Courses of Study 2013-2014 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
Courses of Study 2013-2014 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

ROMS—Romance Studies

  
  • ROMS 6515 - [Ariosto, Rabelais, Spenser]

    (crosslisted)
    (also COML 6515 , ENGL 6515 )
    Spring. 4 credits.

    Next offered 2014-2015.

    W. J. Kennedy.

  
  
  • ROMS 6620 - Emerging Modernity - Culture and Politics in Nineteenth Century France


    Spring. 4 credits.

    Co-meets with ROMS 4620 .

    E. Traverso.

    Nineteenth century France is an extraordinarily interesting laboratory of cultural and political modernity.  In between 1789 and the Commune of 1871, Paris is a place of revolutions and counter-revolutions – as well as the capital of European exiles, from Germany to Poland – in which the ideas and the utopian imagination of the new century permanently clash with tradition and conservatism.  Captured by the myth of Progress and symbolized by the Eiffel Tower, modernity appears as a conflicting landscape in which the dream of a liberated human community and the construction of a colonial empire merge in the framework of an invented Republican nationalism.  The seminar will explore these topics analyzing both images and texts.


RUSSA—Russian Language

  
  • RUSSA 1103 - Conversation Practice


    Fall. 2 credits.

    Students must enroll in Russa 1103 and RUSSA 1121  at the same time.

    R. Krivitsky.

    Reinforces the speaking skills learned in RUSSA 1121 .  Homework includes assignments that must be done in the language lab or on the students’ own computer.  Detailed description at russian.cornell.edu.

  
  • RUSSA 1104 - Conversation Practice


    Spring. 1-2 credits, variable.

    Students must enroll in RUSSA 1104 and RUSSA 1122  at the same time. Reinforces the speaking skills learned in RUSSA 1122 .  Homework includes assignments that must be done in the language lab or on the students’ own computer.  2 credit hours if attended twice a week; 1 credit hour if attended once a week. Class meeting times will be chosen at the organizational meeting (usually the second or third day of the semester) so as to accommodate as many students as possible.  The time and place of the organizational meeting will be announced at russian.cornell.edu.

    R. Krivitsky.

  
  • RUSSA 1121 - Elementary Russian through Film


    Fall. 4 credits.

    R. Krivitsky, S. Paperno, V. Tsimberov.

    Gives a thorough grounding in all the language skills; listening, speaking, reading, and writing.  Course materials include clips from original Russian films and televisions programs.  Homework includes assignments that must be done in the language lab or on the students’ own computers.  Note the RUSSA 1103  option. Detailed description at russian.cornell.edu.

  
  • RUSSA 1122 - Elementary Russian through Film


    Spring. 4 credits.

    Prerequisite: RUSSA 1121 .

    R. Krivitsky, S. Paperno, V. Tsimberov.

    Gives a thorough grounding in all the language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Course materials include clips from original Russian films and television programs. Homework includes assignments that must be done in the language lab or on the students’ own computers. Note the RUSSA 1104  option. Detailed description at russian.cornell.edu.

  
  • RUSSA 1125 - Reading Russian Press


    Fall. 2 credits.

    Prerequisite for sem 101 (non-native speakers of Russian): RUSSA 1122  or placement by department. Prerequisite for sem 102 (native speakers of Russian): placement by department. Class meeting times will be chosen at the organizational meeting (usually the second or third day of the semester) so as to accommodate as many students as possible.  The time and place of the organizational meeting will be announced at russian.cornell.edu

    S. Paperno, V. Tsimberov.

    The emphasis is on reading unabridged articles on a variety of topics from current Russian periodicals and web pages and translating them into English; a certain amount of discussion (in Russian) may also be undertaken.  Detailed description at russian.cornell.edu

  
  • RUSSA 1126 - Reading Russian Press


    Spring. 2 credits.

    Prerequisite for sem 101 (non-native speakers of Russian): RUSSA 1122  or placement by department. Prerequisite for sem 102 (native speakers of Russian): placement by department. Class meeting times will be chosen at the organizational meeting (usually the second or third day of the semester) so as to accommodate as many students as possible.  The time and place of the organizational meeting will be announced at russian.cornell.edu

    S. Paperno, V. Tsimberov.

    The emphasis is on reading unabridged articles on a variety of topics from current Russian periodicals and web pages and translating them into English; a certain amount of discussion (in Russian) may also be undertaken.  Detailed description at russian.cornell.edu

  
  • RUSSA 2203 - Intermediate Composition and Conversation


    Satisfies Option 1.
    Fall. 4 credits.

    Prerequisite: RUSSA 1122  and RUSSA 1104 , or RUSSA 1122  with grade higher than B, or placement by department.

    R. Krivitsky, S. Paperno, V. Tsimberov.

    Guided conversation, translation, reading, pronunciation, and grammar review, emphasizing the development of accurate and idiomatic expression in the language. Course materials include video clips from an original Russian feature film and work with Russian web sites, in addition to the textbook.  Detailed description at russian.cornell.edu.

  
  • RUSSA 2204 - Intermediate Composition and Conversation


    Satisfies Option 1.
    Spring. 4 credits.

    Prerequisite: RUSSA 2203  or equivalent.

    R. Krivitsky, S. Paperno, V. Tsimberov.

    Guided conversation, translation, reading, pronunciation, and grammar review, emphasizing the development of accurate and idiomatic expression in the language. Course materials include video clips from an original Russian feature film and work with Russian web sites, in addition to the textbook.  Detailed description at russian.cornell.edu.

  
  • RUSSA 3300 - Directed Studies


    Fall, spring. 1-4 credits, variable.

    Permission of instructor required. Times to be arranged with the instructor. 

    Staff.

    Taught on a specialized basis for students with special projects (e.g., to supplement a non-language course or thesis work).

  
  • RUSSA 3303 - Advanced Composition and Conversation


    Fall. 2-4 credits, variable.

    Prerequisite: RUSSA 2204  or equivalent. Permission of the department is required for enrolling for fewer than 4 credits and attending fewer than 3 times/week.  If taken for 3 or 4 credits, satisfies Option 1 of the A&S foreign language requirement.

    R. Krivitsky, S. Paperno, V. Tsimberov.

    Reading, writing, and conversation: current Russian films (feature and documentary), newspapers, television programs, Russian web sites, and other materials are used.  Detailed description at russian.cornell.edu.

  
  • RUSSA 3304 - Advanced Composition and Conversation


    Spring. 2-4 credits, variable.

