On the Road with AXLE 2014/2015 Major Dates for Your First Year
(For a complete listing of events and deadlines for 2014/2015, see the University Academic Calendar.)
Fall Semester, 2014 June 2–June 27 Pre-major advisers available to help students register for fall 2014 by telephone. Faculty advisers will be available on weekdays between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. CDT. July 23 Deadline to be in compliance with immunization requirements. Students who are non- compliant will not be able to make schedule changes in YES and may be subject to cancelation. Please contact the Office of Student Health for more information. July 23 Open Enrollment Period in YES begins. Advisers available to help students who need to make changes to their schedule. August 13 Deadline for receipt of payment of tuition, fees, and all other charges associated with the beginning of the semester. August 16 First-year students arrive on campus. Residence halls open at 7:00 that morning. August 20 Classes begin. August 27 Open Enrollment Period in YES ends at 11:59 p.m. CDT. Last day students may add a class. August 28– Administrative Change Period. Students may drop a course with no entry or change levels in September 3 mathematics and foreign languages. Forms are available in the Arts and Science Dean’s office and are due by 4:00 p.m. CDT, September 3. September 4– Withdrawal Period. An adviser’s signature is needed for any student who October 15 wishes to withdraw from a course. October 9–10 Mid-semester deficiency reports issued. First-year students who receive one or two are asked to see their advisers. First-year students who receive three or more are asked to meet with a dean. October 27 Enrollment windows open for spring 2015. First-year students must meet with their advisers to have the Adviser Hold released. December 8 Open Enrollment Period begins for spring 2015.
Spring Semester, 2015 January 2 Deadline for receipt of payment of tuition, fees, and all other charges associated with the beginning of the semester. January 5 Classes begin. January 12 Open Enrollment Period in YES ends at 11:59 p.m. CST. January 13– Administrative Change Period. Students may drop a course with no entry or change levels in January 19 mathematics and foreign languages. Forms are available in the Arts and Science Dean’s office and are due by 4:00 p.m. CST, January 20. January 20– Withdrawal Period. An adviser’s signature is needed for any student who wishes March 13 to withdraw from a course. March 5 Mid-semester deficiency reports issued. First-year students who receive one or two are asked to see their advisers. First-year students who receive three or more are asked to meet with a dean. April 6 Enrollment windows open for fall 2015. First-year students must meet with their advisers to have the Adviser Hold released. May 9, 2014
To the Arts & Science Class of 2018:
Welcome to Vanderbilt’s College of Arts and Science! All of us here in Arts and Science are pleased that you made the decision to enroll in the largest and most academically diverse undergraduate program of studies at Vanderbilt University. We have provided each of you with a pre-major faculty adviser through CASPAR who will assist you in the challenging and rewarding task of determining the classes you will take during your first year. We have prepared this booklet to help guide you through the process. Hang onto it! It includes essential information for choosing and enrolling in classes.
You are joining a first-year class of about 1,000 and an Arts and Science student body of about 4,280. The primary mission of the College of Arts and Science emanates from its commitment to provide its undergraduate students with a superb liberal arts education. The principles of a liberal education are simple: through a wide exposure to general knowledge, intensive training in writing and research, and communal study, students identify their particu- lar interests and talents. From that informed base, liberal arts students pursue a specialized course of studies (the major) that will ultimately lead them in the direction of further training in the professions or enable them to enter the job market armed with the skills and tools that many employers value above all others: disciplined, orderly habits of mind; strong writing and research skills; practice in the principles of the scientific method; and a broad context of historical knowledge upon which to base a lifetime of critical thought and responsible and informed citizenship.
Independent, judicious thought—the primary goal of liberal education in a democratic society—can only flow from an informed and open mind. The conditions needed to cultivate those qualities are what we—the 365 faculty mem- bers in the College of Arts and Science—strive to create for you in our classrooms, laboratories, studios, seminar rooms, field work excursions, and performance spaces. The experience continues out of class in our faculty offices, where we will meet with you to discuss assignments, clarify aspects of lectures or readings, drink a cup of coffee together, and discuss whatever is on your mind. This crucial part of the liberal arts experience, however, can only happen if our students avail themselves of the invitation to visit and consult with their professors. So please make sure that part of your first-year experience includes familiarizing yourself with your professors’ office hours and locations, and that you make it a regular habit to meet with them outside of class.
I encourage you to make the most of all of the opportunities that Vanderbilt offers you, and in particular to explore the richness of course offerings in Arts and Science. And I wish you great success in your first semester and throughout your years at Vanderbilt. If my colleagues and I in the Dean’s Office can be of service to you, please contact us. And again: welcome to the learning community of the College of Arts and Science.
Sincerely,
John M. Sloop Interim Dean
On the Road with AXLE 1 Contents
AXLE – Achieving Excellence in Liberal Education 3
What Is AXLE? 4
AXLE: An Overview 5
Distribution of courses in AXLE 8
The First-Year Writing Seminar: An Overview 15
How to Choose Courses for Your First Semester 23
How to Place Yourself in Courses for AXLE 24
How to Place Yourself in Courses for Specific Majors 27
How to Register: Some General Questions 29
Rules of the Road 30
Information for Transfer Students 33
A Brief Summary of AXLE 1. The Writing Requirement (three to four courses) 2. The Liberal Arts Requirement a. English Composition (appropriate test score or (13 courses) Must be taken from at least seven departments. one course) a. HCA — Humanities and b. First-Year Writing Seminar the Creative Arts (three courses) (one course) b. INT — International Cultures c. 100-level W Requirement (three courses) (one course) Must be completed by the end c. US — History and Culture of the United States of the fourth semester. (one course) d. One 100-level or 200-level W or Oral Communication d. MNS — Mathematics and Course in the College of Arts & Science. Natural Sciences (three courses) Must be completed before graduation. e. SBS — Social and Behavioral (First-Year Writing Seminars, 100- and 200-level Sciences (two courses) courses, and oral communication courses also count f. P — Perspectives (one course) in their appropriate distribution areas within the Liberal Arts requirements.) If you need help, call us! See the number in your registration materials.
2 Vanderbilt University AchievingA Excellence X inL Liberal E Education Welcome to Vanderbilt University’s sciences, mathematics, foreign languages study with creative writers, sociologists, and cultures, the arts, and the humanities. historians, or film studies scholars in the College of Arts and Science, and con- The empirical disciplines guide us in our African American and Diaspora Studies pro- gratulations on admission to one of the efforts to live most productively and effi- gram; or take a class, team taught, by top-ranked undergraduate liberal arts ciently. But the rest of the curriculum—the professors from the Blair School of Music humanities and the arts—makes it possible and the Department of English in the Col- programs in the United States. The Arts to reflect upon the right use of the remark- lege of Arts and Science. Over the next four and Science core program of study— able scientific knowledge we have acquired. years, you will challenge yourself with the known as AXLE—features intensive In a liberal arts education like the one you academic demands of the classes you select, are beginning, content is always considered and you will be challenged by new ideas practice in writing and a diverse set of in its larger context. Thus, the reflective and and unfamiliar ways of looking at issues. At thirteen courses that has been designed to discursive aspects of study in the liberal arts times, you will feel excited, outraged, per- call upon students to move beyond the mere plexed, righteous, transformed, offended, allow maximum choice in course selection acquisition of information to inquire into and delighted as you undergo the process of (based on your interests and achievement the deeper issues within their studies, and to expanding your consciousness, and absorbing levels). At the same time, the distribution connect their learning across disciplines and new content and novel ideas. We hope you cultures as they live and work in the com- will encourage yourself to Fear No Learning! requirements of AXLE ensure that you munal environment of Vanderbilt. The end We cannot promise that you will always feel will explore intellectually and academi- product of a successful liberal arts education serene or confident as you make your way is a thoughtful citizen who is prepared to through Vanderbilt’s challenging undergrad- cally the breadth of possibilities repre- take up his or her rights and responsibilities uate curriculum. Committing yourself to sented by the liberal arts. in a democratic society, to analyze and cri- explore beyond the boundaries of your intel- tique received information, to articulate the lectual comfort zone in order to admit new What Is Liberal Education? issues at hand or the personal values at stake, ideas is one of the most important aspects of The study of the liberal arts—what is his- and whose intellectual life is marked by higher education. What we can promise is torically called a liberal education—is the ongoing internal dialogue with the self about that the time and effort you devote to select- oldest and most venerable form of higher the quality and meaning of life for him or ing thoughtfully the courses you will take education. It has proved perennially flex- her, as well as for the community at large. for the fulfillment of AXLE requirements ible and adaptive over the past centuries, will prepare you for the more specialized and it remains the single best educational Fear No Learning! study that you will undertake in your major (or majors) beginning in your third year of preparation for further, specialized study in Many courses in the College of Arts and Sci- study. And we can also promise that you will the professions (medicine, law, education, ence are interdisciplinary in nature and offer graduate with a much expanded understand- business, et al.), and for doctoral work in the an ideal training ground for learning new ing of yourself and other people, and that humanities, social sciences, and advanced methodologies for problem-solving in the you will be well on your way to creating a research in the sciences. The holistic focus complex, global world of the 21st century. meaningful and productive life. of a liberal education encompasses all areas Here, you may work with biologists and of human knowledge: the natural and social psychologists in the Neuroscience program;
On the Road with AXLE 3 What Is AXLE?
AXLE is the acronym for Achieving Excel- b. INT — International Cultures regulations, and policies of the College of (three courses) Arts and Science as well as descriptions of the lence in Liberal Education. It is the core c. US — History and Culture of the academic programs of all the undergraduate curriculum that all students in the College United States (one course) schools. You should familiarize yourself with of Arts and Science must fulfill. The AXLE d. MNS — Mathematics and Natural the contents of the catalog as soon as possible. Sciences (three courses) The full catalog is available online: vanderbilt. curriculum is flexible and user-friendly. It e. SBS — Social and Behavioral Sciences edu/catalogs/undergrad/. consists of two parts: the Writing Require- (two courses) This booklet, On the Road with AXLE, ment and the Liberal Arts Requirement. f. P — Perspectives (one course) is a publication of the College of Arts and Sci- All students must also complete requirements ence. It is a manual for entering students and contains an explanation of the AXLE require- The Writing Requirement for at least one major (between 27 and 48 credit hours of course work) and earn a ments, a list of the distribution of the courses The Writing Requirement has four segments: minimum of 120 credit hours to graduate. that fulfill the requirements, suggestions on demonstration (by a minimum combined how to choose courses, and instructions on score of 1220 on the Writing and Critical How to Get on the Road how to register for the fall. It has been designed Reading portions of the SAT test with a mini- exclusively for the entering class of 2014 and mum score of 500 in each, or a minimum During your four years at Vanderbilt, your differs from previous or future editions. In case score of 27 on the English portion combined program of studies will be divided approxi- of doubt, check the Undergraduate Catalog. with a minimum score of 7 on the Writing mately into thirds: You should also familiarize yourself with your portion of the ACT test, or by appropriate AP ⅓ – courses to meet the requirements of the degree audit, available through YES (Your or IB credit in English) of basic skills in English Writing and Liberal Arts requirements; Enrollment Services). Composition; a First-Year Writing Seminar; ⅓ – courses required to complete your completion of a 100-level (introductory) writ- chosen major; Where to Get Advice ing course no later than the fourth semester in ⅓ – electives, which will complete the 120 Entering students are assigned faculty advisers residence; and completion of either a second credit hours required for graduation. through CASPAR (College of Arts and Science 100-level writing course or a 200-level (disci- These divisions are approximate and may Pre-major Academic Advising Resources). pline-specific, major-oriented) writing course differ for individual students. These pre-major advisers will counsel students or a course in oral communication. For the fall semester of 2014, most of your selections should be from the first through their first three and a half semesters or until they declare a major. At that time, The Liberal Arts Requirement group, courses that will fulfill the Writing and Liberal Arts requirements. Your aca- students are assigned faculty advisers in their The Liberal Arts Requirement consists demic background, your career goals, and major departments. Pre-major advisers are of a total of thirteen courses taken at your general talents and interests will affect carefully selected and receive intensive training Vanderbilt, and distributed across six areas your choice of courses. on how to help students proceed effectively of inquiry. The First-Year Writing Seminar, Students in the College of Arts and Science through the requirements of AXLE and chart a all 100-level and 200-level writing courses, will receive a Bachelor of Arts degree after course of study. and all approved oral communication cours- completion of the other five requirements in Students are encouraged to see their advis- es are also counted in the thirteen-course addition to AXLE: fulfillment of requirements ers at any time. They must, however, see their Liberal Arts Requirement. for one major, a C average in the major, 120 pre-major adviser three times during the first 1. The Writing Requirement (3–4 courses) cumulative earned credit hours, a C average year: during orientation for the fall semester, a. English Composition (appropriate test overall, and for most students, 102 credit hours during the Registration Period for the spring semester, and during the Registration Period score or one course) in courses in the College of Arts and Science. b. First-Year Writing Seminar (one course) for the fall semester of their second year. During the month of June, your pre-major c. 100-level W Requirement (one course) Where to Get Information d. One 100-level or 200-level W or Oral adviser will be available to help you make Communication course Two publications will help you make your course selections for registration for the fall course selections for the fall semester and and begin to understand your interests and 2. The Liberal Arts Requirement (13 courses) decide on your academic career. The Under- goals. Be sure to familiarize yourself with the a. HCA — Humanities and the graduate Catalog is the official publication of information in your registration materials and Creative Arts (three courses) Vanderbilt University and includes the rules, follow the instructions on how to contact your adviser between June 2 and June 28. 4 Vanderbilt University AXLE: An Overview
