Page 1 Interim 2009 Projects Course # Faculty Course Title Category Open To AC 01 Sudderth Senior Accounting Internship Seniors Senior BA and AC AC 02 (BA 09) Craft, Taylor, Hamer Senior Capstone in Accounting and Business majors New York - Boston: A Visual and Performing Travel AR 03 Cole, Shook All Art Experience AR 04 Spivey Self-Portraiture with Collage 1-Y First-years AR 05 Venz Show Me A Story: A Peek Into Photojournalism All Sacred Spaces: Art, Architecture and Religion in ARH 06 Smith, T. Travel All Rome BI 07 Gannon Coral Reef Ecology and Dolphin Behavior Travel All BI 93 Biology Faculty Directed Research in Biology Seniors BI 08 (CH 12) Hanson, Schedler The Science and Art of Fermentation Juniors, Seniors Senior BA and AC BA 09 (AC 02) Craft, Taylor, Hamer Senior Capstone in Accounting and Business majors Senior Capstone: Moving up the Food Chain, BA 94 Morrow Vertical Integration in European Agri-Business Travel Firms Moving Up the Food Chain: Vertical Integration BA 10 Morrow Travel Juniors, Seniors in European Agri-Business Firms BA 11 (EC20) Cleveland, Stunda Personal Finance All CH 12 (BI 08) Hanson, Schedler The Science and Art of Fermentation Juniors, Seniors CH 13 (GEN 40) Stanton Microelectronics Soph - Seniors CH 14 Schedler, Stultz Research in Chemistry Senior CH majors CH 86 Stultz Science, Public Policy, and the Environment 1-Y First-years Classical and Renaissance Italy: the Major Cities CL 15 (EH 27) McInturff, Pezillo Travel All and the Places In Between CS 16 Cameron, Curry Lights, Camera, Compute!!! All CS 17 Patterson MARs: Mobile Autonomous Robots Firsts - Juniors Senior CS or CS/MA CS 18 Turner, R. Senior Experience in Computer Science majors Performance Preparation: Experience with Guest Upper level DA DA 19 Henry, Popovich Choreographers students EC 20 (BA 11) Cleveland, Stunda Personal Finance All ED 21 Moore, Russell Exploring Teaching in Elementary Schools Firsts – Juniors ED 22 Jacobs, Turner, M.J. Exploring Teaching in Secondary Schools Firsts – Juniors Seniors in Teacher ED 23 ED Instructors Internship in Collaborative Teaching ED program Seniors in ED ED 24 Bruess Senior Project in Educational Services Services Program BSC Folklore: Collecting and Interpreting EH 25 Cowan All Campus Tales and Traditions Charmed: Witches and Witchcraft in American EH 26 Clevenger-Bauer 1-Y First-years Literature and Culture Classical and Renaissance Italy: the Major Cities EH 27 (CL 15) McInturff, Pezillo Travel All and the Places In Between Muppets, Monsters, Magic and Mayhem: Jim EH 28 (GEN 41) Clifford All Henson‟s America EH 29 Cowan The 1960‟s in Fiction, Film and Song 1-Y First-years Novels Right Now: Commodities or Future EH 30 Archer All Masterpieces? GEN 88 Hazelhoff Alabama: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly All Archaeoastronomy in the Maya Ruins of Mexico GEN 31 Van Zandt Travel All and Guatemala GEN 32 King Basic Italian for Romance Language Addicts All GEN 33 Pezzimenti Bob Dylan: A Complete Unknown? All GEN 89 Cockrell Creating a Virtual BSC All Discovering the Pacific Northwest: A City/Nature GEN 34 Donahue, Brasher Travel All Exploration GEN 35 LaMonte, Morris, Pigford Experiencing the City All From Garden to Table: Examining Local Food GEN 36 Repasky, Weaver All Systems Page 2 GEN 37 Pontius Interim at Sea Travel All GEN 38 Litsey Introduction to Screenwriting All GEN 39 Allen Meeting Arts Leaders Across the Region Leadership All GEN 40 (CH 13) Stanton Microelectronics Soph -- Seniors Muppets, Monsters, Magic and Mayhem: Jim GEN 41 (EH 28) Clifford All Henson‟s America Poverty in America: An Examination of Policies GEN 85 Rossman, Black and Attitudes toward Low-Income Families in All America GEN 92 Riley Pre-Engineering Internship Sohpomores, Juniors GEN 42 Runquist Pre-Health Career Internship Soph – Seniors GEN 90 Whaley Quantitative Analysis in Options Trading All GEN 91 Brasher Reading, Writing and Hiking the Land All GEN 43 (RE76) Cottrill, Roth-Burnette Race and the Bible All GEN 44 Ashe, Spieler, Doughton Service Learning in Mozambique Travel, SL Selected students GEN 45 Tatter, Harper Service Learning in San Francisco Travel, SL Selected students GEN 46 Bruess Sexuality Education Issues All Southeast Asia: History, Culture, Politics and GEN 47 Slagter Travel Soph-Seniors Development GEN 48 Levey “World War II” in Film „Round the World IC All HI 49 Ott Colonial Society: Fact or Fiction All Commisars and Movie Stars: An Introduction to HI 50 Law IC All Soviet and Russian Film HI 51 Hubbs Democracy in America Leadership Soph-Seniors Miss Scarlet in the Study with the Pen: When HON 87 Mozer All Reading and Writing is a Crime MA 52 Riley Games of Strategy and Chance All MA 53 Barton Senior Project in Mathematics Juniors, Seniors MFL: FR 81 Linchet Senior Project in French FR majors Buenos Aires: A Latin American City that MFL: SN 54 Domcekova, Spencer Travel, IC All Foreshadows All Others Proyecto Hermandad: An Immersion into Local MFL: SN 55 Ramos de Harthun All Hispanic Communities Domcekova, Ramos de MFL: SN 56 Senior Project in Spanish Seniors Harthun, Spencer MFL: SN 57 Lewis ¡Y Ahora…A Hablar! All MU 58 Seigel American Originals All MU 59 Hooten Beginning Band All MU 60 DeVan, DeSa Beginning Piano All MU 61 Smith Great Symphonies All MU 62 Cook Music and Science Fiction 1-Y First-Years MU 63 Senasi Performance Practicum in Guitar All MU 64 Music Faculty Performance Practicum in Orchestral Instrument All MU 65 Cook Performance Practicum in Organ All MU 66 DeVan Performance Practicum in Piano All MU 67 Leary-Warsaw. Smith Performance Practicum in Voice All MU 82 Leary-Warsaw Singing Beyond the Shower All PL 68 Coyle Chinese Philosophy All PH 69 Rupright Travels in Spacetime 1-Y First-years PS 83 Davis, LaMonte Internship in Politics and Government Soph -Seniors PS 84 Davis Pre-Law Internship Soph - Seniors PY 70 Rector Child and Adolescent Abnormal Psychology All PY 71 Meggers Gender in American Pop Culture All PY 72 Pitts Psychology in Cinema All PY 73 Witte Psychology of Stress All The Science and Mythology of Sleep and PY 74 Goodrick All Dreaming PY 75 McCallum The Social Psychology of Personal Relationships All RE 76 (GEN 43) Cottrill, Roth-Burnette Race and the Bible All SO 77 Dalto Prisons in Alabama Soph – Seniors SO 80 Dalto Senior Project in Sociology SO majors Theatre Performance Ensemble: Dead Man THA 78 Flowers, Mielke All Walking UES 79 Brands Understanding Global Climate Change All Page 3

Special Course Designations

First- Leadership Year Service- Studies Foundations Learning Course Course Project

Intercultural

Foundations Travel Course Project

Senior Capstone in Accounting and Business

Accounting Craft, Taylor, and Hamer

See listing under Business AC 01 Senior Accounting Internship Art Tara Sudderth AR 03 Prerequisites: 3.0 Minimum GPA, Completion of All General Education Requirements, New York—Boston: and Consent A Visual and Performing Open To: Seniors Art Experience Grading System: Ltr Steve Cole and Kevin Shook Max. Enrollment: Open

Meeting Time: DHAR Prerequisites: None

This project provides the student with an opportunity Open To: All Students to obtain work experience in professional settings Grading System: Letter through an internship in the student‘s area of interest. Max. Enrollment: 18 The student may select one of two internship options: Meeting Time: DHAR (1) full-time during the Interim term and part-time during the first half of the spring semester, or (2) full- Through the course of this project, students will time both during the Interim term and the first half of spend 9 days in New York and 5 days in Boston the spring semester. All students will be required to immersed in world-class museums, theatre, submit a reflective journal of their daily work architecture, poetry, jazz, and other cultural activities, weekly reports, a reflective paper, and a experiences. Evaluation will be based on a formal poster presentation. In addition, students will read presentation or a twelve-page paper on a topic and summarize five professional journal articles predetermined and approved by the instructors. pertaining to the internship. The reflective paper Tentative destinations include the Metropolitan should document lessons learned about the workplace, Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney which in addition to discipline knowledge, include Museum of American Art, Guggenheim Museum, professional responsibility, ethical issues, teamwork, American Museum of Natural History, Broadway decision making, career opportunities, and the Theatres, Hayden Planetarium, Massachusetts economic issues facing the organization. Museum of Contemporary Art, and Museum of Bad NOTE: Interested students must see the internship coordinator AT LEAST ONE MONTH BEFORE INTERIM Art. Prior to travel, three days on campus will be REGISTRATION in November. Students may not intern spent reviewing information on exhibitions, logistics in organizations owned by a relative nor in those where of getting around, and potential topics for student they have been previously, or are currently, employed. projects and presentations. Following travel, students will present papers and presentations to the AC 02 (BA 09) group. Page 4 NOTE: For senior project credit, students must Sacred Spaces: complete additional requirements in their disci- Art, Architecture plines. The estimated cost of this project is $2500. and Religion in Rome AR 04 Timothy Smith Self-Portraiture with Collage Prerequisites: None Bud Spivey Open To: All Students Grading System: S/U Prerequisites: None Max. Enrollment: 13 Open To: First-years Meeting Time: M T 1-3:30, prior to departure Grading System: Letter Max. Enrollment: 12 This travel Interim will acquaint students with the Meeting Time: M-Th 10:00-1:00 significant intersection of art, architecture, and religion in one of the most vibrant centers of This course explores self-portraiture with a collage religious and artistic imagination in the West: Rome. technique. Students will collect imagery with a Focusing on the formative medieval period, the digital camera that conceptually solves various project will trace the parallel developments of visual problems. The imagery will be differentiated church architecture and decoration on one hand, according to its visual and metaphorical elements and the history of Christianity itself on the other. and used in modeling the student‘s portraits. We will begin with the catacombs and early house Students are expected to work 40 hours per week churches of the 3rd century and will proceed which includes time outside of class. Evaluation will chronologically up to the initiation of work on New be based on image solutions to the problems, the Saint Peter‘s in 1506. Topics will include the final product, time spent on practice, and influence of pagan concepts of sacred space, the attendance. visualization of theology, the cult of saints and relics, and the use of spolia, or recycled archi- AR 05 tectural elements, to reference the sacred past. Show Me A Story: A Peek into Photojournalism This project will also include day trips to Assisi and Pamela Venz Ravenna to view church decoration in those cities. Students will be evaluated on a daily journal of Prerequisites: None churches visited with the group; an on-site oral pre- Open To: All Students sentation on a specific church and/or work of art Grading System: Letter within it; a 5-page written version of the oral Max. Enrollment: 15 report, to be completed upon return to the US; and Meeting Time: M-Th 9:00-noon participation, both in Rome and on campus dis- cussions before and after traveling. With the click of a button, can you tell a story, and NOTE: The estimated cost of this project is $2900 if you can, would it be worth telling? This course will investigate the history and cultural role of photojournalism as well as techniques used by Biology photographers to capture the stories of the day. The course will include traditional lectures and BI 07 readings associated with the history of Coral Reef Ecology photojournalism, discussion and class critiques, a and Dolphin Behavior trip to the Birmingham News and actual picture Andy Gannon taking. Students are required to have a camera but no previous experience is necessary. SLR cameras, Prerequisites None either 35mm or digital, are the best option but any Open To: All Students camera will do. Technical demonstrations and Grading System: Letter discussions will focus on equipment and its impact Max. Enrollment: 18 on imagery. The class will meet Monday through Meeting Time: M-F 9:00-3:00, prior to departure Thursday from 9:00 until noon. Students will be working everyday, including weekends. Students After 2 weeks at BSC learning about the ecological will be responsible for one research paper, and a processes and organisms that form coral reefs, we portfolio of approximately 20 prints. will spend the next 14 days experiencing coral reefs first-hand at the Institute for Marine Sciences (IMS) , in Roatan, Honduras. We will interact with dolphins ARH 06 and dive and snorkel on one of the most beautiful Page 5 reefs in the world as we participate in ongoing IMS Open To: Juniors and Seniors and BSC reef monitoring research projects. Seniors Grading System: Letter will conduct research projects of their own design, Max. Enrollment: 16 for which all students will help collect data. Meeting Time: M–Th 10:00-noon Students will be evaluated on their performance on practical and written exams, a natural history Although society had been using microbial journal, a group oral report on coral conservation, fermentation reactions for thousands of years to and a reflective paper written about their create bread, beer and wine, the first experiments experience with Honduran culture. There may be elucidating the process of fermentation were not an optional side trip to explore a mainland tropical carried out until the late 19th century when Louis rainforest. This project will be limited to students Pasteur developed his germ theory. Today who can swim. SCUBA certification is encouraged fermentation is a well understood process used not but not required. only in food production, but in the synthesis of NOTE: The estimated cost of this travel project is industrially important chemicals. In this course, $2950. Students must have their own mask, fins and students will study the history and modern science snorkel. Certified students may rent SCUBA gear of fermentation. Topics for discussion will include from IMS for a fee. Students will also be required to enzymology, molecular modeling, flavor chemistry, purchase A Field Guide to Caribbean Coral Reefs. A and the use of genetically modified microbes in the passport will be necessary for travel to Honduras. fermentation process. We will meet four mornings a week. Afternoon meetings will be scheduled as needed to accommodate laboratories and field trips. Students will conduct library and laboratory “Satisfaction of one's curiosity is research on fermentation and report their findings one of the greatest sources of in a 15 page paper at the end of the term. In happiness in life..” addition, seniors will present their results at Honors —Linus Pauling Day.

