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Courses for First-Years
Explore courses, most of which require no previous experience, and all of which are open to first-year students. We suggest trying many different things for your first semester.
In addition to these courses, there’s music lessons and ensembles, and theatre and dance practicums. Other opportunities may also be available, depending on your previous experiences and current interests. Use the Course Search in the Portal to view all offerings and consult with your advisor about pursuing any other courses.
Course Offerings
Click on a course to view its description and meeting times for each section.
Offerings
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| ANTH 100 01 | TR 10:00 AM-11:45 AM |
| ANTH 100 02 | MWF 8:45 AM-9:45 AM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
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| ANTH 110 01 | MWF 11:15 AM-12:15 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
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| ANTH 120 01 | MW 7:15 PM-8:30 PM |
Description
The anatomy and basic normal functions of the human body with consideration of development, genetics, immunology, endocrinology, and related molecular, cellular, and ecological concepts, and an emphasis on scientific principles and experimental methods. Students design, perform, analyze, and report on small research projects. Laboratory work requires dissection.
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| ART 103 01 | WF 1:00 PM-3:50 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
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| ART 125 01 | TR 8:45 AM-11:45 AM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
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| ART 135 01 | TR 1:00 - 3:50 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
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| ART 135 01 | TR 8:45 AM-11:45 AM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
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| BIOL 121 01 | MWF 10:15 AM-12:05 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
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| BIOL 172 01 | MWF 1:45 PM-3:35 PM |
Description
The anatomy and basic normal functions of the human body with consideration of development, genetics, immunology, endocrinology, and related molecular, cellular, and ecological concepts, and an emphasis on scientific principles and experimental methods. Students design, perform, analyze, and report on small research projects. Laboratory work requires dissection. (4U).
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| BIOL 208 01 | MWF 10:15 AM-12:05 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
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| CHEM 117 01 | MWF 8:00 AM-9:50 AM |
| CHEM 117 02 | MWF 10:15 AM-12:05 PM |
| CHEM 117 03 | MWF 1:45 PM-3:35 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
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| CHIN 100 01 | MWF 1:35 PM-2:35 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
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| CHIN 110 01 | MWF 10:00 AM-11:00 AM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
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| CHIN 200 01 | MWF 11:15 AM-12:15 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
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| COGS 101 01 | MWF 11:15 AM-12:15 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
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| CRIS 101 01 | TR 10:00 AM-11:45 AM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
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| CRIS 141 01 | MWF 11:15 AM-12:15 PM |
Description
All human societies face challenges, including those relating to power, identity, conflict, health, sustainability, and climate change. Yet our understandings of these challenges are not neutral, and archaeology often has been complicit in constructing and perpetuating misrepresentations. In this course, we begin with an introduction to basic archaeological methods, as well as the major trends of the past. We then consider how different theoretical approaches are produced within particular historical and social contexts that affect the ways we understand the past, often to the detriment of descendant communities. Throughout the remainder of the class, we examine case studies to better understand how societies responded to specific challenges, but also how a more inclusive archaeology can provide unique lessons for addressing such issues in the present and future. (3B) (Also listed as Critical Identity Studies 141.) Offered each semester. Prerequisite: preference given to first-year and sophomore students.
Offerings
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| CRIS 141 02 | MWF 1:35 PM-2:35 PM |
Description
An exploration of learning, motivation, and creativity across the lifespan, with a focus on childhood and adolescence. Students are exposed to a variety of psychological frameworks on the lives of youth and adults across many settings; including school, family, community, peer group, work settings, mental health and correctional institutions, etc. Students learn to understand the evidence-based methodologies, quantitative and qualitative, used by psychologists, and are encouraged to use these methods in their own analyses. We employ alternative/artistic forms of representation such as music, creative writing, and audio and video, to explore and represent their own psychological experience. Students are responsible for collaboratively generating alternative assessment strategies that combine critical thinking and creative expression. (3B) Offered each fall and alternate spring terms.
