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Spanish
	SPAN 162 - Intermediate Spanish II FDR: FL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Winter Prerequisites: SPAN 161 or equivalent language skills and departmental permission. Intensive, concentrated course in review grammar and reading, with practice in listening and speaking. Staff.
	SPAN 164 - Advanced Intermediate Spanish FDR: FL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall Prerequisite: Departmental permission as a result of placement examination for entering students. Students with credit in SPAN 164 may not receive subsequent credit in a lower numbered Spanish course. Students with credit in a lower numbered Spanish course are, in general, ineligible for credit in SPAN 164. Emphasis on reading and composition skills, with extensive practice in speaking and listening through class discussion. Some grammar review. Staff.
	SPAN 172 - Supervised Study Abroad: Intermediate Spanish Credits: 4 Planned Offering: Spring Prerequisite: SPAN 112 with a minimum grade of B, and instructor consent. Spring Term Abroad course. A period of intensive language training and exposure to the language, culture, and people of Costa Rica. This course develops intermediate communicative Spanish vocabulary and active intermediate competence in the language. The traditional skills of foreign language instruction (structure, listening comprehension, reading, writing and speaking) are carried out in a small class environment at the host language school and supervised by a W&L faculty member. The program also includes a home-stay with a Costa Rican family, excursions to local and national sites of interest, cultural activities, and a service learning component at the local elementary school, hospital, law and accounting firms, or other community agencies. Staff.
	SPAN 192 - Practical Applications of the Spanish Language Credits: 1 Planned Offering: Fall, Winter Pass/Fail only. Prerequisite: 100-level Spanish course or the equivalent and instructor consent. Introduction to specialized professional vocabularies. Participants apply learning through service work in the Rockbridge community for at least one hour per week. May be repeated with instructor consent for a maximum of two degree credits. Mayock.
	SPAN 201 - Supervised Study Abroad: Costa Rica Credits: 4 Planned Offering: Spring Prerequisite: SPAN 162, 164, or equivalent and instructor consent. Spring Term Abroad course. Direct exposure to the language, people, and culture of Costa Rica. Designed to improve grammar and vocabulary of the advanced student through intensive training in Spanish with special emphasis on oral proficiency. The program also includes a home-stay with a Costa Rican family, excursions to local and national sites of interest, cultural activities, and a service-learning component at the local elementary school, hospital, law and accounting firms, or other community agencies. Staff.
	SPAN 202 - Supervised Study Abroad: Spain Credits: Not yet approved for new spring term. (was 6 or 3-3) Planned Offering: Not offered, 2011-2012 Prerequisites: SPAN 162, 164, or equivalent. A period of direct exposure to the language, culture, and people of Spain. The program includes supervised academic projects, lectures by native authorities, attendance at the theater and other cultural activities. Students majoring in subjects other than Spanish, as well as language majors, are encouraged to apply. Three credits may be in Spanish and three in another subject. Staff.
	SPAN 204 - Conversational Skills Credits: 3 Prerequisite: SPAN 162 or 164 or equivalent. Development of speaking skills for communication in Spanish. Acquisition and use of practical vocabulary and development of pronunciation skills. Staff.
	SPAN 209 - Intro to Hispanic Linguistics Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall, Winter Prerequisite: SPAN 162, 164, or equivalent or instructor consent. This course provides a broad view of major subfields of linguistic study with a particular focus on data drawn from the Spanish language. Class discussions begin with broader questions, such as “What is language?” and “How do language and human behavior intersect?”; throughout the term students revisit those questions in light of topics presented in class. By the end of the course, students demonstrate an understanding of the many facets of the Spanish language and also the linguistic principles as can be applied to any language. The course covers major concepts in Spanish phonology and phonetics, Spanish morphology and syntax, and lastly, Spanish dialectology. Reyes.
	SPAN 210 - The Road to Santiago FDR: HU Credits: 4 Planned Offering: Spring Prerequisites: SPAN 162, 164 or equivalent, and instructor consent. Spring Term Abroad course. A study of Spanish culture and language conducted entirely in Spain. During the first three weeks of the course, students live in Madrid with Spanish-speaking families and study language at Estudio Internacional Sampere. At the same time, students engage in an in-depth study of the history and legend of the eight-centuries-old pilgrimage to the shrine of Santiago de Compostela, the burial site of St James, apostle of Christ. During the last week of the course, students travel to northwestern Spain to visit and study the monuments associated with the Santiago pilgrimage as well as experience the art, architecture, and culture of pilgrimage as they hike the last portion of the trail. West-Settle.
	SPAN 211 - Spanish Civilization and Culture FDR: HU Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall, Winter Prerequisite: SPAN 162, 164 or the equivalent in language skills. A survey of significant developments in Spanish civilization. The course addresses Spanish heritage and the present-day cultural patterns formed by its legacies. Readings, discussions and papers, primarily in Spanish, for further development of communication skills. Staff.
	SPAN 212 - Spanish-American Civilization and Culture FDR: HU Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall, Winter Prerequisite: SPAN 162, 164 or the equivalent in language skills. A survey of significant developments in Spanish-American civilizations. The course addresses Spanish-American heritage and the present-day cultural patterns formed by its legacies. Readings, discussions and papers primarily in Spanish for further development of communication skills. Staff.
	SPAN 214 - Contemporary Spain in Context: Spanish Culture through Social Interaction FDR: HU Credits: 4 Planned Offering: Spring 2012 and alternate years Prerequisite: One 200-level Spanish course and instructor consent. This course examines contemporary social issues in Spain through lectures and through interviews with local subjects in Spain. Lectures provide a formal understanding of contemporary Spanish society, while students’ interviews of local subjects provide data for further analysis by the students that may challenge, complement or further develop their understanding of current social issues. Reyes.
	SPAN 220 - Introducción a la literatura española FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall, Winter Prerequisite: SPAN 162 or 164 or equivalent. Spanish literary masterpieces from the Poema del Cid through the present. Readings and discussions are primarily in Spanish. Staff.
	SPAN 240 - Introducción a la literatura hispanoamericana FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall, Winter Prerequisite: SPAN 162 or 164 or equivalent. Spanish-American literary masterpieces from colonial times through the present. Readings and discussions are primarily in Spanish. Staff.
	SPAN 270 - The Contemporary Latin American Press: Journalistic Writing & Analysis FDR: HU Credits: 4 Planned Offering: Spring 2013 and alternate years Prerequisites: Three credits from any 200-level Spanish course or instructor consent. The public space in Latin America is a complex site where ideological negotiations and social changes constantly take place. Researchers and journalists have compared the archives of the press produced by different countries to grasp the most recent dynamics in the region. Thanks to the simultaneity and globalization provided by the Internet, people can capture the pulse of the planet from home and in real time. This phenomenon can be described as the institutionalization of the global village. This course aims to take advantage of the epistemologies of global communication created by new technologies in order to feel the pulse of Latin America as portrayed by the local press. This is an advanced course in composition in which students improve their writing skills and acquire tools to understand contemporary Latin American politics, economy. and society. González.
	SPAN 275 - Introducción al análisis literario Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall, Winter Prerequisite: SPAN 220 or 240 or instructor consent. Preparation for analysis of Hispanic literature. Composition develops style and method for analyzing prose, poetry, and drama in Spanish. Conversation continues vocabulary building and concentrates on discussion of literary themes. Staff.
	SPAN 290 - Topics in Latin American Culture and Literature Credits: 4 Planned Offering: Spring Prerequisite: May vary with topic. This course offers students the opportunity to further their knowledge of the culture and literature of a specific Latin American country, and their awareness of Latin America in general, through the study of special cultural and literary topics. Readings, discussions, and assignments occur primarily in Spanish. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Spring 2013 topic: SPAN 290: Topics in Latin American Culture and Literature: Latin America Through Film (4). Prerequisite: SPAN 162, 164, or equivalent and instructor’s consent. This course offers students the opportunity to further their knowledge of Argentine culture and literature and their awareness of Latin America, through the study of special cultural and literary topics on Argentina. Readings, discussions, and assignments primarily in Spanish. (HU) Pinto-Bailey.