Business BI 93 Directed Research in Biology BA 09 (AC 02) Biology Faculty Senior Capstone in Accounting and Business Craft, Taylor, and Hamer Prerequisites: BI 470 Open To: Seniors Prerequisites: Consent of Instructor Grading System: Letter Open To: Senior BA and AC Majors Max. Enrollment: 25 Grading System: Letter Meeting Time: All day, every day Max. Enrollment: Open Meeting Time: TBA Students who have completed BI 470 can fulfill their senior research requirement during the interim The Senior Capstone project is designed for term ether on campus or at an off-campus location. graduating seniors majoring in business. The course Students must have already produced a research will integrate the functional areas of business while proposal in BI 470 and will devote the full interim stressing the formation and implementation of term to carrying out the research project they have business strategies. The project design is intended proposed. To complete their senior research they to enhance the students' ability to recognize will produce a thesis in formal research style information patterns, which will make them more presenting the experimental results and analysis to effective financial consultants, accountants, and a committee of 3 faculty members for grading and organizational leaders. In particular, readings and make an oral presentation of their research results case analyses are used to illustrate various types of and analysis to the department and the college business risk and components of financial and community at the Senior Conference. managerial relationships. Students will develop effective arguments related to business scenarios so BI 08 (CH 12) that their recommendations will be clear and persuasive. The Science and Art of Fermentation The project will meet throughout the term. The Pamela Hanson and David Schedler class schedule showing meeting times will be distributed at the mandatory orientation meeting in Prerequisites: CH 211, CH 212, and BI 301; the fall. The professors involved in this project or consent will, at times, address the class individually, but Page 6 generally the class will be team-taught. Students will visit Italy and the Czech Republic to NOTE: There will be a fee (estimated at $200) to study agri-business firms engaged in food cover the cost of supplies and other course related production. Particular emphasis will be given to the expenses. issues of vertical integration and the extent to which technological innovations have been adopted BA 94 in a firm‘s value chain. We will also explore how Senior Capstone: these firms acquire inputs, access distribution channels, and manage their labor and product Moving up the Food Chain, markets. After returning to campus, students will Vertical Integration spend the remainder of the term preparing an oral in European Agri-Business Firms presentation of a substantial research project on a Bert Morrow topic of their choosing that has been approved by the professor. While in the Czech Republic, we will Open To: Seniors be based in Prague, where we will visit local Grading System: Option producers and processors and meet with local and Max. Enrollment: 12 national business and governmental leaders. While Meeting Time: Daily in Italy, we will be staying in Bologna. The area around Bologna (including Parma), provides a good This section of Prof. Morrow‘s Interim study-travel base for visiting local growers and producers of olive project provides BA 499 credit for Senior BA majors. oil, wine, pasta and the world famous Parmigiano Students will visit Italy and the Czech Republic to Reggiano and Parma Ham. study agri-business firms engaged in food NOTE: the estimated cost of this travel project is production. Particular emphasis will be given to the $4440. issues of vertical integration and the extent to which technological innovations have been adopted BA 11 (EC 000) in a firm‘s value chain. We will also explore how Personal Finance these firms acquire inputs, access distribution channels, and manage their labor and product Paul Cleveland and Ron Stunda markets. After returning to campus, students will spend the remainder of the term preparing an oral See listing under Economics presentation of a substantial research project on a topic of their choosing that has been approved by the professor. While in the Czech Republic, we will “Just because something doesn't do be based in Prague, where we will visit local what you planned it to do doesn't producers and processors and meet with local and mean it's useless.” national business and governmental leaders. While —Thomas A. Edison in Italy, we will be staying in Bologna. The area around Bologna (including Parma), provides a good base for visiting local growers and producers of olive oil, wine, pasta and the world famous Parmigiano Reggiano and Parma Ham. NOTE: the estimated cost of this travel project is $4440.

BA 10 Moving up the Food Chain: Vertical Integration in European Agri-Business Firms Bert Morrow

Prerequisites: None Open To: Juniors and Seniors Grading System: Option Max. Enrollment: 12 Meeting Time: Daily

Page 7 Chemistry variety of the departmental instruments, including the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer, UV-visible spectrometer, infrared CH 12 (BI 08) spectrometer, electrochemistry, and molecular The Science and Art of Fermentation modeling. Students will spend 40 hours per week in Pamela Hanson and David Schedler the laboratory and will meet twice weekly as a group to present results and discuss the chemical See listing under Biology literature. Students will maintain a laboratory notebook, turn in weekly written updates, and CH 13 (GEN 40) report their final results in a paper of eight to ten pages, written in the format of a scientific journal Microelectronics article. Clyde Stanton

Prerequisites: MA231 or equivalent Open To: Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors CH 86 Grading System: Letter Science, Public Policy Max. Enrollment: 12 and the Environment Meeting Time: M-F 9:00-noon; 1:30-3:30 Laura Stultz

This project will introduce students to the theory Prerequisites: None and operation of modern microelectronics. The Open To: First-years project will consist mostly of hands-on laboratory Grading System: Letter work supplemented with assigned readings and Max. Enrollment: 14 homework assignments. The basis of the course is Meeting Time: M-F 10:00am – 11:30am an introduction to analog and digital circuits Lab/Field work Th/Th 1:00-4:00 developed from the basic components of electronics including power sources, resistors, capacitors, We all are concerned about our environment, but it transistors, and integrated circuit (IC) chips. The can often be difficult to understand the daily schedule will include three hours of structured complexities of the issues we hear about. Is global lecture and laboratory in the morning plus three warming something we should be concerned about, hours of structured and unstructured laboratory or do we need more study before we impose work in the afternoons. Student will be graded on sanctions that could undermine our economy? Is our homework assignments, structured laboratory drinking water safe or should we buy bottled water exercises, and an independent laboratory project that is free of chemicals? Is nuclear power a viable developed by the student. Enrollment is limited to alternative to fossil fuels? In this interim we will a maximum of two students per laboratory investigate the scientific, economic, and political equipment setup. issues associated with these and other NOTE: The estimated cost of laboratory manuals environmental topics. The laboratory component of and supplies is $60. the course will focus on methods of measuring water quality. There will be daily reading and CH 14 writing assignments and each student will complete Research in Chemistry a final independent project that will involve David Schedler and Laura Stultz designing an experiment and analyzing data.

Prerequisites: CH 401 Classics Open To: Senior Chemistry Majors Grading System: Letter Max. Enrollment: 8 CL 15 (EH 27) Meeting Time: M-F 9:00-5:00 Classical and Renaissance Italy: The Major Cities and In this project, students will have an intensive the Places in Between research experience in the area of analytical, Michael McInturff and Samuel Pezzillo inorganic, organic, or physical chemistry. Research projects are available in a variety of areas including Prerequisites: None ruthenium anti-cancer drugs, carbohydrate-based Open To: All Students enzyme inhibitors, and spectroscopic and molecular Grading System: S/U modeling of inorganic and biological systems. Max. Enrollment: 30 Students will receive training in various synthetic Meeting time: M-S all day techniques and will also gain experience using a Page 8 presentation. After a series of orientation sessions early in the NOTE: Students who do not attend the November Interim, this three-week travel-study experience orientation meeting will be dropped from the roster will visit major cultural and historical sites in Italy. of this interim. We will examine the world of the ancient Romans and Etruscans. We will explore the foundations of CS 17 modern Europe in medieval and Renaissance Italy. MARs: Mobile Autonomous Robots We will focus in particular on how urban civilization Lewis Patterson is manifested in intellectual and artistic products- works of literature and art; public spaces and Prerequisites: CS 250 architecture, the church and the kitchen. We will Open To: First-years, Sophomores, Juniors be based in Rome, Florence, and Venice. We will Grading System: S/U visit Pompeii, Orvieto, Padua, Pienza, Pisa, Vicenza, Max. Enrollment: 10 and other areas. Evaluation: Students will prepare Meeting Time: M W F 10:00-noon academic docent topics for group presentation at appropriate times. For seniors in Classics or English, This interim will explore the world of mobile a substantial paper and presentation will be autonomous robots. These are robots that operate required. without human control. They depend upon sensory NOTE: The estimated cost of this travel project is input to control their actions. You will be required $4850. to write programs that will allow a robot to navigate a maze or find an infrared beacon or chase a “Scientia est potentia.” colored ball. Evaluation will be based on program- ming projects. In addition, team-designed projects Computer Science will be evaluated. An Honors Day presentation will be required. You will probably find that creating a

program to control a robot for even the simplest CS 16 task is quite challenging, so be pre-pared to spend Lights, Camera, Compute!!! many hours coaching and cursing your robot. Marietta Cameron and Stephen Curry CS 18 Prerequisites: CS 170 or CS 171 Senior Experience in Computer Science Open To: All Students Rick Turner Grading System: Letter

Max. Enrollment: 26 Prerequisites: None Meeting Time: M-F 9:00-noon Open To: Senior CS or CS/MA majors

Grading System: Letter Would you like to be involved in making a 3D Max. Enrollment: 15 animation similar to Dreamwork's Shrek? Then join Meeting Time: M W F us in our goal to produce a quality 10-15 minute animation. The structure of this project will be that For this senior experience in computer science, of an industry group collaborating together on students will reexamine all of the major areas of completing a film. Each participant will have a job the field with the goal of integrating the various title and specific duties. Job titles include a topics and becoming more knowledgeable in one of director, scriptwriters, storyboard artists, lighting them. The topics to be covered include software technicians, 3D modelers, texture experts, engineering, computer architecture, operating animators, sound specialists. The animation tool we systems, automata, data communications, artificial will use is Cinema 4D. Each participant will be intelligence, database systems, computer graphics, required to learn those features of this software and programming languages. Students will be ex- package that are applicable to his/her position on pected to select one of these sub-disciplines and do our animation team. The instructor will conduct research as preparation for the senior conference. various seminars/workshops describing various Students will give presentations to the group. The techniques and ideas used at different stages of the presentations will serve as review for the senior animation process. The entire interim group will exam to be taken during the spring term. formally present the completed project to the campus community. Grading will be based on the individual's fulfillment of the duties assigned to him/her, attendance of all group/subgroup meetings, participation in seminars related to his/her duties, peer evaluation, and final project Page 9 Dance Education DA 19 Performance Preparation: Experience with Guest ED 21 Choreographers Exploring Teaching in Elementary Schools Ruth Henry and Mira Popovich Eileen Moore and Kelly Russell

Prerequisites: Permission of Instructor Prerequisites: None Open To: Upper-level Dance Students Open To: First-years, Sophomores, Juniors Grading System: Letter Grading System: S/U Max. Enrollment: 35 Max. Enrollment: 20 Meeting Time: M-F 9:00 – 6:00, variable Meeting time: M-F 8:00–3:00 in local elementary school classrooms This project is offered as preparation for the Spring Dance Concert of March 2009, and to broaden the This project will take place partly in a public school knowledge and understanding of other aspects classroom and partly in a special education resource relating to dance. The project will consist of room in the Birmingham-Southern College area. As morning dance technique classes followed by studies the student works as a teacher‘s aide in the of Anatomy and Injury Prevention, theatre lighting, classroom, he or she will closely observe teachers and project research time. Afternoons will involve and children in the teaching and learning rehearsals with guest choreographers. Some environment. Birmingham-Southern students should weekends may be involved. Evaluation is based on develop an understanding of elementary children attendance, test scores, a daily journal, special while interacting with them in the classroom. projects, research papers, and the final product of Evaluation will be based on the cooperating the performance in March. The Senior Project teacher‘s assessment of performance, a journal of component will consist of projects, approved by the observations and interactions, attendance, selected faculty, related directly to the Interim content of readings, and participation in weekly seminars. guest choreographers and their work methods. Total time required is 35 hours per week. NOTE: Students enrolled in this project must NOTE: Students must attend the scheduled register for DA 310 in the Spring Term. Interim orientation meeting in November and the meeting on the first day of Interim in order to be Economics prepared for the in-school assignment.