Offerings
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| CRIS 141 03 | MWF 11:15 AM-12:15 PM |
Description
An exploration of major theories and significant research on the development and explanation of social and cultural differences and how they affect the lives and education of youth. The course will investigate student diversity, with special attention to race, class, gender, language, and the inclusion of students with special needs in general education. Issues are examined mainly through the lenses of sociology, anthropology, and education and youth policy. Using the theories and methodologies of these disciplines, students will critically examine how and why race, class, language, ability and disability, and gender have influenced education. (3B)
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| CRIS 141 04 | TR 10:00 AM-11:45 AM |
| CRIS 141 05 | MWF 8:45 AM-9:45 AM |
Description
An introduction to cultural anthropology, which is the study of human cultures, both historical and contemporary. Students analyze the ways in which social categories are imagined, reproduced, and grounded within particular historical and geographical contexts around the world, in order to understand how humans create meaning through everyday practices. (3B)
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| CRIS 142 02 | MWF 2:50 PM-3:50 PM |
Description
An exploration of a variety of philosophical and historical approaches to the study of education and youth are integrated throughout this class. Students’ own educational experiences are taken into consideration through digital stories. These student experiences, in school and out of school, as well as the students’ developmental histories and personal philosophies, are considered in their relation to each other, as sources of knowledge and understanding. Students read and write about philosophers and theorists from a broad range of traditions, periods, and places. Integrated with philosophical explorations, students undertake historical investigations of schooling youth; this course focuses on the history of the U.S. and the development of ideas of democratic schooling in contexts of inequality. These explorations also include investigating how media and propaganda impact societal norms and influence education and youth. Additionally, a strong emphasis is placed on anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-heterosexism, and (dis)able bodies. In their writing and face-to-face interactions, students are strongly encouraged to employ philosophical and historical methodologies for their own self-expression. (5T)
Offerings
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| CSCI 111 01 | MWF 10:15 AM-12:05 PM |
| CSCI 111 02 | MWF 8:00 AM-9:50 AM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
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| ECON 199 01 | MWF 8:45 AM-9:45 AM |
| ECON 199 03 | TR 2:35 PM-3:50 PM |
| ECON 199 04 | MWF 1:35 PM-2:35 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
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| EDYS 102 01 | MWF 2:50 PM-3:50 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
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| EDYS 151 01 | MWF 1:35 PM-2:35 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
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| EDYS 164 01 | MWF 11:15 AM-12:15 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
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| EDYS 201 01 | TR 10:00 AM-11:45 AM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
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| EDYS 276 01 | TR 2:00 PM-3:45 PM |
Description
This seminar explores the interconnections between ecology, development, and education. Drawing on theories and practices from the West and the East, and the ancient and the contemporary, we examine key concepts such as sustainability, ecology, modernity, and development from interdisciplinary and international perspectives. We also discuss the possibility to foster a new philosophy of sustainable development, one that marries scientific understanding of ecology and development with a renewed appreciation for traditional cultural values. Ecology is defined in both physical and metaphorical terms, including both natural and social ecosystems. We discuss three agendas on ecology: 1) on modern conservation policies and practices; 2) on the changing ecology of local and global community associated with modern industrial life; and 3) on human ecology, specifically in the field of education. The course will examine a few case studies, both at the global and the local levels, and students will have opportunities to explore the ecological agendas in the local community of Beloit and especially on Beloit campus, as their term project.
Offerings
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| ENGL 190 01 | TR 2:35 PM-3:50 PM |
Description
What does it mean to “love” a fictional character? Does literature love us back? In novels, characters often confess to us their closest held desires and beliefs. We get to go deeper inside the minds and hearts of people than we ever could in real life. What do we learn about the nature of love when we have this kind of access? Poetry is often first and foremost love poetry. What does it mean for a poet to treat a lover as an occasion for writing while expecting someone else—us—to be the audience actually reading? This course introduces students to literary analysis and close reading by exploring the intimate relations that literature offers. On the one hand, students explore how love, sex, desire, and friendship are represented in literature. On the other, students study how readers and communities have fallen in love with literature and used it for both personal and political ends. How do women and queer people re-write narratives of sexuality? How can sex, intimacy, friendship, and love be politicized?
