Spring Quarter 2014 VLPA courses

Class times, locations, fees, and course descriptions may change. Please check the time schedule for updates before enrolling in any course.

For more VLPA courses, see the Time Schedule search page at: http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/genedinq.html.

African-American Studies http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2014/afamst.html

AFRAM 337 - Music and Social Change in the Sixties Era (5 credits) MW 1:30-3:20 Instructor: Sonnet Retman Introduction of popular music and social change in 1950s and 1960s. How this interaction effects significant change. Considers political activism for civil rights and against the Vietnam War as they intersect with the development of rock and roll, R&B, acoustic and political folk music, and post-bebop jazz.

For this quarter's offering, the course title is "Hip Hop and Indie Rock." Are you a fan of hip hop, punk, son jarocho, and/or indie rock? Do you make music? Are you interested in how music scenes get documented? Do you wonder why women are left out of music stories? Would you like explore archives and local music communities? Would you like to connect with the EMP Pop Music and Women Who Rock conferences? If "yes" is your answer to any of these questions, sign up for this introduction to pop music studies. The course examines how archives, oral histories, and new media transform music stories. It traces the influence of genres such as blues, gospel, estilo bravío, punk, son jarocho, and disco on hip hop and indie rock in order to contextualize their relation to race/ethnicity, gender, class, locality, and nation. Assignments will include an entry-level, digital media project. No prior experience necessary. You will learn to use online tools in class. Meetings: Monday discussion and Wednesday interactive lab.

Asian-American Studies http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2014/asamst.html

AAS 320 – Hawaii’s Literatures (5 credits) MW 1:30-3:20 F 1:30-2:20 Instructor: Stephan Sumida Prose fiction, historical narratives, and poetry (including lyrics and songs) of Hawaii by Native Hawaiian and multicultural local writers and composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Analyses of colonization and its consequences frame the literary studies.

The texts in the course include Native Hawaiian lyrics and songs, the Queen's book, John Dominis Holt's Waimea Summer, Milton Murayama's All I Asking for Is My Body, Juliet Kono's poetry, and four contemporary Hawaiian plays. The historical analysis that is the backbone of the course moves from the time of the Monarchy to the multicultural, "Local" present, from sovereign nation and culture to colonization in the form of a state.

American Indian Studies http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2014/ais.html

AIS 379 – Powwow: Tradition and Innovation (5 credits) TTh 11:30-1:20 Instructor: Scott Pinkham Native dance and drum styles, events associated with powwows, types of powwows and what is involved to hold a contemporary powwow in a metropolitan setting, such as Seattle.

Anthropology http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2014/anthro.html

ANTH 464 – Language Politics and Cultural Identity (5 credits) TTh 10:30-11:50 Instructor: Laada Bilaniuk Anth majors only Period I. Open to all majors starting 3/3. Theories and case studies of the power of language and how it is manipulated. Multilingualism, diglossia. Role of language and linguistics in nationalism. Standardization, educational policy, language and ethnicity. World languages, language death and revival. Prerequisite: either LING 200, LING 201, ANTH/LING 203 or LING 400. Offered jointly with LING 464.

Architecture http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2014/archit.html

ARCH 251 – World Architecture: Non-Western Cultures (5 credits) MW 9:00-11:20 Instructor: Tyler Sprague Introduction to historical and contemporary built environments of non-Judeo-Christian civilizations, primarily Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, and Meso-American, as manifestations of cultural history and as responses to environmental determinants.

Art History http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2014/arthis.html

ART H 214 – Art of India (5 credits) MWF 12:30-1:20 Quiz TTh, times vary Instructor: Sonal Khullar $30 course fee The course will survey the material culture and artistic production of South Asia, which includes the present-day nation states of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, from antiquity until the early modern period. We shall attend to traditional art historical concerns such as the role of the artist, treatment of materials, systems of patronage, development of style, theories of aesthetics, and iconographic analysis. We shall also relate South Asian art to its social contexts, emphasizing exchange and interaction between cultures and groups, including but not limited to artists, pilgrims, merchants, warriors, and kings; Buddhists, Hindus, Jains, Muslims, Sikhs, and Christians; Indians, Persians, Europeans, Central Asians, and Southeast Asians.

ART H 261 – Italian Cities (5 credits) TTh 12:30-2:20 Quiz F, times vary Instructor: Claudio Mazzola Introduces Italian culture by focusing on the past and present of five of the nation's most important cities: Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, and Naples. Taught in English. Offered jointly with ITAL 261.

