2011-12 Pomona College Catalog

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Economics
	ECON 151 PO - Labor Economics CrsNo ECON151 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2013. Instructor(s): M. Steinberger Human resources and business strategies toward employees. Occupational choice, investing in human capital. Household decision making: balancing family, work, home production and leisure. Migration and immigration. Pay and productivity: setting wages within the firm. Gender, race and ethnicity in the labor market. Public policy toward the workplace. The role of trade unions. Prerequisites: ECON 057 PO , ECON 101 PO and ECON 102 PO .
	ECON 152 PO - Money, Banking and Financial Markets CrsNo ECON152 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2012. Instructor(s): G. Hueckel The structure of financial markets and their role in facilitating the efficient allocation of capital. Valuation and role of securities, particularly bonds and related derivatives. Consideration of the nature and purpose of bank regulations and analysis of central bank policy and its consequences for national income, prices and international trade and financial flows. Prerequisites: ECON 052 PO or ECON 102 PO ; ECON 101 PO .
	ECON 153 PO - Urban and Regional Economics CrsNo ECON153 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2013. Instructor(s): F. Lozano The structure and function of cities as economic entities. Land use, rent gradients, transportation, housing, education, crime, provision of local government services, the Tiebout hypothesis and urban redevelopment. Prerequisite: ECON 102 PO .
	ECON 154 PO - Game Theory for Economists CrsNo ECON154 PO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): T. Andrabi; Staff Introduces the main tools of noncooperative game theory as used in current economics literature. Topics include formalities of modeling competitive situations, various solution concepts such as Nash equilibrium and its refinements, signaling games, repeated games under different informational environments, bargaining models, issues of cooperation and reputation. Applications from economics, politics, law, corporate and business strategy. Prerequisites: ECON 057 PO and ECON 102 PO .
	ECON 155 PO - Law and Economics CrsNo ECON155 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2011. Instructor(s): S. Marks A case-based approach to the economic analysis of legal institutions and the common law: property, contacts and torts. Prerequisite: ECON 102 PO .
	ECON 155 PZ - History of Economic Thought CrsNo ECON155 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ECON 156 PO - Security Valuation and Portfolio Theory CrsNo ECON156 PO When Offered: Each fall. Instructor(s): G. Smith Selection and valuation of financial assets, particularly corporate stocks. Financial markets and the economy, efficient-markets hypotheses, security-valuation models, decision making under uncertainty, portfolio selection and capital-asset pricing. Open to senior economics majors only. Lecture and discussion. Prerequisites: ECON 101 PO and ECON 102 PO . Letter grade only.
	ECON 157 PO - Corporate Finance CrsNo ECON157 PO When Offered: Each fall. Instructor(s): L. Chincarini Examines the financing decisions of firms and explores links between finance and business. Topics include corporate governance, agency issues, net present value analysis, risk, cost of capital, dividend policy, capital structure, market efficiency, takeovers and mergers and acquisitions. Prerequisites: ECON 057 PO and ECON 102 PO ; ECON 117 PO recommended.
	ECON 158 PO - Quantitative Investment Management CrsNo ECON158 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2012. Instructor(s): L. Chincarini Study of quantitative equity portfolio management (QEPM). Builds on seminal work in financial theory and includes discussion of the differences between QEPM and traditional qualitative analysis, the relationship between QEPM and market efficiency, the use of futures and options to create leveraged market-neutral portfolios and the use of Bayesian methods to handle non-quantitative data. Prerequisites: ECON 057 PO and ECON 156 PO . Letter grade only.
	ECON 159 PO - Economics of the Public Sector CrsNo ECON159 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2012. Instructor(s): E. Brown The microeconomic rationale for government activity in a market economy and the economic effects of such activity. Market failure and the tools of normative analysis; income redistribution, design of major federal expenditure programs such as Social Security, medical insurance and welfare; the design, incidence and behavioral consequences of tax policy; collective decision making and the theory of public choice. Prerequisite: ECON 102 PO .
	ECON 161 PO - Advanced Macroeconomic Analysis CrsNo ECON161 PO When Offered: Spring 2013, alternate years. Instructor(s): M. Kuehlwein Advanced Macroeconomic Analysis. Selected issues in macroeconomic theory, empirical analysis, and policy including growth, unemployment, consumption, investment, inflation, budget deficits, and monetary policy rules. Covers rational expectations, real business cycles, sticky price models, endogenous growth, financial crises, and macroeconometrics. Prerequisites: 101, 102, and either 107 or 167.
