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Spring Quarter 2024 A&H courses

-This is for informational purposes only. Class times, areas of inquiry requirement, fees, and course descriptions may change. Check the time schedule for updates before enrolling in any course.  

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African American Studies
https://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2024/afamst.html

Afram 214 – Intro to African American Literature (5 credits)
TTh 3:30-5:20
Diversity and writing credit
Introduction to various genres of African American literature from its beginnings to the present. Emphasizes the cultural and historical context of African American literary expression and its aesthetics criteria. Explores key issues and debates, such as race and racism, inequality, literary form, and canonical acceptance. Offered jointly with ENGL 258.

Afram 318 – Black Literary Genres (5 credits)
TTh 1:30-3:20
Diversity credit

Considers how generic forms and conventions have been discussed and distributed in the larger context of African American, or other African diasporic literary studies. Links the relationship between generic forms to questions of power within social, cultural, and historical contexts. Offered jointly with ENGL 318.

Afram 334 – Civil Rights and Black Power (5 credits)
TTh 3:30-5:20

Diversity
Examines the politics and culture of the modern African American freedom struggle, which began after WWII and continued into the 1970s. Interrogates political strategies associated with nonviolent direct action, armed self-reliance, and black nationalism, as well as the cultural expression that reflect these political currents. Offered jointly with HSTAA 334.

American Ethnic Studies
https://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2024/aes.html

AES 212 – Comparative American Ethnic Literature (5 credits)
TTh 1:30-3:20
Quiz F times vary
AES majors only period I registration. Open to all students on 2/26.
Diversity credit
Reviews selected texts by African American, American Indian, Asian American, Chicano/Latino, and Euro American writers. Includes a comparison of how texts envision and interpret a diverse American culture and social, political relations among peoples of the United States. Explores the power of cultural agency in the creation of America's literature.

AES 312 – Race and the Radical Imagination: Self-Defense and (Auto)biography (5 credits)
T 10:30-1:20
Diversity credit

This course analyzes activists and characters that studies martial art or defended themselves. In order to understand how gender, race, and safety impact wellbeing, we will study works such as Angela Davis: Autobiography (1974) and Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars (Thom 2016). Students will also learn accessible martial arts skills. Offered jointly with Honors 212A.

AES 404A – Advanced AES Seminar: Martial Arts and Social Justice (5 credits)
T 2:30-5:20
Diversity credit
This course offers the chance to learn self-defense techniques and martial arts choreography while studying histories of race and gender. We will discuss how martial arts forge opportunities for solidarity, protest, and transformation. Movements studies include the Black Power Movement and the Anti-Sexual Assault Movement.

AES 404B - Advanced AES Seminar: Visual Archives of Unfreedom and Liberation (5 credits)
TTh 10:30-12:20
Diversity credit
Comparative interdisciplinary study of race and ethnicity. Examines experiences and cultural expressions of racialized communities in the U.S. and its diasporas from a cultural studies' perspective. Explores how expressive cultures engage and transform racial formations and their intersections, animating social relations of everyday life and reshaping structures of power.

American Indian Studies
https://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2024/ais.html

AIS 203 – Intro to American Indian Literature (5 credits)
MW 2:30-4:20
Diversity credit
Introduction to Indigenous creative writing, including novels, short stories, poetry, autobiography, and plays. Explores the artistic, intellectual, political, and cultural contexts out of which the creative work of American Indian and Indigenous writers evolves and is interpreted.

AIS 379 – Powwow Tradition and Innovation (5 credits)
TTh 12:30-2:20

Diversity credit
Explores the historical and cultural roots of powwow. Discusses the ways this indigenous Native art form has adapted since prehistoric times.

AIS 443 – Indigenous Film/Sovereign Visions (5 credits)
TTh 10:30-12:20
Diversity credit
Explores fiction, documentary, experimental film, and digital media by indigenous artists from around the world. Focuses on personal, political, and cultural expression. Issues include media and sovereignty movements, political economy, language revitalization, the politics of decolonization, and indigenous aesthetics. Jointly offered with Com 443A.

Anthropology
http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2024/anthro.html

Anth 233 – Language and Society (5 credits)
MWF 8:30-9:20
Quiz Th, times vary
Diversity credit
Open to all students on 2/26.
Introduces the study of sociolects, the varieties of language that arise from differences in cultural and societal groups, often reflective of power inequalities. Raises awareness of the role that society and the individual play in shaping sociolects via the systematic observation and critical discussion of linguistic phenomena. Offered jointly with COM 233/LING 233.