ART H 435 – Thematic Studies in Native-American Art: Totem Poles (5 credits) MW 10:30-11:50 Instructor: Robin Wright $30 course fee Approach to Native-American art through themes and issues. Focus varies from year to year (e.g. Shamanism in Native-American art, gender identity in Native-American art, social and political aspects of Native-American art, issues in contemporary Native-American art). Recommended: some background in Native American art, history, languages, or literature.

This course will provide methods for understanding the southern Northwest Coast arts of the Coast Salish peoples and the relationship of these arts to the arts of the Central and Northern Northwest Coast peoples. The design principles that govern their visual language will be studied with the goal of distinguishing stylistic features that are unique to this area, understanding the history of their development over time, and familiarity of issues facing contemporary Coast Salish artists.

ART H 492 – Alternative Art Forms Since 1960 (5 credits) MW 11:30-12:50 Instructor: Kolya Rice $30 course fee Juniors, Seniors only This course is a selective survey of post-studio/alternative/new media art forms developed primarily in the United States beginning around 1960 by artists who did not equate art making with the production of traditional gallery objects. The course will seek to identify persistent concerns, themes and strategies among various practitioners, as well as the stakes involved in their various practices. Because much of this work emphasizes “experiential” viewing and/or participation, together we will explore various exhibits and events in Seattle over the course of the quarter. No pre-reqs. Familiarity with modern/contemporary art is highly beneficial.

Asian Language and Literatures http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/AUT2014/asianll.html

ASIAN 206 – Literature and Culture of South Asia from Tradition to Modernity (5 credits) TTh 1:30-3:20 Quiz F, times vary Instructor: Jennifer Dubrow This course introduces the modern literature of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh) from the fifteenth century to the present. We will read a selection of short stories, novels, and poetry drawn from the diverse literary traditions of the region. Major readings include The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, Umrao Jan Ada, a novel about a 19th-century courtesan, by Mirza Ruswa, short stories by Sadat Hasan Manto and Premchand, and bhakti and ghazal poetry. No prior knowledge is assumed, and all works will be read in English translation.

ASIAN 498B – Special Topics: Introduction to Indian Philosophical Literature (5 credits) MW 1:30-3:20 Instructor: Prem Pahlajral This course explores the development of Hindu Indian Philosophy starting from the middle of the first millennium BCE. All texts will be read in English translations, no knowledge of Sanskrit or other Indian languages is required.

Read & discuss excerpts from the Rg and Atharva Vedas that hint at the beginnings of philosophical speculations. Trace the development of these ideas in select Upanishads. Explore the purpose of Yoga as described in the Yoga Sutras. Examine the conflict between renunciation and religion as presented in the Mahabharata’s Moksha-dharma-parvan (“Section on the Laws of Liberation”), and see how the Bhagavad Gita effects a synthesis between the tensions of performing one’s role in society and renouncing society for the pursuit of liberation.

The primary goals of this course are to familiarize ourselves with this literature and the readings that are presented here, and to understand the concerns & motivations of their creators and the various perspectives from which these can be interpreted. We will use writing as a means to organize our understanding and work our ideas into coherent arguments. Our goal in class sessions will be to engage with the ideas and issues raised by our readings, with the active participation of all students.

Bioresource Science and Engineering http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2014/bse.html

BSE 309 – Creativity and Innovation (2 credits) WF 2:30-3:20 Instructor: Graham Allan Understanding creativity and creative thinking; its challenges and dynamics through knowledge, judgment, planning, and observation. Techniques of creative thinking. Design and development of creative games. Computer-aided creative thinking. Creation, protection, and exploitation of a useful idea, including bargaining and negotiations. Offered jointly with CHEM E 309.

Classics http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2014/clas.html

CLAS 328 – Sex, Gender and Representation in Greek and Roman Literature (3 credits) MWF 12:30-1:20 Instructor: Stephen Hinds The aim of this course is to consider how sex and gender are constructed in the literature of the classical Greeks and Romans. Areas addressed will include the affirmation and inversion in literature of culturally agreed gender roles; myths of male and female identity and self- fashioning; the marginalization of female consciousness; and the ‘rules of engagement’ in ancient love poems and stories, in which gender, status and sexual preference are all inextricably bound up together. Selections from various genres of Greek and Roman literature will be read and placed in their cultural and ideological contexts. The course will also consider some aspects of the reception of this Greek and Roman material in more recent phases of Western culture. The focus throughout will be primarily literary, with the emphasis placed on issues of representation in canonical texts. Participants will be required to read and respond to a broad range of primary texts and a limited number of secondary texts.

CLAS 360 – Jews, Greeks, and Romans in the Ancient World (5 credits) MTWThF 11:30-12:20 Instructor: Sarah Stroup Examines the interactions between populations of Jews, Greeks, and Romans in the ancient Mediterranean from the late Bronze Age through the early Talmudic period, informed by perspectives from literature (religious and secular), art, and archaeology. Offered jointly with JSIS C 360.

