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3.00 Credits
Students completing this connection will learn to understand printmaking from the perspectives of artist, connoisseur, collector, conservator and art historian. They will discover that the material taught in Arth 270 makes richer sense when they have experimented with printmaking and begun to develop their own personal imagery in Arts 315. Arth 270 focuses on the history of prints, particularly the Old Masters, who were among the greatest printmakers of all time. Students in this class work directly with the prints in the Wheaton College Collection, learning how to handle and care for them and to identify media. They also learn about the history of prints from the early 15th century to the early 19th century. Becoming print collectors and organizing an exhibition drawn from the Wheaton collection are also requirements of the course. Since there is a great deal of emphasis on the object and on the techniques of the Old Masters in the art history class, becoming a printmaker in Arts 315 will give students a wonderful opportunity to create prints and truly understand the intricacies of this medium. Connections: Arth 270 The Art of the Print and Arts 315 Intaglio Printmaking
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2.00 Credits
Students taking these two courses will connect the practical experience and knowledge gained through creating electronic circuits with a theoretical understanding of how data are stored and transmitted within the structure of a computer. Comp 220 focuses on the workings of a computer at a relatively high level, looking primarily at how data in binary form (0s and 1s) are transmitted through circuits, from memory through the CPU to arrive at an answer. In order to represent this, we use the notion of a series of "black boxes" todescribe what happens to the data in each component. In Phys 110 (a laboratory-based course), students actually build these "black boxes" and seehow the electronic components work. This handson approach will give students a much deeper understanding of the components that are discussed at a higher level in the computer science course. Connections: Comp 220 Computer Organization and Assembly Language and Phys 110 Electronic Circuits
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3.00 Credits
Global Music connects the study of culture and society generally (in Anth 102) to the study of music within specific cultures and societies. Musc 21 considers the musical traditions of India, Japan, Indonesia and the Middle East, as well as Celtic and Rom (gypsy) traditions of Europe; Musc 212 looks at the music of Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as ethnic music of the United States, including Native American, Anglo American, African American and Hispanic traditions. Ethnomusicology and anthropology are both interdisciplinary fields that cross the boundaries of social science, the humanities and the arts in order to comprehend commonalities of the human experience across a wide range of cultural variations. In addition to sharing this comparative project, anthropologists and ethnomusicologists also share certain methodological techniques: participant observation, intensive interviewing, archival and documentary audiovisual research in local communities, often in "exotic" locations. Students will be encouraged,whenever possible, to attend performances, lectures and films that enhance our understanding of cultural diversity and human expression. Connections: Musc 211 World Music: Eurasia or Musc 212 World Music: Africa and the Americas with Anth 102 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
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3.00 Credits
Students who begin this connection with Hist 365, which covers the political, social, intellectual and cultural history of China from the late 18th century to the present, will find they have an excellent historical background for Pols 223, which focuses mainly on political developments in China after 1949. Those whose schedules do not permit this order may take the political science course first. Both courses may also count toward a major or minor concentration in Asian Studies. Connections: Hist 365 Modern China and Pols 223 Contemporary Chinese Politics
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3.00 Credits
Mathematics and art have always been connected. Math has been used to create works of art (perspective, golden rectangles, fractals, even visualizations of the fourth dimension), while art has been used to expand mathematical knowledge (artistic perspective shaped the drawing of mathematical diagrams; da Vinci illustrated a math text on the Golden Mean). Math has also been used to analyze art, for example, classifying figures based on their symmetry or using fractals to study 17thcentury Japanese woodcuts or Jackson Pollock. Revolutions in art and in math, moreover, have often been closely tied: the Renaissance in art, preceded and to some extent made possible, the Renaissance in math; the new mathematical ideas of the fourth dimension and non-Euclidean geometry coincided roughly with the movement away from realism in the early 20th century. Math 122 will use the mathematical mode of inquiry to pose and answer questions relating to art and art history. The course will progress chronologically from ancient Egypt and Greece to the Renaissance and move forward from there. While the material in the course is entirely mathematical, its topics and examples and much of the work the students do will be drawn from the field of art and from materials that students will encounter in Arth 102. Connections: Math 122 Math in Art and Arth 102 Great Works II orArth 202 Great Works II (Enhanced)
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2.00 Credits