Anth 309 – Indigenous Epistemologies and Oceanic Canoes (5 credits)
TTh 12:30-2:20
Diversity credit
Open to all students on 2/26.

Like a western textbook, outrigger canoes carry scientific knowledge and ingenuity holistic in scope and intertwined with community and environmental relationships. Centers on Oceanic writers, artists, weavers, and canoe builders. Students engage in group research to help celebrate and build awareness for the intellectual contributions of Pacific Islanders.

Architecture
https://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2024/archit.html

Arch 150 – Appreciation of Architecture I (3 credits)
TTh 3:30-4:50
Online course. Go to time schedule for details.
Historical survey of global architecture and built environments with reference to environmental, technological, and socio-cultural contexts, from prehistory to 1400. For nonmajors.

Arch 151 – Appreciation of Architecture II (3 credits)
TTh 3:30-4:50
Historical survey of global architecture and built environments with reference to environmental, technological, and socio-cultural contexts, from 1400 to the present. For nonmajors. No pre-reqs.

Arch 231 – Making and Craft (5 credits)
Check time schedule for information on class times and sections.
No seniors

Introduces the cultures and practical realities of "making" through study of the nature of tools, techniques, and the development of built culture over time. Examines the relationships of "making" to available materials, sources of energy and the development of infrastructure. Also covers qualities and characteristics of materials.

Arch 352 – History of Modern Architecture (3 credits)
MWF 9:30-10:20
No freshmen

Architectural history from 1750 to the present.

Art History
http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2024/arthis.html

Art H 203 – Survey of Western Art (5 credits)
MW 11:30-12:20
Quiz T, times vary
Writing credit
This course introduces the major figures, styles and movements in Western art from the High Renaissance to the present.  It also presents the principle issues, techniques, and interpretive methods of the discipline of art history.  As well as learning to recognize the key “monuments” of European and American art from around 1500 to 1900, students will consider how a study of visual products adds to our understanding of past cultures and societies. Illustrated lectures anchor the course, but discussion is always encouraged, and sophisticated reading assignments will be provided to expand upon the text and lectures.

Art H 209 – Art Themes and Topics: The History of Architecture (5 credits)
TTh 12:30-1:20
Quiz W, times vary
Writing credit
Introduces students to new ideas, developing themes, and current research in art history and visual culture.

Art H 233 – Survey of Native Art of the Pacific Northwest (5 credits)
MWF 10:00-11:20
Surveys indigenous art of the Pacific Northwest Coast from the Columbia River in the south to Southeast Alaska in the north and from ancient through contemporary times. Focuses on the historical and cultural contexts of the art and the stylistic differences between tribal and individual artists' styles.

Art H 307 – Art and Archaeology of Ancient China (5 credits)
Online course. Go to time schedule for details.
Chinese art and archaeology from the third millennium to the third century BCE. Examines several themes in detail including: ethnographic analogy in archaeology; iconography without text; metal technology and its beginnings; the earliest known Chinese writing; the interaction between design and technique in bronze casting and jade working; comparative study of the first civilizations; archaeology of music.

Art H 309A – Topics in Art History: Art and Encounter in Spanish America (5 credits)
MWF 10:00-11:20
Check MyPlan for updates to course description.

Asian Language and Literatures
http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2024/asianll.html

Asian 207 – Special Topics in Literature and Culture of Asia: Science and Speculative Fiction of Southeast Asia (5 credits)
MW 9:30-11:20
Introduction to the literature of one or more Asian traditions considered in its cultural context. Content varies depending on the specialization and interest of instructor. Texts in English translation. Jointly offered with G Lits 251/Comp Lit 251.

