Fall 2016 First Year Seminars Brochure

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First Year Seminars
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First Year Seminars
For Your Success!
FALL 2016
How can you make the best transition to college and share the excitement of Carolina’s intellectual
life and research community? Students and faculty agree: enroll in a First Year Seminar.
photo by dan sears , unc - chapel hill
Carolina’s First Year Seminar (FYS) Program provides a unique academic
opportunity within our broader curriculum. FYS are small (no more than
24 students), taught by our best instructors, and address topics that are on
the frontier of scholarship or research. FYS give you the opportunity to work
together with faculty and classmates in a shared experience that provides a
hands-on preview of the world of engaged scholarship at Carolina.
A note from Drew Coleman
Assistant Dean for First Year Seminars
For more information
Talk with your advisor at
Orientation this summer.
The academic advising office
can be reached at (919) 966-5116.
Explore the First Year Seminars
Program website at fys.unc.edu.
Contact the First Year Seminars
office at (919) 843-7773 or
[email protected].
FYS are “regular courses” in the sense that they are one semester in duration,
offered in the fall and spring, provide three credit hours, and meet General
Education requirements. FYS go beyond “regular courses” in their emphasis
on active learning, which usually includes class discussion and other modes of
engagement such as fieldwork, artistic performances, class trips, presentations,
projects, or experiments. FYS also help refine your ability to communicate
clearly and persuasively in a wide array of formats. Perhaps most importantly,
FYS are designed to be lively and fun, promoting collaboration in scholarship
and intellectual discovery.
plan ahead
Many students are attracted by the FYS that are directly relevant to their interests,
but this strategy is a bit shortsighted because all students will eventually enroll in
advanced courses in their major. Enrolling in an FYS is an opportunity for you to
explore topics that are new and unfamiliar. Not only does this experience expand
your mind (and possibly, your career path), but also it provides an opportunity to
complete some of the more challenging curricular requirements in a pleasant way.
FYS have limited capacity and thus fill up quickly. A successful strategy for
registration is to identify a dozen or more FYS that would be of interest and put
them in your “shopping cart” in ConnectCarolina (use the FYS list on the back
of this brochure to help get organized). When registration is available on-line you
can continue seeking seats in your target FYS and also view all FYS that have open
seats. Finally, registration continues during the first week of classes. Most FYS are
offered only once in an academic year, but we offer almost as many FYS in the
spring semester as we do in the fall semester.
Be wise and take advantage of this valuable learning experience!
Contact Dean Coleman at
(919) 962-0705 or [email protected].
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CHEM 89.001: Chemistry of Biomedical Implants – ADDED 6/10/2016
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Mark Schoenfisch
TuTh, 3:30 – 4:45pm
Recent scientific advances have led to major innovations in medicine and patient care. While biomedical implants improve the quality of life of many individuals, the true utility of most devices remains
rather limited due to insufficient biocompatibility. This first-year seminar will focus on the underlying
chemical composition and physical properties of materials used to fabricate medical implants. We will
focus on how such properties impact cost, physiological response, and intended utility. Readings and
discussions will form the basis for developing a questioning mind and an objective attitude toward
chemistry. Ethical issues and legal aspects related to the development of new biomaterials will also be
discussed.
Mark Schoenfisch is a Professor of Chemistry and Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering. He is an
analytical chemist, and his lab explores the design and fabrication of chemical sensors for probing physiological
analytes including glucose and nitric oxide. Outside of chemistry he enjoys coffee, travel, and photography.
POLI 65: Organized Interest in American Politics – ADDED 5/18/2016
SS
Virginia Gray
TuTh, 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM
Bank of America, the Sierra Club, the National Rifle Association, UNC, and the Allied Underwear
Association–what do they have in common? They are all interest organizations that employ lobbyists
in Washington, D.C. As social scientists, we can use a common framework to analyze these and other
organized interests: Why are there so many of them? Where do they come from? Are they ruining
democracy? Can there be democracy without groups? What can we do about groups? Each student
will select an interest group to track throughout the semester, and a series of web-based assignments
will culminate in an analysis paper. Other assignments will involve participating in debates and
group generation of reform proposals.
Virginia Gray joined the UNC faculty in 2001 as Winston Distinguished Professor of Political Science, after
spending many years at the University of Minnesota. She received her Ph.D. from Washington University
where she studied with the eminent scholar of interest groups, Robert Salisbury. Her specialties are state politics
and public policy. Since 1988, her major research focus has been collaborative work with Professor David
Lowery on interest groups. They have published a book and fifty journal articles on interest groups, and their
work has been supported by two grants from the National Science Foundation and one from the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation. Dr. Gray also brings practical credentials: she was a registered lobbyist in the state of
Minnesota and the head of a PAC, for the U of M Faculty Association. In her spare time she can be found
cheering on the Tar Heels at the Dean Dome.
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Beyond the North Atlantic
Communication Intensive
Experiential Education
Global Issues
Historical Analysis
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QI
Literary Arts
North Atlantic World
Philosophical and Moral Reasoning
Physical and Life Sciences
Quantitative Intensive
african, african american,
and diaspora studies
aaad
50.001:
defining blackness
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SS
US
VP
WB
Quantitative Reasoning
Social and Behavioral Sciences
U.S. Diversity
Visual and Performing Arts
World before 1750
american studies
amst 60.001: american indians in history,
law, and literature
SS, US
HS, US
Candis Watts Smith
TuTh, 9:30–10:45am
Daniel M. Cobb
MW, 3:35–4:50pm
The boundaries of Blackness are constantly in flux, and
pinning down an accurate definition of Blackness in the
U.S., to be specific, is becoming an increasing complicated
task due to changing social norms, immigration, emigration,
the increasing number of immigrants from Africa and the
Caribbean, the growing number of multi-racial persons and
even increasing socioeconomic bifurcation among those
traditionally categorized as Black. Who is included in the
definition of Black is not only a matter of color and history but
also of politics, culture and self-identification. Over the course
of the semester, we will engage in the debates around Blackness.
We will examine scholarly texts and government documents
as well as film, novels and memoirs. Our goal is to attempt to
define Blackness as well as to understand the mechanisms that
influence the boundaries and definition of Blackness.
Professor Candis Watts Smith tends to ask research questions that blur disciplinary
lines; many of the questions she poses can only be answered by considering bodies
of literature, theoretical frameworks and methodological strategies found in
Sociology, Political Science, Psychology and Public Policy. Her research interests
focuses on American political behavior and Racial and Ethnic Politics. Here, she
focuses on individuals’ and groups’ policy preferences, particularly around social
policies that exacerbate or ameliorate disparities and inequality between groups.
This research seminar provides a broad grounding in American
Indian law, history and literature through an exploration of
the remarkable life and times of Flathead author, intellectual
and activist D’Arcy McNickle (1904-1977). We will read
D’Arcy McNickle’s novels, short stories, histories and essays,
as well as secondary works about him. Even better, we will be
working with D’Arcy McNickle’s handwritten and heretofore
unpublished diary. You will have an opportunity to transcribe
and contextualize passages and then share (probably through
digital technologies) what you have learned about history, law,
literature (and much, much more) through his life story. Rather
than just being a passive recipient of information, you will be
creator of new knowledge!
Daniel M. Cobb is an award-winning writer and teacher committed to the
scholarship of engagement, public outreach and service to the profession. His
research and teaching focus on American Indian history since 1887, political
activism, ethnohistorical methods, ethnobiography, memory and global
indigenous rights. His first book, Native Activism in Cold War America
(2008), won the inaugural Labriola Center American Indian National Book
Award in 2009. His other publications include the edited works Beyond Red
Power (2007) and Memory Matters (2011), a revised and expanded
fourth edition of William T. Hagan’s classic work American Indians (2013)
and Say We Are Nations (2015), a primary document collection on Native
politics and protest from the late nineteenth century to the present. Works in
progress include biographies of Ponca activist Clyde Warrior, a central figure in
the American Indian youth movement of the 1960s, and (you guessed it) D’Arcy
McNickle. Cobb currently serves as the coordinator of the American Indian and
Indigenous Studies major concentration and minor and as Director
of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of American Studies.
Dr. Smith uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to answer research
questions. This mixed-method approach is best illustrated in her first book
Black Mosaic: The Politics of Black Pan-Ethnic Diversity (NYU
Press, 2014). Her work also appears in journals like the Annual Review
of Political Science, The Journal of Black Studies and Politics,
Groups & Identities as well as in edited book volumes.
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general education abbreviations
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Please consult ConnectCarolina and the FYS website for the most up-to-date
information about FYS offerings and availability.
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[amst 89.001] “The seminar really brought the culture
into the classroom, we got to touch a buffalo dress,
see authentic paintings from artists, and visit the
Ackland’s exhibits.”
–Alison, Class of 2017
amst 89.001: american indian art in
the 20 th century
VP, CI, US
and issues. Students will also engage in small group projects—
cooperative explorations of problems raised in class or in the
readings and/or designing mini-research projects.
Paul Leslie’s professional interests focus on human ecology, and he has pursued
this primarily through research among nomadic peoples in East Africa. His
most recent project entails studying (while nursing an aged Land Rover across
the African savanna) human-environment interactions in northern Tanzania,
especially how the changing land use and livelihood patterns of the Maasai
people living there affect and are affected by wildlife and conservation efforts.
When not teaching or practicing anthropology, he enjoys bicycling, motorcycling,
woodworking and jazz.
Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote
MW, 3:35–4:50pm
anth 64.079: public archaeology in
bronzeville, chicago’s black metropolis
This course examines twentieth century American Indian art
though secondary articles, books, a graphic novel and art itself.
The class sharpens written and verbal communication though
in-class discussion, informal and formal assignments such
as a research paper students will write over the course of the
semester. Students will hone their visual critical thinking skills
as well by examining and analyzing contemporary American
Indian art and representations of Native people. This course
connects American Indian art to vital conversations in American
Indian studies such as colonialism, identity, gender and tribal
sovereignty. We will also address the following questions. How
and why does “contemporary traditional” and “modern” come
to describe and even categorize art created by Native people
in the twentieth century? How have Native people and others
constructed and contested the idea of American Indian Art?
Additionally, we will examine how artists have engaged with, and
at times resisted, the markets for their work and their influence
on Native art.
Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote is an Assistant Professor in the department of American
Studies. She teaches courses on American Indian history, art and material culture.
Her research interests include American Indian cultural and political history and
expressive culture.
HS, NA
anthropology
anth
53h .037:
darwin’s dangerous idea
(honors)
SS
Paul Leslie
TuTh, 9:30–10:45am
Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection is central
to one of the most profound revolutions in the history
of thought, generating stunning insights but also some
misunderstanding and tragic abuse. This seminar aims to
provide a clear understanding of how natural selection works
and how it doesn’t work. We will examine objections to the
theory; how the environmental and health problems we face
today reflect processes of natural selection; and recent attempts
to understand why we get sick, how we respond to disease, why
we get old, why we choose mates the way we do and more. Class
sessions will feature a mix of lecture and discussion of concepts
Anna Sophia Agbe-Davies
MWF, 9:05–9:55am
The term “African diaspora” usually refers to the consequences
of the transatlantic slave trade, but there have been many
diasporas of people of African descent. One major movement
took place in the U.S. in the early 20th century when millions
of people left small southern communities for large industrial
northern cities. This seminar examines that phenomenon
through the lens of a single site where migrants lived in the
city of Chicago. The Phyllis Wheatley Home for Girls was run
by black women to provide social services for female migrants
from 1926 through the 1960s. Research at this site combines
elements of archaeology, anthropology and history to study their
lives. Students, working in teams, will have the opportunity to
contribute to the ongoing research effort via analysis of written
records and artifacts. This multidisciplinary project will be
of interest to students curious about 20th century history,
African-American culture, museums and heritage, women’s
and gender studies, migration and labor history.
Anna Sophia Agbe-Davies is an historical archaeologist whose excavations have
explored the plantation societies of the colonial southeastern US and Caribbean,
as well as towns and cities of the 19th and 20th century Midwest, with an
emphasis on sites of the African diaspora. Her projects have included excavation
and community collaboration at the sites of New Philadelphia, Illinois and the
Phyllis Wheatley Home for Girls on the south side of Chicago. Her research and
teaching interests are strongly shaped by her own experiences as an undergraduate
at the College of William and Mary and the time she spent working in museum
settings before becoming a professor. She received her Ph.D. from the University
of Pennsylvania. Prior to that, she was a staff archaeologist for the Colonial
Williamsburg Foundation’s Department of Archaeological Research.
anth 65.086: humans and animals:
anthropological perspectives
HS
Ben Arbuckle
TuTh, 9:30–10:45am
In this seminar we explore the complex relationships between
people and animals in our own culture and in other cultures,
now and also in the past. We will explore the origins and uses
the ways in which images interpret the meanings of texts through visual references
to extra-textual elements such as popular sermons, liturgical rites, political
necessities and catechisms. She has been studying Celts (defined as those who
speak/spoke a Celtic language) since 1995, when she first began teaching the
course Celtic Art and Cultures. She received a small grant from Chancellor
Hooker’s CCI funds to create the web site Celtic Art and Cultures, which has
become the “most linked to” at the university. As she developed the course,
she shifted the interest from the historical Celts to how “Celts” were an
18th-century construct, specifically the Druid class.
VP, CI
John Bowles
MWF, 9:05–9:55am
Students from ECON 57H “Lean Start-Up: Making Your Idea A Reality in One Semester.”
Photo by Beth Lawrence.
art
arth
52.001:
celts-druid culture
WB
Dorothy Verkerk
MWF, 11:15am–12:05pm
The ancient Druids (the intellectual class) have fascinated
writers for centuries, though there is little reliable information
about them, opening the door for fanciful theories and exposing
the foibles of the so-called experts on Druids. This seminar will
begin with what is known about Druids from primary textual
sources such as Julius Caesar’s De Bello Gallico. The focus will
then shift to early modern and modern authors who created a
vast array of Druids that provide insights into the development
of British national identities and established ‘alternative’
religions, visual culture and protest movements. The Druids
are cast in roles as patriotic, wise and environmentally sensitive,
and at other times they are cast as demonic and wicked. The
seminar will examine how identities are created.
Dorothy Verkerk received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Rutgers University. Her
area of specialization is early medieval art, and her research interests include the
interplay between images and texts in early medieval manuscripts, particularly
Focusing on the Carolinas, this seminar explores the many ways
African Americans have used art to define themselves and their
communities. We will ask how art has been used to maintain
cultural traditions, shape American culture and build political
solidarity from the era of colonialism and slavery to the present.
We will study the cultivation of artistic practices from Africa;
African American painters, sculptors and craftsmen who earned
national reputations for the quality of their work; artists who
re-imagined and redefined African American identity through
art; and artists throughout the 20th century who represented
the daily lives and hardships of rural and working-class blacks.
Students will visit campus museums and archives and conduct
original research using regional sources. Persistent questions
throughout the semester will include, How does the art of
African Americans in the Carolinas provoke us to question
our own identities and roles within the region, and what is the
contemporary role of art in shaping public discourse?
John Bowles received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2002 and is a graduate of
the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program. He is an
historian of African American art, who works from the assumption that art plays
an important role in determining how we see ourselves as morally responsible
individuals. In his research and teaching, he attempts to convey the urgency of art
by addressing moral and political dilemmas we would often rather ignore. He has
published articles and art criticism in various journals and has recently completed
a book that examines the work of artist Adrian Piper. He is currently writing a
book that explores how African American artists have engaged simultaneously
with modernism, globalization and diaspora from the Harlem Renaissance of the
1920s until today.
arth
89.001:
art and technology
HS
Maggie Cao, Cary Levine
MWF, 12:20–1:10pm
We are immersed in technology. Virtually every facet of public
and private life has been transformed by our devices, our screens
and machines. Perpetually focused on the next new thing, we
rarely look back to consider the long and multifaceted histories
of our technologies and how those histories relate to our lives—to
our understandings of each other and our interactions with the
world around us. This course examines the relationships between
the history of technology and artistic practice. Our conception of
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arth 61.001: african american art
of the carolinas
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of domesticated animals, the role of dogs and cats in human
societies, as companions, pets and food. We will also examine
the symbolic uses of animals and talk about current issues
including animal rights and the growing popularity of hunting.
Ben Arbuckle is an Anthropologist with a specialty in Middle Eastern Archaeology.
He runs the Zooarchaeology Laboratory in the Department of Anthropology and the
Research Labs in Archaeology where he studies animal bones from archaeological
sites. Professor Arbuckle uses these bones, which represent the trash from ancient
meals, parties and sacrifices, in order to understand how our ancestors created a
world whose technologies and social and political systems we have inherited. He is
currently working on a National Geographic funded project exploring the origins of
domestic horses and another trying to understand the origins of wool.
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“technology” is broad, extending beyond gadgets and machines
to include a host of apparatuses that have effected perception,
representation and communication. Art and visual culture
provide a unique lens through which we can apprehend those
effects. This course will explore the impacts of technological
innovation on society and culture, and vice versa, along with the
ways in which artists have addressed, responded to and critiqued
technological progress and invention.
Maggie Cao is the David G. Frey Assistant Professor of art history. She specializes in
the history of eighteenth and nineteenth-century American art. She received her B.A.
and Ph.D. from Harvard and held a humanities fellowship of the Society of Fellows
at Columbia before joining the faculty at UNC in 2016. Her intellectual interests
include intersections of art and economic theory, the visual culture of science and
technology, and artifacts of the global mercantile world.
Cary Levine is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History at the University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His recent book, Pay for Your Pleasures: Mike
Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Raymond Pettibon (University of Chicago
Press, 2013), examines the work of three important Southern California artists. He
has also written criticism for several magazines and has published numerous essays
for exhibition catalogues. His current scholarship focuses on the intersections of art,
politics and digital technologies.
arts 59.001: time, a doorway to visual
expression
VP
Jim Hirschfield
TuTh, 9:30–10:45am
Visual artists, not unlike writers, communicate through complex
structures of elements and principles (e.g., form, space, line,
color, rhythm, balance, etc.). Analyzing any one of these
components will help illustrate the nuances of visual language.
