 First Year Seminars

THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL FALL 2016

new student orientation 2 016  First Year Seminars For Your Success! FALL 2016

How can you make the best transition to college and share the excitement of Carolina’s intellectual life and research community? Students and faculty agree: enroll in a First Year Seminar.

Carolina’s First Year Seminar (FYS) Program provides a unique academic opportunity within our broader curriculum. FYS are small (no more than 24 students), taught by our best instructors, and address topics that are on the frontier of scholarship or research. FYS give you the opportunity to work together with faculty and classmates in a shared experience that provides a hands-on preview of the world of engaged scholarship at Carolina. FYS are “regular courses” in the sense that they are one semester in duration,

offered in the fall and spring, provide three credit hours, and meet General hill Education requirements. FYS go beyond “regular courses” in their emphasis on active learning, which usually includes class discussion and other modes of chapel - engagement such as fieldwork, artistic performances, class trips, presentations, unc

, projects, or experiments. FYS also help refine your ability to communicate clearly and persuasively in a wide array of formats. Perhaps most importantly, sears FYS are designed to be lively and fun, promoting collaboration in scholarship dan

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photo plan ahead Many students are attracted by the FYS that are directly relevant to their interests, A note from Drew Coleman but this strategy is a bit shortsighted because all students will eventually enroll in Assistant Dean for First Year Seminars advanced courses in their major. Enrolling in an FYS is an opportunity for you to explore topics that are new and unfamiliar. Not only does this experience expand your mind (and possibly, your career path), but also it provides an opportunity to For more information complete some of the more challenging curricular requirements in a pleasant way.

Talk with your advisor at FYS have limited capacity and thus fill up quickly. A successful strategy for Orientation this summer. registration is to identify a dozen or more FYS that would be of interest and put them in your “shopping cart” in ConnectCarolina (use the FYS list on the back The academic advising office of this brochure to help get organized). When registration is available on-line you can be reached at (919) 966-5116. can continue seeking seats in your target FYS and also view all FYS that have open Explore the First Year Seminars seats. Finally, registration continues during the first week of classes. Most FYS are Program website at fys.unc.edu. offered only once in an academic year, but we offer almost as many FYS in the spring semester as we do in the fall semester. Contact the First Year Seminars Be wise and take advantage of this valuable learning experience! office at (919) 843-7773 or [email protected]. Contact Dean Coleman at (919) 962-0705 or [email protected]. On the cover: Student performing a choreographed dance solo for COMM 89 - Composing Movement. Photo by Evelyn Coleman. FIRST YEAR SEMINARS fys.unc.edu 02|03

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: american indians in history, : american indians in history, 60.001 a m e r i c a n politics and protest from the late nineteenth century to the present. Works in politics and protest from the late nineteenth century to the present. Works a central figure in activist Clyde Warrior, progress include biographies of Ponca the American Indian youth movement of the 1960s, and (you guessed it) D’Arcy and contextualize passages and then share (probably through (probably through and contextualize passages and then share and activist D’Arcy McNickle (1904-1977). We will we will be Even better, as well as secondary works about him. read than just being a passive recipient of information, you will be than just being a passive recipient the remarkable life and times of Flathead author, intellectual life and times of Flathead author, the remarkable scholarship of engagement, public outreach and service to the profession. His working with D’Arcy McNickle’s handwritten and heretofore research and teaching focus on American Indian history since 1887, political activism, ethnohistorical methods, ethnobiography, memory and global America indigenous rights. His first book, Native Activism in Cold War literature (and much, much more) through his life story. Rather story. life his through more) much much, (and literature digital technologies) what you have learned about history, law, law, about history, digital technologies) what you have learned of new knowledge! creator classic work American Indians (2013) Hagan’s T. fourth edition of William Nations (2015), a primary document collection on Native Are and Say We of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of American Studies. unpublished diary. You will have an opportunity to transcribe to transcribe will have an opportunity You unpublished diary. HS, US Daniel M. Cobb 3:35–4:50pm MW, of through an exploration history and literature Indian law, D’Arcy McNickle’s novels, short stories, histories and essays, (2007) and Memory Matters (2011), a revised and expanded Power Daniel M. Cobb is an award-winning writer and teacher committed to the This research seminar provides a broad grounding in American in grounding broad a provides seminar research This Indigenous Studies major concentration and minor and as Director McNickle. Cobb currently serves as the coordinator of the American Indian and and literature law, amst Award in 2009. His other publications include the edited works (2008), won the inaugural Labriola Center American Indian National Book , Arts Literary North Atlantic World Reasoning Philosophical and Moral Physical and Life Sciences Quantitative Intensive

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general BN CI EE GL HS 50.001 Please consult ConnectCarolina and the FYS website for the most up-to-date up-to-date for the most website and the FYS consult ConnectCarolina Please a n d a f r i c a n policies that exacerbate or ameliorate disparities and inequality between groups. as well as film, novels and memoirs. Our goal is to attempt to also of politics, culture and self-identification. Over the course the Over self-identification. and culture politics, of also lines; many of the questions she poses can only be answered by considering bodies traditionally categorized as Black. Who is included in the categorized as Black. Who is included traditionally task due to changing social norms, immigration, emigration, emigration, task due to changing social norms, immigration, the increasing number of immigrants from Africa and the pinning down an accurate definition of Blackness in the define Blackness as well as to understand the mechanisms that definition of Black is not only a matter of color and history but history and color of matter a only not is Black of definition even increasing socioeconomic bifurcation among those among socioeconomic bifurcation even increasing questions. This mixed-method approach is best illustrated in her first book of literature, theoretical frameworks and methodological strategies found in Here, she focuses on American political behavior and Racial and Ethnic Politics. policy preferences, particularly around social and groups’ focuses on individuals’ influence the boundaries and definition of Blackness. of the semester, we will engage in the debates around Blackness. of the semester, The Journal of Black Studies and Politics, Science, The Journal of Black Studies and Politics, of Political We will examine scholarly texts and government documents will examine scholarly We SS, US U.S., to be specific, is becoming increasing an complicated Black Mosaic: The Politics of Black Pan-Ethnic Diversity (NYU of Black Pan-Ethnic Black Mosaic: The Politics Professor Candis Watts Smith tends to ask research questions that blur disciplinary Candis Watts Professor TuTh, 9:30–10:45am TuTh, The boundaries of Blackness are constantly in flux, and Press, 2014). Her work also appears in journals like the 2014). Her work also Press, Sociology, Political Science, Psychology and Public Policy. Her research interests and Public Policy. Science, Psychology Sociology, Political Dr. Smith uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to answer research Dr. Caribbean, the growing number of multi-racial persons and persons Caribbean, the growing number of multi-racial Candis Watts Smith Candis Watts Groups & Identities as well as in edited book volumes. aaad [amst 89.001] “The seminar really brought the culture and issues. Students will also engage in small group projects— cooperative explorations of problems raised in class or in the into the classroom, we got to touch a buffalo dress, readings and/or designing mini-research projects. see authentic paintings from artists, and visit the Paul Leslie’s professional interests focus on human ecology, and he has pursued Ackland’s exhibits.” this primarily through research among nomadic peoples in East Africa. His most recent project entails studying (while nursing an aged Land Rover across –Alison, Class of 2017 the African savanna) human-environment interactions in northern Tanzania, especially how the changing land use and livelihood patterns of the Maasai amst 89.001: american indian art in people living there affect and are affected by wildlife and conservation efforts. When not teaching or practicing anthropology, he enjoys bicycling, motorcycling, the 20th century woodworking and jazz. VP, CI, US Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote anth 64.079: public archaeology in MW, 3:35–4:50pm bronzeville, chicago’s black metropolis This course examines twentieth century American Indian art HS, NA though secondary articles, books, a graphic novel and art itself. Anna Sophia Agbe-Davies The class sharpens written and verbal communication though MWF, 9:05–9:55am in-class discussion, informal and formal assignments such as a research paper students will write over the course of the The term “African diaspora” usually refers to the consequences semester. Students will hone their visual critical thinking skills of the transatlantic slave trade, but there have been many as well by examining and analyzing contemporary American diasporas of people of African descent. One major movement Indian art and representations of Native people. This course took place in the U.S. in the early 20th century when millions connects American Indian art to vital conversations in American of people left small southern communities for large industrial Indian studies such as colonialism, identity, gender and tribal northern cities. This seminar examines that phenomenon sovereignty. We will also address the following questions. How through the lens of a single site where migrants lived in the and why does “contemporary traditional” and “modern” come city of Chicago. The Phyllis Wheatley Home for Girls was run to describe and even categorize art created by Native people by black women to provide social services for female migrants in the twentieth century? How have Native people and others from 1926 through the 1960s. Research at this site combines constructed and contested the idea of American Indian Art? elements of archaeology, anthropology and history to study their Additionally, we will examine how artists have engaged with, and lives. Students, working in teams, will have the opportunity to at times resisted, the markets for their work and their influence contribute to the ongoing research effort via analysis of written on Native art. records and artifacts. This multidisciplinary project will be Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote is an Assistant Professor in the department of American of interest to students curious about 20th century history, Studies. She teaches courses on American Indian history, art and material culture. African-American culture, museums and heritage, women’s Her research interests include American Indian cultural and political history and and gender studies, migration and labor history. expressive culture. Anna Sophia Agbe-Davies is an historical archaeologist whose excavations have explored the plantation societies of the colonial southeastern US and Caribbean, as well as towns and cities of the 19th and 20th century Midwest, with an anthropology emphasis on sites of the African diaspora. Her projects have included excavation anth 53h.037: darwin’s dangerous idea and community collaboration at the sites of New Philadelphia, Illinois and the Phyllis Wheatley Home for Girls on the south side of Chicago. Her research and (honors) teaching interests are strongly shaped by her own experiences as an undergraduate SS at the College of William and Mary and the time she spent working in museum Paul Leslie settings before becoming a professor. She received her Ph.D. from the University TuTh, 9:30–10:45am of Pennsylvania. Prior to that, she was a staff archaeologist for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s Department of Archaeological Research. Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection is central to one of the most profound revolutions in the history anth 65.086: humans and animals: of thought, generating stunning insights but also some misunderstanding and tragic abuse. This seminar aims to anthropological perspectives provide a clear understanding of how natural selection works HS and how it doesn’t work. We will examine objections to the theory; how the environmental and health problems we face Ben Arbuckle today reflect processes of natural selection; and recent attempts TuTh, 9:30–10:45am to understand why we get sick, how we respond to disease, why In this seminar we explore the complex relationships between we get old, why we choose mates the way we do and more. Class people and animals in our own culture and in other cultures, sessions will feature a mix of lecture and discussion of concepts now and also in the past. We will explore the origins and uses FIRST YEAR SEMINARS fys.unc.edu 04|05

: art and technology : african american art art : african american 89.001 61.001 the ways in which images interpret the meanings of texts through visual references visual of texts through the meanings interpret in which images the ways rites, political liturgical popular sermons, such as elements to extra-textual published articles and art criticism in various journals and has recently completed the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program. He is an Program. Independent Study the Whitney Museum of American Art’s historian of African American art, who works from the assumption that art plays historian of African American art, who works from solidarity from the era of colonialism and slavery to the present. of colonialism and slavery to the present. solidarity from the era become the “most linked to” at the university. As she developed the course, As she developed the linked to” at the university. become the “most art; and artists throughout the 20th century who represented who represented art; and artists throughout the 20th century by addressing moral and political dilemmas we would often rather ignore. He has book that explores how African American artists have engaged simultaneously and private life has been transformed by our devices, and private life has been transformed our screens on the next new focused thing, we and machines. Perpetually the daily lives and hardships of rural and working-class blacks. working-class and rural of hardships lives and daily the How does the art of throughout the semester will include, speak/spoke a Celtic language) since 1995, when she first began teaching the when she first began Celtic language) since 1995, speak/spoke a with modernism, globalization and diaspora from the Harlem Renaissance of the the history of technology and artistic practice. Our conception of conception Our practice. artistic and technology of history the course Celtic Art and Cultures. She received a small grant from Chancellor a small grant from Chancellor Art and Cultures. She received course Celtic were an the historical Celts to how “Celts” she shifted the interest from necessities and catechisms. She has been studying Celts (defined as those who studying Celts (defined catechisms. She has been necessities and a book that examines the work of artist Adrian Piper. He is currently writing a He is currently a book that examines the work of artist Adrian Piper. an important role in determining how we see ourselves as morally responsible an important role in determining how we see ourselves to convey the urgency of art individuals. In his research and teaching, he attempts world around us. This course examines the relationships between world around us. This course examines the relationships contemporary role of art in shaping public discourse? contemporary communities. We will ask how art has been used to maintain will ask how art has been used to maintain communities. We cultural traditions, shape American culture and build political national reputations for the quality of their work; artists who artists work; their of quality the for reputations national and Africanre-imagined redefined American identity through rarely look back to consider the long and multifaceted historiesmultifaceted and long the consider to back look rarely Students will visit campus museums and archives and conduct archives Students will visit campus museums and questions Persistent sources. using regional original research and what is the region, our own identities and roles within the of our technologies and how those histories relate to our lives—toour to relate histories those how and technologies our of with theour understandings of each other and our interactions of the carolinas We We will study the cultivation of artistic practices from Africa; We are immersed in technology. Virtually every facet of public Virtually immersed in technology. are We HS MWF, 9:05–9:55am MWF, the many ways this seminar explores on the Carolinas, Focusing Maggie Cao, Cary Levine 12:20–1:10pm MWF, John Bowles Hooker’s CCI funds to create the web site Celtic Art and Cultures, which has and Cultures, which has the web site Celtic Art CCI funds to create Hooker’s John Bowles received his Ph.D. from UCLA of in 2002 and is a graduate VP, CI VP, arth arth 18th-century construct, specifically the Druid class. 18th-century construct, specifically African Americans have used art to define themselves and their earned who craftsmen and sculptors painters, American African African Americans in the Carolinas provoke us to question 1920s until today. culture : celts-druid 52.001 a rt seminar will examine how identities are created. seminar will examine how identities are sources such as Julius Caesar’s De Bello Gallico. The focus will De Bello Gallico. The such as Julius Caesar’s sources societies, as companions, pets and food. We will also examine also examine will food. We pets and as companions, societies, are cast in roles as patriotic, wise and environmentally sensitive, cast in roles as patriotic, are cast as demonic and wicked. The and at other times they are about them, opening the door for fanciful theories and exposing then shift to early modern and modern authors who created a then shift to early modern and modern authors who created the foibles of the so-called experts on Druids. This seminar will the symbolic uses of animals and talk about current issues and talk about current uses of animals the symbolic area of specialization is early medieval art, and her research interests include the interplay between images and texts in early medieval manuscripts, particularly begin with what is known about Druids from primary textual from primary about Druids what is known begin with sites. Professor Arbuckle uses these bones, which represent the trash from ancient Arbuckle uses these bones, which represent sites. Professor is social and political systems we have inherited. He world whose technologies and vast array of Druids that provide insights into the development of Druids vast array writers for centuries, though there is little reliable information is little reliable writers for centuries, though there currently working on a National Geographic funded project exploring the origins of Geographic funded project exploring the origins currently working on a National domestic horses and another trying to understand the origins of wool. domestic horses and another meals, parties and sacrifices, in order to understand how our ancestors created ameals, parties and sacrifices, religions, visual culture and protest movements. The Druids visual culture religions, including animal rights and the growing popularity of hunting. growing popularity animal rights and the including of British national identities and established ‘alternative’ of domesticated animals, the role of dogs and cats in human cats in of dogs and the role animals, of domesticated Dorothy Verkerk Dorothy Verkerk 11:15am–12:05pm MWF, Dorothy Verkerk received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Rutgers University. Her received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Rutgers Dorothy Verkerk WB Students from ECON 57H “Lean Start-Up: Making Your Idea A Reality in One Semester.” Semester.” Idea A Reality in One Students from ECON 57H “Lean Start-Up: Making Your Photo by Beth Lawrence. The ancient Druids (the intellectual class) have fascinated Ben Arbuckle is an Anthropologist with a specialty in Middle Eastern Archaeology. specialty in Middle Eastern is an Anthropologist with a Ben Arbuckle and the in the Department of Anthropology Laboratory He runs the Zooarchaeology archaeologicalstudies animal bones from in Archaeology where he Research Labs arth “technology” is broad, extending beyond gadgets and machines country: From Anchorage, Alaska to Fort Lauderdale, Florida and from San Diego, to include a host of apparatuses that have effected perception, California to Orono, Maine. He has also received numerous awards for his artwork, representation and communication. Art and visual culture which he describes as the exploration of meditative and ethereal environments that provide a unique lens through which we can apprehend those expand our perceptions of time. effects. This course will explore the impacts of technological innovation on society and culture, and vice versa, along with the ways in which artists have addressed, responded to and critiqued technological progress and invention. Maggie Cao is the David G. Frey Assistant Professor of art history. She specializes in the history of eighteenth and nineteenth-century American art. She received her B.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard and held a humanities fellowship of the Society of Fellows at Columbia before joining the faculty at UNC in 2016. Her intellectual interests include intersections of art and economic theory, the visual culture of science and technology, and artifacts of the global mercantile world. Cary Levine is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His recent book, Pay for Your Pleasures: Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Raymond Pettibon (University of Chicago Press, 2013), examines the work of three important Southern California artists. He has also written criticism for several magazines and has published numerous essays for exhibition catalogues. His current scholarship focuses on the intersections of art, politics and digital technologies. ASIA 63: “Japanese Tea Culture” with Professor Morgan Pitelka. Photo by Micah Stubbs.

arts 59.001: time, a doorway to visual expression a s i a n s t u d i e s VP asia 65.001: philosophy on bamboo: Jim Hirschfield rethinking early chinese thought TuTh, 9:30–10:45am PH, WB Visual artists, not unlike writers, communicate through complex Uffe Bergeton structures of elements and principles (e.g., form, space, line, TuTh, 3:30–4:45pm color, rhythm, balance, etc.). Analyzing any one of these components will help illustrate the nuances of visual language. Over the last few decades a large number of bamboo This seminar will study and explore one of the lesser considered, manuscripts of hitherto unknown texts dating to the 4th to but more intriguing, visual components: the element of Time. the 1st centuries BCE have been excavated from various sites From subtle illusionary movement to clearly defined sequences in China. This wealth of new material has led many scholars to of change, artists have manipulated the element of time to rethink longstanding assumptions about early Chinese thought. strengthen their work. This First Year Seminar will examine In order to enable students to engage directly with the recently this enigmatic element of time through readings and class discovered texts and cutting-edge research on them, this course discussions of Alan Lightman’s Einstein’s Dreams and Leonard will briefly introduce students to the received classics of the pre- Shlain’s Art and Physics, as well as other selected essays. We will Qin period, such as the Analects, the Mozi, the Mencius, the also look at films, listen to music and most importantly express Xunzi, the Daodejing, the Zhuangzi and the Hanfeizi. Rather our personal view through the art making process. As a first- than merely providing an introduction to these traditional texts, year seminar, the course presumes no previous art experience we will study how recently discovered texts challenge traditional and students may carry out their projects through a variety of readings of pre-Qin works and lead us to question traditional mediums (e.g., drawing, photography, painting, video and/or classifications of pre-Qin works into “schools of thought” or sculpture). The projects will be evaluated through class critiques isms such as Confucianism, Legalism, Daoism, etc. and discussions about the work. Ultimately, our intention will Uffe Bergeton is a historian of early China with a focus on pre-Qin (i.e. pre- be to immerse ourselves in the subject and to create personal 221 BCE) culture, history and thought. Originally from Denmark, he has works of art motivated and inspired by our now enhanced lived and studied in France, Taiwan and China. His research projects include understanding of time. early Chinese theories of epistemology and the politics of reclusion, as well as Jim Hirschfield has been teaching art at UNC since 1988. He began thinking about comparisons between pre-Qin China and ancient Greece. the experience of time when he traveled through the deserts of the southwest in his VW Microbus. He still enjoys traveling, only now he often travels as a part of his art projects. Jim has received a number of art commissions from cities across the FIRST YEAR SEMINARS fys.unc.edu 06|07