AXLE consists of two parts: the and oral presentations are subject to ate distribution areas within the Liberal thoughtful critical review by the faculty Arts Requirement. Writing Requirement and the member, providing feedback that can be d) All students must successfully complete Liberal Arts Requirement. used to reconsider the manner in which (1) a second 100-level “W” course, or they articulate their ideas and to refine (2) a 200-level “W” course, or (3) an The Writing Requirement their skills in these areas. Thus, students approved course in Oral Communication learn not only about the subject matter Excellent communication skills, including in the College of Arts and Science (CMST of the seminar, but are also exposed to the ability to articulate ideas and defend 200, 201, or 204), regardless of test scores new methods of acquiring knowledge, positions in writing, will be indispensable earned prior to matriculation. The 200- different ways of expressing and sharing for 21st-century graduates of Vanderbilt level “W” courses foster advanced, disci- ideas, and unique opportunities to par- University; therefore, all students in the Col- pline-specific writing skills. Departments ticipate in critical inquiry. lege of Arts and Science must successfully or programs in the College of Arts and complete the Writing Requirement prior to All first-year students must enroll in a Science that offer these courses determine graduation. First-Year Writing Seminar. This course their specific writing content. In 200- may be taken during the fall or the spring level “W” courses, continued attention to a) All students must demonstrate competence semester. Students who must take English the process of writing is included in the in English composition. Appropriate skills 100 should take it in the fall and the First- classroom. Students receive regular writ- in composition are essential to successful Year Writing Seminar in the spring. All ing assignments throughout the semester progress at the university. Many students First-Year Writing Seminars also count in and feedback on their writing that will will complete the requirement by present- their appropriate distribution areas within enhance writing skills appropriate to spe- ing a minimum combined score of 1220 on the Liberal Arts Requirement. See the sec- cific disciplines. The process of revising the Writing and Critical Reading portions tion in this booklet for an overview of the written work allows students to reflect of the SAT test with a minimum score of First-Year Writing Seminar program and on the writing process; writing tutorials 500 in each, or a minimum score of 27 on for a listing of the First-Year Writing Semi- assist in the development of writing skills. the English portion combined with a mini- nars offered in fall 2014. Oral Communication courses focus on mum score of 7 on the Writing portion c) All students must successfully complete developing improved public speaking of the ACT test, or by appropriate AP or at least one 100-level writing course skills. These courses advance the prin- IB credit in English. Students who do not (indicated by a “W”) in the College of ciples and practices of public discourse must enroll in English 100 in the first year. Arts and Science, regardless of AP or IB and reasoned argument. Attention to the b) The First-Year Writing Seminar is an credits, or SAT or ACT scores earned process of effective oral communication is integral part of the experience in the prior to matriculation. These writing- inherent to these classes. Students receive College of Arts and Science. Through intensive courses emphasize general regular speaking assignments throughout these seminars, students engage in writing skills within the context of disci- the semester and regular feedback on independent learning and inquiry in an pline-specific subject matter. All students their speaking that will enhance effective environment in which they can express are encouraged to complete Part c of the speaking skills. All students must com- knowledge and defend opinions through Writing Requirement as soon as possible; plete Part d of the Writing Requirement intensive class discussion, oral presenta- this requirement must be completed before graduation. All 200-level “W” tions, and written expression. The small- no later than the fourth semester at courses and approved Oral Communica- group nature of these seminars allows Vanderbilt University. The 100-level “W” tion courses (CMST 200, 201, or 204) also direct student-faculty interaction that requirement may not be satisfied by tak- count in their appropriate distribution stresses training in techniques of schol- ing a 200-level “W” course. All 100-level areas within the Liberal Arts Requirement. arly inquiry. The students’ written work “W” courses also count in their appropri-
On the Road with AXLE 5 The Liberal Arts requirement by choosing courses that Egypt Requirement focus on the history and culture of a England single society or time period in human France The Liberal Arts Requirement consists of Germany history and/or that represent a broad successful completion of thirteen courses Hungary spectrum of different human societies from the College of Arts and Science. Most India and time periods. courses in the College of Arts and Science Ireland Language courses introduce students Israel fulfill one of these Liberal Arts requirements. to the language of a different culture and Italy Although some courses may be appropriate provide insight into that culture in ways Japan to more than one requirement, each course that are not possible to achieve through Jordan will fulfill only one requirement. These thir- detached study. Even at the most basic Kenya teen courses must be distributed as outlined Morocco level, exposure to the language of a dif- below, and must be taken from at least Nepal ferent culture prepares students to think seven departments or subject areas. Netherlands and act in a global community. At inter- New Zealand a) Humanities and the Creative mediate and advanced levels, students Northern Ireland Arts – HCA (3 courses) are able to explore the culture in depth, Russia using the language itself to read, discuss, Samoa Courses in the humanities and the cre- and write about its various aspects. Scotland ative arts challenge students to examine Senegal Intermediate and advanced language their personal understanding of life and Serbia courses prepare students for study abroad how their individual experiences overlap Singapore programs, which the College of Arts and with those of the rest of humankind. South Africa Science strongly recommends. Students These courses testify to the varying ways Spain shall receive one International Cultures Sweden in which people think, form values, con- course credit for successfully completing Switzerland front ambiguity, express spiritual and a semester or summer study abroad expe- Uganda aesthetic yearnings, and grapple with rience of six weeks in duration or longer Vietnam moral and ethical problems. By analyzing in a Vanderbilt-sponsored program or and interpreting literary, philosophi- pre-approved programs offered through All students must complete three cours- cal, religious, or artistic works, students other providers. Students may exercise es in the International Cultures category, examine the foundations of human this option only once. Additional course irrespective of previous language study or experience. By producing original artistic credit may be earned toward AXLE proficiency in a language other than Eng- works in imaginative writing, studio art, requirements by successfully completing lish. At least one of the three courses pre- theatre, film, music, and dance, students courses through Vanderbilt in France and sented in fulfillment of this category must have the opportunity to connect the uni- the Vanderbilt in Berlin summer program be a second-semester (or higher) language versal sources of human inspiration with that have A&S numbers and titles. acquisition class taught at Vanderbilt Uni- their own creative processes. In addition to the Vanderbilt-sponsored versity, unless the student successfully dem- onstrates proficiency in a language other b) International Cultures – INT programs in France (Aix-en-Provence) and than English at or above the level achieved (3 courses and demonstration of Germany (Berlin), students may choose by second-semester language acquisition foreign language proficiency) from pre-approved study-abroad options in: classes taught at Vanderbilt University. Argentina The study of international cultures pro- Students may demonstrate proficiency in Australia vides students with a basis for understand- Austria a number of ways: SAT subject test scores ing the diversity of experiences and values Brazil (French, 540; German, 470; Hebrew, 530; in our contemporary, global society. Canada Italian, 540; Japanese with Listening, 440; Options in this category include not only Chile Latin, 530; Spanish, 520); with AP or IB international history and cultural studies China credit in a foreign language; or through a courses, but also courses in literature, film Costa Rica proficiency test administered by the Ten- Czech Republic studies, the social sciences, art, music, nessee Foreign Language Institute. The Denmark and languages. Students may satisfy this Dominican Republic first semester of an introductory language
6 Vanderbilt University acquisition class in any language cannot phenomena, the roles of testing and ing the principles and methods associated be used in fulfillment of the foreign lan- replication of experimental results, and with the liberal arts to the broader circum- guage proficiency requirement. Intensive the processes through which scientific stances in which students live. These cours- elementary language courses that cover the hypotheses and theories are developed, es emphasize the relationship of divergent content of two semesters in one shall count modified, or abandoned. Laboratory sci- ethics and moral values on contemporary as one course toward this category. ence courses engage students in methods social issues and global conflicts. of experimental testing of hypotheses c) History and Culture of the and analysis of data that are the hall- The Major United States – US (1 course) marks of the natural sciences. Natural In addition to fulfilling the AXLE require- The study of the history and culture of science courses prepare students to ments, all students must successfully com- the United States provides students with understand the complex interactions plete a course of study leading to fulfillment a basis for understanding the American between science, technology, and society; of one of the approved major programs experience and the shaping of American teach students to apply scientific princi- in the College of Arts and Science, or suc- values and viewpoints within the con- ples to everyday experience; and develop cessfully complete an independent contract text of an increasingly global society. the capacity to distinguish between sci- major designed in consultation with College Interpreting history and culture in the ence and what masquerades as science. of Arts and Science faculty and approved by broadest sense, options in this category the College of Arts and Science. include traditional history and cultural e) Social and Behavioral Sciences – Courses used to fulfill AXLE requirements studies courses, but also courses in lit- SBS (2 courses) may help students decide on a major field erature, film studies, the social sciences, Social scientists endeavor to study of study. art, and music, which illuminate histori- human behavior at the levels of indi- A major consists of a concentrated unit cal periods or cultural themes in United viduals, their interactions with others, of intellectually-related courses. Students States history. Students may satisfy this their societal structures, and their social may formally declare a major in the third requirement by choosing a course that institutions. The remarkable scope rep- semester and must declare a major in the focuses on the history and culture of resented by these disciplines extends fourth semester of study. At that time, a single social group or time period in from studying the underpinnings of the student will move from the pre-major American history and/or that represents brain function to the dynamics of adviser to a major adviser in the chosen a broad spectrum of different social human social groups to the structures of field. groups and time periods. political and economic institutions. The In summary, graduation with a Bachelor methods employed by social scientists of Arts degree from the College of Arts and d) Mathematics and Natural Sciences – are correspondingly broad, involving Science requires: MNS (3 courses, one of which must approaches as varied as mapping brain be a laboratory science) activity, discovering and charting ancient 1) fulfillment of the AXLE requirements, Courses in mathematics emphasize cultures, identifying the societal forces 2) fulfillment of the requirements for quantitative reasoning and prepare that shape individual and group behav- one major, students to describe, manipulate, and ior, and using mathematics to under- 3) a minimum of a 2.000 grade point evaluate complex or abstract ideas or stand economic phenomena. By studying average in the major, arguments with precision. Skills in how humans and societies function, 4) a minimum of a 2.000 grade point mathematical and quantitative reason- students will learn about individual and average overall, ing provide essential foundations for societal diversity, growth, and change. the study of natural and social sciences. 5) a minimum of 120 cumulative Students are generally introduced to f) Perspectives – P (1 course) credit hours, mathematical reasoning through the Courses in Perspectives give significant 6) and, for most students, a minimum study of introductory courses in calculus attention to individual and cultural diver- of 102 credit hours completed in Arts or probability and statistics. Courses in sity, multicultural interactions, and Science courses. the natural sciences engage students in sexual orientation, gender, racial, ethical, The summary of degree requirements for hypothesis-driven quantitative reason- and religious issues within a culture across transfer students is found at the back of ing that enables explanations of natural time or between cultures, thereby extend- this booklet.
On the Road with AXLE 7 Distribution of Courses in AXLE
This section lists the courses offered by Women’s and Gender Studies Jewish Studies WGS 150W. Sex and Gender in Everyday Life. JS 253W. Witnesses Who Were Not There: the College of Arts and Science for the (P) Literature of the Children of Holocaust fall semester 2014 and their distribution Survivors. (HCA) 200W and Oral Communication in the Liberal Arts requirements. The Medicine, Health, and Society Courses for Fall 2014 list is also on the Arts and Science MHS 205W. Medicine and Literature. (HCA) African American and Diaspora Studies website where it is updated regularly: AADS 204W. African American Children’s Philosophy Literature. (HCA) PHIL 233W. Writing as Political Resistance. (P) as.vanderbilt.edu/advising/axlecourses Asian Studies Physics 100W Courses for Fall 2014 ASIA 213W. Media Monsters in Contemporary PHYS 225W. Concepts and Applications of American Studies Japan. (HCA) Quantum Physics. (MNS) AMER 100W. Introduction to American Communication Studies Religious Studies Studies. (US) CMST 200. Argumentation and Debate. RLST 280W. Seminar. (HCA) (HCA) English CMST 201. Persuasion. (HCA) Spanish ENGL 102W. Literature and Analytical CMST 204. Organizational and Managerial SPAN 201W. Intermediate Spanish Writing. Thinking. (HCA) Communication. (HCA) (INT) ENGL 104W. Prose Fiction: Forms and Techniques. (HCA) Economics ENGL 105W. Drama: Forms and Techniques. Women’s and Gender Studies ECON 257W. Seminar in Microeconomic (HCA) WGS 246W. Women’s Rights, Women’s Policy. (SBS) ENGL 116W. Introduction to Poetry. (HCA) Wrongs. (US) ENGL 117W. Introduction to Literary Criticism. (HCA) English Humanities and the ENGL 118W. Introduction to Literary and ENGL 236W. World Literature, Classical. Cultural Analysis. (HCA) (HCA) Creative Arts (HCA) ENGL 120W. Intermediate Composition. ENGL 242W. Science Fiction. (P) Courses for Fall 2014 (HCA) ENGL 263W. African American Literature. (US) African American and Diaspora Studies AADS 204W. African American Children’s Jewish Studies Literature. JS 139W. American Jewish Music. (US) Film Studies AADS 230. Race, Mixed Race, and “Passing.” JS 180W. Introduction to Jewish Studies. FILM 227W. Screenwriting. (HCA) AADS 260. Black Diaspora Women Writers. (INT) French American Studies Music Literature and History FREN 201W. French Composition and MUSL 121W. Music in Western Culture. Grammar. (INT) AMER 294. The American Studies Workshop. (HCA) German Anthropology Philosophy GER 201W. Introduction to German Studies. ANTH 279. Ceramic Analysis in Archaeology. PHIL 100W. Introduction to Philosophy. (INT) (HCA) Art Studio PHIL 103W. Introduction to Asian Philosophy. History ARTS 102. Drawing and Composition I. (INT) HIST 200W. The History Workshop. (SBS) ARTS 110. Printmaking I: Relief and Intaglio. ARTS 115F-3. Walking in Nashville: Art, Religious Studies History of Art Landscape, and Urbanism. RLST 110W. Introduction to Southern HART 217W. Early Renaissance Florence. ARTS 120. Photography I. Religion and Culture. (SBS) (HCA) ARTS 130. Painting. RLST 111W. The Gnostic Gospels. (HCA) HART 245W. Art of Buddhist Relic and ARTS 140. Ceramics. Reliquary. (INT) ARTS 141. Sculptural Ceramics. Sociology ARTS 150. Sculpture. SOC 101W. Introduction to Sociology. (SBS) Italian ARTS 171. Video Art. ITA 201W. Grammar and Composition. (INT) ARTS 205. Life Drawing I.
