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African-American and African Studies
AAS 2500	Topics Course in Africana Studies

	The Souls of Black Folk
Fall 2023 13830	001	SEM (3 Units)	Closed	15 / 15	Sabrina Pendergrass	TuTh 11:00am - 12:15pm	Gibson Hall 241
	In this course, we will examine the social organization of African American communities. Some of the historical context for issues we will study come from the foundational work of sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois, anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, and others. We will discuss African Americans’ experiences at the intersections of class, color, gender, and sexuality. We also will study institutions within the community, and we will consider social issues that African Americans will face in the future.
	Introduction to African Languages and Literatures
Fall 2023 13833	002	SEM (3 Units)	Open	19 / 20	Anne Rotich	MoWeFr 1:00pm - 1:50pm	Wilson Hall 238
	Intro to African Languages and Literatures This course is a survey of literary texts in English by contemporary African writers. Students will develop an appreciation for literatures and languages of Africa and an understanding of issues that preoccupy African writers and the literary strategies that they employ in their work. Students will read a variety of texts including excerpts from novels, short stories, poetry, film and songs and critically analyze the cultural and aesthetics of the literary landscape. Particular attention will be on how authors engage themes such as identity, patriarchy, gender, class, and politics in post-colonial structures. Students are expected to actively engage in an analysis and exploration of the required literary works and to express their responses through class discussions, group presentations and the writing of analytical research papers.
AAS 3500	Intermediate Seminar in African-American & African Studies

	Race, Ethnicity, and Health in the US
Fall 2023 12917	001	SEM (3 Units)	Open	17 / 18	Liana Richardson	TuTh 9:30am - 10:45am	New Cabell Hall 407
	In this course, we will examine the relationships between “race”/ethnicity and health inequities. Drawing from research in a variety of disciplines, including epidemiology, demography, and sociology, we will examine how health is distributed by “race”/ethnicity, as well as the social, economic, and political factors that give rise to the differential distribution of health between and within racial/ethnic groups. We also will discuss whether contemporary health promotion and disease prevention policies are sufficient to address racial/ethnic inequities in health. Finally, we will consider the kinds of policies that could have a bigger impact, and the potential explanations for why they have not been pursued.
	Brazil and Yoruba Religions
	Reading Black Digital Culture
Fall 2023 12196	002	SEM (3 Units)	Open	3 / 15	Ayodeji Ogunnaike	Mo 3:30pm - 6:00pm	Ridley Hall 125
	Using a mix of scholarly and popular-press readings and an examination of digital artifacts, we will analyze the creations and contributions of Black digital culture from the mid-90s to the present. Topics we will cover include: the early Black blogosphere, the creation of niche content sites like BlackPlanet.com, the emergence of Black Twitter, the circulation of memes, and the use second-screening.
	Black and Indigenous Power in the Americas
	Dispossession in the Americas: Black and Indigenous Perspectives
Fall 2023 19705	003	SEM (3 Units)	Open	14 / 22	Amber M. Henry	Tu 6:00pm - 8:30pm	New Cabell Hall 309
	How does it feel to belong? What happens when that feeling becomes compromised? This course explores the ways in which Black & Indigenous people create networks of community, care, self expression and other modes of creative place making. We analyze how these practices create alternative projects of sovereignty and emancipatory futures beyond the legacies of colonialism, genocide, Trans-Atlantic slavery and other forms of dispossession. Traversing the fields of anthropology, critical geography, feminist studies, Africana Studies, Latin American, Caribbean & Indigenous Studies, the written & digital sources in this course emphasize feelings and embodied experience. Through this focus, we explore the individual body as the site at which claims to power are made, contested and creatively envisioned. Students will participate in invited lectures & excursions to explore Black & Indigenous sites of dispossession and belonging in Charlottesville.
	The Health of Black Women & Children
	The Health of Black Women and Children
Fall 2023 19709	005	SEM (3 Units)	Open	15 / 16	Liana Richardson	TuTh 12:30pm - 1:45pm	Wilson Hall 238
	In this course, we will consider why it is the case that Black women and children have higher rates of adverse health outcomes, including but not limited to maternal and infant mortality, than their white counterparts. Applying both life course and intersectionality perspectives on health, we will examine how social factors structure the lived experiences of Black women and their children and, in turn, influence mental and physical health throughout the life course and across generations. We will review and evaluate evidence from research on the adverse physical and mental health effects of historical trauma, adverse childhood experiences, cumulative social stress (“weathering”), and the “strong Black woman” archetype, among other social phenomena. Then, we will discuss what medicine and public health can (or should) do to improve the health and well-being of Black women and children and, therefore, halt the intergenerational reproduction of health and social inequality. The utility of adopting Black feminist and reproductive justice frameworks in these fields will also be considered.
AAS 3760	Reading Black Digital Culture

Fall 2023 20352	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Closed	15 / 15 (30 / 30)	Ashleigh Wade	TuTh 9:30am - 10:45am	New Cabell Hall 332
	Using a mix of scholarly and popular-press readings and an examination of digital artifacts, we will analyze the creations and contributions of Black digital culture from the mid-90s to the present. Topics we will cover include: the early Black blogosphere, the creation of niche content sites like BlackPlanet.com, the emergence of Black Twitter, the circulation of memes, and the use second-screening.
AAS 4070	Distinguished Major Thesis I

Website 11071	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Permission	0 / 10	Sabrina Pendergrass	TBA	TBA
	AAS 4070 is a course for students who would like to conduct their own research on a topic of their choice through the Distinguished Majors Program in African American and African Studies. In the past, students have carried out such projects as analyzing memes about Black women on social media; studying narratives from Black women essential workers about their experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic; engaging in close readings of young adult novels and their representations of Black girlhood; interviewing high school teachers about race and student speech in the classroom; analyzing representations of race and social mobility in a select group of films; and more. Each week, students will spend most of their time for the course carrying out their research projects, and they will submit short excerpts from their research or writing each week to further their progress. Over the course of the semester, students will attend one-on-one meetings with the course instructor to receive guidance on their projects. They also will participate in group meetings with other students where they will share research experiences and learn more about the research process. For more information about the Distinguished Majors Program in African American and African Studies please contact the course instructor or visit the link here: https://woodson.as.virginia.edu/dmp
American Studies
AMST 2422	Point of View Journalism

Fall 2023 18640	001	SEM (3 Units)	Closed	29 / 0 (29 / 0)	Lisa Goff	TuTh 12:30pm - 1:45pm	New Cabell Hall 058
	No waitlist, but spaces often open up. Email Prof. Lisa Goff lg6t@virginia.edu if you want to join the class.
	This course examines the history and practice of “point-of-view” journalism, a controversial but credible alternative to the dominant model of “objectivity” on the part of the news media. Not to be confused with “fake news,” point-of-view journalism has a history as long as the nation’s, from Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin in the eighteenth century to "muckrakers" like Ida B. Wells Barnett and Ida Tarbell at the end of the nineteenth, and “New Journalism” practitioners like Tom Wolfe, Hunter Thompson, and Barbara Ehrenreich in the twentieth. Twenty-first century point-of-view practitioners include news organizations on the right (Fox News, One America News Network) and left (Vice, Jacobin, MSNBC, Democracy Now), as well as prominent voices like Ta-Nehisi Coates, Rebecca Solnit, Jia Tolentino, and Sarah Smarsh. We will also consider the rise of “fake news.” A term formerly used to indicate the work of entertainers such as Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert, who pilloried the news (and newsmakers) in order to interpret them, “fake news” is now an established practice of the far right, as well as a political slur used to denigrate the work of mainstream (center and left-of-center) news organizations.
AMST 3790	Moving On: Migration in/to the US

Fall 2023 13866	001	SEM (3 Units)	Closed	18 / 0 (18 / 0)	Lisa Goff	TuTh 3:30pm - 4:45pm	Monroe Hall 118
	No waitlist, but spaces often open up. Email Prof. Lisa Goff lg6t@virginia.edu if you want to join the class.
	“Moving On: Migration In/To the U.S.” (AMST/ENGL 3790) examines the history of voluntary, coerced, and forced migration in the U.S. It traces the paths of migrating groups and their impact on urban, suburban, and rural landscapes. Students will dig for cultural clues to changing attitudes about migration over time. Photographs, videos, books, movies, government records, poems, podcasts, paintings, comic strips, museums, manifestos: you name it, we’ll analyze it for this class. We will also explore the growing body of digital humanities resources related to migration and mobility, including but not limited to resources collected by the DPLA on the Great Migration and the Exodusters; and Torn Apart volume one, “Separados,” about 2018 asylum seekers at the Mexican border. Assignments will teach students to do historical research; digital mapping and storytelling techniques; written and visual communication; historical and cultural analysis and interpretation. Learning outcomes include production of original work, critique of historical narratives; organization of diverse types of evidence; empathy; self-knowledge. Class participation/contribution is the core of this class. Other assessments include reading responses, papers, StoryMaps, and reflective essays. There will be one test; no midterm or final exam. Students will be required to volunteer 10 hours with a migration-related project during the second half of the semester.
Anthropology
ANTH 2541	Topics in Linguistics

	French Creole Language Structures
Fall 2023 18511	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Closed	30 / 30	Nathan Wendte	TuTh 9:30am - 10:45am	New Cabell Hall 364
	This course examines the similarities and differences in phonology, morphology, and syntax among those creole languages whose primary lexicon is derived from French. We will especially focus on Louisiana Creole. We also broach important theoretical debates concerning creoles as a linguistic type, the creole continuum, and the concept of de-creolization. Finally, we attempt to answer the perennial question: What is a creole? The answer is at least as much anthropological as it is linguistic. Familiarity with French, though not required, will be useful. This course fulfills the Structure requirement for Linguistics majors and counts as a Linguistics requirement for Cognitive Science majors.
ANTH 3559	New Course in Anthropology

	Living with Animals
Fall 2023 18732	100	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	26 / 30	Colleen Winkelman	TuTh 11:00am - 12:15pm	New Cabell Hall 485
	From pets to pests, this course examines how humans and nonhumans shape each other’s lives. With a focus on interaction and communication, we’ll explore examples across cultures and time to consider how anthropology can be used to study multispecies relationships and how they are shaped. Discover ways nonhumans can help us understand more about sociality as well as what it means to “live with” others
ANTH 3589	Topics in Archaeology

	Archaeology of Food and Drink
	Food and Drink in the Past and Present: Understandings from Anthropology
Fall 2023 18734	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	14 / 30	Patricia Wattenmaker	TuTh 3:30pm - 4:45pm	New Cabell Hall 332
	Note that the course location has been changed to Brooks Hall, Rm B002 (archaeology teaching lab).There are no prerequisites for the course. I will make every effort to define terms and concepts in class lectures. Students with no background in anthropology or archaeology are encouraged to ask for clarification in class and/or meet with the instructor. Course requirements include a short paper, one midterm, a food diary (4 entries) and a final paper.
	We all need food to survive. However, what we eat, how we eat it, and whom we share our means with are infused with cultural meanings. This course explores food and drink as a window into the symbolic, social, economic and political structures of ancient societies. Studies of contemporary societies highlight the close articulation between cultural systems and foodways. We will explore the methodologies used by archaeologists to investigate ancient foodways, and gain a temporal perspective on changing consumption patterns. Archaeological evidence will provide insight into the ways that food and drink are culturally transformed through social practices, as well as the ways that foodways have themselves contributed to cultural change.
ANTH 4591	Majors Seminar

	Fakes and Fictions
Fall 2023 13011	003	SEM (3 Units)	Closed	18 / 18	Eve Danziger	TuTh 11:00am - 12:15pm	The Rotunda Room 152
	The capacity for abstract representation – making one thing stand for another – is essential to human culture, language, and inner life. But this capacity also makes us vulnerable to fakes and falsehoods. The class explores various types of false representation across culture and history.
ANTH 5401	Linguistic Field Methods

Fall 2023 20272	100	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	11 / 15	Armik Mirzayan	Th 5:00pm - 7:30pm	New Cabell Hall 042
	This course is a semester-long exercise in learning how to describe the sounds, words, word structures, and sentence patterns of a language primarily by interacting with a native speaker of the language who is an undergraduate student at UVA. Students enrolled in the course engage as a group in eliciting and collecting language data from the speaker, systematically analyzing the data, forming hypotheses, and testing predictions. Everyone in the class will have a chance to practice their skills as linguists, while also learning pieces of a language that is new, exciting, and unfamiliar. This exercise will also help highlight the value in language documentation for both its scientific and its cultural values.
ANTH 5425	Language Contact

Fall 2023 18737	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	10 / 15	Nathan Wendte	We 2:00pm - 4:30pm	New Cabell Hall 415
	No living language exists in a vacuum. Instead, languages are constantly participating in contact at scales large and small. Peoples and cultures are the vehicles by which languages travel, and therefore the history of a language’s speakers is inseparable from the history of the language itself. In this course, we consider the ways in which language structure and use are affected by historical and contemporary interactions across groups of language users. Some of these changes are subtle, like the adoption of loanwords or changes to phonology. Others, however, can be quite drastic, such as the replacement of one variety by another or even the genesis of a new language altogether. We will explore and discuss several theories pertaining to languages in contact and apply this knowledge to a variety of case studies. In so doing, you will gain an appreciation for the complex, multilateral processes than affect linguistic structures and behaviors as well as the nuanced ways these phenomena can be described and understood within broader contexts of human cognitive and social activity. Please note that some previous experience with descriptive linguistics is assumed for this course.
Applied Mathematics
APMA 3080	Linear Algebra

Fall 2023 16612	005	Lecture (3 Units)	Permission	44 / 45	Meiqin Li	MoWeFr 11:00am - 11:50am	Thornton Hall E303

History of Art and Architecture
ARAH 9565	Seminar in Art Theory, Comparative & Other Topics