	ECON 162 PO - Advanced Microeconomic Analysis CrsNo ECON162 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2012. Instructor(s): F. Lozano Selected topics in modern microeconomic theory, including constrained optimization, decision making under uncertainty, market failures under imperfect information and their remedies and strategic behavior. Prerequisites: ECON 057 PO and ECON 102 PO .
	ECON 163 PO - International Macro Policy and Monetary Institutions CrsNo ECON163 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2012. Instructor(s): S. Slavov Intertemporal approach to the current account. Global savings imbalances. International portfolio diversification. Imperfections in global financial markets: moral hazard, financing constraints, financial fragility. Goods prices and exchange rates. Currency unions. Recent international financial crises. The international monetary system and institutions. Prerequisites: ECON 101 PO , ECON 102 PO , and either ECON 107 PO or ECON 167 PO .
	ECON 164 PO - Technology and Growth CrsNo ECON164 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2012. Instructor(s): M. Kuehlwein A close examination of growth theory, focusing on technological innovation in developed countries. Endogenous growth models, the role of international factors, culture, institutions, industrial structure, education, population growth and policy in promoting innovation and growth. Theory, historical evidence and statistical analysis. Prerequisites: ECON 101 PO , ECON 102 PO , and either ECON 107 PO or ECON 167 PO .
	ECON 167 PO - Econometrics CrsNo ECON167 PO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): P. De Pace Introduction to the theory and practice of econometrics. Application of statistical inference, probability theory, matrix algebra and calculus to multiple-regression analysis. Lecture, computer workshop, problem sets, term project, student presentations and critiques. Prerequisites: ECON 057 PO , ECON 101 PO , ECON 102 PO , MATH 060 PO .
	ECON 169 PO - Advanced Econometrics CrsNo ECON169 PO When Offered: Spring 2012, alternate years. Instructor(s): P. de Pace Advanced Econometrics. An overview of state-of-the-art econometric modeling methodologies. Estimation and inference techniques for cross-section, time-series, and panel data. Empirical applications in the fields of macroeconomics, microeconomics, and financial economics using modern statistical software. Prerequisites: 107 or 167 and MATH060, or permission of the instructor. Letter grade only.
	ECON 171 CM - Environmental Economics CrsNo ECON171 CM See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ECON 172 PZ - Environmental Economics CrsNo ECON172 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ECON 190 PO - Senior Seminar in Economics CrsNo ECON190 PO When Offered: Each spring. Instructor(s): E. Brown; J. Likens; G.Smith; M.Steinberger Analysis of selected problems in economics. Required for graduation. Full course credit. Prerequisites: ECON 101 PO , ECON 102 PO , and either ECON 107 PO or ECON 167 PO must be completed in advance of participating in the Senior Seminar.
	ECON 195 PO - Senior Activity in Economics CrsNo ECON195 PO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff Comprised of two parts: (1) the Major Field Achievement Test in Economics; and (2) regular participation in the departmental colloquium. Required for graduation. No credit. (December graduates enroll fall semester.)
	ECON 199DRPO - Economics: Directed Readings CrsNo ECON199DRPO Directed Readings. Syllabus reflects workload of a standard course in the department or program. Examinations or papers equivalent to a standard course. Regular interaction with the faculty supervisor. Weekly meetings are the norm. Available for full- or half-course credit.
	ECON 199IRPO - Economics: Independent Research CrsNo ECON199IRPO Independent Research or Creative Project. A substantial and significant piece of original research or creative product produced. Pre-requisite course work required. Available for full- or half-course credit.
	ECON 199RAPO - Economics:Research Assistantship CrsNo ECON199RAPO Research Assistantship. Lab notebook, research summary or other product appropriate to the discipline is required. Half-course credit only.
Education
	EDUC 424 CG - Gender and Education CrsNo EDUC424 CG See the Claremont Graduate University Catalog for a description of this course.
Engineering
	ENGR 004 HM - Introduction to Engineering Design and Manufacturing CrsNo ENGR004 HM See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ENGR 013 HM - Intro to Energy Systems Engineering CrsNo ENGR013 HM See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ENGR 080 HM - Experimental Engineering CrsNo ENGR080 HM See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ENGR 111 HM - Engineering Clinic I CrsNo ENGR111 HM See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ENGR 201 HM - Economics of Technical Enterpris CrsNo ENGR201 HM See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ENGR 202 HM - Engineering Management CrsNo ENGR202 HM See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.
English
	ENGL 012 PZ - Introduction to African-American Literature CrsNo ENGL012 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ENGL 050 PO - Modern British & Irish Fiction CrsNo ENGL050 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2011. Instructor(s): K. Dettmar This course surveys some of the most significant trends, via some of the most important novels, in the 20th-century British tradition. Works studied include novels by Beckett, Conrad, Ford, Forster, Green, Ishiguro, Joyce, Kelman, Orwell, Rhys, Rushdie, Smith and Woolf.