8 Vanderbilt University ARTS 207. Drawing: Color Media I. ENGL 115F-39. Formations of American German ARTS 208. Drawing: Color Media II. Identity. GER 115F-3. Pioneers of Literary Modernism: ARTS 210. Printmaking II. ENGL 115F-45. World War I: A Hundred Brecht, Kafka, Rilke. ARTS 211. Printmaking III. Years Later. GER 182. War on Screen. ARTS 220. Photography II. ENGL 116W. Introduction to Poetry. ARTS 231. Painting III. ENGL 117W. Introduction to Literary Criticism. Greek ARTS 241. Concept and Clay: Composite ENGL 118W. Introduction to Literary and GRK 240. Early Christian Writers. Forms. Cultural Analysis. ARTS 250. Sculpture II. ENGL 120W. Intermediate Composition. History ARTS 271. Video Art II. ENGL 122. Beginning Fiction Workshop. HIST 239B. The Rise of the Tudors. ARTS 290. Directed Study: Senior Show and ENGL 123. Beginning Poetry Workshop. HIST 275a. American Intellectual History Contemporary Practices. ENGL 199. Foundations of Literary Study. since 1865. ENGL 200. Intermediate Nonfiction Writing. Asian Studies ENGL 202. Literature and the Craft of Writing. History of Art ASIA 213W. Media Monsters in ENGL 204. Intermediate Fiction Workshop. HART 110. History of Western Art I. Contemporary Japan. ENGL 205. Advanced Fiction Workshop. HART 111. History of Western Art II. ENGL 206. Intermediate Poetry Workshop. HART 112A. History of Western Architecture I. Classics ENGL 208a. Representative British Writers. HART 115F-6. Social Values of Art. CLAS 150. The Greek Myths. ENGL 210. Shakespeare: Representative HART 115F-10. Ancient Art and Ethics. CLAS 246. The Parthenon, the Akropolis, and Selections. HART 207. The Art of Pagans, Christians, Fifth Century Athens (Formerly 295). ENGL 214a. Literature and Intellectual History. and Jews. ENGL 219. Anglo-Saxon Language and HART 211. Medieval Art. Communication of Science and Technology Literature (Formerly 296a). HART 217. Early Renaissance Florence. CSET 201. Science Communication Tools and ENGL 220. Chaucer. HART 217W. Early Renaissance Florence. Techniques. ENGL 233. The Modern British Novel. HART 222. British Art: Tudor to Victorian. ENGL 236W. World Literature, Classical. HART 231. Twentieth-Century European Art. Communication Studies ENGL 245. Literature and the Environment. HART 255. Greek Art and Architecture. CMST 100. Fundamentals of Public Speaking. ENGL 250. English Renaissance: The Drama. HART 295. Advanced Seminar. CMST 200. Argumentation and Debate. ENGL 252a. Restoration and the Eighteenth CMST 201. Persuasion. Century. Honors CMST 204. Organizational and Managerial ENGL 255. The Victorian Period. HONS 181. College Honors Seminar in the Communication. ENGL 258. Poetry Since World War II. Humanities and Creative Arts. CMST 210. Rhetoric and Civic Life. ENGL 259. New Media. CMST 241. Rhetoric of Mass Media. ENGL 272. Movements in Literature. Jewish Studies CMST 244. Politics and Mass Media. ENGL 274. Major Figures in Literature. JS 115F-1. In a Pluralistic Age: Jews, Christians, ENGL 278. Colonial and Post-Colonial and Muslims in Spain. English Literature. JS 115F-4. Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs: ENGL 102W. Literature and Analytical ENGL 288. Special Topics in English and Black-Jewish Relations in the 1950s and Thinking. American Literature. 1960s. ENGL 104W. Prose Fiction: Forms and JS 253W. Witnesses Who Were Not There: Techniques. Film Studies Literature of the Children of Holocaust ENGL 105W. Drama: Forms and Techniques. FILM 125. Introduction to Film and Media Survivors. ENGL 115F-7. Women Poets in America. Studies. ENGL 115F-25. From Frost to Dove: FILM 227W. Screenwriting. Latin Storytelling in American Verse. LAT 268. Lucretius: De Rerum Natura. ENGL 115F-27. Communicability: Literature French and Disease. FREN 205. Medical French in Intercultural Medicine, Health, and Society ENGL 115F-30. What is America to Me?: Contexts. MHS 205W. Medicine and Literature. Immigration and the (Re)Making of FREN 211. Texts and Contexts: Middle Ages to MHS 220. Narrative and Medicine: Stories American Identity. the Enlightenment. of Illness and the Doctor-Patient ENGL 115F-36. Foundational Stories of the FREN 212. Texts and Contexts: Revolution to Relationship. Western Tradition. the Present. MHS 242. Bionic Bodies, Cyborg Cultures. ENGL 115F-38. Representations of War. FREN 256. French Intellectual History. MHS 248. Medical Humanities.
On the Road with AXLE 9 Music Literature and History SPAN 232. Literature of the Spanish Golden Chinese MUSL 115F-3. Music and Modernism: The Age. CHIN 211. Intermediate Chinese I (Formerly Plunge into the Abyss. SPAN 233. Spanish Literature from the 214). MUSL 121W. Music in Western Culture. Enlightenment to 1900. CHIN 225. Chinese for Heritage Learners I. MUSL 140. Introduction to Music Literature. SPAN 235. Spanish American Literature from CHIN 241. Advanced Chinese I. MUSL 144. The Symphony. the Conquest to 1900. CHIN 253. Classical Chinese Literature and MUSL 183. Music, the Arts, and Ideas. SPAN 246. Don Quixote. Philosophy. MUSL 219. The Bible and Music. CHIN 255. Business Chinese I. MUSL 221a. Opera in the 17th and 18th Theatre Centuries. THTR 100. Fundamentals of Theatre. Classics MUSL 223. Music in the Age of Beethoven THTR 110. Introduction to Theatrical CLAS 115F-2. Spectacle in the Ancient World. and Schubert. Production. CLAS 146. Roman Civilization. MUSL 226. The String Quartet. THTR 111. Fundamentals of Theatre Design. CLAS 209. Greece and the Near East from MUSL 239. Music of the 20th and 21st Centuries. THTR 115F-1. Treasure or Trash: Examining Alexander to Theodosius. Theatrical Credibility. CLAS 212. History of the Roman Republic. Philosophy THTR 214. Elements of Basic Design: CLAS 226. Warfare in the Ancient PHIL 100. Introduction to Philosophy. Costuming and Makeup. Mediterranean. PHIL 100W. Introduction to Philosophy. THTR 219. Acting I. PHIL 210. Ancient Philosophy. THTR 223. Problems of Acting Style. Economics PHIL 224. Existential Philosophy. THTR 230. Play Direction. ECON 288. Development Economics. PHIL 232. Critical Theory. PHIL 238. Contemporary Ethical Theory. Women’s and Gender Studies English PHIL 248. Philosophy and Literature. WGS 115F-5. Love and Marriage in Literature ENGL 115F-34. In Search of Gandhi. PHIL 274. Ethics and Animals. and Culture. ENGL 271. Caribbean Literature. WGS 115F-7. Gendered Lives. Political Science WGS 212. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and European Studies PSCI 103. Justice. Transgender Studies. EUS 201. European Society and Culture. PSCI 202. Ancient Political Thought. WGS 254. Feminist Fictions. EUS 220. Religion and Politics in Modern PSCI 258. Democratic Theory and Practice. Europe, 1648-Present. International Cultures (INT) Portuguese Courses for Fall 2014 French PORT 232. Brazilian Literature through the FREN 102. Accelerated Introduction to French Nineteenth Century. African American and Diaspora Studies in the World. AADS 170. Capoeira: Afro-Brazilian Race, FREN 103. Intermediate French. Religious Studies Culture, and Expression. FREN 201W. French Composition and RLST 101. Encountering Religious Diversity. AADS 269. African Diaspora Ethnography. Grammar. RLST 109. Themes in the New Testament. FREN 226. Advanced French Grammar. RLST 111W. The Gnostic Gospels. Anthropology FREN 239. The African Novel. RLST 113. Introduction to Islam. ANTH 210. Culture and Power in Latin RLST 247. Daoist Tradition. America. German RLST 280W. Seminar. ANTH 212. Ancient Mesoamerican GER 102. Elementary German II. Civilizations. GER 103. Intermediate German I. Russian ANTH 232. The Anthropology of GER 104. Intermediate German II. RUSS 115F-1. Classic Russian Short Novels. Globalization. GER 201W. Introduction to German Studies. ANTH 269. Introduction to a Maya Language. GER 213. Conversation and Composition: Spanish Current Events. SPAN 115F-2. Border Identities. Arabic GER 221. German Culture and Literature. SPAN 115F-8. Ecocritical Perspectives in Latin ARA 220a. Intermediate Arabic. GER 237. Women and Modernity. American Literature. ARA 230a. Advanced Arabic. GER 264. Pleasures and Perils in Nineteenth- SPAN 203. Introduction to Spanish and ARA 240. Media Arabic. Century Theatre. Spanish American Literature. SPAN 231. The Origins of Spanish Literature. Hebrew HEBR 113a. Intermediate Hebrew.
10 Vanderbilt University History Philosophy Mathematics and Natural HIST 105. East Asia since 1800. PHIL 103W. Introduction to Asian Philosophy. Sciences (MNS) Courses for HIST 108. Premodern Japan. PHIL 228. Nineteenth-Century Philosophy. Fall 2014 HIST 115F-8. European Imperialism: Political Science Colonizer and Colonized in the Modern PSCI 210. West European Politics. Anthropology World. PSCI 216. The Chinese Political System. ANTH 270. Human Osteology. HIST 115F-26. Writing the Pan-African City. PSCI 217. Latin American Politics. ANTH 272. Genetic Anthropology Lab HIST 119. A History of Islam. Techniques. HIST 127. Sub-Saharan Africa: 1400-1800. Portuguese ANTH 273. Human Evolutionary Genetics. HIST 137. Colonial Latin America. PORT 102. Intensive Elementary Portuguese. HIST 172. World War II. PORT 200. Intermediate Portuguese. Astronomy HIST 227. Nineteenth-Century Europe. PORT 203. Brazilian Pop Culture. ASTR 102. Introductory Astronomy: Stars and HIST 249. Brazilian Civilization. Galaxies. HIST 268. Black New York. Religious Studies ASTR 205. Principles of Astrophysics. HIST 287g. Making of Modern Paris. RLST 135. Religions in China. HIST 288b. Poverty, Economy, and Society in RLST 244. Buddhist Traditions. Biological Sciences Sub-Saharan Africa. RLST 261. Islam in Africa. BSCI 105. Human Biology. HIST 288d. Images of India. RLST 264. Foundations of Hindu Traditions. BSCI 110a. Introduction to Biological Sciences. RLST 269. Sacred Space in the Tibetan World. BSCI 205. Evolution. History of Art RLST 274. Japanese Mythology. BSCI 210. Principles of Genetics. HART 120. Arts of East Asia. BSCI 218. Introduction to Plant Biology. HART 245W. Art of Buddhist Relic and Russian BSCI 220. Biochemistry. Reliquary. RUSS 173. Russian Science Fiction. BSCI 230. Biological Clocks. RUSS 203. Second-Year Russian. BSCI 238. Ecology. Honors RUSS 223. Composition and Conversation. BSCI 252. Cellular Neurobiology. HONS 186. College Honors Seminar in RUSS 235. Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina and BSCI 254. Neurobiology of Behavior. International Cultures. Other Masterpieces. BSCI 266. Advanced Molecular Genetics. Sociology BSCI 270. Statistical Methods in Biology. Italian SOC 220. Population and Society. ITA 200. Italian Journeys. Chemistry ITA 201W. Grammar and Composition. Spanish CHEM 102a. General Chemistry. CHEM 203. Inorganic Chemistry. SPAN 102. Elementary Spanish II. CHEM 210. Introduction to Analytical Japanese SPAN 103. Intensive Elementary Spanish. Chemistry. JAPN 211. Intermediate Japanese I. SPAN 104. Intermediate Spanish. CHEM 218a. Organic Chemistry for Advanced JAPN 241. Advanced Japanese I. SPAN 201W. Intermediate Spanish Writing. Placement Students. SPAN 202. Spanish for Oral Communication CHEM 220a. Organic Chemistry. Jewish Studies Through Cultural Topics. CHEM 220b. Organic Chemistry. JS 156. The Holocaust. SPAN 206. Spanish for Business and CHEM 224. Bioorganic Chemistry. JS 180W. Introduction to Jewish Studies. Economics. CHEM 225. Spectroscopic Identification of SPAN 207. Advanced Conversation. Organic Compounds. Latin SPAN 208. Advanced Conversation Through CHEM 230. Physical Chemistry: Quantum LAT 100. Intensive Elementary Latin. Cultural Issues in Film. Mechanics, Spectroscopy, and Kinetics. LAT 103. Intermediate Latin: Prose. SPAN 211. Spanish for the Medical Profession. SPAN 221. Spanish Civilization. Latin American Studies Earth and Environmental Sciences LAS 115F-2. Nobel Laureates in Literature Theatre EES 101. The Dynamic Earth: Introduction to Geological Sciences. from Latin America and the Caribbean. THTR 201. Histories of Theatre and Drama I: EES 103. Oceanography. Ritual and World Performance. Music Literature and History EES 115F-3. Volcanoes: Earth and Human MUSL 122. Music as Global Culture. Impacts. MUSL 160. World Music. EES 115F-6. Climate Change and Human History. EES 201. Global Climate Change.
On the Road with AXLE 11 EES 202. Earth Systems through Time. Neuroscience Earth and Environmental Sciences EES 225. Earth Materials. NSC 201. Neuroscience. EES 108. Earth and Atmosphere. EES 230. Sedimentology. NSC 269. Developmental Neuroscience. EES 255. Transport Processes in Earth and NSC 285. Special Topics in Cellular and English Environmental Systems. Molecular Neuroscience. ENGL 242W. Science Fiction. EES 268. Paleoclimates. ENGL 243. Literature, Science, and Technology. Philosophy ENGL 275. Latino-American Literature. Honors PHIL 102. General Logic. ENGL 279. Ethnic American Literature. HONS 185. College Honors Seminar in PHIL 202. Formal Logic and Its Applications. Mathematics and Natural Science. French Physics FREN 214. Advanced Conversational French. Mathematics PHYS 113a. Introductory Physics for the Life MATH 115F-3. Cryptography: the History and Sciences I. History Mathematics of Codes and Codebreaking. PHYS 116a. General Physics I. HIST 148. The Darwinian Revolution. MATH 140. Survey of Calculus. PHYS 116b. General Physics II. HIST 151. The Scientific Revolution. MATH 150a. Single-Variable Calculus I. PHYS 121a. Principles of Physics I. HIST 280. Modern Medicine. MATH 150b. Single-Variable Calculus II. PHYS 223. Thermal and Statistical Physics. HIST 284a. Epidemics in History. MATH 155a. Accelerated Single-Variable PHYS 223c. Computational Thermal and Calculus I. Statistical Physics. Honors MATH 155b. Accelerated Single-Variable PHYS 225W. Concepts and Applications of HONS 182. College Perspectives Honors Calculus II. Quantum Physics. Seminar. MATH 170. Single-Variable Calculus III. PHYS 227a. Classical Mechanics I. MATH 175. Multivariable Calculus. PHYS 229b. Electricity, Magnetism, and Jewish Studies MATH 194. Methods of Linear Algebra. Electrodynamics II. JS 124. Perspectives in Modern Jewish History. MATH 198. Methods of Ordinary Differential PHYS 243. Health Physics. Equations. PHYS 251a. Advanced Quantum Mechanics I. Medicine, Health, and Society MATH 200. Intensive Problem Solving and MHS 170. Politics of Health. Exposition. Psychology MHS 201. Fundamental Issues in Medicine, MATH 204. Linear Algebra. PSY 209. Quantitative Methods. Health, and Society. MATH 205a. Multivariable Calculus and PSY 214. Perception. MHS 208. American Medicine and the World. Linear Algebra. MHS 210. Health Social Movements. MATH 208. Ordinary Differential Equations. Perspectives (P) Courses for MHS 212. War and the Body. MATH 215. Discrete Mathematics. MHS 232. Masculinity and Men’s Health. MATH 218. Introduction to Probability and Fall 2014 MHS 236. HIV/AIDS in the Global Mathematical Statistics. African American and Diaspora Studies Community. MATH 221. Theory of Numbers. AADS 101. Introduction to African American MHS 252. Psychiatry, Culture, and MATH 223. Abstract Algebra. and Diaspora Studies. Globalization. MATH 226. Introduction to Numerical Mathematics. Anthropology Music Literature and History MATH 240. Transformation Geometry. ANTH 250. Anthropology of Healing. MUSL 201. Music, Gender, and Sexuality. MATH 242. Introduction to Topology. ANTH 266. Gender and Cultural Politics. MUSL 261. Music, Identity, and Diversity. MATH 246a. Introduction to Actuarial ANTH 283. Ethics in Anthropology, Mathematics. Archaeology, and Development. Philosophy MATH 247. Probability. PHIL 105. Introduction to Ethics. MATH 249b. Evaluation of Actuarial Models. Biological Sciences PHIL 108. Introduction to Medical Ethics. MATH 252. History of Mathematics. BSCI 115F-2. Genes and Society. PHIL 115F-5. Green Cities. MATH 253. Error-Correcting Codes and PHIL 233W. Writing as Political Resistance. Cryptography. Communication Studies MATH 260. Introduction to Analysis. CMST 115F-4. The Irish Troubles: Revolution, Portuguese MATH 272a. Topology. Reform, and Rhetoric. PORT 115F-1. Explorations of Brazilian MATH 275. Graph Theory. CMST 235. Communicating Gender. Cultures. MATH 283a. Modern Algebra. MATH 288. Linear Optimization.