	Material Culture: Problem and Practice
	What can we learn from stuff?
Fall 2023 18555	001	SEM (3 Units)	Open	7 / 15	Amanda Phillips	Th 12:30pm - 3:00pm	Fayerweather Hall 208
	The term material culture, as used by academics in the second half of the twentieth century, has come to denote categories or individual objects, monuments, and even landscapes. They occasionally overlap with, but are distinct from, fine art. This course takes what might be termed an aesthetic approach to these categories, focusing on the material and sensory properties of objects (or images, monuments, land- or city-scapes). It also considers questions of embodiment, acknowledging also that our studies will focus on human-related histories of objects. We’ll also be asking how to locate and describe the implications of what we observe, both for our own topics and in terms of broader methodological / historiographical questions in our fields. The real main questions will be, “What can stuff tell us that other kinds of sources cannot? And what can we learn from stuff?" Readings come from some well-known literature from the social sciences, as well as work by art historians, especially those working on craft and the decorative arts. Some research questions and topics will remain empirical; in some conversations I will draw examples from the Ottoman and wider Mediterranean world, with some others from India, Europe, and China. Classes will combine discussion in several formats, short and longer student presentations, and brief lectures.
Architecture
ARCH 5420	Digital Animation & Storytelling

Website 14481	001	WKS (3 Units)	Permission	21 / 21	Earl Mark	TuTh 9:30am - 10:45am	Campbell Hall 105
	DESCRIPTION: Arch 5420 is a 3-credit workshop/seminar that explores moviemaking through 3D computer animation. Five independent short animations constitute the work of the term culminating in a one to five minute final project. An interdisciplinary group of students admitted to the seminar bring perspectives from across the university and design. The seminar is informed by screenings of student exercises and of other movies. Discussion of perceptual phenomenon provides a cognitive framework for the development and critique of this work. In addition to a physical computer classroom, the course will have fulltime access to high performance virtual computers and rendering. Movie projects may range in subject, including abstract or realistic studies such as short narrative character animation, scientific simulation, a physical simulation of architecture or landscape architecture, or related to computer music or synchronized captured sound. APPROACH: Storytelling, whether by means of character animation or more complex scene description, may be related to simulated real or imagined environments. For any subject or scale, built structures and landscapes may be experienced according to our own changing eye point of view, the physics simulation of natural and mechanical phenomenon, the transformation of light and objects, as well as the exploration of fluids and particles under force fields. In addition, objects found in architecture and nature reveal patterns of forms, textures, structures and spaces when animated over over varied rates of time. Movement can also be explored in three dimensional living or human forms that transform or present a point of view. TECHNOLOGY: The principal software Maya is widely used in 3D computer animation, movie production, visualization and design. Other products will be introduced for special effects, simulation, composite video, sound, motion capture, and image or video processing. An in-depth exploration of NURBS and Polygon 3D modeling and will be the basis for representing built and natural environments, sculpting characters and creating complex geometrical forms. Simulation of gravity and light energy add to the modeling of wind, water, fluids, particles, rainfall, snow, fabric, springs, particles, hinges and other physical phenomena. Motion capture data and a body suit (if Covid is no longer of concern) will be used to study human movement. All the required technology, including Maya, is free to download under educational licensing for academic use as will be described in the class. We also take advantage of new Virtual Workstations for high performance computing and that are accessible remotely from any current personal Windows or Mac OS computer.
Architectural History
ARH 4591	Undergraduate Seminar in the History of Architecture

	Pilgrimage
Fall 2023 14438	001	SEM (3 Units)	Open	5 / 6 (8 / 12)	Lisa Reilly	We 2:00pm - 4:30pm	Fayerweather Hall 215
	If the class fills and you would like to go on a waiting list - please email me at lar2f@virginia.edu as SIS will not create a waiting list for cross listed courses! You can also sign up under ARTH 4591 -04 Pilgrimage and it will count the same for arh and arts majors and minors or anything else.
	Pilgimage is generally described as a journey of religious significance, often to a sacred site of great importance to the pilgrim’s religion. Many other types of journeys are also described as pilgrimages, such as those to the birthplace or house of famous writers or musicians or historical figures or the site of famous events. This seminar will discuss the art and architecture associated with such journeys. Many of the readings will focus on medieval pilgrimages using texts such as the Pilgrims’ Guide to Santiago and the Travel Diary of Ibn Jubayr. We will, however, also consider pilgrimages from a variety of traditions including Buddhism and classical sites such as Delphi. Students will be encouraged to choose topics related to any type of pilgrimage from any culture or time period for their research topics. The course will also emphasize the development of research and writing skills, as each member of the seminar will develop a major research topic throughout the semester. This course fulfills the Second Writing Requirement.
History of Art
ARTH 4591	Undergraduate Seminar in the History of Art

	Pilgrimage
Fall 2023 13798	004	SEM (3 Units)	Open	3 / 6 (8 / 12)	Lisa Reilly	We 2:00pm - 4:30pm	Fayerweather Hall 215
	If the class fills and you would like to go on a waiting list - please email me at lar2f@virginia.edu as SIS will not create a waiting list for cross listed courses!
	Pilgimage is generally described as a journey of religious significance, often to a sacred site of great importance to the pilgrim’s religion. Many other types of journeys are also described as pilgrimages, such as those to the birthplace or house of famous writers or musicians or historical figures or the site of famous events. This seminar will discuss the art and architecture associated with such journeys. Many of the readings will focus on medieval pilgrimages using texts such as the Pilgrims’ Guide to Santiago and the Travel Diary of Ibn Jubayr. We will, however, also consider pilgrimages from a variety of traditions including Buddhism and classical sites such as Delphi. Students will be encouraged to choose topics related to any type of pilgrimage from any culture or time period for their research topics. The course will also emphasize the development of research and writing skills, as each member of the seminar will develop a major research topic throughout the semester. This course fulfills the Second Writing Requirement.
	Fralin Collection: Other Networks in Postwar Art
Fall 2023 18556	005	SEM (3 Units)	Open	11 / 12	David Getsy	Th 3:30pm - 6:00pm	Fayerweather Hall 208
	This seminar will investigate the role of galleries and professional networks in the history of American art of the 1950s to the 1970s. A key question will be to ask how certain curators and gallerists made room for differences of sexuality, race, and gender during an era known for privileging a narrow set of social norms. We will take as a central case study the Groh-Miller Collection in the Fralin Museum of Art, which was donated by a long-time director of Stable Gallery. While we will investigate other key figures in postwar art such as Betty Parsons, Frank O’Hara, and Andy Warhol, the seminar’s main focus will be on the direct engagement with art objects, with much of the its work devoted to original research and writing about the collection.
Astronomy
ASTR 3480	Introduction to Cosmology

Fall 2023 12855	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Closed	40 / 40	Mark Whittle	TuTh 11:00am - 12:15pm	Shannon House 107
	Cosmology explores the origin and evolution of the entire Universe. Topics include: the nature of cosmic expansion; mapping the nearby Universe; dark matter and dark energy; the birth and evolution of galaxies; conditions in the first million years and the first hour; and the mechanism that created everything from nothing – the Big Bang. Students will also take color images of nearby galaxies using our local robotic telescope. This 3000-level course strikes a balance between richly illustrated description and a simplified quantitative exploration of the Topics. Intended for STEM and prospective STEM majors, including astronomy majors; also suitable for non-STEM majors who are comfortable with some non-calc math.
Biology
BIOL 4810	Distinguished Major Seminar in Biological Research I

Fall 2023 11289	001	Lecture (2 Units)	Permission	11 / 20	Mike Wormington	Th 3:00pm - 5:00pm	Contact Department
	BIOL 4810 will meet in Gilmer 400
Civil Engineering
CE 1501	Special Topics in Civil & Environmental Engineering

	Preconstruction Bid Simulation
	Preconstruction Bid Simulation
Fall 2023 21276	001	Lecture (1 Units)	Open	14 / 20	Matthew O'malley	Tu 5:00pm - 7:00pm	Rice Hall 032
	Student teams will be mentored by industry experts to compete for a preconstruction contract with UVA. Teams will work with their mentors and participate in weekly workshops led by construction companies to build the best possible proposal and sales presentation. Winners will be awarded and fully sponsored to represent UVA in the regional competition of the Associated Schools of Construction!
CE 2030	Management of Engineering and Construction Projects

Fall 2023 16688	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	67 / 69	Diana Franco Duran	TuTh 12:30pm - 1:45pm	Mechanical Engr Bldg 339
	As an introductory course to Construction Engineering and Management, this course covers the essential aspects of the field: project definition, scoping, scheduling, budgeting, and control techniques. The project stages and how they interact with each other are considered a whole object of study to be managed - the Project Life Cycle. This course also provides an overview of the construction industry and what it is like to have a career in CEM.
CE 4015	Construction Industry Workshop: Bringing Theory to Practice

Fall 2023 16685	001	WKS (3 Units)	Open	6 / 12	Diana Franco Duran	Tu 2:00pm - 4:30pm	Rice Hall 032
	This course provides you with valuable hands-on experience in the construction industry. It will challenge you to develop strategies and make informed decisions. Throughout the course, you will be exposed to various construction scenarios, enabling you to understand the industry comprehensively. You will be encouraged to apply theoretical knowledge and analytical skills to solve practical problems encountered in construction projects. Additionally, the course fosters teamwork and collaboration, as you will work in groups to analyze the case studies, develop solutions, and present the findings.
College Advising Seminar
COLA 1500	College Advising Seminars

	The Art of Listening
	The Art of Listening
Fall 2023 11953	008	SEM (1 Units)	Closed	18 / 18	Justin Mueller	Tu 9:30am - 10:45am	Pavilion VIII 102
	How does our understanding change when we stop to consider what things sound like? You listen to music, but what else do you hear in your day-to-day life? This course will help you think about what it means to listen. Some of the topics we will consider this semester include: the impact of various recording technologies and the ethics of music streaming; attentive listening strategies for class lectures; architecture meant to aid the deaf and hard of hearing; the problematics of cultural appropriation in musical theatre; what UVA sounded like when Thomas Jefferson was alive; the soundscapes of places near and far, natural and man-made; and how best to hear, understand, and help advocate for those less fortunate than we are. In short, it seeks to help you become more receptive and responsive to the world all around you.
	Ordinary to Extraordinary: Arts Trans Life
	From Ordinary to Extraordinary: How the Arts Transform Everyday Life
Fall 2023 11296	027	SEM (1 Units)	Closed	18 / 18	Ari Blatt	Mo 11:00am - 12:15pm	Pavilion VIII 102
	"Nothing is so simultaneously familiar and alien as that which has been present all along." -Jenny Odell Students in this comparative, interdisciplinary seminar will explore the many ways in which artists manage to find, represent, and critically engage with beauty and meaning in the banal. While readings on the aesthetics of the everyday will inform our discussions of work from the modern and contemporary periods that testifies to the transformative power of art--from literature and cinema to photography, painting, architecture, and industrial design--a series of short assignments will encourage students to become more sensitive observers, and practitioners, of the quotidian. As this is a first-year advising seminar, we will also spend a considerable amount of time discussing things that will surely matter to new Hoos as they adjust to social and intellectual life, and to related challenges that may arise, at UVa.
	Performing Acts of Justice & Equity
Fall 2023 11451	030	SEM (1 Units)	Open	16 / 18	Eric Ramirez-Weaver	Fr 11:00am - 12:15pm	Pavilion VIII 102
	his COLA course will introduce students to the transformative possibilities of community-based theater and dance. Emphasizing the rich resources in central Virginia from Charlottesville to Richmond, the local history of the Theater Owners Booking Association (TOBA), vaudeville and tap dance have played a prominent role in defining social and cultural mores, and reflecting the inequalities of the Jim Crow era. This course will explore twin dual trajectories. On the one hand, the life and legacy of Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, as cultivated through the enduring work of the Copasetics, supplies one personal connection to this material. The Copasetics through Charles “Honi” Coles and Brenda Bufalino trained my teachers at the American Tap Dance Foundation. On the other hand, COLA participants will learn through a series of public outreaches how to study performance historically, and how to use performance to celebrate the living history of great regional performers, including the students who participated in the arts at the Jefferson School in Charlottesville. The graded work for this course is comprised of a series of creative reflections in any medium from dance to text to drawing, permitting COLA members to explore firsthand creatively the legacy of enslavement at UVA, racial injustice, and the defiant persistence of the African-American community in Charlottesville who thrived and created a community centered at the Jefferson School. Classroom experiences are complemented by field trips to stages and live performances. Our final creative reflection synthesizes these earlier inspirations and culminates with all students sharing their composed, rehearsed and performed work celebrating the legacy and contributions of African-American artists in our region of Virginia.
Commerce
COMM 3330	Marketing Research & Analytic Techniques


Fall 2023 20148	003	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	10 / 40	Irina Kozlenkova	TuTh 3:30pm - 4:45pm	Rouss Hall 410
	The course uses SPSS for the data analytics component. SPSS is an advanced statistical analysis software that is also user-friendly. No previous coding experience is required.
	Main topics this class will cover are (1) research design and data collection (exploratory data - focus groups, interviews; observational data, survey data - including programing into Qualtrics, experiments, big data), and (2) data analytics using low-code software SPSS (review of ANOVA; multiple regression, multiple regression with interactions, cluster analysis, conjoint analysis) as well as considerations for ethical research practices.
COMM 4310	Global Marketing

Fall 2023 14571	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	34 / 40	Irina Kozlenkova	TuTh 9:30am - 10:45am	Robertson Hall 227
	Specific topics covered in this class include: Impact of political and legal environment on global marketing Impact of economic environment on global marketing Impact of social and cultural environment on global marketing Global market research Global market entry strategies Global brand and product decisions Global pricing strategies Global distribution strategies Global promotion strategies The course uses a realistic simulation to provide the students with a hands-on opportunity to grapple with real issues of managing a global brand and working in the complex international market environment.
Fall 2023 14669	002	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	11 / 40	Irina Kozlenkova	TuTh 12:30pm - 1:45pm	Robertson Hall 227