This seminar will study and explore one of the lesser considered,
but more intriguing, visual components: the element of Time.
From subtle illusionary movement to clearly defined sequences
of change, artists have manipulated the element of time to
strengthen their work. This First Year Seminar will examine
this enigmatic element of time through readings and class
discussions of Alan Lightman’s Einstein’s Dreams and Leonard
Shlain’s Art and Physics, as well as other selected essays. We will
also look at films, listen to music and most importantly express
our personal view through the art making process. As a firstyear seminar, the course presumes no previous art experience
and students may carry out their projects through a variety of
mediums (e.g., drawing, photography, painting, video and/or
sculpture). The projects will be evaluated through class critiques
and discussions about the work. Ultimately, our intention will
be to immerse ourselves in the subject and to create personal
works of art motivated and inspired by our now enhanced
understanding of time.
Jim Hirschfield has been teaching art at UNC since 1988. He began thinking about
the experience of time when he traveled through the deserts of the southwest in his
VW Microbus. He still enjoys traveling, only now he often travels as a part of his
art projects. Jim has received a number of art commissions from cities across the
country: From Anchorage, Alaska to Fort Lauderdale, Florida and from San Diego,
California to Orono, Maine. He has also received numerous awards for his artwork,
which he describes as the exploration of meditative and ethereal environments that
expand our perceptions of time.
ASIA 63: “Japanese Tea Culture” with Professor Morgan Pitelka. Photo by Micah Stubbs.
asian studies
asia 65.001: philosophy on bamboo:
rethinking early chinese thought
PH, WB
Uffe Bergeton
TuTh, 3:30–4:45pm
Over the last few decades a large number of bamboo
manuscripts of hitherto unknown texts dating to the 4th to
the 1st centuries BCE have been excavated from various sites
in China. This wealth of new material has led many scholars to
rethink longstanding assumptions about early Chinese thought.
In order to enable students to engage directly with the recently
discovered texts and cutting-edge research on them, this course
will briefly introduce students to the received classics of the preQin period, such as the Analects, the Mozi, the Mencius, the
Xunzi, the Daodejing, the Zhuangzi and the Hanfeizi. Rather
than merely providing an introduction to these traditional texts,
we will study how recently discovered texts challenge traditional
readings of pre-Qin works and lead us to question traditional
classifications of pre-Qin works into “schools of thought” or
isms such as Confucianism, Legalism, Daoism, etc.
Uffe Bergeton is a historian of early China with a focus on pre-Qin (i.e. pre221 BCE) culture, history and thought. Originally from Denmark, he has
lived and studied in France, Taiwan and China. His research projects include
early Chinese theories of epistemology and the politics of reclusion, as well as
comparisons between pre-Qin China and ancient Greece.
biol 62.001: mountains beyond
mountains: infectious disease
in the developing world
PL, GL
Mark Peifer
TuTh, 11:00am–12:15pm
c h e m i s t ry
chem 73.001: from atomic bombs to
cancer treatments: the broad scope
of nuclear chemistry
PL
Todd Austell
TuTh, 12:30– 1:45pm
Nuclear chemistry is a field that touches the lives of everyone
perhaps every day of their lives. This seminar will approach
the topic of nuclear chemistry on the level of an introductory
chemistry class with no prerequisite. Atomic structure, nuclear
fission and nuclear fusion processes will be studied to provide
the background necessary to understand their applications.
Nuclear weapons and nuclear power will be covered in detail
with discussion of topics relevant both for today’s society and
for the future. Other topics including household applications,
nuclear medicine, radiation safety and the problematic issue
of radioactive waste storage will be discussed. The seminar
will include guest lecturers from the various fields of nuclear
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Billions of people in the developing world live without the
benefit of the most basic health care services, and they often
die of diseases that are easily treated in the developed world.
The scale of the problem is immense, and this fact often leads
clinicians and public health officials to despair of ever having any
impact on the problem. Dr. Paul Farmer belies this impression.
Beginning as a medical student at Harvard, he created what is
now a multinational health care network, Partners in Health.
His entrepreneurial effort provides a revolutionary example
of how one can successfully address infectious disease and its
root causes in some of the poorest areas of the world. This
seminar will explore the inequities in health care between the
developed and developing worlds and the root causes of these
inequities. We will examine the biology of infectious disease and
the challenges of treating them in the developing world, and
explore how Partners in Health and other entrepreneurial nonprofit groups provide a model for how the developed world can
partner with the poor to meet this challenge.
Mark Peifer is the Hooker Distinguished Professor of Biology and has been
at Carolina since 1992. He is a cell and developmental biologist, and his
lab explores how cells communicate and assemble into tissues and organs
during embryonic development. He also has an active interest in international
development and believes Americans can and should help our neighbors in the
developing world, acting in partnership to solve problems and meet challenges.
chemistry, selected reading assignments, topical student-led
discussions, possible facility trips/tours and a final project
presentation on a relevant topic.
Todd Austell received his BS in Chemistry in 1987 and his PhD in Chemistry
in 1996, both at UNC. He spent one year working in the pharmaceutical
industry prior to graduate school and another year as an Assistant Professor at
the United States Air Force Academy prior to returning to his current position. As
an undergraduate, he participated in the Department of Energy and American
Chemistry Society’s Summer School in Nuclear Chemistry. Topical studies in
nuclear chemistry have been a hobby of his since that time. His graduate research
involved separation science, and he is currently involved in both curriculum
development within the chemistry department and in a long-term study of
how middle school and secondary math education/preparation affects student
performances in college general chemistry. His hobbies include hiking, camping,
disc golf and gardening as well as following all UNC athletics.
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biology
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cit y and regional planning
plan 52.001: race, sex, and place
in america
SS
Mai Nguyen
TuTh, 9:30– 10:45am
This seminar will expose students to the complex dynamics
of race, ethnicity and gender and how these have shaped the
American city since 1945. It will examine both the historical
record as well as contemporary works of literature and film
to probe the ways race and ethnicity have contributed to the
culture of urban life in the United States. It will also explore the
different ways women and men perceive, understand, occupy
and use urban space and the built environment. Drawing
upon the scholarship of several disciplines (urban planning,
ethnic studies, sociology and American history), the seminar
will examine a broad spectrum of topics, including the social
construction of race, the creation of the underclass label,
residential segregation, the significance of Hurricane Katrina,
sexual identity and space, and immigration. The last portion
of the course will focus on planning and policy tools that have
the potential to alleviate racial/ethnic and gender inequality in
space.
Students may also register for this course under WMST 51.001.
Dr. Mai Nguyen is an Associate Professor in the City and Regional Planning
Department and focuses her teaching and research on housing and community
development. She applies both her Sociology and Urban Planning degrees to
address vexing urban and regional dilemmas. She employs both quantitative
and qualitative methods to examine problems related to social and spatial
inequality, urban growth phenomena, the relationship between the built and
social environments, and socially vulnerable populations. She is an expert in
housing policy, community development, economic development, immigration,
disasters and urban growth phenomena (e.g. demographic change, sprawl
and urbanization). Dr. Nguyen is also an award winning teacher. She was
awarded the J. Carlyle Sitterson Freshman Teaching Award in January 2013 for
excellence in undergraduate teaching.
classics
clas 55h. 001: three greek and roman
epics (honors)
LA, NA, WB
James O’Hara
MWF, 10:10–11:00am
The course will involve a close reading in English of Homer’s
ILIAD and ODYSSEY and Vergil’s AENEID, and as a
transition from Homer to Vergil, we will also read the tragedies
of Sophocles from fifth-century Athens. It was epic and tragedy
that formulated the bases of Graeco-Roman civilization and
provided the models of heroism and human values for the
Western Tradition—along with raising fundamental questions
about the individual’s relationship to society. We will analyze,
discuss and write about these works both as individual pieces
of literature in a historical context and in terms of how they
position themselves in the poetic tradition; after reading the
ILIAD and ODYSSEY, we’ll see how heroic myth gets reworked
by tragedy for democratic Athens and then how Vergil combines
Homer, tragedy and other traditions to make a new poem for
his time. We will look at aspects of structure and technique,
questions of overall interpretation and values, and the interplay
of genre and historical setting. Requirements: discussion, short
online readings in addition to the primary texts, several short
papers during the term and a 6-10-page term paper.
Professor James O’Hara received his A.B. in Classics from the College of the Holy
Cross in 1981 and his Ph.D. in Classical Studies from the University of Michigan
in 1986. From 1986 to 2001, he taught at Wesleyan University; since 2001
he has been the George. L. Paddison Professor of Latin at UNC, where he has
also been department chair. His research and teaching interests are in Greek and
Latin poetry, with special interests in Homer, Vergil and the literature written
during the reign of Rome’s first emperor, Augustus; other interests include Roman
Civilization, Hellenistic poetry, didactic poetry and satire.
clas 63.001: the politics of persuasion in
the ancient and modern worlds
LA, WB Luca Grillo
MWF, 9:05–9:55am
This seminar explores the theory and practice of Greek and
Roman oratory in comparison with contemporary speeches. Are
there rules for crafting a successful speech? How do emotions
affect the way we respond to rhetoric? How much do Greek
and Roman oratory affect the way we construct and evaluate a
speech today? Oratory will be considered both as a discipline
with its own laws and practices and as a window into the values
and debates that animate the public life of a people. We will do
close readings of key passages and orations and analyze their
rhetorical structure and argument; then, having mastered
the basics of the Greco-Roman “politics of persuasion,” we
will compare speeches from other civilizations, including
the ancient Near East, the Bible, ancient China and India.
Assignments will include not only essays on major themes in
classical rhetoric and on their reception in modern discourse,
but also close readings of key passages and orations, and analysis
of their rhetorical structure and argument. Discussion-based
classes will focus on readings taken not only from Homer,
Plato, Aristotle, Demosthenes and Cicero but also from past
history and from the modern era (e.g. George Washington, Dr.
King, Hitler, Churchill and the 2016 presidential candidates).
Students will work closely with the instructor to craft a speech,
which they will deliver to the rest of the class at the end of the
course.
Luca Grillo earned his BA in Literature and Philosophy in Milan Italy, where
he was born, and continued to study the Classics and classical rhetoric at the
University of Minnesota and at Princeton. He has published on Caesar, Vergil
and Cicero, and he is currently working on a project on irony in Latin Literature.
Luca loves jogging, biking and hiking, he is the faculty advisor to the swim club
team, is very excited to join all of you at UNC and feels already hooked on the
Tar Heels.
clas
73h. 001:
life in ancient pompeii
(honors)
HS, BN, WB
Hérica Valladares
MWF, 3:35–4:25pm
Ancient Pompeii, the city whose life was snuffed out by a volcanic
eruption almost 2000 years ago, has captured the imagination
of multitudes since its rediscovery in the late 18th century. In
this seminar we will explore the history and archaeology of this
ancient city with the goal of better understanding daily life in the
early Roman empire. How did ancient Pompeians spend their
days? What were their houses like? Who ran the city and how
were they elected? How did Pompeians cope with the various
challenges of city life, such as sanitation and traffic jams? The
course proceeds topically, moving from an exploration of the
city’s public spaces to an analysis of more private domains—
Pompeian houses, gardens and tombs. Although the city’s
material remains will be the primary focus of our study, we will
also consider evidence from literature, epigraphy and 18th and
19th-century publications. The impact of the rediscovery of
Pompeii in the 18th century on the development of archaeology
as a discipline will be one of our final topics of discussion.
We will also consider the reception of Pompeii in contemporary
popular culture.
Hérica Valladares is an art historian who specializes in the study of imperial Rome
and ancient Campania. She has traveled extensively and conducted research in
Italy, Turkey and North Africa. Professor Valladares is the author of numerous
articles on Roman wall painting. She is currently working on a book on the
representation of love scenes in Roman art and literature.
c o m m u n i c at i o n
comm 53.001: collective leadership
models for community change
SS, EE
Patricia Parker
MW, 5:45–7:00pm
In this seminar we explore the possibilities for collective
leadership involving youth and adults in vulnerable communities.
Course readings, guest speakers and class field trips will provide
comm 89.002: romance and popular
culture
LA, GL
Kumarini Silva
MW, 1:25–2:40pm
This course approaches romance as a genre that allows us to
think through and articulate social, political and economic
conditions in our society. Framed by cultural theory, philosophy,
feminist theory and media studies, this course focuses on
understanding how the most disavowed genre of publishing
and popular culture continues to generate large numbers of
consumers and is one of the highest grossing genres of the
publishing industry. Focusing on five specific themes—that take
into account global issues like colonialism, post-colonialism
and globalization and their relationship to the circulation of
romance culture—the course attempts to map the ways in which
romance intersects our cultural and political landscape in
implicit and explicit ways, defining who we are and our social,
economic and political expectations.
Dr. Kumarini Silva’s research is at the intersections of feminism, identity and
Identification, post-colonial studies and popular culture. Her work has appeared
in Social Identities, South Asian Popular Culture and Cultural
Studies. She is the author of Brown Threat: Identification in the
Security State (Fall 2016, University of Minnesota Press) and co-editor of
Feminist Erasures: Challenging Backlash Culture (2015, Palgrave
UK). Her current book project focuses on the political and social relationships
that are produced through romance culture and its global circulation. Silva has
also published book chapters on race, global media and film.
computer science
comm 89.001 introduction to networked
societies
comp
SS
PH, CI, QI
Neal Thomas
TuTh, 3:30–4:45pm
Michael J. Fern
TuTh, 12:30–1:45pm
This seminar is designed to introduce early-career students to
the role that networks play in contemporary global societies.
Over the course of the semester, we will examine key ways to think
about network societies by taking up the idea of the network in
social, political, economic, cultural and technological terms.
With help from popular and academic writing, we will ask:
In 2010, Eric Schmidt, then the CEO of Google, said that every
two days we are creating as much information and data as we did
up until 2003. Today, we’re generating exponentially more data.
While this data explosion presents tremendous opportunity to
better understand ourselves and the world around us, from
global warming to healthcare, it also poses significant risks and
89.001:
“big data” ethics
fys.unc.edu
Students foraging the edible campus in Professor Dempsey’s COMM 82 FYS,
“Globalizing Organizations: Food Politics.” Photo by Beth Lawrence.
What does it mean to organize the world through networks?
How do identity, commerce, science and political life function
according to network thinking? In formulating responses to
such questions, the seminar will center on in-class discussion,
taking theories about networks and applying them to everyday
life both within and outside a North American context.
Dr. Neal Thomas’ academic work draws out connections between digital
media technologies, knowledge, power and everyday social life. From a critical
humanities perspective, his current research looks at some core computer
programming techniques at work in social media to see how the technology
encodes philosophical ideas about what it means to be social and even what it
means to /mean/ in the first place. If you’ve been noticing the rising effects of
algorithms and network gadgets in contemporary culture, then this seminar might
just be for YOU.
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exemplars of collaborative leadership models that engage people
across traditional divides of culture, race, economics and age.
Students will work in teams to research, design and present a
sustainable community-based change project focusing on three
key strategies that engage youth as leaders and stakeholders in
communities: youth media arts, youth organizing and youth
participatory action research. Students will present their
projects (orally and through multi-media documentation) in
class and may be selected to present their work at the biennial
leadership conference first convened in 2009 and organized by
participants in the inaugural class of this seminar. Throughout
the semester, each seminar participant will write a series of
short essays reflecting on the collective leadership models and
their own community engagement.
Patricia Parker (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin) is Associate Professor and
Chair of the Department of Communication Studies. She is the 2013 recipient
of the Office of the Provost Engaged Scholarship Award for teaching and the
founder and executive director of The Ella Baker Women’s Center for Leadership
and Community Activism, a venture supported by a Kauffman Faculty Fellowship
for social entrepreneurship. Her teaching, research and engaged scholarship
explore questions at the intersections of race, gender, class and power in
organization processes, with a primary focus on youth civic activism and girls’ and
women’s transformational leadership. Her publications include a book on African
American women’s executive leadership (Erlbaum, 2005) and several articles
and book chapters on leadership and social change appearing in edited volumes
and journals published internationally. She is currently working on a book
project exploring youth civic activism and collective leadership within universitycommunity partnerships.
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challenges, such as a threat to our personal privacy. Through
readings, guest lectures, writing assignments, discussion and
debates, and the analysis of real-world data, we will explore
and come to better understand the moral and ethical issues and
implications surrounding the collection and use of “big data”
in the 21st century.
Michael J. Fern is the Associate Chair for Business Affairs and Professor of the
Practice of Entrepreneurship in the Department of Computer Science at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His teaching and research interests
focus on ethics and entrepreneurship and their intersection with data science,
computing and software. Before joining UNC-CH, Fern was a technology
entrepreneur and consultant. He also previously served as a faculty member at
Korea University, Santa Clara University and the University of Victoria. He is a
UNC-CH alumnus, receiving his PhD in strategic management from the KenanFlagler Business School.
comp
89h. 052: 3d
computer animation
(honors)
PL
Anselmo Lastra
TuTh, 11:00am–12:15pm
Computer animation is reaching very realistic levels, but can
human characters really look real? In this seminar we’ll learn
basic 3D computer modeling and animation, and use these
skills to explore the issues inherent in making truly realistic
animations. You’ll work with a 3D animation program, such as
Blender or Maya. By the end of the semester you will create your
own animated short video.
No computer programming required (but you should be
comfortable using a PC or Mac).
Topics include
• Mesh (polygonal) modeling
• Modeling with curves and surfaces
• Materials, shading and texturing
• Lighting
• Animation
• Characters and rigging
• Compositing
• The uncanny valley (why humanoid characters can be creepy)
• Automated 3D modeling
• Virtual reality
We’ll cover basic sound and video editing to the level necessary
for you to make short videos.
Anselmo Lastra is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Computer
Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received a BS in
Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and MS and PhD
degrees in Computer Science from Duke University. His research interests are in
the areas of computer graphics, image-based modeling and rendering,
and graphics hardware architectures.
d r a m at i c a r t s
dram 79.001: the heart of the drama:
fundamentals of acting, playwriting
and collaboration VP, CI
Mark Perry
TuTh, 11:00am–12:15pm
The goal of this seminar is to get you doing theatre, to spark
your creativity and to connect you with the deeper lessons of
this dynamic art form. You will act. You will write. You will
work with others. It will not always be easy, but if you are willing
to stretch yourself, you should have a great time. Each lesson is
organized around a principle or virtue inherent in the practice
of the art. Participants study a quotation or two that relate to that
principle and then engage in drama exercises that spring from
that principle. By the end of the course, you will have gained
skills to make you comfortable to write, stage and perform your
own 10 minute plays. Not just for those interested in pursuing
theatre, this seminar will give you a more holistic understanding
of essential principles in the practice of your life.