    Prerequisite: RUSSA 3303  or equivalent. Permission of the department is required for enrolling for fewer than 4 credits and attending fewer than 3 times/week.  If taken for 3 or 4 credits, satisfies Option 1 of the A&S foreign language requirement.

    R. Krivitsky, S. Paperno, V. Tsimberov.

    Reading, writing, and conversation: current Russian films (feature and documentary), newspapers, television programs, Russian web sites, and other materials are used.  Detailed description at russian.cornell.edu.

  
  • RUSSA 3305 - Reading and Writing for Heritage Speakers of Russian


    Fall. 2-3 credits, variable.

    If taken for 3 credits, satisfies Option 1 of the A&S foreign language requirement. Placement by department. Class meeting times will be chosen at the organizational meeting (usually the second or third day of the semester) so as to accommodate as many students as possible.  The time and place of the organizational meeting will be announced at russian.cornell.edu.

    S. Paperno, V. Tsimberov.

    Intended for students who speak grammatically correct Russian but do not know Russian grammar and have not learned to read or write Russian well (or have not learned written Russian at all). May be taught slightly faster or slower in a given year, depending on the needs and interests of the students. Two classes a week teach writing and grammar and include related reading. These classes are required, and the students who take them receive 2 credit hours. The third (optional) class teaches reading and discussion, and grants an additional credit hour.  Detailed description at russian.cornell.edu.

  
  • RUSSA 3306 - Creative Writing for Heritage Speakers


    Spring. 2-3 credits, variable.

    Prerequisite: RUSSA 3305  or placement by department. If taken for 3 credits, satisfies Option 1 of the A&S foregin language requirement. Class meeting times will be chosen at the organizational meeting (usually the second or third day of the semester) so as to accommodate as many students as possible.  The time and place of the organizational meeting will be announced at russian.cornell.edu.

    R. Krivitsky, S. Paperno, V. Tsimberov.

    Creative writing for heritage speakers of Russian.  Writing short (one page for each class) texts in Russian in a variety of genres: personal letters, blog entries, news articles, technical descriptions, official documents, short stories, and the like.  Two meetings per week if taken for 2 credits hours.  An optional third weekly meeting when taken for 3 credit hours has short reading assignments from contemporary literary and non-literary texts.  The course is a continuation of RUSSA 3305 .  Issues of style and grammar are discussed in every class.  The course is primarily for students who learned to speak Russian at home, but students with other backgrounds may be eligible as well. Detailed description at russian.cornell.edu.

  
  • RUSSA 3308 - Russian through Popular Culture


    Satisfies Option 1. (When taken for 3 credits.)
    Spring. 2-3 credits, variable.

    Prerequisite: RUSSA 3304  for non-native speakers of Russian; RUSSA 3305  or RUSSA 3306  for heritage speakers of Russian; for all others with advanced knowledge of Russian, placement by department. Not open to fluent native speakers of Russian (recommended: RUSSA 3309 /RUSSA 3310  and RUSSL courses). Class meeting times will be chosen at the organizational meeting (usually the second or third day of the semester) so as to accommodate as many students as possible.  The time and place of the organizational meeting will be announced at russian.cornell.edu.

    R. Krivitsky.

    Aims to expand the students’ vocabulary and their comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing skills, as well as cultural competence, through a mosaic study and discussion of a variety of styles in contemporary Russian popular culture (1970s through the present). Course materials include traditional and urban folklore, film, animation, published texts (prose and poetry), and recordings of songs. Includes two or three essays or similar writing assignments. Work is distributed so that a student may attend all three weekly meetings for 3 credit hours or only two of the meetings for 2 credit hours.  Detailed description at russian.cornell.edu.

  
  • RUSSA 3309 - Advanced Reading


    Satisfies Option 1.


    Fall. 4 credits.

    S. Paperno, V. Tsimberov.

    Designed to teach advanced reading and discussion skills. In seminar 101, weekly reading assignments include 20-40 pages of unabridged Russian, fiction or non-fiction. In seminar 102, the weekly assignments are 80-100 pages. Discussion of the reading is conducted entirely in Russian and centered on the content and analysis of the assigned selection.

    Seminar 101: For non-native speakers of Russian.
    Prerequisite: RUSSA 2204  or placement by department.  Two meetings per week, to be arranged with instructor. See http://russian.cornell.edu for TBA arrangements. Discussion of the reading is conducted entirely in Russian. Course may be cancelled if enrollment is insufficient.

    Seminar 102: For native speakers of Russian.
    Two meetings per week, to be arranged with instructor. See http://russian.cornell.edu for TBA arrangements. Discussion of the reading is conducted entirely in Russian. Course may be cancelled if enrollment is insufficient.

  
  • RUSSA 3310 - Advanced Reading


    Satisfies Option 1.
    Spring. 4 credits.

    Prerequisite for sem 101 (non-native speakers of Russian): RUSSA 2204  or placement by department. Prerequisite for sem 102 (native speakers of Russian): placement by department. Class meeting times will be chosen at the organizational meeting (usually the second or third day of the semester) so as to accommodate as many students as possible.  The time and place of the organizational meeting will be announced at russian.cornell.edu.  Course may be canceled if enrollment is insufficient.

    S. Paperno, V. Tsimberov.

    Designed to teach advanced reading and discussion skills. In seminar 101, weekly reading assignments include 20-40 pages of unabridged Russian, fiction or non-fiction.  In seminar 102, the weekly assignments are 80-100 pages.  This course may be taken as a continuation of RUSSA 3309 , but it may also be taken by itself.  Discussion of the reading is conducted entirely in Russian and centered on the content and analysis of the assigned selection. Detailed description at russian.cornell.edu.

  
  • RUSSA 3312 - Reading about the Cold War


    Spring. 1 credit.

    High Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Russian; for non-native speakers, RUSSA 3303  or higher is recommended. Permission of instructor required. Enrollment limited to: Students enrolled in GOVT 3837 .

    R. Krivitsky.

    Read and discuss texts for GOVT 3837 . The course may also support student research for the GOVT 3837  final paper. This 1-credit course aims to expand the students’ vocabulary, and advance their speaking and reading skills as well as enhance their knowledge and deepen their understanding of certain aspects of the Cold war. Course materials may include archival documents, newspaper articles, songs and poetry, urban folklore, etc. The course is taught entirely in Russian. Native speakers of Russian as well as advanced non-native speakers with moderate to advanced reading skills are eligible.