	ENGL 051 PO - Modern American Fiction CrsNo ENGL051 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2008. Instructor(s): Staff Development of the American novel during the first half of the 20th century, including such major writers as Dreiser, Wharton, Cather, Larsen, Dos Passos, Hemingway, Wright, Faulkner and Ellison.
	ENGL 053 PO - 20th-Century American Women Writers CrsNo ENGL053 PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2010. Instructor(s): Staff Exploration of novels, short stories and poetry written by women between 1900 and 2000, with attention to the representation and politics of women’s daily lives in relation to national and international developments of the century.
	ENGL 055B PO - Contemporary Fiction: Animals CrsNo ENGL055B PO Topics in Contemporary Fiction: Animals. Readings in stories, novels, and essays in which the subject of the lives of animals invites consideration of topics of empathy, suffering, and the body, in contemporary writing and thought generally. We’ll also take more than a sidelong glance at the function and uses of literary strategies of allegory, parable and fable. Letter grade only.
	ENGL 056 PO - Contemporary Native American Literature CrsNo ENGL056 PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2010. Instructor(s): V. Thomas In the Native American context, English is the language of holocaust; to write in English necessitates “Reinventing the Enemy’s Language” for purposes of indigenous survival and self-representation. This course engages fiction, essays, poetry, film and critical theory while considering the implications of genocide, political invisibility and experiencing diaspora in one’s homeland.
	ENGL 057 PO - Modern British and Irish Poetry CrsNo ENGL057 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2011. Instructor(s): K. Dettmar Readings in the most significant British and Irish poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries, including the poetry of Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. B. Yeats, Siegfried Sassoon, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin, Thomas Kinsella, Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, Maebh McGuckian, Paul Muldoon and Carol Ann Duffy.
	ENGL 064A PO - Creative Writing: Fiction CrsNo ENGL064A PO When Offered: Each fall. Instructor(s): J. Lethem Practice in a literary form, with some attention to technical theory and to the creative process. Prerequisite: permission of instructor; student must submit a writing sample to receive permission.
	ENGL 064B PO - Creative Writing: Poetry CrsNo ENGL064B PO When Offered: Each spring. Instructor(s): C. Rankine Practice in a literary form, with some attention to technical theory and to the creative process. Prerequisite: permission of instructor; student must submit a writing sample to receive permission.
	ENGL 064C PO - Creative Writing: Screenwriting CrsNo ENGL064C PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2009. Instructor(s): Staff Practice in a literary form, with some attention to technical theory and to the creative process. Prerequisite: permission of instructor; student must submit a writing sample to receive permission.
	ENGL 064D PO - Elements of Creative Writing: Literary Non-Fiction CrsNo ENGL064D PO When Offered: Spring 2012. Instructor(s): V. Klinkenborg Practice in a literary form, with some attention to technical theory and to the creative process. Prerequisite: permission of instructor; student must submit a writing sample to receive permission.
	ENGL 066 PO - Early Modern Poetry and Poetics CrsNo ENGL066 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered 2012-13. Instructor(s): C. Rosenfeld This course examines the poetry and poetic practices of the English Renaissance, emphasizing the politics of form and questions of labor, education, gender, and theology. Readings include classical and humanist poetic theory (Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Erasmus, etc.) and a wide range of poets, including Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Jonson. Letter grade only.
	ENGL 067 PO - Literary Interpretation CrsNo ENGL067 PO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff Training in certain historical, theoretical and methodological dimensions of literary study in relation to a topic chosen by the professor. Special attention to close textual analysis and to writing effectively about literature.
	ENGL 074 PO - British Novel, Behn to Austen CrsNo ENGL074 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered 2012-13. Instructor(s): S. Raff The British novel from its beginnings in the prose narratives of the late 17th century to its form in the early 19th century. Readings from Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Goldsmith, Sterne, Burney, Cleland, Radcliffe, Austen and others.
	ENGL 075 PO - British Novel II CrsNo ENGL075 PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2010. Instructor(s): Staff Survey of the Victorian novel, with particular attention to class, gender and genre. Primary texts by such authors as Gaskell, Thackeray, Dickens, Trollope, the Brontes, Eliot, Collins, Braddon, Hardy, James, Stoker, Stevenson, Gissing and Conrad.