Mark Perry teaches playwriting, play analysis and dramaturgy and serves as a
resident dramaturg with PlayMakers Repertory Company. His plays A New
Dress for Mona and The Will of Bernard Boynton have been
produced by UNC’s Department of Dramatic Art, and both scripts are available
from Drama Circle. Mark is a graduate of the University of Iowa’s Playwrights
Workshop and a former recipient of the North Carolina Arts Council’s Literature
Fellowship for playwriting.
dram 80.001: psychology of clothes:
motivations for dressing up and
dressing down
VP, CI Bobbi Owen
TuTh, 12:30–1:45pm
Through traditional and innovative teaching methods, this
seminar will help students find ways to articulate their own
motivations for dress and then apply the ideas they have
discovered to the ways in which individuality as well as group
attitudes are expressed through clothing. The semester begins
with the familiar – observation and analysis of clothing forms
on UNC’s campus. Small groups will present their findings to
the class with an emphasis placed on not only what the subjects
are wearing, but why. Throughout the semester the class will
meet “on location” wherever clothing is worn throughout the
community. In the classroom, students will discuss readings
from basic texts to create a shared vocabulary. They will also
discover common (and occasionally uncommon) motivations
for dress, not only in our own culture, but also in others in the
world today as well as during selected historical periods.
Bobbi Owen is the Michael R. McVaugh Distinguished Professor of Dramatic
Art. Her courses include costume design and costume history, based in Western
and non-Western traditions. She writes about theatrical designers with
dram 81h. 001: staging america:
the american drama (honors)
VP, CI, NA
Gregory Kable
TuTh, 2:00–3:15pm
This seminar examines our national drama from its colonial
origins to the present. Students will read plays and criticism,
screen videos, engage in critical writing and explore scenes in
performance as related means of testing the visions and revisions
constituting American dramatic history. We will approach
American drama as both a literary and commercial art form and
look to its history to provide a context for current American
theater practice. Readings are chosen for their intrinsic merit
and historical importance but also for their treatment of key
issues and events in American life. Our focus throughout
will be on the forces that shaped the American drama as well
as, in turn, drama’s ability to shed new light on the national
experience.
Gregory Kable is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Dramatic Art, where he
teaches dramatic literature, theatre history and performance courses and serves
as an Associate dramaturg for PlayMakers Repertory Company. He also teaches
seminars on American Musicals and Modern British Drama for the Honors
program. He has directed dozens of productions at UNC and throughout the
local community and is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.
dram
83.001:
spectacle in the theatre
VP
David Navalinsky
TuTh, 9:30–10:45am
This seminar will explore how theatrical designers use the
playwright’s words to create the world we see on stage. Students
will generate designs in the areas of scenery, costumes and
lighting for three plays throughout the semester. These plays
will be placed outside of their traditional setting while still
maintaining the story and themes. Students have placed
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in a trailer
park and a daycare center for example. Careful historical
research, close reading and analysis, text and source material,
and collaboration will be the focus of the student projects.
No previous theatre or artistic experience necessary.
dram 87 h. 001: style: a mode of
expression (honors)
VP, CI, NA
fys.unc.edu
Her research interests focus on traditional dress around the world which is
rapidly disappearing. NowesArk is an electronic study collection that contains
information about traditional garments and accessories in the Department of
Dramatic Art. It is a companion website to Costar, an online archive of vintage
clothing, mainly from the 19th and 20th century. Both collections, at http://
costumes.unc.edu/costar/homes/Cloaks.jsp, are a valuable means to study the
materials, construction, provenance and patterns used for historic clothing.
David Navalinsky is the Director of Undergraduate Production in the Department
of Dramatic Art and has served on the First Year Seminars Steering Committee.
David has taught at the University of Texas at Arlington and the University of
Mississippi. David has worked professionally at South Coast Repertory in Orange
County California, The Utah Shakespeare Festival, The Illinois Shakespeare
Festival and the Karamu Performing Arts Theatre in Cleveland, OH. Some of
David’s favorite projects were at the Dallas Children’s Theater where he made a
dinosaur collapse and pirates walk the plank.
F IRST Y EAR SEMI NARS
books including Costume Design on Broadway and Broadway
Design Roster, the catalog for the United States entry in the 2007 Prague
Quadrennial, Design USA (with Jody Blake) and The Designs of
Willa Kim. She is currently writing a book about William Ivey Long, the
much honored costume designer of Broadway musicals including Hairspray,
Chicago, The Producers and Crazy for You.
McKay Coble
TuTh, 12:30–1:45pm
Consider Oscar Wilde’s statement from The Decay of Living
1889: “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. This
results not merely from Life’s imitative instincts, but from the
fact that the self-conscious aim of Life is to find expression,
and that Art offers it certain beautiful forms through which
it may realize that energy…” Do you agree or disagree? This
seminar studies the elements of design in their pure form,
surveys a history of period styles and theatre, and identifies
their causes. Art and design have frequently shown the inner
life of humankind throughout history better than political,
intellectual, or social history. While a period’s style is seldom
defined by the everyday choices of everyday people and is most
often recorded in the works of artists, writers and intellectuals
we must recognize the “times” as a major motivator for all
stylistic choices. Even minor arts reflect major events. We will
study the elements of design as they exist in their pure form;
a “tool box” of elements available to artists and practice the
principles to which design is bound. We will survey a history
of period styles, period theatre and identify their causes. We
will explore one period’s style as a foundation for the next and
dispel the Star Trek premise that future styles will only reflect
the future. Student progress will be assessed through an inclass presentation on a topic of period style or context and final
creative project/paper. The text for the class is A History of the World
in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor which will be a daily discussion.
McKay Coble teaches design, both scenic and costume for the theatre and the
history of material culture. She fell in love with the power of choice as far as
visuals are concerned early in her career as a Carolina student and has never
turned back. Formerly the Chair of the Department of Dramatic Art, she is a
resident designer for PlayMakers Repertory Company. She uses the many and
varied artistic venues on campus as co-instructors and the FYS will be visiting
them together. You will likely join her on a design journey as she creates the
scenery for a production for PRC and you will have the opportunity to see the
process and product.
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e n g l i s h a n d c o m pa r at i v e
l i t e r at u r e
engl 53.001: slavery and freedom in
african american literature and film
LA, US William L. Andrews
MWF, 1:25–2:15pm
Students from COMP 60 “Robotics with LEGO.” Photo by Mary Lide Parker.
dram
88.001:
ecology and performance
VP, EE Karen O’Brien
TuTh, 2:00–3:15pm
This seminar will guide students through the process of
researching, developing and producing new performance
pieces inspired by socio-ecological issues. This task will involve:
learning and practicing a range of collaborative performance
techniques; gaining knowledge about the environmental arts,
theatre for social change and core principles surrounding
notions of sustainability; researching and engaging in current
ecological debates; and synthesizing critical inquiry and
creative endeavor in the form of a new ecologically-driven
performance. The seminar will culminate in the presentation
of new performance pieces aimed at promoting socioecological sustainability. Students will be expected to: closely
read assigned texts; keep a journal throughout the semester;
conduct and present individual and group research; collaborate
with a group to integrate research into performance; and attend
one group field outing and one performance event outside of
the scheduled course time. No prerequisites are required.
Karen O’Brien is David G. Frey Fellow Assistant Professor in UNC’s Department
of Dramatic Art. Her research and creative interests include inquiries in artistic,
cultural and textual performance, particularly in the environmental arts and
in the geo-political context of Irish Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Drama and
Theatre from University of California, Irvine and San Diego. She also received
an MFA in Directing and a BFA in Electronic Media from the CollegeConservatory of Music at University of Cincinnati.
The purpose of this seminar is to explore the African American
slave narrative tradition from its 19th-century origins in
autobiography to its present manifestations in prize-winning
fiction and film. The most famous 19th-century slave narrative,
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) was
an international best seller. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861),
the amazing but utterly truthful story of Harriet Jacobs’s slave
experience in Edenton, North Carolina, is extensively read
and taught in college and university classrooms around the
world. In the 20th century, many important African American
autobiographies and novels—Washington’s Up From Slavery (1901),
Wright’s Black Boy (1945), Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952), Haley’s
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) and Morrison’s Beloved (1987)
—are products, formally and thematically, of the ongoing slave
narrative tradition. The slave narrative has also given rise to
a number of notable films, from major studio releases like
Spielberg’s Amistad (1997) to TV-films like Charles Burnett’s
Nightjohn (1996). The 1977 television series based on Haley’s
Roots enabled the slave narrative tradition to have a profound
impact on late 20th-century American culture. Slave narratives
have also had strong influence on popular films such as Blade
Runner (1982), The Handmaid’s Tale (1990), Django Unchained (2013)
and 12 Years a Slave (2013). Because of the widespread incidence
of human trafficking and other forms of involuntary servitude
in the world today, slavery remains a major human rights issue.
William L. Andrews teaches courses on African American literature, American
autobiography studies and Southern literature. Since the mid-1980s he has done
a considerable amount of editing of African American and Southern literature
and criticism. Professor Andrews is the series editor of North American Slave
Narratives, Beginnings to 1920, a complete digitized library of autobiographies
and biographies of North American slaves and ex-slaves.
engl 57.001: future perfect: science
fictions and social form
LA
Tyler Curtain
MWF, 11:15–12:05pm
Will humans go extinct? If so, how? What are the ethical
questions involved in human disappearance? How do humans
themselves contribute to the possibilities, and what can be
done to postpone the inevitable? This seminar will tackle
some sobering (and, quite frankly, exciting and interesting)
questions by reading cultural and scientific works that address
human disappearance. We will read both science and fiction
John L. Townsend III FYS in English
LA, CI, US
GerShun Avilez
TuTh, 11:00–12:15pm
This first year seminar will use literature, film and popular
culture to explore different expressions of masculinity and
femininity in the African American and Black diasporic
contexts. Students will evaluate how artists use gender and
sexuality for social critique and artistic innovation. In addition,
students will be given opportunities to enhance their writing
and oral communication skills.
GerShun Avilez received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania,
where he also earned a Graduate Certificate in Africana Studies. He has taught
at Yale University and held the Frederick Douglass Post-doctoral Fellowship at
the University of Rochester. He is a cultural studies scholar who specializes in
contemporary African American literature and visual culture and 20th century
American literature in general. His teaching extends to the literature of the Black
Diaspora. Much of his scholarship explores how questions of gender and sexuality
inform artistic production. He also works in the fields of political radicalism,
spatial theory and legal studies. His book Radical Aesthetics & Modern
Black Nationalism is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press in
2016 as a part of “The New Black Studies” Series. The book investigates how
Black Nationalist rhetoric impacted African American artistic experimentation
in the late 20th and 21st centuries through an examination of drama, novels,
poetry film and visual art. He is at work on a new book-length project on Black
sexuality and artistic culture as well as shorter projects on (1) rethinking 20th
century African American literary history and (2) temporality in contemporary
drama. Throughout his work and teaching, he is committed to studying a wide
variety of art forms, including, drama, fiction, non-fiction, film, poetry, visual
and performance art, ethnography and comic books.
–Ioan B., Class of 2015
engl
72.001:
LA,
CI, GL This
Sorry.
literature of
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fys.unc.edu
engl 59.001: black masculinity
and femininity
[engl 85H] “Watching movies as a class and then
connecting them to the course content was engaging both
academically and at a social level. I got a chance to meet
students with varying interests, learn from their diverse
perspectives, make some of my best friends, and do so
within a challenging academic environment.”
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to think about the core concerns of the class. Our texts will
include works ranging from Alien to the classic 1950s tale A
Canticle for Leibowitz, from Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later to Cormac
McCarthy’s The Road. We will ask some fundamental questions
about what it means to be human, how we imagine our societies
and cultures to work (and not work) and what these texts and
questions might tell us about how we are to live now. Students
will read novels and short stories, watch movies and TV shows,
and read scientific and philosophical papers that deal with
human extinction. Students will also be required to write a
paper and complete an original research project at the end of
term that they will share with the rest of the class.
Tyler Curtain is a theorist with the Department of English and Comparative
Literature. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in theory, as well
as courses in science fiction and fantasy. Professor Curtain is a member of the
executive committee of the Discussion Group on Science Fiction and Utopian and
Fantastic Literature of the Modern Language Association. He will be the group’s
President in 2016-2017.
class has been cancelled Fall 2016
Neel Ahuja
MW, 5:00–6:15pm
This seminar will explore representations of the 9/11 attacks and
their aftermath in literature and popular culture. Following an
introduction to the concept of terrorism and to the production
of knowledge about political violence in the fields of law,
politics, religious studies and terrorism studies, we will explore
a diverse array of themes related to the 9/11 attacks and the “war
on terror” as depicted in memoirs, poetry, novels, public art,
graphic novels, film and music: explanations of the causes and
consequences of political violence; the role of religion in public
culture and state institutions; national security discourse;
mourning, trauma and public memorials; depictions of the US
military in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan; and the perspectives
of detainees and minority communities on the attacks and
their aftermath. Students will read critical scholarship and
literary texts, discuss major controversies in organized debates,
compose two papers and complete group presentations on
topics of their choice.
Neel Ahuja grew up in Topeka, Kansas. He studied gender studies at
Northwestern University before completing a Ph.D. in transnational cultural
studies at the University of California-San Diego. Neel is Associate Professor
of postcolonial literature and theory in the English Department at UNC–
Chapel Hill, and he teaches courses on security culture, world literatures,
medical humanities and environmental studies. Neel is the author of the
book Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and
the Government of Species. He has recently written a series of essays
concerning the relationships between international politics, animals and
the environment.
engl 85h. 001: economic saints
and villains
LA, CI, WB
Ritchie Kendall
TuTh, 9:30–10:45am
The rise of new economic activities—whether the birth of
international banking, trading in future commodities, or the
marketing of junk bonds—bring with them both excitement and
trepidation. Literature about how ordinary and extraordinary
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people go about the business of getting and spending is one
way that a culture comes to terms with emergent and potentially
revolutionary economic formations. This seminar will explore
how early modern England from the 16th to the 19th centuries
imagined new economic orders through plays and novels. We
will examine how Renaissance plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare,
Dekker and Heywood present economic scoundrels such as
Barabas and Shylock as well as heroic entrepreneurs such as
Simon Eyre and Thomas Gresham. In the 18th century we will
sample the work of Daniel Defoe who crafted a guide for early
tradesmen but also produced subversive novels with dubious
heroines who use sex and business acumen to acquire and lose
great fortunes. From the 19th century, we will read two works,
a little known melodrama, The Game of Speculation, as well as the
iconic A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Both stories speculate
on the compatibility of economic and spiritual success. We will
conclude with a modern epilogue: three satiric films from the
era of Reagonomics including Oliver Stone’s Wall Street, Mike
Nichols’ Working Girl and Jon Landis’ Trading Places. Our objective
throughout will be to analyze how literary art, itself a form of
economic activity, simultaneously demonizes and celebrates the
“miracle of the marketplace” and those financial pioneers that
perform its magic.
Ritchie Kendall is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
who joined the UNC faculty in 1980. He holds a B.A. in English from Yale
University (1973) and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Harvard University
(1980). His specialty is in English Renaissance drama with an emphasis on
the socio-economic dimensions of early modern theater. He has taught Honors
courses in Shakespeare, Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, comedy and social
class, epic and drama, and early modern ideas of entrepreneurship.
engl
life
89.001:
the literature of college
LA, CI, NA
Kimberly J. Stern
MWF, 10:10–11:00am
In this first-year seminar, students will explore the literature
of college life — novels, poetry and nonfiction that attempt to
capture the experiences and challenges of higher education.
Ranging from formal educational treatises to popular fiction,
students will become familiar with the conventions of reading
and writing about literature, even as they reflect on questions of
both personal and intellectual significance. For instance, what
is the function of higher education? How has that function
changed over time? What are the untold stories of university life?
While the course readings will span several centuries, students
will be encouraged to reflect on how this literature reflects on
their own experiences at the university, their educational goals
and their place within the larger university community. To
encourage reflection on these questions, students will articulate
their ideas in a range of ways: through online journaling, visual
media and formal academic research.
Kimberly J. Stern holds a Ph.D in English Literature from Princeton University
and is Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. In 2015 she published a Broadview edition of Oscar Wilde’s
controversial play Salome, and her monograph The Social Life of
Criticism: Gender, Critical Writing, and the Politics of
Belonging is forthcoming with the University of Michigan Press in 2016.
She is now working on a second book, Lessons of the Aesthete: Liberal
Education and the Pedagogical Styles of Oscar Wilde and serves
as co-editor of Nineteenth Century Studies. Her teaching and research
interests include gender studies, aesthetic theory, drama, the British novel and the
history of ideas.
Blitz the Ambassador performs in Durham with students from HIST 83 in attendance.
Photo by Brooke Bekoff.
engl 89.002: blake 2.0: william blake in
popular culture John L. Townsend III FYS in English
LA, NA
Joseph Viscomi
TuTh, 9:30–10:45am
William Blake, the visionary poet, artist and printmaker of
the British Romantic period, has had enormous influence
on modern art and popular culture. His illuminated poetry
integrated word and image anticipating graphic novels and
influencing many modern musicians, poets, writers (including
Pullman, His Dark Materials Trilogy, Bono, Patti Smith and Jim
Morrison). Using the Blake Archive, a hypertext of Blake’s poetry
and art, we will study key Blake works as well as the digital
medium that enables us to study these works in new ways. We
will also explore the Web for performances and adaptations of
the works we study and for works by musicians, painters, poets,
writers, actors, playwrights, performers, dancers and film
and video makers who were or are inspired or influenced by
Blake. Students will share their discoveries with the class and
produce critical or creative responses to a work by Blake or by
an influenced artist.