	SPAN 292 - Tutorial in Foreign Language Teaching, Translation, and Interpretation Credits: 2 Planned Offering: Fall, Winter Pass/Fail only. Prerequisite: SPAN 162 or 164 or equivalent and instructor consent. Preparation for and participation in teaching, translation, and interpretation in the Rockbridge community. Participants oversee teacher training workshops, complete formal translations, and execute live interpretations in the area. The service-learning component requires at least two hours per week in the community. May be repeated once with instructor consent for a maximum of four credits toward degree requirements. Mayock.
	SPAN 295 - Special Topics in Conversation Credits: 4 Planned Offering: Spring 2012 and alternate years. Prerequisite: Three credits from any 200-level Spanish course or instructor consent. Further development of listening and speaking skills necessary for advanced discussion. Acquisition of both practical and topic-specific vocabulary. Appropriate writing and reading assignments, related to the topic, accompany the primary emphasis on conversational skills. Recent topics include: Hispanic Cinema and La Prensa. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
	SPAN 309 - History of the Spanish Language Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Winter 2012 and alternate years Prerequisite: At least one 300-level Spanish course. An introduction to the field of historical linguistics and to the genealogy and development of the Spanish language. It begins with an introduction to the field of historical linguistics: essentially, what it means to study the history of a language, the concept of linguistic change, and the types of language families. This is followed by the study of the genealogy and the development of the Spanish language from its Latin origins to present-day Spanish. These include the examination of the structures and peculiarities of Latin, the cultural and historical events that have influenced the shaping of the Spanish language, the properties of medieval Spanish, the most stubborn linguistic myths, and the development of Spanish outside the Iberian Peninsula, especially in Spanish America. Bailey.
	SPAN 312 - Culture in Context in Medieval Spain FDR: HL Credits: 4 Planned Offering: Spring 2013 and alternate years Prerequisite: One 200-level Spanish course and instructor consent. Spring Term Abroad course. Muslims, Jews, and Christians co-existed for eight-hundred years on the Iberian Peninsula. This course examines these diverse cultures through the texts (literary, historical, religious, and philosophical), the art, and the architecture from the period prior to the arrival of the Arabs in 711, up to and beyond the expulsion of the Jews in 1492. The objective of the course is to glean from the remnants of the experience of their co-existence insights into their distinctive characteristics and how they understood and influenced each other. Bailey.
	SPAN 320 - Don Quijote FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Offered 2011-2012 and alternate years. Prerequisites: SPAN 215 or 275, and SPAN 220. Close reading and discussion of this Early Modern novel. May include close reading and discussion of additional narrative and poetic genres of the Golden Age, as represented in or contributing to the Cervantine work Campbell.
	SPAN 322 - Spanish Golden-Age Drama FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall 2012 and alternate years Prerequisites: SPAN 215 or 275, and SPAN 220. Close reading and discussion of a variety of selected Golden Age dramas of the 17th century. Representative dramatists may include Calderón de la Barca, Tirso de Molina, Lope de Vega, and María de Zayas. Campbell.
	SPAN 324 - Visions of the Nation: Romanticism and the Generation of 1898 FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall 2012 and alternate years Prerequisites: SPAN 215 or 275, and SPAN 220. A study of the contrasting identities of Spain, her land and peoples, as represented by Romanticism and the Generation of 1898. From the romantic period students read the popular and folkloric “romances” of Duque de Rivas and the works of Mariano José de Larra. Works from the more philosophical Generation of 1898 include: El árbol de la ciencia by P’o Baroja, the poetry of Antonio Machado, and various texts of Miguel de Unamuno. Staff.
	SPAN 326 - Modern Spanish Prose Fiction FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Winter 2012 and alternate years Prerequisites: SPAN 215 or 275, and SPAN 220. The development of the Spanish novel from the late 19th century through the present day. Representative authors may include Galdos, Baroja, Unamuno, Cela, Martín Gaite, and Mayoral. Mayock.
	SPAN 328 - Contemporary Spanish Poetry FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Winter 2011 and alternate years Prerequisites: SPAN 215 or 275, and SPAN 220. A study of Spanish poetry within its historical context from Romanticism until the present day. Special emphasis is given to the generations of 1898 and 1927, the poetry of the Spanish Civil War and the Franco period. Representative authors include Antonio Machado, Federico García Lorca, Rafael Alberti, and Gloria Fuertes. Staff.
	SPAN 333 - El Cid in History and Legend FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall 2011 and alternate years Prerequisites: SPAN 220 and either SPAN 215 or 275. A study of the most significant portrayals of the Castilian warrior Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, El Cid (1045-1099), from his 12th-century biography Historia Roderici to the Hollywood blockbuster El Cid. Epic poems, late medieval ballads, and Renaissance drama all recreate the legendary life of El Cid. This course examines the relevant narratives in an effort to determine the heroic values and attributes recreated by authors and their audiences for nearly a thousand years. Bailey.
	SPAN 340 - Spanish-American Short Story FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Offered when interest Is expressed and departmental resources permit. Prerequisites: SPAN 215 or 275, and SPAN 240. A study of the Spanish-American short story with special attention to the works of Quiroga, Borges, Cortázar, and Valenzuela. Staff.
	SPAN 342 - Spanish-American Narrative: The Boom Generation FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Winter Prerequisites: SPAN 215 or 275, and SPAN 240. Readings in the contemporary Spanish-American narrative of the second half of the 20th century with special emphasis on the members of the “Boom” generation, such as Rulfo, Fuentes, García Márquez, Vargas Llosa, Carpentier, and Puig. In addition to short narrative pieces, the readings include El Tunel (Ernesto Sábato), El Amor y Otros Demonios (García Márquez), Aura (Carlos Fuentes), Los Pasos Perdidos (Carpentier), and Casa de Los Espiritus (Allende). The class meets once a week for three hours so that we may maximize our time with each novel. Barnett.
	SPAN 343 - Spanish-American Colonial Literature FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Winter 2011 and alternate years Prerequisites: SPAN 215 or 275, and SPAN 240. This course examines the Latin American Colonial period by reading the most important Spanish, Creole, and indigenous texts of the period, and by reflecting on the violent cultural dynamics that created the problematic notion of continental “America.” The questions this course examines are related to how identity discourses are produced in Colonial America, and who are the main agents involved in this process. By analyzing the different sides of the Latin American colonial experience, the student will be able to critically approach many “given” paradigms that inform our understanding of the Americas and of the world. González.
	SPAN 344 - Spanish-American Poetry FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisites: SPAN 215 or 275, and SPAN 240. Analysis of the most relevant poetic texts of Spanish-America, including U.S. Hispanic poetry, beginning with precursors of 20th-century poetry and spanning to contemporary works. Representative works include those by Octavio Paz, Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Nicanor Parra, Ernesto Cardenal, Raúl Zurita, among others. Staff.
	SPAN 345 - Spanish-American Modernist Poetry FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Winter 2012 and alternate years Prerequisites: SPAN 215 or 275, and SPAN 240. Considered the literary movement that achieves the “linguistic independence” of Latin America from Spain, Modernismo is the first “original aesthetic” which exercises an influence on the poetic production of Europe. This course studies the movement through the poems and works by four of its principal writers: the Nicaraguan Ruben Dario, the Mexican Manuel Gutierrez Najera, the Peruvian Manuel Gonzalez Prada, and the Cuban Jose Marti. By contrasting their literature to the “paradigm of modernity” which surrounded its production, the course distinguishes the dialectics between the artists and their respective geopolitical circumstances. By analyzing the literature of writers from different regions, we visualize and distinguish the divergent modernities which emerged in Latin America during the 19th century and the diverse artistic reactions and consequences. González.