  
  • RUSSA 4401 - [History of the Russian Language]

    (crosslisted)
    (also LING 4417 ) (HA-AS)
    Fall. 4 credits.

    Next offered 2014-2015. Permission of instructor required.

    W. Browne.

    For description, see LING 4417 .

  
  • RUSSA 4403 - [Linguistic Structure of Russian]

    (crosslisted)
    (also LING 4443 ) (KCM-AS)
    Fall. 4 credits.

    Prerequisite: reading knowledge of Russian. Next offered 2014-2015.

    W. Browne.

    For description, see LING 4443 .

  
  • RUSSA 4413 - Advanced Conversation and Stylistics


    Fall. 2 credits.

    Prerequisites: RUSSA 3304  or equivalent. Class meeting times will be chosen at the organizational meeting (usually the second or third day of the semester) so as to accommodate as many students as possible.  The time and place of the organizational meeting will be announced at russian.cornell.edu.

    V. Tsimberov.

    Involves discussion, in Russian, of authentic Russian texts and films (feature or documentary) in a variety of non-literary styles and genres.  Detailed description at russian.cornell.edu.

  
  • RUSSA 4414 - Advanced Conversation and Stylistics


    Spring. 2 credits.

    Prerequisites: RUSSA 4413  or equivalent. Class meeting times will be chosen at the organizational meeting (usually the second or third day of the semester) so as to accommodate as many students as possible.  The time and place of the organizational meeting will be announced at russian.cornell.edu.

    V. Tsimberov.

    Involves discussion, in Russian, of authentic Russian texts and films (feature or documentary) in a variety of non-literary styles and genres.  Detailed description at russian.cornell.edu.

  
  • RUSSA 4491 - Reading Course: Russian Literature in the Original Language


    Fall, spring. 1 credit.

    Permission of instructor required. Class meeting times will be chosen at the organizational meeting (usually the second or third day of the semester) so as to accommodate as many students as possible.  The time and place of the organizational meeting will be announced at russian.cornell.edu.

    Staff.

    To be taken in conjunction with any Russian literature course at the advanced level. Students receive 1 credit for reading and discussing works in Russian in addition to their normal course work.  Detailed description at russian.cornell.edu.

  
  • RUSSA 6601 - [Old Church Slavonic]

    (crosslisted)
    (also LING 6663 , MEDVL 6663 )
    Fall. 4 credits.

    Prerequisite: knowledge of Slavic or ancient Indo-European language. Next offered 2014-2015. This course is a prerequisite to LING 6662  and  LING 6671 .

    W. Browne.

    For description, see LING 6663 .

  
  • RUSSA 6602 - [Old Russian Texts]

    (crosslisted)
    (also LING 6662 , MEDVL 6662 )
    Spring. 4 credits.

    Prerequisite: LING 6663 . Next offered 2014-2015.

    W. Browne.

    For description, see LING 6662 .

  
  • RUSSA 6633 - Russian for Russian Specialists


    Fall. 1-4 credits, variable.

    Prerequisite: four years of college Russian or equivalent. Class meeting times will be chosen at the organizational meeting (usually the second or third day of the semester) so as to accommodate as many students as possible.  The time and place of the organizational meeting will be announced at russian.cornell.edu.

    Staff.

    Designed for students whose areas of study require advanced active control of the language. Fine points of translation, usage, and style are discussed and practiced. Syllabus varies from year to year.  Detailed description at russian.cornell.edu.

  
  • RUSSA 6634 - Russian for Russian Specialists


    Spring. 1-4 credits, variable.

    Prerequisite: four years of college Russian or equivalent. Class meeting times will be chosen at the organizational meeting (usually the second or third day of the semester) so as to accommodate as many students as possible.  The time and place of the organizational meeting will be announced at russian.cornell.edu.

    Staff.

    Designed for students whose areas of study require advanced active control of the language. Fine points of translation, usage, and style are discussed and practiced. Syllabus varies from year to year.  Detailed description at russian.cornell.edu.

  
  • RUSSA 6651 - [Comparative Slavic Linguistics]

    (crosslisted)
    (also LING 6671 )
    Fall. 4 credits.

    Prerequisite or corequisite: LING 6663  or permission of instructor. Next offered 2014-2015. (Offered alternate years)

    W. Browne.

    For description, see LING 6671 .


RUSSL—Russian Literature

  
  • RUSSL 2207 - [Themes from Russian Culture]


    (LA-AS)
    Spring. 3 credits.

    Next offered 2014-2015. (Offered alternate years) In translation.

    G. Shapiro.

    These courses are based on lectures, discussions, and audiovisual presentations and cover various aspects of Russian culture, such as literature, art, architecture, music, religion, philosophy, and social thought. RUSSL 2207 extends through the 18th century, and RUSSL 2208  covers the 19th and 20th centuries.

  
  • RUSSL 2208 - [Themes from Russian Culture]


    (LA-AS)
    Spring. 3 credits.

    Next offered 2014-2015. (Offered alternate years) In translation.

    G. Shapiro.

    These courses are based on lectures, discussions, and audiovisual presentations and cover various aspects of Russian culture, such as literature, art, architecture, music, religion, philosophy, and social thought. RUSSL 2207  extends through the 18th century, and RUSSL 2208 covers the 19th and 20th centuries.

  
  • RUSSL 2209 - Readings in Russian Prose and Poetry


    (GB) (LA-AS) Satisfies Option 1.
    Fall. 3 credits.

    Prerequisite: for students with 2+ semesters of Russian language (RUSSA 1121 /RUSSA 1122  or equivalent). Reading in Russian; discussion in English.

    N. Pollak.

    Short classics of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Authors may include Pushkin, Lermontov, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Blok, and Akhmatova. Assignments adjusted for native fluency. May be used as a prerequisite for RUSSL courses with reading in Russian.

  
  • RUSSL 2212 - Readings in Twentieth Century Russian Literature


    (LA-AS) Satisfies Option 1.
    Fall. 3 credits.

    Reading, writing, and discussion in Russian. Reading, writing, and discussion in Russian.

    G. Shapiro.

    For students with native background. Introduces students to 20th-century Russian literature in the original and improves Russian reading and writing skills.

  
  • RUSSL 3331 - Introduction to Russian Poetry


    (HB) (LA-AS)
    Spring. 4 credits.

    Prerequisite: proficiency in Russian or permission of instructor. Reading in Russian; discussion in English.