	ENGL 077 PO - American Nature: Poetry in/and the 19th Century CrsNo ENGL077 PO Investigates the entwined development of nature poetry and national identity in the 19th century. Considers social and cultural features of 19th-century life, historical naturalist and scientific texts, and selected critical theory. Readings will include a wide range of poetry along with essays by Thoreau, Austin and Emerson.
	ENGL 083 PO - Arthurian Literature CrsNo ENGL083 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2011. Instructor(s): Staff The legend of King Arthur, from its earliest roots in 6th-century Britain, through the 13th-century growth of the legend (and introduction of new characters), up to the modern use of Arthur to reflect Cold War anxieties.
	ENGL 086 PO - Poetry Movements since the 1950s CrsNo ENGL086 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered 2012-13. Instructor(s): C. Rankine This course will be a survey of the major poetic movements in the last half-century. Poets will include Ashbery, O’Hara, Ginsberg, Wright, Rich, Lorde, Creeley, Duncan and others. Letter grade only.
	ENGL 087F PO - Writ: Theories/Proces/Pedagogies CrsNo ENGL087F PO When Offered: Each fall. Instructor(s): D, Regaignon; P, Bromley Theoretical grounding in the writing process, as well as in teaching and tutoring. Students will undertake a major research project, investigating some aspect of the writing process, writing in a particular discipline, or tutoring writing. Full course.
	ENGL 087H PO - Writ: Theories/Proces/Pedagogies CrsNo ENGL087H PO When Offered: Each fall. Instructor(s): D, Regaignon; P, Bromley Writing: Theories, Processes, Pedagogies. Theoretical grounding in the writing process, as well as in teaching and tutoring. Students will undertake a major research project, investigating some aspect of the writing process, writing in a particular discipline, or tutoring writing. Half-credit. For Writing Fellows only.
	ENGL 088 PO - Poets in the 21st Century CrsNo ENGL088 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered 2012-13. Instructor(s): C. Rankine Explores the work of a number of contemporary poets by reading their work and engaging with criticism written by and about them.
	ENGL 090 PO - The Pre-Modern for Post-Moderns CrsNo ENGL090 PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2009. Instructor(s): Staff The Middle Ages and Renaissance form the buried foundation to all later literary endeavor. This class frontloads a number of ideas and events that are important for understanding the discipline. Organized in segments, it will cover nationhood, authorship, literary fame, the evolution of genre, post-coloniality and climate change.
	ENGL 091 PO - Enlightment, Romantic and Victorian Literature CrsNo ENGL091 PO When Offered: Spring 2013. Instructor(s): A. Reed Close study in historical context of selected works by such 18th- and 19th-century writers as Swift, Pope, Fielding, Johnson, Austen, Wordsworth, Keats, Bronte, Browning, Dickens, G. Eliot, Hardy and Yeats.
	ENGL 092 PO - Anglo-Irish Literary Tradition CrsNo ENGL092 PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2010. Instructor(s): K. Dettmar A survey of the most significant English-language Irish writing from Jonathan Swift to the present day, with attention paid to linguistic and stylistic virtuosity and to the politics of Ireland’s colonial and postcolonial experiences. Sterne, Goldsmith, Edgeworth, Yeats, Moore, Synge, Joyce, Beckett, Bowen, Heaney, Boland, Muldoon, Doyle, McDonagh and others. Letter grade only.
	ENGL 093 PO - Rock & Roll Writing CrsNo ENGL093 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered 2012-13. Instructor(s): K. Dettmar Combining study and practice, we’ll read some of rock’s most popular and vital writers (Bangs, Marcus, Powers, Willis, Klosterman) and produce writing in a number of common genres of rock writing. Five graded assignments of varying lengths. Writing workshop format. Letter grade only.
	ENGL 095 PO - Survey of American Literature II CrsNo ENGL095 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2011. Instructor(s): H. Gravendyk Survey of U.S. fiction and poetry from the antebellum period to the present. Will touch on the emergence of realism, naturalism, modernism, post-modernism and the avant-garde. Letter grade only.
	ENGL 100 PO - Literature and Cultures of U.S. Imperialism CrsNo ENGL100 PO Course addresses the history of U.S. imperialism through literature, historical readings and cultural theory. Emphasis on reading imperialism through the lens of critical gender studies and critical race theory. Covers lesser-known women writers such as Helen Hunt Jackson, Sitkala-Sam and Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, as well as canonical novelists like Melville and Twain.
	ENGL 101 PO - The English Lyric Before 1700 CrsNo ENGL101 PO When Offered: Spring 2013. Instructor(s): A. Kunin Study of the short poem in the 16th and 17th centuries, both secular and religious. Emphasis on Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne, Johnson, Herbert and Marvell.
	ENGL 102B SC - Survey 1865-Present: American Literature CrsNo ENGL102B SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ENGL 103 PO - Literature of the Enlightenment CrsNo ENGL103 PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2010. Instructor(s): S. Raff Reason and unreason, ethics and aesthetics, high minds and low bodies in poetry, drama and prose by such writers as Dryden, Locke, Rochester, Congreve, Pope, Swift, Fielding, Johnson, Boswell, Reynolds, Burke and Sheridan, with some attention to French authors such as Voltaire.
