2017-2018 University Catalogue

May 11, 2024

2017-2018 University Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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Theater
	THEA 321 - Shakespeare Selected comedies, tragedies, and histories of Shakespeare, considered from a variety of critical, theatrical, historical, and textual perspectives, depending on the individual instructor’s interests. Students may take both 321 and 322, although only one of these courses may be counted towards a Theater major or minor. Credits: 1.00 Crosslisted: ENGL 321 When Offered: Fall semester only Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No First-year, Sophomore Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	THEA 322 - Shakespeare Selected comedies, tragedies, and histories of Shakespeare, considered from a variety of critical, theatrical, historical, and textual perspectives, depending on the individual instructor’s interests. Students may take both 321 and 322, although only one of these courses may be counted towards a Theater major or minor. Credits: 1.00 Crosslisted: ENGL 322 When Offered: Spring semester only Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No First-year, Sophomore Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	THEA 332 - Theater and Performance: London and the International Stage (Study Group) Designed for students to experience, examine and analyze from a performance perspective live theater and performance in London. While the course will focus primarily on British theatre: its productions, playwrights, traditions, theatres, and artists students will have the opportunity to attend performances by international companies in London. Productions attended will include as wide a variety of venues, styles, and periods of theatre as possible. Credits: 1.00 Prerequisites: THEA 232 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	THEA 341E - Performing & Media Arts in Hong Kong (Extended Study) A three-week extended study course in the spring. The course offers students an immersive experience in Hong Kong’s vibrant performing and media arts scene. It includes visits to live performances, film screenings, museums, and galleries, as well as lectures and walking tours with Hong Kong-based scholars on the city’s history, arts, and culture. Credits: 0.50 Crosslisted: FMST 341E Prerequisites: FMST 340 or ( ENGL 349 or THEA 349 ) Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	THEA 349 - Global Theater An exploration of Asian, African, intercultural, and postcolonial performance traditions, spanning theater, dance, ritual, and everyday life. Course materials include both classic and contemporary play texts along with selected readings in history, anthropology, and performance studies. Credits: 1.00 Crosslisted: ENGL 349 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	THEA 350 - Theater Practicum Concerted, directed work in a specific theatrical skill. Credits: variable Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Formerly: ENGL 350 Click here for Course Offerings by term
	THEA 351 - American Theater This course asks how we perform our American identities, both onstage and off. Readings include Euro-American, African American, Asian American and Latinx plays from the 19th century to the present along with selected readings in theater history and performance theory. Credits: 1.00 Crosslisted: ENGL 351 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	THEA 353 - Theater Play and Improvisation A course designed to cultivate the actor’s creativity, spontaneity, and collaborative skills through theater play and improvisation. The course strives to locate the “quality of play,” which, at its essence, is a deep sense of far reaching curiosity. Narrative and corporeal improvisation are explored with a focus on the relationship between the actor’s body and intellect. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Formerly: ENGL 353 Click here for Course Offerings by term
	THEA 354 - Basic Directing An introduction to the art and craft of directing. Theoretical information is coupled with concerted exploratory work. The aim is to create common experience in acquiring the fundamentals of the discipline, identify and cultivate individual creative potential, develop leadership skills and artistic responsibility. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Formerly: ENGL 354 Click here for Course Offerings by term
	THEA 355 - Advanced Acting A technique and scene study class designed to be an exploration of plays with heightened language and/or style, e.g., Shakespeare, Molière, other verse drama. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: THEA 254 or ENGL 254 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	THEA 356 - Playwriting General principles of playwriting. The goal of the course is the creation of a finished work: a one-act play, one act of a longer play, or a complete play. Writing for the theater represents emotional and artistic commitment and intellectual pursuit. As part of the learning process, students tackle the artistic and pragmatic challenges of building methodically from the seeds of inspiration to the crafting of the well-written play. Text analysis investigates classic and modern plays. The class is a first-hand initiation into the vocabulary and technique of collaboration for the development of original material. Credits: 1.00 Crosslisted: ENGL 356 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	THEA 358 - Narrative Screenwriting A workshop approach to the craft of writing for the camera. Students read and analyze screenplays in order to understand the process of how the screenwriter tells a story. A complete, short, narrative screenplay is the final project for the course. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	THEA 359 - Performance II: Devised Theater Workshop A collaborative, advanced performance-based class focusing on the rehearsal of a full-length work for public performance with a faculty or guest director. Writing playsis not the only way to create theatretheater. “Devising” is a process in which the whole creative team develops a show collaboratively. The challenge of creating a show from nothing is exhilarating. W and ith this freedom comes a significant catch: there’s no script. Working this way means walking a tightrope with no safety net Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: (THEA 254 or ENGL 254) or (THEA 353 or ENGL 353) Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	THEA 363 - Narrative Improvisation and Storytelling: Gateway into Theater An advanced improvisation course building on the skills and techniques acquired in THEA 353. Students will develop and acquire new collaborative theatrical improvisational skills through the addition of long form improvisation, storytelling and public performance. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: THEA 353 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	THEA 371 - Advanced Contemporary Dance For students with some technical dance training experience, this course challenges participants to be daring in their dance while finding ease and fluidity in their movement. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: THEA 271 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	THEA 391 - Independent Study Opportunity for individual study in areas not covered by formal course offerings, under the guidance of a member of the faculty. Credits: variable Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	THEA 454 - Advanced Directing The course in the art and craft of theatretheater directing is a continuation of the introductory course, focusing on expanding students’ directorial experience and expertise. Through reading, writing, exercises and practical assignments students develop the ability to analyze and interpret dramatic text, communicate and implement a directorial vision. Students perform technical and artistic requirements toward the completion of a theatretheater production. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: THEA 354 or ENGL 354 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	THEA 458 - Shakespeare’s Contemporaries English drama from the mid-16th century to the closing of the theaters in 1642, including plays by Kyd, Marlowe, Jonson, Middleton, Webster, and others of Shakespeare’s contemporaries. Credits: 1.00 Crosslisted: ENGL 458 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	THEA 491 - Independent Study Opportunity for individual study in areas not covered by formal course offerings, under the guidance of a member of the faculty. Credits: variable Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	THEA 495 - Senior Seminar in Theater A studio course that brings together all senior majors and minors in a conceptual, creative project. THEA 495 is the culminating experience of the Colgate theater student. Students in the seminar create a piece of theater as an ensemble, developed not only through work with text but also through close attention to the raw materials of theater-making: time, space, and the body. Research and critical writing assignments form an integral part of the seminar, which may also include visits by guest artists and trips to see theater and performance beyond the Colgate campus. Credits: 1.00 When Offered: Fall semester only Corequisite: None Prerequisites: THEA 254 or ENGL 254 and (THEA 211 or ENGL 211 or THEA 266 or ENGL 266 or THEA 267 or ENGL 267 ) Major/Minor Restrictions: Only Theater Majors and Minors Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Formerly: ENGL 495 Click here for Course Offerings by term
	THEA 496 - Special Studies for Honors Candidates in Theater Creation and presentation of a significant work of playwriting, directing, design, and/or performance. With permission of the director of the theater program, theater majors who wish to pursue a capstone project in the spring semester of senior year may enroll in THEA 496. Capstone projects must be proposed in the fall semester of senior year. The project may also take the form of a long-form critical, historical, or theoretical essay. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
University Studies
	UNST 106E - In the Footsteps of Galileo (Extended Study) An extended study course that follows a semester-long exploration of the development of modern scientific inquiry and knowledge, the conflict between science and religion, and the Galileo Affair in Saving the Appearances: Galileo, the Church, and the Scientific Endeavor and of Italian language and culture in Elementary Italian. The extended study course synthesizes a historical narrative that entangles the evolution of Catholic Church doctrine, the foundations of the epistemology of modern science, and Italian firebrand whose work left a lasting imprint on both endeavors and the language and the culture of the region he inhabited. Credits: 0.50 Corequisite: CORE 106S Prerequisites: ITAL 121 and CORE 106S Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	UNST 210 - Innovation in the Digital Age Recent technological developments have changed the way that people create ideas and goods, interact with each other, and approach everyday tasks. This course investigates the rapid pace of disruptive innovation that is grounded in principles exemplified by advances in, and uses of, digital computing and communication networks. Such principles included discretization, modularity and reusability, resource sharing, automation, peer production, network effects, and the wisdom and fallacy of crowds. Scientific underpinnings and broad societal and economic effects of these principles will be studied. Special attention will be paid to the global reach of these principles, highlighting Israel and Brazil as examples of international contexts in which to deeply explore a culture of digital innovation. Open to Class of 2019 Benton Scholars only. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No Junior, Senior, Sophomore Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	UNST 291 - Independent Study Opportunity for individual study in areas not covered by formal course offerings, under the guidance of a member of the faculty. Credits: variable Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	UNST 313 - Darwin and the Victorian Age of Discovery Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species precipitated a scientific and philosophical revolution that continues to reverberate in contemporary society. This course is a vehicle for exploring the extent to which Darwin’s theory of natural selection - the single most important, unifying scientific idea ever proposed - reflected and transformed the scientific, social, political, economic, religious, as well as literary and artistic, contexts of Britain in the Victorian age of discovery (1830s-1900). An appreciation for Victorian society reveals how Darwin’s travels, career choices, scientific activities, domestic life, fragile health, and delayed publication of his evolutionary theory were shaped by the culture of the time. Examining the diverse and intense reactions to Darwin’s “dangerous idea” shows how his theory has been extended far beyond biology to a broad range of intellectual disciplines. Seminar discussions are based on multidisciplinary assignments, student presentations, and interactions with invited speakers. These are enhanced by field trips to classic localities of geologic interest and to a natural history museum. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	UNST 324 - Technology, Science, and Culture in the History of Manchester (Study Group) This Manchester study group course is an experiential look at the evidence of how technology and science changed Manchester, the first industrial city in the world, and my extension, changed the way we all live in the industrialized modern age. The study group visits an operating textile mill at Helmshore; the site of the first commercially smelted iron in the world at Ironbridge; the Leeds Liverpool Canal and its system of canal locks; the Albert Dock, at Liverpool, a primary 19th-century port for cotton and emigration; North Wales and its early 19th-century bridges and aqueducts; and a slate mine near Mt. Snowdon that provided Victorian Britain with its roof tiles. Credits: 0.50 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	UNST 325 - The City on Water (Venice Study Group) Focuses on the exceptional character of Venice as a city built on water. An examination of the environmental setting of the Lagoon of Venice and traces the long history of the city’s development from its origins to the present day. Special attention is paid to the on-going give-and-take between the city and the sea, which has resulted in the complete transformation of the lagoon over the centuries, and the challenge of ‘saving’ a city at sea level from flooding in the 21st century. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	UNST 326 - Workshop of the World: Britain’s Industrial Revolution in Regional Perspective (Study Group) A survey of key themes in the economic and social history of Britain during the classic period of the industrial revolution (c. 1740-1850) and later economic transformation (1851-c. 1939). The aims of the course are to encourage students to reflect upon debates that historians have engaged in relation to these themes, as well as to relate these broad themes to regional perspectives (e.g., emergence of the railway networks vis-a-vis regional specialization of industrial activity, the regional impact of the loss of export markets for British goods following the First World War, etc.). At the end of the course, students are able to identify interactions between the social, economic, and political processes that shape an industrial society, how historians often deal with conflicting evidence about the scope and extent of change, and reflect upon how the study of history can inform our understanding of social and economic change. Credits: 0.50 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	UNST 330 - Health and Healing Practices (Wales Study Group) Humans have always been concerned with their health and have used various healing methods since ancient times. Focusing on Wales and beginning with an examination of the healing traditions of ancient Celtic people, the impact of successive conquerors and of contact with merchants on medical practices in Wales will be explored. New diseases which arose as human population increased and cities grew and industries developed will be examined. Also numerous scientific discoveries and inventions have changed healing practices. This course will examine changes in the concept of health and in the practice of medicine over time, ending with a consideration of the state of the current health care system in Wales, comparing it to the US health care system, and of future prospects for health care systems. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	UNST 350 - Interdisciplinary Methods Seminar This methods seminar is designed to prepare students to complete interdisciplinary research in Africana and Latin American Studies. Besides gaining a familiarity with key readings within these interdisciplinary fields, students will become familiar with how one designs and conducts research in the humanities and social sciences, learning different research methods that can be applied in multiple areas of inquiry. Credits: 1.00 Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No First-year Recommended: Students in humanities and social sciences who are preparing to conduct independent interdisciplinary research. Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	UNST 391 - Independent Study Opportunity for individual study in areas not covered by formal course offerings, under the guidance of a member of the faculty. Credits: variable Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	UNST 410 - Seminar: Area, Regional, and Global Study The University Studies research seminar in area, regional, and global studies aims to provide an interdisciplinary senior capstone experience for majors in the Africana and Latin American Studies, Asian Studies, and Middle East and Islamic Studies. Based on the style of a graduate-level seminar, this course offers students the opportunity to explore and understand a trans-regional topic selected by the instructor. The seminar also provides a senior thesis workshop that helps guide the students through the process of developing a significant work of undergraduate scholarship. Credits: 1.0 Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: Only Asian Studies, Middle East and Islamic Study, Africana & Latin Amer Studies Majors and Minors Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	UNST 491 - Independent Study Opportunity for individual study in areas not covered by formal course offerings, under the guidance of a member of the faculty. Credits: variable Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
Women’s Studies