	Specific topics covered in this class include: Impact of political and legal environment on global marketing Impact of economic environment on global marketing Impact of social and cultural environment on global marketing Global market research Global market entry strategies Global brand and product decisions Global pricing strategies Global distribution strategies Global promotion strategies The course uses a realistic simulation to provide the students with a hands-on opportunity to grapple with real issues of managing a global brand and working in the complex international market environment.
Creole
CREO 1010	Elementary Creole I

Fall 2023 11671	001	WKS (3 Units)	Open	9 / 10	Karen James	MoWeFr 10:15am - 11:15am	Web-Based Course
	CREO 1010 (Elementary Haitian Creole) is offered as part of the Consortium for Less Commonly Taught Languages, a collaboration between UVA, Duke, and Vanderbilt. The course meets in Zoom and is taught by Prof. Jacques Pierre at Duke University. Fall 2023 classes at Duke begin on Monday, Aug. 28. Before then, you will receive information from the registrar about activating your Duke computing ID and email so that you can access the CREO 1010 course site and materials. Prof. Karen James (Department of French) is the UVA faculty coordinator and contact for the Creole classes and will be glad to help you with any administrative or logistical questions. You can reach her at ksj7c@virginia.edu.
Computer Science
CS 1010	Introduction to Information Technology

Website 16170	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	45 / 75	William Leeson+1	MoWe 5:00pm - 6:15pm	Olsson Hall 011
	“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” - Arthur C. Clarke. It is tempting to believe that computers, and information technology as a whole, are essentially magic boxes which perform a variety of tasks, but this is not the case. The goal of this course is to pull back the curtain so students can understand conceptually how information technology works. This in turn should help the students learn how to interact with information technology experts in future endeavors. Subjects include the history of computing, how computers work (physically and electronically), the basics of networks and the internet, and fundamental programming concepts. Projects include creating a basic game in python or fixing an (intentionally) broken card game. No programming experience is required or expected. Cannot be taken for credit by SEAS students.
CS 1113	Introduction to Programming

	Introduction to Python for Scientists and Engineers
Website 20902	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Closed	16 / 15	Robert Group	MoWe 3:30pm - 4:45pm	Gilmer Hall 257
	This class is offered by the Physics department and is cross listed with PHYS1655. This is a new class! Along with an introduction to the PYTHON programming language, the course will introduce three core skills: analyzing data, simulating data, and visualizing data. It assumes no prior programming experience or knowledge about the inner workings of computers. It will concentrate on applications to common problems in science and engineering.
CS 4501	Special Topics in Computer Science

	Autonomous Vehicles: Perception,Planning & Control
	F1Tenth Autonomous Racing
Website 16414	002	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	39 / 48	Madhur Behl	TuTh 9:30am - 10:45am	Rice Hall 120
	Students work in teams to build, drive, and race 1/10th scale autonomous racecars, while learning about the principles of perception, planning, and control for autonomous vehicles. The course culminates in a F1/10 ‘battle of algorithms’ race amongst the teams.
CS 6501	Special Topics in Computer Science

	Autonomous Mobile Robots
Website 16618	012	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	15 / 20 (30 / 40)	Nicola Bezzo	We 12:30pm - 1:45pm	Rice Hall 120
					Nicola Bezzo	Tu 5:00pm - 6:15pm	Olsson Hall 011
	Have you ever wonder how an autonomous car or the Mars rover work? Or how a drone can fly autonomously avoiding obstacles while tracking objects on the ground? ...Then, this is the class for you!
	Have you ever wonder how an autonomous car or the Mars rover work? Or how a drone can fly autonomously avoiding obstacles while tracking objects on the ground? ...Then, this is the class for you! The objective of this course is to provide the basic concepts and algorithms required to develop mobile robots that act autonomously in complex environments. The main emphasis is on mobile robot locomotion and kinematics, control, sensing, localization, mapping, path planning, and motion planning. The class is organized in lectures on Tuesday and labs on Wednesday where you will have the chance to program state-of-the-art ground and aerial vehicles and participate in a competition during the semester! Please note that this class is combined in Systems Eng (SYS 6060), Electrical and Computer Eng (ECE 6501), and Computer Science (CS 6501). In case one section is close, please try to enroll in any of the other sections.
Data Science
DS 3001	Foundations of Machine Learning

	Minor Requirement: Analytics
Website 17519	002	Lecture (3 Units)	Closed	58 / 55	Brian Wright	TuTh 3:30pm - 4:45pm	Dell 1 105
	The course centers on lab-based work and employs a team-based pedagogy, meaning much of the work in the course can and should be completed in collaboration with your classmates. Though very applied, we also include theoretical content and will have discussion sessions depending on the topic for any given week. This is the first in a series of ML courses soon to be offered by SDS. As such, it's a lot of data prep and foundational knowledge of ML vice lots of model implementation.
Electrical and Computer Engineering
ECE 2200	Applied Physics

	Applied Physics 2: Electricity and Magnetism
Fall 2023 20035	001	Lecture (4 Units)	Closed	150 / 150	Keith Williams	WeFr 12:00pm - 12:50pm	Mechanical Engr Bldg 205
					Keith Williams	Mo 12:00pm - 12:50pm	Gilmer Hall 390
	Yes, this course satisfies the Physics 2 and Lab requirement for engineers.
	Applied Physics 2: Electricity and Magnetism
Fall 2023 20036	002	Lecture (4 Units)	Closed	148 / 148	Keith Williams	MoWeFr 9:00am - 9:50am	Olsson Hall 120
	Yes, this course satisfies the Physics 2 and Lab requirement for engineers.
ECE 3501	Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering

	Quantum Mechanics for Engineering and Computing
Website 20281	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	17 / 30	Xu Yi	TuTh 5:00pm - 6:15pm	Thornton Hall E304
	In this semester, we will also explore how to use chatGPT to advance students' learning in this course. chatGPT will be allowed in most assignments and tasks in this course.
ECE 4501	Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering

	Fundamentals of Computing
	A gentle intro to how we process information
Fall 2023 19658	002	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	7 / 10 (12 / 20)	Avik Ghosh	We 3:30pm - 6:00pm	Wilsdorf Hall 101
	The world is full of constantly computing entities – us humans processing internet data, machines computing stock prices and weather maps, even a rudimentary amoeba computing its odds of survival when confronted with two paths. But what underlies such a computational process, at its core? What unifies an inert piece of silicon conjuring up ChatGPT, vs a functioning biological brain writing poetry? A proper exposure to such a topic, especially in the light of today’s computing metaverse, must span multiple departments – physics to understand the physical nature of information, electrical and computer engineering for digital signal processing with simple logic gates; neurobiology for spiking neural networks; CS for error coding. This course, aimed at senior undergraduates and beginning graduate students, will introduce basic concepts of computing – focusing on the fundamental science underpinning it – how coding works, the physical nature of information, the energetics of computing, how we implement them in hardware, why quantum entanglement and quantum computing are fundamentally different, and how Boltzmann physics relates to neurological processes and eventually brain-inspired analog computing. The main background expected is proficiency with freshman level maths – some basic ODEs and matrix algebra (which we will recap at the start of the course), and knowledge of Matlab or an equivalent mathematical package. I will base my class mainly on my own lectures (which will be recorded), referring from time to time on a few classic references – “Feynman Lectures on Computation” – a book that needs updating but is still evergreen and a wonderful starting point.
ECE 6501	Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering

	Autonomous Mobile Robots
Website 16072	002	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	10 / 12 (30 / 40)	Nicola Bezzo	We 12:30pm - 1:45pm	Rice Hall 120
					Nicola Bezzo	Tu 5:00pm - 6:15pm	Olsson Hall 011
	Have you ever wonder how an autonomous car or the Mars rover work? Or how a drone can fly autonomously avoiding obstacles while tracking objects on the ground? ...Then, this is the class for you!
	Have you ever wonder how an autonomous car or the Mars rover work? Or how a drone can fly autonomously avoiding obstacles while tracking objects on the ground? ...Then, this is the class for you! The objective of this course is to provide the basic concepts and algorithms required to develop mobile robots that act autonomously in complex environments. The main emphasis is on mobile robot locomotion and kinematics, control, sensing, localization, mapping, path planning, and motion planning. The class is organized in lectures on Tuesday and labs on Wednesday where you will have the chance to program state-of-the-art ground and aerial vehicles and participate in a competition during the semester! Please note that this class is combined in Systems Eng (SYS 6060), Electrical and Computer Eng (ECE 6501), and Computer Science (CS 6501). In case one section is close, please try to enroll in any of the other sections.
Engagement
EGMT 1530	Engaging Differences

	Passages of Hope and Survival
Fall 2023 11765	105	Lecture (2 Units)	Permission	30 / 35	Zvi Gilboa	MoWe 2:00pm - 3:15pm	Monroe Hall 111
	This course places contemporary experiences of migration, refuge, and asylum at the heart of critical inquiry. In this light, and motivated by one's Hope for a better future as well as one's mere attempts of Survival, the Passages we'll encounter shall consist not only in geographical and physical journeys, but also in metaphoric and reflective materials. Encompassing both the intellectual and experiential, our own rite of passage will alternate between the seemingly familiar "local" and the remotely located "global" while engaging depictions from within -- as found in documentaries, music, vlogs, letters, and memoirs -- and responses from without -- as manifested in media reports, political platforms, and general discourse. In doing so, and while testing present encounters against our previous notions of identity, belonging, and otherness, we shall constantly strive to recognize, understand and articulate the Differences that asylum, migration, and refuge make in our own, immediate world.
	Passages of Hope and Survival
Fall 2023 12284	107	Lecture (2 Units)	Permission	32 / 35	Zvi Gilboa	MoWe 5:00pm - 6:15pm	Monroe Hall 111
	This course places contemporary experiences of migration, refuge, and asylum at the heart of critical inquiry. In this light, and motivated by one's Hope for a better future as well as one's mere attempts of Survival, the Passages we'll encounter shall consist not only in geographical and physical journeys, but also in metaphoric and reflective materials. Encompassing both the intellectual and experiential, our own rite of passage will alternate between the seemingly familiar "local" and the remotely located "global" while engaging depictions from within -- as found in documentaries, music, vlogs, letters, and memoirs -- and responses from without -- as manifested in media reports, political platforms, and general discourse. In doing so, and while testing present encounters against our previous notions of identity, belonging, and otherness, we shall constantly strive to recognize, understand and articulate the Differences that asylum, migration, and refuge make in our own, immediate world.
Creative Writing
ENCW 3559	New Course in Creative Writing

	Adaptation
Fall 2023 20563	002	Lecture (3 Units)	Closed	12 / 12	Kevin Moffett	Fr 1:00pm - 3:30pm	Dawson's Row 1
	This course will be taught by a new faculty hire. In the course we'll explore the mutability of stories as they migrate across mediums and genres. We’ll read (and watch, and listen) briskly in a variety of forms—written, visual, and audio media—and you’ll make forays into them yourself, adapting your own original work, as well as the work of others, and then adapting your adaptations. We’ll consider questions of fidelity and how narrative techniques survive and mutate when stories are re-envisioned and rewritten.
ENCW 4550	Topics in Literary Prose

	Novellas, Very Short Novels, Very Long Stories
	Novellas, Very Short Novels, Very Long stories / COURSE TAUGHT BY JESSE BALL
Fall 2023 11499	001	SEM (3 Units)	Permission	14 / 12	Jesse Ball	We 5:00pm - 7:30pm	Dawson's Row 1
	INSTRUCTOR PERMISSION REQUIRED Unless you are in the APLP, send a note to Jane Alison (jas2ad) saying who you are and why you'd like to take this class.
	* THIS COURSE WILL BE TAUGHT BY JESSE BALL, KAPNICK DISTINGUISHED VISITING WRITER *
ENCW 4810	Advanced Fiction Writing I

	From Autofiction to Fabulism
Fall 2023 12155	001	WKS (3 Units)	Permission	10 / 12	Jane Alison	We 11:00am - 1:30pm	Dawson's Row 1
	INSTRUCTOR PERMISSION REQUIRED: please send a note plus brief writing sample to jas2ad@virginia.edu.
	An advanced class for ambitious and imaginative students who want to expand their skills in writing literary prose and experiment with some different manners it can take: realism, metafiction, autofiction, fabulism, faux nonfiction, and so on. We’ll begin with readings in those different manners (looking at texts that range in length from microfiction to novella). As you read you’ll cycle through a series of exercises to let you both play and develop—playing with scales of syntax; controlling time; sculpting a fictional world; manipulating readerly expectations; rendering thought. Ultimately you’ll compose and workshop two stories.
ENCW 4820	Poetry Program Poetics

	Poetry Program Poetics: The Poetics of Ecstasy
Fall 2023 11394	001	SEM (3 Units)	Permission	14 / 14	Lisa Spaar	Tu 11:00am - 1:30pm	Dawson's Row 1
	The Greek word ekstasis signifies displacement, trance—literally, “standing elsewhere.” In this seminar class designed for students in the Area Program in Poetry Writing (APPW), serious makers and readers of poems will explore the poetry of fervor—erotic, visionary, somatic, negative, social, religious, mystical. When the precincts of poetry and rapture intersect, what transpires? What is possible? What is at stake and why does it matter? We will read widely and deeply across cultures and time, including work by Dickinson, Carson, Hopkins, Sappho, Keats, Rilke, Mirabai, Rumi, Ginsberg, Rimbaud, Teare, Hwang, and other ancient, modern, and contemporary writers who have explored the experience of being beside one’s self in the transport of ecstasy. Key & related texts may include readings from Anne Carson’s Eros the Bittersweet, Michel de Certeau’s The Mystic Fable, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Lost Notebooks, and Roland Barthes’s A Lover’s Discourse. Students not in the APPW may request permission to enroll and will be considered on a space-available basis. All students, APPW and otherwise, should request enrollment through SIS and via email to Lisa Russ Spaar ( LRS9E@virginia.edu).
ENCW 4830	Advanced Poetry Writing I