	ENGL 104 PO - Literature of Romantic Period CrsNo ENGL104 PO When Offered: Fall 2012. Instructor(s): A. Reed The major poets—Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats—with some attention to both fictional and nonfictional prose.
	ENGL 105 PO - Literature of Victorian Period CrsNo ENGL105 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2008. Instructor(s): Staff
	ENGL 106 PO - 19th-Century U.S. Women Writers CrsNo ENGL106 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2011. Instructor(s): K. Tompkins Novels, anti- and pro-slavery tracts, domestic manuals and other forms of women’s writing during the 19th century. Special attention to critical and historical sources examining the role of women in the public spheres and spaces of 19th-century United States. Knowledge of literary, cultural or critical gender theory required.
	ENGL 107 PO - William Blake CrsNo ENGL107 PO When Offered: Spring 2013. Instructor(s): P. Mann Studies in Blake’s visionary poetry and painting, with special focus on “illuminated books” as both verbal and visual art.
	ENGL 110 PO - Women and the Rise of the Novel CrsNo ENGL110 PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2007. Instructor(s): S. Raff Women’s contributions to the rise of the novel. Focus on aesthetic and popular triumphs of 18th-century England. Topics include the legacy of French romances and salon culture; the bawdy court novella; coded rebellion within sentimental novels; constructions of the female reader; connections to the present.
	ENGL 111 PO - American Masculinities: Novel 19-20C CrsNo ENGL111 PO This course approaches (primarily) 19th-century novels through the framework of critical gender studies. We will look at the changing construction of race and gender in relation to masculinity from the late revolutionary period through the early 20th century. Authors considered include Brockden, Brown, Hawthorne, Melville, Douglass, James Crane, DuBois and Hemingway. Offered alternate years.
	ENGL 112 PO - Early Modern Romance CrsNo ENGL112 PO When Offered: Spring 2012. Instructor(s): K. Tompkins Early Modern Romance. Spanning prose, poetry, and drama of the early modern period, the genre of “romance” describes perplexing, digressive narratives that revolve around cross-dressing, incest, the return of the dead, and the dissolution of the family. We will read from Philip Sidney’s Arcadia, Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Mary Wroth’s Urania, and Shakespeare’s Pericles, Cymbeline, and Winter’s Tale. Letter grade only.
	ENGL 113 PO - Step Right Up: Race, Gender and Popular Culture 1865-1917 CrsNo ENGL113 PO When Offered: Fall 2012. Instructor(s): K. Tompkins Looks at the explosion of popular culture from the end of the Civil War to World War II via primary texts (advertising, popular and canonical novels, magazines, etc.) and feminist and cultural theory. Examines the ways that U.S. demographics – Black, European immigrant, working class, female, male and adolescent – were shaped by the popular discourses and the period.
	ENGL 114 PO - Asian/American Forms CrsNo ENGL114 PO Asian/American Forms. This course examines Asian/American literary texts that exhibit self-consciousness about their own formal characteristics as a means of engaging with an d interrogating social and racial formations. Readings will include both texts written Asian Americans and texts that address Asianness in an American context. Letter grade only.
	ENGL 115 PO - Eating the Other: Race, Gender and Literary Food Studies CrsNo ENGL115 PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2008. Instructor(s): K. Tompkins This course will introduce students to the theoretical and historical conversations taking place in the new field of Food Studies. With a particular emphasis on 20th-century U.S. literature, film and food culture, we will discuss the ways in which food has been used to represent cultural difference. We will explore hunger, food eithics, disorderly eating, fat, race, gender, sex and chocolate.
	ENGL 116 PO - Excess: Lit/Phil/Psychoanalysis CrsNo ENGL116 PO When Offered: Fall 2012. Instructor(s): P. Mann Interdisciplinary study of key “limit-texts,” chiefly in the area of sexual extremity. Readings from Sade, Masoch, Freud, Deleuze, Kafka and others; films by Pasolini and Oshima. Spring 2009; offered alternate years.
	ENGL 117 PO - Poststructuralism CrsNo ENGL117 PO When Offered: Fall 2012. Instructor(s): P. Mann Readings in Derrida, Lacan, Foucault, Kristeva, Irigaray, Deleuze, Barthes, Lyotard, de Man, et al. Some familiarity with continental philosophy or critical theory recommended. Spring 2011; offered alternate years.
	ENGL 118 PO - The Nature of Narrative of Fictions and Films CrsNo ENGL118 PO When Offered: Spring 2012. Instructor(s): A. Reed Investigates narrative as a fundamental mode of understanding and organizing human experience. Practice of storytelling in writers like Calvino, Diderot, Kundera, Borges, Proust, Kafka, Dante, Sterne, Woolf and Sartre; and in filmmakers like Lynch, Hitchcock, Roeg, Malick and Allen. Theories of narrative from Aristotle through Freud to Barthes.