EC 20 (BA 11) ED 22 Personal Finance Exploring Teaching in Secondary Schools Paul Cleveland and Ron Stunda Louann Jacobs and Mary Jane Turner

Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: None Open To: All Students Open To: First-years, Sophomores, Juniors Grading System: S/U Grading System: S/U Max. Enrollment: 30 Max. Enrollment: 20 Meeting Time: M-Th 10:00-noon Meeting Time: M-F 8:00 – 3:00 in local 6-12 grade classrooms Students in personal finance will learn the basic tools of financial planning and put together their This project is designed for students who wish to own initial plans. Classroom sessions will focus on explore their interest and skills in teaching high developing the tools the financial planning through school or middle school. The project will meet daily lectures and guest experts. We will cover personal in a public school classroom where students will banking, insurance, investment options, automotive observe and assist the classroom teacher in and real estate purchases, and budgeting. In appropriate ways. Evaluation will be based on the addition, students will work independently with cooperating teacher's assessment of performance, interactive software and will complete assigned weekly assignments, attendance, selected readings, readings in order to build their knowledge of the and participation in seminars. Total time required planning process. Finally, students will put together is 35 hours per week. their own personal financial plans. Satisfactory NOTE: Students must attend two scheduled performance in the class will be determined by meetings before Interim for orientation and regular class attendance and the completion of all assignments. assignments. Page 10 ED 23 Internship in Collaborative Teaching Instructors

Prerequisites: Ed. Services Major Open To: Seniors in Teacher Education Program Grading System: Letter Max. Enrollment: Open Meeting Time: DHAR

The senior project in collaborative education involves full-time assignment to a resource classroom for four weeks under the joint supervision of a certified teacher and two college supervisors. Interns will design, plan, and implement coordinated learning experiences for children with special needs. They will also attend regular seminars, engage in independent conferences and participate in the development of individualized educational programs. Students will keep a daily reflective journal and prepare a notebook that includes observations and school-related information. Evaluation will be based on successful completion of these components.

ED 24 Senior Project in Educational Services Clint Bruess

Prerequisites: None Open To: Seniors in Educational Services Program Grading System: Letter Max. Enrollment: 10 Meeting Time: M 1:00 – 3:00, plus 30 hours of weekly research

In this project, each student will choose a research project, focusing on a special topic related to education activities in a variety of possible settings. Students are encouraged to seek topics on their own, but to discuss them with the instructor as soon as possible—well before the beginning of the Interim term. The bulk of time spent in the course will be devoted to independent work on the research project. The project will include the traditional chapters of a research study (introduction; review of literature; research methodology; presentation and analysis of data; and summary, discussion, implications, and recommendations). The project will be submitted in writing. It will also be presented orally to meet BSC requirements for the Senior Conference.

Page 11 in Puritan New England, we explore the legacy of these trials in Nathaniel Hawthorne‘s short stories, English Arthur Miller‘s The Crucible, and Maryse Condé‘s I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem. The class will meet EH 25 two days a week from 10:00-2:00. Students should BSC Folklore: Collecting and Interpreting Campus expect to spend approximately 25 hours each week Tales and Traditions completing course readings and assignments. In addition to the readings, students will prepare an Tynes Cowan individual project on a topic approved by the instructor and present their work to the class. Prerequisites: Permission of Instructor Evaluation will be based on presentations, written Open To: All Students assignments, and daily work. Grading System: S/U Max. Enrollment: 3 Meeting Time: TBA EH 27 (CL 15) Classical and Renaissance ―Folklore‖ is a generic term used to describe a Italy: The Major Cities variety of expressive acts passed from one and the Places in Between generation to another within a coherent group. Michael McInturff and Samuel Pezzillo Folklore can take verbal form, such as stories, songs, jokes, or nicknames (of professors). It can be customary, such as superstitions or ―pinning‖ See listing under Classics rituals. Or folklore can be material—the objects or places that have significance to a folk group. A EH 28 (GEN 41) college campus is an interesting site for collecting Muppets, Monsters, Magic, and Mayhem: Jim folklore since one could say that each freshman Henson’s America class represents a new ―generation,‖ and the Clare Emily Clifford transmission beyond the originating generation distinguishes folklore from rumor and gossip. It is through such lore that group identity is expressed, See listing under General group boundaries are established, and group values are passed on. EH 29 Project participants will collect Birmingham- The 1960s in Fiction, Film, and Song Southern folklore and contribute their findings to Tynes Cowan the BSC Folklore website (www.bsc.edu/folklore). Interested students should see the instructor for Prerequisites: None more information. Open To: First-years Grading System: Letter Max. Enrollment: 15 Meeting Time: M Tu Th 10:00-noon (class meetings) and 1:00-3:30 or later “Tradition is the illusion of (film screenings) permanence.” —Woody Allen Students will explore the enormous shift in American culture in the 1960s through ―classic‖ EH 26 texts that are strongly linked to the era: novels such Charmed: Witches and as Kurt Vonnegut‘s Cat’s Cradle and Tom Wolfe‘s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test; films such as Dr. Witchcraft in American Strangelove and The Graduate; and innumerable Literature and Culture songs from the Beatles on Ed Sullivan to Woodstock, Rachel Clevenger-Bauer from the folk-revival to Motown. While using pop Prerequisites: None texts to contextualize literary texts, we will Open To: First-years consider the distinctions between ―high‖ and ―low‖ Grading System: Letter art forms and the extent to which those distinctions Max. Enrollment: 18 became blurred or disappeared entirely during the Meeting Time: M W 10:00 - 2:00 ‗60s. Students will read one novel and view two films each week. This 1-Y course will emphasize This project explores depictions of witches and writing, group work, peer teaching, and class witchcraft in historical documents and literature. discussion. Grades will be based on essays, quizzes, Beginning with an in-depth study of the Salem trials presentations, participation, and a final project. Page 12 2008 study by Popular Science which ranks U.S. EH 30 cities in terms of renewable energy, transit, Novels Right Now: Commodities or Future recycling, and green space allocations, includes only one Alabama city (Huntsville) among the top 50 Masterpieces? green cities. Jane Archer In the midst of this rather grim picture, however, are some rays of hope. Participants in this Interim Prerequisites: None project will visit newly established nature Open To: All Students preserves, like the one at Turkey Creek, and the Grading System: Option ambitious "Parknership for Birmingham". We will Max. Enrollment: 20 tour recently completed green buildings, view a Meeting Time: M Tu Th 1:00 – 3:00 "traditional neighborhood development" nestled along the Cahaba River in Trussville, and venture to In this project, we will read four very recent novels Chattanooga TN to see how this type of smart that have appeared on the best-seller lists within growth can be applied on a larger scale. The group the past year and have also achieved at least some will meet daily, in addition to field trips. Students literary acclaim. In class meetings, we will discuss will be graded on class participation, group the novels, but we will also consider what makes presentations, and a final research paper. books popular and what makes them ‗literature‘. NOTE: A nominal fee will cover travel expenses We will explore best-seller lists from the past, as and an overnight stay in Chattanooga. well as past winners of literary awards. We will consider questions such as these: Are contempor- aries able to recognize a ‗masterpiece‘? How often GEN 31 does literary fiction achieve best-seller status? Archaeoastronomy in the Maya ruins What distinguishes literary fiction from commodity of Mexico and Guatemala fiction? Evaluation will be based on 4 short (2-5 Pete Van Zandt page) papers (one on each of the four novels we will read and discuss) as well as on a related research Prerequisites: None project and class presentation. Open To: All Students NOTE: For senior project credit, students must Grading System: Letter write a final paper of at least 15 pages, researching Max. Enrollment: 12 the reception of best sellers. Meeting Time: M-F 1:00 – 5:00 while on campus; 2 weeks in Mexico and General Guatemala

GEN 88 It has long been known that the ancient Maya of Mexico and Central America were highly skilled Alabama: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly astronomers. This travel interim will investigate Roald Hazelhoff observational methods developed by the Maya, and what astronomy may have meant to them as a Prerequisites: None people. Beginning in Villahermosa with an intro- Open To: All students duction to the Olmec civilization, participants will Grading System: s/u travel to the ruins of Palenque, Bonampak, Max. Enrollment: 16 Yaxchilan, and Tonina. At most sites, we will Meeting Time: Daily, including field trips conduct measurement experiments on recently excavated temples to see if they align with Few states can match Alabama's natural beauty and important stations of the sun or with visible planets biodiversity, but we have done a poor job protecting such as Jupiter and Saturn. The group will then this natural heritage. With more than 77,000 miles travel through Guatemala to the island of Flores, in of rivers and streams, Alabama ranks 7th nationally, beautiful Lake Peten. While on the island, students yet we have the third highest number of imperiled will learn about the Itza Maya, the last holdouts fish species. According to the Institute for Southern against the Spanish conquest. Venturing out from Studies, Alabama ranks 49th in terms of environ- Flores, we will explore Tikal, the largest city ever mental protection. Just looking at the inordinate built by the ancient Maya, where students will learn amounts of roadside litter provides an unwelcome how to read calendar dates on Tikal‘s monuments, reminder of this. Suburban sprawl threatens our air as well as how the city‘s battles were timed to key and water quality, and is rapidly transforming prime risings and settings of Venus. Finally, on return to Alabama farm land into strip malls and big box park- Villahermosa, we will visit the unexcavated Lacanja ing lots. Meanwhile, how does the environmental ruins and hike through the Lacandan rain forest to health score card look for our metropolitan areas? A examine typical plants used by the ancient Maya. Page 13 NOTE: The estimated cost of this travel project is Volume One; the biography Dylan by Bob Spitz; the $3,500. Please note that this course will involve critical analysis of Dylan‘s poetry, Dylan’s Visions of strenuous hiking and climbing through poorly Sin, by Christopher Ricks; the documentary movies maintained ruins and dense jungle trails. Don’t Look Back by D.A. Pennebaker, No Direction Home by Martin Scorsese, and others; and fictional GEN 32 movie accounts of Dylan, including Factory Girl and Basic Italian for Romance Language Addicts I’m Not There. Various other audio and video clips and internet resources will be used. If you want to Margaret King get a hint of what this course is about, go to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO0gSJGJ7Fs to Prerequisites: None see Dylan sing Like A Rolling Stone. Open To: All students Students will be required to attend and participate Grading System: Letter in all classes; complete all listening, reading, and Max. Enrollment: 20 viewing assignments and quizzes; and either (1) Meeting Time: M-Th 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM, write a ten page, documented research paper; or plus 3 hours lab time/week (2) make a documented 20 minute oral power point

presentation on some aspect of Bob Dylan‘s life, In this class, students learn basic Italian, taught in time, music, or poetry; or (3) present a 30 minute an interactive, accessible way that encourages performance, including documented critical fluency. We will begin with an overview of the analysis, of Bob Dylan‘s music. Students are philosophy of language, and a description of the expected to spend 30 hours per week on work in and origins of the Italian language. Students will use a outside class. workbook which contains basic vocabulary, verb conjugations, interactive dialogues and exercises to facilitate speaking the Italian language, and will Lay down your weary tune, lay down, spend 3-5 hours per week in the language lab. Lay down the song you strum, Students are assigned thematic power point presen- And rest yourself 'neath the strength of tations in pairs, and each student is required to give strings an autobiographical oral presentation at the end of No voice can hope to hum. the course. Quizzes are given almost biweekly and —Bob Dylan, "Lay Down Your Weary Tune" a final exam is given at the end of the interim. Additional topics include the practical logistics of traveling abroad, and possible field trips to exhibits or events that feature Italian language and culture. GEN 89 Even students who are shy or wary of foreign Creating a Virtual BSC languages end this class with confidence in their Susan Cockrell ability to study and speak in a foreign language. NOTE: A modest fee (estimated at $20) may be Prerequisites: None required for any field trips associated with this Open To: All Students course. Grading System: S/U Max. Enrollment: 15 GEN 33 Meeting Time: Tu W Th 1:00 – 4:00 Bob Dylan: a Complete Unknown? Leo Pezzementi Have you wanted to create a world, a country, or an island? How about building a virtual Birmingham-