Cinema and Media Studies
http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2024/cms.html

CMS 321 – Oppositional Cinema/Media: African American Cinemas (5 credits)
MW 2:30-4:20
Open to all students on 3/25.
This course will engage and explore a range of American films made by and/or predominantly featuring Black characters from the 20th and 21st centuries. Students will watch, analyze, and discuss films from a range of decades and genres, taking both a thematic and semiotic approach to these films and their subject matter. How do cinematic representations of Black characters vary depending on the race, gender, and sexuality of the filmmaker? How have filmic depictions of Blackness changed, and not changed, over time? Do Black filmmakers always tell different (diverse, non-stereotypical) stories about Blackness? How do they navigate prevalent narratives and themes that are subtly or overtly anti-Black, whether aesthetically, culturally, industrially, or historically? What can we learn from examining depictions of class, gender, and sexuality in tandem with Blackness? In some weeks, screenings and discussions of films will be supplemented with screenings of television shows, trailers, and/or visual albums, which we will place in conversation with these films in order to examine how representations of Blackness and of gender compare across media.

Classics
http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2024/clas.html

Clas 326 – Women in Antiquity (5 credits)
TTh 10:30-12:20
Diversity credit
A survey of primary sources in medicine, law, philosophy, religious ritual, myth, history, and ethnography, informed by perspectives from literature, art, and archaeology. Provides students the tools to analyze the social roles of women in ancient Greece and Rome. Offered jointly with Comp lit 360B.

Clas 328 – Sex, Gender, and Representation in Greek and Roman Literature (3 credits)
TTh 11:30-12:50
Diversity credit
This class explores how gender and sexuality were defined, represented, policed, and played with in ancient Greek and Roman written texts. What were the expectations for proper male and female behavior in Greece and Rome, and what opportunities were there for gender or sexual transgression? What were considered appropriate sexual objects and sexual acts? Where evidence is there for transfolks, women-loving-women, gender-non-conforming-folks, and men-loving men? No prior knowledge is needed.

Clas 329 – Greek and Roman Slavery (5 credits)
TTh 2:30-4:20
Diversity credit

In studying the ancient world, we generally focus on the achievements of the Greeks and Romans in literature, philosophy, art, and architecture. But we cannot, and should not, overlook the darker aspects of the ancient world, including the pervasiveness of slavery. This course examines enslaved people and slavery in antiquity and asks the following questions: How was slavery defined and what forms did it take? How many enslaved people were there, and where did they come from? What was the status of enslaved people under the law? What roles did they play in the economy? How were they treated? In what circumstances were they freed? In what ways did they resist their owners? How did the ancients justify the subjugation of other human beings?

Clas 420 – Freedom in Ancient Rome and the Modern World (5 credits)
MW 10:30-12:20
Diversity credit

Freedom – libertas, in Latin – was a fundamental concept in ancient Rome, central throughout its history to, and in all aspects of, its political and social life.  Indeed, the word libertas became literally synonymous with (that is, a name for) the ‘Roman Republic’.  This course examines 'freedom' in ancient Rome, from its founding in the 8th century BC to the 4th century AD, when Christianity became the dominant religion in the Roman Empire.  Through selected readings in both primary and secondary sources, we will examine the various forms of freedom important to Romans and how their views evolved (or remained the same) over time, specifically: personal freedom (including slavery), political freedom, religious freedom, and intellectual freedom (i.e., the freedom to write or say what one wants).  In addition, however, we will also examine various perspectives on ‘freedom’ expressed in the modern world, including (but not limited to) the United States, and what they owe or do not owe to Roman concepts.  Readings in Orlando Patterson’s landmark book Freedom, an historical overview of the concept, will provide a benchmark for this, but will be supplemented by other readings as well.

Clas 430 – Greek and Roman Mythology (3 credits)
MWF 1:30-2:20
Note: Section B offers writing credit. Visit time schedule for details about registration in linked English course.
Principal myths found in classical and later literature.

Communications
http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2024/com.html

Com 200 – Introduction to Communication (5 credits)
MW 2:30-4:20
Quiz F times vary
Introduces theories and research in communication. Explores the myriad ways scholars approach fundamental issues of contemporary human communication. Focuses on theories and research of communication (e.g. relational, group, political, cultural, and international). Acts as a gateway to knowledge about the communication discipline.

Com 220 – Intro to Public Speaking (5 credits)
MW 10:30-11:20
Quiz TTh times vary
Designed to increase competence in public speaking and the critique of public speaking. Emphasizes choice and organization of material, sound reasoning, audience analysis, and delivery.