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| ENGL 190 02 | MWF 2:50 PM-3:50 PM |
| ENGL 190 03 | MWF 11:15 AM-12:15 PM |
Description
How do contemporary writers challenge, revise, and reconstruct the literary canon? In this course, we’ll examine a range of work by contemporary writers like Aimé Césaire, Harryette Mullen, and Chase Berggrun that transforms a canonical text or literary tradition. These writers critique their sources, exposing their complicity with racism, misogyny, and colonialism. And they also open up liberatory possibilities within their sources, using literature as an engine of the political imagination. As we study the interaction between canonical and contemporary texts, we’ll come to see literature is not the product of isolated geniuses. Instead, it’s a conversation—a fractious, contentious, and vibrant conversation that stretches across history. You’ll be invited to join that conversation: reworking some of the texts we read together, trying out the techniques we study, responding to and critiquing the canon on your own terms.
Offerings
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| ENGL 190 04 | TR 8:30 AM-9:45 AM |
Description
In this literature course, aimed at creative writers, we’ll examine how authors build their speculative worlds through character, setting, and plot, and how these alternate realities defamiliarizes our world and society so we may look at it with fresh eyes. We’ll practice close reading to help us interpret and analyze the texts, build our writer’s toolbox, and try our hands at creating our own speculative writing. Sample authors include William Shakespeare, Qui Nguyen, Mary Shelley, Octavia Butler, William Blake, Emily Dickinson, W. B. Yeats, John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, Craig Raine, Tracy K. Smith, Jorge Luis Borges, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Ted Chiang among others. Designed for the potential major in English and other interested students.
Offerings
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| FREN 100 01 | MWF 10:00 AM-11:00 AM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
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| FREN 110 01 | MWF 1:35 PM-2:35 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
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| FREN 215 01 | MWF 2:50 PM-3:50 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
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| GEOL 105 01 | MWF 1:45 PM-3:35 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
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| GEOL 110 01 | MWF 10:15 AM-12:05 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
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| GLAM 120 01 | MWF 2:50 PM-3:50 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
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| GLAM 140 01 | MWF 10:00 AM-11:00 AM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
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| GLAM 200 01 | TR 2:00 PM-3:45 PM |
Description
Although we identify Dionysus (aka Bacchus) today simply as the god of wine (and its concomitant, drunkenness), to the ancient Greeks Dionysiac intoxication could also be seen as a change of consciousness and the eruption of something divine, for the ‘madness’ granted by Dionysus becomes an end in itself. Mania, a Greek word, denotes frenzy, not as the ravings of delusion, but as an experience of intensified mental power. Everyone who surrenders to this god must risk abandoning their personal identity. It seems no accident, then, that Dionysus, who calls into question—and often destroys (if only temporarily)—the cultural norms and boundaries of society and its institutions, whose own gender is rather ambiguous/androgynous/indeterminate, and with whom Passion and Emotion are constant companions, is the god of the theater. Indeed, the ancient Greeks performed their plays as religious rites for, and in honor of, Dionysus. This course explores the genre of ancient drama in its Greek and Roman manifestations. In addition to examining several specimens of ancient dramatic literature – Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound, Sophocles’ Ajax, Antigone and Philoctetes, Euripides’ Hekabe, Herakles, Medea, Alkestis, Cyclops, and Bacchae, and Seneca’s Phaedra, Hercules Furens, and Thyestes – through various theoretical lenses (e.g., anthropological, comparative, and gender studies), students also engage the multiple meanings and possible functions of these plays through performance. Indeed, the class culminates in a public performance of an ancient play. May be repeated for credit if topic is different. Taught in English. (5T) Offered occasionally.
Offerings
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| GLAM 204 01 | MWF 8:45 AM-9:45 AM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
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| GLAM 205 01 | MWF 1:35 PM-2:35 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
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| HEAL 280 01 | MWF 1:45 PM-3:35 PM |
Description
Students learn and practice the basic exercises that make up a Pilates mat sequence. Pilates is focused on strengthening the core of the body in order to support physical health and prevent injuries. This course increases the student’s overall strength, flexibility, and stability, while also emphasizing breath integration as support for all movement. Students learn the history and development of this exercise form as well as create their own mat sequence to support their individual physical health goals.