Southern! In this interim, students will create a Prerequisites: None virtual Birmingham-Southern presence in Second Open To: All Students Life. Students will model the virtual BSC after Grading System: Option actual buildings on campus. The ―buildings‖ will Max. Enrollment: 16 house areas for students to meet and discuss current Meeting Time: M-Th 9:00 - noon events, activities, and issues. Students will also

create an alumni meeting area so former students In this course, we will consider the life, times, can have virtual meetings, parties, pep rallies, or music, and poetry of Bob Dylan, focusing on the just meet and chat. There will be an information time between his arrival in Greenwich Village and center for anyone on Second Life to learn about BSC his ―motorcycle crash,‖ approximately. Texts will (modeled after the new admissions building). include the albums Bob Dylan, The Freewheelin’ Students will invite their friends, alumni, faculty, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin’, and other interested parties to an ―open house‖ at Another Side of Bob Dylan, Bringing It All Back the end of the Interim. Evaluation will be based on Home, Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde, and participation in research, creation and modeling of John Wesley Harding; the autobiography Chronicles: Page 14 BSC in Second Life; a journal of experiences and core; City Center Master Plan; public/private interactions; participation in the presentation of partnerships; Railroad District and Linn Park Case virtual BSC to the larger BSC community; and a Studies; Design Review process; meeting with a summary paper of knowledge obtained. private developer and tour of development sites with staff and architects. Participants will have GEN 34 assigned readings, keep a daily journal, and prepare a ten-page narrative due at the end of the Interim Discovering the Pacific Northwest: on a topic to be approved by the instructors. A City/Nature Exploration NOTE: Student fee is estimated at $25-$50. Peter Donahue and Larry Brasher

Prerequisites: None GEN 36 Open To: All Students Grading System: S/U From Garden to Table: Max. Enrollment: 16 Examining Local Food Systems Meeting Time: All day, every day Gretchen Repasky & Alicia Weaver

This course focuses on the city/nature relationship Prerequisites: None so vital to the Pacific Northwest. After an on- Open To: All Students campus orientation, we spend 14 days in Seattle Grading System: S/U participating in environmentally-oriented service Max. Enrollment: 16 projects, studying the history and literature of the Meeting Time: Daily, various times city, and making day-long excursions to such places as Victoria, BC. We then travel to the Olympic Have you wondered how far your food traveled Peninsula and stay three days at the Olympic before it arrived on your dinner plate? Have you Natural Resources Center, our base for venturing to pondered the numerous culinary choices that you the Hoh Rain Forest, Olympic coast, and Makah face every day? Is your food industrially produced? Indian Reservation. Finally, we ferry to Whidbey Organic? Locally grown? What are the Island in Puget Sound and stay four days at the environmental, socioeconomic, psychological, Chinook Learning Center, where we further study moral, and political consequences of your food the natural history of the region. choices? In this project we will assess the impact NOTE: The estimated cost of this travel project is and future of small-scale food production as a viable $2600. A deposit of $400 is required. Students alternative to large-scale, industrial, nationally and must bring sturdy shoes and rain slicker. This globally-based food production. We will emphasize course entails a fair amount of city walking, the sustainability of local food systems – wilderness hiking, and rigorous outdoor activity. encompassing production, distribution, and For more information, contact Dr. Donahue (x7841) consumption. In campus meetings we will critically or Dr. Brasher (x4863). review scholarly work on this topic and hear from guest speakers. There will also be substantial field- GEN 35 trip and service components. We will learn about Experiencing the city food-related community initiatives through field trips to local farms, urban gardens, farmers‘ mar- Ed LaMonte, Philip A. Morris, Dick Pigford kets, organic food co-ops, food distribution centers,

and horticulture re-search stations. Student groups Prerequisites: None will gain hands-on experience with small-scale food Open To: All Students production through service projects with several of Grading System: S/U these groups and organizations. Evaluation will be Max. Enrollment: 14 based on active participation in service projects and Meeting Time: M-F 9:00 – noon on- and off-campus class meetings, oral

presentation of service project work, careful The purpose of this Interim is to help students examination of course readings and discussion discover how architecture, urban design, landscape leadership, and a reflective journal. architecture, historic preservation, and related NOTE: In addition to the cost of books, there will disciplines are used by governments, institutions, be marginal travel costs associated with field trips developers, and others to shape the physical and a possible meal at a restaurant specializing in character of the city. The Interim will focus on the locally grown foods. Birmingham City Center. The class will meet off- campus in the Saw Works Studio at ArchitectureWorks. The Interim will include the following: Historic walking tour of the downtown Page 15 GEN 37 Interim at Sea GEN 39 Duane Pontius Meeting Arts Leaders Across the Region Prerequisites: Ability to swim Mildred Allen Open To: All Students Grading System: S/U Prerequisites: None Max. Enrollment: 20 Open To: All Students Meeting Time: 24/7 Grading System: Option Max. Enrollment: 18 Spend three weeks sail training in the Caribbean Meeting Time: DHAR aboard a classic two-masted schooner. Participants will The purpose of this project is to acquaint students Learn how to work and sail a wooden tall with the arts enterprises in our community and to ship learn from the leaders of those enterprises. The Hold assigned responsibilities, including group will visit the Montgomery Museum of Art and standing watches at all hours the Shakespeare Theatre where students will meet Obey orders from the professional crew with the curators and administrators. We will hear Participate actively in cleaning and from arts leaders such as George McMillan, head of maintaining the vessel City Stages; Mira Popovich, former European Learn about Caribbean culture ballerina; and Don Wood, chief curator of the Keep a personal journal Birmingham Museum of Art. Students will also visit Additional tentative activities include studying various art galleries in the area and learn from colonialism, hiking through rainforests, viewing performing arts professors on campus about their Montserrat's active volcano, snorkeling on coral reefs, work. Evaluation will be based on a journal of the and observational astronomy. experiences, participation, and a final presentation. This is an arduous project, requiring personal commitment, physical stamina, and willingness to GEN 40 (CH 13) endure some degree of privation. Do not expect a comfortable, stress-free cruise. We will be on a Microelectronics working ship, and everyone works. Those truly Clyde Stanton interested in the experience of a lifetime should not be discouraged, but everyone should realize what See listing under Chemistry they're signing on for. For more information: http://faculty.bsc.edu/dpontius/interim.html GEN 41 (EH 28) NOTE: The estimated cost of this travel project is Muppets, Monsters, Magic, and Mayhem: $4100. Jim Henson’s America GEN 38 Clare Emily Clifford Introduction to Screenwriting Alan Litsey Prerequisites: None Open To: All Students Prerequisites: None Grading System: Letter Open To: All Students Max. Enrollment: 15 Grading System: Option Max. Enrollment: 12 This course examines some of Jim Henson‘s Meeting Time: M W F 10:00 – 12:30 foundational projects (Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth) in An introduction to the principles of screenwriting, light of the America that informed, and was including: dramatic structure and form, as well as the informed by, their creation and production. creation of character and dialogue. The course Beginning with Henson‘s early years and continuing culminates in the completion of a short film script. through his many television shows and film projects, Throughout the term, students will hear their own we will explore his design practice—from concept to work read, as well as read others‘ work. As students materiality, and his innovations in animatronics and develop their own creative voice, students will learn special effects—and his overall aesthetic, a language and process with which to respond to one culminating in a study of three of the influential another‘s work. Students will devote a minimum of organizations to grow from Henson‘s creative vision: 20 hours time per week outside of class on course the Creature Shop, the Jim Henson Company, and exercises and projects. the Jim Henson Legacy. Through this intensive Page 16 study, we will engage questions of performativity as GEN 92 intersecting with the values, ideas, and politics Pre-Engineering Internship embodied in specific Henson characters, creatures, and storylines. Course projects include journals, a Doug Riley creative project and a final essay of 8-10 pages. Prerequisites: Consent Open Sesame! Open To: Sophomores, Juniors

Grading System: S/U

Max. Enrollment: Open “Puppets are fortunate—they can do and Meeting Time: DHAR say things a live performer wouldn’t touch with a stick” This project provides an opportunity fo pre- —From a 1969 Proposal for engineering students to work full-time with a The Muppet Show practicing engineer during the term and to gain experience in one branch of the engineering profession. Students will submit a detailed journal GEN 85 account of their daily activities, a summary report Poverty in America: at the end of term, and a copy of a letter of thanks An Examination of Policies and Attitudes to their internship mentor. By November 3, interested students should submit toward Low-Income Families in America to Professor Riley a written request for placement in Stephen Black and Kathleen Greer Rossman a specified engineering area of interest. Students should also plan to attend the Fall meeting of the Prerequisites: None pre-engineering committee of the Norton Board to Open To: All facilitate placement. Students are expected to Grading System: Letter provide their own transportation during Interim and Max. Enrollment: 25 to work full days, M-F. Meeting Time: 3-hour classroom sessions twice per week; community work GEN 42 approximately 10 hours per week Pre-Health Career Internship This course examines policies and attitudes toward Jeannette Runquist low-income families through readings, class discussions, lectures, and work in the community. Prerequisites: Sophomore standing Particular focus will be given to perceptions and Open To: Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors misperceptions about those living in poverty, and Grading System: S/U students will participate in two related community Max. Enrollment: 75 programs that address specific needs faced by low- Meeting Time: DHAR income families: SaveFirst and FocusFirst. SaveFirst trains students to provide free tax preparation This project allows students to experience one of services and financial literacy information for low- the health professions fields (medicine, dentistry, income individuals. Training will consist of both physical therapy, etc) through an internship explanatory sessions and interactive exercises after supervised by a health care professional. Students which students must take an IRS certification test planning a career in health care should participate before serving at tax preparation sites. In addition, in this project during their sophomore or junior students will work with FocusFirst to provide vision year. A limited number of established internships screenings for children ages six months to five are available at hospitals, clinics, and other years, in Head Start and lower-income daycare healthcare facilities in the Birmingham area. In programs and coordinating appropriate examination, addition, anyone planning to intern with a private diagnosis, and treatment for children with impaired health care professional whom he or she has vision. Evaluation will be based on attendance, contacted should register for this project. active participation in class discussions and in the Students will read several books and articles community service programs, and a 5-7 page paper. concerning medicine and health care, reflect on their readings and experiences during the intern- ship, and write an essay of five to seven pages. Students are also required to maintain a daily journal. A satisfactory essay AND a satisfactory evaluation from the student‘s on-site supervisor are required for successful completion of the project. NOTE: Students must also complete a series of group orientation meetings during the Fall term. Page 17 Attendance is mandatory for all students planning to world legends to the writings of Henry David participate in the internship. Documentation Thoreau, Annie Dillard, and Janisse Ray. We will concerning each student‘s general health and write to help us better view the natural world and immunization records must be submitted by Friday to further understand our place in it. Our writing November 28, 2008. The estimated cost for reading will be observational/meditative and will relate to materials is $25. A lab coat may be required. The our hikes in such places as the Sipsey Wilderness and interim may be repeated but the location cannot be the Walls of Jericho. Each week we will spend two the same as the previous internship, and additional or three days discussing readings and one or two work is required. days hiking. Students will keep a journal, recording observations and exploring personal responses. GEN 90 Evaluation will be based on the extent and quality Quantitative Analysis in Options Trading of the journals and participation. Most hiking trips will be day trips with perhaps one overnight. Chris Whaley NOTE: The estimated cost for travel and books is