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52.001 c i t y the United States Air Force Academy prior to returning to his current position. As prior to returning to his Academy Air Force the United States chemistry. His hobbies include hiking, camping, performances in college general housing policy, community development, economic development, immigration, how middle school and secondary math education/preparation affects student math education/preparation affects student how middle school and secondary sexual identity and space, and immigration. The last portion The last portion sexual identity and space, and immigration. space. and use urban space and the built environment. Drawing Drawing environment. built the and urban space and use to probe the ways race and ethnicity have contributed to the and ethnicity have contributed to probe the ways race alleviatein to inequality potential gender the and racial/ethnic social environments, and socially vulnerable populations. She is an expert in will examine a broad spectrum of topics, including the social including will examine a broad spectrum of topics, disasters and urban growth phenomena (e.g. demographic change, sprawl She was Nguyen is also an award winning teacher. and urbanization). Dr. Award in January 2013 for Teaching awarded the J. Carlyle Sitterson Freshman excellence in undergraduate teaching. development. She applies both her Sociology and Urban Planning degrees to address vexing urban and regional dilemmas. She employs both quantitative and qualitative methods to examine problems related to social and spatial inequality, urban growth phenomena, the relationship between the built and presentation on a relevant topic. on a relevant presentation in the pharmaceutical He spent one year working at UNC. in 1996, both at Professor year as an Assistant to graduate school and another industry prior in the Department of Energy and American an undergraduate, he participated a hobby of his since that time. His graduate research nuclear chemistry have been and he is currently involved in both curriculum involved separation science, department and in a long-term study of development within the chemistry athletics. well as following all UNC disc golf and gardening as culture of urban life in the United States. It will also explore the of urban life in the United States. It will also explore culture different ways women and men perceive, understand, occupy ethnic studies, sociology and American history), the seminar label, of the underclass the creation construction of race, chemistry, selected reading assignments, topical student-led topical student-led assignments, selected reading chemistry, discussions, possible facility trips/tours and a final project record record as well as contemporary works of literature and film residential segregation, the significance of Hurricane Katrina, upon the scholarship of several disciplines (urban planning, of the course will focus on planning and policy tools that have of race, ethnicity and gender and how these have shaped the ethnicity and gender and how these have shaped of race, Students may also register for this course under WMST 51.001. for this course under WMST Students may also register SS Mai Nguyen Dr. Mai Nguyen is an Associate Professor in the City and Regional Planning Mai Nguyen is an Associate Professor Dr. Department and focuses her teaching and research on housing and community TuTh, 9:30– 10:45am TuTh, the complex dynamics This seminar will expose students to in america plan Todd Austell received his BS in Chemistry in 1987 and his PhD in Chemistry in 1987 and his PhD in received his BS in Chemistry Austell Todd Chemistry Society’s Summer School in Nuclear Chemistry. Topical studies in Summer School in Nuclear Chemistry. Topical Chemistry Society’s American city since 1945. It will examine both the historical

: from atomic bombs to bombs to : from atomic : mountains beyond beyond : mountains 73.001 62.001 c h e m i s t ry b i o lo g y seminar will explore the inequities in health care between the in health care the inequities seminar will explore lab explores how cells communicate and assemble into tissues and organs lab explores how cells communicate and assemble into the background necessary to understand their applications. the topic of nuclear chemistry on the level of an introductory the challenges of treating them in the developing world, and the challenges of treating benefit of the most basic health care services, and they often will include guest lecturers from the various fields of nuclear with discussion of topics relevant both for today’s society and society for today’s both relevant of topics discussion with perhaps everytheir lives. This seminar will approach day of at Carolina since 1992. He is a cell and developmental biologist, and his at Carolina since 1992. He is a cell and developmental interest in international during embryonic development. He also has an active help our neighbors in the development and believes Americans can and should and meet challenges. developing world, acting in partnership to solve problems profit groups provide a model for how the developed world can world developed the how for model a provide groups profit partner with the poor to meet this challenge. die of diseases that are easily treated in the developed world. easily treated are die of diseases that any having ever of despair to officials health public and clinicians for the future. Other topics including household applications, chemistry class with no prerequisite. Atomic structure, chemistry nuclear Atomic class structure, with no prerequisite. explore how Partners in Health and other entrepreneurial non- in Health and other entrepreneurial how Partners explore developed and developing worlds and the root causes of these nuclear medicine, radiation safety and the problematic issue the problematic and safety radiation medicine, nuclear impact on the problem. Dr. Paul Farmer belies this impression. this impression. belies Farmer Paul Dr. problem. on the impact Health. in Partners network, care health multinational a now This world. the of areas poorest the of some in causes root inequities. We will examine the biology of infectious disease and will examine the biology of infectious disease and inequities. We of radioactive waste storage will be discussed. The seminar storage waste of radioactive of how one can successfully address infectious disease and its infectious disease and its of how one can successfully address of nuclear chemistry of nuclear cancer treatments: the broad scope scope the broad treatments: cancer chem PL PL, GL Mark Peifer Mark Peifer in the developingBillions of people live without the world what is created he Harvard, at student medical a as Beginning His entrepreneurial effort provides revolutionary a example Nuclear weapons and nuclear power will be covered in detail Nuclear weapons and nuclear power will be covered Nuclear chemistry is a field that touches the lives of everyone fission and nuclear fusion processes will be studied to provide TuTh, 11:00am–12:15pm TuTh, is immense, and this fact often leads The scale of the problem Todd Austell Todd 12:30– 1:45pm TuTh, Mark Peifer is the Hooker Distinguished Professor of Biology and has been Distinguished Professor is the Hooker Mark Peifer mountains: infectious disease disease infectious mountains: world developing in the biol c l a s s i c s of their rhetorical structure and argument. Discussion-based classes will focus on readings taken not only from Homer, clas 55h.001: three greek and roman Plato, Aristotle, Demosthenes and Cicero but also from past epics (honors) history and from the modern era (e.g. George Washington, Dr. LA, NA, WB King, Hitler, Churchill and the 2016 presidential candidates). Students will work closely with the instructor to craft a speech, James O’Hara which they will deliver to the rest of the class at the end of the MWF, 10:10–11:00am course. The course will involve a close reading in English of Homer’s Luca Grillo earned his BA in Literature and Philosophy in Milan Italy, where ILIAD and ODYSSEY and Vergil’s AENEID, and as a he was born, and continued to study the Classics and classical rhetoric at the transition from Homer to Vergil, we will also read the tragedies University of Minnesota and at Princeton. He has published on Caesar, Vergil of Sophocles from fifth-century Athens. It was epic and tragedy and Cicero, and he is currently working on a project on irony in Latin Literature. that formulated the bases of Graeco-Roman civilization and Luca loves jogging, biking and hiking, he is the faculty advisor to the swim club provided the models of heroism and human values for the team, is very excited to join all of you at UNC and feels already hooked on the Western Tradition—along with raising fundamental questions Tar Heels. about the individual’s relationship to society. We will analyze, discuss and write about these works both as individual pieces clas 73h.001: life in ancient pompeii of literature in a historical context and in terms of how they (honors) position themselves in the poetic tradition; after reading the HS, BN, WB ILIAD and ODYSSEY, we’ll see how heroic myth gets reworked by tragedy for democratic Athens and then how Vergil combines Hérica Valladares Homer, tragedy and other traditions to make a new poem for MWF, 3:35–4:25pm his time. We will look at aspects of structure and technique, Ancient Pompeii, the city whose life was snuffed out by a volcanic questions of overall interpretation and values, and the interplay eruption almost 2000 years ago, has captured the imagination of genre and historical setting. Requirements: discussion, short of multitudes since its rediscovery in the late 18th century. In online readings in addition to the primary texts, several short this seminar we will explore the history and archaeology of this papers during the term and a 6-10-page term paper. ancient city with the goal of better understanding daily life in the Professor James O’Hara received his A.B. in Classics from the College of the Holy early Roman empire. How did ancient Pompeians spend their Cross in 1981 and his Ph.D. in Classical Studies from the University of Michigan days? What were their houses like? Who ran the city and how in 1986. From 1986 to 2001, he taught at Wesleyan University; since 2001 were they elected? How did Pompeians cope with the various he has been the George. L. Paddison Professor of Latin at UNC, where he has challenges of city life, such as sanitation and traffic jams? The also been department chair. His research and teaching interests are in Greek and course proceeds topically, moving from an exploration of the Latin poetry, with special interests in Homer, Vergil and the literature written city’s public spaces to an analysis of more private domains— during the reign of Rome’s first emperor, Augustus; other interests include Roman Pompeian houses, gardens and tombs. Although the city’s Civilization, Hellenistic poetry, didactic poetry and satire. material remains will be the primary focus of our study, we will also consider evidence from literature, epigraphy and 18th and clas 63.001: the politics of persuasion in 19th-century publications. The impact of the rediscovery of the ancient and modern worlds Pompeii in the 18th century on the development of archaeology LA, WB as a discipline will be one of our final topics of discussion. We will also consider the reception of Pompeii in contemporary Luca Grillo popular culture. MWF, 9:05–9:55am Hérica Valladares is an art historian who specializes in the study of imperial Rome This seminar explores the theory and practice of Greek and and ancient Campania. She has traveled extensively and conducted research in Roman oratory in comparison with contemporary speeches. Are Italy, Turkey and North Africa. Professor Valladares is the author of numerous there rules for crafting a successful speech? How do emotions articles on Roman wall painting. She is currently working on a book on the affect the way we respond to rhetoric? How much do Greek representation of love scenes in Roman art and literature. and Roman oratory affect the way we construct and evaluate a speech today? Oratory will be considered both as a discipline communication with its own laws and practices and as a window into the values and debates that animate the public life of a people. We will do comm 53.001: collective leadership close readings of key passages and orations and analyze their models for community change rhetorical structure and argument; then, having mastered SS, EE the basics of the Greco-Roman “politics of persuasion,” we will compare speeches from other civilizations, including Patricia Parker the ancient Near East, the Bible, ancient China and India. MW, 5:45–7:00pm Assignments will include not only essays on major themes in In this seminar we explore the possibilities for collective classical rhetoric and on their reception in modern discourse, leadership involving youth and adults in vulnerable communities. but also close readings of key passages and orations, and analysis Course readings, guest speakers and class field trips will provide FIRST YEAR SEMINARS fys.unc.edu 08|09 s c i e nc e

: romance and popular and popular : romance : “big data” ethics ethics : “big data” 89.002 89.001 c o m p u t e r that are produced through romance culture and its global circulation. Silva has programming techniques at work in social media to see how the technology programming techniques at global warming to healthcare, global it warming also to poses healthcare, significant risks and such questions, the seminar will center on in-class discussion, center on in-class the seminar will such questions, current research looks at some core computer humanities perspective, his and popular culture continues to generate large numbers of numbers large generate to continues culture popular and and globalization and their relationship to the circulation of to the circulation and globalization and their relationship according to network thinking? In formulating responses to responses In formulating to network thinking? according taking theories about networks and applying them to everyday and applying them about networks taking theories think through and articulate social, political and economic and political articulate social, and through think two days we are creating as much information and data as we did creating two days we are just be for YOU. better understand ourselves and the world around us, from life both within and outside a North American context. and outside a life both within Social Identities, South Asian Popular Culture and Cultural and Cultural Culture in Social Identities, South Asian Popular also published book chapters on race, global media and film. publishing industry. Focusing on five specific themes—that take themes—that specific five on Focusing industry. publishing media technologies, knowledge, power and everyday social life. From a critical power and everyday social life. From media technologies, knowledge, about what it means to be social and even what it encodes philosophical ideas place. If you’ve been noticing the rising effects of means to /mean/ in the first in contemporary culture, then this seminar might algorithms and network gadgets conditions in our society. Framed by cultural theory, philosophy, philosophy, theory, by cultural Framed conditions in our society. of the grossing genres consumers and is one of the highest economic and political expectations. feminist theory and media studies, this course focuses on feminist theory and media studies, this into account global issues like colonialism, post-colonialism into account global issues like colonialism, attempts to map the ways in which course romance culture—the in and political landscape romance intersects our cultural implicit and explicit ways, definingwho we are and our social, understanding how the most disavowed genre of publishing of publishing genre understanding how the most disavowed Brown Threat: Identification in the Studies. She is the author of Brown Threat: and co-editor of Press) 2016, University of Minnesota Security State (Fall data. exponentially more generating we’re up until 2003. Today, culture comp comm What does it mean to organize the world through networks? networks? world through the to organize does it mean What While this data explosion presents tremendous opportunity to tremendous While this data explosion presents PH, CI, QI LA, GL How do identity, commerce, science and political life function function life and political science commerce, do identity, How Michael J. Fern every that said Google, of CEO the then Schmidt, Eric 2010, In Kumarini Silva Kumarini 1:25–2:40pm MW, (2015, Palgrave (2015, Palgrave Challenging Backlash Culture Feminist Erasures: Dr. Kumarini Silva’s research is at the intersections of feminism, identity and research is at the Kumarini Silva’s Dr. Her work has appeared Identification, post-colonial studies and popular culture. Dr. Neal Thomas’ academic work draws out connections between digital work draws out connections academic Neal Thomas’ Dr. TuTh, 12:30–1:45pm TuTh, This course approaches romance as a genre that allows us to us allows that genre a as romance approaches course This UK). Her current book project focuses on the political and social relationships introduction to networked to networked introduction 89.001 project exploring youth civic activism and collective leadership within university- project exploring youth civic activism and collective social, political, economic, cultural and technological terms. technological and cultural social, political, economic, short essays reflecting on the collective leadership models and sustainable community-based change project focusing on three on three change project focusing community-based sustainable about network societies by taking up the idea of the network in network the of idea the up by taking societies network about across traditional divides of culture, race, economics and age. and economics race, of culture, divides traditional across the semester, each seminar participant will write a series of seminar participant will write a series each the semester, engagement. their own community the role that networks play in contemporary global societies. the role that networks play in contemporary women’s transformational leadership. Her publications include a book on African women’s community partnerships. leadership conference first convened in 2009 and organized by organized and 2009 in convened first conference leadership Throughout this seminar. class of participants in the inaugural participatory action research. Students will present their their present will Students research. action participatory documentation) in and through multi-media projects (orally key in as leaders and stakeholders that engage youth strategies and book chapters on leadership and social change appearing in edited volumes and book chapters on leadership and social change appearing working on a book and journals published internationally. She is currently founder and executive director of The Ella Baker Women’s Center for Leadership founder and executive director of The Ella Baker Women’s Fellowship Faculty Kauffman and Community Activism, a venture supported by a and engaged scholarship for social entrepreneurship. Her teaching, research class and power in explore questions at the intersections of race, gender, class and may be selected to present their work at the biennial their to present class and may be selected communities: youth media arts, youth organizing and youth youth organizing youth media arts, communities: organization processes, with a primary focus on youth civic activism and girls’ and civic activism and girls’ organization processes, with a primary focus on youth of the Office of the Provost Engaged Scholarship Award for teaching and the Provost Engaged Scholarship Award for teaching of the Office of the exemplars of collaborative leadership models that engage people people that engage models leadership of collaborative exemplars societies Students will work in teams to research, design and present a and present design research, work in teams to Students will With help from popular and academic writing, we will ask: help from popular With SS comm Neal Thomas Students foraging the edible campus in Professor Dempsey’s COMM 82 FYS, COMM 82 FYS, Dempsey’s Students foraging the edible campus in Professor Photo by Beth Lawrence. Politics.” “Globalizing Organizations: Food Patricia Parker (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin) is Associate Professor and at Austin) is Associate Professor of Texas (Ph.D., University Parker Patricia TuTh, 3:30–4:45pm TuTh, students to This seminar is designed to introduce early-career Over the course of the semester, we will examine key ways to think to ways key examine will we semester, the of course the Over Chair of the Department of Communication Studies. She is the 2013 recipient Communication Studies. She is the 2013 recipient Chair of the Department of American women’s executive leadership (Erlbaum, 2005) and several articles executive leadership (Erlbaum, 2005) and several American women’s challenges, such as a threat to our personal privacy. Through d r a m at i c a rt s readings, guest lectures, writing assignments, discussion and debates, and the analysis of real-world data, we will explore dram 79.001: the heart of the drama: and come to better understand the moral and ethical issues and fundamentals of acting, playwriting implications surrounding the collection and use of “big data” and collaboration in the 21st century. VP, CI Michael J. Fern is the Associate Chair for Business Affairs and Professor of the Practice of Entrepreneurship in the Department of Computer Science at the Mark Perry University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His teaching and research interests TuTh, 11:00am–12:15pm focus on ethics and entrepreneurship and their intersection with data science, The goal of this seminar is to get you doing theatre, to spark computing and software. Before joining UNC-CH, Fern was a technology your creativity and to connect you with the deeper lessons of entrepreneur and consultant. He also previously served as a faculty member at this dynamic art form. You will act. You will write. You will Korea University, Santa Clara University and the University of Victoria. He is a work with others. It will not always be easy, but if you are willing UNC-CH alumnus, receiving his PhD in strategic management from the Kenan- to stretch yourself, you should have a great time. Each lesson is Flagler Business School. organized around a principle or virtue inherent in the practice of the art. Participants study a quotation or two that relate to that comp 89h.052: 3d computer animation principle and then engage in drama exercises that spring from (honors) that principle. By the end of the course, you will have gained PL skills to make you comfortable to write, stage and perform your own 10 minute plays. Not just for those interested in pursuing Anselmo Lastra theatre, this seminar will give you a more holistic understanding TuTh, 11:00am–12:15pm of essential principles in the practice of your life. Computer animation is reaching very realistic levels, but can Mark Perry teaches playwriting, play analysis and dramaturgy and serves as a human characters really look real? In this seminar we’ll learn resident dramaturg with PlayMakers Repertory Company. His plays A New basic 3D computer modeling and animation, and use these Dress for Mona and The Will of Bernard Boynton have been skills to explore the issues inherent in making truly realistic produced by UNC’s Department of Dramatic Art, and both scripts are available animations. You’ll work with a 3D animation program, such as from Drama Circle. Mark is a graduate of the University of Iowa’s Playwrights Blender or Maya. By the end of the semester you will create your Workshop and a former recipient of the North Carolina Arts Council’s Literature own animated short video. Fellowship for playwriting. No computer programming required (but you should be comfortable using a PC or Mac). dram 80.001: psychology of clothes: Topics include motivations for dressing up and • Mesh (polygonal) modeling dressing down • Modeling with curves and surfaces VP, CI • Materials, shading and texturing Bobbi Owen • Lighting TuTh, 12:30–1:45pm • Animation Through traditional and innovative teaching methods, this • Characters and rigging seminar will help students find ways to articulate their own motivations for dress and then apply the ideas they have • Compositing discovered to the ways in which individuality as well as group • The uncanny valley (why humanoid characters can be creepy) attitudes are expressed through clothing. The semester begins • Automated 3D modeling with the familiar – observation and analysis of clothing forms • Virtual reality on UNC’s campus. Small groups will present their findings to the class with an emphasis placed on not only what the subjects We’ll cover basic sound and video editing to the level necessary are wearing, but why. Throughout the semester the class will for you to make short videos. meet “on location” wherever clothing is worn throughout the Anselmo Lastra is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Computer community. In the classroom, students will discuss readings Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received a BS in from basic texts to create a shared vocabulary. They will also Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and MS and PhD discover common (and occasionally uncommon) motivations degrees in Computer Science from Duke University. His research interests are in for dress, not only in our own culture, but also in others in the the areas of computer graphics, image-based modeling and rendering, world today as well as during selected historical periods. and graphics hardware architectures. Bobbi Owen is the Michael R. McVaugh Distinguished Professor of Dramatic Art. Her courses include costume design and costume history, based in Western and non-Western traditions. She writes about theatrical designers with FIRST YEAR SEMINARS fys.unc.edu 10|11 ) honors : style: a mode of of : style: a mode ( 001 h. 87 process and product. them together. You will likely join her on a design journey as she creates the will likely join her on a design journey as You them together. turned back. Formerly the Chair of the Department of Dramatic Art, she is a turned back. Formerly history of material culture. She fell in love with the power of choice as far as stylistic choices. Even minor arts reflect major Weevents. will form; study the elements of design as they exist in their pure seminar studies the elements of design in their pure form, form, in their pure seminar studies the elements of design surveys a history of period styles and theatre, and identifies and that Art offers it certain beautiful forms through which a “tool box” of elements available to artists and practice the and practice a “tool box” of elements available to artists their causes. Art and design have frequently shown the inner the future. Student progress will be assessed through an in- will be assessed Student progress the future. varied artistic venues on campus as co-instructors and the FYS will be visiting varied artistic venues on campus as co-instructors and the FYS scenery for a production for PRC and you will have the opportunity to see the visuals are concerned early in her career as a Carolina student and has never dinosaur collapse and pirates walk the plank. dinosaur collapse and pirates we must recognize the “times” as a major motivator for all the “times” we must recognize of Dramatic Art and has served on the First Year Seminars Steering Committee. Committee. Steering Seminars Year the First has served on Art and of Dramatic will explore one period’s style as a foundation for the next and one period’s will explore life of humankind throughout history better than political, life of humankind throughout history by Neil MacGregor which will be a daily discussion. which in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor resident designer for PlayMakers Repertory Company. She uses the many and principles to which design is bound. We will survey a history principles to which design is bound. We defined by the everyday choices of everyday people and is most dispel the Star premise Trek that future styles will only reflect final and context or style period of topic a on presentation class The text for the class is A History of the World project/paper. creative fact that the self-conscious aim of Life is to find expression, it may realize that energy…” Do you agree or disagree? This or disagree? Do you agree that energy…” it may realize style is seldom period’s While a intellectual, or social history. results not merely from Life’s imitative instincts, but from the from Life’s not merely results often recorded in the works of artists, writers and intellectuals often recorded of period styles, period theatre and identify their causes. We and identify their causes. We of period styles, period theatre McKay Coble David has taught at the University of Texas at Arlington and the University of at Arlington and the University at the University of Texas David has taught Cleveland, OH. Some of Arts Theatre in Karamu Performing and the Festival where he made a Theater Children’s projects were at the Dallas favorite David’s David Navalinsky is the Director of Undergraduate Production in the Department in the Department Production of Undergraduate the Director Navalinsky is David TuTh, 12:30–1:45pm TuTh, Mississippi. David has worked professionally at South Coast Repertory in Orange at South Coast Repertory has worked professionally Mississippi. David McKay Coble teaches design, both scenic and costume for the theatre and the CI, NA VP, 1889: “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. This dram expression Consider Oscar Wilde’s statement from The Decay of Living County California, The Utah Shakespeare Festival, The Illinois Shakespeare The Illinois Festival, The Utah Shakespeare County California,