Joseph Viscomi, the James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of English Literature,
directs and co-edits the William Blake Archive. His special interests are
British Romantic literature, art and printmaking. He has co-edited 9 illuminated
works for The William Blake Trust and over 90 electronic editions for the Blake
Archive. He is the author of Prints by Blake and his Followers, Blake
and the Idea of the Book and numerous essays on Blake’s illuminated
printing, color printing and reception. He has received fellowships from the
Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Rockefeller
Foundation, Getty Foundation and National Humanities Center.
–Yaeyong, Class of 2017
folk
77 h. 001:
the poetic roots of hip hop
VP, US
Glenn Hinson
TuTh, 2:00–3:15pm
“There ain’t nothing new about rapping.” That’s what elders
from a host of African American communities declared when
hip-hop first exploded onto the scene. This “new” form, they
claimed, was just a skilled re-working of poetic forms that had
been around for generations. Each elder seemed to point to a
different form—some to the wordplay of rhyming radio deejays,
others to the bawdy flow of street corner poets, still others to
the rhymed storytelling of sanctified singers. And each was
right; elegant rhyming has indeed marked African American
talk for generations. Yet because most such rhyming was spoken,
its history remains hidden. In this seminar, we’ll explore
this lost history, talking to poets and hip-hop emcees while
probing the archives to uncover the hidden heritage of African
American eloquence. Our goal is nothing short of writing the
prehistory of hip-hop, and in so doing demonstrating rhyme’s
longstanding role as a key marker of African American identity.
Glenn Hinson’s engagement with African American expressive culture emerges
from decades of work with artists that range from blues musicians and gospel
singers to tap dancers, vaudeville comics and hip-hop emcees. As a folklorist
(and Associate Professor) who teaches in the Departments of American Studies
and Anthropology, he studies everyday performances and the ways that they offer
insights into the workings of culture. Professor Hinson’s current research focuses
on oral poetry, self-taught art and the intersections between faith and creativity.
geography
geog
50.001:
mountain environments
PL
Diego Riveros-Iregui
TuTh, 11:00am– 12:15pm
This seminar focuses on understanding the physical geography
of mountain environments and the processes that have
created them, shaped them and sustained them. There are
several reasons for studying the environments of mountains:
(a) they reveal integrative earth systems processes that can be
readily observed and understood; (b) the processes are not
oversimplified, but have spatial complexity at scales that can
be readily comprehended; and (c) they also reveal human
interactions with and impacts on their environment. We will
geog 63.001: the problem with nature
and its preservation
PH
Gabriela Valdivia
TuTh, 11:00am–12:15pm
This seminar will explore conceptualizations of Nature,
consider how meanings and practices of nature transformation,
conservation and preservation help create the landscapes and
societies we inhabit and evaluate the implications of efforts
to manage these. The readings and discussion will evaluate
Western (especially American) conceptions of Nature and
compare with other perspectives, such as indigenous world
views, to better understand questions of sovereignty, value and
sustainable futures.
Gabriela Valdivia is Associate Professor in the Geography Department at
UNC-CH. Her research examines the political dimensions of natural resource
governance in Latin America: how Latin American states, firms and civil society
appropriate and transform resources to meet their interests and how capturing
and putting resources to work transforms cultural and ecological communities.
Her latest research project, “The Impact of Oil Extraction, Regulatory Policy and
Environmental Practice on Native Amazon and Afro-Ecuadorian Communities,”
funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), examines how the everyday
lives of Afro-descendants and Amazonian peoples are shaped by oil infrastructure
in Ecuador. She grew up in Peru and conducted ethnographic research in Ecuador
and Bolivia, and brings these experiences into her courses on Latin America and
courses on political ecology and nature-society relations.
fys.unc.edu
folklore
explore mountain environments by concentrating on processes
that shape the landscape, patterns that are apparent because
of those active processes and how the concept of scale (both
through space and time) define the patterns that we see that
are shaped by sets of scale-dependent processes. Although we
will talk about mountain environments in general, we will draw
examples from specific environments, including the Rocky
Mountains and the Andes.
Dr. Diego Riveros-Iregui received a Ph.D. in Ecology and Environmental
Sciences from Montana State University (2008), a M.S. in Geology from the
University of Minnesota (2004) and a B.S. in Geology from the National
University of Colombia in Bogotá (1999). His research interests include
watershed science, forest and soil processes, ecosystem ecology and landscape
biophysical responses to environmental change. His field studies include subalpine
forests of the Rocky Mountains of Montana and Colorado and highly impacted
sites of the Andes Mountains of Colombia and the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador.
Riveros-Iregui publishes in journals such as Global Change Biology,
Water Resources Research and Geophysical Research Letters.
He currently serves on the editorial board of The Journal of Geophysical
Research-Biogeosciences. He teaches courses on hydrology, watershed
systems, environmental systems and field methods in tropical hydrology. RiverosIregui collaborates with scientists in the U.S. and Latin America. For more
information visit http://diegori.web.unc.edu
F IRST Y EAR SEMI NARS
[geog 64] “Professor Lentz immersed the diverse group
of first year students in understanding the history and
the geography of Vietnam to explore other factors such
as the political system and culture.”
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geog
67.001:
the politics of everyday life
SS, GL
Sara Smith
TuTh, 9:30 AM–10:45am
This seminar examines the ways that politics, especially contests
over territory, are part of our day-to-day life. We will explore
a range of cases, from immigration policy and rhetoric in the
US, to popular representations of geopolitics in film, to the
politics of family planning in India. How do questions of love,
friendship, family and youth identity tie into the international
and national political stories that we see on the news? What does
national identity have to do with our individual sense of self?
We will also explore alternative ways that international politics
have been studied, as feminist geopolitics or anti-geopolitics
and questions of citizenship. Work for the seminar will involve
original research on intersections of international politics
and students’ daily life, as well as exploring representations of
geopolitical issues in the media, film and fiction.
Sara Smith is a political geographer with a South Asia focus, specializing in
feminist political geography and political geographies of youth and the future.
She has been involved in non-profit work and research in India since 1999.
Her Ph.D. is in geography, and she has been teaching in UNC’s Department of
Geography since 2009. Professor Smith’s current research in the Ladakh region
of India’s Jammu and Kashmir State addresses the ways that individuals’ personal
lives (especially their decisions about love and babies) are entangled in territorial
struggle. Smith is developing a new project about how marginalized young people
from India’s remote mountain regions experience university life in major Indian
cities and how this shapes their politics. If you are curious, you can find out more
about this work on her faculty website: https://sarasmith.web.unc.edu/.
geological sciences
geol 72h. 001: field geology of eastern
california (honors)
PL, EE Allen Glazner
TuTh, 2:00–3:15pm
Have you ever wanted to stand on a volcano, see a glacier, trace
out an earthquake fault or see the Earth’s oldest living things?
This seminar is designed around a one-week field trip to eastern
California, where students will study geologic features including
active volcanoes, earthquake-producing faults and evidence for
recent glaciation and extreme climate change. Before the field
trip (which will take place the week of Fall Break and be based at
a research station near Mammoth Lakes, California), the class
will meet twice a week to learn basic geologic principles and to
work on developing field research topics. During the field trip
students will work on field exercises (e.g. mapping, measuring
and describing an active fault; observing and recording glacial
features) and collect data for the research projects. After the
field trip, students will obtain laboratory data from samples
collected during the trip and test research hypotheses using
field and laboratory data. Grading will be based on presentation
of group research projects and on a variety of small projects
during the trip (notebook descriptions, mapping projects,
etc.). Students will be required to pay some of the costs of
the trip (estimated at about $900.) This course will require
missing three days of classes. The course is designed to teach
basic geology “on the rocks”, so there are no prerequisites. Link
to Yosemite Nature Notes video: http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Y5RQp77uVPA
Allen Glazner’s research focuses on volcanoes, earthquakes and the processes that
build the earth’s crust. In a typical year he spends several weeks doing field work
with UNC students in the mountains and deserts of California. He was schooled
at Pomona College and UCLA, began his teaching career at UNC in 1981 and
has won two teaching awards. Geologic field trips have taken him to Argentina,
Greece, Mexico, Italy, Switzerland, Alaska, Chile, Iceland, Scotland, France
and Hawaii in recent years. He likes mountains, hiking, cycling, jazz and cool
science stuff.
g e r m a n i c a n d s l av i c
l a n g ua g e s a n d l i t e r at u r e s
germ 51.001: stalin and hitler:
historical issues in cultural
and other perspectives
HS, GL
David Pike
TuTh, 3:30–4:45pm
This course deals with critical issues, in the broadest possible
context, that dominated the twentieth century: the rise of
fascism out of the carnage of World War One and the Bolshevik
revolution to which the war and Czarist Russia’s involvement
in it helped contribute. As the semester unfolds, drawing on
a variety of historical and documentary films, and literature
(memoirs, novels), we will take a comparative look at singular
personalities like Lenin, Stalin and Hitler and examine the role
played by such key figures in historical events of this magnitude.
More towards the end of the semester, we glance briefly at the
situation created in Western and Eastern Europe by the defeat
of fascism and contemplate the origins and evolution of the cold
war. We conclude with a consideration of the dissolution and
democratization of Eastern European countries, the collapse
of the Soviet Union, and, against the tragic background of
the past, the recent reemergence of conflict between Russia and
the “West.”
David Pike received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1978 in German
Studies with a minor in Russian and has taught at UNC–CH since 1980.
He is the author of three books, The Politics of Culture in Soviet
-Occupied Germany, 1945-1949 (1993), Lukács and Brecht
(1985) and German Writers in Soviet Exile, 1933-1945 (1982).
His research takes him regularly to Berlin and Moscow.
HS, CI, NA
Jonathan M. Hess
TuTh, 9:30–10:45am
fys.unc.edu
When Hitler came to power in 1933, Jews made up approximately
1% of the population in Germany. How was it possible that this
miniscule minority came to occupy such a prominent role in
Nazi ideology and the German cultural imagination? What
might studying the relationship between Germans and Jews in
the centuries before the Holocaust teach us about the persistence
of anti-Semitism and racism in our world today? This course
seeks to answer these questions by examining a variety of
primary sources from the Middle Ages to the Holocaust and
beyond, including political treatises, literary texts, theological
tracts, film and personal memoirs. No previous familiarity with
the subject is required.
Jonathan M. Hess, Moses M. and Hannah L. Distinguished Professor of Jewish
History and Culture, received a B.A. from Yale, an M.A. from The Johns
Hopkins University and another M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of
Pennsylvania. Currently in his 23rd year of teaching at Carolina, Hess specializes
in German and German-Jewish literature, culture and history. In his spare
time, he plays the piano, walks his two hound dogs and loves to go hiking in the
mountains with his family.
Her fields of research and teaching interests are 20th- and 21st-century
literature, film, music, (post)subculture studies, multiculturalism, African
Diaspora studies and gender studies. She is the author of several essays about
German film, Turkish German literature, popular music and counterculture
in Germany. In her free time she enjoys live music, traveling with her son and
collecting punk records.
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GEOG 56 field visit. Photo by Dan Sears.
gsll 70.001: teenage kicks: race, class,
and gender in postwar youth
slav 84.001: terror for the people:
terrorism in russian literature
and history
LA, EE, GL
LA, BN, CI
Priscilla Layne
MW, 3:35–4:50pm
Stanislav Shvabrin
MW, 3:35–4:50pm
This seminar is an investigation of youth cultures from
the 1940s to the present in the US and around the world
(including the UK, Germany and Japan). It offers students not
only a history of how different youth cultures developed over
time, but also how the constitution of youth cultures has been
influenced by additional factors like race, class and gender. In
examining youth cultures across the world, students will not
only be introduced to the study of pop music and pop culture,
but also subculture and postsubculture theory, intersectionality
and media studies. Over the course of the semester, students
will gain an understanding of how and why the concept of the
“teenager” emerged in the 1940s and why teenagers are attracted
to youth cultures. Students will learn how to do close readings
of a variety of media, ranging from essays, short stories, songs
and poems to films. Students will also get the opportunity to
conduct sustained, mentored research and fieldwork on one
subculture of their choice.
Priscilla Layne is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic and
Slavic Languages and Literatures and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in African,
African American and Diaspora Studies. She is a native of Chicago and before
moving to North Carolina, she received her Ph.D. from the University of
California at Berkeley in 2011.
F IRST Y EAR SEMI NARS
germ 56.001: germans, jews,
and the history of anti-semitism
Before Timothy McVeigh, Taliban, Al-Qaeda and ISIS/ISIL,
Russia provided the world with visual imagery and vocabulary
to refer to terror perpetrated in the name of ostensibly lofty
goals and ideals. This course offers you an opportunity to
acquaint yourself with such key concepts as anarchism, nihilism
and “Red Terror” as well as the minds responsible for their
invention and application. As we delve into the substance of
these ideas and attempt to understand the reasons for their
enduring relevance, we will examine the different ways in
which leading Russian intellectuals, including Ivan Turgenev,
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Pyotr Kropotkin
and others, envisaged their coming to fruition. In addition to
a selection of literary texts and political manifestoes composed
by visionaries of both conservative and libertarian persuasions,
we will examine witness accounts of those at the receiving end of
many progressive initiatives.
Stanislav Shvabrin has researched, published and lectured on the history and
culture of Russian diasporas, comparative verse theory, poetics and politics of
national memory and translation studies. Apart from his scholarly and editorial
work on Vladimir Nabokov, he has written on Georgy Ivanov, Andrei Kurbsky,
Mikhail Kuzmin and Marina Tsvetaeva.
slav 88h. 001: gender and fiction
in central and eastern europe
LA, BN
Ewa Wampuszyc
TuTh, 2:00–3:15pm
Studying culture through the prism of gender can be a great
introduction to a region like Central and Eastern Europe.
In this seminar, we will have a chance to explore definitions
of “masculine” and “feminine” in fiction, film and essays by
and about women from Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary,
Poland and Romania. We will discuss how gender concepts shed
light on self-identity, nationalism, private property, public
spaces, values, ethics, political dissent and oppression, and
consumerism. We will consider the connection between the
19th century “Woman Question” and nationalism. We will study
how communist ideology promised gender equality, but failed.
We will discuss perceptions of gender and consumerism after
the fall of communism. Students will learn how political and
economic transition affected Central/Eastern Europe; about
everyday life under communism; about the geography of Central
and Eastern Europe; and how the language and discourses we
use shape our world view. Student progress and grades will
be assessed through class participation, a group presentation
and writing assignments (ranging from short responses to a
longer paper).
Ewa Wampuszyc has been a Professor in UNC’s Department of Germanic and
Slavic Languages and Literatures since 2010. She received her Ph.D. in 2004
from the University of Michigan. Before coming to UNC, she taught courses in
literature, language and European studies at the University of Florida. Professor
Wampuszyc’s research interests include: representations of Warsaw in literature
and film, cultural capital as it relates to economic capital and post-communist
cultural transformation in Central Europe. Teaching First Year Students every
fall has become one of the highlights of her academic year. While she has many
outside interests, she enjoys her work so much that she also considers it a hobby.
h i s t o ry
hist 53.001: traveling to european
cities: american writers/cultural
identities, 1830-1930
HS, NA
Lloyd Kramer
TuTh, 11:00am–12:15pm
This seminar examines two key themes in modern cultural and
intellectual history: the importance of travel in the lives and
cultural identities of American writers and the important role of
European cities in the evolution of modern American cultural
identities. We shall focus on a historical era in which American
writers were especially drawn to Europe as an alternative to the
social and cultural life in the United States; and we’ll discuss
how the encounter with Europe influenced these writers as they
defined their national identities as well as their views of politics,
social relations, gender identities, literature, art and Western
cultural traditions. The seminar is based on the assumption
that travel has become one of the most influential personal
experiences in modern times. In short, we shall explore the
connection between travel, writing and personal identities.
This is a class for people who like to read about personal
experiences and are intrigued by foreign travel. The assigned
texts include works by women and men such as Margaret Fuller,
Mark Twain, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein and
Ernest Hemingway; and the cities we’ll discuss include Paris,
London, Rome, Venice and Athens.
Lloyd Kramer’s interests focus on Modern European History with an emphasis
on nineteenth-century France and French-American cultural relations. He is
particularly interested in historical processes that shape personal and collective
identities, including the experiences of cross-cultural exchange and the emergence
of modern nationalism. Other research and teaching interests deal with the roles
of intellectuals in modern societies and the theoretical foundations of historical
knowledge. His teaching stresses the pleasures of reading, discussing and writing
about influential books in various eras of European and world history.
Students from ARTS 50 at a reception following a performance by the string quartet
Brooklyn Ryder. Photo by Beth Lawrence.
hist 70.001: exploring cultural
landscapes: chapel hill as a case study
HS, CI, EE
John Sweet
T, 3:30–6:00pm
The course explores the concept of cultural landscapes as a way
of studying history and its legacies. Through a combination
of field work, historical research and analysis, students use
maps, photographs, GIS resources and archival documents
to understand how–and why–people in the past shaped our
surroundings today.
Within the general field of Early American history, John Sweet’s research focuses
on the dynamics of colonialism and on the interplay of religious cultures. His
first book explored the encounters of Indians, Africans and Europeans in New
England and argued that the racial legacy of colonialism shaped the emergence
of the American North as well as the South. He has also worked with other
historians and literary scholars on the Jamestown colony and its broader cultural
and international contexts. His current project is The Captive’s Tale:
Venture Smith and the Roots of the American Republic.
HS, CI, NA
Karen Hagemann
M, 3:35–6:05pm
hist 74.001: emperors, courts, and
consumption: the mughals of india
John L. Townsend III FYS in History
HS, BN
Emma Flatt
TuTh, 12:30–1:45pm
The Mughal Empire (1526-1858) is not only one of the most
well-known of South Asian polities, it was also the grandest
and longest lasting empire in Indian history. At its height this
empire covered almost the entire subcontinent and its rulers
and elites were responsible for much of the iconic architecture
i n t e r d i s c i p l i n a ry s t u d i e s
idst 89.001: colonialism, power,
and resistance
HS, GL
Carlee Forbes, Aubrey Lauersdorf, Meredith McCoy, Marsha
S. Collins
TuTh, 11:00am–12:15pm
You may have heard that colonialism began in the 1400s
and ended in the 1700s. You likely learned about examples
of colonialism in high school, like Christopher Columbus
“discovering” America or the Pilgrims establishing Plymouth
Colony. Colonialism occurs whenever a group of people takes
control of territory, exploiting land, resources and people for
economic benefit. Colonizers can also introduce settlers to a
place that had long been home to indigenous peoples.