	Advanced Poetry Workshop
Fall 2023 12161	001	WKS (3 Units)	Permission	9 / 12	Debra Nystrom	We 2:00pm - 4:30pm	Bryan Hall 233
	Advanced Poetry Workshop, ENCW 4830, Wed. 2:00PM-4:30PM Instructor: Debra Nystrom This workshop is for students with prior experience in writing and revising poetry, and it welcomes students working in the poetry/prose hybrid space as well. The class will involve discussion of student poems and of assigned reading, with particular attention to issues of craft. Students will be expected to write and revise six to eight poems, to participate in class discussion and offer detailed notes in response to other students’ work, to keep a poetry journal, to attend several poetry readings, to turn in close-reading responses to three assigned readings, and to participate in a group presentation. When weather permits we will meet outdoors on grounds; other meetings will be online. Instructor Permission is required for enrollment in this class. Please apply for instructor permission through SIS. APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS: writing sample of 4-5 poems with a cover sheet including name, year, email address, major, prior workshop experience, and other workshops to which you are submitting. Submit your application IN A SINGLE DOCUMENT to Prof. Nystrom at dln8u@virginia.edu. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis as soon as registration opens. For full consideration, email your application as soon as possible. Final application deadline will be noon, Aug. 18. Classes do sometimes fill before the final submission deadline, but an effort will be made to hold space for transfer and study abroad students. The instructor will let all applicants know before classes begin.
ENCW 5610	Advanced Fiction Writing II

	Variations on Grimm's Tales / TAUGHT BY JESSE BALL, KAPNICK VISITING WRITER
Fall 2023 19250	001	WKS (3 Units)	Permission	15 / 12	JESSE BALL	Tu 2:00pm - 4:30pm	Bryan Hall 233
	PERMISSION REQUIRED
	* THIS COURSE WILL BE TAUGHT BY JESSE BALL, KAPNICK DISTINGUISHED VISITING WRITER * This is a multi-arts graduate workshop open to MFA students of fiction or poetry, as well as grad students in literature, the visual arts, dance, drama, filmmaking, architecture . . . A kind of literary game involving the Brothers Grimm. Posit two groups, A & B. To one of these you belong. Once every fortnight, you & your group present variations on a chosen Household Tale, subverting, extending, or elaborating the original. These variations might elevate a minor character to prominence, or reapply the tale’s schema & shape to a different milieu or landscape. A variation might change the story’s point of perspective or extend it through time. The options are endless, and any imaginable variation is encouraged. We will discuss these variations using an inquiry method known as The Asking. To apply, send a note and brief sample of imaginative work to Jane Alison at jas2ad.
ENCW 7310	MFA Poetry Workshop

	ENCW 7310. MFA POETRY WORKSHOP
Fall 2023 12160	001	WKS (3 Units)	Permission	11 / 10	Lisa Spaar	Mo 2:00pm - 4:30pm	Bryan Hall 233
	This advanced workshop is designed for first- and second-year graduate students in the Masters of Fine Arts in Poetry program. Enrollment is by instructor permission only.
English-Literature
ENGL 2506	Studies in Poetry

	Introduction to Poetry
Fall 2023 21121	004	SEM (3 Units)	Closed	20 / 20	Hodges Adams	TuTh 3:30pm - 4:45pm	New Cabell Hall 209
	"I cut off my head and threw it into the sky. It turned into birds. I called it thinking." - Richard Siken. This class aims to strengthen the skills of close reading and analytical thinking through evaluating poetry. Discussion is the primary format; we will seek to understand the meaning and impact of poetry both on an individual reader and on a broader society. Why do humans write poetry? What are poetic forms and elements? How do we understand poetry as a reflection of its cultural moment? Students will read individual poems across a wide variety of styles and time periods, as well as reading two short collections of contemporary American poetry. There will be three essays, one of which will be paired with an in-class presentation. We may take field trips to some places around Grounds such as the Fralin Art Museum and the Special Collections Library. Please come prepared to read with curiosity and enthusiasm!
ENGL 2508	Studies in Fiction

	Virginia Woolf
Fall 2023 19211	002	SEM (3 Units)	Closed	20 / 20	Stephen Arata	MoWe 5:00pm - 6:15pm	Dell 2 101
	The broad purposes of this course are to introduce you to ways of understanding texts within the discipline of literary studies and to improve your skills in critical thinking and writing. In addition to fulfilling the Second Writing Requirement, the course can be used complete the prerequisite to the English major. We will spend the semester reading widely in the work of Virginia Woolf, one of the greatest writers in the English language. In addition to three of her novels (Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Orlando), our reading list will include short fiction and essays as well as excerpts from her letters and journals. In addition to regular brief writing assignments, requirements will include three 5-6 page essays. The course is designed both for those who have read Woolf before and those who will be reading her for the first time.
ENGL 2572	Black Writers in America

	History in Contemporary African American Lit
Fall 2023 20879	001	SEM (3 Units)	Closed	20 / 20	Marissa Kessenich	TuTh 3:30pm - 4:45pm	Gilmer Hall 245
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	When reflecting on her groundbreaking 1987 novel Beloved, author Toni Morrison described a sense of historical loss as animating her writing process: “On the basis of some information and a little bit of guesswork you journey to a site to see what remains were left behind and to reconstruct the world that these remains imply. What makes it fiction is the nature of the imaginative act…to yield up a kind of truth.” In this seminar, students will engage with history as a valuable discipline—but one that deserves our scrutiny. The course asks students to consider the ways that history highlights issues of representation, knowledge production, and power. We will discuss the ways Black American writers reimagine their relationship to the past through the mediums of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and film. We will consider how each writer approaches historical actors, events, and discourses. What narratives or national myths are they engaging with? How does each author approach constructing a counter-narrative? How do these writers use familiar forms, genres, and tropes in new and unfamiliar ways? Readings for the course will include authors like Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, Robert Hayden, Saidiya Hartman, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, and many others. While this seminar requires no prior familiarity with literary study, it will emphasize and help students cultivate a number of valuable skills, including close reading, critical thinking, and clear, knowledgeable writing.
ENGL 2599	Special Topics

	Comedy and Character
	Chaucer, Shakespeare, Jonson, Austen, Dickens
Fall 2023 19201	002	SEM (3 Units)	Open	15 / 20	Rebecca Rush	TuTh 9:30am - 10:45am	New Cabell Hall 058
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	In this course, we will meditate on the craft of comic character-making from Chaucer to Dickens. Readings will include selected Canterbury Tales, Shakespeare’s As You Like It and Twelfth Night, Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair, Jane Austen’s Emma, and Dickens’s David Copperfield. We will consider how each writer approaches character from a distinctive angle and how each has a different vision of what kinds of details are needed to build a character piece by verbal piece. Which aspects of characters does each author consider worth representing or describing? How can an author use a small thing like a name (Malvolio), a piece of clothing (fine scarlet red hose), or a repeated phrase (“Barkis is willin’”) to hint at something so inward and complex as character? How do comic writers use exaggeration and caricature not only to entertain us but to reveal something about human habits we might otherwise be unable to see? How do they use ensemble casts of major and minor characters to depict an array of humors and habits? When and why do they withhold insights into character or cast doubt on our ability to understand the inner lives of others? No prior knowledge of literature is required; the only prerequisite is a willingness to read slowly, attentively, and with a dictionary at hand.
	The Literature of Black Childhood
Fall 2023 20873	016	SEM (3 Units)	Open	13 / 20	Vallaire Wallace	MoWe 5:00pm - 6:15pm	New Cabell Hall 415
	How do we think about and complicate our idea of the black child? How does race inflect our understandings of youth, and what that looks like through the past two centuries? What can literature teach us about practices of care, black radicalism, and the psychological effects of otherization in the here and now? These are the questions we will try to understand together in this course. Looking at novels by Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Jacqueline Woodson, and more, we interrogate and look towards the literature of the black past (and present) to present possibilities of a less precarious future. Assignments include three formal essays, some weekly informal writing, and an in class presentation.
	Literatures of the Nonhuman
Fall 2023 20921	019	SEM (3 Units)	Open	19 / 20	Adrienne Ghaly	TuTh 9:30am - 10:45am	New Cabell Hall 415
	This course explores the nonhuman world in all its richness through literature. How do modern and contemporary texts envision the nonhuman across different scales, from the strangeness of the nearest everyday objects like a pebble, piece of chalk or a soda can, to imagining what it’s like to be a fox or a school of fish, to representing vast planetary processes like climate change and habitat loss? The focus will be on developing strategies of close reading and introducing the basics of literary critical analysis through shorter forms in poetry and prose that examine the nonhuman across a range of genres from the later nineteenth century to the present. Several critical works and the questions they raise will guide our investigations of the capacious category of the nonhuman and the ideas it animates. Throughout we'll ask, what are the stories we tell about the nonhuman, and how can literature help us imagine them differently? No prior knowledge required. This course fulfills the Second Writing Requirement of 20+ pages of written work, with assignments comprising several essays, shorter pieces of writing, and active participation in discussion.
ENGL 2910	Point of View Journalism

Fall 2023 19182	001	SEM (3 Units)	Closed	29 / 0 (29 / 0)	Lisa Goff	TuTh 12:30pm - 1:45pm	New Cabell Hall 058
	No waitlist, but spaces often open up. Email Prof. Lisa Goff lg6t@virginia.edu if you want to join the class.
	This course examines the history and practice of “point-of-view” journalism, a controversial but credible alternative to the dominant model of “objectivity” on the part of the news media. Not to be confused with “fake news,” point-of-view journalism has a history as long as the nation’s, from Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin in the eighteenth century to "muckrakers" like Ida B. Wells Barnett and Ida Tarbell at the end of the nineteenth, and “New Journalism” practitioners like Tom Wolfe, Hunter Thompson, and Barbara Ehrenreich in the twentieth. Twenty-first century point-of-view practitioners include news organizations on the right (Fox News, One America News Network) and left (Vice, Jacobin, MSNBC, Democracy Now), as well as prominent voices like Ta-Nehisi Coates, Rebecca Solnit, Jia Tolentino, and Sarah Smarsh. We will also consider the rise of “fake news.” A term formerly used to indicate the work of entertainers such as Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert, who pilloried the news (and newsmakers) in order to interpret them, “fake news” is now an established practice of the far right, as well as a political slur used to denigrate the work of mainstream (center and left-of-center) news organizations.
ENGL 3162	Chaucer II

	Chaucer's dreams--surreal, comic, scary, green. 1st year friendly, 4th year rewarding. No pre-req.
Fall 2023 19226	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Permission	11 / 25	Elizabeth Fowler	TuTh 3:30pm - 4:45pm	New Cabell Hall 032
	Together, we’ll read Geoffrey Chaucer’s four dream poems and investigate how the virtual reality we call art can produce intense and immersive human experience. The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowls, and The Legend of Good Women are surreal, sweet, funny, philosophical, emotionally intense, and visually overstimulated poems which are even more interesting in our age of complex media tech; dreams and poetry seem to provide Chaucer with a way of thinking explicitly about what it is to have para-sensory, virtual experience. We'll be interested in how specific configurations of language (image, metaphor, tense, and so on) work to produce cognitive, emotional, and sensory effects. This is a “close reading” course that will sharpen your reading skills as well as provide an encounter with one of the most influential and beloved poets in world history. (We will also undoubtedly talk about Chaucer's other ambitions in these works — philosophical, political, theological, aesthetic, imagistic, comic!)
ENGL 3275	History of Drama I: Ancient Greece to the Renaissance

Fall 2023 19218	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Closed	30 / 0	John Parker	TuTh 2:00pm - 3:15pm	New Cabell Hall 489
	The first third of this course will cover the drama of classical antiquity in translation, beginning with Greek plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes, then moving from there to the Latin plays of Plautus, Terence and Seneca. The next third of the course will consider the kinds of performance that displaced (and in some cases transformed) this pagan tradition after the Christianization of the Roman empire, including liturgical drama, a morality play, a saint play, biblical drama and farce. The final third of the course will cover plays from the Renaissance, focusing particularly on the commercial London stage of Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. A major goal of the course will be to answer some of the questions posed by historical period: what does it mean, in the context of this particular genre, to move from antiquity to the Middle Ages to the Renaissance? How seriously should we take the differences between paganism and Christianity? What portion of early modern drama derives from classical antiquity, what portion from the Middle Ages, and what portion, if any, is new?
ENGL 3380	The English Novel I

	Novel Conversations
Fall 2023 19203	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	16 / 30	Alison Hurley	TuTh 9:30am - 10:45am	Bryan Hall 235
	Today classes like this one elevate novels to the status of serious literature. During the eighteenth century, however, the novel was not just a new and thus culturally illegitimate genre, it was a dangerous one as well¬: seductive, subversive, addictive, and unruly. No wonder it was so popular! But despite their reputation as merely popular and mostly valueless cultural productions, early novels grappled with serious questions about the experience of living in an increasingly secular, mobile, and literate society. How can, and why should, a book make the everyday lives of ordinary individuals matter? Does sympathizing with fictional characters lead to virtue or vice? What is the difference between fiction and fraud? Wonderfully contentious conversations developed among eighteenth-century novelists about how best to answer questions such as these. Our work will be to revive these conversations, and hopefully, come to a better understanding of how they propelled the novel towards becoming the dominant literary genre of the modern world. Class requirements include a minimum of 15 discussion posts, frequent reading quizzes, two essays, and a final exam. Because our classes will be largely discussion based, keeping up with assigned readings will be crucial to your learning and enjoyment.
ENGL 3480	The English Novel II