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) honors ( : staging america: america: : staging : spectacle in the theatre : spectacle 001 h. 83.001 81 program. He has directed dozens of productions at UNC and throughout the program. He has directed dozens of productions at UNC teaches dramatic literature, theatre history and performance courses and serves teaches dramatic literature, theatre history and performance screen videos, engage in critical writing and explore scenes in videos, engage in critical writing and explore screen as, in turn, drama’s ability to shed new light on the national as, in turn, drama’s and historical importance but also for their treatment of key their treatment and historical importance but also for and collaboration will be the focus of the student projects. and collaboration local community and is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. local community and is a graduate of the Yale Costume Design on Broadway and Broadway Broadway and on Broadway Design Costume books including theater practice. Readings are chosen for their intrinsic merit seminars on American Musicals and Modern British Drama for the Honors seminars on American Musicals and Modern British will be on the forces that shaped the American drama as well will be placed outside of their traditional setting while still will be placed outside of their traditional will generate designs in the areas of scenery, costumes and of scenery, in the areas designs will generate as an Associate dramaturg for PlayMakers Repertory Company. He also teaches as an Associate dramaturg for PlayMakers Repertory look to its history to provide a context for current American clothing, mainly from the 19th and 20th century. Both collections, at http:// clothing, mainly from the are a valuable means to study the costumes.unc.edu/costar/homes/Cloaks.jsp, park and a daycare center for example. Careful historical for example. Careful center park and a daycare lighting for three plays throughout the semester. These plays throughout the semester. plays lighting for three playwright’s words to create the world we see on stage. Students to create words playwright’s experience. performance as related means of testing the visions and revisions means of testing the visions and revisions performance as related constituting American dramatic history. We will approach materials, construction, provenance and patterns used for historic clothing. materials, construction, provenance much honored costume designer of Broadway musicals including costume designer of Broadway much honored rapidly disappearing. NowesArk is an electronic study collection that contains is an electronic study collection that contains rapidly disappearing. NowesArk garments and accessories in the Department of information about traditional issues and events in American life. Our focus throughout research, close reading and analysis, text and source material, and analysis, text and source close reading research, maintaining the story and themes. Students have placed Shakespeare’s Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in a trailer origins to the present. Students will read plays and criticism, and plays read will Students present. the to origins . She is currently writing a book about William Ivey Long, the Ivey William writing a book about Kim. She is currently Willa No previous theatre or artistic experience necessary. necessary. or artistic experience theatre No previous David Navalinsky , the catalog for the United States entry in the 2007 Prague 2007 Prague entry in the United States for the Roster , the catalog Design the american drama the american TuTh, 9:30–10:45am TuTh, how theatrical designers use the This seminar will explore TuTh, 2:00–3:15pm TuTh, from its colonial This seminar examines our national drama Her research interests focus on traditional dress around the world which is dress around the world interests focus on traditional Her research archive of vintage an online website to Costar, Dramatic Art. It is a companion VP CI, NA VP, dram dram Gregory Kable Gregory Gregory Kable is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Dramatic Art, where he Gregory Kable is a Senior Lecturer in the Department . for You and Crazy Producers Chicago, The The Designs of and The Designs Design USA (with Jody Blake) Quadrennial, American drama as both a literary and commercial art form and form art commercial and literary a both as drama American e ng l i s h a n d comparative l i t e r at u r e engl 53.001: slavery and freedom in african american literature and film LA, US William L. Andrews MWF, 1:25–2:15pm The purpose of this seminar is to explore the African American slave narrative tradition from its 19th-century origins in autobiography to its present manifestations in prize-winning fiction and film. The most famous 19th-century slave narrative, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) was an international best seller. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), the amazing but utterly truthful story of Harriet Jacobs’s slave experience in Edenton, North Carolina, is extensively read and taught in college and university classrooms around the world. In the 20th century, many important African American autobiographies and novels—Washington’s Up From Slavery (1901), Wright’s Black Boy (1945), Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952), Haley’s Students from COMP 60 “Robotics with LEGO.” Photo by Mary Lide Parker. The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) and Morrison’s Beloved (1987) —are products, formally and thematically, of the ongoing slave narrative tradition. The slave narrative has also given rise to dram 88.001: ecology and performance a number of notable films, from major studio releases like Spielberg’s Amistad (1997) to TV-films like Charles Burnett’s VP, EE Nightjohn (1996). The 1977 television series based on Haley’s Karen O’Brien Roots enabled the slave narrative tradition to have a profound TuTh, 2:00–3:15pm impact on late 20th-century American culture. Slave narratives have also had strong influence on popular films such as Blade This seminar will guide students through the process of Runner (1982), The Handmaid’s Tale (1990), Django Unchained (2013) researching, developing and producing new performance and 12 Years a Slave (2013). Because of the widespread incidence pieces inspired by socio-ecological issues. This task will involve: of human trafficking and other forms of involuntary servitude learning and practicing a range of collaborative performance in the world today, slavery remains a major human rights issue. techniques; gaining knowledge about the environmental arts, theatre for social change and core principles surrounding William L. Andrews teaches courses on African American literature, American notions of sustainability; researching and engaging in current autobiography studies and Southern literature. Since the mid-1980s he has done ecological debates; and synthesizing critical inquiry and a considerable amount of editing of African American and Southern literature creative endeavor in the form of a new ecologically-driven and criticism. Professor Andrews is the series editor of North American Slave performance. The seminar will culminate in the presentation Narratives, Beginnings to 1920, a complete digitized library of autobiographies of new performance pieces aimed at promoting socio- and biographies of North American slaves and ex-slaves. ecological sustainability. Students will be expected to: closely read assigned texts; keep a journal throughout the semester; engl 57.001: future perfect: science conduct and present individual and group research; collaborate fictions and social form with a group to integrate research into performance; and attend LA one group field outing and one performance event outside of the scheduled course time. No prerequisites are required. Tyler Curtain MWF, 11:15–12:05pm Karen O’Brien is David G. Frey Fellow Assistant Professor in UNC’s Department of Dramatic Art. Her research and creative interests include inquiries in artistic, Will humans go extinct? If so, how? What are the ethical cultural and textual performance, particularly in the environmental arts and questions involved in human disappearance? How do humans in the geo-political context of Irish Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Drama and themselves contribute to the possibilities, and what can be Theatre from University of California, Irvine and San Diego. She also received done to postpone the inevitable? This seminar will tackle an MFA in Directing and a BFA in Electronic Media from the College- some sobering (and, quite frankly, exciting and interesting) Conservatory of Music at University of Cincinnati. questions by reading cultural and scientific works that address human disappearance. We will read both science and fiction FIRST YEAR SEMINARS to think about the core concerns of the class. Our texts will [engl 85H] “Watching movies as a class and then include works ranging from Alien to the classic 1950s tale A Canticle for Leibowitz, from Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later to Cormac connecting them to the course content was engaging both McCarthy’s The Road. We will ask some fundamental questions academically and at a social level. I got a chance to meet about what it means to be human, how we imagine our societies students with varying interests, learn from their diverse and cultures to work (and not work) and what these texts and questions might tell us about how we are to live now. Students perspectives, make some of my best friends, and do so will read novels and short stories, watch movies and TV shows, within a challenging academic environment.” and read scientific and philosophical papers that deal with human extinction. Students will also be required to write a –Ioan B., Class of 2015 fys.unc.edu paper and complete an original research project at the end of term that they will share with the rest of the class. engl 72.001: literature of 9/11 Tyler Curtain is a theorist with the Department of English and Comparative Literature. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in theory, as well LA, CI, GL as courses in science fiction and fantasy. Professor Curtain is a member of the Neel Ahuja 12|13 executive committee of the Discussion Group on Science Fiction and Utopian and MW, 5:00–6:15pm Fantastic Literature of the Modern Language Association. He will be the group’s President in 2016-2017. This seminar will explore representations of the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath in literature and popular culture. Following an engl 59.001: black masculinity introduction to the concept of terrorism and to the production of knowledge about political violence in the fields of law, and femininity politics, religious studies and terrorism studies, we will explore John L. Townsend III FYS in English a diverse array of themes related to the 9/11 attacks and the “war on terror” as depicted in memoirs, poetry, novels, public art, LA, CI, US graphic novels, film and music: explanations of the causes and GerShun Avilez consequences of political violence; the role of religion in public TuTh, 11:00–12:15pm culture and state institutions; national security discourse; mourning, trauma and public memorials; depictions of the US This first year seminar will use literature, film and popular military in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan; and the perspectives culture to explore different expressions of masculinity and of detainees and minority communities on the attacks and femininity in the African American and Black diasporic their aftermath. Students will read critical scholarship and contexts. Students will evaluate how artists use gender and literary texts, discuss major controversies in organized debates, sexuality for social critique and artistic innovation. In addition, compose two papers and complete group presentations on students will be given opportunities to enhance their writing topics of their choice. and oral communication skills. Neel Ahuja grew up in Topeka, Kansas. He studied gender studies at GerShun Avilez received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University before completing a Ph.D. in transnational cultural where he also earned a Graduate Certificate in Africana Studies. He has taught studies at the University of California-San Diego. Neel is Associate Professor at Yale University and held the Frederick Douglass Post-doctoral Fellowship at of postcolonial literature and theory in the English Department at UNC– the University of Rochester. He is a cultural studies scholar who specializes in Chapel Hill, and he teaches courses on security culture, world literatures, contemporary African American literature and visual culture and 20th century medical humanities and environmental studies. Neel is the author of the American literature in general. His teaching extends to the literature of the Black book Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and Diaspora. Much of his scholarship explores how questions of gender and sexuality the Government of Species. He has recently written a series of essays inform artistic production. He also works in the fields of political radicalism, concerning the relationships between international politics, animals and spatial theory and legal studies. His book Radical Aesthetics & Modern the environment. Black Nationalism is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press in 2016 as a part of “The New Black Studies” Series. The book investigates how Black Nationalist rhetoric impacted African American artistic experimentation engl 85h.001: economic saints in the late 20th and 21st centuries through an examination of drama, novels, and villains poetry film and visual art. He is at work on a new book-length project on Black LA, CI, WB sexuality and artistic culture as well as shorter projects on (1) rethinking 20th century African American literary history and (2) temporality in contemporary Ritchie Kendall drama. Throughout his work and teaching, he is committed to studying a wide TuTh, 9:30–10:45am variety of art forms, including, drama, fiction, non-fiction, film, poetry, visual The rise of new economic activities—whether the birth of and performance art, ethnography and comic books. international banking, trading in future commodities, or the marketing of junk bonds—bring with them both excitement and trepidation. Literature about how ordinary and extraordinary people go about the business of getting and spending is one Belonging is forthcoming with the University of Michigan Press in 2016. way that a culture comes to terms with emergent and potentially She is now working on a second book, Lessons of the Aesthete: Liberal revolutionary economic formations. This seminar will explore Education and the Pedagogical Styles of Oscar Wilde and serves how early modern England from the 16th to the 19th centuries as co-editor of Nineteenth Century Studies. Her teaching and research imagined new economic orders through plays and novels. We interests include gender studies, aesthetic theory, drama, the British novel and the will examine how Renaissance plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, history of ideas. Dekker and Heywood present economic scoundrels such as Barabas and Shylock as well as heroic entrepreneurs such as Simon Eyre and Thomas Gresham. In the 18th century we will sample the work of Daniel Defoe who crafted a guide for early tradesmen but also produced subversive novels with dubious heroines who use sex and business acumen to acquire and lose great fortunes. From the 19th century, we will read two works, a little known melodrama, The Game of Speculation, as well as the iconic A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Both stories speculate on the compatibility of economic and spiritual success. We will conclude with a modern epilogue: three satiric films from the era of Reagonomics including Oliver Stone’s Wall Street, Mike Nichols’ Working Girl and Jon Landis’ Trading Places. Our objective throughout will be to analyze how literary art, itself a form of economic activity, simultaneously demonizes and celebrates the “miracle of the marketplace” and those financial pioneers that perform its magic. Ritchie Kendall is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature Blitz the Ambassador performs in Durham with students from HIST 83 in attendance. who joined the UNC faculty in 1980. He holds a B.A. in English from Yale Photo by Brooke Bekoff. University (1973) and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Harvard University (1980). His specialty is in English Renaissance drama with an emphasis on engl 89.002: blake 2.0: william blake in the socio-economic dimensions of early modern theater. He has taught Honors popular culture courses in Shakespeare, Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, comedy and social John L. Townsend III FYS in English class, epic and drama, and early modern ideas of entrepreneurship. LA, NA engl 89.001: the literature of college Joseph Viscomi life TuTh, 9:30–10:45am LA, CI, NA William Blake, the visionary poet, artist and printmaker of the British Romantic period, has had enormous influence Kimberly J. Stern on modern art and popular culture. His illuminated poetry MWF, 10:10–11:00am integrated word and image anticipating graphic novels and In this first-year seminar, students will explore the literature influencing many modern musicians, poets, writers (including of college life — novels, poetry and nonfiction that attempt to Pullman, His Dark Materials Trilogy, Bono, Patti Smith and Jim capture the experiences and challenges of higher education. Morrison). Using the Blake Archive, a hypertext of Blake’s poetry Ranging from formal educational treatises to popular fiction, and art, we will study key Blake works as well as the digital students will become familiar with the conventions of reading medium that enables us to study these works in new ways. We and writing about literature, even as they reflect on questions of will also explore the Web for performances and adaptations of both personal and intellectual significance. For instance, what the works we study and for works by musicians, painters, poets, is the function of higher education? How has that function writers, actors, playwrights, performers, dancers and film changed over time? What are the untold stories of university life? and video makers who were or are inspired or influenced by While the course readings will span several centuries, students Blake. Students will share their discoveries with the class and will be encouraged to reflect on how this literature reflects on produce critical or creative responses to a work by Blake or by their own experiences at the university, their educational goals an influenced artist. and their place within the larger university community. To Joseph Viscomi, the James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of English Literature, encourage reflection on these questions, students will articulate directs and co-edits the William Blake Archive. His special interests are their ideas in a range of ways: through online journaling, visual British Romantic literature, art and printmaking. He has co-edited 9 illuminated media and formal academic research. works for The William Blake Trust and over 90 electronic editions for the Blake Kimberly J. Stern holds a Ph.D in English Literature from Princeton University Archive. He is the author of Prints by Blake and his Followers, Blake and is Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at and the Idea of the Book and numerous essays on Blake’s illuminated Chapel Hill. In 2015 she published a Broadview edition of Oscar Wilde’s printing, color printing and reception. He has received fellowships from the controversial play Salome, and her monograph The Social Life of Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Rockefeller Criticism: Gender, Critical Writing, and the Politics of Foundation, Getty Foundation and National Humanities Center. FIRST YEAR SEMINARS fys.unc.edu 14|15 : the problem with nature : the problem with nature 63.001 governance in Latin America: how Latin American states, firms and civil society societies we inhabit and evaluate the implications of efforts sustainable futures. are are shaped by sets of scale-dependent processes. Although we biophysical responses to environmental change. His field studies include subalpine change. His field studies include subalpine biophysical responses to environmental that shape the landscape, patterns that are apparent because because apparent that are patterns landscape, the that shape through space and time) define the patterns that we see that to manage these. The readings and discussion will evaluate to manage these. The readings lives of Afro-descendants and Amazonian peoples are shaped by oil infrastructure watershed science, forest and soil processes, ecosystem ecology and landscape watershed science, forest and sites of the Andes Mountains of Colombia and the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador. of Colombia and the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador. sites of the Andes Mountains tropical hydrology. Riveros- systems, environmental systems and field methods in will talk about mountain environments in general, we will draw will draw we in general, mountain environments will talk about information visit http://diegori.web.unc.edu forests of the Rocky Mountains of Montana and Colorado and highly impacted of Montana and Colorado and highly impacted forests of the Rocky Mountains examples from specific environments, including the Rocky explore mountain environments by concentrating on processes on processes concentrating by environments mountain explore value and views, to better understand questions of sovereignty, courses on political ecology and nature-society relations. compare with other perspectives, such as indigenous world as indigenous with other perspectives, such compare appropriate and transform resources to meet their interests and how capturing and putting resources to work transforms cultural and ecological communities. consider how meanings and practices of nature transformation, transformation, nature of practices and how meanings consider the landscapes and help create conservation and preservation (NSF), examines how the everyday funded by the National Science Foundation and conducted ethnographic research in Ecuador She grew up in Peru in Ecuador. and Bolivia, and brings these experiences into her courses on Latin America and of those active processes and how the concept of scale (both how the concept of processes and of those active Geophysical Research Letters. and Geophysical Research Research Resources Water Western Western (especially American) conceptions of Nature and geog Mountains and the Andes. Mountains and the Andes. PH . He teaches courses on hydrology, watershed Research-Biogeosciences Dr. Diego Riveros-Iregui received a Ph.D. in Ecology and Environmental Diego Riveros-Iregui Dr. University (2008), a M.S. in Geology from the Sciences from Montana State Global Change Biology, journals such as Global Change Biology, Riveros-Iregui publishes in He currently serves on the editorial board of The Journal of Geophysical more America. For Iregui collaborates with scientists in the U.S. and Latin TuTh, 11:00am–12:15pm TuTh, Nature, of conceptualizations explore will seminar This Her latest research project, “The Impact of Oil Extraction, Regulatory Policy and Her latest research project, “The Regulatory Policy Impact of Oil Extraction, on Native Amazon and Afro-Ecuadorian Communities,” Environmental Practice University of Minnesota (2004) and a B.S. in Geology from the National University of Minnesota (2004) Bogotá (1999). His research interests include University of Colombia in UNC-CH. Her research examines the political dimensions of natural resource UNC-CH. Gabriela Valdivia Gabriela Valdivia is Associate Professor in the Geography Department at is Associate Professor Gabriela Valdivia and its preservation hip hop Yaeyong, Class of 2017 –Yaeyong, : the poetic roots of : the poetic roots : mountain environments : mountain 001 h. ] “ProfessorLentz immersed the diverse group 50.001 77 64 g e o g r a p h y fo l k lo r e geog the geographythe factors explore to other such Vietnam of as the political system and culture.” as system political the culture.” and several reasons for studying the environments of mountains: for studying the environments of mountains: several reasons of firstof year studentsunderstandingin history the and this lost history, talking to poets and hip-hop emcees while talking to poets and this lost history, talk for generations. Yet because most such rhyming was spoken, because most Yet talk for generations. the rhymed storytelling of sanctified singers. And each was be readily comprehended; and (c) they also reveal human and (c) they also reveal comprehended; be readily singers to tap dancers, vaudeville comics and hip-hop emcees. As a folklorist singers to tap dancers, vaudeville comics and hip-hop been around for generations. Each elder seemed to point to a Each elder seemed to point been around for generations. from decades of work with artists that range from blues musicians and gospel from decades of work with artists that range from blues and the ways that they offer and Anthropology, he studies everyday performances focuses current research Hinson’s insights into the workings of culture. Professor probing the archives to uncover the hidden heritage of African rhyme’s of hip-hop, and in so doing demonstrating prehistory identity. American African keyof a marker as role longstanding hip-hop first exploded onto the scene. This “new” form, they created them, shaped them and sustained them. There are are them and sustained them. There them, shaped created on oral poetry, self-taught art and the intersections between faith and creativity. claimed, was just a skilled re-working of poetic forms that had of poetic forms that had claimed, was just a skilled re-working radio deejays, of rhyming form—some to the wordplay different from a host of African American communities declared when interactions with and impacts on their environment. We will and impacts on their environment. We with interactions readily observed and understood; (b) the processes are not understood; (b) the processes are observed and readily its history remains hidden. In this seminar, we’ll explore explore we’ll seminar, this In hidden. remains history its right; elegant rhyming has indeed marked African American oversimplified, but have spatial complexity at scales that can of mountain environments and the processes that have others to the bawdy flow of street corner poets, still others to geog PL Diego Riveros-Iregui TuTh, 11:00am– 12:15pm TuTh, This seminar focuses on understanding the physical geography TuTh, 2:00–3:15pm TuTh, folk VP, US VP, [ Glenn Hinson Glenn Hinson’s engagement with African American expressive culture emerges engagement with African American expressive culture Glenn Hinson’s (a) they reveal integrative earth systems processes that can be earth systems processes integrative (a) they reveal American eloquence. Our goal is nothing short of writing the (and Associate Professor) who teaches in the Departments of American Studies who teaches (and Associate Professor) “There ain’t nothing new about rapping.” That’s what elders That’s new nothing about rapping.” “There ain’t geog 67.001: the politics of everyday life field and laboratory data. Grading will be based on presentation of group research projects and on a variety of small projects SS, GL during the trip (notebook descriptions, mapping projects, Sara Smith etc.). Students will be required to pay some of the costs of TuTh, 9:30 AM–10:45am the trip (estimated at about $900.) This course will require missing three days of classes. The course is designed to teach This seminar examines the ways that politics, especially contests basic geology “on the rocks”, so there are no prerequisites. Link over territory, are part of our day-to-day life. We will explore to Yosemite Nature Notes video: http://www.youtube.com/ a range of cases, from immigration policy and rhetoric in the watch?v=Y5RQp77uVPA US, to popular representations of geopolitics in film, to the politics of family planning in India. How do questions of love, Allen Glazner’s research focuses on volcanoes, earthquakes and the processes that friendship, family and youth identity tie into the international build the earth’s crust. In a typical year he spends several weeks doing field work and national political stories that we see on the news? What does with UNC students in the mountains and deserts of California. He was schooled national identity have to do with our individual sense of self? at Pomona College and UCLA, began his teaching career at UNC in 1981 and We will also explore alternative ways that international politics has won two teaching awards. Geologic field trips have taken him to Argentina, have been studied, as feminist geopolitics or anti-geopolitics Greece, Mexico, Italy, Switzerland, Alaska, Chile, Iceland, Scotland, France and questions of citizenship. Work for the seminar will involve and Hawaii in recent years. He likes mountains, hiking, cycling, jazz and cool science stuff. original research on intersections of international politics and students’ daily life, as well as exploring representations of geopolitical issues in the media, film and fiction. g e r m a n i c a n d s l av i c Sara Smith is a political geographer with a South Asia focus, specializing in l a ng uag e s a n d literatures feminist political geography and political geographies of youth and the future. She has been involved in non-profit work and research in India since 1999. germ 51.001: stalin and hitler: Her Ph.D. is in geography, and she has been teaching in UNC’s Department of historical issues in cultural Geography since 2009. Professor Smith’s current research in the Ladakh region and other perspectives of India’s Jammu and Kashmir State addresses the ways that individuals’ personal HS, GL lives (especially their decisions about love and babies) are entangled in territorial struggle. Smith is developing a new project about how marginalized young people David Pike from India’s remote mountain regions experience university life in major Indian TuTh, 3:30–4:45pm cities and how this shapes their politics. If you are curious, you can find out more about this work on her faculty website: https://sarasmith.web.unc.edu/. This course deals with critical issues, in the broadest possible context, that dominated the twentieth century: the rise of fascism out of the carnage of World War One and the Bolshevik g e o lo g i c a l s c i e nc e s revolution to which the war and Czarist Russia’s involvement in it helped contribute. As the semester unfolds, drawing on geol 72h.001: field geology of eastern a variety of historical and documentary films, and literature california (honors) (memoirs, novels), we will take a comparative look at singular PL, EE personalities like Lenin, Stalin and Hitler and examine the role Allen Glazner played by such key figures in historical events of this magnitude. TuTh, 2:00–3:15pm More towards the end of the semester, we glance briefly at the situation created in Western and Eastern Europe by the defeat Have you ever wanted to stand on a volcano, see a glacier, trace of fascism and contemplate the origins and evolution of the cold out an earthquake fault or see the Earth’s oldest living things? war. We conclude with a consideration of the dissolution and This seminar is designed around a one-week field trip to eastern democratization of Eastern European countries, the collapse California, where students will study geologic features including of the Soviet Union, and, against the tragic background of active volcanoes, earthquake-producing faults and evidence for the past, the recent reemergence of conflict between Russia and recent glaciation and extreme climate change. Before the field the “West.” trip (which will take place the week of Fall Break and be based at David Pike received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1978 in German a research station near Mammoth Lakes, California), the class Studies with a minor in Russian and has taught at UNC–CH since 1980. will meet twice a week to learn basic geologic principles and to He is the author of three books, The Politics of Culture in Soviet work on developing field research topics. During the field trip -Occupied Germany, 1945-1949 (1993), Lukács and Brecht students will work on field exercises (e.g. mapping, measuring (1985) and German Writers in Soviet Exile, 1933-1945 (1982). and describing an active fault; observing and recording glacial His research takes him regularly to Berlin and Moscow. features) and collect data for the research projects. After the field trip, students will obtain laboratory data from samples collected during the trip and test research hypotheses using FIRST YEAR SEMINARS fys.unc.edu 16|17

