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Course to Consider

This is not a complete list of courses, just some suggestions for courses you may not have considered.  Please refer to the Searchable Schedule of Classes for complete information on each course, such as meeting place, pass/fail, special requirements, etc.

CLST 253C Greek Civilization (1 Credit)
K. Nightenhelser 2:20-3:50 MW  (k_night@depauw.edu)
This version of CLST 253C will not be a general introduction to Greek Civilization, but will focus on ancient debates about the best form of government (and related debates about family relations) in Plato, Aristotle, Herodotus, and Thucydides.

EDUC 290A Reconstr Accountability (1 Credit)
P. Sellers 10-11:30 MW  (psellers@depauw.edu, x5096)
This course examines the challenges that six major areas of accountability bring to education in this age of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) accountability law. All areas of accountability are intertwined, and carry historical, philosophical, economic, and political ties to school accountability. We will begin with personal accountability, as it will be an aspect of all other types of accountability. Then we will look at media, medical, political, corporate, and finally school accountability. We will learn about the definitions and elements of accountability as laid out in various segments of the course units. We will look for common themes and connections. We will view several videos that involve accountability issues. We will debate most of the issues, since personal perspective aligned with the knowledge we will gain from reading about accountability from a variety of sources in different areas of life will undoubtedly lead to some disagreement. When we reach disagreements, we will debate them, using the standards, elements and dispositions of critical thinking as outlined by Paul and Elder. In all cases, we will examine the issues in the light of what it means to live in a socially just and democratic society.

GEOS 110A Earth & the Environment (1 Credit)
T. Cope 9:20-10:20 MWF  (tcope@depauw.edu)
Includes laboratory. An introduction to the materials that make up the earth and the interplay between constructive and destructive processes that shape the earth, including plate tectonics. Laboratories include mineral and rock identification, field trips, and topographic map interpretation. This course counts as a Group 1 lab course and is a Q course.

GEOS 110B Earth & the Environment (1 Credit)
S. Wilkerson 1:40-2:40 MWF  (mswilke@depauw.edu)
Includes laboratory. An introduction to the materials that make up the earth and the interplay between constructive and destructive processes that shape the earth, including plate tectonics. Laboratories include mineral and rock identification, field trips, and topographic map interpretation. This course is a Group 1 lab course and a Q.

HIST 221 Fr/Charlemagne-Napoleon (1 Credit)
B. Whitehead 8:20-9:50 MW  (whitehea@depauw.edu)
The history of France from the Merovingians of Gaul to the Napoleonic era with an emphasis on intellectual, cultural and social movements of this early period. Major topics: Charlemagne and the Carolingian Empire; the Hundred Years' War; rise of absolutism; the Wars of Religion; the Fronde; the Age of Louis XIV; the Enlightenment; the French Revolution.

HIST 257 Ethncty/Cnflct-S. Africa (1 Credit)
M. Dixon-Fyle 10:00-11:30 TR  (macdixon@depauw.edu)
The history of South Africa from the 17th century to the present; its relations with neighboring communities; the coming of white settlers; African subjugation and the rise of apartheid; local and foreign reaction to the apartheid state; the process of decolonization; and ethnic and class cleavages in post-Apartheid society.

HIST 290A HistRepresentPacificIsle (1 Credit)
R. Dewey 10-11:30 MW  (rdewey@depauw.edu)
Though a historical survey of the Pacific Islands that emphasizes the 19th and 20th centuries, the course is also interdisciplinary and incorporates sources from anthropology, literature, art and film. Imperialism is a central topic and the processes and consequences of contact between the indigenous peoples of Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia including Aotearoa (New Zealand) are analyzed in detail. The representation of the Pacific is also a prominent theme of the class, including the stereotyping of Pacific Islanders and the European construction of the Pacific as ‘paradise’. The course will also consider decolonization, national identities, neo-colonialism and the challenges facing post-colonial societies as well as the ways in which Pacific Islanders have represented themselves.

HIST 290B GlobalizationMigration (1 Credit)
G. Kuecker 12:30-3:20 W  (gkuecker@depauw.edu)
This course examines the process of globalization in Latin America as means for understanding the process of hemispheric migration. The course frames migration as a social movement, a form of resistance to neoliberal economic policies implemented throughout Latin America starting in the early 1980s. The course will provide historical context for understanding contemporary debates about migration, one of the central issues facing our nation. It also provides students with interdisciplinary approaches to thinking about historical processes. Our primary focus will be upon Mexico, but we will also include substantial analysis of Central America and South American countries. This course is connected to a Winter Term 2009 trip, "On the Migration Trail," led by professor Kuecker and Aliza Frame. The Winter Term 2009 course will visit Chicago, Guatemala, Mexico, and the United States-Mexico border in order to directly witness the migration process

HIST 338 The Enlightenment (1 Credit)
B. Whitehead 12:40-2:10 TR  (whitehea@depauw.edu)
This 18th-century European intellectual movement is approached through the works of the major thinkers of the period. Writers such as Voltaire, Montesquieu, Diderot, Rousseau, and de Sade are examined.

HIST 356 African Slavery (1 Credit)
M. Dixon-Fyle 12:30-3:20 M  (macdixon@depauw.edu)
A review of the processes of incorporation into slavery; slaves in production and exchange; the resistance history of slavery; the gender implications of the slave state; slaves and social mobility, interdependence and the manipulations of class; and the dynamics of manumission and abolition.

REL 290 Tps: Gnosticism (1 Credit)
E. Muehlberger 12:40-2:10 TR  (emuehlber@indiana.edu)
In 1945, a collection of texts from late antiquity was discovered near Nag Hammadi, Egypt. These books, fifty-two in all, have fascinated students of early Christianity for half a century, because until their discovery, their authors were only known by the harsh reports given about them by other Christians who disapproved of them and called them “the Gnostics.” The books these “Gnostics” left behind are very strange, even esoteric, but they use a mixture of the myths of the Hebrew Bible, Plato’s work the Timaeus, and the revelations of Christianity to address questions at the center of religious exploration in general: what are good and evil? what is the purpose of the world? why do humans exist? do humans have a chance at a better life? what or who is the divine? As we study these books, we will also think about the problems of writing religious history. Can we reconstruct a social world from the books it left behind? Are “Gnostics” Christians, heretics, or something in between? How should we balance what these texts say against the hostile reports of the opponents of the “Gnostics”? Students who have an interest in Christian history, biblical studies, ancient texts, or the relationship between myth and religion are encouraged to take the course.

UNIV EXP Joy of Texts (0.5 Credit)
R. Lynch 7:00-8:50 PM R  (richardlynch@depauw.edu, x4439)
Each week we'll read and discuss an interesting literary text (from ancient Greece to contemporary Zimbabwe), with two different faculty facilitators. Pass/D/F only.

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