	The Way We Live Now: The Novel in the Nineteenth Century
Fall 2023 19212	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Closed	30 / 30	Stephen Arata	MoWe 3:30pm - 4:45pm	New Cabell Hall 383
	You do not need to have taken English Novel I to enroll in English Novel II.
	“Novels are in the hands of us all,” wrote Anthony Trollope in 1870, “from the Prime Minister down to the last-appointed scullery maid. We have become a novel-reading nation.” Indeed, over the course of the nineteenth century the novel became the most popular—and profitable—literary genre in Great Britain. Its success was due to many factors, none perhaps more important than the extraordinary sophistication and emotional power with which novelists set out to portray (as the title of one of Trollope’s own novels puts it) “the way we live now.” More than ever before, novelists were committed to recording the visible world in all its abundant detail while also exploring the complex interior lives of individual women and men. They accomplished these feats, moreover, by way of gripping stories full of adventure, love (lust too), betrayal, mystery, and wonder. In this course we will immerse ourselves in a half-dozen or so of the finest examples of the genre, chosen from among such writers as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Margaret Oliphant, Thomas Hardy, and Trollope himself. Requirements will likely include bi-weekly email responses, two essays, a midterm, and final exam.
ENGL 3500	Studies in English Literature

	Climate Fiction
Fall 2023 19721	002	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	27 / 30	Mary Kuhn	TuTh 2:00pm - 3:15pm	New Cabell Hall 364
	Climate fiction, or “cli-fi,” is a relatively new genre that invites readers to contemplate a rapidly changing climate—from realist portrayals of weird weather interrupting the everyday to post-apocalyptic scenarios set on fury roads and in distant galaxies. Assignments include short papers and an observational journal that will go into climate capsule at the end of the semester.
	Faust
Fall 2023 20180	003	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	22 / 30 (22 / 30)	Jeffrey Grossman	TuTh 12:30pm - 1:45pm	New Cabell Hall 485
	Goethe's Faust has been called an “atlas of European modernity” and “one of the most recent columns for that bridge of spirit spanning the swamping of world history.” The literary theorist Harold Bloom writes: “As a sexual nightmare of erotic fantasy, [Faust] ... has no rival, and one understands why the shocked Coleridge declined to translate the poem. It is certainly a work about what, if anything, will suffice, and Goethe finds myriad ways of showing us that sexuality by itself will not. Even more obsessively, Faust teaches that, without an active sexuality, absolutely nothing will suffice.” Taking Goethe's Faust as its point of departure, this course will trace the Faust legend from its rise over 400 hundred years ago to the modern age. Retrospectively, we will explore precursors of Goethe's Faust in the form of the English Faust Book, Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, and possibly one of the various other popular re-workings of the text. We will then read Goethe's Faust, parts I and II (part II, either in its entirety or in excerpts). Although now viewed as central to the European canon, Goethe sought in his Faust to radically transform the central tenants of the legend and to challenge many conventions of European culture, politics, and society. Beyond Goethe, we will study Byron's melancholy attempt in Manfred to create a theater of the emotions that explores problems of power, sexuality, and guilt. And we will venture into the twentieth- century, reading texts that re-worked the Faust legend in response to authoritarian politics: Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus, which wrestles with Nazism in the land of Goethe's Faust. We will also consider F.W. Murnau's film version of Faust and may consider Faust works in other media (e.g., music, painting).
ENGL 3520	Studies in Renaissance Literature

	New Philosophy and Renaissance Literature
Fall 2023 19227	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	6 / 30	James Kinney	TuTh 11:00am - 12:15pm	New Cabell Hall 132
	In this course we'll examine the strange mix of radicalism and caution that typifies Renaissance culture not only in England, looking at how daring Renaissance authors from More and Erasmus to Shakespeare and Donne reconceive the self, reinvent the tradition, and recast the state. One short, one longer paper, regular class participation, and a final exam.
	Metaphysical Poets
	John Donne and his Poetic Heirs
Fall 2023 20099	002	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	16 / 30	Rebecca Rush	TuTh 12:30pm - 1:45pm	Bryan Hall 328
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	In this course we will dig deep into the verse of the “metaphysical poets” of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including John Donne, George Herbert, Abraham Cowley, and Andrew Marvell. We will also consider poets who occasionally dabbled in the metaphysical style, including William Shakespeare, John Milton, Richard Lovelace, and Katherine Philips, among others. As we work through this peculiar, startling body of poetry, we will debate about the distinctive markers of metaphysical style—love of witty and intellectual play, intense concentration on a single idea, far-flung and ingenious metaphors, and a distinctively chatty and bossy voice—and ponder about how they fit the poetic and philosophical needs of these poets. Why and how did Donne develop such an idiosyncratic way of inspecting desire and love by putting them under the pressure of metaphor, analogy, and wit? What happens to Donne’s style when later poets turn away from human love and apply his poetic tools to meditations on divinity and nature? No prior knowledge of Renaissance poetry is required, only a willingness to unravel complex verse with the utmost care—and a dictionary.
ENGL 3559	New Course in English Literature

	Memory Speaks
Fall 2023 20490	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	12 / 20 (12 / 20)	Lorna Martens	TuTh 2:00pm - 3:15pm	New Cabell Hall 485
	For description, click on schedule number to the left
	Memory Speaks Memory is a crucial human faculty. Our ability to remember our own past is one of the things that make us human. Memory has long been thought to ground identity: without memory, one has no sense of self. Memory has been seen as fundamental to psychic health, and even as a remedy in times of trouble, as well as essential to our ability to imagine the future. Remembering has its delights. Certainly the idea of losing one’s memory, through shock or illness for example, is terrifying to contemplate. Yet having too many memories of the wrong kind is believed to endanger our equilibrium. Maddeningly, given its power to make us healthy or sick, memory often lies beyond our conscious control. It operates according to its own laws, giving us what we want only sometimes. Undeniably useful, it has also been seen as deceptive. It is demonstrably suggestible. It is not surprising, therefore, that memory is a subject of vital importance in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences alike. This course will focus on individual memory and in particular on autobiographical memory (our memories of our own lives). We will read autobiographies and works of fiction, written from the early twentieth century to the present, by Patrick Modiano, Marcel Proust, Rainer Maria Rilke, Mary McCarthy, Vladimir Nabokov, and Marguerite Duras. We will also study two films on the theme of memory: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Inside Out. Concurrently, we will read psychological, psychoanalytic, and neuroscientific work on memory. Some attention will be paid to the issues of false memory, external memory, and mediated memory, as well. Two short papers, presentations, exam.
ENGL 3560	Studies in Modern and Contemporary Literature

	James Joyce's Ulysses
Fall 2023 19222	002	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	13 / 30	Victor Luftig	TuTh 9:30am - 10:45am	Bryan Hall 328
	If you are reading this, you’ve probably heard that Ulysses is great, influential, and way hard; you are less likely to have heard how funny it is, and how rewarding reading it can be. Difficult? Sure, maybe, but how difficult is up to each reader or group of readers: in this course, designed for first-time readers of the book, we’ll consider what the book makes challenging and why, and we’ll develop comfortable strategies for responding to those challenges. But our main focus will be on what Ulysses offers us as 21st century readers. In what ways can its styles, its engagement with the ‘real,’ its accounts of human experience, and its consideration of categories of people—by gender, nation, race, ethnicity, religion, age, body type, temperament, etc—provide us with particular insights, pleasures, and cautions? Prior to the first class session, please read as much as you can of an annotated edition of Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. (The Viking edition with notes by Anderson, which you can easily find used, would be fine.) There will be a couple of papers, a couple of tests, and a final exam; the final paper will ask you to think about what contemporary situation you think Ulysses might apply to most meaningfully. At the end of the course we’ll have a taste of Joyce’s Finnegans Wake to prepare you for future explorations of that book—which too is challenging, rewarding, and “lovesoftfun.”
	Modern and Contemporary Poetry
Fall 2023 19230	003	Lecture (3 Units)	Closed	30 / 30	Mark Edmundson	TuTh 12:30pm - 1:45pm	New Cabell Hall 364
	The mid-twentieth century in America sees and explosion of excellent poetry. More different kinds of consequential poets, more different sorts of poems than the nation had seen before. We’ll start with the understated genius, Elizabeth Bishop, and move on to Robert Lowell, inspired early prophet of the sorrows of American empire. Then on to others: the daring, ever fertile Sylvia Plath; superb political and erotic poet, Adrienne Rich; Robert Hayden, poet of African American grief and hopes; Allen Ginsberg, author of the culture-shaking Howl. There will be encounters too with the hyper-perceptive Gwendolyn Brooks; visionary Amy Clampitt; Southern sage James Dickey; James Merrill, perhaps America’s most sophisticated poet; and gritty, tender James Wright. A mid-term quiz, a final quiz, and a paper at the end on the poet you care about most.
	Kafka and His Doubles
Fall 2023 20489	004	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	16 / 20 (16 / 20)	Lorna Martens	TuTh 11:00am - 12:15pm	New Cabell Hall 187
	For description, click on schedule number to the left
	Kafka and His Doubles The course will introduce the enigmatic work of Franz Kafka: stories including "The Judgment," "The Metamorphosis," "A Country Doctor," "A Report to an Academy," "A Hunger Artist," "The Burrow," and "Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk"; one of his three unpublished novels (The Trial); the Letter to His Father; and some short parables. But we will also look at Kafka's "doubles": the literary tradition he works with and the way in which he, in turn, forms literary tradition. Thus: Kafka: Cervantes, Kafka: Bible, Kafka: Aesop, Kafka: Dostoevsky, Kafka: Melville; Kafka: O'Connor, Kafka: Singer; Kafka: Calvino, Kafka: Borges. Readings will center on four principal themes: conflicts with others and the self (and Kafka's psychological vision); the double; the play with paradox and infinity; and artists and animals. A seminar limited to 20 participants. Requirements include a short midterm paper (5-7 pages) and a longer final paper (10-12 pages).
ENGL 3790	Moving On: Migration in/to US

Fall 2023 19183	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Closed	18 / 0 (18 / 0)	Lisa Goff	TuTh 3:30pm - 4:45pm	Monroe Hall 118
	No waitlist, but spaces often open up. Email Prof. Lisa Goff lg6t@virginia.edu if you want to join the class.
	“Moving On: Migration In/To the U.S.” (AMST/ENGL 3790) examines the history of voluntary, coerced, and forced migration in the U.S. It traces the paths of migrating groups and their impact on urban, suburban, and rural landscapes. Students will dig for cultural clues to changing attitudes about migration over time. Photographs, videos, books, movies, government records, poems, podcasts, paintings, comic strips, museums, manifestos: you name it, we’ll analyze it for this class. We will also explore the growing body of digital humanities resources related to migration and mobility, including but not limited to resources collected by the DPLA on the Great Migration and the Exodusters; and Torn Apart volume one, “Separados,” about 2018 asylum seekers at the Mexican border. Assignments will teach students to do historical research; digital mapping and storytelling techniques; written and visual communication; historical and cultural analysis and interpretation. Learning outcomes include production of original work, critique of historical narratives; organization of diverse types of evidence; empathy; self-knowledge. Class participation/contribution is the core of this class. Other assessments include reading responses, papers, StoryMaps, and reflective essays. There will be one test; no midterm or final exam. Students will be required to volunteer 10 hours with a migration-related project during the second half of the semester.
ENGL 4500	Seminar in English Literature

	The Frankenstein Circle
Fall 2023 19185	001	SEM (3 Units)	Closed	18 / 18	Cynthia Wall	MoWe 3:30pm - 4:45pm	Robertson Hall 221
	“I passed the summer of 1816 in the environs of Geneva. The season was cold and rainy, and in the evenings we crowded around a blazing wood fire, and occasionally amused ourselves with some German stories of ghosts. The tales excited in us a playful desire of imitation. Two other friends and myself agreed to write each a story, founded on some supernatural occurrence. The following tale is the only one which has been completed.” So wrote young Mary Godwin; the two friends were the poets Lord Byron and her lover Percy Shelley. The tale was Frankenstein. (For the record, one Dr Polidori was there as well, and he did finish his tale, “The Vampyre”; it’s on the syllabus.) With Frankenstein as our central text, we will also read works by Percy, Byron, Polidori, and William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft (Mary’s parents), excerpts from Mary’s journals, and selections from Mary & Percy’s mammoth reading lists for 1814-1818 (Coleridge, Wordsworth, M. G. Lewis, Milton, Brockden Brown, Swift, Defoe, Thomson, Chatterton, Locke, Scott . . .).
ENGL 4520	Seminar in Renaissance Literature

	Renaissance Drama
Fall 2023 19219	001	SEM (3 Units)	Closed	11 / 0	John Parker	TuTh 3:30pm - 4:45pm	New Cabell Hall 044
	To examine some of Shakespeare's greatest contemporaries and rivals, in particular Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson, with special attention to the London theater's sub-genres: revenge tragedy, city comedy and tragi-comedy. Other authors may include Thomas Kyd, Francis Beaumont, Elizabeth Cary, John Fletcher, George Chapman, Thomas Middleton, John Webster, John Ford and Philip Massinger. We will try to get a sense of what it means to speak of a "Renaissance" at this moment in English history and to understand how the London commercial stage relates to earlier forms of theater.
ENGL 4560	Seminar in Modern and Contemporary Literature

	Frost, Haydn, Bishop, Lowell
Fall 2023 19232	003	SEM (3 Units)	Open	12 / 18	Mark Edmundson	TuTh 3:30pm - 4:45pm	New Cabell Hall 068
	TR 03:30PM-04:45PM (CAB 068) Mark Edmundson We’ll read, interpret, and enjoy four remarkable twentieth century American poets. The class will spend about three weeks each on Robert Frost, poet of rural life and more; Elizabeth Bishop, consummate artist who writes memorably about solitude and loneliness; Robert Hayden, brave and candid poet of African American experience; and Robert Lowell, patrician poet who prophesies the decline and fall of America. Maybe we’ll shake things up with a visit from Allen Ginsberg. Three Roberts and an Elizabeth (and maybe an Allen), a couple of essays, some quizzes, focused and wayward reflections on literature and the conduct of life.
ENGL 4561	Seminar in Modern Literature and Culture

	Literature and Trauma
Fall 2023 20428	001	SEM (3 Units)	Open	8 / 18	Mrinalini Chakravorty	TuTh 3:30pm - 4:45pm	New Cabell Hall 056
	Modern and Global Studies seminar; open to all.
	SIS enrollment for this course is not yet available. Please email Prof Chakravorty (mc5je@virginia.edu) to be added to the class.
ENGL 5559	New Course in English Literature