$250. All participants must be in physical condition Prerequisites: None to enjoy rigorous, day-long hikes. Hiking shoes or Open To: All students boots are required. Grading System: Option

Max. Enrollment: 18 Meeting Time: M-Th 9:00 - 12:00 GEN 43 (RE 76) Race and the Bible With over two billion contracts traded last year, Amy Cottrill and Jennifer Roth-Burnette option markets have established themselves as a major component of a sophisticated investor‘s Prerequisites: None portfolio. Stock options allow individuals to hedge Open To: All students risk and gain large returns with relatively small Grading System: Letter amounts of capital. This interim will focus on Max. Enrollment: 20 options trading using quantitative and technical Meeting Time: M-Th 9:00 - 11:00 methodology. Students will gain an understanding of stock options and how they relate to technical What difference does race make in interpreting the methods such as charting. moving averages, and Bible and in understanding the worldview of the price-volume indicators. Class will consist of biblical stories themselves? After a focus on lectures and exercises dealing with historical and concepts of race and ethnicity in the Bible, this real-time market data. Students will also have the class will focus on African American approaches in chance to engage in ―hands on‖ learning by trading multiple genres. We will examine early examples of real derivative positions in major U.S. markets. biblical interpretation in slave narratives and Students are expected to research and evaluate spirituals as well as modern interpretive practices equities traded on the NASDAQ or New York Stock among African American biblical scholars. We will Exchange and then prepare an in-class presentation consider how religious and social experiences, stating their strategy. interpreted in light of biblical narrative, have been expressed in African American musical genres GEN 91 such as spirituals, prison camp songs, hymns, Gospel music and blues, as well as in modern works by Reading, Writing and Hiking the Land composers and choreographers such as William Larry Brasher Grant Still, Calvin Hampton and Alvin Ailey. Finally, we will explore how African American literature has Prerequisites: None responded to the Bible and served as a location of Open To: All students biblical interpretation, especially in works by Zora Grading System: Option Neal Hurston and Gloria Naylor. The class will be Max. Enrollment: 9 heavily discussion-based. Students will be Meeting Time: M-Th 10:00 - 12:00 evaluated on the basis of class participation, several small papers, and a final collaborative project In all ages and cultures, humans have found delight, concerning issues raised in the class. awe, magic, and terror in nature. In this project, we will read and write about nature and hike in “Gods always behave like the pristine areas of north Alabama. We will emphasize people who make them.” the connection between nature and spirituality, while we learn about the ecology, geology, natural —Zora Neale Hurston history, folklore, flora and fauna of the places we explore. We will read widely--from Native American spirit- Page 18 will spend approximately three weeks in San GEN 44 Francisco, California, serving with the homeless population. The project focuses on cultural Service Learning in Mozambique immersion through service, allowing students to Fred Ashe, Barry Spieler examine and reflect on issues of poverty, and Sara Doughton homelessness, politics, economics, and society. Participation in this project is a major Prerequisites: None commitment—both prior to and during January— Open To: Application required requiring that students be self-motivated and self- Grading System: S/U disciplined. A three to four day reflection time at Max. Enrollment: 16 the end of the work period will allow for students to Meeting Time: 24/7 for 3 weeks during January; weave together the separate strands of their additional meetings in Fall for experience. preparation, fundraising, and Requirements include participation in fund raising team building in the fall, service projects both in the fall and on- Following an intense fall orientation, participants site in January, participation in and leading of will spend approximately three weeks in Cambini, discussions both in the fall class meetings and in the Mozambique. The project focuses on cultural meetings on-site, careful examination of readings, a immersion through service, allowing students to researched presentation, a reflective journal, and a examine and reflect on issues of poverty, politics, final reflective essay. Evaluation will be based on economics, and cross-cultural interaction and the quality of the student‘s work on each of the adaptation. Participation in this project is a major requirements listed above. commitment—both prior to and during January— NOTE: Students interested in this experience as requiring that students be self-motivated and self- part of their senior project must contract for disciplined. Requirements include participation in individualized study with a faculty member in their service work, participation in and leading of major. discussions, careful examination of readings, a reflective journal, and a final reflective essay on GEN 46 your experiences. Evaluation will be based on the Sexuality Education Issues student's participation in fall weekly meetings, the researched presentation, the reflective journal, Clint E. Bruess participation in service projects and reflections during January, and the final reflective essay. Prerequisites: None NOTE: Students interested in this experience as Open To: All Students part of a senior project must contract for individual- Grading System: Option ized study with a faculty member in their major. Max. Enrollment: 18 Meeting Time: M-Th 9:00-noon

This project deals with many contemporary issues related to sexuality education in all settings. Issues include how sexuality education should be handled “The nation... doesn't simply need by parents, teachers, and community leaders; the what we have. It needs what we are.” controversy surrounding sexuality education; pros —Edith Stein and cons of abstinence only, comprehensive, and other forms of sexuality education; the importance GEN 45 of understanding your own sexuality; sexuality Service Learning in San Francisco education policies and procedures; what content is appropriate at various age levels and in various John Tatter and Kristin Harper settings; the evaluation of the results of sexuality education; research concerning the effects of Prerequisites: Written application sexuality education; the need for sexuality Open To: Selected students education throughout life; legal and moral issues have been notified related to sexuality education; and others. Grading System: S/U Evaluation of students is based on performance Max. Enrollment: 12 contracts, through which students contract for the Meeting Time: 24/7 for 3 weeks during January; grade they plan to achieve. Requirements may additional meetings in Fall for include evaluations, oral presentations, panel preparation, fundraising, and discussions, literature reviews, and final projects. team building. NOTE: Estimated cost of text: $75

Following an intense fall orientation, participants Page 19 against German "fascism" (as depicted in the former GEN 47 Communist bloc) or "totalitarianism" (as depicted in the West) and against Japanese "militarism" and Southeast Asia: history, culture, "imperialism" (as depicted in China, Japan and politics and development Korea). Robert Slagter The class will meet regularly during the first week, to view and discuss several films chosen by Prerequisites: None the instructor to establish the interpretive Open To: Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors framework, set the standard of film interpretation, Grading System: S/U and provide the beginnings of the students‘ research Max. Enrollment: 16 bibliography and ―filmography.‖ Students will spend Meeting Time: M-S all day the remainder of the term—meeting once a week— researching and writing a paper of 15 pages in Project participants will travel to Thailand, Vietnam length, analyzing a selected number of films in and Cambodia to explore Southeast Asian history, depth from either one of the countries or from at culture, politics and economic development. Cities least two countries in a comparative framework. At to be visited include Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Hanoi, Ho the end of the term all students will make a short Chi Minh City, Phnom Penh and Angkor Wat. Prior to presentation about their work. Final grades for the departure students will demonstrate completion of course will be determined on the basis of the assigned readings and during the trip will write an quality of the research paper, classroom analytic journal to be submitted for evaluation. The participation, and the oral presentation. itinerary may be customized to accommodate individual student projects including those for senior credit. The trip will take almost all of Interim term History and much travel will be in areas considered underdeveloped. Such travel is demanding. HI 49 Students enrolled in this project should be Colonial society: Fact or fiction physically fit, cooperative, punctual, able and Victoria Ott willing to endure discomfort in pursuit of learning adventures, tolerant and sensitive regarding cultural Prerequisites: None differences, personally resourceful and committed Open To: All students to developing an understanding of Southeast Asia. Grading System: Letter NOTE: The estimated cost of this trip is $4500. Max. Enrollment: 15 Meeting Time: M – Th 10:00 – noon GEN 48 "World War II" in Film Focusing on extraordinary events—ranging from the 'Round the World lost colony of Roanoke to the Salem witch trials— popular culture has portrayed early America as a Matthew Levey place of intrigue, adventure, and conflict. But why?

How have various forms of media interpreted the Prerequisites: None colonial past? What do those interpretations tell us Open To: All students about our present culture? This interim project will Grading System: Letter look critically at how American pop culture, past Max. Enrollment: 20 and present, portrayed the colonial era by Meeting Time: (see below) examining television and films while exploring the First week: M-F 10:00 – noon (film screenings) history of the period through readings of primary 1:00 – 2:00 (class discussion) and secondary sources. Assessment is based on 3-4 Second week: M-Tu 10:00 - noon (film screenings) page reaction papers and class discussion. 1:00 – 2:00 (class discussion)

DHAR thereafter

In this course, we will view, discuss, research and write about selected films the United States, Europe (France, Germany—East and West, Poland, and the Soviet Union/post-Soviet Russia) and Asia (China— the People‘s Republic and Republic, Japan, and Korea—the People‘s Democratic Republic and Republic). We will explore some of the many issues related to national memory and self-representation as related to the competing depictions of the war Page 20 HI 50 it applies to his world and to ours. Commissars and Movie Stars: This Interim project will be conducted as a seminar, carefully reading and then discussing An Introduction to Soviet Democracy in America as well as essays that use and Russian Film Tocqueville's ideas in order to understand Americans Randy Law of today. Evaluation will be based on two- or three- page essays and participation. Prerequisites: None Open To: All Students Grading System: Letter Max. Enrollment: 15 "Knowledge doesn't keep any Meeting Time: M – Th 9:00 – noon better than fish"

This project is an introduction to the world of —Alfred North Whitehead Russian and Soviet film. Using films and readings from the 1920s to the post-Soviet era, we will examine the relationship between art, propaganda, ideology, and entertainment, all the while seeking a Honors basic understanding of some fundamental issues in modern Russian history. We will meet regularly for HON 87 the first two weeks of the term to watch and discuss Miss Scarlet in the Study with the Pen: films. During the third week, students will work on When Reading and Writing is a Crime a 10 to 12 page paper in which they will analyze a film or films in conjunction with some reading on Robin Lee Mozer their film‘s subject. For senior project credit, the Prerequisites: EH 102 research paper must be at least 25 pages. During Open To: All students the last week, we will reassemble as a class for Grading System: Letter students to present the results of their work. Max. Enrollment: 15 Evaluations will be based on discussion partici- Meeting Time: M W F 10:00 – noon pation, the research paper, and the presentation. and Sunday night film screenings

Ever stayed up reading until 2AM just to find out 51 ―whodunit?‖ Then you know how compelling pulp Democracy In America fiction can be. Good crime fiction not only tells a Guy Hubbs thrilling tale, but also gives us a snapshot of the values, technologies, and ideals of the era in which Prerequisites: None it is written. This creative writing–based class will Open To: Sophomores to Seniors look at the evolution of detective and crime fiction (First-years only with approval) from its dark beginnings to its present-day forms. Grading System: Option We‘ll read short crime stories, primarily from The Max. Enrollment: 15 Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps. And since crime Meeting Time: M W F 10:00 – noon fiction abounds in Hollywood, we‘ll also watch one movie a week and discuss how it fits with or skews Alexis de Tocqueville‘s Democracy in America (1835, what we know of the genre. 1840) is the single most significant study of Ameri- This class will include a heavy daily writing can character, society, and political values. In the component, but students can design their own final republic only nine months in 1831, this Frenchman projects, such as one longer piece (20 pages) of nonetheless became America‘s most perceptive original detective fiction, a substantial report on visitor; among the many foreign visitors who wrote some aspect of the genre or history surrounding the travelogues, Tocqueville was unique in his ability to genre, or an original short crime film. perceive the essence of democracy, especially as practiced in America. In the two volumes that he published during the following decade, he intro- duced such terms as ―individualism‖ and ―tyranny of the majority‖; and his analysis of voluntary associations is fundamental to any understanding of Americans in the last two centuries, separating Americans from all other nationalities. Our goal will be to understand Tocqueville‘s work and to see how Page 21

Mathematics Modern Foreign Languages

MA 52 MFL: FR 81 Games of Strategy and Chance Senior project in French Douglas Riley Dominique Linchet

Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: French Major Open To: All Students Open To: Seniors Grading System: Letter Grading System: Letter Max. Enrollment: 16 Max. Enrollment: Open Meeting Time: M-Th 9:00 – noon Meeting Time: DHAR