CLAS 424 – Epic Tradition (5 credits) TTh 2:30-4:20 Instructor: Olga Levaniouk Ancient and medieval epic and heroic poetry of Europe in English: the Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid; the Roland or a comparable work from the medieval oral tradition; pre-Greek forerunners, other Greco-Roman literary epics, and later medieval and Renaissance developments and adaptations of the genre. Choice of reading material varies according to instructor's preference. Offered jointly with C LIT 424.

CLAS 430 – Greek and Roman Mythology (5 credits) MWF 1:30-2:20 Quiz TTh, times vary Instructor: Alexander Hollman Principal myths found in classical and later literature.

Communications http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2014/com.html

COM 331 – The Rhetorical Tradition in Western Thought (5 credits) MW 1:30-3:20 Instructor: Christine Harold Com majors only period I. Course open to all majors starting March 3rd. Analysis of the major theories that prescribe and describe the use of symbols to change attitudes and behavior. Principal emphasis is placed upon defining the nature and scope of rhetoric and upon analyzing the art's underlying assumptions about human beings as symbol users. Some background in history, philosophy, and literature is desirable.

COM 374 – Perspectives on Language (5 credits) MW 11:30-1:20 Quiz F, times vary Instructor: Laura McGarrity The central goal of this course is to develop an understanding of what language is, how it is structured, and how it is used in the wider context. With this goal in mind, we will address the following themes: -- The difference between language and communication -- The acquisition of language -- The connection between language, thought, and identity -- The use of language in different personal, cultural and political contexts.

Comparative Literature http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2014/complit.html

C LIT 252 – Intro to Genres: The Novel (5 credits) MTWTh 1:30-2:20 Quiz F, times vary Instructor: Leroy Searle Reading and analyzing literature based upon rotating genres such as sci-fi, detective fiction, romance, love, poetry, and comedy. Draws from world literature. The principal focus will be the examination of longer fictional works are a primary mode of thinking and reasoning, following how imaginative engagement with recurrent and practical questions leads us to increasingly sophisticated and insightful revelations about experience. The novels selected all address, in very different ways, how our lives may be shaped by what, and how, we imagine, particularly when we may not recognize initially the extent to which what we imagine and what we become are connected.

C LIT 303A – Theory of Film: Genre: Contemporary Black Cinema (5 credits) MTWTh 1:30-3:20 Instructor: Tamara Cooper Open to AIS, AES, CHID, ENGL, GWSS, DRAMA and C Lit students during Period 1 registration as well as students in performance studies. No prior film analysis knowledge is necessary. In this class we will look at a broad range of contemporary filmmakers from around the world who for whatever reason self-identify as Black from the 1970s to the present. Some of them were born in the US, some of were trained in the US and share citizenship elsewhere. If post-Obama does not mean post-racial, then what does it mean? With all of the films recently released, which deal with histories of slavery - are we in a different racial moment? What does it mean to an American public who sees black faces more frequently on screens than ever before, screens where black men are allowed to kiss white women and black men are allowed to kiss each other. We will look at the challenges of black film authorship and will ask: What is at stake in African American cinema? What is the visceral, gut-level function of motion pictures in African American and Black communities? Can we speak of a distinctive practice given the diverse experiences and variable conditions that affect Black lives? What do motion pictures mean for people whose sense of home has been dislocated by migrations and fraught with attacks on their citizenship and humanity, largely through visual representation? We will also trouble notions of nation, ability, gender, sexuality and class as they locate and destabilize blackness.

Together through film watching and interactive lecture, we will explore our present moment and ask ourselves if black citizenship is still in question in America in the same ways it may or may not be around the world?