	SPAN 348 - Spanish-American Women Writers FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisites: SPAN 215 or 275, and SPAN 240. An examination of the role of women writers in the development of Spanish- American literary history, including U.S. Hispanic writers. Textual and cultural analysis of readings from multiple genres by authors such as Poniatowska, Ferré, Bombal, Mastretta, Gambaro, Lispector, Valenzuela, Castellanos, Cisneros, Esquivel, Peri Rossi, and Allende, among others. Staff.
	SPAN 350 - The Cuban Story FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall 2013 and alternate years Prerequisites: SPAN 215 or 275, and SPAN 240. A multigenre examination of 20th-century Cuba as its own “story.” Beginning with the first European account of Columbus, to insights from slaves, to finally more recent writers who question its future, the course presents the development of Cuban society as its own narrative. Major readings by Manzano, Barnet, Marti, Carpentier, Castro, Guevara, Garcia, and Hernandez Diaz, among others. Shorter anthologized works by Guillen, Lezama Lima, Valdes, Novas Calvo, Cabrera Infante, and Sarduy, among others. Films by Guitiérrez Alea, Vega, Solas, and Tabio, among others. Barnett.
	SPAN 352 - Voces caribeñas FDR: HL Credits: 4 Planned Offering: Spring 2012 and alternate years Prerequisite: SPAN 215 or 275, SPAN 240 or 212, and at least three credits from any 300-level Spanish course. A multi-genre study of artistic and cultural representations from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico, with special emphasis on the resultant impact on the U.S. Caribbean diaspora. Viewed as a collage of Caribbean “voices,” this course examines artistic works that reflect a sense of Spanish-Caribbean identity. Students analyze diverse examples from prose, poetry, film, music, and the plastic arts, as well as non-fiction discourses. Barnett.
	SPAN 354 - Spanish-American Theater: 20th Century to the Present FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall 2012 and alternate years Prerequisites: SPAN 240 and SPAN 215 or 275. This course provides a panoramic view of the theatrical traditions that have emerged in Spanish-American theater, beginning with the independent theater movement of the 1930s and concluding with the most recent trends in theatrical practices. In particular, the plays are studied as vehicles that reveal how theater practitioners engaged with their historical and cultural contexts in aesthetic terms. Therefore, the focus is also on the plays as performative texts. In order to develop this objective, students are expected to read, discuss, and analyze the dramatic texts, as well as perform scenes from the plays. This course includes works from playwrights such us Arlt, Triana, Diaz, Gambaro, Carballido, Castellanos, and Berman, among others. In addition, we study the political and aesthetic theories of theater developed by Enrique Buenaventura and Augusto Boal. Botta.
	SPAN 390 - Topics in Latin American Culture and Literature FDR: HL Credits: 4 Planned Offering: Spring Prerequisite: One 200-level Spanish course and instructor consent. This course offers students the opportunity to further their knowledge of the culture and literature of a specific Latin American country, and their awareness of Latin America in general, through the study of special cultural and literary topics. Readings, discussions, and assignments occur primarily in Spanish. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. (HL) Staff. Spring 2013 topic: SPAN 390: Topics in Latin American Culture and Literature: La representación de la familia en el teatro y performance argentinos (4): This course analyzes the representation of the family in three different historical, ideological, economic, and cultural contexts in Argentina, starting at the end of the 1960s and culminating in the first years of the 21st century. We examine the ways in which discourses of power within family dynamics were strategically used by theater practitioners (playwrights and theater groups) to serve diverse purposes ranging from avoiding censorship during the years of political violence, to criticizing neoliberal economic agendas and social complacency. To that aim, the course is structured in three thematic units: the Independent Theater and the political turmoil of the 1970s; confronting the economic crisis of 2001; and dealing with the re-emergence of human rights in the cultural agenda. Botta.
	SPAN 392 - Spanish Language Theory and Practice Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Winter Prerequisite: SPAN 215 or SPAN 275. A topics course that approaches language study through theories of language use and meaning, as well as their practical application through extensive writing exercises. Topics may include translation theory, analysis of theoretical approaches to language study, and advanced grammar. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Topic for Winter 2013: SPAN 392: Spanish Language Theory and Practice: Power and ideology: (Critical) Discourse Perspectives (3). This course explores different theoretical approaches to account for the relationship of language and power, and therefore the relationship between language use and social processes. In particular, it observes how meaning is constructed and reconstructed in discourse, especially by the dominant classes with access to public discourse: politicians, academics, journalists, etc., whose messages generally reach and influence large audiences. For this reason, political discourse is an important source of data to observe how social actors employ specific linguistic choices to achieve political goals. Reyes.
	SPAN 393 - Workshop in Literary Translation Credits: 4 Planned Offering: Spring 2014 and alternate years Prerequisite: Three credits from any SPAN 200-level course. An intensive workshop devoted to the practical application, methods, and theories of literary translation. Students collaborate to produce artistic renderings of literary texts into the target language in a workshop-style setting. Preliminary attention is given to English-to-Spanish narrative as well as Spanish-to-English poetry. The primary activity involves the collaborative production of an original translation of a previously non-translated Spanish short story into English. Barnett.
	SPAN 397 - Peninsular Seminar FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit. Prerequisites: SPAN 215 or 275 and SPAN 220. A seminar focusing on a single period, genre, motif, or writer. The specific topic will be determined jointly according to student interest and departmental approval. Recent topics have included “The Female Voice in Hispanic Literature,” “19th- and 20th-Century Spanish drama,” “Women Writers of the Golden Age,” and “Romanticism and the Generation of ‘98.” May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Topic for Winter 2013: SPAN 397: Peninsular Seminar: Representaciones de la Guerra Civil Española (3). This course examines the fundamental importance of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) in literary and visual texts of the Franco and contemporary periods of Spain. Through readings of these literary and visual texts, we come to understand the evolution of often conflicting histories, ideologies, obsessions, and artistic notions surrounding the war itself and its consequences. After a review of the events leading up to the Spanish Civil War and of the prelude to the Second World War, we observe how the themes and issues of the war manifest in fiction, poetry, film, and other visual texts. Literature includes works by Federico García Lorca, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Carmen Laforet, Alberto Méndez, and Mercè Rodoreda. Visual texts include paintings, posters, newspapers, letters, government documents, documentaries, fictional films, and NO-DO reels from the Franco era. (HL) Mayock.
	SPAN 398 - Spanish-American Seminar FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Winter Prerequisites:SPAN 240 and either SPAN 215 or 275. A seminar focusing on a single period, genre, motif, or writer. Recent topics have included “Spanish American Women Writers: From America into the 21st Century,” “20th Century Latin America Theater,” and “Past, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Argentina’s Cultural Products.” May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Staff.
	SPAN 401 - Directed Individual Study Credits: 1 Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit. Prerequisites: At least nine credits of 300-level Spanish and permission of the department head. Taught in Spanish. Nature and content of course to be determined by students’ needs and by instructors acquainted with their earlier preparation and performance. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Staff.
	SPAN 402 - Directed Individual Study Credits: 2 Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit. Prerequisites: At least nine credits of 300-level Spanish and permission of the department head. Taught in Spanish. Nature and content of course to be determined by students’ needs and by instructors acquainted with their earlier preparation and performance. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Staff.
	SPAN 403 - Directed Individual Study Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit. Prerequisites: At least nine credits of 300-level Spanish and permission of the department head. Taught in Spanish. Nature and content of course to be determined by students’ needs and by instructors acquainted with their earlier preparation and performance. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Staff.