12 Vanderbilt University Psychology ECON 221. Health Care Policy. Philosophy PSY 252. Human Sexuality. ECON 222. Latin American Development. PHIL 246. Philosophy of Language. ECON 231. Intermediate Microeconomic PHIL 256. Philosophy of Mind. Sociology Theory. SOC 201. Sociological Perspectives. ECON 232. Intermediate Macroeconomic Political Science SOC 230. The Family. Theory. PSCI 101. Introduction to Comparative Politics. ECON 242. Sports Economics. PSCI 102. Introduction to International Spanish ECON 253. Introduction to Econometrics. Politics. SPAN 275. Latina and Latin American Women ECON 254. Public Finance. PSCI 115F-5. U.S. Culture in World Politics. Writers. ECON 257W. Seminar in Microeconomic PSCI 115F-6. American Constitutional Law: Policy. Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Women’s and Gender Studies ECON 264. International Finance. PSCI 115F-8. Human Trafficking. WGS 150. Sex and Gender in Everyday Life. ECON 273. Game Theory with Economic PSCI 220. Crisis Diplomacy. WGS 150W. Sex and Gender in Everyday Life. Applications. PSCI 225. International Political Economy. WGS 160. Sex and Society. ECON 274. Industrial Organization. PSCI 229. Strategy and International Politics. WGS 240. Introduction to Women’s Health. ECON 279. Urban Economics. PSCI 230. Middle East Politics. WGS 248. Humor and Cultural Critique in ECON 280. Seminar in Sports Economics. PSCI 240. Political Parties. Fannie Flagg’s Novels. ECON 281. Economic Growth. PSCI 249. American Public Opinion and WGS 262. Gender and Ethics. American Politics. Financial Economics PSCI 259. Political Strategy and Game Theory. Social and Behavioral Sciences FNEC 220. Managerial Accounting. PSCI 260. Introduction to American Law. FNEC 240. Corporate Finance. PSCI 268. American Health Policy. (SBS) Courses for Fall 2014 FNEC 261. Investment Analysis. PSCI 270. Conducting Political Research. African American and Diaspora Studies FNEC 275. Financial Management. PSCI 273. Conflict Management. AADS 215. Black Issues in Education. PSCI 274. Nature of War. AADS 270. Research Methods. History HIST 200W. The History Workshop. Psychology Anthropology HIST 289E. Religion and Popular Culture in PSY 101. General Psychology. ANTH 101. Introduction to Anthropology. Nineteenth-Century Europe. PSY 115F-12. The Psychology of Eating ANTH 104. Introduction to Archaeology. Disorders. ANTH 105. Introduction to Language and Honors PSY 115F-15. Understanding Autism. Culture. HONS 183. College Honors Seminar in PSY 208. Principles of Experimental Design. ANTH 115F-2. Culture and Thought. Behavioral and Social Sciences. PSY 215. Abnormal Psychology. ANTH 115F-8. Archaeology and Gender. PSY 225. Cognitive Psychology. ANTH 115F-10. Pseudoarchaeology: Mysteries Jewish Studies PSY 231. Social Psychology. and Myths in Popular Culture. JS 155. American Jewish Life. PSY 245. Emotion. ANTH 206. Theories of Culture and Human PSY 246. Schizophrenia. Nature. Managerial Studies PSY 268. Health Psychology. ANTH 207. Environmental Anthropology. MGRL 190. Principles of Marketing. PSY 277. Brain Damage and Cognition. ANTH 255. Realities and Worldviews: Why MGRL 191. Advanced Marketing. Culture Matters. MGRL 192. Creative Advertising. Public Policy Studies ANTH 286. Activism and Social Change: MGRL 194. Fundamentals of Management. PPS 295. Senior Seminar on Research in Theory, Experience, and Practice. MGRL 195. Entrepreneurial Challenge. Public Policy. MGRL 196. Entrepreneurship: The Business Economics Planning Process. Religious Studies ECON 100. Principles of Macroeconomics. MGRL 198. Corporate Strategy. RLST 110W. Introduction to Southern ECON 101. Principles of Microeconomics. Religion and Culture. ECON 115F-8. Comparative Health Care Medicine, Health, and Society RLST 234. Post-Freudian Theories and Religion. Systems. MHS 180. Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. ECON 115F-10. Behavioral Economics. MHS 222. Healthcare Organizations. Sociology ECON 115F-12. Freakonomics. MHS 231. Chinese Society and Medicine. SOC 101. Introduction to Sociology. ECON 150. Economic Statistics. MHS 235. Community Health Research. SOC 101W. Introduction to Sociology. ECON 212. Labor Economics. SOC 102. Contemporary Social Issues.
On the Road with AXLE 13 SOC 115F-2. The Artist and the City. History and Culture of the History of Art SOC 115F-7. Controversies in the Practice of United States (US) Courses for HART 115F-13. American Icons and Medicine. Fall 2014 Monuments. SOC 115F-20. Genius and Madness. HART 241. Early American Modernism, 1865- SOC 115F-21. War and American Capitalism African American and Diaspora Studies 1945. after WWII. AADS 110. Race Matters. Honors SOC 206. Sociology of Health and HONS 184. College Honors Seminar in Environmental Science. American Studies History and Culture of the United States. SOC 211. Introduction to Social Research. AMER 100. Introduction to American Studies. SOC 216. Change and Social Movements in AMER 100W. Introduction to American Studies. Jewish Studies the Sixties. JS 139W. American Jewish Music. SOC 231. Criminology. Communication Studies SOC 233. Deviant Behavior and Social CMST 225. Rhetoric of the American Music Literature and History Control. Experience, 1945-Present. MUSL 152. Country Music. SOC 234. Prison Life. CMST 226. Women, Rhetoric, and Social SOC 237. Society and Medicine. Change. Philosophy SOC 252. Law and Social Movements. PHIL 115F-19. Race and Democracy in the SOC 253. Racial Domination, Racial Progress. Economics U.S.A. SOC 254. Schools and Society: The Sociology ECON 266. Topics in the Economic History PHIL 222. American Philosophy. of Education. of the U.S.. SOC 255. Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Political Science United States. English PSCI 100. Introduction to American SOC 256. Race, Gender, and Sport. ENGL 211. Representative American Writers. Government and Politics. SOC 264. Social Dynamics of Mental Health. ENGL 263. African American Literature. PSCI 245. The American Presidency. SOC 272. Gender Identities, Interactions, and ENGL 263W. African American Literature. Relationships. ENGL 268a. America on Film: Art and Ideology. Women’s and Gender Studies WGS 246W. Women’s Rights, Women’s Spanish History Wrongs. SPAN 214. Dialectology. HIST 115F-2. From Potsdam to Vietnam: Era SPAN 216. Phonology. of American Preeminence. SPAN 217. Contrastive Analysis of Spanish HIST 115F-16. African-American History on and English. Film. SPAN 220. The Languages of Spain. HIST 141. U.S. 1877-1945: Reconstruction through World War II. HIST 166. American Enterprise. HIST 174. The U.S. and the Vietnam War. HIST 262. The Old South.
14 Vanderbilt University The First-Year Writing Seminar: An Overview
Learning How to Learn the unknown, challenging the accepted, and, acquire, and communicating your conclu- ultimately, contributing to the ongoing his- sions to others, both orally and in writing. The goal of your undergraduate education tory of human ideas. should be something more and better than A seminar is a small class led by one (occa- just acquiring information; it should be learn- What Is a First-Year Writing sionally, two) faculty members. There usually ing how to learn. Information, no matter how Seminar? will be no more than fifteen students in your valuable it is today, becomes dated, even irrel- Successful learning depends on the successful FYWS. It will meet two or three times a week, evant, in a world that is changing as rapidly as communication of ideas to self and others. and everyone will be a first-year student. You the one in which we live. Creating an educa- While the pedagogical model of the seminar will meet in seminar rooms: specially des- tional experience for yourself that will nurture encourages the lively exchange of ideas and ignated, small classrooms, located all across curiosity, independence of thought, contem- information through its interactive format, the campus, that encourage intimate, face-to-face plative attitudes, and an informed, critically process of learning continues into the ability learning, and allow everyone in the group to inquiring mind will instill dynamic patterns of to make a convincing and intellectually sup- participate easily in discussion. Although the learning necessary in a changing world. ported argument for the consideration of new common element in the FYWS program is the The First-Year Writing Seminar (FYWS) ideas. Reading and talking are the first part of seminar venue, you will find that professors encourages you to develop these intellectual the process. Writing—which allows for further conduct classes in different manners. Some qualities in order to learn how to learn. In your articulation of ideas—is the second. A new will deliver prepared comments to encourage FYWS, you will be expected to examine all idea or insight which you are unable to com- group discussion. Others will never lecture ideas critically; to develop a mind free municate persuasively to others in writing is of from notes and will appear to be allowing the of preconceptions; to encounter opinions and questionable value in your college experience. class to determine the course of the discussion. attitudes different from your own in In the College of Arts and Science, you will Some will use PowerPoint presentations or an open, nondefensive manner; and to provide have to write. And writing begins in the FYWS. overhead projection. Some will show videos in intellectual support for your newly evolving AXLE, the undergraduate curriculum class or assign films to be viewed out of class. ideas and evaluations by engaging in challeng- of the College of Arts and Science, places a Some seminars will feature small-group work ing levels of dialogue, research, and writing. particular emphasis on training in academic that may take place in or out of the classroom. writing, and on the research and information Some will generate lively, parallel dialogues literacy skills associated with writing. To that What Is a Seminar? online. Whatever pedagogical approach your end, AXLE requires every Arts and Science Some of you may have had the opportunity professor favors, he or she will encourage you student to take at least three writing classes to take seminar-style classes in high school; to be an active learner, rather than a passive during his or her four years at Vanderbilt. The others of you may have spent your time receiver of information. In a seminar, students first of these classes for most students will be in regular lecture-style classrooms. Here and professor co-create the learning experience the FYWS. In your FYWS, at least one class at Vanderbilt, you will encounter various not only to optimize the acquisition of new session will be dedicated to a library research approaches to instruction: lecture, laboratory, information, but to provide a working model tutorial, conducted on site in one of the nine studio/workshop (in the arts), field work, for how to evaluate, analyze, and articulate the Vanderbilt University libraries. In this tutorial, independent reading, tutorial, service learn- new ideas that arise from the close encounter a librarian will teach you how to search most ing, internship, and seminar. In the College with the subject matter. effectively the library book and periodicals col- of Arts and Science, this seminar is probably The precise nature of student participa- lections, and will also instruct you in database the most important learning experience you tion will vary from one seminar to another, research for your specific course. Prior to this will undertake during your first year. Success but it will generally take the form of discus- tutorial, your professor will have worked with in your four-year program of study will rest, sion of ideas emerging from assigned read- the librarian to prepare an assignment that is to a large extent, on the methodologies and ing, research on special projects leading to specifically related to the course content. academic self-discipline you master during oral and written reports (which themselves The writing designation means that your your first year. Your FYWS will be the pri- become subjects of discussion), field work, instructor will ask you to write a total of mary model for developing a toolkit of differ- library work, experimentation, and other fifteen to twenty pages throughout the semes- ent methodological approaches to acquiring means of becoming involved in your own ter. These assignments will be reasonably and analyzing information, and for begin- education. You will gain experience in for- spaced out over the course of the academic ning to understand how the faculty scholars, mulating questions, finding the sources of term, and you will have the opportunity to researchers, and artists who lead your FYWS information to answer those questions, gath- revise, discuss your writing with your professor perform the intellectual tasks of approaching ering, organizing, and analyzing the data you one-on-one, and address issues related to writ-
On the Road with AXLE 15 ing in class. Coupling the seminar method of nar program and for beginning to think and gender theory to define the term gender. instruction with relevant writing assignments about which seminars interest you. For the It explores principal archaeological themes provides the best and most effective way of most up-to-date information about which relative to gender, such as the delineation ensuring that students not only gain experi- seminars will be offered, however, please of social roles, ideology, human evolution, ence in encountering new knowledge and ways consult the FYWS page on the website of the and representations of men and women. It of thinking, but—by being required to articu- College of Arts and Science: as.vanderbilt. analyzes ways of knowing and understand- late in apprehensible, logical, and academically edu/academics/axle/writing_seminars.php. ing gender in the past, gendered technologies standardized written forms of expression— All FYWS satisfy two AXLE requirements: and production, gendered spaces and land- that they are able to make use of these intellec- the FYWS requirement, itself, and one distri- scapes, and gender in the public domain. tual gains by sharing them with others through bution area requirement. Distribution area FALL. [3] Fowler Jr., William R. (SBS) the communal medium of written language. requirements are noted at the end of each Writing assignments in FYWS will vary course description: Anthropology 115F, SECTION 10 according to discipline and professor. Every HCA = Humanities and the Creative Arts Pseudoarchaeology: Mysteries and Myths in professor, however, will require you to write Popular Culture. INT = International Cultures and will hold you accountable for the words Did Atlantis exist? Who built the Pyramids? US = History and Culture of the United you ultimately commit to paper. In your Who were the first people in America? States FYWS, you will learn the skills necessary for Numerous books, movies, and television generating new ideas; doing the research to MNS = Mathematics and Natural Sciences programs attempt to explain these mysteries support those ideas; and authorizing them by SBS = Social and Behavioral Sciences with the use of wild theories and specula- their organized, apprehensible presentation tions based on spurious archaeological evi- P = Perspectives in writing. These skills will help equip you dence. Studying how archaeologists create for success at Vanderbilt, and for life after evidence-based arguments, we will use that First-Year Writing Seminars Vanderbilt—wherever it may take you: knowledge to critique information presented graduate or professional school, the busi- Fall 2014 in popular media. ness world, the general job market, indi- FALL. [3] Sauer, Jacob James. (SBS) vidual entrepreneurship, nonprofit work, Anthropology arts administration, or volunteer programs Anthropology 115F, SECTION 2 Art Studio at home and abroad. Learning to think by Culture and Thought. reading, talking, and writing is what you will Art Studio 115F, SECTION 3 This course will provide an overview of achieve in your FYWS. Walking in Nashville: Art, Landscape, and research on how people in different cultures Urbanism. conceive of and interact with their social and Since the beginning of the twentieth century, Enrolling in First-Year natural environments. Students will be intro- art, architecture, and urban studies have inves- Writing Seminars duced to different theoretical and methodolog- tigated the production of texts and images that ical approaches from the cognitive and social To take maximum advantage of the oppor- shape our experience of large cities. Nashville sciences in order to understand the relation- tunities provided by the FYWS, you should will be the focus for our aesthetic and personal ship between human individuals, social groups, try to enroll in one for the fall semester. observations, and walking will be our key form and the broader environment. Topics include FYWS are offered in the spring semester as of exploration. We will employ the artistic how values and beliefs affect behavior and how well, though fewer than in the fall semester. strategies of the Situationists, urban interven- children acquire language. Students will also You will register for your FYWS at the same tionists, and land artists to expand upon and study the various meanings that cultures have time that you register for your other courses. represent our experience of this unique city. attributed to the natural world and how these As you will see, the topics covered by the Readings will include texts on the art, philoso- interpretations influence behavior. FYWS are interesting, timely, and very often phy, and history of walking by architects, jour- FALL. [3] Ross, Norbert. (SBS) specifically