: terror for the people: : terror for the people: 84.001 goals and ideals. This course offers you an opportunity to acquaint yourself with such key concepts as anarchism, nihilism acquaint yourself with such key concepts as anarchism, and “Red Terror” as well as the minds responsible for their and others, envisaged their coming to fruition. In addition to texts and political manifestoes composed a selection of literary literature, film, music, (post)subculture studies, multiculturalism, African African multiculturalism, studies, (post)subculture film, music, literature, these ideas and attempt to understand the reasons for their reasons understand the and attempt to these ideas to refer to terror perpetrated in the name of ostensibly lofty in the name to terror perpetrated to refer work on Vladimir Nabokov, he has written on Georgy Ivanov, Andrei Kurbsky, culture of Russian diasporas, comparative verse theory, poetics and politics of collecting punk records. collecting punk which leading Russian intellectuals, including Ivan Turgenev, by visionaries of both conservative and libertarian persuasions, end of accounts of those at the receiving we will examine witness national memory and translation studies. Apart from his scholarly and editorial in Germany. In her free time she enjoys live music, traveling with her son and live music, traveling with In her free time she enjoys in Germany. enduring relevance, we will examine the different ways in invention and application. As we delve into the substance of initiatives. many progressive slav slav Stanislav Shvabrin LA, BN, CI MW, 3:35–4:50pm MW, Before Timothy McVeigh, Taliban, Al-Qaeda and ISIS/ISIL, Russia provided the world with visual imagery and vocabulary Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Pyotr Kropotkin Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Dostoevsky, Fyodor terrorism in russian literature terrorism in russian literature GEOG 56 field visit. Photo by Dan Sears. Her fields of research and teaching interests are 20th- and 21st-century 21st-century are 20th- and interests and teaching of research Her fields essays about is the author of several and gender studies. She Diaspora studies Stanislav Shvabrin has researched, published and lectured on the history and Mikhail Kuzmin and Marina Tsvetaeva. German film, Turkish German literature, popular music and counterculture music and counterculture literature, popular Turkish German German film, and history

: germans, jews, jews, : germans, : teenage kicks: race, class, class, kicks: race, : teenage 56.001 70.001 time, he plays the piano, walks his two hound dogs and loves to go hiking in the time, he plays the piano, walks his two hound dogs and subculture of their choice. subculture seeks to answer these questions by examining a variety of questions by examining a variety seeks to answer these and poems to films. Students will also get the opportunity to and media studies. Over the course of the semester, students to youth cultures. Students will learn how to do close readings will learn how to do close readings Students to youth cultures. time, but also how the constitution of youth cultures has been cultures time, but also how the constitution of youth the 1940s to the present in the US and around the world in the 1940s to the present tracts, film and personal memoirs. No previous familiarity with familiarity previous No memoirs. personal and film tracts, the subject is required. the centuries before the Holocaust teach us about the persistence the Holocaust teach us the centuries before but also subculture and postsubculture theory, intersectionality theory, postsubculture and but also subculture beyond, including political treatises, literary texts, theological literary beyond, including political treatises, will gain an understanding of how and why the concept of the of concept the why how and of understanding an gain will moving to North Carolina, she received her Ph.D. from the University of mountains with his family. in German and German-Jewish literature, culture and history. In his spare in German and German-Jewish literature, culture and primary sources from the Middle Ages to the Holocaust and conduct sustained, mentored research and fieldwork on one examining youth cultures across the world, students will not examining youth cultures influenced by additional factors likerace, class and In gender. miniscule minority came to occupy such a prominent role in came to occupy such a prominent role miniscule minority between Germans and Jews in the relationship might studying of a variety of media, ranging from essays, short stories, songs of a variety of media, ranging only be introduced to the study of pop music and pop culture, only be introduced to the study of pop music and pop culture, only a history of how different youth cultures developed over of anti-Semitism and racism in our world today? This course in our racism of anti-Semitism and gsll germ germ When Hitler came to power in 1933, Jews1933, in power to came Hitler When approximately up made LA, EE, GL HS, CI, NA Nazi ideology and the German cultural imagination? What the German cultural Nazi ideology and Priscilla Layne Priscilla 3:35–4:50pm MW, Jonathan M. Hess Jonathan M.

Priscilla Layne is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic and Professor Layne is an Assistant Priscilla in African, Slavic Languages and Literatures and an Adjunct Assistant Professor History and Culture, received a B.A. from Yale, an M.A. from The Johns an M.A. History and Culture, received a B.A. from Yale, from the University of Hopkins University and another M.A. and a Ph.D. in his 23rd year of teaching at Carolina, Hess specializes Currently Pennsylvania. TuTh, 9:30–10:45am TuTh, This seminar is an investigation of youth cultures from youth cultures This seminar is an investigation of Jonathan M. Hess, Moses M. and Hannah L. Distinguished Professor of Jewish of Professor Jonathan M. Hess, Moses M. and Hannah L. Distinguished 1% of the population in Germany. How was it possible that this How was it possible that in Germany. 1% of the population California at Berkeley in 2011. and the history of anti-semitism history of and the and gender in postwar youth and gender in postwar African American and Diaspora Studies. She is a native of Chicago and before (including the UK, Germany and Japan). It offers students not students offers It Japan). and Germany UK, the (including “teenager” emerged in the 1940s and why teenagers are attracted attracted “teenager” emerged in the 1940s and why teenagers are slav 88h.001: gender and fiction that travel has become one of the most influential personal in central and eastern europe experiences in modern times. In short, we shall explore the connection between travel, writing and personal identities. LA, BN This is a class for people who like to read about personal Ewa Wampuszyc experiences and are intrigued by foreign travel. The assigned TuTh, 2:00–3:15pm texts include works by women and men such as Margaret Fuller, Mark Twain, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein and Studying culture through the prism of gender can be a great Ernest Hemingway; and the cities we’ll discuss include Paris, introduction to a region like Central and Eastern Europe. London, Rome, Venice and Athens. In this seminar, we will have a chance to explore definitions Lloyd Kramer’s interests focus on Modern European History with an emphasis of “masculine” and “feminine” in fiction, film and essays by on nineteenth-century France and French-American cultural relations. He is and about women from Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, particularly interested in historical processes that shape personal and collective Poland and Romania. We will discuss how gender concepts shed identities, including the experiences of cross-cultural exchange and the emergence light on self-identity, nationalism, private property, public of modern nationalism. Other research and teaching interests deal with the roles spaces, values, ethics, political dissent and oppression, and of intellectuals in modern societies and the theoretical foundations of historical consumerism. We will consider the connection between the knowledge. His teaching stresses the pleasures of reading, discussing and writing 19th century “Woman Question” and nationalism. We will study about influential books in various eras of European and world history. how communist ideology promised gender equality, but failed. We will discuss perceptions of gender and consumerism after the fall of communism. Students will learn how political and economic transition affected Central/Eastern Europe; about everyday life under communism; about the geography of Central and Eastern Europe; and how the language and discourses we use shape our world view. Student progress and grades will be assessed through class participation, a group presentation and writing assignments (ranging from short responses to a longer paper). Ewa Wampuszyc has been a Professor in UNC’s Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures since 2010. She received her Ph.D. in 2004 from the University of Michigan. Before coming to UNC, she taught courses in literature, language and European studies at the University of Florida. Professor Wampuszyc’s research interests include: representations of Warsaw in literature and film, cultural capital as it relates to economic capital and post-communist cultural transformation in Central Europe. Teaching First Year Students every Students from ARTS 50 at a reception following a performance by the string quartet fall has become one of the highlights of her academic year. While she has many Brooklyn Ryder. Photo by Beth Lawrence. outside interests, she enjoys her work so much that she also considers it a hobby.

h i s to ry hist 70.001: exploring cultural landscapes: chapel hill as a case study hist 53.001: traveling to european HS, CI, EE cities: american writers/cultural identities, 1830-1930 John Sweet T, 3:30–6:00pm HS, NA The course explores the concept of cultural landscapes as a way Lloyd Kramer of studying history and its legacies. Through a combination TuTh, 11:00am–12:15pm of field work, historical research and analysis, students use This seminar examines two key themes in modern cultural and maps, photographs, GIS resources and archival documents intellectual history: the importance of travel in the lives and to understand how–and why–people in the past shaped our cultural identities of American writers and the important role of surroundings today. European cities in the evolution of modern American cultural Within the general field of Early American history, John Sweet’s research focuses identities. We shall focus on a historical era in which American on the dynamics of colonialism and on the interplay of religious cultures. His writers were especially drawn to Europe as an alternative to the first book explored the encounters of Indians, Africans and Europeans in New social and cultural life in the United States; and we’ll discuss England and argued that the racial legacy of colonialism shaped the emergence how the encounter with Europe influenced these writers as they of the American North as well as the South. He has also worked with other defined their national identities as well as their views of politics, historians and literary scholars on the Jamestown colony and its broader cultural social relations, gender identities, literature, art and Western and international contexts. His current project is The Captive’s Tale: cultural traditions. The seminar is based on the assumption Venture Smith and the Roots of the American Republic. FIRST YEAR SEMINARS fys.unc.edu 18|19

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: colonialism, power, : colonialism, power, 89.001 interdisciplinary trying new recipes to outdoor adventures. the history of friendship in medieval South Asia. Originally from the UK, she has medieval South Asia. Originally from the UK, she the history of friendship in scholarly work, which has re-evaluated long-held assumptions assumptions long-held re-evaluated has which work, scholarly how skills like perfume-making, astrological divination, gardening, magical how skills like perfume-making, and painting associated with India in the popular mind today. today. mind in the popular India with associated and painting about the nature of pre-modern South Asia. Through a study in scholarly works, and films, later representations architecture and ended in the 1700s. You likely learned about examples lived, studied and worked in India, Italy and Singapore. lived, studied and worked through law, art, language and land. This class is less about how about less is class This land. and language art, law, through settings. Carlee focuses on artists and patrons in Central Africa, Meredith on societies of medieval South India. She is currently writing a book which examines India. She is currently writing a book which examines societies of medieval South nobles to succeed at court. She is also researching spells and letter writing allowed ways it is remembered today. ways it is remembered place that had long been home to indigenous peoples. place that had long been home to indigenous power reinforces and enforces colonialism creates, how matter—each examines the power relationships between various actors in colonial years this period has been the focus of vibrant and exciting focus of vibrant period has been the years this control of territory, exploiting land, resources and people for exploiting land, resources control of territory, economic benefit. Colonizers can also introduce settlers to a colonial processes from multiple perspectives across Africa, colonialism began (which we hope you know about already— novels and Wikipedia entries, we will analyze the complex ways entries, we will analyze novels and Wikipedia itself and the various dynasty portrayed in which this powerful if not, we’ll help fill in the to it. responses gaps) and more about ongoing of autobiographical texts, contemporary accounts, objects, accounts, texts, contemporary of autobiographical S. Collins Columbus Christopher like school, high in colonialism of HS, GL Rich in textual, material and visual primary sources, in recent Is colonialism still occurring? In this course, we bring together Is colonialism still occurring? In this course, investigate will We America. North and America South Europe, TuTh, 11:00am–12:15pm TuTh, Spanish Florida. In their rare spare time, these three enjoy varied activities from Emma Flatt’s research has focused on mentalities and practices in the courtly research has focused on mentalities and practices Emma Flatt’s McCoy is in American Studies. Their research interests overlap in terms of subject idst Carlee Forbes, Aubrey Lauersdorf, Meredith McCoy, Marsha McCoy, Lauersdorf, Meredith Aubrey Carlee Forbes, Colonialism occurs whenever a group of people takes Colony. This course will be team taught by an interdisciplinary group of PhD students. Carlee Forbes is in Art History, Aubrey Lauersdorf is in History and Meredith Carlee Forbes You may have heard that colonialism began in the 1400s that colonialism began in the 1400s may have heard You and resistance American Indian education policy and Aubrey on gender and colonialism in Art History, History and American Studies to better understand better to Studies American and History History, Art “discovering” “discovering” America or the Pilgrims establishing Plymouth