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| HIST 150 03 | MWF 11:15 AM-12:15 PM |
Description
This class introduces students to historical thinking and how historians work in the specific context of Medieval Europe’s intellectual history. The content of the class explores how books were made by hand in the Middle Ages and how their production both created and reflected developments in the culture of reading and interpretation that laid the ground for our own institutions of learning. We will look at reproductions of medieval books in Special Collections as well as digitized manuscripts. Students will also learn about varieties of medieval scripts and practice writing them. This class also shares with all History 150 classes the goal of learning to “think like a historian,” which includes reading historical sources carefully and critically—whether they were written a thousand years ago or as examples of more recent scholarship.(5T)
Offerings
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| HIST 210 01 | MWF 2:50 PM-3:50 PM |
Description
This course offers a hands-on exploration of the ways that new technologies are transforming historical research and teaching, as well as creating new online spaces for educating the general public. We will consider questions about the nature and value of existing digital history projects, the rise of open-source projects, and the relationship between digital history and public history. Students will have the opportunity to contribute to a class blog, to participate in a crowdsourced transcription project, and to create their own websites and GIS-based maps. Students will become familiar with many of the principles and challenges that inform scholars and programmers as they collaborate to enrich the field of historical research.
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| HIST 210 02 | MWF 10-11am |
Description
The Thirteen Colonies that participated in the Revolutionary War were part of a larger network of British settlements extending from the Newfoundland fisheries to the West Indian sugar plantations to the South American coastline. They were linked by trade and culture to other parts of the Atlantic World, including Europe and Africa. This course will explore the lives of ordinary colonial settlers, planters, and merchants and their social relations during this period. Open to first-year students. No prerequisites.
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| HIST 210 03 | MWF 2:50 PM-3:50 PM |
Description
During the Early Modern Era, the South Atlantic system with its traffic in African slaves and construction of tropical plantations, became the building blocks of wealth and empire. This course explores the impact of Pre-Colonial Africa and the development of American colonies, and the foundations of European wealth. Students will explore how the slave trade affected the growth of these colonies and its legacy for the Modern World. Open to first-year students. No prerequisites.
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| HIST 211 01 | MWF 8:45 AM-9:45 AM |
Description
This course explores how and why it is that we, as individuals and communities, read, write, and interpret histories to justify our love of or identification with musics and sounds. The purpose of this class is to learn how we can use music history (including the methods and tools of musicology, ethnomusicology, sound studies, and music historiography) to empower and liberate our sense of self, our identities, our communities, and our values.
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| HIST 222 01 | MWF 8:45 AM-9:45 AM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
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| HIST 224 01 | MWF 1:35 PM-2:35 PM |
Description
This course explores the multicultural environment of the Mediterranean Sea in the Middle Ages (ca. 600-1500) and the conflicts and coexistence that characterized interactions among Christians, Muslims, and Jews around the shores of that sea. Trade, travel, and armed conflict all defined those interactions in addition to religious rivalries and differences. This course explores how such contacts led both to alienation of these cultures from one another but also to periods of uneasy tolerance. Whether at war or in peace, Christians, Muslims, and Jews exchanged ideas and artifacts throughout this period, and the class examines the creative interplay of those exchanges. The geographical scope of this course ranges from Spain and Morocco in the west to Egypt and the Byzantine Empire in the East, as well as adjacent territories.