	WMST 202 - Women’s Lives: An Introduction to Women’s Studies This interdisciplinary course explores women’s past and present circumstances and envisions future possibilities. Through a variety of materials and methodologies, issues of gender are analyzed in their intersections with such factors as class, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and historical-cultural location. Students also are introduced to the various “waves” of “the women’s movement/s,” as well as to different feminist frameworks for understanding the world. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No Senior Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WMST 205 - Queer Latina Visualities An introduction to queer Latina art as a field of interdisciplinary feminist inquiry, with a focus on art by Chicana, Xicana, Indigenous, Central American, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Cuban artists. This course examines the synergetic relation between queer Latina feminist art, theory, and resistance. Students will learn how queer Latina visualities are shaped by historical, social, and political forces - like colonialism, racism, and capitalism - and how queer Latina artists, in turn, act upon and shape the social world. Students will investigate queer Chicana/Latina feminist texts, asking how notions of self, place, memory, relationality, and knowledge are represented, contested, and reconstructed by queer Latina feminist artists. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WMST 291 - Independent Study Opportunity for individual study in areas not covered by formal course offerings, under the guidance of a member of the faculty. Credits: variable Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WMST 301 - Feminist Methodologies Is there a distinct feminist method of carrying out research? How do feminist and decolonial methodologies challenge - or complement - conventional research methodologies? This course provides a framework for thinking about methods and forms of knowledge production from a feminist decolonial perspective. The course examines how feminist scholars challenge dominant theories of knowledge through a lens that recognizes multiple, interrelated axes of inequality. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: WMST 202 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WMST 302 - Women’s Lives Biography and Autobiography “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The World would split open.” So wrote the poet Muriel Rukeyser. In this seminar students read autobiography and biography in order to understand the woman and her culture. The course balances a study of the lives of prominent, exceptional women with study of the ordinary lives of ordinary people. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No First-year Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WMST 391 - Independent Study Opportunity for individual study in areas not covered by formal course offerings, under the guidance of a member of the faculty. Credits: variable Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WMST 490 - Women’s Studies Senior Seminar The course is taught by the members of the women’s studies faculty, and the content of the course takes a different shape depending on the instructor. The content of the course is interdisciplinary; the course is rooted in and utilizes feminist theory; and, where appropriate, students engage in some form of praxis in the process of understanding the connection between the classroom and the world in which we live. Major and minor students are required to take this course in the spring semester of their senior year. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: Only Women’s Studies Majors and Minors Class Restriction: Only Senior Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WMST 491 - Independent Study Opportunity for individual study in areas not covered by formal course offerings, under the guidance of a member of the faculty. Credits: variable Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WMST 499 - Honors in Women’s Studies Students pursuing honors research enroll in this course. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
Writing and Rhetoric
	WRIT 102 - Introduction to Rhetoric in the Liberal Arts Tradition Artes liberales–the liberal arts–those arts that are proper for a free citizen, according to Cicero. These arts numbered seven in the medieval curriculum, the language arts–grammar, logic, and rhetoric–constituting the first three or trivium. While the trivium has all but disappeared in today’s college curriculum, increasingly scholars across the disciplines are discovering the integral role rhetoric plays in equipping citizens for effective participation in a democracy. Drawing upon the liberal arts tradition, this course aims to cultivate students’ capacity for eloquence of thought and expression through inquiry. To foster this most human impulse to inquire, students will engage in a number of inquiry projects that will ask them to reflect on their personal experiences, to analyze the forces that shaped those experiences, and to look critically at the way that culture or cultural identity is formed. In conjunction with the three inquiry projects, students engage in an intense amount of work on rhetorical invention (the discovery of ideas for writing), composing a workable draft, reading and revising the draft, and rereading and editing it for fluency in grammar, punctuation, and style. The course fulfills the writing requirement. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No Junior, Senior Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WRIT 103 - Rhetoric and Writing This course teaches the basic elements of college writing, strategies for reading and effective note-taking, the discovery and development of ideas, thesis development, organization and coherence, and editing skills. This course meets the writing requirement. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No Junior, Senior, Sophomore Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WRIT 105 - Colgate Talk Consider those who write for Colgate. A number of students, and many more professionals, hold jobs here that require speaking and writing on behalf of Colgate University. This course samples these writings as both theme and organizing principle, forming a textbook of practical rhetoric. It trains students in the analysis of texts through traditional rhetorical questions: What intellectual claims are made? What values are attributed to Colgate? What audiences are addressed? In writing their own texts about Colgate’s current issues, students learn important speaking, writing, and reading strategies. In a sequence of expository essays, students develop new powers of persuasion by studying the interaction of language, point of view, and local cultural knowledge. The course meets the writing requirement. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: Only First-year Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WRIT 110 - Academic Persuasions: An Introduction to Rhetoric, Research, and the Academic Essay By taking a rhetorical approach to academic writing, this course asks students to cultivate sustained and reasoned understandings of the relations between writer, audience, subject/text, and disciplinary contexts. Students engage in analytic essays and research projects within the discipline of rhetoric, developing facility with analytic habits of mind, discursive moves typical in academic writing, and the construction of clear, complex, and logical arguments about civic discourse. The course focuses on several essential elements of college writing and research: strategies for active analytic reading and effective note taking; compiling and critical reading of research sources; the discovery and development of a strong thesis supported by persuasive evidence; the skills of summary, definition, analysis, interpretation, and synthesis; organization and coherence; revision processes; and editing skills. This course meets the writing requirement. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No Junior, Senior, Sophomore Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WRIT 203 - Argumentation Students in this course learn critical techniques for argumentation by analyzing the arguments of other writers and applying these techniques to their own writing, especially at the revision stage. Both academic and popular sources are analyzed for their use of evidence, the presence of logical errors, and their use of rhetorical devices. Special attention is paid to problems arising from more complex critical analysis, such as appropriate ways to treat conflicting sources, detecting the biases in both primary and secondary source material, and examining the biases of the student’s own arguments. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WRIT 205 - Writers and Readers This course focuses on one of the most important characteristics of a successful writer: the ability to, first, imagine a reader’s point of view, and second, to establish an imaginary dialogue with that reader. The more the imagined reader anticipates the response of a real reader, the more power the writer can command. The course considers the following topics in depth: the split in the writer’s self - creator and editor; automatic language - the clichéd medium of conscious life; the practice of self-paraphrase to get beyond the automatic; the development of the writer’s potential voices; control over real readers; the imagined reader in the writer’s head; and alienation and authority in college-level writing. To accomplish the goal of developing awareness and control of the relationship between writer and reader, the course establishes a writing community that works primarily with rough drafts in a workshop format. Principles of helpful feedback/response are taught explicitly, and learning to be a supportive but critical reader improves the students’ editing skills at the same time that it models the realities of a reader’s difficulties in the hands of an unskilled but developing writer. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WRIT 210 - The Rhetoric of Style In ancient Greece and Rome, teachers of rhetoric taught style (elocutio) as one of five essential canons, or rules, for effective and persuasive communication. By this rule, an effective communicator reaches an audience not just through the content of speech, but also through its artful expression. This course studies how writers’ stylistic choices can profoundly influence the reception and interpretation of texts. With the goal of practicing new stylistic techniques in their own writing, students closely analyze published authors’ diction, sentence structure, punctuation, and figures of speech. Readings for the course include short sample pieces from a variety of genres, written by a variety of authors, as models. Because an understanding of prescriptive English grammar is essential to experiments in style, students review the parts of speech and study the parts of sentences, principles of syntax, and punctuation conventions. This course does not meet the writing requirement. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WRIT 215 - Public Speaking Since the origins of western democracy, rhetoricians have taught the study and practice of public speaking as an essential art of public life and civic responsibility. This course fuses theory to praxis in introducing students to basic public speaking skills, including researching, organization, and writing effective oral presentations; developing skills of critical listening and audience analysis; surveying key examples of public address; and providing students the opportunity to work in different speech situations. Students develop poise and self-confidence in public speaking as they deepen their understanding of the evolving aesthetics of public discourse in the the context of new media and global cultures. This course does not meet the writing requirement. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Formerly: WRIT 115 Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WRIT 225 - Visual Rhetorics This course approaches the study of rhetoric by foregrounding the dynamic relationship of text and image. How does a writer’s combination of verbal and visual elements communicate different arguments when circulated among different audiences? How do verbal/visual texts imitate, represent, and/or constitute cultural identities, norms, values, or practices? With the goal of becoming effective rhetorical critics, as well as incisive consumers and producers of visual culture, students in this course study a variety of visual texts in print and electronic form and examine these texts’ complex powers of persuasion. The primary work of this course is to develop and strengthen fluency in rhetorical discourse and visual literacy, as students work to perceive and analyze, as well as design and create, verbal-visual texts. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Formerly: WRIT 340 Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WRIT 231 - The Personal Essay By exploring the boundary between private and public writing, this course examines how personal reflection intersects with critical analysis to develop a disciplined expository essay. Drawing on examples from a variety of fields, it develops skills in autobiographical and biographical writing, journal writing, narration, description, synthesis, and peer response, and then shows how these skills can enrich the expository essay without sacrificing its academic tone and structure. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WRIT 242 - Stand and Speak: Feminist Rhetorics and Social Change As an introduction to rhetoric, rhetorical history and criticism, and feminist rhetorics, this course fore-grounds the study of how 19th-century women used both pen and voice with rhetorical precision to “stand and speak” to issues that marked their personal lives and their times. By studying women who composed and embodied what is now understood as the early years of the first wave of U.S. feminism, students access a genealogy of women rhetors who serve as exemplars - and cautions - for later waves and for their own contemporary visions of social change. By positioning the study of rhetoric as the study of language as it constitutes social relations, power, and knowledge, students become more acutely aware of and fluent in the composition, circulation, and criticism of private and public discourses, the verbal material through which they construct social worlds. The work for this course requires close reading and active discussion of course texts through a rhetorical lens and through the category of gender. This course does not meet the writing requirement. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WRIT 250 - Kairos: The Art of Rhetoric from Ancient to Modern Times Rhetoric–the effective use of language to persuade a given audience–is as old as human speech itself. Yet attuned as they were to “kairos,” the opportune time of a fledgling democracy in Athens, the ancient Greeks were perhaps the first to codify rhetorical practice as an art. This is a course about time, about the art of rhetoric as a most effective medium of change at the right time. Students see this when rhetoric served as a vehicle for change in 5th-century Greece, when it equipped individuals to write and preach to effect change in the so-called dark ages, and when it gave women and former slaves the voice to change attitudes and institutions in the 19th and 20th centuries. Students survey the entire history of western rhetoric from the earliest treatises to the most recent theories. In addition to examining this history through a close reading of canonical texts, students come to know the rhetorical tradition through experience, by engaging in the very practices (e.g., medieval preaching and letter writing, and 18th-century exercises in elocution) associated with rhetoric in a particular historical period. The many rhetorical terms, concepts, principles, and practices covered in the course provide students the proper background for further study in the more specialized areas of rhetoric. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WRIT 260 - Biblical Rhetoric This course examines the various ways that writers and speakers draw on the Bible for rhetorical force. Many of the works that call on the Bible for inspiration are not of a religious nature at all, raising questions about the nature of biblical style. Readings range from the Venerable Bede and Queen Elizabeth I to Bob Marley and Douglas Rushkoff, in addition to source material from the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. No previous knowledge of the Bible is needed. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WRIT 270 - The Rhetoric of Comics This course focuses on the ways that comics - often defined as the interplay of words and images - convey specific messages, whether instructional, narrative, persuasive, or other. Close analyses draw on principles of visual rhetoric, comics scholarship, photography, and related disciplines. Readings cover the theory, history, terminology, and genres of graphic narratives. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WRIT 280 - Rhetorical “Borderlands”: Introduction to Comparative Intercultural Rhetoric By taking a transnational comparative perspective, this course introduces students to several key questions in comparative and intercultural rhetoric, from the most basic question of “How does culture shape language, and how does language, in turn, shape culture?” to more complicated questions: How do cross-border and cross-cultural engagements constrain and influence rhetorical practices and interactions? How do cultural logics, values, and assumptions hierarchically govern different geo-political spaces? In what ways have individuals and groups both conformed to and resisted discursive structures of power and privilege? And finally, in what ways can comparative and intercultural study sharpen our own critical insights about and rhetorical agency within such dominant structures? This course will address these questions and others as students work to develop and strengthen skills in critical analysis, research, and reflective practices through the lens of transnational comparative intercultural rhetoric. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WRIT 291 - Independent Study Opportunity for individual study in areas not covered by formal course offerings, under the guidance of a member of the faculty. Credits: variable Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WRIT 303 - The Rhetoric of Data Vizualization & Infographics Our world is increasingly visual; more and more of the information we consume and produce is presented in images. This course focuses on the visual presentation of numerical information - everything from box-and-whisker plots to flashy infographics - and specifically how such information can effectively persuade its readers. Emphasis will be on both analyzing and making visualizations; there will be no attention to data collection or analysis. Students can expect to improve their visual literacy skills; no facility with statistics or software packages is required. Credits: 1.00 Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WRIT 315 - Public Address The study of public address has long been considered the cornerstone of a liberal arts education - meant to prepare graduates for success in public life as citizens, community members, and professionals. Students will examine public discourse on a relevant theme while familiarizing themselves with key debates regarding the theory and criticism of public address. Following that, students will engage in their own rhetorical criticism, as well as participating in speech and dialogue exercises that draw on rhetorical principles. As students immerse themselves in the history, criticism, and performance of public address, they will also consider how rhetorical dynamics inform issues of democracy and citizenship, especially as those issues relate to differences of ethnicity, race, class, and gender. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WRIT 325 - The Narrative in New Media Students will explore the ways in which innovations in media have changed the shape of narrative and textuality. People often assume that new media is a 20th-century development, but this course will be a more historicized view; the printing press, after all, changed media more fundamentally than anything since. Starting with a foundation of media theory and narrative theory, the course will then work through the ages: printing; newspapers; color printing; radio; television; electronic fiction; fan fiction; hypertext; remix aesthetics; and videogames. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Formerly: WRIT 222 Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WRIT 342 - Rhetoric in Black and White: Communication and Culture in Conflict In the nearly 400-year history of social relations between Blacks and Whites in America, rhetoric has often failed. Civil war, Jim Crow, Civil Rights, and Black Power were all actions or movements that ensued largely because words fell short of persuading persons of good will to submit to reasoned arguments. Arguably a pillar of American democracy (as in the freedom to speak and to dissent), why has rhetoric been so seemingly ineffective in securing mutual respect and understanding between America’s Black and White citizens? This course seeks to answer this question by closely examining the styles of communication that historically have shaped the cultural identities and public personas of the two groups. From slave speech to the languages of protest in the 1960s to verbal expression in rap music and social media today, the course considers why communication or dialogue involving race is often doomed to fail. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WRIT 346 - Hip Hop: Race, Sex, and the Struggle in Urban America Examines the ways in which language has reinforced racial and ethnic identities and divisions in post-civil rights America. It explores the conceptual origins of race, ethnicity, and other categories of difference, particularly those produced through legal, political, socioeconomic, and humanistic discourses. Recognizing that the United States is not just a multicultural society but a multilingual one, the course investigates how urban American youth have “talked back” to power and seized the power to name. It focuses in particular on uses of the Hip Hop vernacular by urban Latin Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and white Americans to give voice to their reality and the urban struggle. The course also traces the causes and consequences of historical silences, as suggested by Martin Luther King’s dictum: “A riot is the language of the unheard.” Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WRIT 347 - Language and Gender This course explores the intersection of linguistic theory and feminist theory, defining gender as essentially cultural, but without assuming beforehand that women and men do, in fact, use different language. It considers the following questions in depth: To what extent does English have a sexist, or patriarchal bias? Do women and men speak differently in our culture? Do they think differently? What is the difference between gender and sexuality in language use? To what extent should writing avoid gender-specific forms, and to what extent should classrooms honor gender differences in language use? What is “political correctness” in language and what is its value? The course looks at English from theoretical, political, and social viewpoints, with readings taken from a wide range of fields, but with a particular focus on linguistics and feminist theory. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WRIT 348 - Discourses of Whiteness This course claims that whiteness–white racial identity–is more about language than biology. Whiteness is a rhetorical construct that exists only in discourse, yet its concrete effects impact societies all over the globe. Drawing on texts from around the world, this course traces the evolution of this construct from its inception up to the present day, examining the rhetorical strategies whereby whiteness is both hidden and revealed in a variety of genres: personal memoirs, philosophical essays, scientific investigations, political writings, legal documents, critical analyses, historical essays, and such mass media as television, film, newspapers, and magazines. By engaging in the rhetorical analysis of these texts, this course examines how the discourses of whiteness continue to frame reality and mediate power relations. A required evening film series accompanying the class has students viewing, discussing, and analyzing feature films, documentary films, and television shows. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: WRIT 348L Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WRIT 348L - Required Film Screening Required corequisite to WRIT 348 . Credits: 0.00 Corequisite: WRIT 348 Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WRIT 350 - Rhetoric & Citizenship To engage students in both the analysis and production of public discourse through examining the rhetoric of citizenship. It is through the language and symbols of citizenship that individuals come to understand themselves as political subjectivities and engage with others as democratic agents. Students will examine how the meaning of citizenship is shaped and contested through public discourse. Students will analyze debates over citizenship, mainly in the context of immigration debates in the US and in other parts of the world. Credits: 1.00 Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WRIT 354 - Dialogue and Deliberation in Democratic Life Public communication is a vital part of democratic life. It is through the circulation and exchange of public speech that citizens shape the contours of public life, build community, and determine their core civic values. More importantly, it is through the work of democratic dialogue that citizens struggle with their inevitable differences and seek to find ways of working together despite those differences. The purpose of this class is to examine both the theory and practice of deliberative democracy, with the aim of better understanding how communities might use dialogue and deliberation to effectively engage across different perspectives. Students are asked to think critically about the possibilities and challenges of democratic dialogue. Students are also trained in facilitation techniques, with the major project for this class providing students an opportunity to facilitate an open forum on a campus-related issue. Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WRIT 391 - Independent Study Opportunity for individual study in areas not covered by formal course offerings, under the guidance of a member of the faculty. Credits: variable Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term
	WRIT 491 - Independent Study Opportunity for individual study in areas not covered by formal course offerings, under the guidance of a member of the faculty. Credits: variable Corequisite: None Prerequisites: None Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts CORE: None Click here for Course Offerings by term