    N. Pollak.

    A survey of 19th century Russian poetry, with emphasis on the analysis of individual poems by major poets (Zhukovskii, Batiushkov, Baratynskii, Lermontov, Tiutchev, Nekrasov, Fet).

  
  • RUSSL 3333 - Twentieth Century Russian Poetry


    (LA-AS)
    Spring. 4 credits.

    Reading in Russian; discussion in English.

    N. Pollak.

    Close readings of lyrics by major 20th-century poets.

  
  • RUSSL 3334 - [The Russian Short Story]


    (HB) (LA-AS)
    Fall. 4 credits.

    Prerequisite: proficiency in Russian or permission of instructor. Next offered 2014-2015. Reading in Russian; discussion in English.

    G. Shapiro.

    Survey of two centuries of Russian storytelling. Analysis of individual stories by major writers. Emphasis on narrative structure and on related landmarks of Russian literary criticism.

  
  • RUSSL 3335 - Gogol


    (HB) (LA-AS)
    Spring. 4 credits.

    In translation.

    G. Shapiro.

    Selected works of Gogol are read closely in translation and viewed in relation to his life and to the literature of his time.

  
  • RUSSL 3338 - [Lermontov’s Hero of Our Time]


    (LA-AS)
    4 credits.

    Next offered 2014-2015. Reading in Russian; discussion in English.

    N. Pollak.

    Hero of Our Time has been called the first major Russian novel. Close reading, attention to linguistic and literary problems.

  
  • RUSSL 3367 - [The Russian Novel]


    (HB) (LA-AS)
    Spring. 4 credits.

    Next offered 2014-2015.

    N. Pollak.

    The rise of the Russian novel in the 19th century, with particular attention to the relation between earlier (Pushkin, Lermontov) and later (Dostoevsky, Tolstoy) writers of prose fiction.

  
  • RUSSL 3368 - 20th-Century Russian Literature


    (LA-AS)
    Spring. 4 credits.

    In translation. Students who read Russian may sign up for discussion of Russian text for 1 credit (RUSSA 4491 ).

    G. Shapiro.

    Survey of 20th-century Russian prose, including such writers as Bunin, Bulgakov, and Nabokov, as well as Solzhenitsyn, Shalamov, and Voinovich.

  
  • RUSSL 3385 - Reading Nabokov

    (crosslisted)
    (also ENGL 3790 ) (LA-AS)
    Fall. 4 credits.

    In translation.

    G. Shapiro.

    Nabokov’s Russian works in translation from Mary to The Enchanter, and two novels he wrote in Ithaca while teaching literature at Cornell, Lolita and Pnin.

  
  • RUSSL 4415 - [Post-Symbolist Russian Poetry]


    (LA-AS)
    4 credits.

    Prerequisite: proficiency in Russian or permission of instructor. Next offered 2014-2015. Reading in Russian; discussion in English.

    N. Pollak.

    Verse, critical prose, and literary manifestos by selected early 20th-century Russian poets, including Annenskii, Pasternak, and Mandelstam.

  
  • RUSSL 4430 - [Practice in Translation]


    (LA-AS)
    Spring. 4 credits.

    Prerequisite: proficiency in Russian or permission of instructors. Next offered 2014-2015.

    Staff.

    Practical workshop in translation: documents, scholarly papers, literary works (prose and poetry). Mostly Russian to English, some English to Russian.

  
  • RUSSL 4432 - [Pushkin]


    (HB) (LA-AS)
    Fall. 4 credits.

    Prerequisite: proficiency in Russian or permission of instructor. Next offered 2014-2015. Reading in Russian; discussion in English.

    N. Pollak.

    Selected verse by Pushkin: lyrics, narrative poems, dramatic works.

  
  • RUSSL 4433 - [Short Works of Tolstoy]


    (HB) (LA-AS)
    Spring. 4 credits.

    Prerequisite: RUSSL 2209  or RUSSL 2212  or equivalent mastery of Russian language skills. Next offered 2014-2015. Reading in Russian; discussion in English.

    N. Pollak.

    A selection of short stories and short novels in Russian. Attention to style, themes, idioms. Assignments adjusted to students’ language capabilities.

  
  • RUSSL 4492 - Supervised Reading in Russian Literature


    Fall or spring. 1-4 credits, variable.

    Students must find an advisor and submit a plan before signing up.

    Staff.

    Independent study.

  
  • RUSSL 6611 - Supervised Reading and Research


    Fall or spring. 2-4 credits, variable.

    Prerequisite: proficiency in Russian or permission of instructor. Times TBA with instructor.

    Staff.


SANSK—Sanskrit

  
  • SANSK 1131 - Elementary Sanskrit I

    (crosslisted)
    (also CLASS 1331 , LING 1131 )
    Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    A. Ruppel.

    An introduction to the essentials of Sanskrit grammar. Designed to enable the student to read classical and epic Sanskrit as soon as possible.

  
  • SANSK 1132 - Elementary Sanskrit II

    (crosslisted)
    (also CLASS 1332 LING 1132 )
    Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    Prerequisite: SANSK 1131  or permission of instructor.

    A. Ruppel.

    An introduction to the essentials of Sanskrit grammar. Designed to enable the student to read classical and epic Sanskrit as soon as possible.

  
  • SANSK 2251 - Intermediate Sanskrit I

    (crosslisted)
    (also CLASS 2351 , LING 2251 )(GHB) Satisfies Option 1.
    Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    Prerequisite: SANSK 1132  or permission of instructor.

    A. Ruppel.

    Review of grammar and reading of selections from Sanskrit epic poetry and narrative prose.

  
  • SANSK 2252 - [Intermediate Sanskrit II]

    (crosslisted)
    (also CLASS 2352 LING 2252 )(GHB) Satisfies Option 1.
    Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    Prerequisite: One year prior Sanskrit study or permission of instructor. Next offered 2014-2015.

    Staff.

    Review of grammar and reading of selections from Sanskrit epic poetry and narrative prose.

  
  
  • SANSK 4431 - Directed Study


    Fall. 1-4 credits, variable. Letter grades only.

    Permission of instructor required.

    Staff.

    Intended for advanced language study.

  
  • SANSK 4432 - Directed Study


    Spring. 1-4 credits, variable. Letter grades only.

    Permission of instructor required.

    Staff.

    Intended for advanced language study.


SEA—Sea Education Association

  
  • SEA 3620 - Maritime History and Culture


    (CA) (HA)
    Fall, spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    Corequisites required. Refer to SEA Semester program descriptions at www.sea.edu.