Is colonialism still occurring? In this course, we bring together
Art History, History and American Studies to better understand
colonial processes from multiple perspectives across Africa,
Europe, South America and North America. We will investigate
how colonialism creates, enforces and reinforces power
through law, art, language and land. This class is less about how
colonialism began (which we hope you know about already—
if not, we’ll help fill in the gaps) and more about ongoing
responses to it.
This course will be team taught by an interdisciplinary group of PhD students.
Carlee Forbes is in Art History, Aubrey Lauersdorf is in History and Meredith
McCoy is in American Studies. Their research interests overlap in terms of subject
matter—each examines the power relationships between various actors in colonial
settings. Carlee focuses on artists and patrons in Central Africa, Meredith on
American Indian education policy and Aubrey on gender and colonialism in
Spanish Florida. In their rare spare time, these three enjoy varied activities from
trying new recipes to outdoor adventures.
fys.unc.edu
The seminar examines twentieth century European history
through the lens of women’s autobiographical writings. It
explores women’s voices from different generational and
national backgrounds. We will read and discuss autobiographical
texts by six women, who grew up in middle class families in
Austria, Britain, France and Germany and wrote about their
lives in the first half of the twentieth century. They all tried to
make a difference in society and politics: Emmeline Pankhurst
(1958-1928), a leader of the British suffragette movement;
Alice Salomon (1872-1948), a liberal Jewish-German social
reformer; Vera Brittain (1893-1970), a British peace activist
and writer; Toni Sender (1888-1964), one of the first female
parliamentarians in Weimar Germany; Geneviève de GaulleAnthonioz (1920-2002), a French resistance fighter and a
survivor of the women’s concentration camp Ravensbrück;
and Ruth Klüger (1931-), an Austrian-Jewish student who
survived Auschwitz and became a professor in the U.S
The overarching theme of the seminar is the struggle of women
for equal economic, social and political rights. We will explore
what effects political changes, revolutions and wars as well as
the Holocaust had on this struggle and the lives of women
more general. Through intensive discussions of the reading
in class, group work and the opportunity to write a research
paper on a female autobiography of their own choice, the
seminar offers students a unique approach to twentieth century
European history and will introduce them to historical research
and writing.
Karen Hagemann is the James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of History
and Adjunct Professor of the Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense. She has
published widely on Modern European and German history as well as military
and gender history. Currently she has finished a book entitled Revisiting
Prussia’s Wars against Napoleon: History, Culture, Memory
(Cambridge University Press) and is working as the general editor of the Oxford
Handbook Gender, War and the Western World since 1600.
(http://history.unc.edu/people/faculty/karenhagemann)
and painting associated with India in the popular mind today.
Rich in textual, material and visual primary sources, in recent
years this period has been the focus of vibrant and exciting
scholarly work, which has re-evaluated long-held assumptions
about the nature of pre-modern South Asia. Through a study
of autobiographical texts, contemporary accounts, objects,
architecture and later representations in scholarly works, films,
novels and Wikipedia entries, we will analyze the complex ways
in which this powerful dynasty portrayed itself and the various
ways it is remembered today.
Emma Flatt’s research has focused on mentalities and practices in the courtly
societies of medieval South India. She is currently writing a book which examines
how skills like perfume-making, astrological divination, gardening, magical
spells and letter writing allowed nobles to succeed at court. She is also researching
the history of friendship in medieval South Asia. Originally from the UK, she has
lived, studied and worked in India, Italy and Singapore.
F IRST Y EAR SEMI NARS
hist 72h. 001: women’s voices:
20 th-century european history
in female memory
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i n f o r m at i o n a n d l i b r a ry
science
inls
89.001:
social media & new movements
SS
Zeynep Tufekci
MW, 10:10–11:25am
Movements ranging from uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and
beyond to “Occupy” protests in the United States have been
using new media technologies to coordinate, organize and
intervene in the public sphere as well as to document, share and
shape their own stories. Using a range of tools from Facebook
to Twitter, from satellite modems to landlines to ad-hoc mesh
networks, these movements have made their mark in history.
The objective of this seminar is to enhance our conceptual
and empirical understanding of the interaction between the
new media ecology and social change. We will explore various
approaches to studying social movements and social change and
look at specific cases. Governments and powerful institutions
are also responding to the challenge posed by the emergence
of the Internet as a mundane and global technology. From
increased surveillance and filtering capacity, to delivering
propaganda over the Internet to their own, governments
around the world are broadening their repertoire of social,
technical and legal tools for control and suppression of—and
through—the Internet. We will explore the integration of new
media tools within these movements as well as governmental
and institutional responses to these developments. Materials
for this class will include readings, videos (not to be viewed
in class but as material to be viewed) and a variety of visiting
speakers (both in person and via Skype).
Zeynep Tufekci is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information and Library
Science and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Sociology. Her research
interests are social impacts of technology, privacy and surveillance, inequality,
research methods and complex systems. Her work has been featured in the New
York Times, Science, Washington Post and other media.
linguistics
ling 89h. 001: decipherment of ancient
scripts (honors)
SS, WB David Mora-Marin
MWF, 10:10–11:00am
The seminar deals with the origin and evolution of writing
systems; the methods for deciphering ancient scripts and
studying contemporary scripts; and the socio-cultural and
linguistic underpinnings of literacy in the ancient and
contemporary worlds. Students will study and analyze, through
a series of workshops and group projects, the early Sumerian,
Egyptian, Harappan, Chinese and Mesoamerican writing
systems—the five writing systems that account for much of the
diversity of scripts known today. These are all non-alphabetic
scripts, and studying them offers insights into the cognitive
processes involved in the origin and evolution of writing, the
relationship between script and image, and between script and
language, and the challenges of learning to read and write in
any writing system. Students will use group and individual
projects emphasizing linguistic methodologies to study a variety
of undeciphered (or partly deciphered) scripts such as Etruscan
(Italy), Cretan Hieroglyphic (Crete), Linear A (Crete),
Rongorongo (Easter Island), Zapotec (Oaxaca Valley, Mexico),
Olmec (Veracruz, Mexico), Harappan (India), Khipu (Peru)
and the increasingly visual and pictorial multimedia literacy
strategies of the contemporary world.
David Mora-Marin is a linguistic anthropologist who specializes in historical
linguistics and writing systems. He focuses on the study of the contemporary
and ancient indigenous languages of Mexico and Central America. His goal
is to utilize linguistic data to better understand the history of their speakers
(e.g. migrations, contacts with speakers of other languages, social and political
changes, economic development), as well as the nature of language itself (i.e.
how languages are structured and why they change). Mora-Marin studies three
of the thirteen or so Mesoamerican scripts: Olmec, Epi-Olmec and Mayan. He
has also carried out field projects in Oaxaca and Yucatan (Mexico) to document
contemporary indigenous languages.
marine sciences
masc
55.001:
change in the coastal ocean
PL
Christopher S. Martens
TuTh, 9:30–10:45am
This seminar provides students with opportunities to explore
recent changes in marine and terrestrial environments caused
by the interactions of fascinating oceanographic processes.
Class presentations and discussions focus on the work of active
marine scientists who combine their traditional disciplinary
research with knowledge and skills from other fields as needed
to understand new environmental challenges. This crosscutting scientific approach prepares class members to recognize
important connections between traditional disciplines to
discover interdisciplinary research areas that they might wish to
further explore during their undergraduate careers at Carolina.
In preparation for discussions, laboratory demonstrations
and occasional visits to field sites, we read a series of recently
published, non-technical research papers. We use information
from those papers plus current research at Carolina to
investigate how biological, geological, physical and geochemical
processes interact to influence coastal, open-ocean and tropical
environments. Students will participate in “video- and phototrips” during classes, laboratory demonstrations using stateof-the art instrumentation in our laboratories and “hands on”
mini-experiments designed to emphasize the importance of
the scientific question rather than just the technology involved.
Please note that this seminar has no prerequisites.
Christopher S. Martens earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Oceanography from
Florida State University in 1972, then moved to Yale to complete two years
of postdoctoral study before joining the faculty at UNC in 1974. His current
“My first year seminar helped me broaden my outlook on
the academic possibilities available to me at Carolina.
I learned how to think critically about issues that are
outside of the academic realm while also surrounding
myself with students of similar interests.”
–Mason R., Class of 2016
PL
Andreas Teske
TuTh, 11:00am–12:15pm
GEOG 62. A trip to the Ackland Art Museum. Photo by Beth Lawrence.
masc 57 h. 001: from “the sound of music”
to “the perfect storm” (honors)
PL, QI Alberto Scotti
TuTh, 9:30–10:45am
We are constantly surrounded by phenomena that are wave-like
in nature. We communicate over short distances with sound
waves, and we use electromagnetic waves to communicate over
long distances. We see waves when we stand at beach, and the
weather we experience is controlled very often by wave-like
features of the jet stream. In this seminar, we will develop the
conceptual framework necessary to understand waves, starting
from laboratory observations. The main goal is to explore the
common traits of waves and how these traits can be used to
enhance our understanding and to predict the outcome of a
broad range of important physical phenomena.
Alberto Scotti is a native of Milano, Italy and attended the university there, where
he earned a laurea in physics in 1992. He then moved to Baltimore, Maryland,
where he completed a PhD degree in Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in
1997. Subsequently, Dr. Scotti completed his postdoctoral study at the Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution, where he retooled himself as an oceanographer.
In 1999, Dr. Scotti joined the faculty at UNC in the Department of Marine
Sciences. His research interests center on problems of applied fluid dynamic
that are related to the environment and/or geophysics. When not working on
problems of fluid dynamics, he enjoys the outdoors, especially alpine activities like
mountaneering and skiing with his wife and children.
We will expand our horizons in biology by learning about
some of the most extreme microorganisms on the planet—
microorganisms that thrive without oxygen in deep marine
sediments and in the Earth’s crust, under high temperatures
in boiling hot springs or in superheated deep-sea water under
high pressure and under chemical stress factors (high sulfide
and heavy metal concentrations) that were once thought to be
incompatible with life. Numerous extremophilic (extremeloving) microorganisms of different metabolic types have
been isolated in the laboratory as pure cultures; others have
been observed in Nature but have so far resisted cultivation.
Extremophiles provide opportunities to study the unusual and
strange biochemistry that allows them to thrive in their unique
habitats; they are also valuable model systems for potential life
on other planets. We will get to know the unusual habitats where
extremophiles are found, for example hot springs and volcanic
areas on land (Yellowstone) and in the ocean (hydrothermal
vents), and we will explore the earliest history of extremophiles
as some of the most ancient microorganisms on Earth.
Andreas Teske is a biochemist by training, but became fascinated by the microbial
world of the oceans and focused his Ph.D. research on the ecology and diversity
of marine bacteria that catalyze the sulfur cycle. After completing his Ph.D. at
Bremen University and the Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology in
Germany in 1995, he spent his postdoc years at the Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution and stayed on as Assistant Scientist. Andreas Teske joined the UNC
Marine Sciences faculty in 2002. His research interests include the microbiology
of the deep marine subsurface and microbial ecosystems of petroleum seeps and
hydrothermal vents. In search of novel extreme marine microorganisms, he and
his students are participating in a wide range of research cruises.
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masc 59.001: extreme microorganisms:
pushing the limits of life on earth
and beyond
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research focuses on how biological processes affect the chemistry of seawater,
sources of greenhouse gases, changing coral reef ecosystems and the carbon cycle
in deep sea environments including the northern Gulf of Mexico area impacted
by the Deepwater Horizon disaster. He publishes widely and has twice been
co-recipient of the Geochemical Society’s Best Paper award in Organic
Geochemistry. He is an experienced SCUBA diver and underwater videographer.
He has received a “Favorite Faculty” award for recognized excellence in
undergraduate teaching.
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math 51.001: fish gotta swim, birds
gotta fly’: the mathematics and
the mechanics of moving
QI
Roberto Camassa
MWF, 1:25–2:15pm
One focus of this seminar is to address the science of motion
of vehicles and living organisms, in fluids such as air and water,
using simple physical explanations supported with the relevant
mathematical descriptions. Experimental demonstrations will
be used to illustrate the concepts encountered in class, as well
as to provide an insight into the art of fluid flow visualization.
There are no prerequisites, and material from physics and
mathematics will be introduced as needed. Understanding
of the material will be reinforced with biweekly homework
assignments and a final animation project. While this course is
focused on the physics and mathematics, rather than computer
programming, an introduction to elementary concepts of
scientific computing will be part of the course.
Roberto Camassa is the Kenan Distinguished Professor in the Department of
Mathematics. His Ph.D. is from Cal Tech, and his research interests include
nonlinear evolution equations, mathematical modeling, fluid mechanics
and optics.
math
62 h. 001:
combinatorics
(honors)
Evaluation: “A difficult but wholly worthwhile course: I feel
more competent for having taken it”, “I would recommend this
FYS to others ONLY if they have a VERY strong affinity for and
ability in Algebra (I thought I did, but I was wrong).”
Ivan Cherednik is Austin H. Carr Distinguished Professor of Mathematics.
Trained at the Steklov Mathematics Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences
and at Moscow State University, his areas of specialization are Representation
Theory, Combinatorics, Number Theory, Harmonic Analysis and Mathematical
Physics. Cherednik’s particular affection for Combinatorics is well known:
he proved the celebrated Constant term conjecture in Combinatorics.
Professor Hugon Karwowski working with a student. Photo by Dan Sears.
QI
Ivan Cherednik
TuTh, 9:30–10:45am
A leading expert in Modern Combinatorics wants to share
his vision of the subject with the students. The seminar is a
perfect background for future specialists in mathematics,
physics, computer science, biology, economics, for those who
are curious what statistical physics is about, what cryptography
is and how the stock market works, and for everyone who likes
mathematics.
The course will be organized around the following topics:
1) Puzzles: dimer covering, magic squares, 36 officers
2) Combinations: from coin tossing to dice and poker
3) Fibonacci numbers: rabbits, population growth, etc.
4) Arithmetic: designs, cyphers, intro to finite fields
5) Catalan numbers: from playing roulette to the stock market
The students will learn about the history of Combinatorics, its
connections with the theory of numbers, its fundamental role in
the natural sciences and various applications. It is an advanced
research course; all students are expected to participate in
projects under the supervision of Ivan Cherednik and the
Graduate Research Consultant (the GRC Program). The grades
will be based on the exam, bi-weekly homework assignments
and participation in the projects. The course requires focus
and effort, but, generally, the students are quite satisfied with
the progress they make (and their grades too). From the Course
media and journalism
mejo 89.001: democracy in action
in 2016 elections
HS, CI, NA
Ferrel Guillory
MW, 3:30–4:45pm
“Nowhere in the world are more people more fully engaged
in active, responsible participation in the choice of national
leadership than in the United States during the fall season of any
American Presidential campaign,” Theodore H. White wrote
in The Making of the President 1960. Through this seminar, which
coincides with the fall 2016 presidential campaign, students
will discuss and write about the dramatic story of democracy
in action as it unfolds in their communities, in their state and
across the nation. Campaigns being enterprises of multiple
dimensions, the seminar will give students an exploration
of politics through many lenses: candidates and personality,
political parties and partisanship, money and media, issues
and interest groups, voters and polling. This seminar also seeks
to give students experience in interpretative journalism, with
monthly writing assignments. At the conclusion of the seminar,
students will have a deeper appreciation for the complexities
of people wielding power through their votes, through their
participation in campaigns and through a free press in a free,
democratic society.
B.A. - Loyola University New Orleans
M.S. - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
musc 57.001: music and drama: verdi’s
operas and italian Romanticism
LA, CI, WB
John Nádas
MWF, 11:15am–12:05pm
Why does opera continue to attract growing audiences? Because
opera entertains them in a special way. Of course, there are
skeptics who may sneer about fat sopranos, preening tenors
and silly plots. The truth is greater than that, however, for
when the audience is receptive to its magic, opera can touch the
soul as few arts can. Most important, unlike musical concerts
and spoken plays, opera combines the arts in a unique way.
First and foremost, language and music can work together
to do what neither could do alone. No better examples of
this art form can be found than the stunning operas created
during the nineteenth century in Italy, especially those of
Giuseppe Verdi. A distinctive Italian brand of Romanticism was
formulated, which formed Verdi’s artistic tastes and nourished
his imagination. Schiller, Hugo and especially Shakespeare
were the touchstones of Verdi’s sensibilities and encouraged
his boldness and originality of operatic subjects. We will trace
Verdi’s artistry from early works such as Nabucco, Ernani and
Macbeth, through the brilliance of Traviata, Rigoletto and Trovatore,
and finally to one of the sublime masterpieces from the end of
the century, Otello. The seminar will include weekly reading and
listening assignments, class participation in discussions, two
brief papers as follow-ups to class viewings of operas, mid-term
and final exams, and a final project.
John Nádas (Gerhard L. Weinberg Distinguished Professor in the College of Arts
and Sciences) was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He received a B.F.A. in music
from Tulane University, an M.A. from Villa Schifanoia (Florence, Italy), and
a Ph.D. in musicology from New York University. He taught at the University
of California at Santa Barbara before joining the faculty of Carolina. Professor
Nádas served as Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Musicology.
His interests include the music of 14th- and 15th-century France and Italy,
Monteverdi and 19th-century Italian opera.
musc 89.001: hip-hop diplomacy:
opportunities and challenges
VP, GL This class has been cancelled Fall 2016
Sorry.
Mark Katz
TuTh, 12:30–1:45pm
For 75 years the U.S. Department of State has been sending
American musicians abroad as cultural diplomats. In 2001 it
philosophy
phil
51.001:
who was socrates?