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Course Descriptions

THEA 321 - Shakespeare

THEA 322 - Shakespeare

THEA 332 - Theater and Performance: London and the International Stage (Study Group)

THEA 341E - Performing & Media Arts in Hong Kong (Extended Study)

THEA 349 - Global Theater

THEA 350 - Theater Practicum

THEA 351 - American Theater

THEA 353 - Theater Play and Improvisation

THEA 354 - Basic Directing

THEA 355 - Advanced Acting

THEA 356 - Playwriting

THEA 358 - Narrative Screenwriting

THEA 359 - Performance II: Devised Theater Workshop

THEA 363 - Narrative Improvisation and Storytelling: Gateway into Theater

THEA 371 - Advanced Contemporary Dance

THEA 391 - Independent Study

THEA 454 - Advanced Directing

THEA 458 - Shakespeare’s Contemporaries

THEA 491 - Independent Study

THEA 495 - Senior Seminar in Theater

THEA 496 - Special Studies for Honors Candidates in Theater

UNST 106E - In the Footsteps of Galileo (Extended Study)

UNST 210 - Innovation in the Digital Age

UNST 291 - Independent Study

UNST 313 - Darwin and the Victorian Age of Discovery

UNST 324 - Technology, Science, and Culture in the History of Manchester (Study Group)

UNST 325 - The City on Water (Venice Study Group)

UNST 326 - Workshop of the World: Britain’s Industrial Revolution in Regional Perspective (Study Group)

UNST 330 - Health and Healing Practices (Wales Study Group)

UNST 350 - Interdisciplinary Methods Seminar

UNST 391 - Independent Study

UNST 410 - Seminar: Area, Regional, and Global Study

UNST 491 - Independent Study

WMST 202 - Women’s Lives: An Introduction to Women’s Studies

WMST 205 - Queer Latina Visualities

WMST 291 - Independent Study

WMST 301 - Feminist Methodologies

WMST 302 - Women’s Lives Biography and Autobiography

WMST 391 - Independent Study

WMST 490 - Women’s Studies Senior Seminar

WMST 491 - Independent Study

WMST 499 - Honors in Women’s Studies

WRIT 102 - Introduction to Rhetoric in the Liberal Arts Tradition

WRIT 103 - Rhetoric and Writing

WRIT 105 - Colgate Talk

WRIT 110 - Academic Persuasions: An Introduction to Rhetoric, Research, and the Academic Essay

WRIT 203 - Argumentation

WRIT 205 - Writers and Readers

WRIT 210 - The Rhetoric of Style

WRIT 215 - Public Speaking

WRIT 225 - Visual Rhetorics

WRIT 231 - The Personal Essay

WRIT 242 - Stand and Speak: Feminist Rhetorics and Social Change

WRIT 250 - Kairos: The Art of Rhetoric from Ancient to Modern Times

WRIT 260 - Biblical Rhetoric

WRIT 270 - The Rhetoric of Comics

WRIT 280 - Rhetorical “Borderlands”: Introduction to Comparative Intercultural Rhetoric

WRIT 291 - Independent Study

WRIT 303 - The Rhetoric of Data Vizualization & Infographics

WRIT 315 - Public Address

WRIT 325 - The Narrative in New Media

WRIT 342 - Rhetoric in Black and White: Communication and Culture in Conflict

WRIT 346 - Hip Hop: Race, Sex, and the Struggle in Urban America

WRIT 347 - Language and Gender

WRIT 348 - Discourses of Whiteness

WRIT 348L - Required Film Screening

WRIT 350 - Rhetoric & Citizenship

WRIT 354 - Dialogue and Deliberation in Democratic Life

WRIT 391 - Independent Study

WRIT 491 - Independent Study