	SPAN 493 - Honors Thesis Credits: 3-3 Planned Offering: Fall-Winter Prerequisites: Senior standing, honors candidacy, and instructor consent. Interested students should see a member of the Spanish faculty by winter term of their junior year.
Theater
	THTR 100 - Introduction to Theater FDR: HA Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Winter An introduction to drama and the theater arts, including a brief historical survey, selected examples of dramatic literature, and a sequence on theater disciplines such as acting, designing, and directing. Staff.
	THTR 109 - University Theater Credits: 1 Planned Offering: Fall, Winter, Spring Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Participation in a university theater production for a minimum of 50 hours. A journal recording the production process is required. May be repeated for degree credit with permission. Maximum seven credits for students with a major or minor in theater, eight credits for others. Staff.
	THTR 121 - Introduction to Text and Performance FDR: HA Credits: 3 This course explores the intersection between dramatic script and performance. Students are guided through a method of critical strategies for assessing and interpreting dramatic literature, as well as a series of formal writing exercises designed to develop their critical and creative abilities. The course culminates in the creation and presentation of student-written and performed scenes. Jew.
	THTR 131 - Fundamentals of Theater Art FDR: HA Credits: 4 Planned Offering: Fall, Winter An introduction to modern theater practice involving one hour of lecture and four hours of laboratory work per week. A practical course, emphasizing scene craft, stage lighting, and prop-making. The student applies the methods and theories discussed in class work on actual productions. Laboratory course. Lab fee required. Collins, Evans.
	THTR 141 - Stage Acting I FDR: HA Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall, Winter An introduction to the art of acting. A studio course with special attention given to the actor’s analysis of dramatic literature. Memorization and the presentation of scenes from plays are required. Martinez, Mish.
	THTR 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Offered occasionally. Each first-year seminar topic is approved by the Dean of The College and the Committee on Courses and Degrees. Applicability to FDRs and other requirements varies. First-year seminar. Prerequisite: First-year standing. First-year seminar.
	THTR 181 - FS:First-Year Seminar Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Offered occasionally. Each first-year seminar topic is approved by the Dean of the College and the Committee on Courses and Degrees. A;;licability to FDRs and other requirements varies. Prerequisite: First-Year standing. First-Year seminar. Topics vary by term and instructor. Staff.
	THTR 202 - Supervised Study Abroad FDR: HA Credits: 4 Planned Offering: Spring 2013 and alternate years Prerequisite: Instructor consent. A Spring Term Abroad course. An intensive exposure to English theater and the current season in London. In addition to a full schedule of theater attendance, the course includes a study of theater training, production techniques and representative styles and periods of English drama. Martinez.
	THTR 203 - Preparation for Study Abroad; Swedish Theater Credits: 1 Planned Offering: Winter 2012 and alternate years Graded Pass/Fail only. This course is designed to enable students to participate successfully in the Spring term study abroad course in Sweden. During the weekly class meetings, students examine the historical, social, political, and artistic qualities that make Sweden unique, arming them with knowledge for their time in Sweden. Studying abroad, which promotes encountering cultural difference and, hopefully, crossing cultural boundaries, can be expected to be uncomfortable and even incomprehensible some of the time. As a result of this course, students will be open to exploring and enjoying those cultural differences. Evans.
	THTR 204 - Study Abroad in Swedish Theater FDR: HA Credits: 4 Planned Offering: Spring 2014 and alternate years This course provides a broad impact on student’s cross-cultural skills and global understanding, enhancing their worldview. Students have the opportunity to acquire critical intercultural knowledge, appreciation of cultural and social differentness, and exposure to perspectives critical for global leadership. The course focuses on examining cultural differences between Sweden and United States through the exploration of the arts; however, because of the size of the class students are encouraged to examine Swedish culture from their own disciplinary interest. Evans.
	THTR 209 - University Theater II: Stage Management Credits: 1 Planned Offering: Fall, Winter, Spring Stage management is an essential position for all theatrical productions. Students develop management techniques through the study of the production problems of a major dramatic work or theatrical project being produced by the department. Students are required to participate in the production in a stage management capacity. Evans.
	THTR 210 - History of Theater and Drama I FDR: HA Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall A critical study of the performance conventions, dramatic literature and social contexts of world theater traditions, focusing on periods from the classical Greek era to the Renaissance. Non-Western theater forms are also considered. As a part of the course, students read representative plays and engage in individual and team research projects leading to papers and presentations. Jew.
	THTR 211 - History of Theater and Drama II FDR: HA Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Winter A critical study of the performance conventions, dramatic literature and social contexts of world theater traditions, focusing on the periods from the Neoclassical era to contemporary times. Non-Western theater forms are also considered. As a part of the course, students read and analyze representative plays and engage in individual and team research projects leading to papers and presentations. Jew.
	THTR 215 - Modern Drama FDR: HA Credits: 3 This course explores the principal movements and aesthetics in the modern period in European and American theater history from the end of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century. Significant plays, playwrights, theatre artists and theorists are studied in context of the successive waves of modern movements: realism, symbolism, expressionism, surrealism, epic theater and theater of the absurd. Oral presentations, short research papers and performance projects will be required. Jew.
	THTR 216 - Contemporary Drama FDR: HA Credits: 3 This course explores European and American theater and drama from the late 20th century to the present. Significant plays, playwrights, theater artists and theorists are studied alongside the issues of postmodernism, capitalism, feminism, diversity and the emerging global economy and culture. Dramatic works under review also include solo and performance art, as well as fringe and political theatrical forms. The current state of theater is also a focal point for class discussion. Oral presentations, short research papers and performance projects are required. Jew.
	THTR 220 - Playwriting FDR: HA Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Offered in fall or winter when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit. Prerequisite: Instructor consent. An introductory workshop in scene writing, culminating in the composition and staged reading of a short, one-act play. Weekly writing and reading assignments are required. Limited enrollment. Staff.
	THTR 235 - Design and Performance FDR: HA Credits: 4 Planned Offering: Spring 2014 and alternate years Prerequisite: Three credits in theater or dance. This course is an in-depth exploration of the crafted artifacts of the theater, specifically relate to the properties of puppets and masks. Through videos and demonstrations, students experiment with various puppet and mask construction techniques and performance methods. Collins.
	THTR 239 - Total Theater FDR: HA Credits: 4 Planned Offering: Spring Prerequisite: Three credits in theater or dance and instructor consent. A practical study of design, directing, production and acting problems in a specific style of dramatic literature, culminating in a public theatrical production.
	THTR 241 - Stage Acting II FDR: HA Credits: 3 Prerequisites: THTR 141 and instructor consent. A studio course continuation of THTR 141 with greater emphasis placed on research techniques and performance. Martinez.
	THTR 242 - Musical Theater FDR: HA Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall 2012 and alternate years. Students learn, through study of seminal texts and video clips of performances and interviews with performers, a basic history of the American musical theater as an art form, combining the talents of composers, lyricists, directors, choreographers, set and costume designers, and others. Students research musical dramatic literature and apply musical and acting skills in the development and performance of excerpts from distinctive musicals of various eras. Students develop constructive, critical methods in the process of practicing and viewing musical theater performance. Mish.