You have been dealt a pair of Kings, an Ace, a Six In this project, students will focus on a special topic and a Four in a game of five-card draw, what should in French culture and/or literature beyond the you keep to maximize your chances for a good hand? scope of the regularly offered courses. They will In a game of Risk, your opponent has control of an expand on previous knowledge, research new area with one unit – if you invade with two units material, and ultimately demonstrate significant what is your chance of winning the country? You intellectual maturity. Students will write a paper of have just rolled 3 sixes and 2 fours in a game of at least 20 pages in French, and they will share the Yahtzee – should you use this roll for your three of a final product of their research in a public kind (which records the sum of the dice) or for your presentation. Students will meet by arrangement full-house (which records a straight 25 points)? regularly with Dr. Linchet. Many games combine elements of strategy with those of chance. With all of them a better under- standing of the probabilities involved can make you MFL: SN 54 a better player. In this course we will introduce the Buenos Aires: basic concepts of probability and use them to A Latin American City analyze scenarios from various games. We will then use our newfound skills by playing these games. that Foreshadows All Others Barbara Domcekova and Janie Spencer MA 53 Senior Project in Mathematics Prerequisites: None Open To: All Students Jeff Barton Grading System: S/U Max. Enrollment: 20 Prerequisites: MA 335 Meeting Time: M–F 9:00 – noon, first week Open To: Juniors and Seniors 24/7 thereafter Grading System: Letter Max. Enrollment: 12 This project is a three-week immersion in language Meeting Time: M-F 10:00 – noon and culture of Argentina, with a particular focus on Buenos Aires. It is open to all students. The Each student will choose a research project, participants in this project will engage in the study focusing on a special topic in mathematics beyond of Spanish at the BAESP language school. On arrival, the scope of regularly offered courses. While some students will be placed in classes according to their research topics may be suggested at the Interim language proficiency (from beginner‘s level to Orientation Meeting, students are expected to seek advanced) and will take four hours of class daily, topics on their own. In addition to regular group taught by an Argentine instructor. Afternoons and meetings, most of the time spent in this course will evenings will be dedicated to a series of cultural be devoted to independent work on the research activities in Buenos Aires, from theatre project. This will take a significant time performances, films, cafés, art exhibitions and commitment; students must be prepared to museum visits to tango lessons, cooking classes and dedicate at least 40 hours per week to research and city tours following the footsteps of such historical preparation. Evaluation will be based on a written figures as Evita Perón, Carlos Gardel, and Diego research proposal, an oral presentation of the Maradona. Students will be staying with Argentine research plan, three oral progress reports, a draft families to further explore the local way of life. This research paper, a summary presentation, the final Interim will also feature out-of town excursions, research paper; and a final public presentation. including a visit to a natural wonder – the Iguazú waterfalls on the border with Brazil and Paraguay. Page 22 NOTE: The estimated cost of this project is $4200. Meeting Time: DHAR

MFL: SN 55 In this project, students will focus on a special topic Proyecto Hermandad: An Immersion Into Local in Spanish culture and/or literature beyond the scope of the regularly offered courses. They will Hispanic Communities expand on previous knowledge, research new Jessica Ramos de Harthun material, and ultimately demonstrate significant intellectual maturity. Students will write a paper of Prerequisites: SN 270 at least 20 pages in Spanish, and they will share the or permission of Instructor final product of their research in a public Open To: All Students presentation. Students will meet by arrangement Grading System: S/U regularly with Dr. Domcekova, Dr. Ramos de Max. Enrollment: Open Harthun, or Dr. Spencer. Meeting Time: Tu Th 9:00 – 11:30, Plus a minimum 25 additional MFL: SN 57 hours per week in volunteer service at the selected ¡Y Ahora…A Hablar! organizations Kim Lewis

Proyecto Hermandad offers a variety of experiences Prerequisites: SN 201or 220 in the Spanish-speaking community of Birmingham, Open To: All Students AL. This project allows students to strengthen their Grading System: S/U communicative skills in Spanish by providing Max. Enrollment: 15 opportunities to utilize the language in a real life Meeting Time: M-F 10:00 -noon setting, while experiencing and actively getting involved in current Hispanic issues. On the side of Working around the theme of Los Hispanos en service, this project includes an internship at a los Estados Unidos, the objective of this class is to selected Hispanic organization within the provide a transition for students who have taken Birmingham metropolitan area, where students will Spanish 201 or 220 but are insecure about their be surrounded by native speakers of Spanish. abilities to use the language to converse. Students will serve a minimum of 25 hours per Conducted entirely in Spanish, this class will provide week in an immersion setting at organizations such the students with the opportunity to practice their as HICA, the Literacy Council, the Multicultural conversational skills in a low-stress setting. It is not Resource Center, Cooper Green Hospital and KPI appropriate for students who have already taken SN Latino, in addition to meeting as a group twice a 270 or higher. week for discussions in class. Depending on the In this course, we will use movies, music, actual nature of the business, students will be newspapers, Internet research and other realia from involved in support activities such as clerical office the Spanish-spaking world, as a point of departure work, translations, gathering data, assisting for conversation, and students will keep a journal in employees, etc. This program is designed for Spanish. Students will also be required to prepare students with a desire to practice their Spanish several presentations in Spanish during the course of while learning more about the Hispanic communities the term. We will also enjoy presentations by in the area, and supporting the efforts of the native speakers and field trips around Birmingham organizations above. Evaluations will be based on to explore the resources available to the growing the completion and quality of the service Spanish-speaking population, as well as places of experienced, class participation, a 5- to 7-page interest to those studying Spanish. Activities in the reflective paper, a daily journal, and a Power Point past have included: a folk music presentation by a presentation, all in Spanish. This project will Colombian guitarist; shopping in a Mexican prepare you to become competent global citizens! ―tienda‖; a visit with individuals who work with the Hispanic community in the area; lunch at an authentic ―taquería,‖ and preparing an authentic MFL: SN 56 Mexican meal. Class will meet Monday through Senior project in Spanish Friday (10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon), with Fridays Barbara Domcekova, Jessica Ramos de Harthun, being dedicated to cultural activities, such as a Janie Spencer meal in a Hispanic restaurant. The evaluation will be based on class participation, journal and a final Prerequisites: Spanish Major oral presentation. Open To: Seniors NOTE: A course fee of $25 will be charged to Grading System: Letter the student‘s BSC account to cover shopping Max. Enrollment: Open expenses for the meal and speakers. Also, there is a Page 23 possible textbook purchase for the course. hours and the students will be expected to practice “Who hears music feels his solitude individually outside of class. Evaluation will be peopled at once.” based on progress on the instrument as well as —Robert Browning demonstrated knowledge.

Music MU 60 Beginning Piano MU 58 William DeVan and Lucy DeSa American Originals Prerequisites: None Lester Seigel Open To: All Students Grading System: Letter Prerequisites: None Max. Enrollment: 20 Open To: All Students Meeting Time: Three one-hour lessons a week, Grading System: Ltr M W F Max. Enrollment: 15 Meeting Time: M-Th 1:00 - 4:00 This project is designed for students who have no previous experience at the piano. It will involve the In his essay "The American Scholar," Emerson stated study of compositions written for beginning that Americans ―have listened too long to the students. There will be three lessons weekly with courtly muse of Europe.‖ The 20th Century saw the instructor. Students will also have concert many American artists and writers defining a attendance requirements. Evaluation will be based uniquely nationalistic voice. This project on progress at the piano, attendance and consistent investigates the work of some of these composers, preparation for all lessons. focusing on what makes their music particularly ―American.‖ Highlighting twentieth-century MU 61 composers Charles Ives, George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, and Leonard Bernstein, the course will also Great Symphonies involve reading from novels, short stories, visual art David Smith and poetry that connects with the work of each composer, and writing assignments. Some Prerequisites: None consideration of uniquely American musical styles, Open To: All Students such as shape-note singing, African-American Grading System: Letter spirituals, jazz and blues will provide background, Max. Enrollment: 15 as will films, local field trips, and extensive Meeting Time: M-F 9:00 – 11:30, first week listening examples. The goal is to study this unique M W F 9:00 – 11:30 for the chapter of American music in an interdisciplinary remainder of Interim way, to see how these composers‘ music complemented and reflected the culture of its time. This project examines the musical thinking of NOTE: Students taking this project for senior four master composers and introduces students to credit will complete an in-depth final project symphonic literature. Through intensive and guided commensurate with the music major. listening throughout the term, students will learn how to recognize and follow musical forms common MU 59 to the symphonic genre. Each week the class will examine a specific symphony by a master composer Beginning Band (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms) and Ron Hooten explore how the musical ideas are organized in each of the four symphonic movements. These four Prerequisites: None symphonies will be the primary focus of the course Open To: All Students and of the listening examinations at the end of each Grading System: S/U week. Additional symphonies will be introduced to Max. Enrollment: 15 contrast the primary symphonic work being studied. Meeting Time: M-F 10:00 - noon By the end of the term, the class will have examined twelve different symphonies and gained This project is designed for students who have no an intimate knowledge of four of them. previous experience on wind instruments (Trumpet, The group will meet daily during the first week Trombone, Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone) but wish and three times per week for the remainder of the they did. It will cover performance techniques, term. Students should be prepared to spend at acoustical properties of the instruments and reading least 30 hours each week on this project. Evaluation musical notation. Class will meet daily for two will be based on ability to identify portions of the Page 24 major works studied and on the quality of reports on Senior Project Credit, the student must prepare a individual symphonies. senior recital during interim and prepare program NOTE: A background and enjoyment of classical notes for the recital. music is helpful, though not necessary or required, toward successful completion of this project. The MU 64 estimated cost of CDs is $50; the music may also be Performance Practicum in Orchestral Instrument available by other means. Music Faculty

MU 62 Prerequisites: Signature of Charles Mason, Chair Music and Science Fiction of Music, and Previous study at James Cook the 300 level Open To: All Students Prerequisites: None Grading System: Letter Open To: First-years Max. Enrollment: 40 Grading System: Letter Meeting Time: DHAR; Three one-hour lessons Max. Enrollment: 10 and 30 hours practice weekly Meeting Time: M-F 10:30 – noon and M-Th 2:00 – 3:30 In this project, students will prepare a major work or a well-defined body of literature for their This project is an intensive study of the role of instrument. Evaluation will be based on progress musical references in the structure and content of made during the term. Students will meet with the SF stories and novels. Students will read instructor three times a week and be required to approximately 30 short stories and one novel, and practice 30 hours each week outside of lesson will discuss them during the morning meetings time times. To receive Senior Project Credit, the student both from the literary standpoint and from the must prepare a senior recital during interim and standpoint of their musical references. Afternoon prepare program notes for the recital. meetings will be devoted to acquiring and applying listening skills to the music described or referenced in the assigned readings. Daily assignments will MU 65 include both reading and listening assignments that Performance Practicum in Organ will, in combination with class times, fully occupy the student for a minimum of 30 enjoyable hours James Cook each week. A short written assignment will be required daily; some will be analytical and reaction Prerequisites: Previous study at the 300 level essays, others will be reports on the listening Open To: All Students assignments. A final paper (10-12 pages in length) Grading System: Letter will also be required. Evaluation will be based Max. Enrollment: 3 equally on class participation and written work. Meeting Time: DHAR; Three one-hour lessons Participants will not be expected to have any prior and 30 hours practice weekly musical training. In this project, students will prepare a major work MU 63 or a well-defined body of literature for the organ. Appropriate literature selections include works Performance Practicum in Guitar similar in extent and content to a major prelude and Karlo Senasi fugue of Bach, one of the Franck chorales, or two movements from a major work by Messiaen. Prerequisites: Previous study at the 300 level Evaluation will be based on progress made during Open To: All Students the term. Students will meet with the instructor Grading System: Letter three times a week and be required to practice 30 Max. Enrollment: 40 hours each week outside of lesson times. Note: To Meeting Time: DHAR; Three one-hour lessons receive Senior Project Credit, the student must and 30 hours practice weekly prepare a senior recital during interim and prepare program notes for the recital. In this project, students will prepare a major work or a well-defined body of literature for guitar. MU 66 Evaluation will be based on progress made during Performance Practicum in Piano the term. Students will meet with the instructor three times a week and be required to practice 30 William DeVan hours each week outside of lesson times. To receive Prerequisites: Previous study at the 300 level Page 25 Open To: All Students and attend a live performance of Giacomo Puccini‘s Grading System: Letter Turandot performed by Opera Birmingham at the Max. Enrollment: 40 Alabama Theater. Evaluation will be based on class Meeting Time: DHAR; Three one-hour lessons participation, comprehension and application of and 30 hours practice weekly musical/vocal elements, a daily journal, and a reflective oral presentation. Estimated cost: $60. In this project, students will prepare a major work or a well-defined body of literature for piano. Evaluation will be based on progress made during Philosophy the term. Students will meet with the instructor three times a week and will be required to practice 30 hours each week outside of lesson times. To PL 68 receive Senior Project Credit, the student must Chinese Philosophy prepare a senior recital during interim and prepare Daniel Coyle program notes for the recital. Prerequisites: One philosophy course MU 67 Open To: All Students Performance Practicum in Voice Grading System: Option David Smith and Jacqueline Leary-Warsaw Max. Enrollment: 15 Meeting Time: Tu W Th 1:00 – 4:00

