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1.00 Credits
Majors will take this onecredit capstone course in conjunction with a 400-level literature course during the spring semester of their senior year in order to fulfill the collegiate requirement for a capstone experience. Working with their capstone adviser, students will submit for approval of the Departmental Capstone Committee, a topic related both to the theme of the 400-level course and to the interests of the student. Under the guidance of their capstone adviser, students will prepare a capstone project, which will also serve as the final paper or project for the 400- level literature course. In addition to the written project, students will make two oral presentations, one in English on research Day and another in French. Performance in FREN 495 will be evaluated by the Departmental Capstone Committee members and will be based on the students'work with their capstone adviser, the capstone project, and the two presentations. Given in French. Offered in spring, offered in fall when necessary. One hour. Staff. All of the following courses are taught in French. The minimum prerequisites for all courses taught in France are FREN 232 and FREN 351 or permission of the department.
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4.00 Credits
In this course students will examine the nature of theatre and acting and study the psychology of the self in social contexts. Students will survey dramatic literature, explore mask work, perform scenes, and study how individuals think about, influence, and relate to one another. In a culminating project, the students will be challenged to come to terms with the origins and nature of identity. Professor Joe Mattys, Department of the Arts (Theater) and Professor Klaaren, Department of Psychology. Four hours each semester. Area of Knowledge requirements met: one drama course under Art and Literature area and one psychology course under the Social Sciences area. Four hours each semester. Mr. Mattys, Ms. Klaaren.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the connections and intersections of the disciplines of History and Theatre as vehicles for understanding the most dramatic historical events, issues and personalities of America from 1898 until 2001. The twentieth century is defined as the period from the Great Exposition in Chicago in 1898, which showcased technology and promoted significant change in many facets of American life and culture, to the defining moment of the events of September 11, 2001. It is in this 103 year period that the nation's character experienced major transformations which fundamentally altered every aspect of American life and the nation's sense of itself and its place in the "global village." The major culminating exercise will be a series of staged readings (with music and costumes, if possible) selected from the dramatic works that we have examined during the year. In addition, we will hold a "Talk Back." The campus community and the general public will be invited to these activities. Several students will present synopses of the major historical events of the twentieth century. We will also have the entire body engage in a spirited question and answer session and debate. Area of Knowledge requirement met: one history course under the Civilizations area and one drama course under the Arts and Literature area. Four hours each semester. Ms. Mattys, Mr. Jefferson.
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4.00 Credits
How do you know? Human beings have always lived in groups based on cooperation and mutual aid.Yet they are also strongly inclined to draw lines around their own groups and to treat those on the other side differently. Why? While in-group and out-group labels are often based on categories such as ethnicity, nationality, or socio-economic class, they are often arbitrary, and change from place to place and time to time. This FYE will examine the historical and cultural context in which categories of Us v. Them, Self and Other, Citizen and Foreigner take shape. Relying on cultural comparisons and literary texts, we will explore how friends and strangers are defined and how they are (mis) treated based on those definitions. Examining historical processes such as colonialism, we will discuss how different peoples have come into contact and the clashes, oppressions, and accommodations that have resulted. Taking a contemporary view of globalization, we will explore how the economic, political, and cultural shrinking of our world shapes cross-cultural (mis) understanding. Along the way, we will grapple with challenging questions about power and prejudice, war and peace, and the capacity of the human race to create a more harmonious world. Specific issues will include: immigration, racism, and human rights. Area of Knowledge requirements met: one sociology course under the Social Sciences area and one literature course under the Arts and Literature area. Four hours each semester. Mr. London, Ms. Hilliard.
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4.00 Credits
Recently the architectural term "footprint" has been used to describe the environmental impact of human activities on natural ecological systems. Determining such a footprint is carried out by converting estimates of resource consumption and waste generation into a footprint area in square meters or square miles. Academic enterprises such as Randolph- Macon College offer a useful laboratory for investigating the footprint of a somewhat self-contained human institution, and offer students the opportunity to explore their collective and individual footprints on their own environment. In this course over both fall and spring terms, students will investigate the sources of the Randolph-Macon ecological footprint, estimate the magnitudes of the contributions from each of these sources to the footprint, and develop a reasonable plan to reduce the footprint. In doing so, students will also assist the College in developing a workable campus-wide environmental management system. Area of Knowledge requirements met: one sociology course under the Social Sciences area and one natural science course with lab under the Natural and Mathematical Science area. Counts on the EVST major as a substitute for EVST 105. Four hours each semester. Mr. Dunkel, Mr. Moores.