C LIT 323 – Literature of Emerging Nations: Historical Fiction and Post/Colonialism in Southeast Asia and Africa (5 credits) TTh 11:30-1:20 Instructor: William Arighi What is the relationship between history and literature? What is the “nation” and how can its story be told? Who can tell it? The novels, short stories, and films in this course will be drawn from the Philippines, Indonesia, Algeria, Senegal, Zimbabwe, and Vietnam in order to discuss how the appearance and development of nations, nationalism, and nation-states are tied to historical imagination and cultural production. Understanding how the categories of “literature” and “nation”—which often seem quite distinct or wholly unrelated—might relate to one another in distinct contexts will be the main goal of this course, as well as articulating the imagining of a past with the experience of the present. This will be achieved by historical contextualization, analysis of texts, and the support of theoretical texts. Some topics that may be considered in developing our understanding of these relationships are: the modernity of the nation form; genealogies of race and racism; colonialism, post-colonialism, and neo-colonialism; the production of gender identities and their relation to nationalism; narrative technique; and native and non-native languages, their transmission, and transcription. C LIT 396A – Special Studies in Comparative Literature: Graphic Narrative (5 credits) TTh 1:30-3:20 Instructor: Jose Alaniz Traditionally, readers have not seen fit to associate comics with such “serious” genres as autobiography, memoir and war reportage. But in resisting its ghettoization as a mere “children’s medium” and in a bid for cultural/literary legitimacy, comic art over the last 40 years has produced numerous works devoted to weighty real-world subject matter, documenting religious conflict, family dysfunction, migration and the banal realities of daily life. Apart from interrogating and theorizing such matters as autobiography, literary realism and journalism in a verbal/visual medium, this course examines graphic narrative’s depiction of non-fiction topics in works by Alison Bechdel, Marjane Satrapi, Harvey Pekar, Art Spiegelman, Justin Green, David B., Phoebe Gloeckner, Joe Sacco, Robert Crumb and others. Come see what happens when the comics get “real”!

English http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2014/engl.html

ENGL 200 – Reading Literary Forms (5 credits) No Seniors during Period II Registration (3/3 – 3/30) Each section is a separate course. All sections below count as Writing credit. Check Time Schedule for additional sections and updates.

Engl 200A – Ghostly Matters: Narratives of Haunting MTWTh 2:30-3:20 Instructor: Kim Phuong Trinh Check Time Schedule for update to course description

Engl 200B – Victorian Detection MTWTh 9:30-10:20 Instructor: Sarah Kremen-Hicks The Victorian era saw the development of the detective story, a genre that flourished with the spread of literacy among the British working class, and owed some of its popularity to serial publishing and railway novels. While Sherlock Holmes has become synonymous with the Victorian detective, we will spend much of this class looking at lesser-known works in multiple genres before turning to Holmes. Our concern will be to trace the character of the detective and his or her actions that lead to the resolution of the crime. In other words, who solves the puzzle, and how?

At the end of the quarter we will look at Neo-Sherlockiana and the afterlife of the Victorian detective, and discuss the ways in which the detective and his methods changes for contemporary audiences.

Engl 200D – America in the 19th Century MTWTh 11:30-12:20 Instructor: Anthony Manganaro Check Time Schedule for update to course description

Engl 200E – Black Arts/Aesthetic Movement, 1964-1975 MTWTh 12:30-1:20 Instructor: Kirin Wachter-Grene This course examines the Black Arts/Aesthetic Movement of the late 1960s to mid-1970s. The BAM was made up of a diverse group of African-American artists, writers, and musicians committed to creating politically-charged, socially relevant art. They saw themselves as the cultural arm of Black Liberation struggles and other revolutionary movements influential at the time. We’ll engage literature in its various forms through the work of novelists, poets, playwrights, cultural critics, and musicians such as Malcolm X, Amiri Baraka, Henry Dumas, Gil Scott-Heron, Ed Bullins, Ishmael Reed, Ntozake Shange, Sonia Sanchez, Larry Neal, Nina Simone, Sun Ra, Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln and more. We will situate these artists within the political, historical, and cultural context of their time to consider, among other questions, what is the relationship between art and politics? We will also watch films including the 2011 documentary The Black Power Mixtape, and Jules Dassin's 1968 film Uptight.

Engl 200F – Gender and Sexuality in Science Fiction MTWTh 1:30-2:20 Instructor: Ariel Wetzel Science fiction (SF) is a genre that can radically transform how we think about gender and sexuality. In this class, we will read SF that challenges the stability of familiar categories such as man/woman and gay/straight. Readings may include The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, The Female Man by Joanna Russ, One Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor, “And Salome Danced” by Kelley Eskridge, “Deep End” by Nisi Shawl, Ōoku: The Inner Chambers by Fumi Yoshinaga, and “Bloodchild” by Octavia Butler.

We will consider how science fiction has opened our understanding of gender and sexuality. We will supplement this literature with scholarly essays. Unsurprisingly, we will approach these texts through the lens of gender, women, and sexuality studies, meaning that we will both analyze the depiction of gender roles in these texts as well as put the histories and experiences of women and LGBT people in the center of our studies.

This course meets daily, Monday through Thursday, and consists of both seminar-style discussion and lecture. In-class participation is mandatory, so please do not take this class if you are unable to attend daily. Because class meetings will be student-centered and discussion-based, in-class participation will be a significant portion of the grade.

