Spring Quarter 2014 VLPA courses Class times, locations, fees, and course descriptions may change. Please check the time schedule for updates before enrolling in any course. For more VLPA courses, see the Time Schedule search page at: http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/genedinq.html. African-American Studies http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2014/afamst.html AFRAM 337 - Music and Social Change in the Sixties Era (5 credits) MW 1:30-3:20 Instructor: Sonnet Retman Introduction of popular music and social change in 1950s and 1960s. How this interaction effects significant change. Considers political activism for civil rights and against the Vietnam War as they intersect with the development of rock and roll, R&B, acoustic and political folk music, and post-bebop jazz. For this quarter's offering, the course title is "Hip Hop and Indie Rock." Are you a fan of hip hop, punk, son jarocho, and/or indie rock? Do you make music? Are you interested in how music scenes get documented? Do you wonder why women are left out of music stories? Would you like explore archives and local music communities? Would you like to connect with the EMP Pop Music and Women Who Rock conferences? If "yes" is your answer to any of these questions, sign up for this introduction to pop music studies. The course examines how archives, oral histories, and new media transform music stories. It traces the influence of genres such as blues, gospel, estilo bravío, punk, son jarocho, and disco on hip hop and indie rock in order to contextualize their relation to race/ethnicity, gender, class, locality, and nation. Assignments will include an entry-level, digital media project. No prior experience necessary. You will learn to use online tools in class. Meetings: Monday discussion and Wednesday interactive lab. Asian-American Studies http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2014/asamst.html AAS 320 – Hawaii’s Literatures (5 credits) MW 1:30-3:20 F 1:30-2:20 Instructor: Stephan Sumida Prose fiction, historical narratives, and poetry (including lyrics and songs) of Hawaii by Native Hawaiian and multicultural local writers and composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Analyses of colonization and its consequences frame the literary studies. The texts in the course include Native Hawaiian lyrics and songs, the Queen's book, John Dominis Holt's Waimea Summer, Milton Murayama's All I Asking for Is My Body, Juliet Kono's poetry, and four contemporary Hawaiian plays. The historical analysis that is the backbone of the course moves from the time of the Monarchy to the multicultural, "Local" present, from sovereign nation and culture to colonization in the form of a state. American Indian Studies http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2014/ais.html AIS 379 – Powwow: Tradition and Innovation (5 credits) TTh 11:30-1:20 Instructor: Scott Pinkham Native dance and drum styles, events associated with powwows, types of powwows and what is involved to hold a contemporary powwow in a metropolitan setting, such as Seattle. Anthropology http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2014/anthro.html ANTH 464 – Language Politics and Cultural Identity (5 credits) TTh 10:30-11:50 Instructor: Laada Bilaniuk Anth majors only Period I. Open to all majors starting 3/3. Theories and case studies of the power of language and how it is manipulated. Multilingualism, diglossia. Role of language and linguistics in nationalism. Standardization, educational policy, language and ethnicity. World languages, language death and revival. Prerequisite: either LING 200, LING 201, ANTH/LING 203 or LING 400. Offered jointly with LING 464. Architecture http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2014/archit.html ARCH 251 – World Architecture: Non-Western Cultures (5 credits) MW 9:00-11:20 Instructor: Tyler Sprague Introduction to historical and contemporary built environments of non-Judeo-Christian civilizations, primarily Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, and Meso-American, as manifestations of cultural history and as responses to environmental determinants. Art History http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2014/arthis.html ART H 214 – Art of India (5 credits) MWF 12:30-1:20 Quiz TTh, times vary Instructor: Sonal Khullar $30 course fee The course will survey the material culture and artistic production of South Asia, which includes the present-day nation states of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, from antiquity until the early modern period. We shall attend to traditional art historical concerns such as the role of the artist, treatment of materials, systems of patronage, development of style, theories of aesthetics, and iconographic analysis. We shall also relate South Asian art to its social contexts, emphasizing