    Staff.

    In this course, students explore political, cultural and social changes in island communities from before the arrival of Europeans to the present. We look at sea-going migration and settlement patterns, changing demographics, political and economic systems, and also seek to understand changes in nautical technology that underpinned European expansion.

    Outcome 1: Students will write an expository paper that takes them from a primary source through the research process while on campus in Woods Hole, and make additional observations at island port stops during the sea component.

  
  • SEA 3660 - Introduction to Oceanography


    Fall, spring, summer. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    Corequisites required. Refer to SEA Semester program descriptions at www.sea.edu.

    Staff.

    This course provides students with the scientific foundation needed to investigate the planet’s oceans. It introduces them to the scientific study of the ocean and serves as the foundation for the courses in practical oceanography taken during the sea component. As they learn about modern ocean studies and technological advances in instrumentation, students develop proposals for independent research projects to be carried out at sea.

    Outcome 1: Students will complete exams covering lecture material.

    Outcome 2: Students will review literature and create a written proposal for research to be conducted during the research cruise.

    Outcome 3: Students will participate in an oral presentation of their proposal.

  
  • SEA 3670 - Introduction to Maritime Studies


    Fall, spring, summer. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    Staff.

    This interdisciplinary course considers the complex human relationship with the sea by examining the history of maritime commerce as well as literary and other artistic productions inspired by the marine environment.  We trace how views of the world’s oceans have changed-today we acknowledge the fragility of the environment; students will look at the result of centuries of exploiting marine resources, and at the recent development of legal frameworks to manage them.

    Outcome 1: Several readings and papers will give students an opportunity to develop a perspective of our changing relationship with the sea.

  
  • SEA 3680 - Introduction to Nautical Science


    Fall, spring, summer. 3 credits.

    Corequisites required. Refer to SEA Semester program descriptions at www.sea.edu.

    Staff.

    Nautical Science teaches the practical skills and theoretical background necessary to safely operate a tall ship on the high seas. Students learn and apply essential concepts in general physics, astronomy, and meteorology. During the sea component, students apply these concepts while acting as active and increasingly responsible members of the ship’s crew, working toward the ultimate role of Junior Watch Officer.

    Outcome 1: Students will complete lab exercises and workshops to become proficient in skills of the mariner.

    Outcome 2: Students will complete exams covering lecture material.

  
  • SEA 3690 - Practical Oceanography I


    Fall, spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    Corequisites required.  Refer to SEA Semester program descriptions at www.sea.edu.

    Staff.

    Students learn how to safely deploy and recover modern oceanographic sampling instruments, conduct shipboard laboratory research, analyze oceanographic data, and operate a fully equipped laboratory at sea.

    Outcome 1: Students complete a lab practical exam.

    Outcome 2: Students will be required to fully participate in shipboard laboratory operations.

    Outcome 3: During the research cruise, students will deploy oceanographic equipment and collect samples.

  
  • SEA 3700 - Practical Oceanography II


    Fall, spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    Corequisites required. Refer to SEA Semester program descriptions at www.sea.edu.

    Staff.

    Students collect, analyze, and present data for projects of their own design. Each student completes an original research project in oceanography under the guidance of the Chief Scientist on board the vessel.

    Outcome 1: During the research cruise, students will analyze data, interpret results, and produce a research manuscript.

    Outcome 2: Oral presentation of research results will be required.

  
  • SEA 3710 - Marine Environmental History


    (CA) (LA)
    Fall, spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    Corequisites required. Refer to SEA Semester program descriptions at www.sea.edu.

    Staff.

    Starting from the physical geography, we look at the distribution of resources and the impacts of human migration and settlement on island ecosystems, including the introduction of non-native species and the exploitation of marine resources. This course is designed to explore the interaction of ecological factors in ocean, coastal and island environments; the impact of human actions on those environments; and the need for local, regional and international responses and strategies to mitigate and manage that impact. 

    Outcome 1: In Woods Hole, students are guided to source materials for research on both the natural environment and human actions upon it; on the cruise we interact with local people, including government officials to discuss management strategies and points of view. Our conclusions are shared through an on-line regional atlas.

  
  • SEA 3720 - Practical Oceanography III


    Summer. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    Corequisites required. Refer to SEA Semester program descriptions at www.sea.edu.

    Staff.

    This course provides practical experience in conducting oceanographic research aboard a sailing research vessel and culminates in the completion and presentation of student research projects.

    Outcome 1: Students complete a lab practical exam.

    Outcome 2: During the research cruise, students will deploy oceanographic equipment, collect sample, analyze data, interpret results, and produce a research manuscript.

    Outcome 3: Oral presentation of research results will be required.

  
  • SEA 3780 - Oceans and Climate: Oceans in the Global Carbon Cycle


    Fall, spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    Prerequisite: minimum of 3 lab science courses or consent of the instructor. Corequisites required. Refer to SEA Semester program descriptions at www.sea.edu.

    Staff.

    This course examines the role of the oceans in the climate system, addressing topics such as the global carbon cycle, the thermohaline circulation, and aspects of global change including warming and sea level rise.

    Outcome 1: Students will complete lab exercises and workshops to become proficient in research skills related to the course topic.

    Outcome 2: Students will be required to participate in weekly discussions and complete a final examination covering lecture material.

  
  • SEA 3790 - Ocean Science and Public Policy


    (HA)
    Fall, spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    Corequisites required. Refer to SEA Semester program descriptions at www.sea.edu.

    Staff.

    This course will introduce students to fundamental concepts, tools, and processes that are driving the construction of ocean policy today. Through readings and seminars, students will critically explore the philosophical roots of science and the varying and often contested ways that it fits into public policy. Case studies will help students identify intangible but critical factors in the form of personal and professional values, the role of politics, and the vital role of effective and broad-based communication in crafting effective policy.

    Outcome 1: Students will review literature addressing the scientific dimensions of ocean policy.

    Outcome 2: Will write a paper analyzing a contemporary public debate over science policy.

    Outcome 3: Students research and prepare a policy brief for addressing a contemporary coastal or ocean topic.

    Outcome 4: Students will make an oral presentation and defense of their policy brief in a mock public forum.

  
  • SEA 3800 - Oceanographic Field Methods


    Fall, spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    Corequisites required. Refer to SEA Semester program descriptions at www.sea.edu.

    Staff.

    In support of student directed research, students master all aspects of the shipboard lab operations. Students will deploy and recover oceanographic sampling equipment, collect and analyze data from a variety of sophisticated instruments and be a part of the 24 hour/day oceanographic sampling team.