Prerequisites: Permission of Instructor Classical Chinese philosophy forms the intellectual Open To: All students foundation of most East Asian culture, yet the Grading System: Letter traditional Western philosophical lexicon is Max. Enrollment: 7 particularly unsuited to the understanding of Meeting Time: DHAR Chinese texts and terminology. This interpretive problem has frequently led Western philosophers to In this project, voice students will prepare a major share either the mistaken view of Leibniz – the first work or a well-defined body of literature for voice, European philosopher to have a keen and sustained for example, a song cycle, a major operatic, or interest in Chinese thought – that the Chinese ―lack oratorio role. Regular meetings with the instructor a philosophical vocabulary,‖ or the contemporary will be required. Evaluation will be based on perspective that ultimately ―something seems to be progress made during the term. Note: To receive missing in Chinese philosophy.‖ Perhaps what is Senior Project Credit, the student must prepare a lacking is a Western comparative hermeneutic. senior recital, write corresponding program notes In this project, we will develop strategies for and foreign-language translations, and perform the reading and understanding primary texts in Chinese recital prior to March 31, 2009. philosophy. Students will spend at least 35 hours per week reading and researching select translations MU 82 from Confucian, Daoist, ―Legalist,‖ and Chan/Zen Singing Beyond the Shower Buddhist classics, as well as a complete text by the Jacqueline Leary-Warsaw contemporary comparative philosopher François Jullien. This course will emphasize the cultivation Prerequisites: Permission of Instructor of a sophisticated appreciation of central Open To: All students philosophical vocabularies and contemporary Grading System: Letter sinological methodologies. We will move away from Max. Enrollment: 12 the received formula-translations of key Meeting Time: M-Th 10:00-12:30 philosophical terms, toward a more nuanced understanding. Our task as comparative Designed to be a beginning-level study in voice, this philosophers will be to provide an interpretive course will introduce students to singing through a context in the realms of religion, philosophy, and variety of song styles. From classical to jazz to culture, which searches out and articulates the Broadway to folk song, students will engage in an uncommon assumptions that have dominated ―East exploration of music written for the voice. Course Asian‖ discourse. Evaluations will be based on pop content will include the study and application of quizzes, oral presentations, a written philosophical various vocal styles, basic elements of vocal lexicon, and a 7-10 page research paper. technique, diction, vocal health, music fundamentals, and sight-reading. Daily class “It is the person who is able to meetings will be supplemented by private broaden dao, not dao that broadens instruction with the teacher. The class will discuss the person.” Page 26 —Confucius faculty sponsor or her/his designee once a week Physics during Interim to discuss details of the experience; 3) writing a report on a relevant book, chosen in consultation with the faculty sponsor; 4) keeping a PH 69 daily journal of activities, observations, and Travels in Spacetime reflections during the internship; 5)adequately Mark Rupright completing the duties assigned by the on-site supervisor; and 6) obtaining a letter from the on-site supervisor, detailing tasks completed and overall Prerequisites: None performance. Open To: First-years NOTE: Interested students must complete all Grading System: Letter arrangements and have sponsoring faculty send Max. Enrollment: 15 certification of compliance to the Director of Interim MEETING TIME: M-F 1:00 – 3:00 and Contract Learning (Munger 102) by Wednesday,

October 15, 2007, in order to be eligible for these Einstein, as you may have heard, was a pretty clever internships. guy. Maybe you think that his theory of relativity has something to do with moving at really fast speeds, falling into black holes, really cool effects PS 84 in science fiction, and maybe even building nuclear Pre-Law Internship weapons. What you may not know is that understanding many of the amazing consequences of Natalie Davis Einstein‘s theory requires only a proficiency in basic algebra and geometry! Starting from the realization Prerequisites: Minimum GPA 3.3 or Consent that space and time are not absolute, but rather Open To: Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors aspects of a four-dimensional ―spacetime‖, we will Grading System: S/U investigate the consequences of motion at very high Max. Enrollment: 6 (may be limited by availability speeds and the apparent paradoxes that result. We of participating attorneys) will also discuss gravity and the curvature of Meeting Time: M-F 9:00 - 5:00 spacetime, black holes, and beyond. Grading will be based on active participation, daily homework The law office internship will provide the pre-law assignments, and weekly quizzes. student with an opportunit to observe and participate in the work of a law firm in the Birmingham area; under special circumstances, Political Science internships in areas other than Birmingham can be approved. It is intended for students who have had PS 83 no more than minimal prior experience working in a Internship in Politics and Government law firm and want to learn more about the practice Natalie Davis and Ed LaMonte of law before making a decision to attend law school. In addition to working in a law firm, Prerequisites: 2.5 minimum GPA and consent students are required to write one essay on the Open To: Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors practice of law and submit a journal of their Grading System: S/U experiences. A minimum of 30 hours per week is Max. Enrollment: open expected of the student‘s time. Evaluation will be Meeting Time: M-F 9:00 - 5:00 based on the essay, journal, and assessment by the instructor and members of the sponsoring law firm. This project is designed for students who wish to NOTE: Interested students must contact Mr. John work in political or governmental or non- Wrinkle, BSC pre-law advisor (tel. 205-521-8320 or governmental settings at the national, state or local 205-226-4755) before Wednesday, October 13, 2008, level during the Interim Term. Students must meet in order to be eligible for these internships. Mr. with a sponsoring professor to discuss their Wrinkle will assist students in finding placement internship plans and establish the specific options. requirements for successful completion of their particular project. Students must be aware that no Psychology one is guaranteed an internship position. Internship positions are limited and students are primarily PY 70 responsible for finding a position. Satisfactory Child and Adolescent Abnormal Psychology completion of the internship includes these requirements:1) meeting with the faculty sponsor(s) Richard Rector as necessary during fall term; 2) contacting the Prerequisites: PY 101 Page 27 Open To: All Students PY 72 Grading System: Letter Psychology in Cinema Max. Enrollment: 15 Meeting Time: Tu W Th 2:00 – 4:30 Shane Pitts

For this project, students will be introduced to the Prerequisites: None various disorders associated with childhood and Open To: All Students adolescence. Topics to be covered will include a Grading System: Letter brief history of the field, assessment techniques and Max. Enrollment: 15 treatment, developmental pathways and adult Meeting Time: Tu W Th 9:00 - 1:00 outcomes, behavioral disorders, communication and learning disorders, anxiety disorders, eating Film will serve as a catalyst for examination of a disorders, and problems related to abuse. Students selection of psychological phenomena such as will be expected to participate in simulations of memory, consciousness, prejudice, obedience, self- assessments and of behavioral modification therapy. justification, and neurological and psychological We will visit several local agencies serving children disorders, among others. Films may include and adolescents to observe testing and assessments Memento, Rashomon, Schindler’s List, Blade Runner, of infants, toddlers, and children. Students will also Do The Right Thing, A Clockwork Orange, and be required to complete readings, view related others. To give us the requisite background for media in and out of class, and write short viewing the films, we will read selections of summaries of site visits. Evaluation will be based on contemporary psychological research and theory. class participation, brief quizzes, and short essays. Class meetings will be held in a seminar format, wherein discussion will be an integral component of PY 71 our learning. Students will be expected to engage in Gender in American Pop Culture careful reading of all material prior to class meetings Heather Meggers and to lead and share in class-wide and small group discussions. Students will take quizzes over readings, Prerequisites: None write several short papers and a final paper on Open To: All course concepts depicted in the films. Attendance Grading System: Letter and active class participation at every meeting is Max. Enrollment: 18 required. Meeting Time: Tu Th 9:00 – 1:00 and W 9:00 – noon; 1:00 – 3:00 PY 73 Psychology of Stress Gender refers to the socially constructed and Tricia Witte culturally determined roles and responsibilities assumed by human beings as they develop. The Prerequisites: None contribution of social pressures to conform to Open To: All Students traditional ―male‖ and ―female‖ gender roles, with Grading System: Letter the related stereotyped behaviors, has long been Max. Enrollment: 20 recognized by the scientific community and lay Meeting Time: Tu – Th 10:00 – 12:30 public. This project will explore traditional and non- traditional representations of male, female, and Students will learn how the mind can gender-queer identifications in pop culture forums. activate the physiological stress response. Students We will watch television and films and discuss the will also learn about the influence of stress on the construction of gender within a biopsychosocial following: the cardiovascular system, the immune framework. Students will spend 30 hours per week system, the gastrointestinal system, sleep, appetite, completing academic readings, viewing media in metabolism, and the mind. This course will also class and on their own, keeping reaction journals, focus on various psychological interventions aimed and completing a creative research project in at reducing stress (e.g., deep breathing techniques, gender and pop culture. Evaluation will be heavily cognitive restructuring). Students will practice and dependent on discussion and in-class participation, critically evaluate each stress-reduction technique short reaction journals, and a final project. outside of the classroom. In addition to lengthy NOTE: Text and supplies will cost approximately reading assignments and several short papers, $100 students will develop comprehensive stress

management programs for hypothetical clinical cases.

Page 28 PY 74 Attachment theory suggests individual differences in The Science and Mythology of Sleep and habitual ways of behaving in relationships and in forming emotional bonds with other people. The Dreaming project will meet as a seminar during which Terry Goodrick students will present and discuss readings, view media, and participate in simulations and Prerequisites: None demonstrations of interpersonal processes. Open to: All Students Evaluation will be based on presentation and Grading System: Letter participation as well as a research paper. Max. Enrollment: 14 Meeting Time: Tu W F 9:30 – 12:30

Why do we sleep and why do we dream? Despite Religion decades of research and theory in neuroscience, biology, and psychology, the answers to these RE 76 (GEN 43) questions are not clear. During this project we will Race and the Bible begin our attempt to understand the functions of Amy Cottrill and Jennifer Roth-Burnette sleep and dreaming by exploring their physiological and neurological correlates. Next, we will review See listing under General both the animal and human research on the behavioral, psychological, and physiological consequences of sleep deprivation and examine the Sociology various disorders of sleep. Finally, we will critically evaluate theories of dreaming and dream interpretation, and explore the significance dreams SO 77 have had across cultures and throughout history. Prisons in Alabama Our classes will be held in a seminar format; as Guy Dalto such, students will be required to discuss and respond critically to readings and other class Prerequisites: No outstanding warrants materials, as well as to master course content. We Open to: Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors will have daily quizzes and a cumulative exam. To Grading System: S/U enhance our discussion of research and theory you Max. Enrollment: 10 will be keeping a sleep log and dream journal. Meeting Time: DHAR Finally, you will be researching a specific area of interest in sleep and dreaming and presenting your The project will explore imprisonment from a findings to the group. sociological point of view. Students will view videos about the history of incarceration, read PY 75 material on contemporary issues, and visit juvenile The Social Psychology of Personal Relationships detention centers, jails, and prisons in Alabama Richard McCallum subject to availability. We will tour local, state, and federal prisons in Alabama, including the Prerequisites: None facilities in Bessemer, Montgomery, and Limestone. Open to: All Students The issue of capital punishment will be an important Grading System: Option focus of this course, and we hope to arrange a visit Max. Enrollment: 18 to death row. Attendance and participation are Meeting Time: M-Th 10:00 - noon critical parts of this interim experience. Students will be expected to maintain a journal that The project will present three theoretical highlights their impressions, observations, and a frameworks for exploring close, personal critical analysis of our visits, incorporating the relationships such as those between friends, lovers, assigned videos and readings. Students taking this family members, and co-workers. Interdependence as their senior project will be required to write a 20 theory will be used as a model of the patterns of page paper. mutual influence, levels of satisfaction and NOTE: In addition to the cost of books, there will dissatisfaction, attributions of personal dispositions, be travel costs of approximately $300. This includes and responsiveness to partners‘ outcomes which a possible overnight hotel stay in Montgomery plus characterize such relationships. Evolutionary meals and gas. psychology will offer perspectives on the adaptive functions of relationships, kin relations, parental investment, mate selection, and altruism. Page 29 website: http://www.bsc.edu/academics/theatre- SO 80 dance/index.htm. Senior Project in Sociology Guy Dalto Environmental Studies