related to controversial aspects of nalists, theorists, novelists, and artists. American life, and of the culture of college FALL. [3] Harper, Jana. (HCA) students, themselves. Anthropology 115F, SECTION 8 Each year there is inevitably some Archaeology and Gender. change—both additions and deletions—in This course surveys many aspects of gen- the FYWS offerings. This booklet is handy der in the archaeological record and in for advance reading about the FYWS semi- archaeological practice. It utilizes feminist 16 Vanderbilt University Biological Sciences IRA from 1968-1998. This course examines Economics the intersection of persuasion, militancy, revo- Biological Sciences 115F, SECTION 2 Economics 115F, SECTION 8 lution, and reform throughout these events. Genes and Society. Comparative Health Care Systems. Emphasis will be placed on the nature of per- Our future has changed due to the availability suasion through public discourse, parliamen- Comparing the health care systems of other of complete genomic DNA sequences rang- tary politics, film, and media. countries with the U.S. system provides insight ing from microbes to humans. With these FALL. [3] Kovalcheck Jr., Kassian A. (P) into the Patient Protection and Affordable Care sequences we have entered a new era that holds Act of 2010, as well as globalization in health the promise of a better world through person- Earth and Environmental Sciences care. This seminar considers finance, risk pool- alized medicine, gene therapy, cloning, and ing, costs, technology, and service delivery. genetically modified crops. Are we ignoring Earth and Environmental Sciences 115F, We will also examine the important issues of the dangers that these discoveries pose on our SECTION 3 equity and access to health care. society and planet? We will learn to critique the Volcanoes: Earth and Human Impacts. FALL. [3] Rennhoff, Christina Hubbard. scientific literature and to discern science from Volcanic eruptions are among the most spec- (SBS) science fiction. However, most importantly, we tacular of natural phenomena and are mani- will begin to understand the limitations of sci- festations of processes that shape our planet. Economics 115F, SECTION 10 ence and explore the possible impact of these They have had major impacts on human Behavioral Economics. scientific discoveries on the world. history and continue to threaten and inspire. Behavioral economics asks whether consum- FALL. [3] Benson, Amanda R. (P) We will explore volcanism from the stand- ers, firms, and institutions make decisions points of both science and society. How do based on impartial, simple rationality or are Classics volcanoes work? How do we know? How have influenced by rules of thumb, feelings, bias, they influenced human history? How might Classics 115F, SECTION 2 and cognitive limitations. Exploring such eco- they influence us in the future? Can we reliably Spectacle in the Ancient World. nomic behavior earned psychologists Daniel predict their behavior? Case studies, volcano Kahneman and Amos Tversky the Nobel Prize Blockbuster films, sporting events, media and monitoring, popular and scientific literature, in Economics in 2002. Kahneman and Tver- sports stars are commonplace today, but all and historical interpretations will inform our sky’s work helps explain how people face risk, have precedents in Greek and Roman antiq- investigations. evaluate choices that have consequences over uity. For instance, the professional sports many FALL. [3] Claiborne, Lily. (MNS) time, deal with unfairness or altruism, and love today began with the ancient Olympic make decisions based on the status quo. As we Games. Gladiators were stars in the Roman Earth and Environmental Sciences 115F, discuss these issues, we come to see that deeper world, where the enraged fans of the chariot SECTION 6 understanding of such behavior has value in races battled in many bloody riots. Greek fes- Climate Change and Human History. rethinking economic models and policies. tivals attracted spectators who were enthralled Climate shapes where we live, what we eat, FALL. [3] So, Stephanie A. (SBS) by the mythological figures and amused by the how we survive, and how these practices satires of politicians. This seminar will explore evolve. But for thousands of years human Economics 115F, SECTION 12 ancient spectacle in theater and sport through activities have influenced Earth’s climate, Freakonomics. literary tragedies and comedies and archaeo- causing subtle and not-so-subtle changes in logical remains of venues where ancient spec- Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner’s best- land, oceans, and atmosphere. This course tacles were held. selling book, Freakonomics, provides exam- will examine the complex relationship FALL. [3] Tsakirgis, Barbara. (INT) ples of surprising incentives and distortions between humans and climate over the in information that influence economic last 10,000 years. Students will investigate Communication Studies behavior. Our course will consider these top- forcings, feedbacks, and cycles that govern ics in greater depth, including cheating by Communication Studies 115F, SECTION 4 modern climate and learn how scientists teachers, sumo wrestlers, and office workers, The Irish Troubles: Revolution, Reform, discern past changes and model future as well as discrimination by television game and Rhetoric. scenarios. Assignments will draw from show contestants. The authors’ core ideas are The term “The Troubles” has been applied to scientific and popular literature, and applied in the discussion of public policies political events in Irish history over time, par- students will learn how to discern the toward the drug trade, crime reduction, and ticularly the Irish War of Independence from difference between the two. educational reform. 1916-1922, and the time of the provisional FALL. [3] Oster, Jessica Leigh. (MNS) FALL. [3] Kelly, Patricia. (SBS)
On the Road with AXLE 17 English occupation, and, more recently, terrorism. The Arabian Nights, and Grimm’s fairy tales. FALL. [3] Lamb, Jonathan. (HCA) No credit for students who have completed English 115F, SECTION 7 HONS 181 section 53. Women Poets in America. English 115F, SECTION 30 FALL. [3] Gottfried, Roy K. (HCA) We will trace the development of American What is America to Me?: Immigration and the women’s poetic voices, from Emily Dickinson (Re)Making of American Identity. English 115F, SECTION 38 (1830–1886) to Adrienne Rich (1933-2012). We will explore personal stories, films, literary Representations of War. Other poets will include Gertrude Stein, Mar- works, music, and digital media about migra- Novels, memoirs, films, poems, and historical ianne Moore, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Muriel tion to the U.S. from the Caribbean, Latin writings will provide examples of representa- Rukeyser, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Contem- America, and Africa. Along the way we will tions of war beginning with World War I and porary poets will be studied in portfolio, learn about and from these immigrant com- ending with the war in Afghanistan. Historical paying particular attention to the plethora of munities’ cultures, histories, identities, and events and their representations always contain multicultural expressions since 1980. perspectives on the American Dream. What conflicting truths. The process of identifying FALL. [3] Bachmann, Beth Barnyock. are the push and pull factors that lead these and reconciling these truths will be the main (HCA) immigrants to the U.S? What are their experi- focus of this course. Faculty from other disci- ences here? How have they been received? plines will serve as guest speakers, but students English 115F, SECTION 25 What impact have they had on American soci- will rely mainly upon their own viewpoints in From Frost to Dove: Storytelling in American ety? The course will include tailored training sifting through complex historical issues. Verse. in innovative and standard research methods, FALL. [3] Bell, Vereen M. (HCA) There is a great tradition of storytelling verse including archival research, discourse analysis, in American poetry. Edwin Arlington Rob- and oral history. English 115F, SECTION 39 inson, Robert Frost, and Robinson Jeffers FALL. [3] Nwankwo, Ifeoma. (HCA) Formations of American Identity. early in the twentieth century and Robert Decades before the heralded “American Penn Warren, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Rita English 115F, SECTION 34 Renaissance” in literature that included Emer- Dove later in the twentieth century all made In Search of Gandhi. son, Thoreau, Melville, and Poe, a coterie of use of narrative in their poetry in innova- We will study key works in English from South American authors created works that shaped tive ways. Their poems reflect the central Asia associated with the life and career of America’s literary landscape, challenged con- events of modern American history, includ- India’s most famous twentieth-century figure. ventional wisdom, and helped us to imagine ing the Great Depression, World Wars I and We will consider several short novels and films alternative literary histories in the United II, migrations west and north, and the civil that interrogate elements of Gandhi’s career as States. This course will examine how early rights movement. a pacifist and an agitator for Indian indepen- American authors challenged conceptions of FALL. [3] Bradley, John L. (HCA) dence. What did India’s traditional elites think national identity in the burgeoning Republic of Gandhi and his non-violent movement and engaged historical moments of crisis, such English 115F, SECTION 27 for reform? To what extent did Indian writers as the Indian Removal and slavery. The novels Communicability: Literature and Disease. associate him with contemporary develop- will cut across several literary genres, including Arguably, nothing has altered the course of ments such as the Partition of India and the American Gothic and Historical Romance, and human history and reshaped human com- creation of Pakistan, which resulted in the feature writers such as Lydia Maria Child and munities more than devastating outbreaks deaths of millions of people on both sides of Charles Brockden Brown. Repeat credit for stu- of disease. This seminar will examine literary the new border? dents who have completed 115F section 44. representations of disease from the Black FALL. [3] Marcus, Leah S. (INT) FALL. [3] Briggs, Gabriel. (HCA) Death to contemporary concerns about global pandemics and bioterrorism. It will English 115F, SECTION 36 English 115F, SECTION 45 explore how epidemics consistently elude our Foundational Stories of the Western Tradition. World War I: A Hundred Years Later. powers of description, challenge prevailing This course examines a variety of narratives World War I generated voluminous writ- beliefs, and test the limits of human empathy. that have formed the basis of Western litera- ing by soldiers, soldiers’ families, politicians, Students will also consider how infectious ture and culture. Readings include the Old journalists, poets, and others. Some celebrated diseases have historically raised the specter Testament, Acts of the Apostles, Greek tragedy, the “Great War” while others decried it. This of other kinds of mass contagion, including Aesop, Ovid, Medieval Arthurian romances, course reconsiders this conflict and its legacy. religious fanaticism, mass hysteria, foreign
18 Vanderbilt University We will read poetry, novels, memoirs, journal- History 115F, SECTION 8 fashioning and resistance, and surveillance and ism, propaganda, and newly released diaries European Imperialism: Colonizer and policing of Black urban subjects. of British soldiers from the front. We will Colonized in the Modern World. FALL. [3] Hudson, Peter. (INT) also explore how the war was used in the This seminar will introduce students to the new medium of film. How did citizens of the political, economic, and cultural dimensions History of Art warring nations on earth kill one another at of European imperialism from the 1600s to History of Art 115F, SECTION 6 unprecedented rates for four years? Finally, the 1960s. Students will explore the mean- Social Values of Art. what writings recall, commemorate, or con- ings of empire for European colonizers as The “market” value of art often makes head- demn this “war to end all wars”? well as for colonized peoples of the Carib- lines, but its important social role is frequently FALL. [3] Dayan, Joan. (HCA) bean, Africa, and India. Themes will include less well known. This seminar will explore contemporary European justifications for how different societies value art. How do German imperial conquest and rule; the use of slavery; works that challenge the establishment (satiric and racial difference in theory and practice. German 115F, SECTION 3 prints, Impressionist paintings, Pop Art) Important topics will also include anti-colo- Pioneers of Literary Modernism: Brecht, reflect a social or political purpose? We will nial resistance, forces behind decolonization, Kafka, Rilke. study examples that illuminate questions of political and economic legacies of empire, Various literary movements arose in German- social context for private commissions and and globalization in a postcolonial world. speaking countries in the early twentieth also for public works, like the Vietnam Vet- FALL. [3] Clay, Lauren. (INT) century, including Symbolism, Expressionism, erans Memorial in Washington, D.C. We will and Surrealism. While Hermann Hesse and consider a number of related issues that are History 115F, SECTION 16 Thomas Mann preferred to write in the tradi- ultimately tied to society’s expectations of and African-American History on Film. tional style of the nineteenth century, others reactions to art. favored literary experiments that have become Since 1619, African Americans have struggled FALL. [3] VanDiver, Rebecca Keegan. influential for later writers: Franz Kafka with steadily for civil equality and economic free- (HCA) his enigmatic tales of modern man’s battles dom in this country. Along the way, they against incomprehensible forces, Berthold established social institutions and patterns of History of Art 115F, SECTION 10 Brecht with his epic plays addressing their resistance to maintain a sense of communal Ancient Art and Ethics. well-being and individual respect. This course audiences’ political consciousness, and Rainer Who owns the past? Should the British uses documentary films and written sources Maria Rilke with his symbolist poems reflect- Museum return the so-called Elgin Marbles to to examine the course of that historic struggle. ing the complexity of existence. Knowledge of Greece? Whatever happened to the antiquities Key issues and developments in African Ameri- German is not required. stolen from the Baghdad Museum following can history, such as the influence of African- FALL. [3] McFarland, Philip James. (HCA) the invasion in 2003? This course considers the isms upon American culture, slave resistance, ethical issues surrounding the visual and mate- Northern migration, the American civil rights History rial culture of ancient societies, including the movement, and the evolution of hip hop cul- History 115F, SECTION 2 looting of archaeological sites, the international ture, will be explored. From Potsdam to Vietnam: Era of American antiquities market, the display of artifacts in FALL. [3] Jones, Yollette Trigg. (US) Preeminence. museums, repatriation of stolen antiquities, and cultural heritage management. In this seminar we will examine the era from History 115F, SECTION 26 FALL. [3] Lee, Mireille. (HCA) the end of the Second World War until the Writing the Pan-African City. Tet offensive of 1968, the period in which the This course will examine the political, eco- History of Art 115F, SECTION 13 United States became a superpower. Among nomic, and cultural context of the urban American Icons and Monuments. the issues we will explore are the ideological experience in Africa and cities of the African roots of American foreign policy, the effect of This course will provide an indepth analysis diaspora. It will explore the history of racial American intervention on other countries, the of icons and monuments in American visual formation and spatial practice, segregation and domestic consequences of America’s empire, art and culture in an attempt to answer the urban planning, and the political economy and the causes of American decline. The read- following questions: Why are certain images of of slum clearance, gentrification, and urban ings will include primary sources as well as people, historical events, or national symbols renewal. It will also examine the making of memoirs and secondary literature. revered in the U.S. and renowned throughout the ghetto, the street as a site of Black self- FALL. [3] Schwartz, Thomas Alan. (US) the world? What do they say about national