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| JAPN 100 01 | MWF 11:15 AM-12:15 PM |
| JAPN 100 02 | MWF 1:35 PM-2:35 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
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| JAPN 110 01 | MWF 11:15 AM-12:15 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
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| JAPN 200 01 | MWF 10:00 AM-11:00 AM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
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| JOUR 125 01 | MWF 8:45 AM-9:45 AM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
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| JOUR 155 01 | TR 1:05 PM-2:20 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
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| MATH 103 01 | MWF 2:50 PM-3:50 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
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| MATH 108 01 | MWF 1:35 PM-2:35 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
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| MATH 110 01 | MWF 1:35 PM-2:35 PM |
| MATH 110 02 | MWF 8:45 AM-9:45 AM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
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| MATH 115 01 | MWF 1:35 PM-2:35 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
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| Course Code | Meeting Time |
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| MDST 150 01 | MWF 10:00AM -11:00 AM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| MDST 155 01 | TR 1:05 PM-2:20 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| MUSI 051 01 | T 7:00 PM-9:00 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| MUSI 055 01 | TBD |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| MUSI 057 01 | T 4:15 PM-6:15 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| MUSI 058 01 | M 6:30 PM-8:00 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| MUSI 061 01 | TBD |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| MUSI 062 01 | TR 4:15 PM-5:45 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| MUSI 066 01 | U 6:30 PM-8:00 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| MUSI 110 01 | MWF 1:35 PM-2:35 PM |
| MUSI 110 02 | MWF 2:50 PM-3:50 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| MUSI 150 01 | MWF 8:45 AM-9:45 AM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| MUSI 170 01 | TR 10:00 AM-11:45 AM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| MUSI 200 01 | TR 2:35 PM-3:50 PM |
Description
In our continuously shifting multimedia landscape, music frequently requires artists, performers, and audiences to engage with more than just their ears. Through a musical vantage point, this class reaches beyond the traditional boundaries of what can be considered musical in popular, classical, and experimental music to investigate how all our senses contribute to understanding and creating sound. “Music and Beyond” is designed for students who identify with any creative practice (dance, film, music, etc.) and are at any level of musical background: previous experience reading or making music is not required. In this class, rhythm, pitch, and timbre are applied to topics such as the internet, gesture, objects, and text to develop a broad sense of how artists merge and consider these concepts in their creative practices. Students develop skills in closely analyzing music through listening, watching, reading, and discussing to answer questions pertaining to bodies, context, technology, and environment as they relate to music. Throughout the semester, students apply their answers to these questions through short creative projects using their own expressive medium (choreography, visual art, computer coding, compositions, etc.) culminating in a longer final creative project.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| MUST 145 C1 | MWF 8:45 AM-9:45 AM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| MUST 295 01 | MWF 2:50 AM-3:50 PM |
Description
This course offers a hands-on exploration of the ways that new technologies are transforming historical research and teaching, as well as creating new online spaces for educating the general public. We will consider questions about the nature and value of existing digital history projects, the rise of open-source projects, and the relationship between digital history and public history. Students will have the opportunity to contribute to a class blog, to participate in a crowdsourced transcription project, and to create their own websites and GIS-based maps. Students will become familiar with many of the principles and challenges that inform scholars and programmers as they collaborate to enrich the field of historical research.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| PHIL 100 01 | MWF 8:45 AM-9:45 AM |
| PHIL 100 02 | MWF 1:35 PM-2:35 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| PHIL 110 02 | TR 2:35 PM-3:50 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| PHIL 115 01 | MWF 10:00 AM-11:00 AM |
Description
As an introduction to philosophy, this course covers all the same core problems as PHIL 110 and many of the same thinkers. However, this class will explore these philosophical questions through the lens of short fiction author Ted Chiang, whose “Story of Your Life” was the basis for the movie Arrival. We will work through both his collections of short fiction and read them alongside traditional philosophical readings on related topics.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| PHIL 115 02 | TR 1:05 PM-2:20 PM |
Description
his course covers many of the same core issues as PHIL 110, however, students explore these philosophical questions through the lens of contrasting methods. This course examines classic texts from Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume and Hegel with an eye to what they teach about understanding contemporary problems of objectification, polarization and agency.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| PHYS 101 01 | MWF 8:00 AM-9:50 AM |
| PHYS 101 02 | MWF 1:45 PM-3:35 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| POLS 110 01 | TR 10:00 AM-11:45 AM |