	THTR 250 - Women in Contemporary Theater FDR: HA Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Winter 2013 and alternate years. This course explores the contemporary theater scene, investigating its plays, playwrights, directors and actors. The representation of women in theatrical art, as well as the unique contributions of contemporary women as artists, theorists and audiences, provides the principal focus of study. Traditional critical and historical approaches to the material are complemented by play reading, play attendance, oral presentations, writing assignments, journal writing and the creation of individual performance pieces. Jew.
	THTR 251 - Introduction to Performance Design FDR: HA Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Winter An introduction to the history, fundamentals and aesthetics of design for theater and dance with an emphasis on the collaborative nature of the design disciplines. Design projects are required. Lab fee required Collins, Evans.
	THTR 253 - Digital Production FDR: HA Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Winter Digital technologies and multimedia interaction are increasingly utilized to produce, enhance, and innovate theatrical production. Students examine and experiment with various digital technologies as they relate to theater and dance performance. Students create digital audio, video, design rendering, and animation projects for theatrical performances. Evans.
	THTR 290 - Topics in Performing Arts FDR: HA Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Offered fall or winter when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit. Prerequisite: Three credits in theater or instructor consent. Selected studies in theater, film or dance with a focus on history, criticism, performance or production. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Winter 2013 topic: THTR 290: Acting Workshop in Contemporary Theater (3). No acting experience is required. Prerequisite: Three credits in theater or instructor consent. Reading and performance of contemporary plays. Students read a variety of highly acclaimed contemporary American and world plays and develop scenes and staged readings for both class and on-campus performance. The final project of this course is the performance of a full-length, studio-level production, with students working as actors, stage managers, and producers. Short papers and presentations are also required. (HA) Jew. Fall 2012 topic: THTR 290: Acting for the Camera (3). No prerequisite. A studio course designed to enrich a student actor’s pragmatic comprehension of the theories and concepts of acting in film and television. Students explore the acting techniques particular to dramatic characterization in the non-linear processes of digital film production. (HA) Martinez.
	THTR 296 - Spring-Term Topics in Performing Arts FDR: HA Credits: 4 Planned Offering: Spring Prerequisite: Three credits in theater or instructor consent. Selected studies in theater, film or dance with a focus on history, criticism, performance or production. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Spring 2013 topic: THTR 296: Spring-Term Topics in Performing Arts: Creating a Character (4). The “original” acting teacher, the acclaimed Constantin Stanislavski, wrote three major texts on the subject of acting for the stage. His culminating volume, Creating a Role, draws acting students through three major dramatic works paying close attention to the physicality of the character through gestures, sounds, intonations, and speech. Through this process, the image of an honest human or the true artist at work emerges. Sometimes the artist fails but always while seeking truthful answers. (HA). Mish. Spring 2013
	THTR 309 - University Theater III Credits: 1 Planned Offering: Fall, Winter, Spring Prerequisites: Junior standing and instructor consent. Participation in a university theater production for a minimum of 50 hours. A journal recording the production process is required. Staff.
	THTR 336 - Lighting Design FDR: HA Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall Prerequisites: Instructor consent. A study of the practice of stage lighting, focusing on styles of production, historical methods and artistic theory. Culminates in a light design for a public theatrical production. Lab fee required. Evans.
	THTR 337 - Scenic Design FDR: HA Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Offered in fall or winter when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit Prerequisite: Instructor consent. A study of scenic design, stressing the mechanical and artistic methods and styles of production. A practical course involving outside design projects. Lab fee required. Collins.
	THTR 338 - Costume Design FDR: HA Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Offered in fall or winter when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit A study of stage costuming with emphasis on design and construction. The course includes lecture and lab sessions. Lab fee required. Staff.
	THTR 361 - Stage Directing FDR: HA Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Junior standing and THTR 141 or instructor consent. A studio course exploring the director’s approach to play production, stressing the methods by which style, meaning, emotional values, and plot may be clearly expressed for an audience, culminating in a public presentation. Martinez.
	THTR 362 - Directing Practicum FDR: HA Credits: 3 Prerequisite: THTR 361. Students are required to direct a theater event. Martinez.
	THTR 397 - Seminar in Theater Topics Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall, Winter Prerequisite: Six credits in theater or dance courses and instructor consent. A seminar in theater history, literature/ criticism or production with a specific topic and scope to be announced prior to registration. Work in the seminar is based on research, discussion and assigned papers and/or projects. Lab fee required for certain topics. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Winter 2013 topics: THTR 397-01: Scene Painting (4). Prerequisite: Six credits in theater or dance courses and instructor consent. A Studio course introducing the practical application of processes, materials, and techniques used in painting theatrical scenery. Students study prepping the surfaces, color mixing, drawing, perspective, as well as various painting techniques used in the theater. (HA). Collins. THTR 397-02: Stage Makeup (4). Prerequisite: Six credits in theater or dance courses. Studio Course focuses on communicating character to an audience through makeup application. Students will learn basics of stage makeup, including aging techniques, character analysis, corrective makeup, crepe hair, and beginning special effects. (HA) Linton. Fall 2012 topics: THTR 397A: Shakespeare and Swordplay (3). Prerequisite: Instructor consent. A physically rigorous studio course introducing the acting, movement, and vocal skills required to perform a Shakespearean sword fight on stage. Laboratory fee. Martinez. THTR 397B: Introduction to Sound for the Theater (3). A studio course covering the basics of sound system design, in particular, microphone and loud speaker use and placement. Students learn to create sound effects and simple music beds using both traditional and modern techniques. Students explore mixing techniques and use of effects in live sound in both straight and musical situations. Topics covered can also be used in concert sound reinforcement or television production. Collins.
	THTR 423 - Directed Individual Project Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall, Winter Prerequisite: Instructor consent. This course permits the student to follow a program of specialized applied research in order to widen the scope of experience and to build upon concepts covered in other courses. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Staff.
	THTR 453 - Internship Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall Prerequisites: Departmental consent. After consultation with a theater faculty member and a representative of a departmentally approved theater or dance company, students submit a written description of a proposed summer internship with the company. Specific conditions of the internship and of required on-campus, follow-up projects must be approved by the department. Students register for the credit during fall registration, and the credit is awarded at the end of the fall term after completion of the required on-campus, follow-up projects. Mish.
	THTR 471 - University Theater IV: Capstone Credits: 1 Planned Offering: Fall, Winter Prerequisites: Senior standing and instructor consent. Participation in a university theater production for a minimum of 50 hours. A journal recording the production process and a portfolio documenting the student’s productions at Washington and Lee University are required. Staff.
	THTR 493 - Honors Thesis Credits: 3-3 Planned Offering: Fall, Winter Prerequisites: Completion of the required courses for the major, a 3.500 grade-point average in courses used for the major, and permission of the department. Students must have completed advanced theater courses in their area of interest, demonstrated ability in the area of interest as evidenced by course work, performance and/ or production experience, and completion of additional area-specific requirements. An advanced theater course that serves as a capstone to the major. Theater majors selected by the department conduct advanced theater research and individual artistic preparation, contribute artistically to the department’s performance season, and produce a significant written thesis under the guidance of a thesis adviser. Staff.
Women’s and Gender Studies