Prerequisites: Consent UES 79 Open to: SO majors Understanding Global Climate Change Grading System: Letter Edwin Brands Max. Enrollment: open Meeting Time: DHAR Prerequisites: None Open To: All Students This project is designed for Sociology majors. Grading System: Option Students will complete a major research paper (15 Max. Enrollment: 15 pages plus references) in consultation with the Meeting Time: M – F 9:00 – noon (field trips are instructor. Each student will submit a topic TBA and may last significantly together with relevant bibliography prior to the longer than 3 hours) interim term. The instructor must approve the research design. In addition, students must present Global climate change (GCC), its impacts, and our their findings to the BSC community. adaptations will play a significant role in shaping our collective future. This project will equip students Theater Arts to appreciate the complexities involved in the science and policy of this phenomenon by clearly THA 78 identifying which aspects of GCC are accepted, and Theatre Performance Ensemble: which continue to be debated among scientists and others, and the reflection of these discussions in Dead Man Walking policy and their portrayal in popular media. We will Michael Flowers and Matthew Mielke cover international and regional issues in some depth; however, as it is difficult to fully Prerequisites: Audition or Permission of comprehend the ―big picture‖ without meaningful Instructor grounding, we will illustrate selected issues (e.g. Open To: All Students transportation, power generation, lifestyle choices) Grading System: Letter with local and personal examples. Coursework will Max. Enrollment: 25-30 (as cast) consist of group discussions, readings, guest Meeting Time: 40+ hours/week + two December lectures, videos, and field trips. Active particip- meetings; see project description ation is expected during the course; students will also prepare and deliver a scholarly presentation on This project is designed to provide an ensemble of one climate change sub-topic of their choice. students the opportunity to produce Dead Man Walking. The company will include approximately 25-30 students, serving as actors and production staff. Cast members, who also do technical work, are admitted by audition. Production staff members are also admitted by permission of the instructors. Production opportunities include stage management, costume construction, properties, lighting and set construction. December 2008 commitments: two meetings for all company members. The company members will need to work 40 hours per week during January 2009 AND AS NEEDED. Evaluation will be based on attendance and promptness to all calls an d meetings, attitude, work ethic and demeanor, outside preparation, and performance quality. For senior credit, students will be assigned significant production responsibilities and will produce a substantial paper evaluating the experience. NOTE: For more details on department policies, see the Theatre Handbook, located on the Theatre and Dance Department Homepage of the BSC Page 30

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AFTER APARTHEID: SOUTH AFRICA David Smith and Sandra Sprayberry Traveling to Cape Town and Johannesburg and their townships, we will study what Nelson Mandela called the ―long walk to freedom‖ from apartheid, and, in particular, the reconciliation efforts afterwards and the current state of affairs in South Africa. We will focus on this very serious topic, with on-site lectures and experiential learning, such as home stays and service projects.

ARCHAEOASTRONOMY IN THE MAYA RUINS OF BELIZE AND GUATEMALA Scott Dorman This project will be very like the Archaeoastronomy project going to Mexico and Guatemala, with a slightly different itinterary to Belize and Guatemala; see description in 2009 GEN section

BUENOS AIRES: A LATIN AMERICAN CITY THAT FORESHADOWS ALL OTHERS Barbara Domcekova and Janie Spencer See description in 2009 MFL:SN section

CLASSICAL AND RENAISSANCE ITALY Samuel Pezzillo and Michael McInturff See description in 2009 CL section

COSTA RICA: ARE SUSTAINABILITY & ECOTOURISM COMPATABLE? Jeanne Jackson and Larry Brasher We will explore four ecosystems in Costa Rica—one of the world’s last great natural places—the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve, the Pacific rainforest, the Pacific lowlands dry forest, and a coastal beach habitat. Owing to its geographic location, the biodiversity of Costa Rica is rich with over 800 species of birds identified in a country the size of West Virginia. Our visit will include a volcano, unique ecology and cultural sites, and several of the country’s 75 protected areas. The focus of our readings and discussions will be on ecological sustainability in the midst of economic development and ecotourism

EXPLORING THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS: WILDLIFE, ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION Pete Van Zandt and Megan Gibbons This project will focus on the ecology, wildlife and conservation of the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador. After studying the history and ecology of the islands on campus, participants will fly to Ecuador to tour the islands on a private yacht, and to visit Ecuadorian sites.

THE FOOTSTEPS OF JESUS IN GALILEE Bishop Robert C. Morgan Our students will travel to Galilee in Israel. Noted author and archaeologist, Charles Page II, will augment the teaching of Bishop Robert Morgan. Morgan and Pate will teach on Jesus’ life, ministry and teaching in the Galilee. Our classroom will be in the open air along the shore of Sea of Galilee. Two or three days of our interim will be spent participating in an archaeological dig at Capernaum, Jesus’ adult home. * If U.S. State Department does not approve travel to Israel… We will travel to Turkey, Greece and Italy following ―The Footsteps of Paul.‖

HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEVELOPMENT IN CENTRAL AMERICA: COSTA RICA AND GUATEMALA. Vince Gawronski A 3-4 week experiential learning trip, involving volunteer work and encounters with human rights activitsts and development organizations

INTERIM AT SEA 2010 Duane Pontius Sail training aboard a classic tall ship in the Caribbean; see description in 2009 GEN section

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ASPECTS OF BALLET Ruth Henry and Mira Popovich The project will cover basic aspects of classical ballet as a performing art form, with technique classes supplemented by studies of nutrition, pilates, yoga, acting, character dance, music as it relates to other art forms, and rehearsals.

BASIC ITALIAN FOR ROMANCE LANGUAGE ADDICTS Margaret M. King This class teaches the Italian language from all angles: speaking, writing, reading and comprehension. We will learn this ―lingua bellissima‖ through skits, workbook exercises, crossword puzzles, music, lab sessions and just plain fun!

BASKETBALL IN LITERATURE AND FILM Peter Donahue Participants in this course will read and study contemporary novels that depict the sport, and will view and study films, both documentaries and features, that do the same.

BEGINNING PIANO William DeVan See description in 2009 Music section

BOB DYLAN: A COMPLETE UNKNOWN? Leo Pezzimenti See description in 2009 General section

BREAD: SCIENCE, SYMBOL AND SUSTENANCE Terry Goodrick An interdisciplinary examination of bread making throughout history.

THE BUDDHA IN THE WEST Clare Emily Clifford This course will consider the teachings of the Buddha – the Dharma – as they have been adopted by and adapted to cultures traditionally considered ―Western,‖ with perspectives from contemporary psychology, American literature, and film.

DIGITAL WORLDS Marietta Cameron Participants will design and implement 3D environments that will serve as backdrops for a simple 3D game.

FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT: A LIFE IN FILMS D. Linchet We will explore the work of François Truffaut, one of the most influential French film directors. We will examine important milestones in his fascinating career. Movies will be shown in French with the English subtitles and class discussion will be in English.

GENDER IN AMERICAN POP CULTURE Heather Meggers See description in 2009 PY section

IMAGINE NO RELIGION Steve Hendley We will read and discuss The God Delusion which argues that religious belief is both irrational and dangerous, along with a response which defends the rationality and value of religious belief.

ISSUES IN HUMAN SEXUALITY Clint E. Bruess See description in 2009 General section

MARTIAL ARTS: PHILOSOPHY AND PRACTICE Page 32 Andy Gannon Asian martial arts interweave the philosophies of Taoism and Zen Buddhism with the physical experience. In this project students will read and discuss these two ancient, Asian philosophies as they physically practice and learn about a variety of martial arts.

NON-TOXIC INTAGLIO PRINTMAKING Kevin Shook Participants in this project will explore Non-Toxic Printmaking techniques using ImagOn, a photosensitive polymer film.

NOTHIN' BUT A HOUND DOG? EXPLORING THE CANINE WORLD Gail Smith

THE NOVELS OF KURT VONNEGUT, JR. AND PHILIP K. DICK Tynes Cowan Students will read two novels or novellas each week (one for each author), with particular attention to the times (1960s and 70s) in which they were produced.

THE NOVELS OF WILLIAM FAULKNER Jane Archer In this project, we will read three of William Faulkner’s novels.

PERSONAL FINANCE Paul Cleveland and Ron Stunda See description in 2009 EC section

PRE-HEALTH CAREER INTERNSHIP Jeanette Runquist Participants experience one of the health professions (medicine, dentistry, physical therapy, etc.) Through an internship supervised by a health care professional.

PROYECTO HERMANDAD: AN IMMERSION INTO LOCAL HISPANIC COMMUNITIES Jessica Ramos de Harthun See description in 2009 MFL:SN section

THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE: POP CULTURE AND THE RHETORIC OF WAR Victoria Ott This project will explore how Americans used media to promote and/or protest war from the Revolutionary era through the early 1970s.

PSYCHOLOGY OF STRESS Tricia Witte & Lynne Trench See description in 2009 Psychology section

SCIENCE, PSEUDOSCIENCE, AND SKEPTICISM Mark Rupright A brief look at the nature of science and how to distinguish it from pseudoscience, introducing skepticism as a cornerstone of scientific methodology.

SELF-PORTRAITURE WITH COLLAGE Bud Spivey See description in 2009 Art section

SENIOR CAPSTONE IN ACCOUNTING AND BUSINESS (AC/BA 499) Craft, Taylor, Morrow See description in 2009 Business section

SENIOR EXPERIENCE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE Rick Turner See description in 2009 Computer Science section

Page 33 SENIOR PROJECT IN EDUCATIONAL SERVICES Clint E. Bruess See description in 2009 Education section

SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY Amy Cottrill This course will focus on the construction of religious identity through personal storytelling and autobiography. We will examine the genre of autobiography and its conventions and how individuals create and construe religious meaning out of life events. Possible works to be included are by Maya Angelou, Etty Hillesum, Augustine, Elie Wiesel, Dorothy Day, and May Sarton, among others.

THEATRE PERFORMANCE ENSEMBLE Michael Flowers & Matthew Mielke This project is designed to provide an ensemble of students the opportunity to produce a play.

VIDEOGRAPHY: A BASIC COURSE IN VIDEO FILMING AND EDITING Clyde Stanton Students will be introduced to the basics of using video cameras in different scenarios, and in editing and producing a final cut for posting to a Web site.

¡Y AHORA A HABLAR! Kim Lewis See description in 2009 MFL:SN section

How to fill out the Interim Registration Form

• First-year students fill out the 199 line, sophomores the 299 line, and juniors the 399 line listed in the column ―Interim Number.‖ Juniors completing the senior project during the junior Interim should fill out the 499 line. Seniors fill out the 499 line if completing their senior project during the senior Interim; if the senior project was completed during the junior Interim, seniors should fill out the 399 line. Thus, 499 is ONLY for Senior Projects! • In the column ―Action Code,‖ write ―R‖ for register. • In the column ―Department Code,‖ write the two- or three-letter course prefix. • In the column ―Project Number,‖ write the project number of the Interim project you have chosen. Consult the Bulletin for this information. • Only complete the final column if the project you have chosen is listed as ―Option.‖ (If the project is listed as ―S/U‖ or ―Letter Grade,‖ leave this space blank.) If you have the option to choose S/U or a letter grade, answer ―Y‖ if you want to take the project S/U and ―N‖ if you want to take it for a letter grade. • Have the Interim project supervisor and your faculty advisor sign the card in the appropriate spaces.

Interested in individualized study or an internship during Interim?

Investigate an independent study contract at: http://www.bsc.edu/academics/int-con/contract.htm Interim contracts are due Monday, October 13, 2008.

Contact Jennifer L. Roth-Burnette Director of Interim and Contract Learning at 205-226-4647 for details.