVST 3700 Environmental Anthropology
Environmental Anthropology
Critically reviews case studies of ecosystemic and energetic relations between human populations, cultures, and the environment in diverse ethnographic settings of the world, such as Amazonia, the Great Basin, New Guinea, and Southeast Asia. Examines the historical emergence of ecological paradigms in anthropology. Compares the modern contributions of cultural ecology, evolutionary ecology, ethnoecology, and historical ecology. Evaluates potential contributions of ecological anthropology to general ecology.
credit hours: 3

EVST 3710 Historical Ecology of Amazonia
Historical Ecology of Amazonia
credit hours: 3

EVST 3720 Infrastructure of Sustainable Urban Environments
Infrastructure of Sustainable Urban Environments
credit hours: 3

EVST 3880 Writing Practicum
Writing Practicum
credit hours: 3

EVST 3890 Service Learning
Service Learning
credit hours: 1

EVST 3910 Special Topics in Distribution and Conservation of Living Things
Special Topics in Distribution and Conservation of Living Things
credit hours: 3

EVST 3920 Special Topics in Landscapes and Seascapes Through Time
Special Topics in Landscapes and Seascapes Through Time
credit hours: 3

EVST 3930 Special Topics in Problems in Problems, Potentialities of Built Environments
Special Topics in Problems in Problems, Potentialities of Built Environments
credit hours: 3

EVST 3950 Special Topics in Environmental Thought, Practice, and Policy
Special Topics in Environmental Thought, Practice, and Policy
credit hours: 3

EVST 3960 Special Topics in Civic Engagement and Local Environments
Special Topics in Civic Engagement and Local Environments
credit hours: 3

EVST 3970 Environmental Analysis Lab
Environmental Analysis Lab
credit hours: 3

EVST 4040 General Ecology
General Ecology
credit hours: 3

EVST 4110 Tropical Ecology
Tropical Ecology
credit hours: 3

EVST 4190 Wetlands Ecology
Wetlands Ecology
credit hours: 3

EVST 4210 Seminar in Historical Ecology
Seminar in Historical Ecology
credit hours: 3

EVST 4230 Environmental Politics
Environmental Politics
credit hours: 3

EVST 4270 Population Ecology
Population Ecology
credit hours: 3

EVST 4560 Internship Studies
Internship Studies
credit hours: 1-3

EVST 4570 Internship Studies
Internship Studies
credit hours: 1-3

EVST 4620 Global Environmental Politics
Global Environmental Politics
credit hours: 3

EVST 4650 Senior Colloquium in Environmental Studies
Senior Colloquium in Environmental Studies
Notes: This is a required course.
credit hours: 3

EVST 4880 Writing Practicum
Writing Practicum
credit hours: 1

EVST 4890 Service Learning
Service Learning
credit hours: 3

EVST 4910 Independent Studies
Independent Studies
credit hours: 1-3

EVST 4990 Honors Thesis
Honors Thesis
credit hours: 3

EVST 5000 Honors Thesis
Honors Thesis
credit hours: 4

FMST 5110 Capstone
Capstone
This course will enable students to integrate knowledge about the specific nature of film as a medium and the history of theoretical debates that have shaped the study of film and of cinema. It will also provide students with an opportunity to apply the formal and theoretical knowledge gained from the two required courses for the major to consider new theoretical problems about cinema, revisions, and reassessments of earlier debates in film studies and related fields, questions of national cinema, and/or new developments in filmmaking. This course, which carries 0 credit, is combined with a capstone designated course (3 credits) or a special topics course that is designated as a capstone (3 credits).  Consult department for the list of aproved courses.
credit hours: 0

FREN 1010 Elementary French I
Elementary French I
An introduction to the five skills of language acquisition: reading, writing, listening, speaking, and cultural understanding.
credit hours: 4

FREN 1020 Elementary French II
Elementary French II
A continuation of the objectives presented in French I.
Pre-requistites: FREN 1010.
credit hours: 4