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: women’s voices: voices: : women’s : emperors, courts, and and : emperors, courts, 001 h. 74.001 72 th-century european history history european th-century published widely on Modern European and German history as well as military published widely on Modern European and German seminar offers students a unique approach to twentieth century century twentieth to approach unique a students offers seminar survivor of the women’s concentration camp Ravensbrück; survived Auschwitz and became a professor in the U.S and elites were responsible for much of the iconic architecture for much of the iconic architecture responsible and elites were and longest lasting empire in Indian At history. its height this and writer; Sender Toni (1888-1964), one of the first female and writing. and Ruth Klüger (1931-), an Austrian-Jewish student who the Holocaust had on this struggle and the lives of women the Holocaust had on this struggle and texts by six women, who grew up in middle class families in who grew texts by six women, through the lens of women’s autobiographical writings. It autobiographical women’s through the lens of what effects political changes,revolutions and wars as well as well-known of South Asian polities, it was also the grandest and gender history. Currently she has finished a book entitled and gender history. Currently she has finished a book paper on a female autobiography of their own choice, the paper on a female autobiography and Defense. She has War in Peace, of the Curriculum and Adjunct Professor parliamentarians in Weimar Germany; Geneviève de Gaulle- parliamentarians in Weimar lives in the first half of the twentieth They century. all tried to empire covered almost the entire subcontinent and its rulers and its subcontinent entire almost the covered empire explores explores women’s voices from different generational and for equal economic, social and political rights. We will explore will explore rights. We for equal economic, social and political more general. Through intensive discussions of the reading Through intensive discussions of the reading general. more to write a research in class, group work and the opportunity reformer; reformer; Vera Brittain (1893-1970), a British peace activist make a difference in society and politics: Pankhurst Emmeline national backgrounds. We will read and discuss autobiographical and discuss autobiographical will read We national backgrounds. consumption: the mughals of india consumption: the mughals HS, BN HS, CI, NA European history and will introduce them to historical research research historical them to will introduce and history European Memory Culture, against Napoleon: History, Wars Prussia’s Emma Flatt Hagemann Karen M, 3:35–6:05pm 20 John L. Townsend III FYS in History John L. Townsend Karen Hagemann is the James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of History of History Professor Karen Hagemann is the James G. Kenan Distinguished The overarching theme of the seminar is the struggle of women The overarching 12:30–1:45pm TuTh, is not only one of the most (1526-1858) The Mughal Empire The seminar examines twentieth century European history twentieth century European history The seminar examines Gender, War and the Western World since 1600. World and the Western War Handbook Gender, in female memory in female hist hist hist (1958-1928), a leader of the British suffragette movement; Anthonioz (1920-2002), a French resistance fighter and a Alice Salomon (1872-1948), a liberal Jewish-German social Austria, Britain, France and Germany and wrote about their (http://history.unc.edu/people/faculty/karenhagemann) (Cambridge University Press) and is working as the general editor of the Oxford (Cambridge University Press) information a n d l i b r a ry scripts, and studying them offers insights into the cognitive processes involved in the origin and evolution of writing, the s c i e nc e relationship between script and image, and between script and inls 89.001: social media & new movements language, and the challenges of learning to read and write in any writing system. Students will use group and individual SS projects emphasizing linguistic methodologies to study a variety Zeynep Tufekci of undeciphered (or partly deciphered) scripts such as Etruscan MW, 10:10–11:25am (Italy), Cretan Hieroglyphic (Crete), Linear A (Crete), Rongorongo (Easter Island), Zapotec (Oaxaca Valley, Mexico), Movements ranging from uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Olmec (Veracruz, Mexico), Harappan (India), Khipu (Peru) beyond to “Occupy” protests in the United States have been and the increasingly visual and pictorial multimedia literacy using new media technologies to coordinate, organize and strategies of the contemporary world. intervene in the public sphere as well as to document, share and shape their own stories. Using a range of tools from Facebook David Mora-Marin is a linguistic anthropologist who specializes in historical linguistics and writing systems. He focuses on the study of the contemporary to Twitter, from satellite modems to landlines to ad-hoc mesh and ancient indigenous languages of Mexico and Central America. His goal networks, these movements have made their mark in history. is to utilize linguistic data to better understand the history of their speakers The objective of this seminar is to enhance our conceptual (e.g. migrations, contacts with speakers of other languages, social and political and empirical understanding of the interaction between the changes, economic development), as well as the nature of language itself (i.e. new media ecology and social change. We will explore various how languages are structured and why they change). Mora-Marin studies three approaches to studying social movements and social change and of the thirteen or so Mesoamerican scripts: Olmec, Epi-Olmec and Mayan. He look at specific cases. Governments and powerful institutions has also carried out field projects in Oaxaca and Yucatan (Mexico) to document are also responding to the challenge posed by the emergence contemporary indigenous languages. of the Internet as a mundane and global technology. From increased surveillance and filtering capacity, to delivering propaganda over the Internet to their own, governments m a r i n e s c i e nc e s around the world are broadening their repertoire of social, masc 55.001: change in the coastal ocean technical and legal tools for control and suppression of—and through—the Internet. We will explore the integration of new PL media tools within these movements as well as governmental Christopher S. Martens and institutional responses to these developments. Materials TuTh, 9:30–10:45am for this class will include readings, videos (not to be viewed in class but as material to be viewed) and a variety of visiting This seminar provides students with opportunities to explore speakers (both in person and via Skype). recent changes in marine and terrestrial environments caused by the interactions of fascinating oceanographic processes. Zeynep Tufekci is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information and Library Class presentations and discussions focus on the work of active Science and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Sociology. Her research marine scientists who combine their traditional disciplinary interests are social impacts of technology, privacy and surveillance, inequality, research with knowledge and skills from other fields as needed research methods and complex systems. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Science, Washington Post and other media. to understand new environmental challenges. This cross- cutting scientific approach prepares class members to recognize important connections between traditional disciplines to linguistics discover interdisciplinary research areas that they might wish to further explore during their undergraduate careers at Carolina. ling 89h.001: decipherment of ancient In preparation for discussions, laboratory demonstrations scripts (honors) and occasional visits to field sites, we read a series of recently SS, WB published, non-technical research papers. We use information David Mora-Marin from those papers plus current research at Carolina to MWF, 10:10–11:00am investigate how biological, geological, physical and geochemical processes interact to influence coastal, open-ocean and tropical The seminar deals with the origin and evolution of writing environments. Students will participate in “video- and photo- systems; the methods for deciphering ancient scripts and trips” during classes, laboratory demonstrations using state- studying contemporary scripts; and the socio-cultural and of-the art instrumentation in our laboratories and “hands on” linguistic underpinnings of literacy in the ancient and mini-experiments designed to emphasize the importance of contemporary worlds. Students will study and analyze, through the scientific question rather than just the technology involved. a series of workshops and group projects, the early Sumerian, Please note that this seminar has no prerequisites. Egyptian, Harappan, Chinese and Mesoamerican writing Christopher S. Martens earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Oceanography from systems—the five writing systems that account for much of the Florida State University in 1972, then moved to Yale to complete two years diversity of scripts known today. These are all non-alphabetic of postdoctoral study before joining the faculty at UNC in 1974. His current FIRST YEAR SEMINARS fys.unc.edu 20|21

–Mason R., Class of 2016 : extreme microorganisms: : extreme microorganisms: 59.001 the academic possibilities available to me at Carolina. at Carolina. me to possibilities available academic the hydrothermal vents. In search of novel extreme marine microorganisms, he and his students are participating in a wide range of research cruises. strange biochemistry that allows them to thrive in their unique biochemistry that allows them to thrive in their strange some of the most extreme microorganisms on the planet— some of the most extreme crust, under high temperatures sediments and in the Earth’s outside of the academic realm while also surrounding while realm academic the outside of students with interests.” myself similar of areas on land (Yellowstone) and in the ocean (hydrothermal and in the on land (Yellowstone) areas on Earth. as some of the most ancient microorganisms and heavy metal concentrations) that were once thought to be thought once were that concentrations) heavy metal and world of the oceans and focused his Ph.D. research on the ecology and diversity been isolated in the laboratory as pure cultures; others have cultures; as pure been isolated in the laboratory cultivation. but have so far resisted been observed in Nature vents), and we will explore the earliest history of extremophiles the earliest history of extremophiles vents), and we will explore of the deep marine subsurface and microbial ecosystems of petroleum seeps and habitats; they are also valuable model systems for potential life habitats; they are of marine bacteria that catalyze the sulfur cycle. After completing his Ph.D. at high pressure and under chemical stress factors (high sulfide loving) microorganisms of different metabolic types have extremophiles are found, for example hot springs and volcanic are extremophiles microorganisms that thrive without oxygen in deep marine microorganisms that thrive without oxygen deep-sea water under in boiling hot springs or in superheated (extreme- incompatible with life. Numerous extremophilic on other planets. We will get to know the unusual habitats where will get to know the unusual habitats where on other planets. We We will expand our horizons in biology by learning about will expand our horizons in biology by learning about We PL Extremophiles provide opportunities to study the unusual and provide opportunities to study the unusual and Extremophiles Institution and stayed on as Assistant Scientist. Andreas Teske joined the UNC joined the UNC Institution and stayed on as Assistant Scientist. Andreas Teske Bremen University and the Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen University and the Max-Planck-Institute TuTh, 11:00am–12:15pm TuTh, I learned how to think critically think to issues how about I learned are that Marine Sciences faculty in 2002. His research interests include the microbiology pushing the limits of life on earth of life on earth the limits pushing masc Germany in 1995, he spent his postdoc years at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Germany in 1995, he spent his postdoc years at the Woods and beyond Andreas Teske is a biochemist by training, but became fascinated by the microbial is a biochemist by training, Andreas Teske Teske Andreas “My first year seminar helped me broaden my outlook on outlook broaden my me helped first seminar year “My

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) honors ( : from “the sound of music” of music” : from “the sound 001 h. 57 that are related to the environment and/or geophysics. When not working on problems of fluid dynamics, he enjoys the outdoors, especially alpine activities like he earned a laurea in physics in 1992. He then moved to Baltimore, Maryland, by the Deepwater Horizon disaster. He publishes widely and has twice been publishes widely and has He Horizon disaster. by the Deepwater sources of greenhouse gases, changing coral reef ecosystems and the carbon cycle and the carbon ecosystems coral reef gases, changing of greenhouse sources where he completed a PhD degree in Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in co-recipient of the Geochemical Society’s Best Paper award in Organic Best Paper of the Geochemical Society’s co-recipient broad range of important physical phenomena. of important broad range weather we experience is controlled very often by wave-like waves, and we use electromagnetic waves to communicate over undergraduate teaching. in deep sea environments including the northern Gulf of Mexico area impacted northern Gulf of Mexico including the in deep sea environments research focuses on how biological processes affect the chemistry of seawater the chemistry processes affect how biological focuses on research long distances. We see waves when we stand at beach, and the see long distances. We mountaneering and skiing with his wife and children. common traits of waves and how these traits can be used to of waves and how these traits common traits a of outcome the predict and to understanding our enhance conceptual framework necessary to understand waves, starting from laboratory observations. The main goal is to explore the observations. The main goal is to explore from laboratory features of the jet stream. In this seminar, we will develop the In this seminar, of the jet stream. features in nature. We communicate over short distances with sound communicate over short We in nature. We are constantly surrounded by phenomena that are wave-like constantly surrounded by phenomena that are are We PL, QI to “the perfect storm” GEOG 62. A trip to the Ackland Art Museum. Photo by Beth Lawrence. Beth Lawrence. GEOG 62. A trip to the Ackland Art Museum. Photo by He has received a “Favorite Faculty” award for recognized excellence in award for recognized excellence Faculty” a “Favorite He has received TuTh, 9:30–10:45am TuTh, Hole Oceanographic Institution, where he retooled himself as an oceanographer. Hole Oceanographic Institution, where he retooled himself as an oceanographer. the Department of Marine in Scotti joined the faculty at UNC In 1999, Dr. Sciences. His research interests center on problems of applied fluid dynamic masc Geochemistry. He is an experienced SCUBA diver and underwater videographer. videographer. diver and underwater He is an experienced SCUBA Geochemistry. Alberto Scotti is a native of Milano, Italy and attended the university there, where Alberto Scotti 1997. Subsequently, Dr. Scotti completed his postdoctoral study at the Woods Scotti completed his postdoctoral study at the Woods 1997. Subsequently, Dr. mathematics Evaluation: “A difficult but wholly worthwhile course: I feel more competent for having taken it”, “I would recommend this math 51.001: fish gotta swim, birds FYS to others ONLY if they have a VERY strong affinity for and gotta fly’: the mathematics and ability in Algebra (I thought I did, but I was wrong).” the mechanics of moving Ivan Cherednik is Austin H. Carr Distinguished Professor of Mathematics. QI Trained at the Steklov Mathematics Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and at Moscow State University, his areas of specialization are Representation Roberto Camassa Theory, Combinatorics, Number Theory, Harmonic Analysis and Mathematical MWF, 1:25–2:15pm Physics. Cherednik’s particular affection for Combinatorics is well known: he proved the celebrated Constant term conjecture in Combinatorics. One focus of this seminar is to address the science of motion of vehicles and living organisms, in fluids such as air and water, using simple physical explanations supported with the relevant mathematical descriptions. Experimental demonstrations will be used to illustrate the concepts encountered in class, as well as to provide an insight into the art of fluid flow visualization. There are no prerequisites, and material from physics and mathematics will be introduced as needed. Understanding of the material will be reinforced with biweekly homework assignments and a final animation project. While this course is focused on the physics and mathematics, rather than computer programming, an introduction to elementary concepts of scientific computing will be part of the course. Roberto Camassa is the Kenan Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mathematics. His Ph.D. is from Cal Tech, and his research interests include nonlinear evolution equations, mathematical modeling, fluid mechanics and optics.

math 62h.001: combinatorics (honors) Professor Hugon Karwowski working with a student. Photo by Dan Sears. QI Ivan Cherednik TuTh, 9:30–10:45am m e d i a a n d j ou r na l i s m A leading expert in Modern Combinatorics wants to share mejo 89.001: democracy in action his vision of the subject with the students. The seminar is a in 2016 elections perfect background for future specialists in mathematics, HS, CI, NA physics, computer science, biology, economics, for those who are curious what statistical physics is about, what cryptography Ferrel Guillory is and how the stock market works, and for everyone who likes MW, 3:30–4:45pm mathematics. “Nowhere in the world are more people more fully engaged The course will be organized around the following topics: in active, responsible participation in the choice of national 1) Puzzles: dimer covering, magic squares, 36 officers leadership than in the United States during the fall season of any American Presidential campaign,” Theodore H. White wrote 2) Combinations: from coin tossing to dice and poker in The Making of the President 1960. Through this seminar, which 3) Fibonacci numbers: rabbits, population growth, etc. coincides with the fall 2016 presidential campaign, students 4) Arithmetic: designs, cyphers, intro to finite fields will discuss and write about the dramatic story of democracy 5) Catalan numbers: from playing roulette to the stock market in action as it unfolds in their communities, in their state and across the nation. Campaigns being enterprises of multiple The students will learn about the history of Combinatorics, its dimensions, the seminar will give students an exploration connections with the theory of numbers, its fundamental role in of politics through many lenses: candidates and personality, the natural sciences and various applications. It is an advanced political parties and partisanship, money and media, issues research course; all students are expected to participate in and interest groups, voters and polling. This seminar also seeks projects under the supervision of Ivan Cherednik and the to give students experience in interpretative journalism, with Graduate Research Consultant (the GRC Program). The grades monthly writing assignments. At the conclusion of the seminar, will be based on the exam, bi-weekly homework assignments students will have a deeper appreciation for the complexities and participation in the projects. The course requires focus of people wielding power through their votes, through their and effort, but, generally, the students are quite satisfied with participation in campaigns and through a free press in a free, the progress they make (and their grades too). From the Course democratic society. FIRST YEAR SEMINARS fys.unc.edu 22|23

Philosopher- socrates? : who was 51.001 p h i lo s o p h y promote cultural exchange, conflict reduction and entrepreneurship. promote cultural exchange, conflict reduction and the philosophy of sex and love and on film. His books include: ground for ideas and as preparation for the writing assignments. ground for ideas and as preparation sent its firsthip-hop musician onan officialtour, and 2013 significance for his contemporaries and for us. Our focus, about books and ideas that are both exciting and significant, we significant, and exciting both are that ideas and books about the world. Katz created the Next Level the Next as its and, program Katz created the world. the Socratic challenge to live the examined life. the Socratic tradition. In this seminar, we explore the intellectual and we explore In this seminar, tradition. is made his own: How should we live? What that Socrates will serve as special guests throughout the semester. will serve as special guests will not only be finding out about Socrates but also be taking up taking be also but Socrates about out finding be only not will hip-hop artists abroad to teach and perform with youth in and perform with abroad to teach hip-hop artists around of countries scores and taught in toured have now hop diplomacy in the context of American foreign policy and for the Arts and Humanities at the University and the Director of the Institute and former editor of The Journal of the Society for American and Aristotle. He is interested in philosophy generally and has published work in perhaps, the first real philosopherknown in Western to have is thought historical context within which Socrates the questions human will be on the large and perennial however, provide for our families and for ourselves? Each week we will director, director, havs overseen residencies in twelve countries on five continents. This class draws both on the history of American and challenges. Next Levelconsider its goals, potential artists Hill. He is the author of Capturing Sound: of North Carolina at Chapel an Outstanding Academic Book for 1992 by Choice; Substantial it established Next Level, a program that sends American hip- to explore own experiences Katz’s musical diplomacy and revolutionized philosophy so as to better understand his so as to better understand philosophy revolutionized primary texts and discuss it carefully a part of one of the read in the class. These discussions will serve both as a testing- underserved communities. Hundreds of hip-hop diplomats of hip-hop communities. Hundreds underserved Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History in America: A Documentary Sound, and Technology Socrates is by far the most famous Greek philosopher and, philosopher Greek famous most the far by is Socrates justice? What is virtue? What sort of society should we strive to PH, NA, WB PH, NA, How Technology has Changed Music and Groove Music: The has Changed Music and Groove How Technology State Music. In 2013 he created, and continues to direct, the U.S. Blindness and Re-Orientation: Problems in Plato’s Republic in Plato’s Blindness and Re-Orientation: Problems MW, 11:15am–12:30pm MW, By learning to talk and write in an engaging but disciplined way (Harvard 2005); Confusions Knowledge (Hackett 2000); Love’s Socrates in the Apology 1988; reissued 2006); Socrates Kings (Princeton Department-funded musical diplomacy program Next Level, which connects Department-funded musical diplomacy program Next Mark Katz is the Ruel W. Tyson Jr. Distinguished Professor of the Humanities of the Distinguished Professor Jr. Tyson Mark Katz is the Ruel W. phil C. D. C. Reeve C. D. C. Reeve works primarily in ancient Greek philosophy, especially Plato American hip-hop artists to underserved communities around the world to American hip-hop artists to underserved communities Music, of the Hip-Hop DJ. He is co-editor of Art and Culture Action, Contemplation, and Happiness: An Essay on Aristotle (Harvard 2012)—named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2012 by Choice; (Harvard 2012)—named an Outstanding Academic Title Practices of Reason (Oxford, 1992)—named (Hackett 1989); Practices Ernani and , Rigoletto and Trovatore The Journal of Musicology. : hip-hop diplomacy: : hip-hop diplomacy: : music and drama: verdi’s verdi’s : music and drama: 89.001 57.001 m u s i c skeptics who may sneer about fat sopranos, preening tenors preening skeptics who may sneer about fat sopranos, soul as few arts can. Most important, unlike musical concerts and silly plots. The truth is greater than that, however, for than that, however, and silly plots. The truth is greater and final exams, and a final project. and finally to one of the sublime masterpieces from the end of and spoken plays, opera combines the arts in a unique way. way. combines the arts in a unique and spoken plays, opera . The seminar will include weekly reading and weekly reading include seminar will Otello. The century, the to do what neither could do alone. No better examples of to do what neither could do alone. No created operas this art form can be found than the stunning reports. In addition, Guillory is a co- South reports. In addition, seven State of the co-authored founder of EducationNC, a non-profit organization that reports and analyzes that reports and analyzes non-profit organization a founder of EducationNC, brief papers as follow-ups to class viewings mid-term of operas, when the audience is receptive to its magic, opera can touch the to its magic, opera when the audience is receptive were the touchstones of Verdi’s sensibilities and encouraged sensibilities and encouraged the touchstones of Verdi’s were his boldness and originality of operatic subjects. We will trace will trace subjects. We his boldness and originality of operatic in music He received a B.F.A. and Sciences) was born in Caracas, Venezuela. Schifanoia (Florence, Italy), and from Villa University, an M.A. from Tulane University. He taught at the University a Ph.D. in musicology from New York his imagination. Schiller, Hugo and especially Shakespeare Hugo and especially Shakespeare his imagination. Schiller, in discussions, two listening assignments, class participation of California at Santa Barbara before joining the faculty of Carolina. Professor of California at Santa Barbara before joining the faculty of Carolina. Professor during the nineteenth century in Italy, especially those of during the nineteenth century in Italy, formulated, which formed Verdi’s artistic tastes and nourished and tastes artistic Verdi’s formed which formulated, opera opera entertains them in a special way. Of course, there are operas and italian Romanticism operas and italian opportunities and challenges and challenges opportunities Why does opera continue to attract growing audiences? Because growing to attract continue Why does opera LA, CI, WB MWF, 11:15am–12:05pm MWF, Mark Katz For 75 years the U.S. Department of State has been sending First and foremost, language and music can work together language and music can work together and foremost, First John Nádas PreK-12 education in North Carolina online at www.ednc.org. in North Carolina online education PreK-12 University New Orleans B.A. - Loyola TuTh, 12:30–1:45pm TuTh, Senior Fellow at MDC, Inc., a non-profit research firm, through which he has firm, through which Inc., a non-profit research at MDC, Senior Fellow Ferrel Guillory is a Professor of the Practice in the UNC School of Media and School of in the UNC of the Practice Professor Guillory is a Ferrel Verdi’s artistry from early works such as Nabucco, Verdi’s and Italy, His interests include the music of 14th- and 15th-century France M.S. - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism M.S. - Columbia University Nádas served as Editor-in-Chief of Monteverdi and 19th-century Italian opera. VP, GL VP, Journalism. He founded the UNC Program on Public Life in 1997 and is a in 1997 and Public Life on Program the UNC He founded Journalism. , Macbeth, through the brilliance of Traviata musc musc John Nádas (Gerhard L. Weinberg Distinguished Professor in the College of Arts Distinguished Professor John Nádas (Gerhard L. Weinberg Giuseppe Verdi. A distinctive Italian brand of Romanticism was Romanticism of brand Italian distinctive A Verdi. Giuseppe American musicians abroad as cultural diplomats. In 2001 it (Oxford, 2012); and Aristotle on Practical Wisdom: Nicomachean Ethics Book VI (Harvard, 2013). He has translated Plato’s Cratylus (1997), Euthyphro, Apology, Crito (2002), Republic (2004) and Meno (2006) as well as Aristotle’s Politics (1998) and Metaphysics (2016) for Hackett. He is currently working on Aristotle’s Physics and De Anima. Recent articles include: “Aristotle’s Philosophical Method,” in the Oxford Handbook of Aristotle (2012); “A Celemín of Shit: Comedy and Deception in Almodóvar’s Talk to Her” in Philosophers on Film: Talk to Her (2009); and “Glaucon’s Challenge and Thrasymacheanism,” in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy (2008).