	ENGL 119 PO - Graphic Novels CrsNo ENGL119 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2011. Instructor(s): Staff Examines various genres of graphic narratives as literary products, with an eye toward understanding the interaction of images and text in the construction of meaning. Topics may include the history of the medium; economic factors; definitional tensions; differences in conventions between genres; and pop culture vs. high culture. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO or an introductory Media Studies course.
	ENGL 120 PO - Queer Theories, Gay Fictions CrsNo ENGL120 PO An introduction to gay studies that reads current literary and cultural theory together with fiction, film, photography, and painting. While concentrating on 20th-century texts and images (Peck, Rick, Delany, Warhol, Hockney, Camp, Hollywood, and Jarmish), we look back to figures like Sappho, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Caravaggio, da Vinci, Wilde, Proust, Stein, and James. Theorists include Foucault, Butler, Sedgwick, Kristeva, Barthes, Wittig, de Laurentis, and D.A. Miller.
	ENGL 121 PO - Whitman, Dickinson and Poe CrsNo ENGL121 PO When Offered: Spring 2012. Instructor(s): H. Gravendyk Primarily studies in the poetry and selected prose of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson; the poetry and fiction of Edgar Allan Poe; and relevant literary criticism. Special attention to publishing histories, social contexts, relationships to other writers in the 19th century and influence on the development of American poetics. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO .
	ENGL 122 AF - Healing Narratives CrsNo ENGL122 AF When Offered: Spring 2013. Instructor(s): V. Thomas This course examines how African Diaspora writers, filmmakers, and critical theorists respond to individual and collective trauma, and how their works address questions of healing mind, body and spirit. We will take particular interest in Black feminist theory, the body as a construct of racial ideology and the business of remedy.
	ENGL 123 PO - The Holocaust in Literature and Film CrsNo ENGL123 PO When Offered: Spring 2012. Instructor(s): P. Mann Close study of novels, poetry and film on the shoah. Secondary readings in historical and philosophical texts.
	ENGL 124 AF - AfroFuturisms CrsNo ENGL124 AF When Offered: Next offered 2013-2014. Instructor(s): V. Thomas AfroFuturism articulates futuristic and Afro Punk cultural resistance, and radical subversions of racism, sexism, liberal humanism and (neo)colonialism. Such texts also recall that Africans were not only subjected to and forced to maintain the technologies of enslavement, but were regarded as technology. AF engages music, visual arts, cyberculture, science and philosophy.
	ENGL 125C AF - Introduction to African American Literature: Middle Passage to Civil War CrsNo ENGL125C AF When Offered: Fall 2012. Instructor(s): V. Thomas This interdisciplinary course presents an overview of African American literary tradition from African retentions, slave narratives and oral tradition, through memoir, autobiography, anti-lynching and revolutionary protest tracts, essays, poetry, criticism, and the beginnings of the Black novel in English.
	ENGL 125D AF - Lit and Film of African Diaspora CrsNo ENGL125D AF Instructor(s): V. Thomas This course investigates the major critical issues and expressive methods of African Diaspora film. We will address aesthetics and representations of race, class, and gender, and resonances between written and visual texts in which artists theorize the African Diaspora.
	ENGL 125DLAF - Lit/Film of African Diaspora Lab CrsNo ENGL125DLAF
	ENGL 126 PO - California Poetry CrsNo ENGL126 PO When Offered: Spring 2012. Instructor(s): H. Gravendyk Considers the variety of myths, histories, imaginations and products (literary, cultural, material) that are produced or revised by California poetry in 20th century. Readings may include work by Rexroth, Oppen, Miles, Jeffers, Miller, Duncan, Ferlinghetti, Spicer, Hejinian, Hillman, Hass and others.
	ENGL 127 PO - Pre-modern Psychology CrsNo ENGL127 PO When Offered: Spring 2013. Instructor(s): A. Kunin This course investigates models of consciousness, affect and relation, primarily from the 16th and 17th Centuries. How thoughts and feelings are generated, communicated and stored; what they are made of; where they occur; how they create links and divisions between people. Examples from philosophy, rhetoric, medicine, law, religion and literature. Topics will include friendship, love, melancholy, habit, suicide, diversion, meditation, wit, cowardice, dreams, madness and stupidity.
	ENGL 129 PO - Spaces of Cultural Resistance CrsNo ENGL129 PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2010. Instructor(s): V. Thomas This interdisciplinary course focuses on postcolonial literature, film, spatial theory, and the means of imagining a successful post-Capitalist politics of decolonization, cultural reinvention, and community. We will foreground texts that invite discussion of race, gender, sex, and class in the context of globalization, new technologies, cultural dislocation, cataclysm, and diaspora.
	ENGL 130 AF - Topics 20th C Afr Diaspora Lit CrsNo ENGL130 AF When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2011. Instructor(s): V. Thomas Rotating topics.
	ENGL 132 AF - Black Queer Narrative & Theories CrsNo ENGL132 AF