ENGL 242B – Reading Prose Fiction: Well, That Was Climactic: Apocalyptic Literature Across the Ends of History (5 credits) MTWTh 9:30-10:20 Instructor: Michael Hodges Writing credit No Seniors during Period II Registration In 1989, writing about the end of the Cold War, historian Francis Fukuyama suggested that history, “understood as a series of conflicts between opposing ideologies,” was drawing to an end: "What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of postwar history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government." Thirteen years later, however, Fukuyama identified a less triumphalist eschatology - another type of historical “end” - in the development of biotechnology and transhumanism; he suggested that the potential for modification of “human nature” posed an existential threat to the continuing existence of the species as such. These are, of course, only two of many possible conceptions of the end of human history, and they occupy two rather extreme poles relative to the vast field of possibilities which has been and continues to be staked out relative to it.

In this class, we will read fictional texts written since the beginning of the Cold War that portray a variety of “ends of history” - some apocalyptic, some hopeful, some ambiguous - and pair them with nonfictional contextualizing sources with the goal of investigating a few of the many ways in which our conceptions of this topic have varied (and possibly evolved) in response to and conjunction with shifting political, technological, and social conditions.

Note: This will be a reading- and writing-intensive class. Students should expect to do 50+ pages of reading per day, often of fairly dense material. As this is a W class, students will do at least 15 pages of graded writing, most probably in the form of two 7-8 page essays. Trigger warning: Much of the material we will be reading and discussing in this class (as might be expected, given that we'll be talking about various ways in which human history might come to an end) will be dealing with intense and possibly triggering material, including graphic violence and sexuality and intersections of the two. Students will not have to write about these topics, but should be prepared to talk about them in class in a straightforward manner.

ENGL 257 – Asian-American Literature (5 credits) TTh 10:30-12:20 Instructor: Michelle Liu This course will examine the historical currents that necessitated the emergence of an Asian Pacific American literary sensibility, in conjunction with a consideration of the difficulties and possibilities inherent to in this categorization. Asian American populations have been deeply impacted by restrictive immigration legislation and American foreign policy, putting its peoples in a unique position for defining Americanness. How do artists with an Asian ancestry challenge a country that ostensibly celebrates diversity yet looks with suspicion on the foreign? We will be reading the short stories of Jhumpa Lahiri, the essays of Carlos Bulosan, the play M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang, watching Margaret Cho’s I’m the One that I Want, and novels by Annie Choi and Chang-rae Lee.

ENGL 342 – Contemporary Novel (5 credits) TTh 10:30-12:20 Instructor: Anupama Taranath This class focuses on literature that will help us think about how people categorize each other on the basis of various social and biological features, including gender, race, ethnicity, language, citizenship status, sexuality, and ability. In all societies around the globe, some are part of the Center--often with status and the power to make and enforce rules--and some are relegated to the Margin--often with less power and subject to the rules and regulations that the Center dictates. These dynamics play out in terms of international relations between countries on the world stage, as well as in our own seemingly smaller lives with family and friends. What's going on? Why does this keep happening? And what does this have to do with you and me?

The novels we read this term will help us imagine people who might seem different from us, and provoke us to ask larger questions about identity, power, privilege, society and the role of culture in our lives.

This is a special class associated with the “Texts and Teachers” and “UW in the High School” programs. Nine high school teachers from around the region and your professor co-created the class in a one-week collaborative workshop. “Margins and Centers” is offered here at the UW, and in 4 area high schools: Franklin, Eastlake, Roosevelt and Kentlake High Schools. All of us are reading the same books! During Spring quarter, I will be visiting each of the 4 high schools to interact with the students and teachers. Additionally, each of the 4 high schools will visit the UW and our class this quarter to participate in shared dialogues and discussions with us. If you are excited to welcome high school students into our classroom and discuss ideas together, this might be a great class for you!

ENGL 354 – American Literature: Early 20th Century (5 credits) MTWTh 9:30-10:20 Instructor: John Griffith Investigates the period of American literary modernism (1900 to WW II). Topics include nationalism, migration, race, gender, and the impact of the visual arts on literary modernism, as well as the relation between modernity/modernization (social, economic, and technological transformation) and modernism (revolution in literary style).

Environmental Studies, Program on the Environment http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2014/envst.html

ENVIR 200 – Environmental Studies: Communication and Information (5 credits) MWF 9:30-11:20, F 9:30-10:20 OR MW 11:30-1:20, F 11:30-12:20 Instructor: Andrew Rose Pre-reqs: Minimum grade of 2.0 in ENVIR 100 and minimum grade of 2.0 in a composition course (see course description for list of composition courses). This course focuses on written and verbal communication skills and techniques within the discipline of environmental studies. Students will learn to communicate persuasively, intelligently, and compassionately to vastly different audiences with sometimes competing interests and desires. The class is designed as a practical seminar in which to develop the skills necessary to confront, engage, analyze, and, ultimately, write and speak about complex environmental issues in a variety of disciplinary contexts with particular sets of values and emphases. Specifically, the course is broken into two units, each dealing with a different topic of environmental concern: a humanities unit (focusing on the politics of wilderness conservation), and science and policy unit (examining the decline of salmon runs in the Pacific Northwest).

Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2014/gwss.html

GWSS 241 – Hip Hop and Indie Rock (5 credits) MWF 1:30-3:20 Instructor: Michelle Habell-Pallan Introduction to pop music studies. Examines how archives, oral histories, and new media transform stories about music. Traces rhythms, tempos, and genres including blues, gospel, estilo bravio, punk, son jarocho, and disco that influence hip hop and indie rock, contextualizing their relation to gender, race/ethnicity, class, locality, and nation.

GWSS 451 – Latina Culture (5 credits) WF 10:30-11:20 M 10:30-12:20 Instructor: Michelle Habell-Pallan Explores the expressive culture of Chicana/Mexican American/Latina women in the United States. Cultural and artistic practices in home and in literary, music, film, spoken word, performing and visual arts. Focuses on how Chicana/Latina writers and artists re-envision traditional iconography.

History HSTAA http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2014/histam.html

HSTAA 365 – Culture, Politics and Film in 20th Century America (5 credits) TTh 1:30-3:20 Quiz F, times vary Instructor: Susan Glenn Writing credit How did Americans experience the transition to modernity in the first decades of the twentieth century? How did they make sense of the slide from l920s prosperity to the economic, social, and political crisis of the Great Depression? What were the ideological and political ramifications of World War II and the Cold War? And how did films both interpret and participate in these historical upheavals? This course examines the relationship between film and American cultural, social, and political history from the l920s to the 1950s, a period when film was considered a central aspect of the nation’s cultural apparatus and a key transmitter of social values and political ideology. We will ask what films of this era reveal about the fantasies, preoccupations, and conditions of the time in which they were produced and explore their contributions to social and historical consciousness. The films we will watch in this course have in common their engagement with questions of national identity and national belonging. We will ask about how these films challenged or reinforced traditional values and understandings of “Americanness,” including ideas about success and upward mobility, class, race, and ethnic relations, power, politics, and political leadership, as well as their commentaries on the role of the individual in mass society and the significance of sexuality and gender in upholding or undermining the social order. Students are expected to attend all lectures,in-class film screenings, and discussion sections.

HSTAS http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2014/histasia.html

HSTAS 466 – Indonesian Culture (5 credits) TTh 3:30-5:20 Instructor: Laurie Sears This course has a twofold purpose: 1) to introduce students to Indonesian religions, performing arts, and politics and 2) to show how Indonesian Islam has been interpreted and misinterpreted in scholarly and popular literatures of the colonial and postcolonial periods.

This course juxtaposes historical and literary ways of understanding Indonesian religion, performance, and politics. Through a combination of reading, discussion, films, videos and guest lectures, we will gain an appreciation for the ways in which religion, performance and politics are intertwined in Indonesian histories.

Linguistics http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2014/ling.html

LING 200 – Intro to Linguistic Thought (5 credits) MWF 2:30-3:20 Quiz TTh, times vary Instructor: Laura McGarrity Also counts as QSR credit. Not open for credit to students who have completed LING 201 or LING 400. This course will introduce you to the field of linguistics, the scientific study and analysis of human language. The central goal of this course is to develop and understanding of what language is, how it is structured, and how it is represented in the mind. In this course, you will learn both about the diversity of human language as well as some of its universal characteristics.

The first half of the course will be devoted to surveying some of the core subfields of linguistics: phonetics (the study of the perception/production of speech sounds), phonology (the study of sound systems and patterns), morphology (the study of word formation and structure), and syntax (the study of sentence structure). In the latter part of the course, we will take and interdisciplinary approach to studying language and how it relates to other fields such as psychology, neurology, sociology, and the speech and hearing sciences.

Music http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2014/music.html

MUSIC 162 – American Pop Song (5 credits) MTWThF 8:30-9:20 Instructor: Steven Korn Two sections offered. See time schedule for more information. Historical, social, and stylistic study of popular idioms from the late nineteenth century to the present. Most attention to contemporary idioms (rock, country-western, soul, hip-hop). Various facets of the industry examined to learn how they influence taste and musical style.