phil 66.001: ethics: theoretical and practical PH Thomas Hill TuTh, 11:00am–12:15pm This seminar aims to encourage students to think seriously and clearly about ethical problems by means of class discussion, group research projects and examination of philosophical and literary works. Theoretical issues to be considered include Students from ENGL 86 “The Cities of Modernism” at the Ackland Art Museum. relativism, utilitarianism, deontological ethics and virtue Photo by Dan Sears. ethics. Practical issues may include abortion, substance abuse, treatment of animals and the environment, and sex, love and marriage. p h y s i c s a n d a s t r o no m y Thomas Hill is a Kenan Professor in the Department of Philosophy. Professor Hill phys 52.052: making the right has written extensively in ethics, the history of ethics and political philosophy. connections Hugon J.Karwowski phil 78.001: death as a problem for MW, 11:15am–12:30pm philosophy: metaphysical and ethical Lab: M, 1:25– 3:25pm or M, 3:35–5:35pm PH This seminar will investigate the multiple roles that computers Russ Shafer-Landau perform in scientific investigations. We will discuss and test MW, 3:35–4:50pm in practice how the connections are made between measuring devices and computers. We will investigate how the collected data In this seminar we will be discussing a variety of important are evaluated and how the decisions based on the experimental questions about death, including: results are made. We will also discuss the role of the computer 1. What is Death? simulations in scientific research and the societal consequences 2. What is the Value of Life? of recent technological advances. In the lab students will learn digital electronics, programming and gain working knowledge 3. Why is Death Bad (if it is)? of data acquisition techniques with primary focus on flow of 4. Are We Immortal–and if so, is that a good thing? data from and to scientific instruments. We will visit a number 5. What is the Moral Status of Suicide and Euthanasia? of research labs on and off campus and talk to young researchers 6. What is The Meaning of Life and How Does it Relate to about their work. This seminar will be of particular interest for Death? prospective science majors, but there are no prerequisites. 7. How Should One Face One’s Own Death? Hugon J.Karwowski, who is a native of Poland, is a physicist and a teacher. His research is in applied nuclear physics, neutrino physics and astrophysics. Students will be expected to be active participants in discussion Most of his experimental work is performed using accelerators at the Triangle and there will be several short writing assignments. Universities Nuclear Laboratory. His other interests are politics, world history Russ Shafer-Landau is Director of the Parr Center for Ethics and Professor of and grade inflation. He is a winner of numerous teaching awards and has served Philosophy. He has written widely in ethical theory; his research focuses on issues as a mentor of students on all levels. about the objectivity of ethics. FIRST YEAR SEMINARS fys.unc.edu 24|25

? : national policy: who sets who sets policy: : national by Steven Brill as a documentary record). by Steven record). Brill as a documentary Bitter Pill 70.001 The Union in the Balance by James Roger Sharp). Overall the graduate representative to Faculty Council and service on several university- Faculty graduate representative to health policies. She developed her interest in pressing issues in higher education her interest in pressing issues in higher education health policies. She developed sometimes euphoric process of campaigning for high office student needs and desires? What role should athletics play in should athletics play What role and desires? student needs struggle to get the Affordable Care Act into law (using portions (using law into Act Care Affordable the get to struggle and interactions with UNC faculty and staff. with UNC and interactions as set against the painstaking and often torturous process of process often torturous and painstaking against the as set as a central text), we will explore President Obama’s historic academically and socially? How should universities respond to respond should universities and socially? How academically both 1998 and 1999. Through a 33-year career in government and business, and through class discussion, position papers, oral presentations presentations papers, oral discussion, position through class the changing mechanics of “campaigning in America,” taking a the changing mechanics of “campaigning in America,” wide committees, including the University Copyright Committee and the wide committees, including while in graduate school, through involvement in UNC’s graduate branch of graduate involvement in UNC’s while in graduate school, through in Undergraduate Retention, an appointment as the student government, work served as Assistant to the President and Director of Legislative Affairs. Stein was served as Assistant to the President since 2003 and is responsible for Federal, State and local government relations, since 2003 and is responsible for Federal, higher education? Students will explore these and other topics these and other explore Students will higher education? a lead participant in the budget negotiations with the Congressional majority in and trade bills, the repeal of Glass-Steagel, the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate and 99. in 1998 accountability act and the impeachment of the President look back at the Presidential campaigns of 1960 (The Making of a look back at the Presidential legislating. Taking legislating. the Taking Obama 2008 campaign as a case study, his in reality legislative with collision subsequent and victory have for who attends and graduates from college? How well How well college? from graduates and for who attends have and was awarded a University Scholarship to Vanderbilt University where he and was awarded a University Scholarship to Vanderbilt received his Masters. regulatory relations and the public policy dimension of corporate reputation management. During the second term of the Clinton Administration, Stein class will attempt to explore the mismatch between the qualities qualities the between mismatch the explore to attempt will class diverse, contentious polity. —Jefferson, Burr —Jefferson, campaign of 1800 (The Deadlocked Election of 1800 is higher education preparing students for jobs of the future? future? jobs of the for students preparing education is higher necessary to win elections and those necessary for governing a of America’s of America’s SS, CI, NA Larry Stein How has new technology reshaped the college experience, both the college experience, How has new technology reshaped the agenda Hill. Her historical research focuses on the history of social welfare and public focuses on the history of social welfare and public Hill. Her historical research TuTh, 12:30–1:45pm TuTh, between the contrast on the concentrate class will The President Clinton’s chief lobbyist and sat on the Clinton Economic team and was chief lobbyist and sat on Clinton’s President Stein has worked on a wide range of financial, tax and budgetary issues including Base Budget Summit, multiple budget, tax the Andrews Air Force Dodd-Frank, Stein graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude from Allegheny College Larry Stein was Senior Vice President for Policy Affairs at Capital One Financial One Affairs at Capital for Policy President Larry Stein was Senior Vice The class will, in the process of the inquiry, bore deeply into deeply into bore The class will, in the process of the inquiry, 1960 by President White) Theodore and Presidential the realfirst plcy Corporation. Stein has been with the Fortune 200 financial services company Corporation. Stein has been with the Fortune Anna Krome-Lukens completed her PhD in U.S. History at UNC-Chapel her PhD in U.S. History at UNC-Chapel Anna Krome-Lukens completed Library. Administrative Board of the by John Heileman and Mark Halperin (and using Game Change by John Heileman and Mark Halperin

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p u b l i c time in the Administration, she was a policy advisor to two North Carolina the first term of the Obama Administration. She worked with Administration global environmental policy is made, with specific attention to global environmental institutions and the environmental global environmental institutions and governors on energy and education issues. She has a B.A. and an M.P.P. from governors on energy and education issues. She has a B.A. and an M.P.P. instructor definitely was. encouraged take to me It’s more music classes.” leadership on strategies to advance the nation’s interests on environmental and leadership on strategies to advance the nation’s the United States; China, India and other developing countries’ developingthe United States; China, India and other countries’ the roles of institutions, nations, commercial and non-profit to pollute another corner; and how ecosystems that transcend that transcend to pollute another corner; and how ecosystems think of the way we produce and consume energy; how waste produce and consume energy; how waste think of the way we problems they cause and seek to rectify. We will examine how We problems they to rectify. cause and seek produced in one corner of the world travels by air, sea and land sea and by air, produced in one corner of the world travels developed a fluency in Mandarin. energy issues, focusing primarily on bilateral relations with China. Prior to her energy issues, focusing primarily on bilateral relations with China. Prior federal and state government. Prior to joining UNC Public Policy as a Lecturer, as a Lecturer, Public Policy to joining UNC federal and state government. Prior entities. Topics include the evolutionthe include in policy environmental of Topics entities. challenges? This seminar explores linkages among nations, challenges? This seminar explores cost of college rising and what implications does this shift implications of shale gas and fracking; and the Fukushima-Dai- implications of shale gas and fracking; ichi nuclear disaster and its global repercussions. impact on the global environment; global environmental impact on the global environment; Convention institutions such as the United Nations Framework national boundaries are impacted by human behavior. Who impacted by human behavior. national boundaries are for governing these global environmental is responsible may dramatically change the undergraduate college experience. change the undergraduate may dramatically on Climate Change; the role pollution through environment the to risks organizations; of environmental non-profit environmental and energy global waste; by sea land and of SS college experience, and public policy college experience, Elizabeth Sasser global in scope. Just are threats Many serious environmental MW, 3:35–4:50pm MW, that transformations Higher education is undergoing rapid In this course, students will examine urgent questions facing TuTh, 12:30–1:45pm TuTh, Elizabeth Sasser is a public policy practitioner with extensive experience in Elizabeth Sasser is a public policy practitioner with extensive of Energy during Elizabeth served as policy advisor at the U.S. Department Duke University and studied at Peking University in Beijing, China, where she University Duke University and studied at Peking plcy plcy in the GL American colleges and universities. For example, why is the Anna Krome-Lukens “I loved the small class and how knowledgeable my class knowledgeable my small how the and loved “I plcy 71.001: justice and inequality JB Buxton has worked in a variety of roles in government and the nonprofit sector focused on public education, including North Carolina’s deputy state PH superintendent, senior education advisor to N.C. Gov. Mike Easley; a White Douglas MacKay House Fellow working with the Domestic Policy Council under President Clinton; TuTh, 2:00–3:15pm director of policy and research for the Public School Forum of N.C. and coordinator of special programs for the NC Teaching Fellows Program. He began The value of equality is a foundational principle of the United his career as a high school English teacher and coach in Massachusetts. Buxton States of America. The Declaration of Independence proclaims currently runs the Education Innovations Group, a consulting practice focused that “all men are created equal” and possess unalienable on PreK-12 and postsecondary public education. Buxton works with state rights to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” The departments of education, national foundations and state, regional and national Constitution of the United States requires that no State “deny organizations focused on dramatic improvements in public education. Buxton to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of received his bachelor’s degree in English from UNC-Chapel Hill and his master’s the laws.” Additionally, equality has been the goal of a number in public affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. of influential political movements, including the Civil Rights movement, the Feminist movement, Occupy Wall Street plcy 89.001: ending poverty and the LGBT movement. Yet despite this prominence of the value of equality, the U.S. is becoming a more unequal SS, BN society in a number of domains, particularly, with respect Sudhanshu Handa to the distribution of income, political influence and social TuTh, 9:30–10:45am mobility. This course investigates the value of equality and asks which forms of inequality are unjust and ought to be Ending poverty is the underlying goal of almost all social policy remedied. We will focus on a variety of different spheres of U.S. initiatives, yet poverty remains a serious problem world-wide. social, political and economic life, including the distribution In the United States alone about one-fifth of all children live of income and opportunities, marriage, health outcomes, in poverty, and in poorer developing nations over half the education, voting and political influence, and employment. population typically live in poverty. Why is ending poverty such We will also ask whether equality is a value that applies beyond a seemingly elusive goal for social policy? Using Poor Economics U.S. borders, particularly with respect to global disparities in as one of the core texts, we will address common debates and income and wealth, and climate change. The course will feature conceptions about poverty ranging from ’the poor are lazy a combination of lectures and class discussion. Significant and wasteful’ to ‘poor but efficient’. The seminar will review instructional time will also be dedicated to developing students’ typical poverty alleviation initiatives, focusing primarily on critical thinking, reading and writing skills. low-income countries while also referring to the U.S. and European approaches to social protection. The seminar will Douglas MacKay holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Toronto. compare a rights-based approach to poverty policy with an Prior to joining the Department of Public Policy on July 1, 2013, he completed economic approach and use both approaches to discuss the a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Bioethics at the National appropriateness of specific programs. There is no pre requisite Institutes of Health. MacKay’s research and teaching interests concern questions for this seminar. at the intersection of justice and public policy. He is currently working on projects concerning the justice of economic inequality – both domestic and global; Professor Sudhanshu Handa is a development economist specializing in human the ethics of immigration policy; priority setting in health care; the ethics of capital, poverty and social protection. He is one of the lead researchers on the international clinical research; and justice in the division of responsibilities within Transfer Project (https://transfer.cpc.unc.edu/), a multi-country research federal systems of government. initiative led by UNICEF to understand the impact of social protection programs in Africa on households and children. Prof. Handa has lived and worked in Jamaica, Mozambique, Kenya and Mexico. He is returning to UNC this fall plcy 85.001: reforming america’s schools after three years serving as the Head of Economic and Social Policy at UNICEF’s SS, NA Office of Research. Dr. Handa received his PhD from University of Toronto and JB Buxton his BA from Johns Hopkins University. TuTh, 9:30–10:45am This course focuses on the policy and politics of education p o l i t i c a l s c i e nc e reform in America. Who are the major institutional and poli 50.001: movies and politics political actors engaged in education reform? Who are the major influencers? How do they interact to make and implement SS, CI public policy? What are the major issues and debates in Pamela Conover contemporary American public education? Participants in the MW, 9:05–11:25am seminar will develop an understanding of who is involved and how policy is developed at the local, state and federal levels, and In this seminar, we will consider the interplay between films delve into current issues and debates on subjects like standards, and politics—filmmakers and citizens. We will discuss what testing and accountability, school choice, teacher preparation movies “mean,” and the intent of filmmakers, but our major and compensation, and innovative school models. The seminar focus will be on the contribution of films to political life and will include interactions with current policy and political actors what we can learn from films about our political system as well from North Carolina and around the nation. as ourselves as citizens. Towards this end, we will watch both FIRST YEAR SEMINARS fys.unc.edu 26|27 ?