On the Road with AXLE 19 identity, historical memory, or political ide- Angel Asturias (Guatemala, 1967), Pablo Philosophy ologies? How do they convey a common set Neruda (Chile, 1971), Gabriel Garcia Marquez Philosophy 115F, SECTION 5 of ideals and values that creates an overarch- (Columbia, 1982), Octavio Paz (Mexico, 1990), Green Cities. ing sense of unity and identity in American Derek Walcott (Saint Lucia, 1992), and V.S. society? Conversely, how and why do different Naipaul (Trinidad, 2001). Because of his pro- Although cities are usually viewed as envi- social groups contest certain monuments? found influence on Latin American writers, we ronmentally problematic due to pollution, FALL. [3] Fryd, Vivien Green. (US) include William Faulkner (USA, 1949) among overcrowding, and the widespread use of con- the Nobel Laureates whose works we will study. crete and asphalt, they can help solve regional Jewish Studies FALL. [3] Miller, Paul Benjamin. (INT) and global environmental concerns. Some contemporary cities are environmentally Jewish Studies 115F, SECTION 1 Mathematics sustainable in significant respects, while many In a Pluralistic Age: Jews, Christians, and other cities can and should take similar initia- Muslims in Spain. Mathematics 115F, SECTION 3 tives and explore creative paths of their own. Between 711 and 1492, Jews, Christians, and Cryptography: the History and Mathematics Moreover, making cities sustainable is more Muslims created one of the richest and most of Codes and Codebreaking. than just preserving green space or establish- fertile of medieval civilizations. In this semi- Mathematics has long played key roles in both ing recycling programs, it concerns urban nar, we shall evaluate the settings and condi- sides of the cryptography “arms race, “ help- planning and design, environmental justice, tions for this culture’s extraordinary pooling ing cryptographers devise ever more complex and the reduction of a city’s ecological foot- of talent and attachment to tolerance, but cipher systems while also providing tools to print. Key topics will include nature, sustain- also evaluate the reasons for its eventual end. cryptanalysts for breaking those ciphers. Dur- ability, urban design, and social equity. FALL. [3] Ackerman-Lieberman, Phillip ing World War II, this battle between code FALL. [3] Bremer, Jonathan E. (P) I. (HCA) makers and code breakers led to the construc- tion of the first digital computers, ushering Philosophy 115F, SECTION 19 Jewish Studies 115F, SECTION 4 in an information age in which cryptography Race and Democracy in the U.S.A. Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs: Black-Jewish makes information security possible, but not Achieving and sustaining democracy in the Relations in the 1950s and 1960s. always certain. This course will provide an United States has been compromised by agen- Blacks and Jews have shared a long and understanding of the ways codes and code das for social, political, economic, and cultural varied history, particularly in the American breaking have affected and continue to affect advantages for one racial group—”white context, due to strong forces pulling the two history, technology, and privacy. people”—while curtailed or denied for persons groups simultaneously together and apart. FALL. [3] (MNS) of other racial and ethnic groups. Through Through an examination of historical and a historically informed reading of Alexis de literary texts and visual images, this course Music Literature and History Tocquev ille’s Democracy in America, we will will explore that shared history, focusing on Music Literature and History 115F, explore an enduring and vexing challenge of the period of its greatest intensity. Examples SECTION 3 how to achieve a just, “democratic” nationstate of Black-Jewish relations ranging from the Music and Global Health. with a demographically complex population of heights of utopian cooperation to the depths similar and different racial and ethnic groups. This seminar will focus on the roles of of dystopian conflict will be explored. FALL. [3] Outlaw Jr., Lucius Turner. (US) music, dance, and drama in global health. FALL. [3] Meyer, Adam S. (HCA) The seminar will provide an introduction and background to globalization theory, cul- Political Science Latin American Studies tural studies, and individual music traditions Political Science 115F, SECTION 5 Latin American Studies 115F, SECTION 2 that support local community responses U.S. Culture in World Politics. Nobel Laureates in Literature from Latin regarding healthcare and healing in various From McDonald’s to the popularity of America and the Caribbean. parts of the world. Seminar participants will President Barack Obama, many U.S. societal In this course we will read and analyze works consider the ways that music and the arts phenomena acquire worldwide recognition by Nobel Laureates in literature from Latin are adopted, adapted, and transformed when and following. Other quintessential U.S. America as well as the Francophone and performed within healing ceremonies and in phenomena, such as the World Series and Anglophone Caribbean. These writers will healthcare practice with a special focus on the Super Bowl, however, attract limited include Gabriela Mistral (Chile, 1945), Saint- HIV/AIDS in a variety of contexts in Africa. interest outside of the United States. Why? John Perse (Guadeloupe/France, 1960), Miguel FALL. [3] Barz, Gregory F. (INT) 20 Vanderbilt University In this seminar, we investigate the diffusion Portuguese autism within current social, medical, and of U.S. culture and its worldwide influence, a educational contexts. We will make a special Portuguese 115F, SECTION 1 phenomenon often called “Americanization.” effort to integrate the art and the science sur- Explorations of Brazilian Cultures. Who are the agents that favor cultural diffu- rounding the study of autism, while at the sion? Who opposes it? What aspects of U.S. One of the world s largest countries in same time challenging the myths. Readings culture are embraced? Which are contested? surface area, population, and economy, are drawn from fiction, history, anthropology, To address these questions, we focus on Brazil has much more to offer than soccer, psychology, and neuroscience. several areas, including food, movies, sports, samba, carnival, and beaches. Its indigenous FALL. [3] Sandberg, Elisabeth Hollister. norms, and values. populations and history of Portuguese (SBS) FALL. [3] Chiozza, Giacomo. (SBS) colonization, African slavery, and European and Asian immigration have all contributed Russian Political Science 115F, SECTION 6 to its multicultural and complex nature. Russian 115F, SECTION 1 American Constitutional Law: Civil Rights Topics include national identity and his- Classic Russian Short Novels. and Civil Liberties. tory, race and race relations, and economic growth versus ecology, which we will exam- In the nineteenth century, Russia witnessed The Constitution’s preamble indicates that it ine through Brazilian literature, music, and an unprecedented explosion of literary and was crafted to secure the “Blessings of Liberty” cinema. All materials are translated into intellectual activity, a renaissance yielding to American citizens. What are these blessings English. Knowledge of Portuguese is neither some of the masterpieces of world literature. and how are they maintained? What param- necessary nor required. Concentrating on short classic novels, we eters constrain freedoms of speech, press, and FALL. [3] Oliveira, Emanuelle K.F. (P) will examine works by the most prominent religion; rights to protest and assembly; due authors of this period, putting special empha- process and equal protection of law? We will sis on Russia’s unique handling of the sudden explore these questions by examining Consti- Psychology influx of European philosophy and culture. tutional amendments through the lens of legal Psychology 115F, SECTION 12 Knowledge of Russian is not required. scholarship and social commentary. The final The Psychology of Eating Disorders. FALL. [3] Strudler, Jason. (HCA) project consists of a written legal brief and Examination of how biology, psychology, moot court presentation. culture, and environment combine to cause Sociology FALL. [3] Russell, Carrie. (SBS) anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and binge eating disorders. Major theories and approaches to Sociology 115F, SECTION 2 Political Science 115F, SECTION 8 assessment, treatment, and prevention. Related The Artist and the City. Human Trafficking. phenomenon such as compulsive exercise, This seminar takes a sociological approach We will examine human trafficking in its body-building, and steroid abuse. Readings to understanding the relationship between historical, legal, economic, political and social include popular accounts of what it is like to urban living and artistic expression. We will contexts and identify the scope of the global have and overcome an eating disorder as well examine how creativity may be conceived problem, different forms of human traffick- as scholarly writings from a wide range of sci- as not only a property of individuals, but ing, regional trends and practices, and the entists. Writing assignments emphasize critical also something that is nurtured in particular different actors involved at all levels. We will thinking through assessing relevant literature, ways by concrete social circumstances. explore the complexity of human trafficking evaluating evidence, and applying these skills FALL. [3] Lloyd, Richard Douglas. (SBS) in order to understand its root causes in a to topics relevant to eating disorders. globalized world, as well as the relationship FALL. [3] Schlundt, David G. (SBS) Sociology 115F, SECTION 7 between supply and demand in diverse forms Controversies in the Practice of Medicine. of trafficking. In addressing the problem, the Psychology 115F, SECTION 15 This course will examine controversies sur- roles of government, the international com- Understanding Autism. rounding issues in the field of medicine, munity, civil society, and individual actors This course takes a multidisciplinary including abortion, physician-assisted sui- will also be explored. approach to understanding autism from both cide, organ sales, the ideal physician-patient FALL. [3] Mo, Cecilia Hyunjung. (SBS) historical and contemporary perspectives. relationship, health insurance, and medical We will examine the beginning of autism advertising in the media. We will analyze awareness in Western culture, learn about particularly the role of the pharmaceutical evolving scientific explanations, and explore industry and the media in such controversies
On the Road with AXLE 21 to gain a unique perspective on the relation- East to the West Coast in the United States, Women’s and Gender Studies ship between modern society and contem- such as Junot Díaz, Richard Rodríguez, and Women’s and Gender Studies 115F, porary medicine. Sandra Cisneros. Latin American writers SECTION 5 FALL. [3] Trotter, LaTonya. (SBS) such as Rosario Castellanos, Julia Alvarez, Love and Marriage in Literature and Culture. and Clorinda Matto de Turner, who examine Sociology 115F, SECTION 20 the difficulty of straddling the borders of The ideals of love and marriage dominate Genius and Madness. countries as diverse as Mexico, Peru, and the narratives from Aristophanes’ plays to Judd Apatow’s comedies. This course examines how This course will examine the belief that there Dominican Republic, will also be explored. different societies construct these ideals in is a connection between profound creativity Knowledge of Spanish is not required. their arts and popular culture, and the effect and psychopathology. The dominant explana- FALL. [3] Trigo, Benigno. (HCA) of those constructions on social behavior. We tion views this connection as a pervasive phe- will analyze the intersection of art and social nomenon with biological roots, independent Spanish 115F, SECTION 8 change in relation to gender, power, and sexu- of time, place, or cultural difference. This Ecocritical Perspectives in Latin American ality. Texts will include plays (Aristophanes, course will encourage students to examine Literature. Shakespeare, Ibsen), novels (Austen, Smiley), critically this explanation from a sociological This course will trace the development of eco- short stories (Faulkner, Oates, Updike), poetry perspective in conjunction with a histori- critical perspectives in literature from Chile, (Yeats, Rich, Dove), and essays by psycholo- cal framework and concepts from medicine, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico, and Peru gists, memoirists, and humorists. psychiatry, and anthropology. This approach from pre-Columbian times to the twentieth FALL. [3] (HCA) will enable students to evaluate the merits of century. How do matters of environmental the prevailing creativity-illness explanation, health and justice emerge in literature? We will Women’s and Gender Studies 115F, and, if found wanting, permit them to amend, explore literary representations of the natural SECTION 7 modify, or reject this explanation by articulat- world, cultural constructions of the environ- Gendered Lives. ing a competing interpretation or hypothesis. ment, and views of Spanish American writ- FALL. [3] Becker, George. (SBS) ers regarding the dynamic interplay between This course examines how literary texts repre- humankind and nature. We will begin with sent gendered lives. Using contemporary criti- Sociology 115F, SECTION 21 indigenous texts and end with a novel that calls cal techniques and historical approaches, the War and American Capitalism after WWII. the reader to environmental activism. Knowl- course will explore how gender is determined by environment, personal choice, and social Since World War II, the United States has edge of Spanish is not required. expectations. Authors will include Toni Mor- been involved in 76 military interventions FALL. [3] Helmuth, Chalene. (HCA) rison, Alice Walker, Kate Chopin, Charlotte on foreign soil, including 12 actions taking Perkins Gilman, and Virginia Woolf. place since September 11, 2001. Although Theatre FALL. [3] (HCA) the causes of war are complex, one of the Theatre 115F, SECTION 1 central forces that influences why, whom, Treasure or Trash: Examining Theatrical and how we fight is the relationship between Credibility. military force and corporate interests. With What constitutes a worthwhile theatrical focus on the post-WWII United States, experience? This course will offer a behind- this course takes a sociological approach to the-scenes look at the collaborative processes understanding this connection between capi- essential to theatrical production. Students talism and war. will explore aspects of theatrical practice FALL. [3] Murray, Joshua. (SBS) such as design, directing, and acting. They will also explore the nature of theatre and Spanish its place in the realm of human experience Spanish 115F, SECTION 2 through readings and attendance at several Border Identities. live performances. Successful students will We will explore the fluid nature of national gain a unique understanding of the individ- identity in both the United States and Latin ual components of theatrical art from page America through literature and film. Authors to stage and from spectator to critic. include bilingual, bicultural writers from the FALL. [3] Lowe, Mary Leah. (HCA)
22 Vanderbilt University How to Choose Courses for Your First Semester at Vanderbilt
If you are uncertain about selecting your 1. Philosophy 115F for the First-Year • Most courses at the 200 level are intended Writing Seminar requirement; for sophomores, juniors, and seniors. courses for the first semester, you should Political Science 103; Now that you have familiarized yourself consider the following. If you have begun Mathematics 140; with the requirements, keep in mind the a subject in high school that involves the Hebrew 111a. simple guidelines listed above: a First-Year acquisition of a skill, such as learning a 2. English 115F for the First-Year Writing Writing Seminar, a course that builds on Seminar requirement; skills and knowledge already begun, courses foreign language, or one that builds on Astronomy 102/103; that may introduce you to a possible major, previous knowledge, such as mathemat- French 101a; and courses that are of interest to you are Sociology 101 or Psychology 101. good ones to take early in your career at ics or science, you might like to continue There are many ways to vary your schedule. Vanderbilt. those courses in your first semester. Most If you look closely at the distribution of REMEMBER: The courses you select depend first-year students are encouraged to take courses that fulfill AXLE requirements, you upon a number of factors: four courses in their first semester, but this will see: • Your scores on College Board SAT Subject • There are a number of First-Year Writing will vary depending on a student’s inter- Tests or departmental placement tests will Seminars that, while introducing you to a determine the courses you should take in ests and background. Your first semester discipline, will also introduce you to skills writing, mathematics, and foreign lan- necessary for generating new ideas and course selection might include guage. doing research to support those ideas. • a First-Year Writing Seminar; • Your course load may vary from four to • There are various courses that will intro- • a mathematics or a humanities course; five courses a semester, depending upon duce you to the discipline of mathematics. • a course in a foreign language; the total number of credit hours required • There are many foreign languages from for each course. If you have a 4-credit-hour • a laboratory science or social which you may choose. science course and a language course, you science course. • Not only are there a number of natural will not want to register for a fifth course You should choose courses that will build on science courses with laboratories to select, during your first semester. previous knowledge, introduce you to a pos- but there are also some science courses • Your interests and objectives should guide sible major, or simply broaden your perspec- without laboratories you may take during your course selection within the frame- tive on a subject that interests you. Here are your first semester. work of AXLE. two sample programs: • There are numerous social science and humanities disciplines from which to select courses that interest you.