Near Eastern Language and Civilization http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2014/neareast.html

NEAR E 253 – Voices of the Iranian Revolution (3 credits) TTh 1:30-2:50 Instructor: Samad Alavi Includes critical readings of the 1979 Iranian Revolution as represented in essays, fiction, poetry, memoir, speeches, film, and other arts. Examines the ways that writers, artists, politicians, and intellectuals have depicted the origins and development of the Islamic Republic and the legacy of the revolution in Iranian society and culture today.

NEAR E 404 – Language, Conflict, and Identity in the Middle East and North Africa (5 credits) MW 1:30-3:20 Instructor: Hussein Elkhafaifi Explores social and linguistic aspects of the languages and cultures of the Middle East and North Africa, focusing on the relationship between language and national/ethnic identity from the perspective of group conflict. Considers language policies in colonial and post-colonial states, and individual strategies of accommodation and resistance to these policies.

Philosophy http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2014/phil.html

PHIL102 – Contemporary Moral Problems (5 credits) MW 1:30-2:50 Quiz TTh, times vary Instructor: Michael Blake How should we think about questions of right and wrong? Is there anything true about morality at all? How should we think about issues like abortion, pornography, and hate speech? This course is designed to introduce students to the philosophical methods and ideas used to answer these questions.

PHIL 240 – Introduction to Ethics (5 credits) MWF 9:30-10:20 Quiz TTh, times vary Instructor: Paul Franco Ethical questions cover a wide variety of moral concerns. What sorts of things really matter in life: pleasure, family, money, all or none of these? Suppose you could get away with stealing something you wanted without anyone noticing. Are there good reasons for not stealing it? Would it be okay for us to sacrifice the happiness, rights, or lives of a few people, if that sacrifice meant that many, many more people would be happy? What does it mean to be a moral person and to adopt a moral theory? In this class, we’ll look at ethical theories that provide a philosophical framework from which to answer these and other types of ethical questions. We’ll begin with questions about the conditions for living a good, flourishing life. From there, we’ll consider questions about the nature of right and wrong and the sources of moral worth and value. Finally, we’ll the end the class by considering some topics from applied ethics, the field that attempts to apply our more general moral theories to specific issues including, but not limited to abortion, animal rights, and the moral responsibilities of scientists.

Political Science http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2014/polisci.html

Pol S 281 – Literature and American Political Culture (5 credits) MW 3:30-5:20 Instructor: Melanie Hernandez Introduction to the methods and theories used in the analysis of American culture. Emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to American literature, including history, politics, anthropology, and mass media. Offered jointly with ENGL 251.

Scandinavian Studies http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2014/scand.html

SCAND 153 – Lithuanian Literary and Cultural History (5 credits) MW 12:30-2:20 Instructor: Ausra Valanciauskiene Surveys Lithuanian literary and cultural history from the Medieval period to the present. Authors include Dauksa, Maironis, Biliunas, Ciurloinis, Boruta, Granauskas, Aputis, Vilimaite, Milosz, and others.

SCAND 155 – Danish Literary and Cultural History (5 credits) TTh 12:30-2:20 Instructor: Desiree Ohrbeck Introduces the literary and cultural history of Denmark. Focuses on several major literary works and cultural moments from the Viking Age, the Enlightenment, nineteenth-century Romanticism, twentieth-century Modernism, and current Danish literature, journalism, and film.

SCAND 330 – Scandinavian Mythology (5 credits) TTh 3:30-5:20 Instructor: Lars Jenner Integrative study of religious life in the pre-Christian North. Emphasis on source materials, including the Prose Edda and Poetic Edda. Discussion of historical, archeological, and folkloric evidence.

SCAND 345 – Baltic Cultures (5 credits) MTWTh 11:30-12:20 Instructor: Guntis Smidchens This course gives a broad introduction to the cultures of the Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians. Baltic literature, music, art and film will be studied in their historical context, exploring the relation between people and culture in the Baltic States.

SCAND 445 – War and Occupation in Northern Europe: History, Fiction and Memoir (5 credits) TTh 1:30-3:20 Instructor: Marianne Stecher During World War II the Nordic region was clenched between two mighty belligerent powers: the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. As Finland resisted Soviet aggression from the East, Denmark and Norway suffered military occupation by Nazi Germany. Neutral Sweden avoided the war and occupation by making considerable concessions to the Axis. Juxtaposing the “Eastern” pressure on Finland and the Baltic states with the “Western” pressure on Norway and Denmark, this course explores the wartime fates of Nordic nations by means of testimonies and literature produced by ordinary citizens, resistance fighters, war victims, and fiction writers. Students will read historical scholarship alongside literary texts and memoirs (particularly "auto-fiction") in order to identify ideological, national, and personal perspectives in the narratives. In particular, the course focuses on the political implications and literary representations of “collaboration” and “resistance” during the war.