Comparative History of Ideas
http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2024/chid.html

Chid 110 – Question of Human Nature: Nature, Culture, and Belonging (5 credits)
TTh 4:00-5:20
In this course, we will examine the various forms of interaction between human, culture, and nature through critical theories and creative methods. Students will be introduced to ethical and political issues related to environmental justice activism, colonialism and capitalism, more-than-human-world and multispecies justice, as well as global interconnections. Designed using the place-based teaching model, this course will also immerse students in the environment outside the classroom through field trips. Quizzes and reading responses will guide and promote students’ engagements with lectures, readings, and other course materials. By the end of the course, students will have a deeper understanding of their relationship with place, environment, and the more-than-human world around them.

Chid 120 – Yoga Past and Present (5 credits)
To be arranged. Go to time schedule for details.
Studies yoga and its history, practice, literature, and politics. From the ancient past to modern yoga, studies essential texts and ideas, as well as the effects of class, religion, gender, nationalism, development, Marxism, colonialism, and physical culture on yoga. Offered jointly with RELIG 120.

Chid 250C – Special Topics: Art, Memory, and Violence in Latin America (5 credits)
TTh 11:30-1:20

This class invites students to think critically about art, violence, memory and social activism in Latin America (or Abiayala). Centering what Peruvian scholar Anibal Quijano termed “the coloniality of power”—a conceptual framework to understand the ongoing legacies of European colonialism in Abiayala—we will examine discourses of state authoritarianism, gendered strategies of torture, and the role of race in political violence. Throughout, students will also learn about the politics of struggle, resilience and hope. More specifically, we will explore the role of art in social struggle and in enacting a politics of memory, and read and hear from artists, political activists and other social justice actors. In addition to ethnography and social scientific analysis, we will rely on films, documentaries, historical fiction, plays, and testimonials to interrogate the complexities and intersections of art, memory, and violence in Latin America.

Chid 250E – Special Topics: Religions and the Modern Horror Film (5 credits)
TTh 5:00-6:50pm
From the Exorcist (1973) and the Wicker Man (1973) to Midsommar (2019) and the VVitch (2016), religious themes have been a major element in horror films in the history of western cinema. We will explore scholarship on the intersection of horror theory and religious studies, exploring themes such as exorcism, apocalypses, and cults, and pay particular attention to the representation of religious otherness and intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and class showing that an interdisciplinary conversation about the ways religions and cultures are portrayed in horror films offers a window into the enduring relevance of religion in the modern world.

Chid 250G – Special Topics: Grunge is for Losers – Seattle Alternative Music Scenes, 1964-2024 (5 credits)
MW 3:30-5:20

Stage dive into Seattle and PNW alternative music scenes, past and present. Start in the 1960s with the Dave Lewis Trio and The Sonics. Fast forward into the 1980s and beyond with Tina Godmother of Grunge Bell, U-Men, Green River, Soundgarden, Black Anger, Nirvana, Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Band of Horses, Tacocat, and Black Tones.

Chid 250H – Special Topics: The Literary Legacy of Tupac Shakur (5 credits)
MW 3:30-5:20
Hybrid course. Go to time schedule for details.

This interdisciplinary course focuses on the literary and philosophical influences of artist and activist, Tupac Shakur. We will study a variety of primary and secondary texts, including The Prince, The Autobiography of Malcom X, and The Art of War.

Chid 480C – Advanced Special Topics: Decolonizing Soviet Cinema: Films of Resistance and Desire (5 credits)
TTh 2:30-4:20
In this course we will study films from countries that have emerged in post-Soviet space, looking at both  Soviet Era and contemporary films in which directors explore their own and their countries sense of cultural identity vis-à-vis the dominant Soviet, often Russian, culture.

Dance
https://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2024/dance.html

Dance 100 – Understanding Dance (5 credits)
To be arranged. Online course. Go to time schedule for details.
Introduces the aesthetics and 4creative processes in dance and choreography. Pays attention to how dance is practiced in social arenas, popular entertainment, and concert settings. Includes independent field trips to local dance settings.

Drama
https://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2024/drama.html

Drama 103 – Theatre Appreciation (5 credits)
To be arranged. Group Start online course. Go to time schedule for details.
Covers the art of live theatrical performance. Discussion of how theatre is assembled, who the artists are, what they do, how theatre differs from other media, and how the various genres and styles of performance function, to create a deeper understanding of live performance.

English
http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2024/engl.html

Engl 257 – Asian-American (5 credits)
TTh 12:30-2:20
Writing credit
Diversity credit
No seniors period I (2/9-2/25)
Examines the emergence of Asian American literature as a response to anti-Asian legislation, cultural images, and American racial formation. Encourages thinking critically about identity, power, inequalities, and experiences of marginality.