    Outcome 1: Students complete a lab practical exam.

    Outcome 2: Students will be required to fully participate in shipboard laboratory operations.

    Outcome 3: During the research cruise, students will deploy oceanographic equipment and collect samples.

  
  • SEA 4640 - Advanced Topics in Biological Oceanography


    Fall, spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    Corequisites required. Refer to SEA Semester program descriptions at www.sea.edu.

    SEA Faculty.

    Provides in-depth treatment of a single topic. Extensive review of classical and contemporary literature. Introduction and practice of current laboratory techniques. Oral presentation and research paper required. Topics include but are not limited to: marine plankton ecology, biodiversity, satellite oceanography.

    Outcome 1: Students will complete lab exercises and workshops to become proficient in research skills related to the course topic.

    Outcome 2: Students will be required to participate in weekly discussions and complete a final examination covering lecture material.

  
  • SEA 4990 - Directed Oceanographic Research


    Fall, spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    Prerequisite: minimum of 3 lab science courses or permission of the instructor. Corequisites required. Refer to SEA Semester program descriptions at www.sea.edu.

    Staff.

    This course provides upper-level oceanographic research experience, including design and completion of an independent research project that is comparable in scope to an undergraduate senior research thesis.

    Outcome 1: Students will review literature and create a written proposal for research to be conducted during the research cruise.

    Outcome 2: Students will participate in an oral defense of their proposal.

    Outcome 3: During the research cruise, students will deploy oceanographic equipment, collect samples, analyze data, interpret results, and produce a research manuscript.

    Outcome 4: Oral presentation of research results will be required.

  
  • SEA 4993 - Advanced Ocean Policy Research


    Fall, spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    Corequisites required. Refer to SEA Semester program descriptions at www.sea.edu.

    SEA Faculty.

    Advanced policy research focusing on a topic of current importance.  Emphasis on theoretical concepts, research methods, and communication. Requires critical review paper, original research, final report and final presentation. Projected topics include fisheries, biodiversity, marine spatial planning, and cultural heritage.

    Outcome 1: Requires critical review paper, original research final report, and final oral presentation.


SHUM—Society for Humanities

  
  
  • SHUM 3900 - Special Topics

    (crosslisted)
    (also AMST 3900 , ASRC 3900 , PMA 3900 , VISST 3900 )


    Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    S. Warner.

    Topic for Fall 2013: Black Female Playwrights

    For description, see PMA 3900 .

  
  • SHUM 4191 - Aftermaths: The Complexities of Disasters

    (crosslisted)
    (also BSOC 4191 , STS 4191 ) (CA-AS)
    Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    V. Choi.

    For description, see STS 4191 .

  
  • SHUM 4281 - Anticipation: Living in the Future

    (crosslisted)
    (also STS 4281 ) (CA-AS)
    Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    V. Choi.

    For description, see STS 4281 .

  
  • SHUM 4871 - Through the Prison Threshold

    (crosslisted)
    (also ANTHR 4071 , GOVT 4867 , SOC 4860 )
    Fall. 4 credits.

    Enrollment limited to: 15 students.

    C. Garces.

    This seminar will explore the rise of mass incarceration and punitive containment strategies around the globe. Considering prison a threshold that resists outsiders’ efforts to comprehend inmate experience, we will read from works of prison ethnography, history, film and memoirs that approach different cultures of confinement and consider how the prison has become a problematic zone of state experimentation. Emphasis will be given to works that shed light on the professional and religious vocations that straddle prison worlds and the world beyond the prison walls, helping to generate new ethical relationships as well as political associations for social justice with captive state populations.

  
  • SHUM 4872 - Psychic Occupations and Disoccupations

    (crosslisted)
    (also COML 4021 , FREN 4872 , HIST 4872 )
    Fall. 4 credits.

    Limited to 15 students.

    C. Robcis.

    Why do people do certain things even though they may not want to? Why do our bodies react in certain ways that our minds cannot control? Why does so much of our psychic life escape our will? In this seminar, we will ponder these questions by reading some of the major works of psychoanalysis and its critics. Unlike the autonomous reflexive Cartesian self or the transcendental Kantian actor, the psychoanalytic subject is at all times occupied by the unconscious. We will begin this class by analyzing how this occupied subject is described in the works of Freud and Lacan. In a second part, we will read authors influenced by Freudian psychoanalysis, who have attempted to decipher this form of psychic occupation and who have sought to “disoccupy” the mind. Readings may include works by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Frantz Fanon, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, and Luce Irigaray.

  
  • SHUM 4873 - Human/Animal/Machine

    (crosslisted)
    (also ENGL 4873 , FGSS 4873 , STS 4873 )
    Fall. 4 credits.

    Limited to 15 students.

    J. Puar.

    In this seminar we will be exploring the borders and boundaries of the construction of “the human” and its triangulated attendants, “the animal” and “the machine.” We will take as our orientation Gayatri Spivak’s groundbreaking query, “Can the subaltern speak?” The 1988 publication of the article with this title has generated prolific feminist, postcolonial, Marxist, and critical race theoretical work examining the politics of poststructuralist knowledge claims and production. However, as has been recently articulated by a range of thinkers, the limits of a poststructuralist epistemological corrective-in certain historical and geopolitical locations—have perhaps been broached. In the context of current global conditions of increasing economic stratification and distress, the dissimulation of politically coherent positions, and the growing disillusionment with liberal democratic ideals, the realms of the social and the political seem haphazardly, arbitrarily, and yet systematically “working” through an anthropomorphic vision of politics that takes agency and voice to be its central determinants.

  
  • SHUM 4875 - Critical Legal Geography

    (crosslisted)
    (also GOVT 4675 )
    Fall. 4 credits.

    Co-meets with LAW 7772 . Limited to 15 students.

    I. Braverman.

    This seminar will introduce students to the emerging tradition of Critical Legal Geography, which offers heightened attention to the political and power-ridden properties of law and spatiality, both widely defined. We will unravel the overlooked properties of law and space, exposing their treatment as technical, neutral, and a-political and their real and imagined entanglements with various forms of power. The seminar will draw on a wide variety of scholars-including Michel Foucault, Bruno Latour, Timothy Morton, and Duncan Kennedy-to explore a few of the major areas of focus within (and in the margins of) Critical Legal Geography, including: borders and checkpoints, the private/public divide, constitutionally protected spaces, wilderness and the law, animality and biopower, and even “loo laws” and sanitary surveillance. The students will learn how to approach legal texts and statements critically so as to expose the technologies of powers that underlie their existence.