PH, NA, WB
C. D. C. Reeve
MW, 11:15am–12:30pm
Socrates is by far the most famous Greek philosopher and,
perhaps, the first real philosopher known in the Western
tradition. In this seminar, we explore the intellectual and
historical context within which Socrates is thought to have
revolutionized philosophy so as to better understand his
significance for his contemporaries and for us. Our focus,
however, will be on the large and perennial human questions
that Socrates made his own: How should we live? What is
justice? What is virtue? What sort of society should we strive to
provide for our families and for ourselves? Each week we will
read a part of one of the primary texts and discuss it carefully
in the class. These discussions will serve both as a testingground for ideas and as preparation for the writing assignments.
By learning to talk and write in an engaging but disciplined way
about books and ideas that are both exciting and significant, we
will not only be finding out about Socrates but also be taking up
the Socratic challenge to live the examined life.
C. D. C. Reeve works primarily in ancient Greek philosophy, especially Plato
and Aristotle. He is interested in philosophy generally and has published work in
the philosophy of sex and love and on film. His books include: PhilosopherKings (Princeton 1988; reissued 2006); Socrates in the Apology
(Hackett 1989); Practices of Reason (Oxford, 1992)—named
an Outstanding Academic Book for 1992 by Choice; Substantial
Knowledge (Hackett 2000); Love’s Confusions (Harvard 2005);
Action, Contemplation, and Happiness: An Essay on Aristotle
(Harvard 2012)—named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2012 by Choice;
Blindness and Re-Orientation: Problems in Plato’s Republic
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music
sent its first hip-hop musician on an official tour, and 2013
it established Next Level, a program that sends American
hip-hop artists abroad to teach and perform with youth in
underserved communities. Hundreds of hip-hop diplomats
have now toured and taught in scores of countries around
the world. Katz created the Next Level program and, as its
director, havs overseen residencies in twelve countries on five
continents. This class draws both on the history of American
musical diplomacy and Katz’s own experiences to explore hiphop diplomacy in the context of American foreign policy and
consider its goals, potential and challenges. Next Level artists
will serve as special guests throughout the semester.
Mark Katz is the Ruel W. Tyson Jr. Distinguished Professor of the Humanities
and the Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Capturing Sound:
How Technology has Changed Music and Groove Music: The
Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ. He is co-editor of Music,
Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History
and former editor of The Journal of the Society for American
Music. In 2013 he created, and continues to direct, the U.S. State
Department-funded musical diplomacy program Next Level, which connects
American hip-hop artists to underserved communities around the world to
promote cultural exchange, conflict reduction and entrepreneurship.
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Ferrel Guillory is a Professor of the Practice in the UNC School of Media and
Journalism. He founded the UNC Program on Public Life in 1997 and is a
Senior Fellow at MDC, Inc., a non-profit research firm, through which he has
co-authored seven State of the South reports. In addition, Guillory is a cofounder of EducationNC, a non-profit organization that reports and analyzes
PreK-12 education in North Carolina online at www.ednc.org.
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(Oxford, 2012); and Aristotle on Practical Wisdom: Nicomachean
Ethics Book VI (Harvard, 2013). He has translated Plato’s Cratylus
(1997), Euthyphro, Apology, Crito (2002), Republic (2004) and
Meno (2006) as well as Aristotle’s Politics (1998) and Metaphysics
(2016) for Hackett. He is currently working on Aristotle’s Physics and De
Anima. Recent articles include: “Aristotle’s Philosophical Method,” in the
Oxford Handbook of Aristotle (2012); “A Celemín of Shit: Comedy
and Deception in Almodóvar’s Talk to Her” in Philosophers on Film:
Talk to Her (2009); and “Glaucon’s Challenge and Thrasymacheanism,”
in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy (2008).
phil 66.001: ethics: theoretical and
practical
PH
Thomas Hill
TuTh, 11:00am–12:15pm
This seminar aims to encourage students to think seriously
and clearly about ethical problems by means of class discussion,
group research projects and examination of philosophical and
literary works. Theoretical issues to be considered include
relativism, utilitarianism, deontological ethics and virtue
ethics. Practical issues may include abortion, substance abuse,
treatment of animals and the environment, and sex, love
and marriage.
Thomas Hill is a Kenan Professor in the Department of Philosophy. Professor Hill
has written extensively in ethics, the history of ethics and political philosophy.
phys 52.052: making the right
connections
phil 78.001: death as a problem for
philosophy: metaphysical and ethical
Hugon J.Karwowski
MW, 11:15am–12:30pm
Lab: M, 1:25– 3:25pm or M, 3:35–5:35pm
PH
Russ Shafer-Landau
MW, 3:35–4:50pm
In this seminar we will be discussing a variety of important
questions about death, including:
1. What is Death?
2. What is the Value of Life?
3. Why is Death Bad (if it is)?
4. Are We Immortal–and if so, is that a good thing?
5. What is the Moral Status of Suicide and Euthanasia?
6. What is The Meaning of Life and How Does it Relate to
Death?
7. How Should One Face One’s Own Death?
Students will be expected to be active participants in discussion
and there will be several short writing assignments.
Russ Shafer-Landau is Director of the Parr Center for Ethics and Professor of
Philosophy. He has written widely in ethical theory; his research focuses on issues
about the objectivity of ethics.
Students from ENGL 86 “The Cities of Modernism” at the Ackland Art Museum.
Photo by Dan Sears.
physics and astronomy
This seminar will investigate the multiple roles that computers
perform in scientific investigations. We will discuss and test
in practice how the connections are made between measuring
devices and computers. We will investigate how the collected data
are evaluated and how the decisions based on the experimental
results are made. We will also discuss the role of the computer
simulations in scientific research and the societal consequences
of recent technological advances. In the lab students will learn
digital electronics, programming and gain working knowledge
of data acquisition techniques with primary focus on flow of
data from and to scientific instruments. We will visit a number
of research labs on and off campus and talk to young researchers
about their work. This seminar will be of particular interest for
prospective science majors, but there are no prerequisites.
Hugon J.Karwowski, who is a native of Poland, is a physicist and a teacher.
His research is in applied nuclear physics, neutrino physics and astrophysics.
Most of his experimental work is performed using accelerators at the Triangle
Universities Nuclear Laboratory. His other interests are politics, world history
and grade inflation. He is a winner of numerous teaching awards and has served
as a mentor of students on all levels.
–Emma B., Class of 2017
public policy
GL
Elizabeth Sasser
TuTh, 12:30–1:45pm
Many serious environmental threats are global in scope. Just
think of the way we produce and consume energy; how waste
produced in one corner of the world travels by air, sea and land
to pollute another corner; and how ecosystems that transcend
national boundaries are impacted by human behavior. Who
is responsible for governing these global environmental
challenges? This seminar explores linkages among nations,
global environmental institutions and the environmental
problems they cause and seek to rectify. We will examine how
global environmental policy is made, with specific attention to
the roles of institutions, nations, commercial and non-profit
entities. Topics include the evolution of environmental policy in
the United States; China, India and other developing countries’
impact on the global environment; global environmental
institutions such as the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change; the role of environmental non-profit
organizations; risks to the environment through pollution
of land and sea by waste; global energy and environmental
implications of shale gas and fracking; and the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear disaster and its global repercussions.
Elizabeth Sasser is a public policy practitioner with extensive experience in
federal and state government. Prior to joining UNC Public Policy as a Lecturer,
Elizabeth served as policy advisor at the U.S. Department of Energy during
the first term of the Obama Administration. She worked with Administration
leadership on strategies to advance the nation’s interests on environmental and
energy issues, focusing primarily on bilateral relations with China. Prior to her
time in the Administration, she was a policy advisor to two North Carolina
governors on energy and education issues. She has a B.A. and an M.P.P. from
Duke University and studied at Peking University in Beijing, China, where she
developed a fluency in Mandarin.
plcy 55.001: higher education, the
college experience, and public policy
SS
Anna Krome-Lukens
MW, 3:35–4:50pm
Higher education is undergoing rapid transformations that
may dramatically change the undergraduate college experience.
In this course, students will examine urgent questions facing
American colleges and universities. For example, why is the
cost of college rising and what implications does this shift
plcy 70.001: national policy: who sets
the agenda ?
SS, CI, NA
Larry Stein
TuTh, 12:30–1:45pm
The class will concentrate on the contrast between the
sometimes euphoric process of campaigning for high office
as set against the painstaking and often torturous process of
legislating. Taking the Obama 2008 campaign as a case study,
(and using Game Change by John Heileman and Mark Halperin
as a central text), we will explore President Obama’s historic
victory and subsequent collision with legislative reality in his
struggle to get the Affordable Care Act into law (using portions
of America’s Bitter Pill by Steven Brill as a documentary record).
The class will, in the process of the inquiry, bore deeply into
the changing mechanics of “campaigning in America,” taking a
look back at the Presidential campaigns of 1960 (The Making of a
President 1960 by Theodore White) and the first real Presidential
campaign of 1800 (The Deadlocked Election of 1800—Jefferson, Burr
and The Union in the Balance by James Roger Sharp). Overall the
class will attempt to explore the mismatch between the qualities
necessary to win elections and those necessary for governing a
diverse, contentious polity.
Larry Stein was Senior Vice President for Policy Affairs at Capital One Financial
Corporation. Stein has been with the Fortune 200 financial services company
since 2003 and is responsible for Federal, State and local government relations,
regulatory relations and the public policy dimension of corporate reputation
management. During the second term of the Clinton Administration, Stein
served as Assistant to the President and Director of Legislative Affairs. Stein was
President Clinton’s chief lobbyist and sat on the Clinton Economic team and was
a lead participant in the budget negotiations with the Congressional majority in
both 1998 and 1999. Through a 33-year career in government and business,
Stein has worked on a wide range of financial, tax and budgetary issues including
Dodd-Frank, the Andrews Air Force Base Budget Summit, multiple budget, tax
and trade bills, the repeal of Glass-Steagel, the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate
accountability act and the impeachment of the President in 1998 and 99.
Stein graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude from Allegheny College
and was awarded a University Scholarship to Vanderbilt University where he
received his Masters.
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plcy 51.001: the global environment
in the 21st century
have for who attends and graduates from college? How well
is higher education preparing students for jobs of the future?
How has new technology reshaped the college experience, both
academically and socially? How should universities respond to
student needs and desires? What role should athletics play in
higher education? Students will explore these and other topics
through class discussion, position papers, oral presentations
and interactions with UNC faculty and staff.
Anna Krome-Lukens completed her PhD in U.S. History at UNC-Chapel
Hill. Her historical research focuses on the history of social welfare and public
health policies. She developed her interest in pressing issues in higher education
while in graduate school, through involvement in UNC’s graduate branch of
student government, work in Undergraduate Retention, an appointment as the
graduate representative to Faculty Council and service on several universitywide committees, including the University Copyright Committee and the
Administrative Board of the Library.
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“I loved the small class and how knowledgeable my
instructor was. It’s definitely encouraged me to take
more music classes.”
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71.001:
justice and inequality
PH
Douglas MacKay
TuTh, 2:00–3:15pm
The value of equality is a foundational principle of the United
States of America. The Declaration of Independence proclaims
that “all men are created equal” and possess unalienable
rights to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” The
Constitution of the United States requires that no State “deny
to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of
the laws.” Additionally, equality has been the goal of a number
of influential political movements, including the Civil Rights
movement, the Feminist movement, Occupy Wall Street
and the LGBT movement. Yet despite this prominence of
the value of equality, the U.S. is becoming a more unequal
society in a number of domains, particularly, with respect
to the distribution of income, political influence and social
mobility. This course investigates the value of equality and
asks which forms of inequality are unjust and ought to be
remedied. We will focus on a variety of different spheres of U.S.
social, political and economic life, including the distribution
of income and opportunities, marriage, health outcomes,
education, voting and political influence, and employment.
We will also ask whether equality is a value that applies beyond
U.S. borders, particularly with respect to global disparities in
income and wealth, and climate change. The course will feature
a combination of lectures and class discussion. Significant
instructional time will also be dedicated to developing students’
critical thinking, reading and writing skills.
Douglas MacKay holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Toronto.
Prior to joining the Department of Public Policy on July 1, 2013, he completed
a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Bioethics at the National
Institutes of Health. MacKay’s research and teaching interests concern questions
at the intersection of justice and public policy. He is currently working on projects
concerning the justice of economic inequality – both domestic and global;
the ethics of immigration policy; priority setting in health care; the ethics of
international clinical research; and justice in the division of responsibilities within
federal systems of government.
plcy
85.001:
reforming america’s schools
SS, NA
JB Buxton
TuTh, 9:30–10:45am
This course focuses on the policy and politics of education
reform in America. Who are the major institutional and
political actors engaged in education reform? Who are the major
influencers? How do they interact to make and implement
public policy? What are the major issues and debates in
contemporary American public education? Participants in the
seminar will develop an understanding of who is involved and
how policy is developed at the local, state and federal levels, and
delve into current issues and debates on subjects like standards,
testing and accountability, school choice, teacher preparation
and compensation, and innovative school models. The seminar
will include interactions with current policy and political actors
from North Carolina and around the nation.
JB Buxton has worked in a variety of roles in government and the nonprofit
sector focused on public education, including North Carolina’s deputy state
superintendent, senior education advisor to N.C. Gov. Mike Easley; a White
House Fellow working with the Domestic Policy Council under President Clinton;
director of policy and research for the Public School Forum of N.C. and
coordinator of special programs for the NC Teaching Fellows Program. He began
his career as a high school English teacher and coach in Massachusetts. Buxton
currently runs the Education Innovations Group, a consulting practice focused
on PreK-12 and postsecondary public education. Buxton works with state
departments of education, national foundations and state, regional and national
organizations focused on dramatic improvements in public education. Buxton
received his bachelor’s degree in English from UNC-Chapel Hill and his master’s
in public affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.
plcy
89.001:
ending poverty
SS, BN
Sorry. This class has been cancelled Fall 2016
Sudhanshu Handa
TuTh, 9:30–10:45am
Ending poverty is the underlying goal of almost all social policy
initiatives, yet poverty remains a serious problem world-wide.
In the United States alone about one-fifth of all children live
in poverty, and in poorer developing nations over half the
population typically live in poverty. Why is ending poverty such
a seemingly elusive goal for social policy? Using Poor Economics
as one of the core texts, we will address common debates and
conceptions about poverty ranging from ’the poor are lazy
and wasteful’ to ‘poor but efficient’. The seminar will review
typical poverty alleviation initiatives, focusing primarily on
low-income countries while also referring to the U.S. and
European approaches to social protection. The seminar will
compare a rights-based approach to poverty policy with an
economic approach and use both approaches to discuss the
appropriateness of specific programs. There is no pre requisite
for this seminar.
Professor Sudhanshu Handa is a development economist specializing in human
capital, poverty and social protection. He is one of the lead researchers on the
Transfer Project (https://transfer.cpc.unc.edu/), a multi-country research
initiative led by UNICEF to understand the impact of social protection programs
in Africa on households and children. Prof. Handa has lived and worked in
Jamaica, Mozambique, Kenya and Mexico. He is returning to UNC this fall
after three years serving as the Head of Economic and Social Policy at UNICEF’s
Office of Research. Dr. Handa received his PhD from University of Toronto and
his BA from Johns Hopkins University.
political science
poli
50.001:
movies and politics
SS, CI
Pamela Conover
MW, 9:05–11:25am
In this seminar, we will consider the interplay between films
and politics—filmmakers and citizens. We will discuss what
movies “mean,” and the intent of filmmakers, but our major
focus will be on the contribution of films to political life and
what we can learn from films about our political system as well
as ourselves as citizens. Towards this end, we will watch both
62.001:
how leaders lead others
SS, CI This class has been cancelled Fall 2016
Sorry.
Terry Sullivan
TuTh, 3:30–4:45pm
The use of political leadership stands at the center of an
organized society; yet we know little about how leaders exercise
their influence with other decision-makers. In this seminar,
students will examine theories of leadership ranging from
ancient models of good character through the medieval theories
of the religious tutors (Machiavelli and Erasmus) to modern
business leadership and then compare those theories with what
real leaders do. To obtain this perspective, students will listen
to secret recordings of bargaining between the president and
other national leaders. This seminar teaches students about the
differences between real leadership and theories of leadership.
It also exposes them to the rigors of research projects conducted
on the basis of real data they develop. In addition, this class
will help students learn how to write more effectively to sound
smart.
Terry Sullivan (Ph.D., University of Texas) focuses on political leadership,
the tradecraft of politicians, bargaining and persuasion, and White House
operations. Since 1997, Professor Sullivan has directed the White House
Transition Project, which provides help to all the presidential campaigns, the
past two president elects as they prepared to assume the presidency and the last
outgoing president. Professor Sullivan served on President Bush’s Presidential
Transition Coordinating Council where he helped coordinate the Bush to Obama
transition and now serves on the National Commission on Reform of the Federal
Appointments Process.
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fictitious and documentary films. One theme will be to evaluate
whether political films provide accurate understandings
of reality. Another theme will be to explore the changing
influence of documentary filmmakers in shaping the political
role of films in our society. A third theme will be to consider
how political life is shaped by diversity—race, class, gender,
sexuality and religion—and the extent to which that diversity is
represented in films. A final theme will be to examine how our
self-understandings as citizens are shaped by the experience of
watching films. Among the topics covered will be propaganda,
industry and governmental censorship, campaigning,
political ambition, interest groups and corruption, congress
and the presidency, the judicial system, foreign affairs and
contemporary wars. In addition to watching films and reading
about them, students will engage in seminar discussions, wiki
writing and online discussions. Grades will be based on several
writing projects, class and forum discussions, and a final exam.
Pamela Conover, Burton Craige Professor of Political Science, was educated
at Emory University and received her Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota.
Professor Conover teaches courses dealing with political psychology, and social
movements and political protest. In the past, Professor Conover’s research
has concerned the nature of political thinking and the politics of identity and
citizenship. She also coauthored the book Feminism and the New Right.
Her current research is focused on partisan polarization and rivalry, and the role
of values and integrity in shaping the behavior of politicians. In her spare time,
she enjoys cycling and being walked by her two golden retrievers, Izzy and Gracie.
Students from WMST 64 on a tour of the black presence on campus.