Engl 259 – Literature and Social Difference (5 credits)
TTh 11:30-1:20 -  go to time schedule to confirm time
Writing credit
Diversity credit
No seniors period I (2/9-2/25)
Literary texts are important evidence for social difference (gender, race, class, ethnicity, language, citizenship status, sexuality, ability) in contemporary and historical contexts. Examines texts that encourage and provoke us to ask larger questions about identity, power, privilege, society, and the role of culture in present-day or historical settings.

Engl 307 – Cultural Studies (5 credits)
TTh 9:30-11:20
Open to all students on 2/26
Overview of cultural studies with a focus on reading texts or objects using cultural studies methods and writing analytic essays using cultural studies methods. Focuses on culture as a site of political and social debate and struggle.

Engl 352 – Literatures of the U.S. to 1865 (5 credits)
MW 4:30-6:20
Open to all students on 2/26
An introduction to American literature and culture during the decades leading up to the Civil War. This is a period when American authors: 1) struggled with numerous issues of race, slavery, gender, and class; 2) strove to develop a national mythology and identity against the backdrop of shifting national boundaries, increasing immigration, worldwide empire and trade, and a heterogeneous population; 3) tried to salvage religious faith in the wake of modern science and the Enlightenment ; 4) addressed massive social changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution; 5) and took democracy seriously enough to trace through its implications even to the point where, as in the case of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, such implications start to become startling and strange. The period is much too complex to be organized into a dominant, easily defined thesis or polemic, and in fact the strategy of choice for many of the writers whom we’ll be exploring is the complex interchange of alternative perspectives and voices.   In keeping with this emphasis on the diverse interchange and inclusivity of alternative voices and points of view, we'll explore--in addition to writings by Melville, Hawthorne, Emerson, and Thoreau traditionally taught in nineteenth-century courses on American literature--Chief Black Hawk's Autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, encoded sections of queer sexuality in Whitman's Song of Myself, and Margaret Fuller's proto-feminism as well as her encounter with native tribal cultures in the 1840s.  Class sessions will consist of lectures followed by time for class discussion and for questions which the class raises in response to class materials.

Engl 372 – World Englishes (5 credits)
TTh 1:30-3:20
Diversity credit
Open to all students on 2/26

Examines historical, linguistic, economic, and sociopolitical forces involved in the diversification of Global/New Englishes. Attention to changing power relations, language hierarchies, and inequalities associated with the teaching, learning, and use of English. Explores current debates on linguistic imperialism and resistance, concepts of 'mother tongue', nativeness, comprehensibility/intelligibility judgments, and language ownership.

Engl 478 – Language and Social Policy (5 credits)
MW 1:30-3:20
Open to all students on 2/26
Diversity credit

Examines the relationship between language policy and social organization; the impact of language policy on immigration, education, and access to resources and political institutions; language policy and revolutionary change; language rights. Offered jointly with Slavic 370.

French
https://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2024/french.html

French 228 – The Water Crisis in Literature and Film (5 credits)
TTh 11:30-1:20

Interprets a variety of texts (literary, cinematic, etc.) that address the water crisis to understand how water's meaning has changed as people become more conscious of risks in supply (pollution and natural/man-made scarcity) and as access to it is increasingly mediated in light of things like privatization and commodification. Offered jointly with LIT 228.

Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies
https://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2024/gwss.html

GWSS 251 – Gender and Popular Culture (5 credits)
MW 3:30-5:20
Diversity credit
Introduction to critical examination of gender, race/ethnicity, and sexuality in music, film, television, and the internet. Explores cultural meanings and social uses of popular culture by various communities in local and global contexts. Analysis of commercial and independent pop culture. Examination of popular culture forms varies depending on instructor.

GWSS 325 – Black Feminist Art and Performance (5 credits)
TTh 9:30-11:20
Diversity credit
Explores how black artists from around the world create work that engages with feminist concerns about identity and power. Covers artists working in a variety of mediums, including painting, sculpture, photography, new media, dance, and performance. Assignments are built to develop skills in experiencing and interpreting art, and provide creative outlets of producing knowledge about that art. Recommended: GWSS 200 or GWSS 235/ANTH 235.