exchange and interaction between cultures and groups, including but not limited to artists, pilgrims, merchants, warriors, and kings; Buddhists, Hindus, Jains, Muslims, Sikhs, and Christians; Indians, Persians, Europeans, Central Asians, and Southeast Asians. ART H 261 – Italian Cities (5 credits) TTh 12:30-2:20 Quiz F, times vary Instructor: Claudio Mazzola Introduces Italian culture by focusing on the past and present of five of the nation's most important cities: Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, and Naples. Taught in English. Offered jointly with ITAL 261. ART H 435 – Thematic Studies in Native-American Art: Totem Poles (5 credits) MW 10:30-11:50 Instructor: Robin Wright $30 course fee Approach to Native-American art through themes and issues. Focus varies from year to year (e.g. Shamanism in Native-American art, gender identity in Native-American art, social and political aspects of Native-American art, issues in contemporary Native-American art). Recommended: some background in Native American art, history, languages, or literature. This course will provide methods for understanding the southern Northwest Coast arts of the Coast Salish peoples and the relationship of these arts to the arts of the Central and Northern Northwest Coast peoples. The design principles that govern their visual language will be studied with the goal of distinguishing stylistic features that are unique to this area, understanding the history of their development over time, and familiarity of issues facing contemporary Coast Salish artists. ART H 492 – Alternative Art Forms Since 1960 (5 credits) MW 11:30-12:50 Instructor: Kolya Rice $30 course fee Juniors, Seniors only This course is a selective survey of post-studio/alternative/new media art forms developed primarily in the United States beginning around 1960 by artists who did not equate art making with the production of traditional gallery objects. The course will seek to identify persistent concerns, themes and strategies among various practitioners, as well as the stakes involved in their various practices. Because much of this work emphasizes “experiential” viewing and/or participation, together we will explore various exhibits and events in Seattle over the course of the quarter. No pre-reqs. Familiarity with modern/contemporary art is highly beneficial. Asian Language and Literatures http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/AUT2014/asianll.html ASIAN 206 – Literature and Culture of South Asia from Tradition to Modernity (5 credits) TTh 1:30-3:20 Quiz F, times vary Instructor: Jennifer Dubrow This course introduces the modern literature of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh) from the fifteenth century to the present. We will read a selection of short stories, novels, and poetry drawn from the diverse literary traditions of the region. Major readings include The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, Umrao Jan Ada, a novel about a 19th-century courtesan, by Mirza Ruswa, short stories by Sadat Hasan Manto and Premchand, and bhakti and ghazal poetry. No prior knowledge is assumed, and all works will be read in English translation. ASIAN 498B – Special Topics: Introduction to Indian Philosophical Literature (5 credits) MW 1:30-3:20 Instructor: Prem Pahlajral This course explores the development of Hindu Indian Philosophy starting from the middle of the first millennium BCE. All texts will be read in English translations, no knowledge of Sanskrit or other Indian languages is required. Read & discuss excerpts from the Rg and Atharva Vedas that hint at the beginnings of philosophical speculations. Trace the development of these ideas in select Upanishads. Explore the purpose of Yoga as described in the Yoga Sutras. Examine the conflict between renunciation and religion as presented in the Mahabharata’s Moksha-dharma-parvan (“Section on the Laws of Liberation”), and see how the Bhagavad Gita effects a synthesis between the tensions of performing one’s role in society and renouncing society for the pursuit of liberation. The primary goals of this course are to familiarize ourselves with this literature and the readings that are presented here, and to understand the concerns & motivations of their creators and the various perspectives from which these can be interpreted. We will use writing as a means to organize our understanding and work our ideas into coherent arguments. Our goal in class sessions will be to engage with the ideas and issues raised by our readings, with the active participation of all students. Bioresource Science and Engineering http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2014/bse.html BSE 309 – Creativity and Innovation (2 credits) WF 2:30-3:20 Instructor: Graham Allan Understanding creativity and creative thinking; its challenges and dynamics through knowledge, judgment, planning,