| POLS 110 02 | TR 8:30 AM-9:45 AM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| POLS 130 01 | TR 1:05 PM-2:20 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| POLS 160 01 | MWF 8:45 AM-9:45 AM |
| POLS 160 02 | MWF 11:15 AM-12:15 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| POLS 180 01 | TR 2:35 PM-3:50 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| PSYC 100 02 | MWF 1:35 PM-2:35 PM |
| PSYC 100 03 | TR 1:05 PM-2:20 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| SOCI 100 01 | TR 10:10 AM-11:25 AM |
| SOCI 100 02 | MWF 10:00 AM-11:00 AM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| SPAN 100 01 | MWF 1:35 PM-2:35 PM |
| SPAN 100 02 | MWF 10:00 AM-11:00 AM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| SPAN 107 01 | MWF 1:35 PM-2:35 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| SPAN 110 01 | MWF 11:15 AM-12:15 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| SPAN 210 01 | MWF 11:15 AM-12:15 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| SPAN 215 01 | MWF 8:45 AM-9:45 AM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| THDA 106 01 | TR 10:00 AM-11:45 AM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| THDA 113 01 | TR 10:00 AM-11:45 AM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| THDA 115 01 | MWF 7:15 PM-9:00 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| THDA 213 01 | MWF 1:45 PM-3:35 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| THDA 247 01 | TR 1:05 PM-2:20 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| THDA 250 01 | MWF 1:45 PM-3:35 PM |
Description
Students learn and practice the basic exercises that make up a Pilates mat sequence. Pilates is focused on strengthening the core of the body in order to support physical health and prevent injuries. This course increases the student’s overall strength, flexibility, and stability, while also emphasizing breath integration as support for all movement. Students learn the history and development of this exercise form as well as create their own mat sequence to support their individual physical health goals.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
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| THDA 313 01 | MWF 1:45 PM-3:35 PM |
Description
Individually planned programs of reading, writing, research, and consultation under the supervision of a faculty member. This project serves as the capstone for the African studies minor. Students may work to elaborate and enhance projects done on a semester abroad or may undertake a set of readings and research to tie together previous course work.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| WRIT 100 01 | TR 1:05 PM-2:20 PM |
Description
Hollywood’s longstanding interest in time travel generally and “time loop” narrative film structures in particular poses a range of topics we will explore to develop students’ critical thinking, reading, and writing skills for college-level work more broadly. Our focus is on the proliferation of time loop devices in the past decade, with connections to a variety of film genres, such as sci-fi, rom-com, and detective story (as well as their use in social media and gaming). We explore a range of questions about time, personal relationships, mortality, free will, etc., as well as how these films pose composition issues related to the writing process, the elements of effective writing outcomes, and engaging with the work of others in your own writing. Sample movies: Memento, Groundhog Day, Interstellar, Edge of Tomorrow, Arrival, Palm Springs, Tenet. May be taken only once if a grade of “C” or better is received; otherwise a second course may be taken under a different topic. (5T)
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| WRIT 100 03 | MWF 10:00 AM-11:00 AM |
Description
Our course will explore the way that place shapes writing—and the way that writing shapes place. How can stories, memoirs, and essays help us build more inclusive and just places? How can writing help us feel at home in our shared world? We’ll start close to home, thinking about both where you come from and Beloit as a place you will call home. And we’ll expand our frame, to think about how writers around the globe tell the stories of the places they love—and use their writing to contest the history of racism and colonialism that have shaped those places. Throughout the term, members of this writing-intensive class will build confidence constructing arguments, revising their writing, conducting research, giving oral presentations, and building bridges between academic disciplines. Expect to write over 20 pages in a range of genres, including short essays, personal reflections, research papers, and informal writing exercises. You will also collaborate with your peers to polish your writing—and meet with me to work one-on-one to build your skills.
Offerings
| Course Code | Meeting Time |
|---|---|
| WRIT 100 04 | MWF 1:35 PM-2:35 PM |
Description
When you read a good memoir, it speeds by, and without even realizing it, you’re learning all about how the author identifies—their upbringing, their communities, their religion, their relationships, their jobs, their obsessions. Through expert use of narrative structure and detail, you trust the writer: a skill just as relevant to vibrant college writing. College writing uses research to give any story a richer context, helping to engage the reader as deeply as possible. In this course, we will read from a diverse range of creative non-fiction, analyzing the writing to help develop our own research, writing, and editing. We will use facts and arguments to investigate our own identities and tell stories relevant to our communities. We will marvel at the effect of concrete details and short sentences and feel the excitement of finding the perfect source. We will work through multiple drafts of our own work, helping each other and building a safe writing community through regular peer editing. Expect lots of in-class writing on topics of your choosing, and to end the semester much less scared of a blank page. Expect: memoir by Audre Lorde, Kiese Laymon, Leslie Jamison, Patti Smith, and profiles of Jake Paul, Frank Sinatra, and others.