Global Literary Studies
https://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2024/glits.html

Glits 253A - Literature and Identities: Popular Culture in 20th Century China (5 credits)
MW 1:30-3:20
Analysis of literary strategies in texts that grapple with social, cultural, and personal identities. Engagement with the ways texts deploy narrative, imagery, metaphor, and other elements to achieve their rhetorical purposes. Offered jointly with Chinese 385A/Comp Lit 322B.

Glits 253B – Literature and Identities: Intro to the Horn of Africa (5 credits)
MW 11:30-1:20
Analysis of literary strategies in texts that grapple with social, cultural, and personal identities. Engagement with the ways texts deploy narrative, imagery, metaphor, and other elements to achieve their rhetorical purposes. Offered jointly with JSIS 481A/HSTAFM 288A/Melc 288A.

Glits 311B – Literature Across Times: Songs of the Saints of India (5 credits)
WF 11:30-1:20
India's wisdom through popular songs of its saints of the devotional tradition. Texts as significant in contemporary religion and politics, whether protesting existing hierarchies of caste and gender, or confirming the status quo. Readings in English translation. Jointly offered with Asian 301. Note: add code required for Asian 301 during period I registration. No add code for Glits 311B.

Glits 314A – Literature Across Genres: Sympathy for the Devil: The Rhetoric of Compassion (5 credits)
MWF 11:30-12:20
President Obama called the “empathy deficit” the most pressing problem facing America. In this course, we will examine what’s at stake in becoming a more empathetic nation.

Is compassion the foundation of human morality or a dangerously unreliable emotion? This course examines the strategies and motivations in different media of fostering sympathy for commonly held enemies or discriminated groups. The syllabus runs from Ancient Greece to depictions of Nazis and terrorists in modern film, and considers philosophical assessments of sympathy alongside examples of its aesthetic manufacture. Half of our readings are in moral philosophy (e.g., Aristotle, Spinoza, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Kant, Nietzsche, Arendt), and in each case we use the literary text or film (e.g., Sophocles, Shakespeare, Lessing, Eliot, Brecht) as a kind of experimental field to evaluate the philosophers’ concepts and claims about the moral efficacy of compassion. 

This course engages in team-based learning. Groups work to engender sympathy for a 'bad guy' in three genres: a speech, a scene, and a visual project. During the final, groups will present their project to the class. Jointly offered with Comp Lit 357A/Chid 270B/German 385A.

History of Modern Europe
https://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2024/modeuro.html

HSTEU 276 – Postwar Europe (5 credits)
TTh 10:30-12:20
Writing credit
Diversity credit

How did Europeans attempt to come to terms with the aftermath and legacy of the Second World War? As they sought to rebuild their cities, laws, empires, economies, and social relations in the wake of the war, the place of Europe in the world seemed ever more fragile. In this course, we will explore efforts to reconstruct Europe and European identity after 1945, as well as assessing the successes and failures of these efforts. We will address the themes of poverty and affluence, postwar justice, Americanization, the expansion and collapse of communism, decolonization, migration, and ongoing ethnic tensions that threatened new forms of warfare.

Throughout this tumultuous period, film offered a powerful way for Europeans to rethink their identity. We will focus on films that illustrate how Europe tried to memorialize (and forget) the wartime past, and what arguments Europeans made about how they might build a new future. The course thus provides students with an opportunity to explore the historical uses of film, and to sharpen their skills of visual analysis, along with an overview of key themes in post-1945 European history.

Texts include Primo Levi's The Reawakening, Frantz Fanon's A Dying Colonialism, and Slavenka Drakulic's Cafe Europa. Films include London Can Take It, Roberto Rossellini's Germany Year Zero, Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three, Gillo Pontecorvo's Battle of Algiers, Terry George's Some Mother's Son, Wolfgang Becker's Some Mother's Son, Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things, Danis Tanovic's No Man's Land, and Quentin Tarentino's Inglourious Basterds.

Jackson School of International Studies – Jewish Studies
https://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2024/jewst.html

Jew St 210 – Jewish Humor (5 credits
TTh 9:30-11:20

Jewish humor plays an important role in American popular culture. Investigates the modern history of Jewish humor through the writers, comedians, and actors who have shaped American comedy. Discusses the purpose of humor and the role that Jewish humor plays in shaping American and American Jewish identity.