	WGS 120 - Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies and Feminist Theory FDR: HU Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Winter This course introduces students to the fields of feminist theory and women’s and gender studies by focusing on key theoretical concepts and surveying a range of topics that have been central to the academic study of women and gender. Such topics are likely to include the family as a social institution, gender in the workplace, beauty norms, violence against women, the history of feminist activism, and/or women’s achievements in traditionally male-dominated fields such as sports, art, science, or literature. Students learn to approach such topics using gender as an analytical tool that intersects in complex ways with other categories of social power, such as race, class, and sexuality. The course is interdisciplinary in approach and presents a plurality of feminist perspectives in order to offer a rich understanding of the development of feminist thought over the past several decades. Course assignments encourage students to use such thought to analyze their other academic pursuits, as well as the non-academic environments in which they live, including thinking critically about their own experiences as women and men in contemporary society. Staff.
	WGS 150 - Women in Sport Credits: 4 Planned Offering: Spring In this course, students use feminist theories and women’s studies to examine many aspects of women’s participation in sport in the United States. Students examine a range of topics including women’s achievements in sport; Title IX and associated arguments for and against its implementation; social and cultural influences on women’s participation; gender stereotypes associated with sport; and the role of the media in reinforcing gender-based stereotypes. Levine.
	WGS 295 - Humanities Topics in Women’s and Gender Studies Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and faculty resources permit. Prerequisite: Depending on the topic, WGS 120 or instructor consent. A topical seminar that focuses on an interdisciplinary examination of a singular theme and/or geographic region relevant to the overall understanding of Women’s and Gender Studies, such as Hispanic Feminisms. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Staff.
	WGS 296 - Social Science Topics in Women’s and Gender Studies Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and faculty resources permit. Prerequisite: Depending on the topic, WGS 120 or instructor consent. A topical seminar that focuses on an interdisciplinary examination of a singular theme and/or geographic region relevant to the overall understanding of Women’s and Gender Studies, such as Men and Masculinities. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
	WGS 396 - Advanced Seminar in Women’s and Gender Studies Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and faculty re-sources permit. Prerequisites: WGS 120, junior or senior standing, or instructor consent. This course provides an opportunity for advanced students to explore in detail some aspect of women’s studies. Specific topics may vary and may be determined, in part, by student interest. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Staff.
Writing
	WRIT 100 - Writing Seminar for First-Years FDR: FW Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall, Winter No credit for students who have completed FW through exemption. Prerequisite: First-year standing. Concentrated work in composition with readings ranging across modes. forms, and genres in the humanities, social sciences, or sciences. The sections vary in thematic focus across disciplines, but all students write at least four revised essays in addition to several exercises emphasizing writing as a process. All sections stress active reading, argumentation, the appropriate presentation of evidence, various methods of critical analysis, and clarity of style. Winter 2013 topics: WRIT 100-01: Writing Seminar for First Years: Raking Muck: Investigative Journalism that Changed America (3). This section examines ground-breaking reporting by journalists who changed the lives of Americans by exposing private and public corruption in everything from food inspection and working conditions for children to business monopolies and the rules of war. The readings include the works of such writers as Nellie Bly, John Steinbeck, Seymour Hersh and Randy Shilts, among others. (FW) Locy. WRIT 100-02: Writing Seminar for First Years: The Sacred and the Daily: Environmental Thought and Literature (3). This section is an exploration of the human relationship to nature. How have writers, poets, and thinkers understood their relationships to “the natural world”? What is nature? How are we able and unable to define it? In this class we read widely within environmental literature. Emerson, Whitman, William Cronon, Annie Dillard, and Wendell Berry, among others, frame our discussion of “nature,” “truth,” “the sacred,” “the daily,” and the relationship of these ideas to one another. We explore the implications of such understandings for the individual life, as well as for a modern world in which ecological concern is a matter of daily news and attention. (FW) Green. WRIT 100-03: Writing Seminar for First Years: A Whole New World (3). In this age of global travel, economics, and politics, people can go almost anywhere and find similar technology and consumer goods, experiencing a new place as a comfortable and in some ways familiar variation on home. At other times visitors and newcomers really have discovered a whole new world. In this section, students study some novels, movies, and other accounts of cultural encounters between people who have been in the same place but experienced very different worlds. Works include James Welch’s Fools Crow about white men first meeting the Blackfeet Indians in Montana, Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart about the English first coming to Nigeria, and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road about the breakdown of shared culture in a post-apocalyptic world. We also think about how such encounters are depicted in popular culture, from Disney movies to international thrillers. We compare these fictional encounters with international experiences, issues, and conflicts today. (FW) Smout. WRIT 100-04: Writing Seminar for First Years: Wicked Women (3). This section begins with Chaucer’s Wife of Bath and ends with recent essays on Hillary Clinton. In between, we examine witches, femme fatales and prostitutes, considering representations of difficult women in literature, journalism and film. The course is not for women only - for instance, our discussion of witchcraft and wizardry runs from Miller’s The Crucible through excerpts from Harry Potter. (FW) Brodie. WRIT 100-05: Writing Seminar for First Years: The 1960s (3). The course focuses upon active reading, argumentation, the appropriate presentation of evidence, various methods of critical analysis, and clarity of style. In this section, students examine a variety of texts (novels, nonfiction, plays, songs, speeches) produced during and in response to the most turbulent decade in recent American history. We consider the several competing versions of the 1960s suggested by these works and how such attempts to define the period enable us to see the present more clearly. Assignments take inspiration from the experimental vibe that characterized the times. Writers represented are likely to include Allen Ginsberg, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Wolfe, and others. Requirements include at least four revised essays in addition to several exercises emphasizing writing as a process. (FW) Crowley. WRIT 100-06: Writing Seminar for First Years: I See Dead People (3). This section analyzes literary representations of ghosts and the afterlife. Texts may include: Henry James, The Turn of the Screw; A. S. Byatt, The Conjugial Angel; Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit; Thornton Wilder, Our Town; Caryl Churchill, Top Girls; Toni Morrison, Beloved. (FW) Gavaler. WRIT 100-07: Writing Seminar for First Years: Mysteries, Puzzles, and Conundrums (3). In this section, we concern ourselves with mysteries, not in the generic sense of stories about crime and detection, but mysteries of character, morality, religion, and art. Central to each of the works we study is some puzzle, secret, riddle, enigma, or complexity. Sometimes the work itself is the mystery, a kind of hieroglyph. Each work, in its own way, raises questions about the methods and limitations of human discovery. We approach the student’s writing as a means of investigation and discovery as well, with an emphasis on developing the skills necessary to build convincing “cases” (i.e., arguments) when evidence is incomplete, ambiguous, or contradictory. (FW) Oliver. Fall 2012 topics: WRIT 100-01: Writing Seminar for First Years: Otherworld Journeys (3). This course surveys medieval and Victorian narratives about encounters with the “otherworld”—an extraordinary realm parallel to that of normal human experience and inhabited by supernatural creatures much like ourselves. The course considers how this otherworld shapes normal reality and what its presence reveals about medieval conceptions of the “ordinary.” Readings include the Lais of Marie de France, Gawain and the Green Knight, and revisions of these otherworld encounters by nineteenth-century poets such as Keats and Browning. Short response papers and regular critical essays throughout the term promote textual analysis and help students hone their writing skills. All medieval texts are read in modern English translation. (FW) Jirsa. WRIT 100-02 and 100-08: Writing Seminar for First Years: Wicked Women (3). This section begins with Chaucer’s Wife of Bath and ends with recent essays on Hillary Clinton. In between, we examine witches, femme fatales and