: the united states and the and the states : the united 66.001 and the practice of government different? How does welfare and European Integration books, including Cohesion Policy with Gary Marks and Arjan Schakel); the European Commission of the will participate in structured discussion, debate and role play. play. role and debate discussion, structured in participate will event on a current will participate in an extensive role play kind of polity is emerging at the European level,kind of polity is emerging at the European and how does in 1989. Before joining UNC in 2000, she taught at the University of in 1989. Before joining UNC and 2016, she was affiliated with the VU Amsterdam. Her principal areas of interest are comparative politics (Europe), identity, political parties, political elites, decentralization and international organization. She has written several differ from that Western in Europe? Are Europeans from does Europe deal with its multiple crises? The second section does Europe deal with its multiple crises? compares American and European politics. How are elections familiar with the European Union. Why is there a European a European is there familiar with the European Union. Why relevant to transatlantic relations. There will also be plenty of There relations. to transatlantic relevant in the United States and the role of the state in the economy in the United States and the role of the its relations with the United States. In the first part, we become become we part, first the In States. United the with relations its it differ from federalism in Unitedthe States?Finally, how once argued, or is the reality more fine-grained? Students opportunity for class discussion. Scale and Regional Governance: A Postfunctionalist Theory Scale and Regional Governance: A Postfunctionalist SS Union? How does it operate, and how has it developed?Union? How does it operate, What Each student will make at least one class presentation, and each and each presentation, Each student will make at least one class 2016; co-authored); and Community, Regional Authority (OUP, Liesbet Hooghe Students from WMST 64 on a tour of the black presence on campus. a tour of the black presence on campus. Students from WMST 64 on Photo by Beth Lawrence. Venus and Americans from Mars, as a famous American scholar American famous a as Mars, from Americans and Venus Liesbet Hooghe received her Ph.D. from the University of Leuven in Belgium (Routledge, 2010 – 2002), The Rise of Regional Authority Press, TuTh, 2:00–3:15pm TuTh, Union and to the European introduces students This seminar Italy) and the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin ( Germany). Between 2004 Italy) and the Wissenschaftszentrum european union: partners or rivals partners european union: poli Oxford University (Nuffield), the European University Institute (Florence, Commission and the Integration of Europe (Cambridge University Commission and the Integration Toronto (1994-2000) and held research fellowships at Cornell University, Toronto (Oxford University Press, 2013; co-authored); Measuring 21st Century (Oxford University Press, (OUP, 1996); Multi-Level in the European Union Governance (OUP, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001—with Gary Marks); The European 2016 – with Gary Marks). (OUP, : how leaders lead others leaders : how 62.001 transition and now serves on the National Commission on Reform of the Federal transition and now serves on the National Commission on Reform of the Federal past two president elects as they prepared to assume the presidency and the last the tradecraft of politicians, bargaining and persuasion, and White House students will examine theories of leadership ranging from ranging students will examine theories of leadership has concerned the nature of political thinking and the politics of identity and has concerned the nature of political thinking and the self-understandings as citizens are shaped by the experience of shaped as citizens are self-understandings sexuality and religion—and the extent to which that diversity is to which that the extent religion—and sexuality and smart. about them, students will engage in seminar discussions, wiki will engage in seminar discussions, wiki about them, students and the presidency, the judicial system, foreign affairs and ancient models of good character through the medievalancient models of good character theories their influence with other decision-makers. In this seminar, to secret recordings of bargaining between the president and of bargaining between the president recordings to secret she enjoys cycling and being walked by her two golden retrievers, Izzy and Gracie. she enjoys cycling and being walked by her two golden business leadership and then compare those theories with what business leadership and then compare Feminism and the New Right. citizenship. She also coauthored the book Feminism writing and online discussions. Grades will be based on several Grades writing and online discussions. and forum discussions, and a final exam. writing projects, class watching films. Among the topics covered will be propaganda, whether whether political films provide accurate understandings will help students learn how to write more effectively to sound at Emory University and received her Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota. at Emory University and received her Ph.D. at the University political ambition, interest groups and corruption, congress congress corruption, and groups interest ambition, political how political life is shaped by diversity—race, class, gender, gender, class, by diversity—race, life is shaped how political movements and political protest. In the past, Professor Conover’s research Conover’s movements and political protest. In the past, Professor contemporary contemporary wars. In addition to watching films andreading outgoing president. Professor Sullivan served on President Bush’s Presidential Presidential Bush’s Sullivan served on President outgoing president. Professor operations. Since 1997, Professor Sullivan has directed the White House operations. Since 1997, Professor differences betweenreal leadership and theories of leadership. of values and integrity in shaping the behavior of politicians. In her spare time, of values and integrity in shaping the behavior of politicians. industry and governmental censorship, campaigning, censorship, campaigning, industry and governmental represented in films.represented A final theme will be to examine how our influence of documentary filmmakers in shaping the political role of films in our society. A third theme will be to consider real leaders do. To obtain this perspective, students will listen leaders do. To real organized society; yet we know little about how leaders exercise how leaders exercise organized society; yet we know little about of reality. Another theme will be to explore the changing other national leaders. This seminar teaches students about the data they develop. In addition, this class on the basis of real of the religious tutors (Machiavelli and Erasmus) to modern tutors (Machiavelli and Erasmus) of the religious SS, CI It also exposes them to the rigors of research projects conducted projects conducted It also exposes them to the rigors of research fictitious and documentary films. One theme will be to evaluate evaluate to be will theme One films. documentary and fictitious Terry Sullivan Terry 3:30–4:45pm TuTh, an of center the at stands leadership political of use The Professor Conover teaches courses dealing with political psychology, and social Professor Pamela Conover, Burton Craige Professor of Political Science, was educated Science, of Political Burton Craige Professor Conover, Pamela Her current research is focused on partisan polarization and rivalry, and the role Her current research is focused on partisan polarization poli Transition Coordinating Council where he helped coordinate the Bush to Obama Coordinating Council Transition Transition Project, which provides help to all the presidential campaigns, the Project, Transition Terry Sullivan (Ph.D., University of Texas) focuses on political leadership, of Texas) Sullivan (Ph.D., University Terry Appointments Process. Among his books are: The Arab Spring: Pathways of Repression and Reform (Oxford, 2015) with Jason Brownlee and Tarek Masoud, Designing Democracy in a Dangerous World (Oxford, 2011), The Architecture of Democracy: Constitutional Design, Conflict Management, and Democracy (Oxford, 2002), Electoral Systems and Democratization in Southern Africa (Oxford, 1999), Election 99 South Africa: From Mandela to Mbeki (St. Martin’s, 1999) and Elections and Conflict Management in Africa (USIP, 1998), co-edited with T. Sisk. In 2012 he embarked on a multi-year research project to study the impact of LGBT national parliamentarians on public policy around the world. His forthcoming book is The Children of Harvey Milk (2016).

poli 71h.001: politics of race, ethnicity, language, religion, and gender (honors) Photo by Dan Sears. SS, US Andrea Benjamin poli 67.001: designing democracy TuTh, 2:00–3:15 pm SS In many parts of the world, race, ethnicity, language, religion Andrew Reynolds and gender are explicitly linked to politics. In the United States, MW, 3:35–4:50pm we tend to link these identities to politics through political This course will present political institutions as levers of conflict parties. In this seminar, we will explore the concepts of race, management in ethnically plural, post-conflict national states. ethnicity, language, religion and gender in a comparative context To highlight the issues that lie behind constitutional design in order to gain a better understanding of their application in attention will be focused on a province that was in turmoil within the United States. From there we will consider the relationship an established democracy (Northern Ireland), a democratizing between race, ethnicity, language, religion, gender and politics, state (South Africa), a North African state in tumult (Egypt) and from the perspective of citizens, candidates, policies and post war institutional design (Afghanistan). These states will be institutions. We will use scholarly texts as the foundation for analyzed in terms of their paths toward democracy, the nature the seminar, but we will couple those with newspaper articles of their internal conflict and the types of political institutions and narratives to gain a first-hand perspective as needed. they have (or are) adopting. Key to the class will be the student’s This seminar will not have a final exam, but students will work focus on their own case study of a democratizing state. The class on a group project and make a presentation to the class. will be briefed on the core ‘building block’ choices that go into Andrea Benjamin’s research interests include race and politics, elections and a new constitution and the importance of rooting institutions voting behavior, identity, urban politics and public opinion. She is currently in the distinct historical and socio-political characteristics of working on a book that explores the potential for Black-Latino coalitions in a nation. Through lectures, videos and discussions we shall local elections. Professor Benjamin is originally from Northern California. investigate how nations can seek to transform violent conflict She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of California at into democratic debate. Davis and earned her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Andrew Reynolds received his B.A.(Hons) from the University of East Anglia, a M.A. from the University of Cape Town and his Ph.D. from the University poli 75.001: thinking about law of California, San Diego. His research and teaching focus on democratization, PH constitutional design and electoral politics. He is particularly interested in the Charles Szypszak presence and impact of minorities and marginalized communities. He has worked TuTh, 9:30–10:45am for the United Nations, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), the UK Department for International Development, the Are you interested in being a lawyer or public official? US State Department, the National Democratic Institute, the International Do you know what it means to “think like a lawyer?” Have you Republican Institute, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe considered why people mostly honor the law? Where do you find (OSCE) and the International Foundation for Election Systems. He has “the law?” How do judges decide difficult cases? This seminar also served as a consultant on issues of electoral and constitutional design for will explore the notion of a rule of law, formal and customary Afghanistan, Angola, Burma, Egypt, Fiji, Guyana, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, law, legal analysis, judicial interpretation and the realities of the Kenya, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, adversarial system and law practice. We will consider what makes Northern Ireland, Philippines, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Syria, law seem legitimate and how to assess whether it promotes liberty Tunisia, Yemen and Zimbabwe. He has received research awards from the and justice. This seminar will challenge students to be reflective U.S. Institute of Peace, the National Science Foundation, the US Agency for and critical about their own perspectives and to explore International Development and the Ford Foundation. personal responsibility for promoting a rule of law. Students FIRST YEAR SEMINARS fys.unc.edu 28|29 : psychology of emotion : the senses of animals : the senses of 68.001 67.001 the details of salient personal experiences and the “socialization” of children’s of children’s and the “socialization” salient personal experiences the details of psychologist who has long been interested in cognitive development and its and development in cognitive long been interested who has psychologist pain perception, since chronic pain is a major public health problem affecting one pain perception, since chronic pain is a major public senses are related to our own, but are either more or less highly either more own, but are to our related senses are scientific method and to help them develop their ability to as well as discussions of psychological research bearing on bearing as well as discussions of psychological research women and really “Are the more emotional sex?” (gender and animals possess sensory abilities that we lack entirely, such as as such we lack entirely, sensory abilities that animals possess and a poster presentation. than we do, whereas moles are nearly blind. However, some nearly blind. However, moles are than we do, whereas the ability to perceive magnetic fields orthe polarization of they work and how they help animals survive. The seminar settings. His research focuses on age-related changes in long-term memory for changes in long-term focuses on age-related settings. His research backgrounds and there are no pre-requisites. Topics will Topics pre-requisites. no are there and backgrounds students in the Lab work with Dr. Hollins to examine the ways in which both students in the Lab work with Dr. Their current work focuses on sensory and cognitive factors influence perception. (emotion and reasoning), wisdom or the enemy of rationality?” people?” (emotional expressions), “How is emotion expressed expressed emotion is “How expressions), (emotional people?” people?” (emotion and social behavior), “Can you control memory skills. Outside of the world of research and teaching, he and his wife research and teaching, he Outside of the world of memory skills. hiking and wilderness canoeing. enjoy traveling, implications for understanding children’s abilities to provide testimony in legal in legal provide testimony abilities to children’s for understanding implications in three people and yet is not fully understood. emotion. The seminar assumes students will have diverse of other emotions in the faces as “Can you read questions such explored, be will psychology in perspectives of range A emotion). light. Taking the human senses as a point of reference, we will we reference, of a point senses as human the Taking light. your emotions or do they control you?” (emotion regulation), your emotions or do they control you?” (emotion regulation), developed than ours. For example, falcons have sharper vision have sharper example, falcons developed than ours. For talking about how examine both categories of animal senses, and undergraduate and Director of the Somatosensory Research Lab. Graduate communicate scientific ideas effectively in speech and writing. include theoretical models of emotion process and structure, structure, and process emotion of models theoretical include in exploring the psychological and neuroscientific study of in the body?” (autonomic physiology), “Where do emotions live of source a emotion “Is neuroscience), (affective brain?” the in is also intended to increase students’ understanding of the students’ is also intended to increase report on a scientific article, a team project, a research proposal research a project, team a article, scientific a on report SS PL Kristen Lindquist 2:30–3:20pm MWF, Mark Hollins This seminar is designed especially for students interested This seminar is designed especially for students interested TuTh, 2:00–3:15pm TuTh, with the senses of animals. Many animal This seminar deals Mark Hollins is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology Mark Hollins is a Professor psyc psyc Grades Grades will be based primarily on two exams (but no final), a “Do emotions drive you crazy?” (emotion and psychopathology) (emotion “Do emotions drive you crazy?” “Does emotion help or hurt your relationships with other “Does emotion help or hurt your relationships

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p s yc h o lo g y performers and groups perform at Memorial Hall.” performers groups and perform Hall.” at Memorial this entire year. My classmates My I have the had and this entire year. wonderful opportunity seeing of various talented assignments. assignments. Reading materials will include selections from allegations of sexual abuse in criminal cases. But what is known information to provide accurate about the abilities of children the notion of a rule of law, the sources of law that govern us and that govern us and of law sources the of a rule of law, the notion two cases, the relatively recent Little Rascals Day Care case in this seminar, we will discuss the relevant literature on children’s on children’s literature we will discuss the relevant this seminar, the testimony of children that is central to the outcome of a case that is central the testimony of children family courts to and custody disputes in divorce from that range previous testimony depends upon their abilities to remember being tried. Children’s testimony is sought regularly in cases is sought regularly testimony being tried. Children’s will be engaged in analytical thinking and expression through through and expression thinking in analytical engaged will be law practice and the adversarial system. law practice protect our individual rights, the nature of legal analysis, the of legal analysis, the nature individual rights, protect our and worked on law reforms in Poland and Russia. He is the recipient of the and Russia. He in Poland and worked on law reforms in 1968 and joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel different methods of judicial interpretation and the realities of realities the and interpretation judicial of methods different court cases and other sources that provide an introduction to that provide an introduction and other sources court cases of Government’s Coates Distinguished Professorship for Teaching Excellence. for Teaching Coates Distinguished Professorship of Government’s institutions, organizations and public officials and teaches Law for Public institutions, organizations cases – most of which involve allegations of child sexual abuse experiences and to be able to resist the suggestions of others. In others. of suggestions the resist able to to be and experiences readings, classroom discussions and research and writing writing and research and discussions classroom readings, memory and cognition in the context of a of treatment specific in these types of legal situations? To a great extent, children’s extent, children’s a great in these types of legal situations? To upon to provide evidenceupon is often it and in legal proceedings, SS With increasing frequency, young children are being called are young children frequency, increasing With North Carolina and the 300-year old Salem Witch Trials. North Carolina and the 300-year old Salem Witch Peter A. Ornstein Peter testimony Peter A. Ornstein received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison A. Ornstein received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Peter of Psychology. Professor Stuart Chapin Hill in 1973, where he is now the F. TuTh, 2:00–3:15pm TuTh, Prior to that, he was an attorney and director of a general practice firm in to that, he was an attorney and director of a general Prior New Hampshire. He provides legal counsel to state, national and international legal counsel to state, national and international New Hampshire. He provides psyc University’s J. Carlyle Sitterson Freshman Teaching Award and the School Teaching J. Carlyle Sitterson Freshman University’s Charles Szypszak has been with the School of Government since 2005. Charles Szypszak has been A former Chair of the Department of Psychology, Dr. Ornstein is a developmental Dr. A former Chair of the Department of Psychology, Administration in the graduate program in public administration. He has taught program in public administration. He has taught Administration in the graduate – that have come to trial. Particular emphasis will be placed on – that have come to trial. Particular “MUSC 65 has my been favorite, most engaging 65 “MUSC class spanning social, cultural, developmental, clinical, cognitive r e l i g i ou s s t u d i e s and comparative psychology disciplines. Each week, a portion of the classes will be dedicated to discussions of research studies reli 65.001: myth, philosophy, led by Dr. Lindquist. The rest of the classes will be less formal and science in the ancient world group-based discussions and demonstrations. Discussions will PH, WB be used to explain or demonstrate especially important ideas, to discuss concepts covered in the assigned readings and to discuss Zlatko Pleše the “real world” implications of class topics. Several discussion TuTh, 2:00–3:15pm sessions will be dedicated to visits to Dr. Lindquist’s lab and This interdisciplinary course explores various, often conflicting the Biomedical Research Imaging Center, where students can ways of shaping reality in the ancient world–religious, scientific experience research techniques and methods in a hands-on and philosophical. The course is organized around a series of setting. Students will be evaluated based on exam performance, case studies: 1) the formation and makeup of the cosmos; 2) on a written research proposal, on an oral presentation of the the origin of mankind and its sexual differentiation; 3) the research proposal and on participation in discussions. invention of the ‘self;’ 4) the origin and nature of dreams; 5) Dr. Kristen Lindquist is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology foundations of law, justice and culture. Short papers, in-class and Neuroscience and the director of the Carolina Affective Science Lab. She discussions and oral presentations will be used to reconstruct the received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Boston College and was a post-doctoral complex intellectual world of natural scientists, philosophers, fellow at the Harvard University Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative and the oral story-tellers, ethnographers and cultural historians Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. Dr. Lindquist’s research uses social throughout the ancient Mediterranean world. Readings cognitive, psychophysiological and neuroscience methods to understand the nature include Near Eastern mythical narratives and Homeric poems of human emotion. and hymns; selections from the earliest Greek philosophers and from Plato’s dialogues; works from the famous Hippocratic psyc 89.001: plasticity and the brain corpus and Galen’s medical treatises; and a number of religious PL texts from ancient Greece and Rome, early Christianity and late antiquity. Joe Hopfinger TuTh, 8:00–9:15am Zlatko Pleše received his PhD in Classics at Yale University, where he specialized in ancient philosophy and medicine, early Christianity, Hellenistic rhetoric This course will introduce you to the recent research and debate and Coptic language. He taught at various universities in Europe and the US, regarding neural plasticity and the ability of the healthy adult including Yale and Wesleyan University, and is currently Associate Professor brain to change. Exciting new research suggests that the ability of Ancient Mediterranean religions (Greco-Roman world, early Christianity of the adult brain to change goes well beyond simply acquiring and late antiquity) at Carolina. He has published monographs and articles new knowledge and memories. Incredible accounts of brain on Platonist philosophers of the Roman imperial period, ancient Gnostic and damaged patients recovering cognitive, perceptual and motor Hermetic writings, apocryphal gospels and early modern theories of nationhood functions has opened new areas of research into the ability of the in South-Eastern Europe. adult brain to change, and a host of new businesses have arisen purporting to be able to trigger, and maintain, desired changes reli 70.001: jesus in scholarship and film in the brain. Goals of this course include gaining knowledge of SS a new area of research in the psychological and neural sciences, developing skills in going beyond general-audience books and Bart Ehrman media coverage to critically evaluate research sources (scientific T, 12:30–3:20pm journal articles) and presenting your own well-researched ideas This seminar will examine how historians have reconstructed in written and oral formats. the life, teachings and death of the historical Jesus. We will Dr. Joe Hopfinger is a cognitive neuroscientist with over 15 years of experience look at the Gospels of the New Testament, as well as references teaching and running his lab at UNC. His lab utilizes a variety of methods to to Jesus in other writings (Roman and Jewish sources, as well investigate the neural mechanisms of attention, using “brainwave” recordings as Gospels that did not make it into the New Testament). In and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to peer into the living human brain as addition, we will explore how Jesus has been portrayed in it performs its amazing cognitive functions. Dr. Hopfinger has recently expanded modern film, including such Biblical “epics” as The Greatest Story his research into the domain of “neural plasticity,” and he is studying the neural Ever Told, such “period pieces” as Jesus Christ Superstar, such brilliant effects of online-cognitive training, as well as transcranial neural stimulation. retellings as Jesus of Montreal and such controversial films as He is excited to offer this new course on this cutting-edge, and somewhat The Last Temptation of Christ and The Passion of the Christ. The ultimate controversial, topic. goals of the seminar are to see what we can say about the historical man Jesus himself and how Jesus came to be portrayed in both ancient sources and modern imagination. FIRST YEAR SEMINARS fys.unc.edu 30|31

) honors ( : sex, sexuality, : sex, sexuality, 001 h. 89 texts that reflect Spain’s encounters with cultures and peoples beyond Western and peoples beyond encounters with cultures texts that reflect Spain’s such as the status of women and the context of misogyny, the misogyny, of context the and women of status the as such and the presentation societal role of same-sex relations, and family,” “Sex and religion”, “Sex and science” and “Sex, “Sex and religion”, and family,” and courtiers lived, their education, what cultural milieu milieu cultural what education, lived, their courtiers and the period through the lens of five overarching themes that “Sex, marriage the course: “Sex, beauty and artistic creation,” they contributed in fomenting, how they used literature and they they how in fomenting, contributed literature used culture. She is devoted to research on well-known authors, especially Miguel authors, especially devoted to research on well-known culture. She is visualization of sexuality, desire and the body. We will observe We and the body. desire visualization of sexuality, deviancy and crime.” Using such themes as the framework for deviancy and crime.” de Cervantes and Lope de Vega among others. She is also drawn to subjects and others. She is also drawn among and Lope de Vega de Cervantes literature within a global, comparative and is her interest in situating Spanish interdisciplinary context. recur recur at different moments and in different texts throughout reasoning behind. reasoning our interpretations we will read, analyze and discuss in loose we will read, our interpretations of gender and sexuality in the literature of Medieval and of gender and sexuality in the literature other cultural forms for self-promotion and the politics and self-promotion and forms for other cultural LA, NA Renaissance Southern Europe. We will approach questions Lucia Binotti 1:25–2:40pm MW, Students in GEOL 72H explore the tufa towers at Mono Lake, CA. Lake, CA. Students in GEOL 72H explore the tufa towers at Mono Photo by Eliza Filene. Europe. One overarching concern that unites her work on these diverse subjects concern that unites her work on these diverse subjects Europe. One overarching The aim of this course is to explore the cultural constructions constructions the cultural The aim of this course is to explore Professor Carmen Hsu teaches 16th- and 17th-century Spanish literature and 17th-century Spanish literature Hsu teaches 16th- and Carmen Professor european literature european literature roml and the body in early modern modern in early and the body