  
  • SHUM 4981 - Occupy their Desire

    (crosslisted)
    (also GOVT 4755 , SOC 4980 )
    Spring. 4 credits.

    Limited to 15 students.

    J. Dean.

    How do collectivities desire? This seminar will approach this question from two directions: first, close readings of early twentieth century crowd theory (LeBon, Freud, Canetti, Tarde), contemporary discussions of riots, occupations, and networks (Badiou, Berardi, Guattari, Surowiecki), and recent developments in politically active art (Bishop, Thompson, Critical Arts Ensemble); and, second, a practical exercise in designing and carrying out an intervention.

  
  • SHUM 4982 - Theorizing Refugees: Citizenship and Displacement in the Middle East

    (crosslisted)
    (also ANTHR 4082 , GOVT 4686 NES 4982 , SOC 4930 , VISST 4982 )


    Spring. 4 credits.

    Enrollment limited to: 15 students.

    D. Allan.

    This seminar will explore how anthropology, and related disciplines, approaches the study of people defined as exceptions within the political order of citizenship. ‘Refugees’, ‘migrants’, ‘asylum seekers’, ‘illegal aliens’ are the ‘in-between’ others who in their very existence challenge the limits of juridical nation-state definitions of citizenship. We will engage with political theorists who explore the political meanings and implications of refugees and “outsiders,” and reflect on how these distinctions and categorizations are made and with what effects. Readings trace the theoretical evolution of the refugee from abject other in need of therapeutic care to agent of political change, and tack back and forth between theoretical studies of citizenship and exclusion, humanitarianism and the biopolitics of refugee management and control, and “experience-near” ethnographies of refugee life. We examine how people experience displacement, confinement and exclusion; how home, community and belonging are (re)configured; and the phenomenology of exile. While the geographic focus of the course will be the Middle East, materials will be drawn from other areas as well.

  
  • SHUM 4985 - Emma Goldman, Anarchist Feminist

    (crosslisted)
    (also AMST 4985 , COML 4022 , FGSS 4985 , GOVT 4785 )
    Spring. 4 credits.

    Permission of instructor required. Enrollment limited to: 15 students.

    A. Smith.

    As a political practice, “occupy” expresses a profoundly anarchist spirit. This seminar will contribute to the Society’s “Occupation” theme by exploring the social and political thought of the enormously influential anarchist feminist thinker, Emma Goldman. We will study her formation as an intellectual in the shadow of the 1886 Haymarket affair; her complex relationship to major radical thinkers, including Marx, Kropotkin, and Bakunin; her critiques of diverse institutions, ranging from marriage to imperial war mongering; her pamphlets, speeches, journalism, polemical essays, autobiographical writing, and her personal letters; and the affinities between her work and that of other critical thinkers such as Nietzsche, Foucault, and Rancière. Adopting the perspective of a recent commentator, Kathy Ferguson, we will ask whether Goldman succeeded in writing political theory in the streets.

  
  • SHUM 4986 - Art, Economy, Spectacle

    (crosslisted)
    (also ASIAN 4486 SPAN 4850 , VISST 4986 )
    Spring. 4 credits.

    Enrollment limited to: 15 students.

    P. Erber.

    The course approaches the emergence of contemporary art in the late twentieth century from the perspective of its relationship with the culture industry and, more broadly, with the capitalist economy. We will explore articulations and intricacies of art as a mode of occupation of time and space with the spheres of labor and leisure in the contemporary world. Topics for discussion include contemporary art and contemporaneity; the commodification of the art object; matter, materialism and dematerialization; aura and fetish; spectacle, spectatorship, and participation; mimesis, fiction, and counterfeiting; artistic practice between work, labor, and praxis. Readings and visual materials range from Marx’s Capital to Cildo Meireles’ Insertions into Ideological Circuits, from Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle and Theodor Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory to Akasegawa Genpei’s 1,000 Yen Note Model and Alexander Alberro’s Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity.

  
  • SHUM 4987 - Capitalism’s “New Era”? Materialism, Enclosure, and the Body Politics of the Present

    (crosslisted)
    (also COML 4023 ENGL 4987 )
    Spring. 4 credits.

    Limited to 15 students.

    J. Rosenberg.

    How do we determine when the present has become the future? What is the relationship between the enclosures of capitalist accumulation - of land, of the working day, of the body - and recent claims about the imminent overcoming of capital’s logic? This seminar will ask how thought about the body and materiality grapples with periodizing the present. We will link theories of sexuality with theories of capital accumulation and enclosure, and will wager that conceptions of embodiment, desire, and materiality shift in relation to the changing landscape of enclosures and dispossessions wrought by capitalism. We will study two historical periods of intensified accumulation/enclosure: the early modern period described by Marx as one marked by “primitive accumulation,” and the late-20th/early 21st-century marked by what David Harvey calls “accumulation by dispossession.” Readings will include work from Adorno, Althusser, Amin, Banaji, Berlant, Butler, Deleuze, Fanon, Galloway, Hardt and Negri, Harvey, Jameson, Luxemburg, Marx.

  
  • SHUM 4988 - Cinema and the Time of Occupation: The Situationists and the Films of Guy Debord

    (crosslisted)
    (also VISST 4988 )
    Spring. 4 credits.

    Enrollment limited to: 15 students.

    J. Smith.

    This course will be devoted to a study of the political thought and artistic practices of the Situationist International (1957-1972), with a particular emphasis on the question of the cinema. Recent scholarship on the S.I. has paid particular attention to the organization’s early emphasis on the contemporary spectacular city and the types of spatial practices that might disrupt its logic of “occupation.” This course will instead emphasize the way film and the cinema form a central, if often neglected, concern of the S.I. from the very first issue of their journal; this emphasis on the cinema will in turn allow us to highlight the way in which the focus on spatial practices emphasized by recent scholarship can be supplemented or challenged by paying underlining not only to the role the S.I. accords the cinema in its conception of artistic practice, but to the films of Guy Debord as well. Taking as their central theme the spectacular city - exemplarily, Paris - these films, rarely seen and the subject of little critical commentary, present the city in thoroughly temporal terms, namely as an articulation of the linear time of production and “pseudo-cyclical” time of consumption and the reproduction of class power. In doing so, I argue, these films present themselves not simply as an analysis or diagramming of the temporal logic of the city, but as one way to disrupt this time as well, in view of the construction of a temporal “situation” or a properly revolutionary time.