	Transforming Desire
	Desire, gender, genre, metamorphosis--Medieval and Renaissance erotic poetics
Fall 2023 19181	001	SEM (3 Units)	Permission	14 / 15	Clare Kinney	TuTh 11:00am - 12:15pm	Bryan Hall 203
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	This seminar will focus upon lyric, narrative and dramatic works from the medieval and Renaissance periods which explore the striking metamorphoses and the various (and on occasion very queer) trajectories of earthly—and not so earthly--love. We'll be examining the ways in which desire is represented as transforming the identity and consciousness of the lover; we will also be examining (and attempting to historicize) strategies employed by our authors to variously transform, redefine, enlarge and contain the erotic impulse. We'll start with some selections from the Metamorphoses of Ovid; we will finish with two of Shakespeare’s most striking reinventions of love. Along the way we’ll be looking at the gendering of erotic representation and erotic speech, the intermittent entanglement of secular and sacred love, the role of genre in refiguring eros, and some intersections between the discourses of sexuality and the discourses of power. Tentative reading list: selections from Ovid's Metamorphoses; the Lais (short romances) of Marie de France; Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde; sonnets by Petrarch, Philip Sidney and Lady Mary Wroth; Philip Sidney’s Old Arcadia; Shakespeare's As You Like It and The Winter’s Tale. (All non-English works will be read in translation.) And occasional critical/theoretical readings. Requirements: regular attendance, lively participation in discussion, a series of reflective e-mail responses to our readings, a short paper (6-7 pages); a long term paper (14+ pages).
	The Queer Novel
Fall 2023 19199	002	SEM (3 Units)	Open	9 / 15	Mrinalini Chakravorty	TuTh 6:30pm - 7:45pm	Bryan Hall 203
	What is “queer” about the novel? This course will grapple with this question by examining the rich legacy of non-normative sexual expressions and orientations in the literary arts.
	Contemporary Jewish Fiction
	Between Laughter and Trembling
Fall 2023 19200	003	SEM (3 Units)	Open	9 / 15	Caroline Rody	TuTh 12:30pm - 1:45pm	Bryan Hall 233
	ENGL 5559 Fall, 2023 Contemporary Jewish Literature Caroline Rody, Dept of English This course for graduate and advanced undergraduate students will explore a literature positioned between tradition and modern invention, between the spiritual and the mundane, and—as Saul Bellow once put it—between laughter and trembling, in the emotionally rich territory where Jewish people have lived a spirited, talkative, politically engaged, book-obsessed modernity in the face of violence and destruction. We will read mainly Jewish American texts but also some by Jewish writers from other countries, taking up short stories, essays, poems, jokes, Broadway song lyrics, and a few complete novels, as well as short videos clips and a film, surveying a diverse array of modern Jewish literary and popular cultural production. About the first third of the course examines mid-twentieth century Jewish American writers, some from the immigrant New York milieu like Isaac Bashevis Singer, and then heirs to Yiddish culture with bold American aspirations, such as, Alfred Kazin, Grace Paley, Delmore Schwartz, Chaim Potok, Bernard Malamud, Elie Wiesel, Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, and Lore Segal. For the rest of the term we will read fiction from the booming field of contemporary Jewish fiction, including authors such as Art Spiegelman, Allegra Goodman, Nathan Englander, Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, Michael Chabon, Joshua Cohen, Christophe Boltanski, David Bezmozgis, and Etgar Keret. The course will focus on the ways writers shape and reshape a new literature with roots in a formidable textual, cultural, and religious tradition. We will observe an evolving relationship to traditional and sacred Jewish texts, to Yiddish and the culture of Yiddishkeit; to humor as a social practice and imaginative force; to memory and inheritance as burdens or as creative touchstones. We will also consider changing conceptions of Jewish identity, of American identity, and of gender roles; the transformations wrought by assimilation and social mobility; socialist, feminist and other political commitments and visions; forms of engagement with history including the Holocaust, the founding of Israel and its ongoing conflicts; and life in multiethnic America. Requirements: reading, active class participation, co-leading of a class discussion, multiple short reading responses, a short paper, and a longer paper with a creative, Talmud-inspired option: a “scroll” of interlaced interpretation.
ENGL 8596	Form and Theory of Poetry

	The Darkling Wood
	The Darkling Wood
Fall 2023 19221	001	SEM (3 Units)	Permission	14 / 15	Kiki Petrosino	We 2:00pm - 4:30pm	Dawson's Row 1
	Instructor Permission required; please contact cmp2k@virginia.edu with a summary of your interest in the course.
	In this graduate seminar designed for students in the Master of Fine Arts program, we'll explore the concept of "the darkling wood" as a site of poetic inquiry. As artists, we may return many times to this metaphysical "place"--our night-dark forest of memory, our heart's thick bramble. What poems may emerge from sustained encounter with uncertainty? What questions might we ask, only, in the wood (and what forms might those questions take)? Together, we'll focus on several exciting works by poets who've found themselves in deep passages and trace how they discover, through lyric language, a way in, a way through. Coursework will give students the opportunity to produce critical and creative projects of their own design. Though this is a readings-based seminar, students should be prepared and willing to participate in writing exercises, to exchange works-in-progress, and to offer constructive critique.
Entrepreneurship
ENTP 1559	New Course in Entrepreneurship

	Money Matters
	An introduction to personal finance
Fall 2023 20059	005	Lecture (0.5 Units)	Open	93 / 150	Roger Martin	Mo 4:00am - 4:30am	Web-Based Course
	Class is entirely online and can be completed at your own pace. There is no class meeting time - it is completely asynchronous.
	What can you do to improve your financial well-being? What can you learn about your personal finances that will give you more control over your financial life now and in the future? This course will help you understand the financial choices you should be making now and in the future and how to set yourself up for a great start financially when you leave school. It will provide a basic introduction to income taxes, budgeting, insurance, savings goals and investments. All content is online and asynchronous, so you can complete the course at your pace.
	Business Essentials - Accounting
Fall 2023 20900	006	Lecture (0.5 Units)	Open	31 / 100	Adam Koch	Mo 4:45am - 5:15am	Web-Based Course
	Class is entirely online and can be completed at your own pace. There is no class meeting time - it is completely asynchronous.
	An online, self-paced introduction to the role of accounting in organizations. Students will explore actual financial statements and learn how firms track resources, measure performance, and use financial information for decision-making.
Writing and Rhetoric
ENWR 1510	Writing and Critical Inquiry

	Writing about Culture/Society
	Rewriting UVA: Histories of Resistance
Fall 2023 10532	028	SEM (3 Units)	Closed	18 / 18	John Modica	TuTh 5:00pm - 6:15pm	New Cabell Hall 211
	This class is one section of ENWR 1510, UVA’s required first-year writing course. The purpose of ENWR 1510 is to foster reading and writing practices that will make you an agile, self-aware critical thinker. In this class, you will see why it is important to conceptualize reading and writing as inquiry-based practices–that is, as sets of skills useful for exploring complex questions, as opposed to tools for memorizing facts or reproducing what you already know. Taking a critical approach to writing and reading will empower you to transform intellectual challenges in college—and in your everyday life—into manageable opportunities for growth. Every section of ENWR 1510 shares a broad set of shared learning goals, which you can read here. However, every section has a different topic, or theme. This section of ENWR 1510 focuses on the histories of racial, gender, and sexual struggle at UVA as inheritances for us as present-day thinkers, readers, writers, and community members. Why focus on these histories of resistance in a composition class? As you will see in this course, struggle against inequity is a defining feature of intellectual and social life at UVA and in Charlottesville. On one hand, it is important for you to understand how the institution you attend has participated in systems of exploitation and the effects of that participation in the present-day. These systems will affect you, people you care about, and people you may never meet in and outside of UVA. On the other hand, this class is designed for you to strengthen your reading and writing habits while also exploring how you can situate your many identities—including your identities as thinker, writer, and student—in this University’s long histories of resistance as they have unfurled in the realm of language and contestation over linguistic meaning. At the same time you will practice pragmatic skills that will assist you as a critical thinker, you will have the chance to think critically about the purposes you want your education to serve, and the intervention that you want to make into the unjust histories we find ourselves negotiating. Assignments include research conducted in UVA's archives on queer student activism, a collaboratively-authored zine, and a reflective "statement of purpose" that explores your values and goals as a UVA student. This is a no-cost course: all materials will be available for free on Canvas.
	Writing about Culture/Society
	Language, Policy, and Politics
Fall 2023 10535	032	SEM (3 Units)	Closed	18 / 18	Kate Natishan	TuTh 9:30am - 10:45am	Bryan Hall 312
	As Edward P.J. Corbett has observed, rhetorical analysis "is more interested in a literary work for what it DOES than for what it IS." Rhetoric - how words are chosen and used - can impact everything from how we understand problems and create policies to how we engage in politics and create identity. It's never "just words." This class will explore how language use by public figures and citizens impacts how policies are created and written as well as how the political arena is changed by the use of language. By nature of the subject matter, we will be discussing political, social, and policy issues both past and present.
	Writing about Digital Media
	Exploring the Present
Fall 2023 11452	044	SEM (3 Units)	Closed	18 / 18	Jeddie Sophronius	MoWeFr 10:00am - 10:50am	Bryan Hall 332
	This course delves into the exploration of the contemporary landscape, with a particular focus on its intersection with digital media. We will examine how the current world, shaped by factors such as technological advancements, societal shifts, and environmental changes, influences and is influenced by the realm of digital media. Throughout the semester, we will engage with current international events spanning politics, the economy, science, and technology, all of which hold the potential to impact individuals on a global scale. Alongside this exploration, we will immerse ourselves in speculative fiction and social commentary pieces, enriching our understanding of the present digital milieu and honing our skills in writing about these intricate interactions. Lastly, we will also explore our idea of time and the present, and how modern technology interacts with or hinders our perception of time and “in-the-momentness.”
	Writing about Digital Media
	Exploring the Present
Fall 2023 12575	053	SEM (3 Units)	Closed	18 / 18	Jeddie Sophronius	MoWeFr 9:00am - 9:50am	Bryan Hall 310
	This course delves into the exploration of the contemporary landscape, with a particular focus on its intersection with digital media. We will examine how the current world, shaped by factors such as technological advancements, societal shifts, and environmental changes, influences and is influenced by the realm of digital media. Throughout the semester, we will engage with current international events spanning politics, the economy, science, and technology, all of which hold the potential to impact individuals on a global scale. Alongside this exploration, we will immerse ourselves in speculative fiction and social commentary pieces, enriching our understanding of the present digital milieu and honing our skills in writing about these intricate interactions. Lastly, we will also explore our idea of time and the present, and how modern technology interacts with or hinders our perception of time and “in-the-momentness.”
	Writing about Culture/Society
	The Personal Essay
Fall 2023 12097	072	SEM (3 Units)	Closed	18 / 18	Xiwen Wang	TuTh 12:30pm - 1:45pm	Bryan Hall 203
	You might wonder why one would want to write more personal essays when one has gotten into college already. It is my claim that writing in this extraordinarily elastic genre can help shore up interesting and sophisticated queries and arguments, and better yet, ones that we are at least modestly invested in! Note well, though, that for the scope of our investigation, we will lean away from memoir or autobiography, per se. Instead, we will read about Maine’s lobster festival, carpool lanes, the love of palm trees, and oranges (an entire book’s worth). As we become more mindful of our particular points of view (and of ways to exploit this subjectivity), we will turn the focus outside of ourselves, engaging with other voices. We will experiment with how the personal mode motivates writing that is extro- rather than introspective. As readers and writers, we will split our attention between close, critical analysis of texts and exploration of our own writerly voice via, perhaps paradoxically, imitation of stylish writing. In addition to sharpening your skills in reading and analysis, this class will give you tools for generating drafts, (peer) revising, and polishing your writing. Essayists might include: Joan Didion, James Baldwin, John McPhee, David Foster Wallace, Maggie Nelson, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Zadie Smith.
	Writing about Digital Media
	Art Imitates Life: Writing about Video Games
Fall 2023 13985	081	SEM (3 Units)	Closed	18 / 18	Caroline Ford	MoWeFr 11:00am - 11:50am	Bryan Hall 312
	Video games are a beloved source of entertainment that offer both an escape from reality and an opportunity to pursue a myriad of storylines. In addition to providing rich and unique interactive experiences, they can also have a profound emotional impact, whether joyous, light-hearted, bittersweet, distressing, or even outright maddening. Many would even consider video games an art form, but how far can we push the intersection between video games and academic value? In this section of ENWR 1510, we will extend beyond the scope of video game coding and mechanics into an exploration of the relationship between video games and writing. In our classes together, we will examine how our four central games come together through characterization, dialogue, world-building, and narrative. As we look specifically at story-based games, we will focus on a few key questions: • How do video games evoke emotions, empathy, and attachment in their players? • How do video games demonstrate different lived experiences, themes, and ideologies? • What makes a story? Through our reading, writing, viewing, and discussion, we will learn about the creative possibilities in our own writing through video game storytelling. We will work collaboratively to think through writing as a process, express thoughts with clarity, and develop writerly confidence. Unit topics will be paired with games, brief articles about said games, and various supplementary essays. No previous video game interest or experience is necessary. Games will be made available through the University and are observable through free online video walkthroughs.
ENWR 2510	Advanced Writing Seminar

	Writing about Identities
	Writing Regret and Repair
Fall 2023 12574	001	SEM (3 Units)	Closed	16 / 16	Tamika Carey	MoWe 3:30pm - 4:45pm	New Cabell Hall 291
	If the old saying is true and everyone actually makes mistakes, then why are apologies so hard to write and why are some apologies more easily dismissed than others? This section of ENWR 2510 explores these questions about regret and repair from an identity-based perspective to strengthen your methods for writing. Said differently, we will consider how class, race, gender, and other identity markers influence public perceptions of error and impression management. We will also investigate social expectations of how regret should be expressed. In doing so, we will pursue the goal of this course, which is to cultivate and refine your analytical reading techniques, invention processes, composing practices, and strategies for revision and publication.
ENWR 2520	Special Topics in Writing