	ENGL 134 PO - Medieval Women Authors CrsNo ENGL134 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2008. Instructor(s): Staff A study of women writers from the eighth- to 15th-century writing in various genres, such as travelogue, drama, personal history, fable, verse and didactic literature. We analyze these texts as works of literature and as historical artifacts, through comparison with men who wrote in a similar genre/cultural context and also with women who exerted power in non-literary ways. Spring 2008; offered alternate years.
	ENGL 135 PO - The “American” Century CrsNo ENGL135 PO The “American” Century. This course examines twentieth-=century representations of America by both American and non-American writers, thinkers, and artists in literature, criticism, and other visual modes. A heuristic device, all texts in this class have the world “American” in their titles. The course will investigate the changing meaning of the word as the United States emerges globally as an economic, cultural, and military power. Letter grade only.
	ENGL 136 PO - Feminist Poetics CrsNo ENGL136 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2011. Instructor(s): H. Gravendyk This course will offer students an introduction to feminist theory and criticism particularly as it intersects with poetics. By exploring poetry through the lens of feminist critique, students will gain skills in literary interpretation, theory-based scholarship, and argumentative reasoning. Students will read work by theorists such as Donna Haraway, Judith Butler, and Hélène Cixous; poets Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath, Diane di Prima, and Lorine Niedecker; and essays by Audre Lorde, Susan Howe, and Juliana Spahr. Letter grade only.
	ENGL 137 PO - Fragment as Form CrsNo ENGL137 PO When Offered: Spring 2012, offered occasionally. Instructor(s): A. Kunin Fragment as Form. The fragment as form in early modern literature: aphorisms, diaries, letters, dictionaries, footnotes, ballads, poems, ruins, and histories. Letter grade only.
	ENGL 138 PO - Henry James on Art and Society CrsNo ENGL138 PO When Offered: Fall 2011, offered occasionally. Instructor(s): A. Kunin Henry James on Art and Society. How does art make life? How do you use a novel to love the world? We will try to answer these questions by studying James’s novels and tales. We will also consider some writings by Eliot, Adams, Wilde, Wharton, and William James. Letter grade only.
	ENGL 140 PO - Literature of Incarceration CrsNo ENGL140 PO When Offered: Fall 2011. Instructor(s): V. Thomas This course investigates the world’s largest Prison Industrial Complex as narrated from the inside out. We focus on memoirs, novels, essays and poetry by and about inmates and critical writings on the prison system. Some argue that it’s a system of “Corrections” and paying a debt to society; others view it as the New Slavery.
	ENGL 141 PO - Shakespearean Drama CrsNo ENGL141 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2012. Instructor(s): C. Rosenfeld Shakespeare and the Technology of Dramatic Invention. Drawing on the theories and technologies of early modern performance, this class will consider how Shakespeare’s language both grounds and complicates questions central to the intersecting histories of rhetoric and theatrical production, including questions of gender, education, class, race, and sexuality. Letter grade only.
	ENGL 143 PO - American Poetic Modernisms CrsNo ENGL143 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2011. Instructor(s): H. Gravendyk Readings in a diverse body of American poetry identified as high-, late-, alternative- or early-“modernist.” Premised on the notion of multiple modernisms, this class uses readings in literary theory and criticism to interrogate and refine the terms with which we categorize poetry from the first half of the 20th century. Readings will include Moore, Eliot, Pound, Toomer, Oppen, Rukeyser, Williams, Hughes and others.
	ENGL 144 PO - Psychoanalysis and Literature CrsNo ENGL144 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2011. Instructor(s): S. Raff Considers psychoanalytic conceptions of the unconscious, identity, subjectivity, family, culture, religion and clinical practice with attention to their relevance to the study of literature. Intensive introduction to psychoanalysis followed by an examination of psychoanalytic theories of reading. Work by Freud, Lacan, Winnicott and others. Short literary texts may include Hoffmann, Gogol, Poe, Flaubert, James and Kafka.
	ENGL 145 PO - Gothic Tradition CrsNo ENGL145 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2011. Instructor(s): S. Raff A close look at the founding phase of the Gothic literary tradition (Walpole, Godwin, Radcliffe, Lewis, Austen) with a glance at its precursors, such as the “apparition narrative” and a survey of its monstrous progeny (Hoffmann, Mary Shelley, Pushkin, Poe, LeFanu, Henry James, Stoker, Carter, cyborg films). Short secondary readings include Burke, Sade, Scott, Freud, Kristeva, Sedgwick.
	ENGL 146 PO - Modernist Poetry CrsNo ENGL146 PO Instructor(s): H. Gravendyk
	ENGL 147 PO - Contemporary Critical Theory CrsNo ENGL147 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered Spring 2013. Instructor(s): P. Mann Introduction to the tasks and problems of contemporary literary theory. Readings drawn primarily from structuralism and poststructuralism.
	ENGL 148 PO - Literary Theory, Ancient and Modern CrsNo ENGL148 PO When Offered: Spring 2012. Instructor(s): P. Mann