Slavic Languages and Literatures Russian http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2014/russian.html

Russ 323 – Revolution: Twentieth Century Russian Literature and Culture (5 credits) MTWTh 10:30-11:20 Instructor: Jose Alaniz Optional writing credit Come take a sweeping tour of the dynamic literary and cultural scene of 20th/21st-century Russia, from the Bolshevik Revolution, Diaspora and Socialist Realist period, through the purges and post-Stalin ‘Thaw’, to the Stagnation, Perestroika and Post-Soviet eras! Lectures and discussion will focus not only on important literary texts of the 20th/21st centuries, but also on relevant films, music and paintings. Authors discussed include: Yevgeny Zamyatin, Yury Olesha, Andrei Platonov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Valentin Katayev, Vladimir Nabokov, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Tatyana Tolstaya, Viktor Pelevin and Vladimir Sorokin.

RUSS 420 – Topics in Russian Literary and Cultural History: Third Rome, Venice of the North: Russia’s Complex Relationship with the West TTh 12:30-2:20 Instructor: James West The culture of the Silver Age in Russia, from the 1880s to the Revolution, was described by its detractors as “Decadence,” and many of the figures involved accepted the label. This was not just a thoughtless enjoyment of scandal: the Russian Symbolists were a seriously philosophical group, and all of these S-words had a place in their world-view. This course looks at prose and poetry, painting and music, both naughty and nice but always in some sense serious, in the three decades before the Russian Revolution. The material covered will include prose by Leonid Andreev (The Thought, 1902), Andrei Belyi (Petersburg, 1911-21), Artsybashev (Sanin, 1904-07), Sologub (The Petty Demon, 1902-05), poetry by Blok, Balmont, Briusov, Ivanov and others, selections from the philosophy of Vladimir Soloviev, Nikolai Berdiaev and Viacheslav Ivanov, paintings of Vrubel, Roerich and Bakst, and music of Stravinsky and Skriabin. Readings are in English, but students who can read the Russian originals are encouraged to do so, and students familiar with the contemporary culture of Europe are particularly welcome.

Urban Planning http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2014/urbdes.html

URBDP 370 – Reading the City (5 credits) TTh 10:30-12:20 Instructor: Dennis Ryan Writing credit Juniors and Seniors only See time schedule for the complete description. Comprehending cities as reflection of individual reader and social/cultural context. Skills for analyzing everyday, visible evidence of the city. Topics include self-identity with place, city, image and perception, visual design analysis; and place as representation of culture. Extensive writing, multiple texts, collaborative work in groups and fieldwork.

The city is a rich and complex text full of unpredictability and surprises. So infused with cultural symbols, it is constantly open for the conscious eyes and mind to explore its patent physical form or the meanings behind the grand facades and humble doorsteps. The city invites us to read, to describe, and to interpret; and very often, we see ourselves -- as individuals as well as the collective social life of community, society or humankind -- reflected in, and our values forged or transformed by the city. Reading the city is therefore a necessary practice so as to better understand ourselves, the urbanized environment and the people who share their everyday experiences in it. We draw from a variety of sources to enhance our senses and sensibility living or traveling in the city -- literature, film, music, paintings, photographs, urban design and planning, geography, history, anthropology, engineering, environmental management, and distinctive social theories and practices. Yet, above all, it is our continuous observation, interpretation and enthusiastic participation in the urban processes that enable us to identify with - understand - particular urban places. Which such composite effort, we shall come closer to comprehending the texture and the context of our text, and further engage ourselves in caring and sharing our urban community.

Reading the city does not specifically require trained expertise, but it does take a special social and spatial sensitivity to articulate what we observe and experience in the city. There are numerous ways of approaching the subject matter -- sometimes we need to posit ourselves in broader contexts such as a city's history and political-economy to see a clearer picture, yet we are also likely to rely directly on our intuitions to build genuine relationships with our immediate environment. And even though no single method is more valid than another, we must be fully aware of our own value systems while analyzing urban form, depicting urban phenomena, or telling stories about people in the city.

This course is intended to encourage students of diverse backgrounds not only to look at, survey, and interact with the city from various perspectives related to their interests and beliefs, but also to appreciate other approaches different from their own. We will learn from texts, readings, a great deal of fieldwork, small group exchanges, our own writings, visual materials, classroom discussions and more. Our most valuable resource is the city itself. Especially in the latest stage of urban evolution when cultural diversity, global economy of capital flow and grassroots movements incessantly reshape the structure and form of the city, our reading can be narrow- minded and farfetched if we fail to recognize the urban complexity and others concerns. Either narrative or critical writing is welcome in the exercises; personal accounts and clear expressions of feelings of being in the city are as legitimate as statistical data and visual analyses.