On the Road with AXLE 23 How to Place Yourself in Courses for AXLE
In planning your studies in foreign tal placement score is between 260 and 1. If you have never studied Latin, or have language and mathematics, you want 349, register for French 102. studied one year of Latin but score below to be sure to select a course at the right 4. If your SAT French Subject Test score is 480 on the SAT Latin Subject Test, regis- ter for Latin 101. level for your background and interest. between 531 and 590 or your departmen- tal placement score is between 350 and In other disciplines, several introductory 2. Latin 100 is an intensive review of first- 419, register for French 103. year Latin for students who have had courses are offered for students with 5. If your SAT French Subject Test score is two years of high school Latin but need different objectives. This section provides above 590 or your departmental place- a “refresher” course before entering the advice to help you select the right course. ment score is above 420, register for intermediate level. If you still are uncertain after reading this French 201W. 3. If you score between 480 and 520 on the material, your adviser can help. Just fol- SAT Latin Subject Test you should enroll low the instructions in your registration German in Latin 102, regardless of how many years of Latin you completed in high email to contact your adviser. You will be placed in German courses by the school. department on the basis of your score on the Foreign Language Placement College Board SAT German Subject Test. If you 4. Most students who have had three years of Latin, and all students who score The first course you take in a foreign language have not taken the SAT German Subject Test, between 530 and 620, should register for will depend on whether you have studied the you are urged to do so during the summer Latin 103. language in high school and on your scores on or the fall orientation period. If you have not taken the test, you should enroll in the course standardized or departmental placement tests. 5. If you have had three or four years of for which you believe yourself to be prepared. high school Latin and score at least 630 (Students with two years of high school Ger- French on the SAT Latin Subject Test, you should man would typically enroll in German 103.) register for Latin 104. This course is usu- You will be placed in French courses by the Recommended scores are given below. ally offered only in the spring semester. department on the basis of your score on the 1. If you have not studied German, register 6. If you have studied four years of Latin College Board SAT Subject Test in French or a for German 101. departmental test. If you have studied French and score at least 680 on the SAT Latin 2. If you scored 460 or below on the SAT but have not taken the SAT French Subject Subject Test, you may register for Latin German Subject Test, consult with the Test, you must take it or the departmental 201 or above. Department of Germanic and Slavic placement test during the summer or the fall If you do not seem to fit into any of the Languages for placement in German orientation period. The departmental test is above categories, please consult the Depart- 101 or 102. available at www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/french. You ment of Classical Studies for placement at will need a valid Vanderbilt email address to 3. If your SAT German Subject Test score the appropriate level. use this site. If you have not taken a placement is between 470 and 590, register for test, register tentatively in the course for which German 103. you believe yourself prepared on the basis of 4. If your SAT German Subject Test score is your high school work. (Two years of high between 600 and 680, register for school French typically prepares students for German 104. French 102.) Placement test results will be used 5. If your SAT German Subject Test score is to change placement if advisable. 690 or above, register for German 201W, 1. If you have never studied French in high 213, or 221. school, register for French 101a. 2. If your SAT French Subject Test score Latin is 500 or below, or your departmental If you had Latin in high school and intend placement score is below 260, register for to enroll in a Latin course at Vanderbilt, you French 101a. should have taken the College Board SAT Sub- 3. If your SAT French Subject Test score is ject Test in Latin. Placement is based on both between 501 and 530 or your departmen- the SAT Subject Test and the number of high school units completed.
24 Vanderbilt University Portuguese 5. If you had three or more years of Span- broad survey of calculus in one semester but ish in high school and a score of 630 or do not intend to take any additional courses Students who wish to study Portuguese begin above on the SAT Spanish Subject Test or in calculus. with Portuguese 102, Intensive Elementary between 441 and 510 on the departmen- For those planning to take more than Portuguese. This course assumes that the stu- tal test, register for Spanish 201W. one semester of calculus, there are three dent has some degree of proficiency in Span- sequences available, beginning with 150a or ish or another Romance language. Portuguese 6. If you received a 4 or 5 on the Spanish 155a. The first two are taught at the same 200, Intermediate Portuguese, can be taken AP test, register for Spanish 201W. level, but 150a is a 3 credit-hour course after 102. While no formal placement exam is while 155a is a 4 credit-hour course. (The available, all students with prior knowledge of Other Languages 155 sequence is generally taken by engineer- Portuguese will be interviewed and placed by If you wish to continue in other languages ing students and mathematics or science the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. you have studied before, consult with the majors.) appropriate department for placement. Different backgrounds are presumed for Russian Beginning courses offered in other languages the different calculus sequences. Math 140 If you have never studied Russian, register are listed below. requires high school algebra but does not for Russian 101. If you have studied Russian, Arabic 210a use any trigonometry. Students in 150a or consult with the Department of Germanic Chinese 201 or 200a 155a need to know trigonometry. and Slavic Languages. Greek 101 Any student who wishes to take calculus Hebrew 111a but who may need a little more preparation Spanish Italian 101a should register for Math 133. The first part Japanese 201 or 200a of 133 is a review of algebra; the second part You will be placed in Spanish courses by the covers trigonometry. Math 133 should be department on the basis of your score on Foreign Language Proficiency taken only by students intending to enroll the College Board SAT Spanish Subject Test Beginning August 1, 2014, all students who eventually in 150a or 155a. (Math 133 does or, preferably, the departmental test. The wish to demonstrate proficiency in a for- not count towards the AXLE Mathematics departmental test is available online at eign language must do so via testing offered and Natural Sciences requirement.) www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/spanish. You will through the Tennessee Foreign Language If you take 150a, you should plan to take need a valid Vanderbilt email address to use Institute. (Latin and classical Greek are 150b the following semester; those who this site. exceptions; proficiency tests for those two start with 155a normally follow with 155b. 1. If you have never studied Spanish, reg- languages are administered through the Students who begin with 140 are presum- ister for Spanish 100, Spanish for True Department of Classical Studies.) Students ably finished with calculus, but they may Beginners. (Note: This course is only for who demonstrate proficiency in a foreign take additional courses in either probability those with no prior study.) language to the level of a second-semester (Mathematics 127a and 127b), statistics language acquisition course taught at (Economics 150), or logic (Philosophy 202). 2. If you score 390 or below on the SAT Vanderbilt are not required to take any Switching from one calculus sequence to Spanish Subject Test or below 275 on the further language instruction, but must still another is possible, but you may lose credit departmental test, register for Spanish 101. complete three courses in the International hours in the process. 3. If you score between 400 and 510 on the Cultures category in AXLE. If you do not intend to take any calcu- SAT Spanish Subject Test or between 275 lus, you may want to enroll in Mathematics and 364 on the departmental test, register Mathematics 127a, which is an introduction to probability for Spanish 103. (Note: Spanish 102 is If you choose to take a mathematics course, and statistics. Students who take Mathemat- only for students continuing from Span- the course you should register for depends ics 127a in the fall usually take Mathematics ish 100 or Spanish 101. You cannot place on the strength of your background, your 127b in the spring. (Only Math 127b counts into Spanish 102.) interest in pursuing the subject, and your toward the AXLE Mathematics and Natural 4. If you score between 520 and 620 on the plans for a major. The key question to ask Sciences requirement.) SAT Spanish Subject Test or between 365 yourself is whether you intend eventually to and 440 on the departmental test, register take calculus. Based on your background, for Spanish 104. you may take one of several courses. Math 140 is intended for students who want a
On the Road with AXLE 25 Natural Sciences equivalent, and so credit may be received for ration for premedical students. Normally only one of them. accompanied by Physics 114a–114b lab You may choose from a variety of intro- If you intend to take courses in chemistry courses. ductory courses in biological sciences, chem- solely for the purpose of fulfilling the Math- istry, earth and environmental sciences, 3. Physics 116a–116b, General Physics. This ematics and Natural Sciences requirement and physics and astronomy. Below are sug- course sequence is designed for engineer- and do not plan to take any higher-level gestions about placement in some of these ing and science students who need or chemistry courses, you should take Chem- introductory courses. desire a calculus-level introductory physics istry 101a–101b, normally accompanied by course. The sequence serves as prepara- Chemistry 100a–100b lab courses. Biological Sciences tion for majors in the natural sciences or Natural Science Majors. If you intend to mathematics and for other students with There are three introductory courses in major in a natural science or to take a higher- a quantitative interest in the subject. Nor- Biological Sciences and your selection will level chemistry or other science courses, you mally accompanied by Physics 118a–118b depend on your future plans. should take Chemistry 102a–102b, with the lab courses. Biological Sciences 100, Biology Today. accompanying lab courses, 104a–104b. This 4. Physics 121a–121b, Principles of Physics. This This course provides broad coverage of the sequence is designed for the majority of stu- course sequence is designed for physics biological sciences presenting evolution dents intending to take introductory chem- and astronomy majors and those science, as the unifying concept. It is intended for istry. Students who have earned a 5 on the engineering, and mathematics majors liberal arts students who are fulfilling the Advanced Placement Test in Chemistry may who intend to pursue a research-oriented Mathematics and Natural Sciences require- want to consider the Chemistry 218a–218b career. Prospective physics majors should ment of AXLE, as well as students with a sequence. This course is Organic Chemistry begin the sequence 121a–121b in the fall general interest in the subject. Normally designed for entering students with a strong semester of their first year. It differs from accompanied by the BSCI 101a lab course. background in chemistry or Advanced Place- 116a–116b in emphasis, and it assumes a Biological Sciences 105, Human Biology. ment credit for General Chemistry. previous study of calculus. This course deals with recent advances in For each of the introductory physics course genetics, reproduction, and biotechnology and Physics sequences, successful completion of the first their social, legal, and ethical implications. This Introductory Physics is offered at four levels, semester is a prerequisite for the second course is also intended for liberal arts students each with the appropriate laboratory: semester. who are fulfilling the Mathematics and Natural 1. Physics 110, Introductory Physics. This Sciences requirement of AXLE, as well as stu- If you already have a reasonably clear plan course is a general introduction to phys- dents with a general interest in the subject. for a specific major program, you should ics and is intended for liberal arts stu- Biological Sciences 110a–110b, Intro- read the following section to learn of any dents without a strong background in duction to Biological Sciences. This course recommendations for entering students. If mathematics or science who are fulfilling sequence provides students with an integrated a particular major is not listed, no special the Mathematics and Natural Sciences approach to the science of life from mol- advice is needed at this time. requirement of AXLE, as well as students ecules to ecosystems. This sequence serves as Many students come to college without with a general interest in the subject. The preparation for students interested in majors a clear idea of which subject they will ulti- content is taken more from classical phys- in the life sciences and premedical students. mately choose as a major. If you are one ics (pre–twentieth century) dealing with Normally accompanied by Biological Sciences of this group, you should take a variety of mechanics, motion, forces, conservation 111a–111b lab courses. (Biological Sciences courses in areas that interest you. 101/101a and 105 are not intended for stu- laws, light, heat, and electricity. It is not dents interested in majors in the life sciences recommended preparation for further or for premedical students.) study in a natural science. Normally accompanied by Physics 111 lab course. Chemistry 2. Physics 113a–113b, Introductory Physics for the Life Sciences. This course sequence is Your selection of an introductory chemistry a calculus-based introduction to physics course should be based on both your career within the context of life science applica- plans and your test scores. The three course tions. This course sequence serves as prepa- sequences mentioned below are considered
26 Vanderbilt University How to Place Yourself in Courses for Specific Majors
For a full list and description of majors, Economics Mathematics consult the Undergraduate Catalog or the Prospective majors in economics and students Students who plan to major in mathematics College of Arts and Science website. contemplating the economics or financial usually take a calculus sequence (150a–150b economics minor, regardless of their major, or 155a–155b) during their first year or should complete the introductory sequence take advanced courses if they have received Astronomy (Economics 100–101) by the sophomore year. Advanced Placement credit for calculus. A pro- The basic astronomy course for physics- Most students should take Economics 100 in spective mathematics major who has not had astronomy majors is Astronomy 102, which the spring of the first year. Most prospective trigonometry should take 133 (the pre-calculus can be taken during the sophomore year. majors complete two additional economics course in algebra and trigonometry) before Because First-Year Writing Seminars can be courses from those numbered below 250 dur- taking a calculus sequence. No credit toward taken only during the first year, prospective ing the first two years. requirements for a mathematics major is physics-astronomy majors are encouraged A minimum of one semester of calculus granted, however, for any mathematics course to take the FYWS in astronomy. You should is required of students for the major or the numbered below 150. also take either Physics 116a–116b or Physics minor, and two semesters of calculus are 121a–121b during your first year to ensure the strongly recommended. You should complete Political Science optimum sequence of later course work. a one-semester course as early as possible in Students with an interest in studying politi- your college career. It is prerequisite for Eco- cal science should take one of the introduc- Biological Sciences nomics 150, Economic Statistics; or Economics tory courses (Political Science 100, 101, 102, 155, Intensive Economic Statistics (required for Prospective majors in the biological sciences 103, or 150) in their first year. These courses the economics major or the minor); and for should begin with both the Biological Sci- introduce the student to the four subfields of Economics 231 and 232, the intermediate eco- ences 110a–110b/111a–111b sequence and the Political Theory, Comparative Politics, Inter- nomic theory courses. You should take statis- Chemistry 102a–102b/104a–104b sequence national Politics, and American Government. in the fall semester of the first year. Biological tics and intermediate economic theory courses during your sophomore or junior year. Sciences 110a–110b is required for any of the Psychology majors in biological sciences. English Students with an interest in gaining an under- standing of the brain, behavior, and cognitive Chemistry Prospective majors in English should take processes, should begin their study with Psy- English 199. This course is required of all If you think that you might want to major chology 101, General Psychology, which is the English majors. No other 100-level English in chemistry and have scored a 5 on the prerequisite for most 200-level courses in the course counts toward the major or minor. Advanced Placement Test in Chemistry or department. have a strong background, consider taking Chemistry 218a–218b, Advanced Placement Organic Chemistry. If you are not sure, consult the director of the undergraduate program in chemistry about placement in this course. Also, prospective chemistry majors should take Mathematics 155a (rather than Mathematics 140 or 150a).
On the Road with AXLE 27 Pre-Health Professions Pre-Law There is no preferred pre-health professions There is no preferred major for students major. You should major in whatever area you wishing to attend law school. While there like and that will enable you to pursue another are no specific requirements, students are career should you not be accepted into medi- advised to take a course in logic and another cal, dental, nursing, or veterinary school. in ethics. Some students find a course in Students interested in the health profes- poetry to be good preparation. sions should take courses from at least one of the following sciences in their first year: biolog- Pre-Business ical sciences, chemistry, or physics. You should There is no preferred major for students take the courses designed for science majors. A interested in going into the business world. first-semester course selection for a potential Courses that might prove helpful are account- premedical or predental student would typi- ing, statistics, introductory economics, and cally include: offerings in managerial studies. Chemistry 102a/104a Math 150a or 155a A First-Year Writing Seminar An introductory course in a discipline of your choice Note that Chemistry 102a/104a is a pre- or co-requisite for Biological Sciences 110a–110b/111a–111b. (That is, you must take Chemistry 102a and 104a prior to or in the same semester as these Biological Sciences courses.) While prospective biological science majors should take both of these sciences in their first year, majors in other disciplines often take one science course sequence along with calculus in their first year and take Bio- logical Sciences 110a–110b in their second or third year. Most medical schools require one year of college-level mathematics. Because the required physics course has a calculus pre- requisite, you should plan to take one of the calculus course sequences. It may also help to take a course in statistics before the end of your junior year. In addition, almost all medi- cal schools and dental schools require at least one year of English.