prostitutes, considering representations of difficult women in literature, journalism and film. The course is not for women only—for instance, our discussion of witchcraft and wizardry runs from Miller’s The Crucible through excerpts from Harry Potter. (FW) Brodie. WRIT 100-03: Writing Seminar for First Years: On the Front Lines: War and Literature (3). A critical in-depth study of reporting and reporters during the United States’ wars, from the Civil War through the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. (FW) de Maria. WRIT 100-04: Writing Seminar for First Years: Mysteries, Puzzles, and Conundrums (3). We concern ourselves with mysteries, not in the generic sense of stories about crime and detection, but mysteries of character, morality, religion, and art. Central to each of the works we study is some puzzle, secret, riddle, enigma, or complexity. Sometimes the work itself is the mystery, a kind of hieroglyph. Each work, in its own way, raises questions about the methods and limitations of human discovery. We approach the student’s writing as a means of investigation and discovery as well, with an emphasis on developing the skills necessary to build convincing “cases” (i.e., arguments) when evidence is incomplete, ambiguous, or contradictory. (FW) Oliver. WRIT 100-05: Writing Seminar for First Years: The 1960s (3). The course focuses upon active reading, argumentation, the appropriate presentation of evidence, various methods of critical analysis, and clarity of style. In this section students examine a variety of texts (short stories, novels, nonfiction, plays, songs, speeches) produced during and in response to the most turbulent decade in recent American history. We consider the several competing versions of the 1960s suggested by these works and how such attempts to define the period enable us to see the present more clearly. Assignments take inspiration from the experimental vibe that characterized the times. Writers represented are likely to include Allen Ginsberg, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Wolfe, and others. Requirements include at least four revised essays in addition to several exercises emphasizing writing as a process. (FW) Crowley. WRIT 100-06: Writing Seminar for First Years: American Autobiography (3). This first year writing course takes as its focal point contemporary American autobiography. In particular, we focus on more recent autobiographical works that explore the terrain of childhood and coming of age. We read these works both critically and creatively, thinking about issues (childhood, memory, race, gender, identity, place) and styles of American autobiography as both readers and writers. Authors may include Susanna Kaysen, Tobias Wolff, Sandra Cisneros, and Maxine Hong Kingston. (FW) Darznik. WRIT 100-07: Writing Seminar for First Years: Faith, Doubt, and Identity (3). In this writing-intensive seminar, we explore the topic of belief and how it shapes a person’s selfhood. How does being a part of a religious community, or a variety of religious communities, shape one’s identity? How does identity change with the adoption of either belief, skepticism, or another culture? We ask these questions primarily through the genres of novels and short stories, examining lives of faith and doubt. Texts include Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Gilead, about a Congregationalist minister descended from abolitionists; John Patrick Shanley’s play, Doubt, covering Catholic education and priest abuse scandals; selected short stories from Flannery O’Conner; and a story by Jhumpa Lahiri, from her Pulitzer Prize- collection, Interpreter of Maladies, on a Hindu woman who keeps Catholic shrines in her new home. (FW) Gertz. WRIT 100-09 and 100-14: Writing Seminar for First Years: I See Dead People (3). This course will analyze literary representations of ghosts and the afterlife. Texts may include: Henry James, The Turn of the Screw; A. S. Byatt, The Conjugial Angel; Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit; Thornton Wilder, Our Town; Caryl Churchill, Top Girls; Toni Morrison, Beloved. (FW) Gavaler. WRIT 100-10: Writing Seminar for First Years: Mysteries, Puzzles, and Conundrums (3). We concern ourselves with mysteries, not in the generic sense of stories about crime and detection, but mysteries of character, morality, religion, and art. Central to each of the works we study is some puzzle, secret, riddle, enigma, or complexity. Sometimes the work itself is the mystery, a kind of hieroglyph. Each work, in its own way, raises questions about the methods and limitations of human discovery. We approach the student’s writing as a means of investigation and discovery as well, with an emphasis on developing the skills necessary to build convincing “cases” (i.e., arguments) when evidence is incomplete, ambiguous, or contradictory. (FW) Oliver. WRIT 100-11: Writing Seminar for First Years: Hardboiled and Film Noir (3). An exploration of the twentieth century’s fascination with crime fiction through a study of short stories and novels by three of its finest American practitioners—Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Patricia Highsmith—along with several classic film versions of their novels by such major directors as John Huston, Billy Wilder, and Alfred Hitchcock. The course begins with close study of the hardening in the 1920s of the high culture vs. mass culture dichotomy through a careful juxtaposition of T.S. Eliot’s modernist poetry and Dorothy Sayers’s popular crime fiction. We then turn to the American noir novels and films of the 1920s, 30s, and 40s and their self-conscious effort to challenge this opposition of high and mass culture with popular narratives marked by high artistic ambition. (FW) Adams. WRIT 100-12: Writing Seminar for First Years: Trees and Animals, People and Cyborgs (3). This course examines the relationships of human beings to nature and technology. The title of the course is serious: What kinds of relationships do we have with trees, especially forests, and with animals, both wild and domestic? Where do we draw the boundary between humans and machines? Does humanity occupy a (privileged) middle ground between other kinds of being? Our readings will come from a mix of science, environmental literature, and science fiction. (FW) Warren. WRIT 100-13: Writing Seminar for First Years: The 1960s (3). The course focuses upon active reading, argumentation, the appropriate presentation of evidence, various methods of critical analysis, and clarity of style. In this section students examine a variety of texts (short stories, novels, nonfiction, plays, songs, speeches) produced during and in response to the most turbulent decade in recent American history. We consider the several competing versions of the 1960s suggested by these works and how such attempts to define the period enable us to see the present more clearly. Assignments take inspiration from the experimental vibe that characterized the times. Writers represented are likely to include Allen Ginsberg, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Wolfe, and others. Requirements include at least four revised essays in addition to several exercises emphasizing writing as a process. (FW) Crowley. WRIT 100-15 and 100-18: Writing Seminar for First Years: The Sacred and the Daily: Environmental Thought and Literature (3). This course is an exploration of the human relationship to nature. How have writers, poets, and thinkers understood their relationships to “the natural world”? What is nature? How are we able and unable to define it? In this class we read widely within environmental literature. Emerson, Whitman, William Cronon, Annie Dillard, and Wendell Berry, among others, frame our discussion of “nature,” “truth,” “the sacred,” “the daily,” and the relationship of these ideas to one another. We explore the implications of such understandings for the individual life, as well as for a modern world in which ecological concern is a matter of daily news and attention. (FW) Green. WRIT 100-16: Writing Seminar for First Years: Nonconformity and Community: Honor Beyond the Classroom (3). What’s the proper role of nonconformity in the healthy community? How much conformity is needed to sustain a culture? Are complete nonconformity and strict conformity even possible? Through readings by classic and contemporary writers, we explore the importance of sameness and difference within the various communities to which we belong. In the process, the course includes an examination of some of Washington and Lee’s core values, including honor and integrity. (FW) Pickett. WRIT 100-17: Writing Seminar for First Years: The Press & the Civil Rights Movement (3). This first-year writing seminar explores the news media’s role in the Civil Rights Movement of the South in the 1950s and ‘60s. Documentary recordings, individual research in primary documents, class discussions and readings in the journalism of the period and in works of history (especially the Pulitzer-Prize winning 2006 book The Race Beat, and the professor’s book on The Southern Press) provide the basis for writing assignments. Students produce short papers on the readings, an oral history project on a veteran journalist who covered the movement, a research paper and a magazine-style article. (FW) Cumming. WRIT 100-19: Writing Seminar for First Years: American Gothic (3). What are Americans afraid of? Students in this class hone their skills as critical thinkers and writers by analyzing gothic tales from multiple genres. We focus on the American short story from Gilman to King, but course texts also include film, poetry, and the graphic novel. (FW) Wheeler.