Photo by Beth Lawrence.
poli 66.001: the united states and the
european union: partners or rivals ?
SS
Liesbet Hooghe
TuTh, 2:00–3:15pm
This seminar introduces students to the European Union and
its relations with the United States. In the first part, we become
familiar with the European Union. Why is there a European
Union? How does it operate, and how has it developed? What
kind of polity is emerging at the European level, and how does
it differ from federalism in the United States? Finally, how
does Europe deal with its multiple crises? The second section
compares American and European politics. How are elections
and the practice of government different? How does welfare
in the United States and the role of the state in the economy
differ from that in Western Europe? Are Europeans from
Venus and Americans from Mars, as a famous American scholar
once argued, or is the reality more fine-grained? Students
will participate in structured discussion, debate and role play.
Each student will make at least one class presentation, and each
will participate in an extensive role play on a current event
relevant to transatlantic relations. There will also be plenty of
opportunity for class discussion.
Liesbet Hooghe received her Ph.D. from the University of Leuven in Belgium
in 1989. Before joining UNC in 2000, she taught at the University of
Toronto (1994-2000) and held research fellowships at Cornell University,
Oxford University (Nuffield), the European University Institute (Florence,
Italy) and the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin ( Germany). Between 2004
and 2016, she was affiliated with the VU Amsterdam. Her principal areas of
interest are comparative politics (Europe), identity, political parties, political
elites, decentralization and international organization. She has written several
books, including Cohesion Policy and European Integration
(OUP, 1996); Multi-Level Governance in the European Union
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2001—with Gary Marks); The European
Commission and the Integration of Europe (Cambridge University
Press, 2002), The Rise of Regional Authority (Routledge, 2010 –
with Gary Marks and Arjan Schakel); the European Commission of the
21st Century (Oxford University Press, 2013; co-authored); Measuring
Regional Authority (OUP, 2016; co-authored); and Community,
Scale and Regional Governance: A Postfunctionalist Theory
(OUP, 2016 – with Gary Marks).
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Among his books are: The Arab Spring: Pathways of Repression
and Reform (Oxford, 2015) with Jason Brownlee and Tarek Masoud,
Designing Democracy in a Dangerous World (Oxford, 2011),
The Architecture of Democracy: Constitutional Design,
Conflict Management, and Democracy (Oxford, 2002),
Electoral Systems and Democratization in Southern Africa
(Oxford, 1999), Election 99 South Africa: From Mandela
to Mbeki (St. Martin’s, 1999) and Elections and Conflict
Management in Africa (USIP, 1998), co-edited with T. Sisk.
In 2012 he embarked on a multi-year research project to study the impact
of LGBT national parliamentarians on public policy around the world.
His forthcoming book is The Children of Harvey Milk (2016).
poli 71h. 001: politics of race, ethnicity,
language, religion, and gender (honors)
Photo by Dan Sears.
poli
67.001:
SS, US
designing democracy
SS
Andrew Reynolds
MW, 3:35–4:50pm
This course will present political institutions as levers of conflict
management in ethnically plural, post-conflict national states.
To highlight the issues that lie behind constitutional design
attention will be focused on a province that was in turmoil within
an established democracy (Northern Ireland), a democratizing
state (South Africa), a North African state in tumult (Egypt) and
post war institutional design (Afghanistan). These states will be
analyzed in terms of their paths toward democracy, the nature
of their internal conflict and the types of political institutions
they have (or are) adopting. Key to the class will be the student’s
focus on their own case study of a democratizing state. The class
will be briefed on the core ‘building block’ choices that go into
a new constitution and the importance of rooting institutions
in the distinct historical and socio-political characteristics of
a nation. Through lectures, videos and discussions we shall
investigate how nations can seek to transform violent conflict
into democratic debate.
Andrew Reynolds received his B.A.(Hons) from the University of East Anglia,
a M.A. from the University of Cape Town and his Ph.D. from the University
of California, San Diego. His research and teaching focus on democratization,
constitutional design and electoral politics. He is particularly interested in the
presence and impact of minorities and marginalized communities. He has worked
for the United Nations, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral
Assistance (IDEA), the UK Department for International Development, the
US State Department, the National Democratic Institute, the International
Republican Institute, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
(OSCE) and the International Foundation for Election Systems. He has
also served as a consultant on issues of electoral and constitutional design for
Afghanistan, Angola, Burma, Egypt, Fiji, Guyana, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan,
Kenya, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles,
Northern Ireland, Philippines, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Syria,
Tunisia, Yemen and Zimbabwe. He has received research awards from the
U.S. Institute of Peace, the National Science Foundation, the US Agency for
International Development and the Ford Foundation.
Andrea Benjamin
TuTh, 2:00–3:15 pm
In many parts of the world, race, ethnicity, language, religion
and gender are explicitly linked to politics. In the United States,
we tend to link these identities to politics through political
parties. In this seminar, we will explore the concepts of race,
ethnicity, language, religion and gender in a comparative context
in order to gain a better understanding of their application in
the United States. From there we will consider the relationship
between race, ethnicity, language, religion, gender and politics,
from the perspective of citizens, candidates, policies and
institutions. We will use scholarly texts as the foundation for
the seminar, but we will couple those with newspaper articles
and narratives to gain a first-hand perspective as needed.
This seminar will not have a final exam, but students will work
on a group project and make a presentation to the class.
Andrea Benjamin’s research interests include race and politics, elections and
voting behavior, identity, urban politics and public opinion. She is currently
working on a book that explores the potential for Black-Latino coalitions in
local elections. Professor Benjamin is originally from Northern California.
She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of California at
Davis and earned her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
poli
75.001:
thinking about law
PH
Charles Szypszak
TuTh, 9:30–10:45am
Are you interested in being a lawyer or public official?
Do you know what it means to “think like a lawyer?” Have you
considered why people mostly honor the law? Where do you find
“the law?” How do judges decide difficult cases? This seminar
will explore the notion of a rule of law, formal and customary
law, legal analysis, judicial interpretation and the realities of the
adversarial system and law practice. We will consider what makes
law seem legitimate and how to assess whether it promotes liberty
and justice. This seminar will challenge students to be reflective
and critical about their own perspectives and to explore
personal responsibility for promoting a rule of law. Students
–Aimee Kurtz, Class of 2018
p s yc h o l o g y
psyc 55.001: children’s eyewitness
testimony
SS
psyc
67.001:
the senses of animals
PL
Mark Hollins
TuTh, 2:00–3:15pm
This seminar deals with the senses of animals. Many animal
senses are related to our own, but are either more or less highly
developed than ours. For example, falcons have sharper vision
than we do, whereas moles are nearly blind. However, some
animals possess sensory abilities that we lack entirely, such as
the ability to perceive magnetic fields or the polarization of
light. Taking the human senses as a point of reference, we will
examine both categories of animal senses, talking about how
they work and how they help animals survive. The seminar
is also intended to increase students’ understanding of the
scientific method and to help them develop their ability to
communicate scientific ideas effectively in speech and writing.
Grades will be based primarily on two exams (but no final), a
report on a scientific article, a team project, a research proposal
and a poster presentation.
Mark Hollins is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
and Director of the Somatosensory Research Lab. Graduate and undergraduate
students in the Lab work with Dr. Hollins to examine the ways in which both
sensory and cognitive factors influence perception. Their current work focuses on
pain perception, since chronic pain is a major public health problem affecting one
in three people and yet is not fully understood.
Peter A. Ornstein
TuTh, 2:00–3:15pm
psyc
68.001:
psychology of emotion
With increasing frequency, young children are being called
upon to provide evidence in legal proceedings, and often it is
the testimony of children that is central to the outcome of a case
being tried. Children’s testimony is sought regularly in cases
that range from divorce and custody disputes in family courts to
allegations of sexual abuse in criminal cases. But what is known
about the abilities of children to provide accurate information
in these types of legal situations? To a great extent, children’s
testimony depends upon their abilities to remember previous
experiences and to be able to resist the suggestions of others. In
this seminar, we will discuss the relevant literature on children’s
memory and cognition in the context of a treatment of specific
cases – most of which involve allegations of child sexual abuse
– that have come to trial. Particular emphasis will be placed on
two cases, the relatively recent Little Rascals Day Care case in
North Carolina and the 300-year old Salem Witch Trials.
Peter A. Ornstein received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
in 1968 and joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill in 1973, where he is now the F. Stuart Chapin Professor of Psychology.
A former Chair of the Department of Psychology, Dr. Ornstein is a developmental
Kristen Lindquist
MWF, 2:30–3:20pm
SS This seminar is designed especially for students interested
in exploring the psychological and neuroscientific study of
emotion. The seminar assumes students will have diverse
backgrounds and there are no pre-requisites. Topics will
include theoretical models of emotion process and structure,
as well as discussions of psychological research bearing on
questions such as “Can you read emotions in the faces of other
people?” (emotional expressions), “How is emotion expressed
in the body?” (autonomic physiology), “Where do emotions live
in the brain?” (affective neuroscience), “Is emotion a source of
wisdom or the enemy of rationality?” (emotion and reasoning),
“Does emotion help or hurt your relationships with other
people?” (emotion and social behavior), “Can you control
your emotions or do they control you?” (emotion regulation),
“Do emotions drive you crazy?” (emotion and psychopathology)
and “Are women really the more emotional sex?” (gender and
emotion). A range of perspectives in psychology will be explored,
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“MUSC 65 has been my favorite, most engaging class
this entire year. My classmates and I have had the
wonderful opportunity of seeing various talented
performers and groups perform at Memorial Hall.”
psychologist who has long been interested in cognitive development and its
implications for understanding children’s abilities to provide testimony in legal
settings. His research focuses on age-related changes in long-term memory for
the details of salient personal experiences and the “socialization” of children’s
memory skills. Outside of the world of research and teaching, he and his wife
enjoy traveling, hiking and wilderness canoeing.
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will be engaged in analytical thinking and expression through
readings, classroom discussions and research and writing
assignments. Reading materials will include selections from
court cases and other sources that provide an introduction to
the notion of a rule of law, the sources of law that govern us and
protect our individual rights, the nature of legal analysis, the
different methods of judicial interpretation and the realities of
law practice and the adversarial system.
Charles Szypszak has been with the School of Government since 2005.
Prior to that, he was an attorney and director of a general practice firm in
New Hampshire. He provides legal counsel to state, national and international
institutions, organizations and public officials and teaches Law for Public
Administration in the graduate program in public administration. He has taught
and worked on law reforms in Poland and Russia. He is the recipient of the
University’s J. Carlyle Sitterson Freshman Teaching Award and the School
of Government’s Coates Distinguished Professorship for Teaching Excellence.
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spanning social, cultural, developmental, clinical, cognitive
and comparative psychology disciplines. Each week, a portion
of the classes will be dedicated to discussions of research studies
led by Dr. Lindquist. The rest of the classes will be less formal
group-based discussions and demonstrations. Discussions will
be used to explain or demonstrate especially important ideas, to
discuss concepts covered in the assigned readings and to discuss
the “real world” implications of class topics. Several discussion
sessions will be dedicated to visits to Dr. Lindquist’s lab and
the Biomedical Research Imaging Center, where students can
experience research techniques and methods in a hands-on
setting. Students will be evaluated based on exam performance,
on a written research proposal, on an oral presentation of the
research proposal and on participation in discussions.
Dr. Kristen Lindquist is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology
and Neuroscience and the director of the Carolina Affective Science Lab. She
received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Boston College and was a post-doctoral
fellow at the Harvard University Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative and the
Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. Dr. Lindquist’s research uses social
cognitive, psychophysiological and neuroscience methods to understand the nature
of human emotion.
psyc
89.001:
plasticity and the brain
PL
Joe Hopfinger
TuTh, 8:00–9:15am
This course will introduce you to the recent research and debate
regarding neural plasticity and the ability of the healthy adult
brain to change. Exciting new research suggests that the ability
of the adult brain to change goes well beyond simply acquiring
new knowledge and memories. Incredible accounts of brain
damaged patients recovering cognitive, perceptual and motor
functions has opened new areas of research into the ability of the
adult brain to change, and a host of new businesses have arisen
purporting to be able to trigger, and maintain, desired changes
in the brain. Goals of this course include gaining knowledge of
a new area of research in the psychological and neural sciences,
developing skills in going beyond general-audience books and
media coverage to critically evaluate research sources (scientific
journal articles) and presenting your own well-researched ideas
in written and oral formats.
Dr. Joe Hopfinger is a cognitive neuroscientist with over 15 years of experience
teaching and running his lab at UNC. His lab utilizes a variety of methods to
investigate the neural mechanisms of attention, using “brainwave” recordings
and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to peer into the living human brain as
it performs its amazing cognitive functions. Dr. Hopfinger has recently expanded
his research into the domain of “neural plasticity,” and he is studying the neural
effects of online-cognitive training, as well as transcranial neural stimulation.
He is excited to offer this new course on this cutting-edge, and somewhat
controversial, topic.
religious studies
reli 65.001: myth, philosophy,
and science in the ancient world
PH, WB
Zlatko Pleše
TuTh, 2:00–3:15pm
This interdisciplinary course explores various, often conflicting
ways of shaping reality in the ancient world–religious, scientific
and philosophical. The course is organized around a series of
case studies: 1) the formation and makeup of the cosmos; 2)
the origin of mankind and its sexual differentiation; 3) the
invention of the ‘self;’ 4) the origin and nature of dreams; 5)
foundations of law, justice and culture. Short papers, in-class
discussions and oral presentations will be used to reconstruct the
complex intellectual world of natural scientists, philosophers,
oral story-tellers, ethnographers and cultural historians
throughout the ancient Mediterranean world. Readings
include Near Eastern mythical narratives and Homeric poems
and hymns; selections from the earliest Greek philosophers
and from Plato’s dialogues; works from the famous Hippocratic
corpus and Galen’s medical treatises; and a number of religious
texts from ancient Greece and Rome, early Christianity and late
antiquity.
Zlatko Pleše received his PhD in Classics at Yale University, where he specialized
in ancient philosophy and medicine, early Christianity, Hellenistic rhetoric
and Coptic language. He taught at various universities in Europe and the US,
including Yale and Wesleyan University, and is currently Associate Professor
of Ancient Mediterranean religions (Greco-Roman world, early Christianity
and late antiquity) at Carolina. He has published monographs and articles
on Platonist philosophers of the Roman imperial period, ancient Gnostic and
Hermetic writings, apocryphal gospels and early modern theories of nationhood
in South-Eastern Europe.
reli
70.001:
jesus in scholarship and film
SS
Bart Ehrman
T, 12:30–3:20pm
This seminar will examine how historians have reconstructed
the life, teachings and death of the historical Jesus. We will
look at the Gospels of the New Testament, as well as references
to Jesus in other writings (Roman and Jewish sources, as well
as Gospels that did not make it into the New Testament). In
addition, we will explore how Jesus has been portrayed in
modern film, including such Biblical “epics” as The Greatest Story
Ever Told, such “period pieces” as Jesus Christ Superstar, such brilliant
retellings as Jesus of Montreal and such controversial films as
The Last Temptation of Christ and The Passion of the Christ. The ultimate
goals of the seminar are to see what we can say about the historical
man Jesus himself and how Jesus came to be portrayed in both
ancient sources and modern imagination.
romance studies
LA
Ennio Rao
TuTh, 9:30–10:45am
This seminar explores the concept of harmony in selected
Italian writers, from Dante to contemporary writers. In the 14th
century, Dante dreamed of a universal empire that would assure
peace on earth, thus allowing mankind to pursue knowledge and
wisdom and to achieve the ultimate harmony in the next world:
the natural reunion of creature and creator. Dante himself
directs his readers to interpret the journey of the pilgrim
in the Divine Comedy as Everyman’s quest for transcendental
harmony with God. This quest for harmony is characteristic
of many Italian writers, from Petrarch to Leopardi, to many
contemporary poets, novelists and film directors. Students will
be reading and discussing works by Dante, Petrarch, Leopardi,
Pirandello, Vittorini and Moravia and will view films by
Antonioni and Bertolucci. They will also be divided into groups
and invited to produce an original work (theatrical, cinematic,
literary, artistic, etc.) that illustrates the concept of harmony.
Ennio Rao is Professor of Italian and Director of Graduate Studies in the
Department of Romance Languages. He earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University,
concentrating in the Classics and Italian Renaissance literature. In his years
at Carolina he has received a Tanner Award for excellence in undergraduate
teaching and taught a wide range of courses, spanning such areas as the humanist
invective, Italian chivalric literature, renaissance theater, the history of the
Italian language and Italian dialectology. He is currently studying the revival
of Epicureanism in 15th-century Italy.
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Students in GEOL 72H explore the tufa towers at Mono Lake, CA.
Photo by Eliza Filene.
roml 89h. 001: sex, sexuality,
and the body in early modern
european literature (honors)
LA, NA
roml 89.001: courts, courtiers, and
court culture in early modern spain
LA, WB
Carmen Hsu
MW, 2:30–3:45pm
What was an early modern Spanish court like? Who and what
were the key components that contributed to the making of
the court society in 16th- and 17th-century Spain? How did
literature, the visual arts, clothing, food, gifts, buildings,
entertainments and social etiquette make up the court culture
of that time in Spain? This course aims to engage students
in discussions about the making of the fascinating Habsburg
court world in early modern Spain. We will embark on a shared
intellectual adventure exploring how and where monarchs
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roml 56.001 italians in search
of harmony
and courtiers lived, their education, what cultural milieu
they contributed in fomenting, how they used literature and
other cultural forms for self-promotion and the politics and
reasoning behind.
Professor Carmen Hsu teaches 16th- and 17th-century Spanish literature and
culture. She is devoted to research on well-known authors, especially Miguel
de Cervantes and Lope de Vega among others. She is also drawn to subjects and
texts that reflect Spain’s encounters with cultures and peoples beyond Western
Europe. One overarching concern that unites her work on these diverse subjects
is her interest in situating Spanish literature within a global, comparative and
interdisciplinary context.
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Bart Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies.