  
  • SHUM 4989 - Sovereignty under Military Occupation

    (crosslisted)
    (also ASIAN 4496 , COML 4024 , GOVT 4656 )
    Spring. 4 credits.

    Enrollment limited to: 15 students.

    A. Shimabuku.

    After touching upon the American “failure” in Iraq, this seminar uncovers the secret of what has been canonized in American history as a model of “success”-the Allied occupation of Japan-by probing into the metaphysical and performative aspects of sovereignty, examining the role of the globalized economy plays under occupation, and reconsidering Euro-centric notions of the postcolonial so as to appreciate the U.S. military’s renewal of Japanese imperial formations in the postwar era. We will read from Walter Benjamin, Judith Butler, Leo Ching, Grace Cho, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Hardt/Negri, Chalmers Johnson, Immanuel Kant, Medoruma Shun, Naoki Sakai, Sakiyama Tami, and Carl Schmitt.


SINHA—Sinhalese

  
  • SINHA 1121 - Elementary Sinhala I


    Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    Permission of instructor required.

    B. Herath.

    Semi-intensive introduction to colloquial Sinhala, intended for beginners. A thorough grounding is given in all the language skills; listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

  
  • SINHA 1122 - Elementary Sinhala II


    Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    Prerequisite: SINHA 1121  or equivalent. Permission of instructor required.

    B. Herath.

    Semi-intensive introduction to colloquial Sinhala, intended for beginners. A thorough grounding is given in all the language skills; listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

  
  • SINHA 2201 - Intermediate Sinhala I


    (GB) Satisfies Option 1.
    Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    Prerequisite:SINHA 1122 . Permission of instructor required.

    B. Herath.

    This course further develops student competence in colloquial Sinhala, attending to all the language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. In addition, this course prepares students for the transition to literary Sinhala.

  
  • SINHA 2202 - Intermediate Sinhala II


    (GHB) Satisfies Option 1.
    Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    Prerequisite: SINHA 2201  or equivalent. Permission of instructor required.

    B. Herath.

    This course further develops student competence in colloquial Sinhala, attending to all the language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. In addition, this course prepares students for the transition to literary Sinhala.

  
  • SINHA 3301 - Literary Sinhala I


    (GB) Satisfies Option 1.
    Fall, spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    Prerequisite: SINHA 2201 , SINHA 2202  or permission of instructor.

    B. Herath.

    This one-semester course provides an introduction to the distinctive grammatical forms and vocabulary used in Literary Sinhala. While focused particularly on the development of reading skills, the course also introduces students to Literary Sinhala composition, and builds students’ listening comprehension of semi-literary Sinhala forms (such as those used in radio and TV news).

  
  • SINHA 4400 - Literary Sinhala II


    Fall, spring. 2-4 credits, variable. Letter grades only.

    Prerequisite: SINHA 3301  or permission of instructor. If taken for 3 or 4 credits, will satisfy Option 1.

    B. Herath.

    This one-semester course further develops students’ comprehension of written Literary Sinhala, using sample materials from a variety of genres prepared by the instructor, as well as excerpts from texts relevant to graduate student research (when appropriate).

  
  • SINHA 4431 - Directed Study


    Fall. 1-4 credits, variable. Letter grades only.

    Permission of instructor required.

    B. Herath.

    Intended for advanced language study.

  
  • SINHA 4432 - Directed Study


    Spring. 1-4 credits, variable. Letter grades only.

    Permission of instructor required.

    B. Herath.

    Intended for advanced language study.


SNES—Science of Natural & Environmental Systems

  
  • SNES 1101 - Introduction to Environmental Science and Sustainability

    (crosslisted)
    (also NTRES 1101 )
    Fall. 3 credits.

    Prerequisite: limited to first-year students accepted to ESS majors in CALS.

    C. Kraft, E. Madsen.

    For description and learning outcomes, see NTRES 1101 .

  
  • SNES 2000 - Environmental Sciences Colloquium


    Fall. 1 credit. S-U grades only.

    S. Riha, J. Lehmann.

    This colloquium consists of a series of lectures on an annually changing theme central to the Environmental Sciences, which poses biophysical, economic, and political challenges to modern society. Participants become familiar with contemporary issues of environmental degradation and opportunities for their mitigation. The colloquium is mandatory for SNES majors and is open to the public.

  
  • SNES 4850 - Case Studies in International Ecoagriculture and Environmental Conservation

    (crosslisted)
    (also IARD 4850 , NTRES 4850 )
    Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    Enrollment limited to: senior standing in IARD, SNES, or NTRES and international experience; others by permission of instructors.

    J. P. Lassoie, P. Hobbs.

    For description and learning outcome, see IARD 4850 .

  
  • SNES 4940 - Special Topics in Science of Natural and Environmental Systems


    Fall, spring. 1-4 credits, variable.

    Staff.

    The department teaches “trial” courses under this number. Offerings vary by semester and are advertised by the department before the semester starts.

  
  • SNES 4960 - Internships in Environmental Science


    Fall, spring, summer. 1 credit. (May be repeated for credit) S-U grades only.

    Staff.

    Student internships involving on- or off-campus supervised, structured work experience. Member of SNES faculty must serve as mentor and complete the term grade report. All 4960 internship courses must adhere to the CALS guidelines at cals.cornell.edu/academics/student-research/internship.

  
  • SNES 4970 - Individual Study in Environmental Science


    Fall, spring, summer. 1-6 credits, variable.

    Staff.

    Individual studies are arranged under the supervision of one or several SNES faculty members. They provide opportunity to design a course that fills the need of an individual student and addresses pertinent issues in the environmental sciences.


SNLIT—Sanskrit Literature

  
  • SNLIT 3301 - Advanced Sanskrit I

    (crosslisted)
    (also CLASS 3393 )(GHB) (LA-AS)
    Fall. 4 credits.

    Prerequisite: two years study of Sanskrit or equivalent.

    L. McCrea.

    Selected readings in Sanskrit literary and philosophical texts.

  
  • SNLIT 3302 - [Advanced Sanskrit II]

    (crosslisted)
    (also CLASS 3394 )(GHB) (LA-AS)
    Spring. 4 credits.

    Prerequisite: two years study of Sanskrit or equivalent. Next offered 2014-2015.

    L. McCrea.

    Selected readings in Sanskrit literary and philosophical texts.

 

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