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SPAN 162 - Intermediate Spanish II

SPAN 164 - Advanced Intermediate Spanish

SPAN 172 - Supervised Study Abroad: Intermediate Spanish

SPAN 192 - Practical Applications of the Spanish Language

SPAN 201 - Supervised Study Abroad: Costa Rica

SPAN 202 - Supervised Study Abroad: Spain

SPAN 204 - Conversational Skills

SPAN 209 - Intro to Hispanic Linguistics

SPAN 210 - The Road to Santiago

SPAN 211 - Spanish Civilization and Culture

SPAN 212 - Spanish-American Civilization and Culture

SPAN 214 - Contemporary Spain in Context: Spanish Culture through Social Interaction

SPAN 220 - Introducción a la literatura española

SPAN 240 - Introducción a la literatura hispanoamericana

SPAN 270 - The Contemporary Latin American Press: Journalistic Writing & Analysis

SPAN 275 - Introducción al análisis literario

SPAN 290 - Topics in Latin American Culture and Literature

SPAN 292 - Tutorial in Foreign Language Teaching, Translation, and Interpretation

SPAN 295 - Special Topics in Conversation

SPAN 309 - History of the Spanish Language

SPAN 312 - Culture in Context in Medieval Spain

SPAN 320 - Don Quijote

SPAN 322 - Spanish Golden-Age Drama

SPAN 324 - Visions of the Nation: Romanticism and the Generation of 1898

SPAN 326 - Modern Spanish Prose Fiction

SPAN 328 - Contemporary Spanish Poetry

SPAN 333 - El Cid in History and Legend

SPAN 340 - Spanish-American Short Story

SPAN 342 - Spanish-American Narrative: The Boom Generation

SPAN 343 - Spanish-American Colonial Literature

SPAN 344 - Spanish-American Poetry

SPAN 345 - Spanish-American Modernist Poetry

SPAN 348 - Spanish-American Women Writers

SPAN 350 - The Cuban Story

SPAN 352 - Voces caribeñas

SPAN 354 - Spanish-American Theater: 20th Century to the Present

SPAN 390 - Topics in Latin American Culture and Literature

SPAN 392 - Spanish Language Theory and Practice

SPAN 393 - Workshop in Literary Translation

SPAN 397 - Peninsular Seminar

SPAN 398 - Spanish-American Seminar

SPAN 401 - Directed Individual Study

SPAN 402 - Directed Individual Study

SPAN 403 - Directed Individual Study

SPAN 493 - Honors Thesis

THTR 100 - Introduction to Theater

THTR 109 - University Theater

THTR 121 - Introduction to Text and Performance

THTR 131 - Fundamentals of Theater Art

THTR 141 - Stage Acting I

THTR 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar

THTR 181 - FS:First-Year Seminar

THTR 202 - Supervised Study Abroad

THTR 203 - Preparation for Study Abroad; Swedish Theater

THTR 204 - Study Abroad in Swedish Theater

THTR 209 - University Theater II: Stage Management

THTR 210 - History of Theater and Drama I

THTR 211 - History of Theater and Drama II

THTR 215 - Modern Drama

THTR 216 - Contemporary Drama

THTR 220 - Playwriting

THTR 235 - Design and Performance

THTR 239 - Total Theater

THTR 241 - Stage Acting II

THTR 242 - Musical Theater

THTR 250 - Women in Contemporary Theater

THTR 251 - Introduction to Performance Design

THTR 253 - Digital Production

THTR 290 - Topics in Performing Arts

THTR 296 - Spring-Term Topics in Performing Arts

THTR 309 - University Theater III

THTR 336 - Lighting Design

THTR 337 - Scenic Design

THTR 338 - Costume Design

THTR 361 - Stage Directing

THTR 362 - Directing Practicum

THTR 397 - Seminar in Theater Topics

THTR 423 - Directed Individual Project

THTR 453 - Internship