	Writing and Games
Fall 2023 14020	007	SEM (3 Units)	Closed	16 / 16	Kate Natishan	TuTh 12:30pm - 1:45pm	Bryan Hall 312
	“We've been playing games since humanity had civilization - there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games. It's so deep-seated that it can bypass latter-day cultural norms and biases.” - Jane McGonigal Play is essential to our growth. Games teach us how to move, how to balance, how to coordinate our hands and eyes, how to take turns, how to share, how to read people, how to strategize, how to problem solve, how to work as a team... Without games, there is no us. Games play a central role in our social and private lives, whether we are spectators or players. They also have massive cultural impact, sometimes in ways we don’t expect. In this class, we will examine the role games play in our lives and our culture, and we will explore the ways in which others write about games while developing our skills to do the same. Meets second writing requirement.
ENWR 2640	Writing as Technology

Fall 2023 18903	001	WKS (3 Units)	Closed	16 / 16	Patricia Sullivan	TuTh 11:00am - 12:15pm	Fayerweather Hall 215
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	This course explores historical, theoretical, and practical conceptions of writing as technology. We will study various writing systems, the relation of writing to speaking and visual media, and the development of writing technologies (manuscript, printing presses, typewriters, hypertext, text messaging, and artificial intelligence). Students will produce written academic and personal essays, but will also experiment with multimedia electronic texts, such as web sites, digital essays/stories, and AI generated texts.
ENWR 3500	Topics in Advanced Writing & Rhetoric

	Studies in Cultural Rhetorics
	The Cultural Work of Stories
Fall 2023 18879	002	SEM (3 Units)	Open	14 / 16	Tamika Carey	Mo 6:00pm - 8:30pm	New Cabell Hall 332
	Every culture has its own way of making meaning and communicating through persuasive means. Native American groups, for instance, have retained ceremonial customs and spiritual practices despite the conquests that have shaped this country. Queer communities, for example, have strategic ways that they use to make sense of the world and joy for themselves despite and in relation to heteronormativity. African-Americans, LatinX, and Asian Americans all have strategic language practices and social customs they use to fortify their collective identities and advocate for themselves amid historical hostility. Differently abled people have developed strategic ways of making their needs met despite design choices that disadvantage them. Individuals in this country’s working-class employ strategic techniques to advocate for themselves in challenging environments. This course will explore how these various cultural locations (e.g., race, ethnicity, gender, ability, sexuality) impact how people generate rhetorical practices to maintain community and resist social division. Our work will involve exploring a variety of contexts wherein these practices are made, learning methodologies for studying rhetorical production across media and modality, and tracking these practices and their historical developments. Ideally, this work will enrich how you understand and participate in real-world cross-cultural and intercultural communications in professional and public spheres as well as personal encounters. Projects are likely to include: a cultural-message autobiography; an analysis/annotation presentation; and, a final project presentation.
Enviromental Thought and Practice
ETP 3559	New Course in Environmental Thought and Practice

	Restoring our Relationship with Nature
Website 19141	001	SEM (3 Units)	Permission	18 / 20	Dorothe Bach+1	TuTh 9:30am - 10:45am	John W. Warner Hall 113
	By instructor permission. Follow website link for information on how to apply.
	This course explores the practice, art, and science of connecting with nature and how we may restore broken linkages. We will ground our study in experiential activities, the science on nature and well-being and in the wisdom of local nature connection activists and indigenous ways of knowing.
	Restoring our Relationship with Nature
Website 20436	110	SPS (0 Units)	Open	18 / 20	Dorothe Bach+1	09/10 Su 9:00am - 4:00pm	TBA
					Dorothe Bach+1	10/08 Su 9:00am - 4:00pm	TBA
	By instructor permission. Follow swebsite link for information on how to apply.
	This course explores the practice, art, and science of connecting with nature and how we may restore broken linkages. We will ground our study in experiential activities, the science on nature and well-being and in the wisdom of local nature connection activists and indigenous ways of knowing.
French
FREN 3031	Finding Your Voice in French

	ON AIR! Finding Your Voice in French: Podcast Edition
Fall 2023 10191	001	SEM (3 Units)	Open	8 / 14	Spyridon Simotas	MoWeFr 10:00am - 10:50am	New Cabell Hall 038
	In French the words voix (voice) and voie (way) are homonyms. Keep that in mind as you set out to find your voice in French, because as you become more fluent in the French language, you will discover new ways of experiencing the world and new pathways for personal and academic growth. This course will offer you the opportunity to explore and develop your voice in written and spoken French through the creation of a podcast. You will cultivate your own sense of style, tone, creativity, and expressiveness by drawing on a variety of cultural artifacts as inspiration for a series of writing and recording activities. Whether it means starting to feel more like yourself when you write and speak in French, or enjoying sounding wonderfully different from yourself, this course will encourage you to deepen your appreciation for the profound and transformative process of starting to think in French and to think of yourself as a Francophone person.
	ON AIR! Finding Your Voice in French: Podcast Edition
Fall 2023 10190	003	SEM (3 Units)	Closed	18 / 18	Rachel Geer	TuTh 11:00am - 12:15pm	New Cabell Hall 407
	Are you looking for a class that is focused on making things and doing creative projects in French?? Ready to put on your headphones and discover the thrilling new voices and perspectives within the French-speaking world of podcasts?? This course will offer you the opportunity to explore the world of French podcasts while also developing your voice in written and spoken French through the creation of your own podcast episode. Over the course of the semester, you’ll tell stories, conduct field recordings an interviews, and find your way through important questions about language, identity, power, and politics. Come for the podcasts, and stay for the ways you’ll cultivate your own sense of style, tone, creativity, and expressiveness in French! Whether it means starting to feel more like yourself when you write and speak in French, or enjoying sounding wonderfully different from yourself, this course will encourage you to deepen your appreciation for the profound and transformative process of starting to think in French and to think of yourself as a Francophone person.
Fall 2023 10192	004	SEM (3 Units)	Closed	21 / 18	Cheryl Krueger	TuTh 2:00pm - 3:15pm	New Cabell Hall 209
	Finding your voice doesn't happen overnight. Not in the language(s) we have been speaking since we were children, and not in a foreign language. The main goals of this course are to guide you on a life-long journey of self-expression, and to help you become aware of your own best practices for learning French. You will be encouraged to take reflective notes in class on your reactions and thoughts about the materials with which you interact. Who are you when you read, speak, listen, and write in French? What are your strengths? How can you convey your ideas in French without translating your words directly from English or other languages you already know? How does improving your writing in French help you to better understand how you write in English? How does engagement with French influence your connections in other courses and in the world around you? Students in this course co-construct the syllabus, based on their own interests, by assigning and leading discussion of articles in French. They hone listening skills with songs, podcasts, and other audio sources, and explore visual culture via works of art and advertising images. Students practice both creative writing and more formal genres ( a film review, a persuasive essay) during in-class writing workshops and individual assignments. Integrated in all activities, a semester-long grammar review guides students to better understand how form and meaning work together. The one book to buy for this course: Denise Rochat, Contrastes: Grammaire du français courant (2nd ed) You may want to buy the workbook as well for extra practice (answers in the back) but it is not required.
FREN 3041	The French-Speaking World I: Origins

Fall 2023 18923	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	5 / 18	Amy Ogden	MoWeFr 11:00am - 11:50am	Nau Hall 142
	Reimagining history through a virtual visit to the Louvre Museum
	Globalization. Love and friendship. Encounters with other cultures and peoples. Separation of Church and State. Bourgeois values. Law and justice. Where did these features of modern life come from and—more importantly—what other forms might they have taken or might they still evolve into? And how might the way we tell the histoire of the Francophone world limit or expand our options now and in the future? Virtually visiting the Louvre Museum (our case study of one famous way of presenting Francophone history) and exploring a variety of readings that nuance and even challenge that history outright, we will seek to understand the prevailing story of the Francophone world’s origins, the reasons that story developed, and the alternative histories that have been set aside. With evidence from historical readings—tales of quests for adventure and powerful women, bawdy ballads and soulful sonnets—we will then imagine new exhibits to tell a fuller picture of the Francophone past and its importance to the present. Assignments will be appropriate both for students coming directly from FREN 3032 and for more advanced students who want to hone their analytical/persuasive skills in French. Readings in the course will be in modern French translation.
FREN 3585	Topics in Cultural Studies

	Beasts and Beauties
Fall 2023 13297	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	16 / 18	Cheryl Krueger	TuTh 3:30pm - 4:45pm	New Cabell Hall 207
	Werewolves, vampires, phantoms, and fairies: these are some the creatures who inhabit the eerie space of French fiction. In fables, legends, fairy tales, short stories, novels, and film, outer beauty is associated sometimes with virtue, often with inner monstrosity. We will study the presence of menacing fictional creatures in relation to physical and moral beauty, animality, and evocations of good, evil, comfort, fear, kindness, familiarity and the uncanny. For their final project, students in this course write their own supernatural short stories.
	Cultures of Protest
Fall 2023 20308	003	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	6 / 15	Spyridon Simotas	MoWeFr 1:00pm - 1:50pm	French House 100
	A multi-layered crisis, economic, political, environmental has motivated French citizens in the recent years to take to the streets. In fact, an earthquake of social unrest has shaken France with movements such as "Nuit debout," "Gillets jaunes," the movement against the pension reform, but also various ZAD, and Les Soulèvements de la Terre. While the fires are still smoldering and the clouds of tear gas are far from settled, police violence has already left an indelible mark in many people's lives and bodies. In this course, we will read essays, chronicles, pamphlets, as well as fiction and we will watch movies and documentaries all offering an insider's look or taking stock of the situation. In a spirit of collaborative investigation, we will discuss what's happening today in France, and we will make connections with social movements in other parts of the world such as Arab Spring and Occupy.
	History of French Colonialism
Fall 2023 20578	004	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	12 / 18	Jennifer Tsien	TuTh 12:30pm - 1:45pm	New Cabell Hall 066
	Québec, Haiti, Louisiana, Vietnam, Tunisia, Algeria, Sénégal, Madagascar: at some point or another, these places and many others were part of the French empire. What motivated France to occupy these lands: was it conversion to Catholicism, the lucrative sugar industry that relied on slavery, or military rivalry with other European empires? And what effects did colonialism have on the people of these lands? Readings and media will include French travelers' description of foreign populations, Native accounts of French interventions, literary and visual works inspired by the colonial situation, and key documents from various independence movements. A number of experts in the field will be invited to present their research to the students periodically.
FREN 4585	Advanced Topics in Cultural Studies

	The City of Paris: Stories of a Living Legend
Fall 2023 13302	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	12 / 15	Philippe Roger	MoWe 3:30pm - 4:45pm	Clemons Library 320
	This course will explore Paris, both as a contemporary metropolis and a multilayered palimpsest of history, legends and myths. A global city, Paris is today so much more than the capital of France; it holds meaning the world over. A real city of grit and struggle, it is also synonym of joie de vivre, as well as symbolic of lofty ideals. The principal theater of the French Revolution, it earned a reputation for insurrection and protest. A hotbed of artistic life and intellectual debate, it has been, and still is a magnet for talent, ambition, and dissent. How did Paris achieve such iconic status on the world stage? What myths and historical moments have defined it? Together, we will explore maps, paintings, and films that illustrate key features of the history, topography, architecture, and neighborhoods of Paris. We will discover the imagined city in art, literature and song. We will also interrogate the “American dream” of Paris, Black Paris, its promises and mirages. By the end of this course, Paris will be a familiar place. You will be able “to read” the city, unlock its codes —become a Parisian, even from a distance. Required work may include an oral presentation, short writing assignments, regular participation in class discussion, and a final project. Most readings will be short excerpts of important books (fiction and non-fiction) or articles about Paris. Readings and films may include (but are not limited to) works by L.S. Mercier, Balzac, Baudelaire, Hugo, Rimbaud, Louise Michel, Zola, Colette, Sartre, André Breton, Henry Miller, James Baldwin, Ernest Hemingway / René Clair, Jacques Tati, Éric Rohmer, Woody Allen. For a full syllabus and more information, go to the UVA canvas site for this course. Course conducted in French. (N.B. Students who have previously taken FREN 3652: Modern Paris may not enroll for FREN credit in this course)
	The Good Life?
Fall 2023 19023	002	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	10 / 18	Amy Ogden	MoWe 2:00pm - 3:15pm	New Cabell Hall 283
	What is the good life, and what is a good life? How should a person balance ethical responsibilities with comforts and pleasures? Is sacrifice required for someone who wants to be good, and if so, how much and of what kind? How do social expectations help and harm efforts to do the right thing? We might think of saints as people who live perfectly good lives, but stories about them often grapple with all of these questions and don’t always provide clear answers, instead encouraging audiences to think deeply about their own lives in ways that go beyond any one religious or ethical system. Above all, such stories can lay bare both how difficult it is to solve moral dilemmas (even for saints) and how closely extreme virtue can resemble appalling vice. Looking at old and new stories of parent-child struggles, spectacular sinning and redemption, gender transformation, and daily moral predicaments, we will explore a variety of ways to understand what it means to live well.
FREN 4744	The Occupation and After