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italians in search search in italians : courts, courtiers, and and courtiers, : courts, 89.001 56.001 r o m a nc e teaching and taught a wide range of courses, spanning such areas as the humanist teaching and taught a wide range of courses, spanning the Undergraduate Students Teaching Award, the Bowman and Gordon Gray the Bowman and Gordon Award, Students Teaching the Undergraduate and invited to produce an original work (theatrical, cinematic, and invited to produce an original work the court society in 16th- and 17th-century Spain? How did the natural reunion of creature and creator. Dante himself and creator. of creature reunion the natural were the keythe of making the to that contributed components were concentrating in the Classics and Italian Renaissance literature. In his years concentrating in the Classics and Italian Renaissance be reading and discussing works by Dante, Petrarch, Leopardi, Leopardi, and discussing works by Dante, Petrarch, be reading literature, the visual arts, clothing, food, gifts, buildings, literature, wisdom and to achieve the ultimate harmony in the next world: entertainments and social etiquette make up the court culture entertainments and social etiquette make up the court culture will embark on a shared court world in early modern Spain. We invective, Italian chivalric literature, renaissance theater, the history of the invective, Italian chivalric literature, renaissance theater, at Carolina he has received a Tanner Award for excellence in undergraduate at Carolina he has received a Tanner literary, artistic, etc.) that illustrates the concept of harmony. artistic, etc.) that illustrates literary, harmony with God. This quest for harmony is characteristic characteristic is harmony for quest This God. with harmony peace on earth, thus allowing mankind to pursue knowledge and peace on earth, thus allowing mankind to is widely regarded as a leading expert on the New Testament and the history of the the New Testament as a leading expert on is widely regarded having won teacher on campus, church. He is also a well-known early Christian of Epicureanism in 15th-century Italy. contemporary poets, novelists and film directors. Students will Students directors. film and novelists poets, contemporary directs his readers to interpret the journey of the pilgrim to interpret his readers directs century, Dante dreamed of a universal empire that would assure that would assure of a universal empire Dante dreamed century, in discussions about the making of the fascinating Habsburg monarchs exploring how and where intellectual adventure as Everyman’s quest for transcendental quest for transcendental in the Divine Comedy as Everyman’s of that time in Spain? This course aims to engage students of many Italian writers, from Petrarch to Leopardi, to many to Leopardi, of many Italian writers, from Petrarch of harmony court culture in early modern spain in early culture court What was an early modern Spanish court like? Who and what LA, WB LA MW, 2:30–3:45pm MW, Pirandello, Pirandello, Vittorini and Moravia and will view films by Ennio Rao 14th writers. In the Italian writers, from Dante to contemporary Italian language and Italian dialectology. He is currently studying the revival TuTh, 9:30–10:45am TuTh, in selected the concept of harmony This seminar explores Bart Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies. of Religious Professor Distinguished James A. Gray is the Bart Ehrman books and of thirty author or editor 1988. He is since taught at Carolina He has Ennio Rao is Professor of Italian and Director of Graduate Studies in the of Italian and Ennio Rao is Professor Ph.D. at Columbia University, Department of Romance Languages. He earned his roml roml Carmen Hsu Center Spirit of Inquiry Teaching Award. of Inquiry Teaching Center Spirit Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the John William Pope Pope the John William and Teaching in Undergraduate Award for Excellence Antonioni and Bertolucci. They will also be divided into groups into divided be also will They Bertolucci. and Antonioni chronological order an array of literary works mostly of the soci 64.001: equality of educational Iberian and Italian tradition, from which we will tease out an opportunity then and now interdisciplinary understanding of the cultural and aesthetic forces that shaped the representation of sex and sexual love SS before the advent of the scientific theories that in turn define Karolyn Tyson modern gender and sexuality for us today. This historical TuTh, 9:30–10:45am approach will offer insights into the shaping of our own cultural and personal attitudes. By focusing our attention on The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case centered on the challenged and changing meanings of sexuality, this course one of the most significant and controversial issues in American aims to strengthen your skills of critical analysis. public education: equality of educational opportunity. Now more than 60 years after this historic Supreme Court decision, Professor Lucia Binotti is a Philologist turned into Digital Humanist. She works this seminar will use a sociological lens to examine in depth the on material and cultural history and in the mechanisms that construct linguistic social conditions that precipitated the case, other relevant court and cultural identity. Binotti has always been fascinated with the cultural and decisions, the changing definitions of race and the educational social parallels that the printing revolution of the sixteenth century shares with the landscape over the past 6 decades. Topics include de jure and information technology revolution of today. Her latest projects take her reflection de facto segregation, busing, between-school segregation, on the place of the humanities in 21st century education outside of the walls of tracking and ability grouping, the black-white achievement gap academia, in an endeavor to produce artifacts that will enhance the dissemination and fruition of social and cultural knowledge among a broader public. and residential segregation. Students will read historical and contemporary accounts and research reports on the move and progress toward equality of educational opportunity, view films s o c i o lo g y related to the topic, conduct original research exploring the schooling experiences of contemporary American youth and soci 58.001: globalization, work, prepare an oral presentation and a research paper. and inequality Karolyn Tyson is Professor in the Department of Sociology. She earned her SS, GL doctorate in sociology in 1999 from the University of California at Berkeley. Ted Mouw Her main fields of interest are sociology of education, social psychology and TuTh, 12:30–1:45pm social inequality. Dr. Tyson’s publications have examined the processes by which schools reproduce social inequality and how the schooling experience affects This seminar, which presents a comparative and multidisci- students’ attitudes toward school. Her overall program of research centers on plinary perspective on how globalization affects labor markets understanding how cultural, structural and individual-level factors affect school and inequality, will consist of two parts. First, we will discuss achievement and contribute to unequal educational outcomes. basic sociological and economic models of work and global- ization and then students will apply these models to three case soci 72.001: race and ethnicity studies: 1) “sweatshops” and the question of international la- in the united states bor standards, 2) industrialization and development in China and Indonesia and 3) immigration and economic integration SS, US between the U.S. and Mexico. Students will prepare research Anthony Perez papers on one of the three case studies. Course readings will TuTh, 2:00–3:15pm be supplemented by the teacher’s current research on two ques- tions: 1) What are conditions actually like for workers in Nike It is impossible to understand the structure of American society, plants in Indonesia? (Interviews and a photo-narrative) and 2) or the lived experiences of its people, without understanding How does the labor market work for undocumented Mexican both the meaning and consequences of race and ethnicity. Yet, workers? (Interviews from Carrboro, NC, part of Mouw’s per- while examples of what race does are well known to students sonal research project.) interested in questions of social justice and inequality, the question of what race is receives considerably less attention. Ted Mouw is a sociologist who studies social demography, labor markets and Any student familiar with U.S. society can identify myriad, inequality. He received his Ph.D. (in sociology) and M.A. (in economics) in often striking examples of racial inequality—from highly 1999 from Michigan. He is currently working on a project on globalization and low-wage labor markets. There are three components to this project: 1) disproportionate rates of poverty, unemployment and disease Longitudinal evidence on “dead end jobs” and working poverty in the U.S., 2) to racially disparate treatment at the hands of police, teachers immigration and the labor market for Mexican migrants and 3) industrialization and neighbors. But what, exactly, is “race?” The geographic and labor conditions in Mexico and Indonesia. He has also researched the use of origins of our ancestors? The social categories that others job contacts to find work and racial friendship segregation in schools. After college perceive from our appearance? The identities we claim based he lived in Indonesia for two years, where he taught English, studied Indonesian on a sense of belonging or attachment to a particular culture and Javanese, and climbed volcanoes. or community? Or can race be any and all of these things, depending on the context in which individuals perceive and react to one another? These are just some of pressing questions with which students will grapple in this seminar, as we delve FIRST YEAR SEMINARS into the meaning and measurement of race in society, how it changes over time and space and what it signals for the future of race/ethnic relations in the United States. In pursuit of these aims, we will incorporate a variety of instructional strategies and active learning techniques, including primary data collection and analysis, critical examination of race/ethnicity in popular culture (including music, literature, and film) and in-class group activities. fys.unc.edu Anthony Perez studies the measurement, meaning and implications of race/ ethnicity in the United States and abroad. His research focuses on the interplay between formal and informal conceptualizations of race and ethnicity and de facto measures of race/ethnic populations used in the Census, social surveys and demographic data; causes of uncertainty in the reporting of race across generations and throughout the life course; and the consequences of racial uncertainty for research on inequality, race-attentive social policy and Image of guest André Barden in MUSC 89. Photo by Mary Lide Parker. 32|33 demographic projections of past and future diversity.

soci 89h.001: rationalization and the s tat i s t i c s a n d changing nature of social life in 21st century america o pe r at i o n s r e s e a r c h SS stor 54.001: adventures in statistics Howard E. Aldrich QI TuTh, 9:30–10:45am Jan Hannig In the 21st century, fast food restaurants have become a model TuTh, 3:30–4:45pm for everyday life. Some scholars have even talked about the The aim of this seminar is to show that contrary to the common “McDonaldization” of the nation and the world. By that, they mean belief, statistics can be exciting and fun. We will focus on the a drive toward greater efficiency, predictability, calculability and big picture ideas. Instead of memorizing confusing formulas, control by non-human technologies in modern organizations. many of the technical ideas will be demonstrated by computer This drive has shaped many features of American life, including experiments. We will view some recent movies and discuss the consumption behavior, health care, law and education. Such role statistics plays in sports, gambling, medicine, politics, forces have even affected personal relationships. Sociologists finance, etc. Then we will study randomness and discover why have a term for this process: “rationalization.” In this course, the casino always wins. Finally we will discuss the basic principle we will explore that social process through a process called of statistical reasoning “if it is unlikely do not believe it,” get to “active learning:” field trips, participation in a makerspace, understand why a relatively small sample can carry a big punch presentations by visitors, videos, role-playing, classroom and learn how to lift ourselves by our bootstraps. This seminar simulations and other activities. You will be assessed based on is not a replacement for an introductory statistics course. your contributions to blog posts, five short (two pages) papers, Jan Hannig is a Professor in the Department of Statistics and Operations a term project and a group presentation. Research. His current research interests are in foundations of statistics. Howard E. Aldrich is Kenan Professor of Sociology. He has won numerous He and his co-authors can be partially credited with resurrection of fiducial awards for his teaching and mentoring: Favorite Professor Award from the senior statistics. Fiducial statistics was created in the 1930s and since inception was class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; graduate students’ wrought with controversy. By the mid-1960s the topic was largely dormant and Award for Best Teaching, Department of Sociology, several times; and the J stayed ignored until the mid-2000s. Since then it has experienced a renaissance Carlyle Sitterson Freshman Teaching Award from the University of Carolina at with several groups contributing publications in leading statistical journals. Chapel Hill. In 2000, he won the Global Entrepreneurship Researcher of the Jan is married to Dr. Shevaun Neupert, a professor of Psychology at NCSU, Year Award from the Swedish Foundation of Small Business Research. His main with a keen interest in applied statistics. This makes for some wonderfully nerdy research interests are entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial team formation, gender Saturday morning chats. They have a daughter Klára and a son Declan. and entrepreneurship, and evolutionary theory. He writes a regular column, “Speaking from Experience,” for The National Teaching and Learning Forum. He fly fishes year-round in the mountains of Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee and wherever else his travels may take him. Photos of his catches may be seen on his homepage. and moved to Vancouver for a year to further advance his training both in probability and in being a foodie, before finally moving to UNC in 2009. His research entails probabilistic and mathematical modeling of real world networks, including social networks such as Twitter, Facebook and peer interaction networks, data transmission networks such as the Internet and vascular networks in the brain. When he is not obsessively thinking about a math problem then he is neck deep in a Sci-Fi book or an Anime.

w o m e n ’ s a n d g e n d e r s t u d i e s wmst 51.001: race, sex, and place in america SS Mai Nguyen TuTh, 9:30am–10:45am This seminar will expose students to the complex dynamics of race, ethnicity and gender and how these have shaped the American city since 1945. It will examine both the historical record as well as contemporary works of literature and film to probe the ways race and ethnicity have contributed to the Students from DRAM 85H in a staged reading of the original play “Behind Locked culture of urban life in the United States. It will also explore the Doors”. Photo by Kristen Chavez different ways women and men perceive, understand, occupy and use urban space and the built environment. Drawing stor 55.001: risk and uncertainty upon the scholarship of several disciplines (urban planning, in the real world ethnic studies, sociology and American history), the seminar will examine a broad spectrum of topics, including the social QI construction of race, the creation of the underclass label, Shankar Bhamidi residential segregation, the significance of Hurricane Katrina, TuTh, 11:00am–12:15pm sexual identity and space, and immigration. The last portion of the course will focus on planning and policy tools that have In the early 1900s the great writer H.G.Wells said “Statistical the potential to alleviate racial/ethnic and gender inequality in thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship space. as the ability to read and write.” We see this every day as society becomes more and more complex and we are faced with a Students may also register for this course under PLAN 52.001. barrage of data and the pressure of making “optimal” decisions Dr. Mai Nguyen is an associate professor in the City and Regional Planning about our life and our future in the light of this uncertainty. Department and focuses her teaching and research on housing and community Yet we are ill-equipped from an evolutionary perspective to development. She applies both her Sociology and Urban Planning degrees to make such decisions. The aim of this class is to study the role of address vexing urban and regional dilemmas. She employs both quantitative uncertainty in our daily lives, to explore the cognitive biases that and qualitative methods to examine problems related to social and spatial impair us and to understand how one uses quantitative models inequality, urban growth phenomena, the relationship between the built and to make decision under uncertainty in a variety of fields. We will social environments, and socially vulnerable populations. She is an expert in study the connections of such questions to an array of scientific housing policy, community development, economic development, immigration, disciplines ranging from psychology, financial modeling, disasters and urban growth phenomena (e.g. demographic change, sprawl and evolution, sociology, law and criminal justice, economics, urbanization). Dr. Nguyen is also an award winning teacher. She was awarded medicine and health, and rare events and coincidences. the J. Carlyle Sitterson Freshman Teaching Award in January 2013 for excellence in undergraduate teaching. After spending most of his childhood in India, Shankar Bhamidi came to the US to pursue a PhD in Statistics at the University of California at Berkeley. After five fantastic years pursing his passion in probabilistic modeling of real world networks and eating wonderful food (!), he completed his PhD in 2008

For more information Talk with your advisor at Orientation this summer. Contact the First Year Seminars office at (919) 843-7773 or The academic advising office can be reached at(919) 966-5116. [email protected]. Explore the First Year Seminars Program website at fys.unc.edu. Contact Dean Coleman at (919) 962-0705 or [email protected].  Course Checklist fall 2016 It’s a tough choice, so here’s a checklist to get organized. Select your favorite seminars and add them to your Registration Shopping Cart in ConnectCarolina.

aaad 50: Defining Blackness (Smith) engl 57: Science Fictions and Social Form (Curtain) amst 60: American Indians (Cobb) engl 59: Black Masculinity and Femininity (Avilez) amst 89: American Indian Art (Tone-Pah-Hote) engl 72: Literature of 9/11 (Ahuja) anth 53h: Darwin’s Dangerous Idea (Leslie) engl 85h: Economic Saints and Villains (Kendall) anth 64: Public Archaeology in Bronzeville (Agbe-Davies) engl 89.1: The Literature of College Life (Stern) anth 65: Humans and Animals (Arbuckle) engl 89.2: William Blake in Popular Culture (Viscomi) arth 52: Celts–Druid Culture (Verkerk) folk 77h: The Poetic Roots of Hip Hop (Hinson) arth 61: African American Art of the Carolinas (Bowles) geog 50: Mountain Environments (Riveros-Iregui) arth 89: Art and Technology (Cao, Levine) geog 63: Nature and Its Preservation (Valdivia) arts 59: Time, A Doorway to Visual Expression geog 67: The Politics of Everyday Life (Smith) (Hirschfield) geol 72h: Field Geology of Eastern California (Glazner) asia 65: Philosophy on Bamboo (Bergeton) germ 51: Stalin and Hitler (Pike) biol 62: Infectious Disease in the Developing World germ 56: Germans, Jews, History of Anti-Semitism (Hess) (Peifer) gsll 70: Race, Class, Gender in Postwar Youth (Layne) chem 73: The Broad Scope of Nuclear Chemistry (Austell) hist 53: Traveling to European Cities (Kramer) clas 55h: Three Greek and Roman Epics (O’hara) hist 70: Exploring Cultural Landscapes (Sweet) clas 63: The Politics of Persuasion (Grillo) hist 72h: Women’s Voices (Hagemann) clas 73h: Life in Ancient Pompeii (Valladares) hist 74: The Mughals of India (Flatt) comm 53: Collective Leadership Models for Change (Parker) idst 89: Colonialism, Power, & Resistance (Forbes, Lauersdorf, Mccoy) comm 89.1: Intro. to Networked Societies (Thomas) inls 89: Social Media & New Movements (Tufekci) comm 89.2: Romance & Popular Culture (Silva) ling 89h: Decipherment of Ancient Scripts (Mora-Marin) comp 89: “Big Data” Ethics (Fern) masc 55: Change in the Coastal Ocean (Martens) comp 89h: 3D Computer Animation (Lastra) masc 57h: “The Sound Of Music” to “The Perfect Storm” (Scotti) dram 79: The Heart of the Drama (Perry) masc 59: Extreme Microorganisms (Teske) dram 80: Psychology of Clothes (Owen) math 51: Mathematics & Mechanics of Moving (Camassa) dram 81h: Staging America: The American Drama (Kable) math 62h: Combinatorics (Cherednik) dram 83: Spectacle in the Theatre (Navalinksy) mejo 89: Democracy in Action in 2016 Elections (Guillory) dram 87h: Style: A Mode of Expression (Coble) musc 57: Music and Drama: Verdi’s Operas (Nádas) dram 88: Ecology and Performance (O’brien) musc 89: Hip-Hop Diplomacy (Katz) engl 53: Slavery and Freedom (Andrews)

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phil 51: Who Was Socrates? (Reeve) roml 89h: Sexuality & the Body in Early Modern Euro Lit (Binotti) phil 66: Ethics: Theoretical & Practical (Hill) slav 84: Terrorism in Russian Lit. & History (Shvabrin) phil 78: Death as a Problem For Philosophy (Shafer-Landau) slav 88h: Gender & Fiction Ctrl & East Europe (Wampuszyc) phys 52: Making the Right Connections (Karwowski) soci 58: Globalization, Work, & Inequality (Mouw) plan 52: Race, Sex, and Place in America (Nguyen) soci 64: Equality of Educational Opportunity (Tyson) plcy 51: Global Environment in the 21St Century (Sasser) soci 72: Race & Ethnicity in the United States (Perez) plcy 55: Higher Education, College Experience ST (Krome-Lukens) soci 89h: Social Life in 21 Century America (Aldrich) plcy 70: National Policy: Who Sets the Agenda? (Stein) stor 54: Adventures in Statistics (Hannig) plcy 71: Justice and Inequality (Mackay) stor 55: Risk & Uncertainty in the Real World (Bhamidi) plcy 85: Reforming America’s Schools (Buxton) wmst 51: Race, Sex, and Place in America (Nguyen) plcy 89: Ending Poverty (Handa) poli 50: Movies and Politics (Conover) poli 62: How Leaders Lead Others (Sullivan) poli 66: The US & the European Union (Hooghe) poli 67: Designing Democracy (Reynolds) poli 71h: Politics of Race, Ethnicity, Gender (Benjamin) poli 75: Thinking about Law (Szypszak) psyc 55: Children’s Eyewitness Testimony (Ornstein) psyc 67: The Senses of Animals (Hollins) psyc 68: Psychology of Emotion (Lindquist) psyc 89: Plasticity and the Brain (Hopfinger) reli 65: Myth, Philosophy, Science in Ancient World (Pleše) reli 70: Jesus in Scholarship and Film (Ehrman) roml 56: Italians in Search of Harmony (Rao) roml 89: Court Culture in Early Modern Spain (Hsu)

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