He has taught at Carolina since 1988. He is author or editor of thirty books and
is widely regarded as a leading expert on the New Testament and the history of the
early Christian church. He is also a well-known teacher on campus, having won
the Undergraduate Students Teaching Award, the Bowman and Gordon Gray
Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the John William Pope
Center Spirit of Inquiry Teaching Award.
Lucia Binotti
MW, 1:25–2:40pm
The aim of this course is to explore the cultural constructions
of gender and sexuality in the literature of Medieval and
Renaissance Southern Europe. We will approach questions
such as the status of women and the context of misogyny, the
societal role of same-sex relations, the presentation and
visualization of sexuality, desire and the body. We will observe
the period through the lens of five overarching themes that
recur at different moments and in different texts throughout
the course: “Sex, beauty and artistic creation,” “Sex, marriage
and family,” “Sex and religion”, “Sex and science” and “Sex,
deviancy and crime.” Using such themes as the framework for
our interpretations we will read, analyze and discuss in loose
chronological order an array of literary works mostly of the
Iberian and Italian tradition, from which we will tease out an
interdisciplinary understanding of the cultural and aesthetic
forces that shaped the representation of sex and sexual love
before the advent of the scientific theories that in turn define
modern gender and sexuality for us today. This historical
approach will offer insights into the shaping of our own
cultural and personal attitudes. By focusing our attention on
the challenged and changing meanings of sexuality, this course
aims to strengthen your skills of critical analysis.
Professor Lucia Binotti is a Philologist turned into Digital Humanist. She works
on material and cultural history and in the mechanisms that construct linguistic
and cultural identity. Binotti has always been fascinated with the cultural and
social parallels that the printing revolution of the sixteenth century shares with the
information technology revolution of today. Her latest projects take her reflection
on the place of the humanities in 21st century education outside of the walls of
academia, in an endeavor to produce artifacts that will enhance the dissemination
and fruition of social and cultural knowledge among a broader public.
sociology
soci 58.001: globalization, work,
and inequality
SS, GL Ted Mouw
TuTh, 12:30–1:45pm
This seminar, which presents a comparative and multidisciplinary perspective on how globalization affects labor markets
and inequality, will consist of two parts. First, we will discuss
basic sociological and economic models of work and globalization and then students will apply these models to three case
studies: 1) “sweatshops” and the question of international labor standards, 2) industrialization and development in China
and Indonesia and 3) immigration and economic integration
between the U.S. and Mexico. Students will prepare research
papers on one of the three case studies. Course readings will
be supplemented by the teacher’s current research on two questions: 1) What are conditions actually like for workers in Nike
plants in Indonesia? (Interviews and a photo-narrative) and 2)
How does the labor market work for undocumented Mexican
workers? (Interviews from Carrboro, NC, part of Mouw’s personal research project.)
Ted Mouw is a sociologist who studies social demography, labor markets and
inequality. He received his Ph.D. (in sociology) and M.A. (in economics) in
1999 from Michigan. He is currently working on a project on globalization
and low-wage labor markets. There are three components to this project: 1)
Longitudinal evidence on “dead end jobs” and working poverty in the U.S., 2)
immigration and the labor market for Mexican migrants and 3) industrialization
and labor conditions in Mexico and Indonesia. He has also researched the use of
job contacts to find work and racial friendship segregation in schools. After college
he lived in Indonesia for two years, where he taught English, studied Indonesian
and Javanese, and climbed volcanoes.
soci 64.001: equality of educational
opportunity then and now
SS
Karolyn Tyson
TuTh, 9:30–10:45am
The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case centered on
one of the most significant and controversial issues in American
public education: equality of educational opportunity. Now
more than 60 years after this historic Supreme Court decision,
this seminar will use a sociological lens to examine in depth the
social conditions that precipitated the case, other relevant court
decisions, the changing definitions of race and the educational
landscape over the past 6 decades. Topics include de jure and
de facto segregation, busing, between-school segregation,
tracking and ability grouping, the black-white achievement gap
and residential segregation. Students will read historical and
contemporary accounts and research reports on the move and
progress toward equality of educational opportunity, view films
related to the topic, conduct original research exploring the
schooling experiences of contemporary American youth and
prepare an oral presentation and a research paper.
Karolyn Tyson is Professor in the Department of Sociology. She earned her
doctorate in sociology in 1999 from the University of California at Berkeley.
Her main fields of interest are sociology of education, social psychology and
social inequality. Dr. Tyson’s publications have examined the processes by which
schools reproduce social inequality and how the schooling experience affects
students’ attitudes toward school. Her overall program of research centers on
understanding how cultural, structural and individual-level factors affect school
achievement and contribute to unequal educational outcomes.
soci 72.001: race and ethnicity
in the united states
SS, US
Anthony Perez
TuTh, 2:00–3:15pm
It is impossible to understand the structure of American society,
or the lived experiences of its people, without understanding
both the meaning and consequences of race and ethnicity. Yet,
while examples of what race does are well known to students
interested in questions of social justice and inequality, the
question of what race is receives considerably less attention.
Any student familiar with U.S. society can identify myriad,
often striking examples of racial inequality—from highly
disproportionate rates of poverty, unemployment and disease
to racially disparate treatment at the hands of police, teachers
and neighbors. But what, exactly, is “race?” The geographic
origins of our ancestors? The social categories that others
perceive from our appearance? The identities we claim based
on a sense of belonging or attachment to a particular culture
or community? Or can race be any and all of these things,
depending on the context in which individuals perceive and
react to one another? These are just some of pressing questions
SS
Howard E. Aldrich
TuTh, 9:30–10:45am
In the 21st century, fast food restaurants have become a model
for everyday life. Some scholars have even talked about the
“McDonaldization” of the nation and the world. By that, they mean
a drive toward greater efficiency, predictability, calculability and
control by non-human technologies in modern organizations.
This drive has shaped many features of American life, including
consumption behavior, health care, law and education. Such
forces have even affected personal relationships. Sociologists
have a term for this process: “rationalization.” In this course,
we will explore that social process through a process called
“active learning:” field trips, participation in a makerspace,
presentations by visitors, videos, role-playing, classroom
simulations and other activities. You will be assessed based on
your contributions to blog posts, five short (two pages) papers,
a term project and a group presentation.
Howard E. Aldrich is Kenan Professor of Sociology. He has won numerous
awards for his teaching and mentoring: Favorite Professor Award from the senior
class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; graduate students’
Award for Best Teaching, Department of Sociology, several times; and the J
Carlyle Sitterson Freshman Teaching Award from the University of Carolina at
Chapel Hill. In 2000, he won the Global Entrepreneurship Researcher of the
Year Award from the Swedish Foundation of Small Business Research. His main
research interests are entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial team formation, gender
and entrepreneurship, and evolutionary theory. He writes a regular column,
“Speaking from Experience,” for The National Teaching and Learning Forum.
He fly fishes year-round in the mountains of Western North Carolina and
Eastern Tennessee and wherever else his travels may take him. Photos of his
catches may be seen on his homepage.
fys.unc.edu
soci 89h. 001: rationalization and the
changing nature of social life in 21st
century america
F IRST Y EAR SEMI NARS
with which students will grapple in this seminar, as we delve
into the meaning and measurement of race in society, how it
changes over time and space and what it signals for the future of
race/ethnic relations in the United States. In pursuit of these
aims, we will incorporate a variety of instructional strategies and
active learning techniques, including primary data collection
and analysis, critical examination of race/ethnicity in popular
culture (including music, literature, and film) and in-class
group activities.
Anthony Perez studies the measurement, meaning and implications of race/
ethnicity in the United States and abroad. His research focuses on the interplay
between formal and informal conceptualizations of race and ethnicity and de
facto measures of race/ethnic populations used in the Census, social surveys
and demographic data; causes of uncertainty in the reporting of race across
generations and throughout the life course; and the consequences of racial
uncertainty for research on inequality, race-attentive social policy and
demographic projections of past and future diversity.
Image of guest André Barden in MUSC 89. Photo by Mary Lide Parker.
s tat i s t i c s a n d
o p e r at i o n s r e s e a r c h
stor
54.001:
adventures in statistics
QI
Jan Hannig
TuTh, 3:30–4:45pm
The aim of this seminar is to show that contrary to the common
belief, statistics can be exciting and fun. We will focus on the
big picture ideas. Instead of memorizing confusing formulas,
many of the technical ideas will be demonstrated by computer
experiments. We will view some recent movies and discuss the
role statistics plays in sports, gambling, medicine, politics,
finance, etc. Then we will study randomness and discover why
the casino always wins. Finally we will discuss the basic principle
of statistical reasoning “if it is unlikely do not believe it,” get to
understand why a relatively small sample can carry a big punch
and learn how to lift ourselves by our bootstraps. This seminar
is not a replacement for an introductory statistics course.
Jan Hannig is a Professor in the Department of Statistics and Operations
Research. His current research interests are in foundations of statistics.
He and his co-authors can be partially credited with resurrection of fiducial
statistics. Fiducial statistics was created in the 1930s and since inception was
wrought with controversy. By the mid-1960s the topic was largely dormant and
stayed ignored until the mid-2000s. Since then it has experienced a renaissance
with several groups contributing publications in leading statistical journals.
Jan is married to Dr. Shevaun Neupert, a professor of Psychology at NCSU,
with a keen interest in applied statistics. This makes for some wonderfully nerdy
Saturday morning chats. They have a daughter Klára and a son Declan.
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and moved to Vancouver for a year to further advance his training both in
probability and in being a foodie, before finally moving to UNC in 2009.
His research entails probabilistic and mathematical modeling of real world
networks, including social networks such as Twitter, Facebook and peer
interaction networks, data transmission networks such as the Internet and
vascular networks in the brain. When he is not obsessively thinking about
a math problem then he is neck deep in a Sci-Fi book or an Anime.
women’s and gender studies
wmst 51.001: race, sex, and place
in america
SS
Mai Nguyen
TuTh, 9:30am–10:45am
Students from DRAM 85H in a staged reading of the original play “Behind Locked
Doors”. Photo by Kristen Chavez
stor 55.001: risk and uncertainty
in the real world
QI
Shankar Bhamidi
TuTh, 11:00am–12:15pm
In the early 1900s the great writer H.G.Wells said “Statistical
thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship
as the ability to read and write.” We see this every day as society
becomes more and more complex and we are faced with a
barrage of data and the pressure of making “optimal” decisions
about our life and our future in the light of this uncertainty.
Yet we are ill-equipped from an evolutionary perspective to
make such decisions. The aim of this class is to study the role of
uncertainty in our daily lives, to explore the cognitive biases that
impair us and to understand how one uses quantitative models
to make decision under uncertainty in a variety of fields. We will
study the connections of such questions to an array of scientific
disciplines ranging from psychology, financial modeling,
evolution, sociology, law and criminal justice, economics,
medicine and health, and rare events and coincidences.
After spending most of his childhood in India, Shankar Bhamidi came to the US
to pursue a PhD in Statistics at the University of California at Berkeley.
After five fantastic years pursing his passion in probabilistic modeling of real
world networks and eating wonderful food (!), he completed his PhD in 2008
This seminar will expose students to the complex dynamics
of race, ethnicity and gender and how these have shaped the
American city since 1945. It will examine both the historical
record as well as contemporary works of literature and film
to probe the ways race and ethnicity have contributed to the
culture of urban life in the United States. It will also explore the
different ways women and men perceive, understand, occupy
and use urban space and the built environment. Drawing
upon the scholarship of several disciplines (urban planning,
ethnic studies, sociology and American history), the seminar
will examine a broad spectrum of topics, including the social
construction of race, the creation of the underclass label,
residential segregation, the significance of Hurricane Katrina,
sexual identity and space, and immigration. The last portion
of the course will focus on planning and policy tools that have
the potential to alleviate racial/ethnic and gender inequality in
space.
Students may also register for this course under PLAN 52.001.
Dr. Mai Nguyen is an associate professor in the City and Regional Planning
Department and focuses her teaching and research on housing and community
development. She applies both her Sociology and Urban Planning degrees to
address vexing urban and regional dilemmas. She employs both quantitative
and qualitative methods to examine problems related to social and spatial
inequality, urban growth phenomena, the relationship between the built and
social environments, and socially vulnerable populations. She is an expert in
housing policy, community development, economic development, immigration,
disasters and urban growth phenomena (e.g. demographic change, sprawl and
urbanization). Dr. Nguyen is also an award winning teacher. She was awarded
the J. Carlyle Sitterson Freshman Teaching Award in January 2013
for excellence in undergraduate teaching.
For more information
Talk with your advisor at Orientation this summer.
The academic advising office can be reached at (919) 966-5116.
Contact the First Year Seminars office at (919) 843-7773 or
[email protected].
Explore the First Year Seminars Program website at fys.unc.edu.
Contact Dean Coleman at (919) 962-0705 or [email protected].
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aaad 50: Defining Blackness (Smith)
engl
57: Science Fictions and Social Form (Curtain)
amst 60: American Indians (Cobb)
engl
59: Black Masculinity and Femininity (Avilez)
amst 89: American Indian Art (Tone-Pah-Hote)
engl
72: Literature of 9/11 (Ahuja)
anth
53h: Darwin’s Dangerous Idea (Leslie)
engl
85h: Economic Saints and Villains (Kendall)
anth
64: Public Archaeology in Bronzeville (Agbe-Davies)
engl
89.1: The Literature of College Life (Stern)
anth
65: Humans and Animals (Arbuckle)
engl
89.2: William Blake in Popular Culture (Viscomi)
arth
52: Celts–Druid Culture (Verkerk)
folk
77h: The Poetic Roots of Hip Hop (Hinson)
arth
61: African American Art of the Carolinas (Bowles)
geog
50: Mountain Environments (Riveros-Iregui)
arth
89: Art and Technology (Cao, Levine)
geog
63: Nature and Its Preservation (Valdivia)
arts
59: Time, A Doorway to Visual Expression
geog
67: The Politics of Everyday Life (Smith)
geol
72h: Field Geology of Eastern California (Glazner)
germ
51: Stalin and Hitler (Pike)
germ
56: Germans, Jews, History of Anti-Semitism (Hess)
(Hirschfield)
asia
65: Philosophy on Bamboo (Bergeton)
biol
62: Infectious Disease in the Developing World
(Peifer)
73: The Broad Scope of Nuclear Chemistry (Austell)
chem
clas
55h: Three Greek and Roman Epics (O’hara)
clas
63: The Politics of Persuasion (Grillo)
clas
73h: Life in Ancient Pompeii (Valladares)
comm
53: Collective Leadership Models for Change
(Parker)
comm
89.1: Intro. to Networked Societies (Thomas)
comm
89.2: Romance & Popular Culture (Silva)
comp
89: “Big Data” Ethics (Fern)
comp
89h: 3D Computer Animation (Lastra)
dram
79: The Heart of the Drama (Perry)
dram
80: Psychology of Clothes (Owen)
dram
81h: Staging America: The American Drama (Kable)
dram
83: Spectacle in the Theatre (Navalinksy)
dram
87h: Style: A Mode of Expression (Coble)
dram
88: Ecology and Performance (O’brien)
engl
53: Slavery and Freedom (Andrews)
gsll
70: Race, Class, Gender in Postwar Youth (Layne)
hist
53: Traveling to European Cities (Kramer)
hist
70: Exploring Cultural Landscapes (Sweet)
hist
72h: Women’s Voices (Hagemann)
hist
74: The Mughals of India (Flatt)
89: Colonialism, Power, & Resistance
(Forbes, Lauersdorf, Mccoy)
idst
inls
89: Social Media & New Movements (Tufekci)
ling
89h: Decipherment of Ancient Scripts (Mora-Marin)
masc
55: Change in the Coastal Ocean (Martens)
masc
57h: “The Sound Of Music” to “The Perfect Storm” (Scotti)
masc
59: Extreme Microorganisms (Teske)
math
51: Mathematics & Mechanics of Moving (Camassa)
math
62h: Combinatorics (Cherednik)
mejo
89: Democracy in Action in 2016 Elections (Guillory)
musc
57: Music and Drama: Verdi’s Operas (Nádas)
musc
89: Hip-Hop Diplomacy (Katz)
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phil
51: Who Was Socrates? (Reeve)
phil
66: Ethics: Theoretical & Practical (Hill)
phil
78: Death as a Problem For Philosophy
(Shafer-Landau)
phys
52: Making the Right Connections (Karwowski)
plan
52: Race, Sex, and Place in America (Nguyen)
plcy
51: Global Environment in the 21St Century (Sasser)
plcy
55: Higher Education, College Experience
(Krome-Lukens)
roml
89h: Sexuality & the Body in Early Modern Euro Lit
(Binotti)
slav
84: Terrorism in Russian Lit. & History (Shvabrin)
slav
88h: Gender & Fiction Ctrl & East Europe
(Wampuszyc)
soci
58: Globalization, Work, & Inequality (Mouw)
soci
64: Equality of Educational Opportunity (Tyson)
soci
72: Race & Ethnicity in the United States (Perez)
soci
89h: Social Life in 21ST Century America (Aldrich)
plcy
70: National Policy: Who Sets the Agenda? (Stein)
stor
54: Adventures in Statistics (Hannig)
plcy
71: Justice and Inequality (Mackay)
stor
55: Risk & Uncertainty in the Real World (Bhamidi)
plcy
85: Reforming America’s Schools (Buxton)
wmst
51: Race, Sex, and Place in America (Nguyen)
plcy
89: Ending Poverty (Handa)
poli
50: Movies and Politics (Conover)
poli
62: How Leaders Lead Others (Sullivan)
poli
66: The US & the European Union (Hooghe)
poli
67: Designing Democracy (Reynolds)
poli
71h: Politics of Race, Ethnicity, Gender (Benjamin)
poli
75: Thinking about Law (Szypszak)
psyc
55: Children’s Eyewitness Testimony (Ornstein)
psyc
67: The Senses of Animals (Hollins)
psyc
68: Psychology of Emotion (Lindquist)
psyc
89: Plasticity and the Brain (Hopfinger)
reli
65: Myth, Philosophy, Science in Ancient World
(Pleše)
reli
70: Jesus in Scholarship and Film (Ehrman)
roml
56: Italians in Search of Harmony (Rao)
roml
89: Court Culture in Early Modern Spain (Hsu)
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