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Courses

ECON 151 PO - Labor Economics

ECON 152 PO - Money, Banking and Financial Markets

ECON 153 PO - Urban and Regional Economics

ECON 154 PO - Game Theory for Economists

ECON 155 PO - Law and Economics

ECON 155 PZ - History of Economic Thought

ECON 156 PO - Security Valuation and Portfolio Theory

ECON 157 PO - Corporate Finance

ECON 158 PO - Quantitative Investment Management

ECON 159 PO - Economics of the Public Sector

ECON 161 PO - Advanced Macroeconomic Analysis

ECON 162 PO - Advanced Microeconomic Analysis

ECON 163 PO - International Macro Policy and Monetary Institutions

ECON 164 PO - Technology and Growth

ECON 167 PO - Econometrics

ECON 169 PO - Advanced Econometrics

ECON 171 CM - Environmental Economics

ECON 172 PZ - Environmental Economics

ECON 190 PO - Senior Seminar in Economics

ECON 195 PO - Senior Activity in Economics

ECON 199DRPO - Economics: Directed Readings

ECON 199IRPO - Economics: Independent Research

ECON 199RAPO - Economics:Research Assistantship

EDUC 424 CG - Gender and Education

ENGR 004 HM - Introduction to Engineering Design and Manufacturing

ENGR 013 HM - Intro to Energy Systems Engineering

ENGR 080 HM - Experimental Engineering

ENGR 111 HM - Engineering Clinic I

ENGR 201 HM - Economics of Technical Enterpris

ENGR 202 HM - Engineering Management

ENGL 012 PZ - Introduction to African-American Literature

ENGL 050 PO - Modern British & Irish Fiction

ENGL 051 PO - Modern American Fiction

ENGL 053 PO - 20th-Century American Women Writers

ENGL 055B PO - Contemporary Fiction: Animals

ENGL 056 PO - Contemporary Native American Literature

ENGL 057 PO - Modern British and Irish Poetry

ENGL 064A PO - Creative Writing: Fiction

ENGL 064B PO - Creative Writing: Poetry

ENGL 064C PO - Creative Writing: Screenwriting

ENGL 064D PO - Elements of Creative Writing: Literary Non-Fiction

ENGL 066 PO - Early Modern Poetry and Poetics

ENGL 067 PO - Literary Interpretation

ENGL 074 PO - British Novel, Behn to Austen

ENGL 075 PO - British Novel II

ENGL 077 PO - American Nature: Poetry in/and the 19th Century

ENGL 083 PO - Arthurian Literature

ENGL 086 PO - Poetry Movements since the 1950s

ENGL 087F PO - Writ: Theories/Proces/Pedagogies

ENGL 087H PO - Writ: Theories/Proces/Pedagogies

ENGL 088 PO - Poets in the 21st Century

ENGL 090 PO - The Pre-Modern for Post-Moderns

ENGL 091 PO - Enlightment, Romantic and Victorian Literature

ENGL 092 PO - Anglo-Irish Literary Tradition

ENGL 093 PO - Rock & Roll Writing

ENGL 095 PO - Survey of American Literature II

ENGL 100 PO - Literature and Cultures of U.S. Imperialism

ENGL 101 PO - The English Lyric Before 1700

ENGL 102B SC - Survey 1865-Present: American Literature

ENGL 103 PO - Literature of the Enlightenment

ENGL 104 PO - Literature of Romantic Period

ENGL 105 PO - Literature of Victorian Period

ENGL 106 PO - 19th-Century U.S. Women Writers

ENGL 107 PO - William Blake

ENGL 110 PO - Women and the Rise of the Novel

ENGL 111 PO - American Masculinities: Novel 19-20C

ENGL 112 PO - Early Modern Romance

ENGL 113 PO - Step Right Up: Race, Gender and Popular Culture 1865-1917

ENGL 114 PO - Asian/American Forms

ENGL 115 PO - Eating the Other: Race, Gender and Literary Food Studies

ENGL 116 PO - Excess: Lit/Phil/Psychoanalysis

ENGL 117 PO - Poststructuralism

ENGL 118 PO - The Nature of Narrative of Fictions and Films

ENGL 119 PO - Graphic Novels

ENGL 120 PO - Queer Theories, Gay Fictions

ENGL 121 PO - Whitman, Dickinson and Poe

ENGL 122 AF - Healing Narratives

ENGL 123 PO - The Holocaust in Literature and Film

ENGL 124 AF - AfroFuturisms