Students taking these two courses will have coordinated opportunities to study the global pharmaceutical industry, which has grown into a multibillion- dollar enterprise merging economic principles and biomedical research to develop and distribute therapeutics around the world. Students in Bio 112 are introduced to modern cell and molecular biology in both lecture and laboratory settings, while those in Econ 112 are introduced to the behaviors of economic markets, pricing and product distribution. The Biopharma connection will engage "Cells and Genes" students in discussing the economic implications of the biomedical research they discuss and engage "Microeconomics" students in theprocess of biological research. Shared lecture topics illustrating important principles from both biological and economic perspectives will include vaccine development and distribution, drug therapy and human cloning, and the human genome project. Through independent laboratory research in the Cells and Genes lab, students will have the opportunity to do an independent research project in which they design and perform their own experiments, analyze and present their own data and make their own scientific discoveries. This project will offer students invaluable insights into the scientific process and into the inevitable pitfalls and occasional breakthroughs that accompany scientific discovery-insights critical to understanding why RandD budgets are so big in the pharmaceutical industry. Connections: Bio 112 Cells and Genes and Econ 112 Introduction to Microeconomics
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2.00 Credits
The two courses in this connection explore the historical reality and cultural concept of Germany from the sometimes compatible, sometimes contradictory, perspectives of history and German studies. Ger 250 examines 20th-century Germany through novels, films and other art forms. Topics in Hist 240 include the unification of Germany under Bismarck, Germany and World War I, Weimar culture, the rise of National Socialism, the Holocaust and World War II, the Wall, Berlin and reunification. The courses include shared readings and lectures and are scheduled to be taken simultaneously. Connections: Hist 240 German History: 1648- Present and Ger 250 German Culture
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3.00 Credits
These biology and art history courses share the assumption that architecture, whether built by humans or by nature, follows simple structural principles. These shared principles, termed "Rules to Build By" in these courses, are illustrated in the common characteristics of structures as different in scale as living cells and Gothic cathedrals. For example, the first Rule to Build By states, "To maximize flexibility, assemble complex structures from simple repeating units." In Cell Biology, this principle is illustrated by cell skeletons, which exist in countless shapes by recombining common identical subunits in different patterns. In medieval architecture, the principle is illustrated in Romanesque buildings that were constructed from modular units to create additive architecture that was efficient, flexible and diverse. The second posits that "To construct self-supporting structures, balance forces of tension and compression," a principle manifested in cells by mitotic spindles and the arched stable scaffolds that support cell division, and in cathedrals by flying buttresses that support stone walls. Living Architecture students work together in Wheaton's Imaging Center for Undergraduate Collaboration (ICUC) in several joint laboratory exercises. One lab utilizes techniques of polarization imaging to detect the forces at work on skeletons of cells and of cathedrals. In another lab, digital image analysis is used to detect patterns in visual data in diverse objects and materials. For example, this versatile technique can be used equally well to find hidden patterns in neural networks-webs of interconnected nerve cells-as in the Bayeux Tapestry (a 230-foot-long embroidery that records the Norman Conquest in 1066). Studying dramatically different subjects through the shared approaches available in the ICUC lab will crystallize students' understanding of important relationships in methodology between these apparently disparate fields. Connections: Bio 219 Cell Biology and Arth 353 Castles, Cathedrals and Monasteries
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3.00 Credits
Politicians and government regulators often make decisions that affect our natural world without understanding the science that explains how that world operates. Many issues concerning the use and modification of our natural environment, such as water use, desertification, air and water pollution, and climate change, cross national boundaries, but global treaties often prove difficult to ratify or enforce. Many scientists also wish to pursue their research without the distraction of politics. These courses offer a bridge across this divide by adding scientific information to the political debate in Pols 109 and by showing the practical and political aspects of human impacts on Earth systems to students in Phys 160. Students completing the connection will learn both sides of the politics-science relationship in detail; all students will benefit from the expanded breadth of discussion in both classes. Connections: Pols 109 International Politics and Phys 160 Geology
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3.00 Credits
These entwined courses introduce students to the beauty and power of mathematics and show how mathematical ideas have influenced literary science fiction. Students examine how concepts of combinatorics, infinity, topology, logic, computability, number theory and cryptography are both interrelated and linked to the most influential science fiction of the past 40 years: a lovely look at the intertwinings of the nature of language and the language of nature. Connections: Math 123 The Edge of Reason and Eng 243 Science Fiction
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