Jew St 215 – Ladino Culture (5 credits)
MW 10-:30-12:20
Fundamental elements of Modern Ladino, the traditional language of Sephardic Jews of the Balkans and Middle East, including the traditional Hebrew-based alphabet and its Romanization, and basic grammar, syntax and lexicon. Historical stages in the development of Ladino and the social and cultural life of modern Ladino speakers. No prior knowledge of Spanish or Hebrew required.

Landscape Architecture
https://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2024/landscape.html

L Arch 322 – Intro to planting design: Living Systems in Cities (3 credits)
MW 11:30-12:50
Cr/NC only
Traditional ways plants are used in landscape design. Composition and design characteristics of plant materials. Technical considerations for selection, climate, cultural suitability, availability, costs, and maintenance. Open to nonmajors.

Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
https://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2024/neareast.html

MELC 230 – Muslim Beliefs and Practices (5 credits)
MW 3:30-5:20
Quiz F, times vary
Examines the origins and development of central beliefs in various Muslim traditions, such as monotheism, prophecy, divine judgment, and predestination. Looks at ritual and socio-cultural practices in Muslim societies in Asia, Africa, and Europe. Offered jointly with RELIG 211.

Music
https://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2024/music.html

Music 116 – Elementary Music Theory (2 credits)
To be arranged. Group-start online course. Go to time schedule for details.
For nonmusic majors. For people with no hands-on music experience. Rudiments of music; notation of time, small pitch structures (e.g., some scales, chords, rhythmic patterns), some analysis.

Music 120 – Intro to Classical Music (5 credits)
MTWTh 9:30-10:20
Quiz F times vary
Studies in listening, with emphasis on the changing components of Western art music. Illustrated lectures, laboratory section meetings, and presentations by guest artists.

Music 131 – History of Jazz (5 credits)
To be arranged. Group-start online course. Go to time schedule for details.
Extensive overview of important musicians, composers, arrangers, and stylistic periods of jazz history from emergence of the first jazz bands at the turn of the twentieth century through post-modern bebop era of the 1990s.

Music 162A - American Pop song (5 credits)
To be arranged.  Music 162A is online. Go to time schedule for details.
Historical, social, and stylistic study of popular idioms from the late nineteenth century to the present. Most attention to contemporary idioms (rock, country-western, soul, hip-hop). Various facets of the industry examined to learn how they influence taste and musical style.

Music 162B - American Pop song (5 credits)
To be arranged. Music 162B is optional writing credit. Registration in a lab is required. Go to time schedule for details.

Music 185 – The Concert Season (2 credits)
To be arranged. Group-start online course. See time schedule for details.
Performances from the School of Music concert season, supplemented by lecture topics related to concert repertoire. Analysis of applicable musical topics appropriate for enhanced appreciation of historical and cultural contexts of works performed. Attendance at ten concerts required.

Music 250 – World Music (3 credits)
MWF 10:30-11:20
Diversity credit
Introduction to world musical traditions, including both sound and socio-cultural dimensions of music. Topics include instruments, rhythm, melody, form, composition, improvisation, music in the family and community, politics, economy, religion, and case studies of major world musical traditions. Prerequisite: MUSIC 201; MUSIC 204.

Philosophy
http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2024/phil.html

Phil 149 – Existentialism and Film (5 credits)
TTh 8:30-9:50
Quiz F, times vary
What makes life worth living? Is morality just a convenient fiction? What is the nature of the human condition? Is God dead, or just playing hard to get? Investigates the works of several existentialist philosophers, including Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Beauvoir, and uses their works to interpret and analyze the philosophical content of angst-ridden cinema of the French New Wave and Hollywood film noir.

Phil 240 – Intro to Ethics (5 credits)
MW 1:00-2:20
Quiz TTh times vary
Critical introduction to various philosophical views of the basis and presuppositions of morality and moral knowledge. Critical introduction to various types of normative ethical theory, including utilitarian, deontological, and virtue theories.

Russian
https://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2024/russian.html

Russ 421 – Post-Soviet Literature and Culture (5 credits)
WF 8:30-10:20
Writing credit
Explores topics in literature and cultures of the modern world (approximately 1800-present) across national and regional cultures, such as particular movements, authors, genres, themes, or problems. Jointly offered with Comp Lit 362A, Engl 313.