28 Vanderbilt University How to Register: Some General Questions
Q. How can I get help in making my course Q. How many courses should I take my first Q. Should I take SAT Subject Tests now that I selections? semester? have been admitted? A. The best source of advice is your pre- A. Probably four or five, depending on the A. SAT Subject Tests and departmental major adviser, who will help you in select- courses you choose. Course credit is mea- placement tests are used to place you in ing courses. You can reach your adviser sured in credit hours. You need to earn an courses appropriate for your background on weekdays between June 2 and June average of 15 credit hours each semester in foreign languages. You will want to 27, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. CDT. You must in order to graduate on schedule. Many start at a level that is neither too difficult speak with your adviser in order to regis- students find a 15 credit-hour course load nor too easy. If you have not taken SAT ter for fall classes. manageable, but it may be better to take a Subject Tests in a foreign language, you lighter load your first semester. If you are should do so. You can take the French Q. Is it advisable to get a current Vanderbilt not sure of what course load to take, be and Spanish departmental placement student to help me plan my schedule? cautious. Plan to take a load that falls at tests by going online to www.cas.vander- A. Entering students sometimes assume the lower end of the allowed range, per- bilt.edu/languagetestadmin.html. Scores that parents, teachers, and upperclass haps 13–14 credit hours. In any event, you for SAT II Subject Tests taken in May Vanderbilt students can help with course must take at least 12 credit hours, but no will not be available in time for sum- selection. These sources may be useful more than 18. mer advising. For students planning on occasion, but we DO NOT REC- further study in French or Spanish, the Q. Should I schedule courses back to back? OMMEND that you rely on them for departmental placement tests also will be information on academic matters such as A. Classes are scheduled ten minutes apart. administered when you arrive in August. requirements or course selection. Experi- In most instances, this is sufficient time enced pre-major advisers are available to to travel from one class to the next. Q. What should I do if I miss deadlines to reg- work with you by phone. These faculty ister for courses during the June Registra- Q. How do I request a First-Year Writing advisers are highly trained, are familiar tion Period? Seminar? with courses and instructors, and have A. If you cannot register during the June access to test scores and other informa- A. Register for a First-Year Writing Seminar Registration Period, you will have tion that is essential for proper placement as you would for your other courses. You another opportunity to register later in in courses. may want to have several in mind in case the summer. Watch for an email to arrive your first choice fills up. during the last two weeks of July. Q. How should I begin to select courses for the fall? Q. What if I have taken an Advanced Place- Q. What if I have other questions or need help? ment Test and do not know my score yet? A. Follow the instructions in the Registra- A. Seek advice. Between June 2 and June 27, tion Checklist for New Students and the A. You will not receive your 2014 AP scores call the number in your registration email YES primer available at as.vanderbilt.edu/ until July. If AP credit requires changes in to speak with a pre-major adviser. Office oas/newstudents. your course selection, you will be able to hours are weekdays from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 make those changes with your pre-major p.m. CDT. adviser during the summer or when you arrive on campus. The Open Enrollment Period will end August 27. Please be sure that you have requested your scores to be sent to Vanderbilt via the College Board.
On the Road with AXLE 29 Rules of the Road A How-to Guide to Surviving and Succeeding in Academia (and beyond)
The most important thing to remember How to address your professor If you do make an appointment with a profes- about doing well in academia is: Some universities have the custom of sor, use common sense and common courtesy. addressing professors by the title of their If you must miss the appointment, call or The AAA Rule: degree, i.e., Dr. X, Dr. Y. And some profes- email to let the professor know. If you call sors at Vanderbilt, particularly in the sci- and the professor doesn’t answer, leave a 1. Ask – People are usually very willing to ences, prefer that designation. Follow their message in the departmental office. Don’t help you, but they won’t know you need lead. The safest bet is to address all with expect the professor to hang around if you help until you ask. “Professor X,” until they suggest otherwise. are more than five or ten minutes late. And 2. Ask Someone Who Knows – If you don’t This suggestion holds for in-person, phone, don’t make an appointment for a time when know whom to ask, see your academic or email conversation. you have something else scheduled for just a adviser, Resident Adviser, or one of the few minutes later. Do not expect professors to always remember people listed below—they are trained to If you need to reach a professor outside your name. know who has the answers. of class or office hours, it is usually better to Professors generally teach more than one 3. Ask Again – If you’ve asked a question call or email to see if it is a convenient time course a semester and so interact with a but you are not sure about the answer rather than to just drop in. large number of students every semester. you received, ask again. You are respon- Whether you call, email, or go by, if the They try to learn names, but sometimes they sible for having the correct information professor is not in, leave a message. He or won’t remember your name, especially at (not just the answer that sounded good at she will get back to you. the beginning of a term. You will earn their the time). gratitude if you remind them of your name You can call professors at home in case of an Several people in the College of Arts and and your concern when you talk to them. emergency but, again, use common sense. Science will have many of the answers you Usually professors will indicate on the Pay careful attention to the requirements of will need. These resources, in no particular syllabus or during the introduction of the each course. order, are: course if it is acceptable to call the home. These either will be given on a written form The instructor of the class But don’t call someone at home about an called a syllabus or will be announced in class. assignment that isn’t due for a week and Your academic adviser In college each course and each professor is don’t call at night or early in the morning The Arts and Science Dean’s Office different—do not assume that what is true for anything less than a true emergency. Dean Karen Campbell for one class will be true for another. You Dean Yollette Jones are responsible for knowing what is being If you have a real emergency that causes you Dean Russell McIntire required of you—if it isn’t clear, ask. to miss an exam or deadline, call or email the Dean Roger Moore professor as soon as you know about it. If you need to see a professor outside of class, Dean Martin Rapisarda This shows the professor that you are serious go during office hours or make an appointment. about your work and gives you credibility. The Arts and Science Office of Professors have many different duties (re- There are very few cases in which people are Academic Services search, teaching, and administration) that so ill they cannot email or call. (Remember, The Writing Studio may take them away from their offices. Pro- if the professor is not in when you call, leave fessors are usually quite willing to talk to stu- Tutoring Services a message.) However, do not assume that dents, but they are usually more approachable you can always make up missed exams; dif- if you come at a convenient time. How to Get Along with ferent courses have different rules. Personal Your Professors (Academic If you have an appointment with a professor travel plans or social obligations do not Etiquette and Common Sense) and he or she is not in the office when you qualify for special consideration. arrive, wait a few minutes. Since college is a new environment, first-year Whether a professor’s office door is open or Professors may be coming from a class or students often do not know what is considered closed, knock before entering. meeting that has run late. appropriate behavior. Here are a few guidelines to get you on the road to success.
30 Vanderbilt University How to Do Well college student must make. An essay exam to say, this is very self-defeating behavior. in Your Courses may require a different type of studying than In college (as in life), you will face a wide does a multiple choice exam. A fact-based variety of situations, some of which may The primary rule here is to take responsibility course may require a different approach seem more desirable than others. If you fre- for your own actions. than does a course that emphasizes the inte- quently find yourself simply not doing the Go to class, know what is required in your gration and criticism of material. required work, seek help from your adviser, courses, do the work, find out how your If you do not know what approach is the the Dean’s Office, or the Psychological and work is being evaluated, and, if you detect best one to take for one of your courses, ask Counseling Center. a potential problem, seek assistance. One the instructor. If you feel you need addi- primary difference between high school and Take advantage of any assistance that is offered. tional help in adapting your study habits college is the greater responsibility for your If a course has help sessions, go to them. to particular courses, see your adviser. If education that you have as a college student. Write them into your schedule so you won’t you are having difficulty with your writing Many people here at Vanderbilt are willing forget. Many courses provide this kind of assignments, contact the Writing Studio. to help you with that responsibility, but the “built-in” assistance. It will help your grades For additional guidance in particular sub- first move is almost always up to you. if you get into the habit of taking advantage jects, visit tutoring centers provided by both of these resources. If you need additional Know what is required in your courses. the College of Arts and Science and (for help in clarifying some of the course mate- As mentioned previously, many of your some calculus and natural science courses) rial, ask the instructor or teaching assistant course requirements will be listed on the the School of Engineering. The Psychologi- during their office hours. syllabus. Check the syllabus periodically so cal and Counseling Center also provides that you can plan ahead. In some classes, classes on many different types of study Monitor your progress in your courses. quizzes and assignments will be listed on the skills. Contact your adviser or the Psycho- At the most basic level, this means picking syllabus but will not be announced in class. logical and Counseling Center for more up your papers and finding out your test In such classes, it is especially important to information, vanderbilt.edu/pcc/. All of these scores. This really is a case where knowledge review the syllabus periodically. services are free of charge. is power. If you are not doing as well as you would like, try to analyze the situation objec- However, do not assume that the syllabus Do all that is required for the course. tively. Hopeless despair (“I’m just stupid; distributed on the first day is the last word. This may seem self-evident but many I’ll never understand”) and blind optimism Professors often announce changes and students tend to ignore this basic piece of (“That was just bad luck; I’ll do a lot better additions to the syllabus in class. Try not to advice. If no one is checking up on you to next time”) can both be counterproductive rely on your friends for such information. Word see if you are reading the weekly assign- because they may keep you from identifying of mouth is often not correct in these cases. ments or doing the assigned problem sets, it the real problem. It is difficult to be objec- may be very tempting to let your work slide, Know what is required for your assignments and tive about your own performance, so if you especially since you will be getting involved use that information when carrying them out. need help with your particular problem, see in many new activities and social relation- Read and understand the criteria for a paper the instructor or your adviser. ships. Fight this temptation! If you keep you start working on it. Remember before up with your work, not only will you avoid that each course will have different require- the dreaded “all-night cram session,” but ments. Your grade will depend on how well you will also be better able to assimilate the you complete those requirements, not the information you are receiving in classes and requirements of the course you took last to monitor your own progress in the course. semester or the section your roommate is in. Another reason students sometimes give Learn to adjust your study habits to fit the for not doing course work is that they “don’t demands of particular courses. like” a certain type of professor, course, or This is very important, but it is probably assignment. These are often the students one of the most difficult adjustments a new heard at the end of the semester saying, “Can I make it up with extra credit?” Needless
On the Road with AXLE 31 How to Get Help If you are having a problem with a course, don’t Everyone is going to have at least one prob- take out your frustrations on the professor. lem with a course during their academic If you are upset about your performance in career. When you have one, don’t panic. a course, don’t get upset or take out your Just follow these guidelines. frustrations on the professor. This sort of approach can definitely be counterproductive. See the instructor as soon as you can. So, instead of saying, “I don’t know why I It is better to see the instructor before major didn’t get a higher grade because I studied problems develop because this is when hard,” try “I’d like some advice about how advice can do the most good. Early atten- I can understand the material better.” This tion is especially important in classes such as is a much more productive and constructive math, science, and foreign language where approach. Also try to be honest with instruc- your later work depends on your under- tors about your strengths and weaknesses; it standing of earlier concepts. Students are may help them to help you. For instance, if often reluctant to tell the instructor they are you are having a problem with rote memo- having a problem because they are unsure of rization, an instructor might give you a few how to approach the professor. Simply make mnemonics (memory aids) to help. an appointment to go over your concerns. Most professors are very willing to help you If all else fails, remember that you can do as well as you can in their courses. The withdraw from a course through the eighth first move, however, is up to you. week of the semester. This gives you an out if you pick an incor- Bring all relevant information with you. rect course or get yourself into irredeemable When you see the instructor, bring relevant trouble. You should remember, however, papers, tests, etc. This will help the instruc- that withdrawing late in the semester is the tor pinpoint your problem and be better last resort and will be recorded on your tran- able to offer specific advice. script. Good planning and hard work usually If you feel that you need further help and prevent such problems from occurring. advice, go to your adviser. Again, be sure to bring any relevant documents and be prepared to tell your adviser how much of your grade is yet to be determined.
32 Vanderbilt University Guidelines and Registration Checklist for Transfer Students Fall 2014
All of the information that you need to reg- What you will need e. How to place yourself in courses for specific majors. ister for courses for the fall semester, 2014, to register: 3. YES: A Primer—Contains detailed infor- is available from the website as.vanderbilt. 1. An email message from the Office of Aca- mation about the online registration pro- demic Services of the College of Arts and edu/oas/newstudents. Read these materi- cess with sample page shots to help you Science. This message contains: als carefully. While the On the Road with navigate through the system. It is avail- a. The name of your Transfer Adviser, able at as.vanderbilt.edu/oas/newstudents. AXLE booklet is designed primarily for b. The week that you are assigned to call first-year students, the general information your adviser in June, and Before you consult with your about AXLE requirements and registration c. The toll-free number to call between Transfer Adviser 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. CDT. procedures applies to all students. 1. Read the On the Road with AXLE booklet. 2. On the Road with AXLE booklet— 2. Read over the YES primer so that you will Although designed primarily for first- General Guidelines and know how to choose courses, put them in year students, it contains information Degree Requirements: the Cart, and then register for them. about: 3. Choose the four or five courses you want 1. Fulfillment of the AXLE requirements, a. AXLE (Achieving Excellence in Lib- to take by placing them in your Cart. 2. At least one writing course taken at eral Education), the core curriculum (You may also select some alternate Vanderbilt in Arts and Science, requirements for all students. Pay courses.) Your adviser will be able to see particular attention to the writing 3. Fulfillment of the requirements for one them and determine if the choices you requirement. Arts and Science major, have made are appropriate. b. First-Year Writing Seminars. Transfer 4. A minimum 2.000 grade point average 4. Call or email your adviser prior to your students may NOT take a seminar. in Vanderbilt courses that count for the registration window; you may not regis- major, c. The Writing Requirement. Transfer ter for classes until you have communi- 5. A minimum 2.000 grade point average students who do not have the mini- cated with your adviser. overall in Vanderbilt courses, mum SAT or ACT scores (see page 5) must complete English 100 at Vander- 6. A minimum of 60 credit hours at Vander- bilt (or its equivalent at their prior bilt, and college). English 100 is required even 7. A minimum of 102 credit hours in Arts if you receive credit for the equiva- and Science courses (including courses lent of a 100-level or 200-level “W” approved for transfer). course. All transfer students must take You may use transfer credit toward both at least one writing-intensive course AXLE requirements and toward your major at Vanderbilt (courses offered by the at Vanderbilt; however, courses that you College of Arts and Science or in the took at another college or university must MUSL subject area, designated with a be approved by the relevant department at W after the course number). Vanderbilt in order to count toward AXLE d. How to place yourself in courses and/or the major. for AXLE For placement in French and Spanish, take the online test at www.cas.vander- bilt.edu/french for French or www.cas. vanderbilt.edu/spanish for Spanish.
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