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3.00 Credits
Everyone has a History course in college but not everyone gets a Future course. Why not? History is very important but it seems that the Future might matter as well. But how does it matter and why does it matter? What will it look like? Our course on the Future of things will attempt to get at just these questions from two very different starting points Economics and Literature. The dismal science, Economics, will begin with some mechanics on mathematical and economic forecasting, primarily using linear regression and Excel spreadsheet trend lines. Once we have a foundation in basic forecasting, we will move on to examine a wide range of literatures which attempt to forecast all sorts of human behavior. The range will include world demographic trends, stock market returns, the future of social security and Medicare, education attainment, technological innovation, Virginia and U.S. budget and economic trends, your retirement accounts at various interest rates and of course, the Presidential winner in 2008 and the likely policy implications of such a win. Now all of this might be exciting but it could also be depressing, especially after you see your retirement projections. So in order to balance the course a bit, we also offer more creative accounts of the future as well. Utopia and Dystopia, promise and admonition, potential and disillusion- these are all the stuff of prophecy and the subject of some of our greatest works of art and literature. Artists as different as Sir Phillip Sidney and Percy Bysshe Shelley tell us that art is meant to tell us not how things are, but how they could be. Jeremiah (the Prophet) and George Orwell warn us of the dire consequences of our actions-or our failures to act. We will explore the specifically didactic and persuasive features of prophetic writing and consider the way humanity continues to blunt our anxiety about the unknown by contending to know it. Welcome to the future. Area of Knowledge requirement met: one economics course in the Social Science area, and one literature course under
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4.00 Credits
This course is dedicated to the dynamic relationship between music and mathematics. The course is open to all freshmen regardless of musical or mathematical background. We will explore these two disciplines through five overarching themes: perception (math, music, and the brain), number (pitch and frequency), pattern (rhythms and permutations), symmetry (phrasing, tuning, and group theory) and variation (chance music and probability). In the mathematics portion of the course, students will learn about periodic functions, permutations and combinations, modular arithmetic, group theoretic topics related to the symmetries of regular shapes, probability and fractals. They will learn how these mathematical concepts arise naturally in music and use them to describe, analyze and compose music. In the music portion of this course, students will learn basic music theory, as well as the listening skills necessary to interpret music of varying origins and time periods. We will study how math relates to the musical concepts of pitch, rhythm, meter, timbre, and form. Through critical listening and simple music composition, students will also explore how sound and numbers intersect in the creative process. Area of Knowledge requirements met: one mathematics course under the Natural and Mathematical Science area, and one arts course under the Arts and Literature area. Four hours each semester. Mr. Doering, Ms. Bhattacharya.
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4.00 Credits
Students will explore the coevolution of chemical technology and art in various cultures of the world from the Paleolithic through the early Renaissance. Students will learn not only what art was created by ancient peoples throughout the world, but also how it was created. The focus will be on seeing how technological innovation and intellectual creativity were instrumental in the making of art and at the same time were celebrated through works of art. In the Arts portion of the course, illustrated lectures will be enhanced by "hands-on" creative projects, selected readings, videos, and museum visits. In the science portion students will re-create ancient techniques in the laboratory and rationalize the experiments with a modern, scientific understanding of the chemistry. Experiments will include making fire, making charcoal, flaking arrowheads, spinning fibers, molding plaster, firing ceramics, brewing mead, extracting potash, smelting copper, manufacturing glass, dying fabrics, pressing paper, preparing inks, making soap, distilling alcohol, and painting frescos. Area of Knowledge requirements met: one natural science with lab course under the Natural and Mathematical Science area, and one arts course under the Arts and Literature area. Cross-area requirement met: one course in Western culture. Four hours each semester. Ms. Fisher, Mr. Thoburn.
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4.00 Credits
China's Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydroelectric project in the world, bringing electricity to a growing economy, opening central China to navigation, and providing flood control for millions of people downstream. However, it requires millions of Chinese to leave ancestral homes, submerges important cultural sites, and disrupts the ecology of the longest river in Asia. Is the dam worth the cost? In this course we will examine how the people and the fish of the Three Gorges area lived before the dam, and the changes the dam brings. We will look for connections between the people and the fish and will consider what is gained, lost, and retained as the reservoir fills and the river is changed forever. The course will culminate with a project that assimilates this information to answer the question, "What are the parallels between what is happening to the fish and what is happening to the people, and what does this teach us about our own, industrialized lives?" Area of Knowledge requirements met: natural science course with lab under the Natural and Mathematical Science area, and one Philosophy course under the Civilizations area. Crossarea requirement met: one course in non-Western culture. Counts on the EVST major as a substitute for EVST 105. Four hours each semester. Mr. Gowan, Mr. Huff.
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4.00 Credits
Should public funds be used to subsidize sports stadiums? Why are salaries for pro athletes so high? Should monopolistic sports leagues be exempt from anti-trust laws? Modern professional sports are a complex mix of physics and economics. Students in these courses will be introduced to principles of microeconomics in the context of popular sports, including the supply and demand model, labor market theory, the theory of market structures, and public choice theory. These principles will be applied to a variety of social issues that arise from the prominence of sports in our culture. Students will also study the underlying principles of science that influence various physical games and sports. Units intended include timing, distance relationships, material science influencing equipment possibilities, strategies, and limitations on achievement by participants and officials. Area of Knowledge requirements met: natural science course with lab under the Natural and Mathematical Science area, and one Social Science course in Economics. Four hours each semester. Mr. Lang, Mr. Franz.
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