Scandinavian Studies
http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2024/scand.html

Scand 200 –Scandinavia Today (5 credits)
TTh 2:30-4:20
Examines the distinctive policies, institutions, and social norms, and cultures of contemporary Scandinavian societies. Topics include: the development of a "middle way" between capitalism and socialism, the welfare state, social policy, Scandinavia in the international system, and contemporary debates about market deregulation and immigration. Course uses examples from policy debate and culture as objects of study.

Scand 375 – Vikings in Pop Culture (5 credits)
To be arranged. Go to time schedule for details.

Explores media representations of "the Vikings" in popular culture over the past 200 years in Europe and the United States, including advertising, comics, film, literature, music, poetry, propaganda, television series, and video games. Compares these modern artistic productions with their medieval counterparts and examines how the Vikings have functioned as vessels for a variety of cultural fantasies about gender, class, race, and religion.

Scand 427 – Scandinavian Women Writers in English Translation (5 credits)
TTh 12:30-2:20
Diversity credit

Selected works by major Scandinavian women writers from mid-nineteenth-century bourgeois realism to the present with focus on feminist issues in literary criticism. Offered jointly with GWSS 429.

Slavic Languages and Literatures
http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2024/slavic.html

Slavic 425 – Ways of Meaning (5 credits)
MW 3:30-5:20
Diversity credit
Focuses on the diversity of human experience and the social and cultural conditioning of language use. Language as a mirror of culture and national character. Universal and culture/language specific components in linguistic expression of emotions, courtesy/politeness and rudeness, prejudice and (in)sensitivities, linguistic expression of gender differences in different cultures.

South Asia
https://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2024/sasian.html

S Asia 498 – Special Topics: Partition Literature and Film (5 credits)
TTh 2:30-4:20
This course surveys the powerful literature and film that addresses the 1947 Partition of South Asia into the nations of India and Pakistan. We will read a selection of short stories and a graphic novel, and watch a film and the recent television series Ms. Marvel, to ask: how do works of fiction address historical moments of trauma such as the Partition? How do partitions continue to affect life in South Asia? What are some of the modes (realistic, non-realistic) that have been used to represent Partition? This course is intended for undergraduate students interested in South Asian literatures and history; fictional representations of trauma; memory; and fictional modes such as realism, fantasy, and graphic narratives. Graduate students may be accommodated with permission of instructor (they will have additional secondary readings and a longer analytical final essay). Students with advanced proficiency in Hindi or Urdu have the option to complete readings in the original language. Jointly offered with Glits 313C.

Textual and Digital Studies
https://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2024/txtds.html

TXTDS 224 – Histories and Futures of Books, Texts and Reading: Copying, Copyright, and Plagiarism (5 credits)
MW 3:00-4:20
Quiz F, times vary
Offered jointly with FRENCH 224/JSIS A 224.
Today's anxieties about new generative AI tools, like ChatGPT, often point to the unauthorized reuse of copyrighted text as evidence of the dangers AI poses. Copyright laws, along with other conventions for copying and reusing text – like norms for citation and plagiarism – emerged in the 18th-century to regulate a media sphere built on printing technologies. These laws and norms have struggled badly to adapt to digital media and technologies. The struggles tell us a lot about the impacts that new technologies, such as generative AI, are having.

This quarter, we’ll aim to better understand the impacts of changing technologies on the ways we write, read, do research, and preserve texts, by focusing on practices, norms, and cultures of copying from the world of medieval manuscripts to the rise and spread of printing as a copying technology in early modern Europe (capable of producing "exact" copies at scale) to modern electronic technologies, such as photocopying and digitized text, that allow for instant copying.

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." We'll see, in fact, that there has always been a fine and shifting line between imitation and theft; between authenticity and forgery; between an acceptable citation of sources and plagiarism; between an original and a copy; and between the legitimate reuse of text and breaches of copyright. In law courts, schools, and in various parts of the public sphere, this line has been redefined and renegotiated over time, especially as new technologies -- printing in the 15th century, Xeroxing in the 20th, and digital texts today -- have disrupted prevailing practices, expectations, and understandings of what it means to copy and be original. We're certainly in such a moment now and it is timely to consider the history behind our current grappling with issues like copyright and plagiarism.

TXTDS 267 – Data Science and the Humanities (5 credits)
TTh 1:30-3:20
Applications of concepts and methods in data science to the study of the literary and cultural texts and to the study of language. Also explores humanistic perspectives on the role of data and data science in society

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