Fall 2023 18924	001	SEM (3 Units)	Closed	19 / 18	Ari Blatt	TuTh 11:00am - 12:15pm	Nau Hall 142
	While in 2014 the French spent a year commemorating the centenary of the start of the “Great War” (“la Der des Ders,” the so called “war to end all wars”), in the summer of 2015 the nation marked another important anniversary: namely, seventy years since the Liberation of Paris during World War II. The German occupation of France, which lasted from 1940 until 1945, was one of the most consequential periods in the nation’s history, one that left an indelible mark on the French national psyche that continues to rouse the country’s collective memory to this day. After an initial examination of the political and social conditions in France under the Nazi regime, this seminar proposes to explore the enduring legacy of those “Dark Years” by investigating how the complex (and traumatic) history of the Occupation has impacted French culture during the last half of the twentieth century and into the first decades of the twenty first. Discussions will focus on a variety of documentary and artistic sources—novels and films, mostly, though we will also explore photography and the graphic novel—that attest to what historians refer to as contemporary France’s collective “obsession” with the past. Readings and films may include (but are not limited to) work by Némirovsky, Vercors, Perec, Duras, Modiano, Salvayre, Daeninckx, Claudel, Sartre, Clouzot, Melville, Resnais, Ophüls, Berri, Malle, Chabrol, and Audiard. Course conducted in French. Prerequisite: At least one 3000-level FREN course above 3032.
FREN 5585	Topics in Civilization / Cultural Studies

	The Violence of Literature
Fall 2023 12201	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	3 / 10 (8 / 15)	Philippe Roger	Tu 3:30pm - 6:15pm	French House 100
	FREN 5585.001/ FREN 8585.001– The violence of literature This course will explore the links between literature and violence Tu. 3:30 pm – 6:15 pm (Roger) Literature entertains a strong and paradoxical relationship to violence. In the Western (Greek) tradition, the prevailing genres, tragedy and the epic, deal with violent deaths and wars, while at the same time they interrogate the meaning of hostility, revenge or cruelty, and suggest ways out of a world dominated by injustice and brutality. Literature since then has never ceased to explore the mystery, and iniquity, of violence through its staging, exposition, or denunciation. Taking clues from texts ranging from Homer to contemporary novelists and playwriters, we will explore the intertwined histories of violence in literature, and literature as violence. We will scrutinize literary genres that put violence at their core: the epic; prophecies, pamphlets, libelles; tragedy, melodrama, théâtre de la cruauté. We will pay special attention to gendered violence: literary representations of sexual violence; literature as a forum of discussion about the war between sexes. All along our readings, we will ask ourselves: “Should it hurt?”. Should literature be ridden of violence, or is violence a defining component of literature? We will thus be able to discuss, in an informed way, controversial issues such as: should literature aim at “healing” —and how? Is “transgressive” literature the only “good literature”? Can literature be used as a weapon, or should it devote itself to caring, and “repairing”? Should disturbing texts be “cancelled”, or praised (and studied) precisely as disturbing?
FREN 7500	Topics in Theory and Criticism

	All You Always Wanted to Know about Theory
	Literary Theory: Classic Thoughts, Modern Texts, Contemporary Debates
Fall 2023 18927	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	10 / 15	Claire Lyu	Mo 3:30pm - 6:00pm	French House 100
	This course serves as an introduction to theoretical texts we encounter most frequently in the discourses of literary criticism. Our aim is to gain a deeper understanding of how literature has been thought and debated as well as how literary criticism has been practiced over time. In the first part of the course, we will read key texts of the critical tradition from antiquity to the early twentieth century. In the second part of the course, we will survey the major theoretical movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries such as formalism/ structuralism/ deconstruction, reader response theory, psychoanalysis, feminism/ gender studies/ queer theory, eco-criticism/ animal studies. (Due to time constraints, we will not cover post-colonial theory and its variations in the francophone context, given that several seminars in the department treat the subject.)
FREN 8585	Seminar in Cultural Studies

	The Violence of Literature
	The violence of literature
Fall 2023 12202	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Closed	5 / 5 (8 / 15)	Philippe Roger	Tu 3:30pm - 6:15pm	French House 100
	Combined with FREN 5585.001
	FREN 5585.001/ FREN 8585.001– The violence of literature This course will explore the links between literature and violence Tu. 3:30 pm – 6:15 pm (Roger) Literature entertains a strong and paradoxical relationship to violence. In the Western (Greek) tradition, the prevailing genres, tragedy and the epic, deal with violent deaths and wars, while at the same time they interrogate the meaning of hostility, revenge or cruelty, and suggest ways out of a world dominated by injustice and brutality. Literature since then has never ceased to explore the mystery, and iniquity, of violence through its staging, exposition, or denunciation. Taking clues from texts ranging from Homer to contemporary novelists and playwriters, we will explore the intertwined histories of violence in literature, and literature as violence. We will scrutinize literary genres that put violence at their core: the epic; prophecies, pamphlets, libelles; tragedy, melodrama, théâtre de la cruauté. We will pay special attention to gendered violence: literary representations of sexual violence; literature as a forum of discussion about the war between sexes. All along our readings, we will ask ourselves: “Should it hurt?”. Should literature be ridden of violence, or is violence a defining component of literature? We will thus be able to discuss, in an informed way, controversial issues such as: should literature aim at “healing” —and how? Is “transgressive” literature the only “good literature”? Can literature be used as a weapon, or should it devote itself to caring, and “repairing”? Should disturbing texts be “cancelled”, or praised (and studied) precisely as disturbing?
French in Translation
FRTR 2580	Topics in French and Francophone Culture

	Culture on the Move in Global Francophone Cities
	Culture on the Move in Global Francophone Cities
Fall 2023 20341	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	8 / 15	Paige Tierney	TuTh 11:00am - 12:15pm	French House 100
	French-speaking cities are among the world’s most vibrant of modern metropolises. From the evolution of movements like Surrealism and the French New Wave in 20th-century Paris, to the current emergence of Dakar as a global art capital, these cities throughout the francosphère have been, and remain, dynamic sites of social, political, and cultural flux. In this course, we will study intersections of culture and movement in francophone cities around the planet, investigating questions such as: How might the means of moving through a city—on foot, by bike, car, or train—affect cultural and political movements? What does travel between different francophone cities mean for immigrants and other people with multilayered identities? How can cities emotionally move their inhabitants and visitors? How do today’s artists and writers depict the effects of globalization and climate change on urban mobility? Studying primarily films and literary texts—accompanied by other media like travelogues, photographs, and graphic novels—, students will navigate cities such as Montreal, Port-au-Prince, Paris, Dakar, and Saigon, among others. Discussions will encourage students to reconsider geographic and intellectual boundaries. For example, we will go beyond the clichés of Paris by studying the work of contemporary filmmakers such as Mathieu Kassovitz and Céline Sciamma, who focus on overlooked parts of the city. Resisting traditional city limits, we will study authors such as the Haitian-Canadian writer Dany Laferrière and the Vietnamese writer Thuân, who live and work between multiple cities. Through their discovery of global francophone cities, students will be inspired to think about life in familiar places, like Charlottesville, from a new perspective. Course conducted in English.
German in Translation
GETR 3390	Nazi Germany

Fall 2023 19077	100	Lecture (3 Units)	Closed	60 / 60 (60 / 60)	Manuela Achilles	MoWe 12:00pm - 12:50pm	Monroe Hall 134
	This course examines the ideological foundations, political structures, social dynamics, and unprecedented crimes of the Nazi “Third Reich.” Course topics range from the upheavals of WWI to the formation of Hitler’s genocidal regime and its continued legacies for us today. Throughout this course, we will pay particular attention the role of ordinary people in the persecution and murder of minority groups. We will end our class with a discussion of post-war memory culture, including Holocaust monuments and museums, and the representation of the Third Reich in popular culture. Students should know that this class covers topics that may be disturbing or distressing, such as antisemitic ideologies, racial persecution, mass killings, and other atrocities committed by the Nazis and their allies and collaborators. Please consider your comfort level with these topics and do not hesitate to contact Prof. Achilles (ma6cq@virginia.edu) if you have questions or concerns.
GETR 3600	Faust

Fall 2023 19064	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	22 / 30 (22 / 30)	Jeffrey Grossman	TuTh 12:30pm - 1:45pm	New Cabell Hall 485
	Goethe's Faust has been called an “atlas of European modernity” and “one of the most recent columns for that bridge of spirit spanning the swamping of world history.” The literary theorist Harold Bloom writes: “As a sexual nightmare of erotic fantasy, [Faust] ... has no rival, and one understands why the shocked Coleridge declined to translate the poem. It is certainly a work about what, if anything, will suffice, and Goethe finds myriad ways of showing us that sexuality by itself will not. Even more obsessively, Faust teaches that, without an active sexuality, absolutely nothing will suffice.” Taking Goethe's Faust as its point of departure, this course will trace the Faust legend from its rise over 400 hundred years ago to the modern age. Retrospectively, we will explore precursors of Goethe's Faust in the form of the English Faust Book, Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, and possibly one of the various other popular re-workings of the text. We will then read Goethe's Faust, parts I and II (part II, either in its entirety or in excerpts). Although now viewed as central to the European canon, Goethe sought in his Faust to radically transform the central tenants of the legend and to challenge many conventions of European culture, politics, and society. Beyond Goethe, we will study Byron's melancholy attempt in Manfred to create a theater of the emotions that explores problems of power, sexuality, and guilt. And we will venture into the twentieth- century, reading texts that re-worked the Faust legend in response to authoritarian politics: Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus, which wrestles with Nazism in the land of Goethe's Faust. We will also consider F.W. Murnau's film version of Faust and may consider Faust works in other media (e.g., music, painting).
GETR 3710	Kafka and His Doubles

Fall 2023 19065	001	SEM (3 Units)	Open	16 / 20 (16 / 20)	Lorna Martens	TuTh 11:00am - 12:15pm	New Cabell Hall 187
	For description, click on schedule number to the left
	Kafka and His Doubles The course will introduce the enigmatic work of Franz Kafka: stories including "The Judgment," "The Metamorphosis," "A Country Doctor," "A Report to an Academy," "A Hunger Artist," "The Burrow," and "Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk"; one of his three unpublished novels (The Trial); the Letter to His Father; and some short parables. But we will also look at Kafka's "doubles": the literary tradition he works with and the way in which he, in turn, forms literary tradition. Thus: Kafka: Cervantes, Kafka: Bible, Kafka: Aesop, Kafka: Dostoevsky, Kafka: Melville; Kafka: O'Connor, Kafka: Singer; Kafka: Calvino, Kafka: Borges. Readings will center on four principal themes: conflicts with others and the self (and Kafka's psychological vision); the double; the play with paradox and infinity; and artists and animals. A seminar limited to 20 participants. Requirements include a short midterm paper (5-7 pages) and a longer final paper (10-12 pages).
GETR 3780	Memory Speaks

Fall 2023 19066	001	SEM (3 Units)	Open	12 / 20 (12 / 20)	Lorna Martens	TuTh 2:00pm - 3:15pm	New Cabell Hall 485
	For description, click on schedule number to the left
	Memory Speaks Memory is a crucial human faculty. Our ability to remember our own past is one of the things that make us human. Memory has long been thought to ground identity: without memory, one has no sense of self. Memory has been seen as fundamental to psychic health, and even as a remedy in times of trouble, as well as essential to our ability to imagine the future. Remembering has its delights. Certainly the idea of losing one’s memory, through shock or illness for example, is terrifying to contemplate. Yet having too many memories of the wrong kind is believed to endanger our equilibrium. Maddeningly, given its power to make us healthy or sick, memory often lies beyond our conscious control. It operates according to its own laws, giving us what we want only sometimes. Undeniably useful, it has also been seen as deceptive. It is demonstrably suggestible. It is not surprising, therefore, that memory is a subject of vital importance in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences alike. This course will focus on individual memory and in particular on autobiographical memory (our memories of our own lives). We will read autobiographies and works of fiction, written from the early twentieth century to the present, by Patrick Modiano, Marcel Proust, Rainer Maria Rilke, Mary McCarthy, Vladimir Nabokov, and Marguerite Duras. We will also study two films on the theme of memory: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Inside Out. Concurrently, we will read psychological, psychoanalytic, and neuroscientific work on memory. Some attention will be paid to the issues of false memory, external memory, and mediated memory, as well. Two short papers, presentations, exam.
Global Studies-Global Studies
GSGS 2559	New Course in Global Studies

	Introduction to Global Studies
Fall 2023 19033	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	34 / 35	Tessa Farmer	MoWe 2:00pm - 3:15pm	New Cabell Hall 058
	Introduction to Global Studies is an interdisciplinary course that introduces students to different perspectives on global studies and exposes them to critical global economic and cultural issues and challenges. This course also examines globalization at a variety of different scales of analysis, ranging from global, to regional and national, to individual. The ultimate goal is to provide students with an understanding of the main conceptual approaches to global studies and thus enhance their ability to understand and evaluate important real-world issues and problems. This course offers a basic introduction to key issues found in the various tracks of the Global Studies program (Global Development Studies, Global Environments and Sustainability, Global Public Health, Global Security and Justice, Global Commerce in Culture), and introduces essential perspectives and skills for success for prospective Global Studies applicants.
GSGS 3559	New Course in Global Studies

	Dot Orgs: Getting Results in the Real World
Fall 2023 19001	002	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	29 / 30	Spencer Phillips	TuTh 12:30pm - 1:45pm	Gibson Hall 242
	In this course, we examine the history and role of NGOs in pursuing ecological sustainability and social justice, as well as the legal and institutional frameworks that govern the sector. Students will also practice proposal-writing, budgeting, developing advocacy campaigns, and reporting on program activities. Instruction will rely heavily on case studies and hands-on exercises. Guest speakers from the local, national, and international NGO communities will further enhance the content and experience the course provides.
	Dynamics of Great Powers: View from the South
Fall 2023 19036	004	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	14 / 20	Muhammad Tayyab Safdar	TuTh 12:30pm - 1:45pm	Gilmer Hall 245
	How do developing countries in the global South navigate the emergence of renewed great power competition? Through the course, we will seek to answer this question by looking at the engagement of countries and actors in the global South with established and emerging powers in an increasingly multi-polar World. Understanding this interaction has important implications for a substantial portion of the World's population based in developing countries.
History-European History
HIEU 1502	Introductory Seminar in Post-1700 European History

	History as Knowledge and Sensibility
Fall 2023 20609	001	SEM (3 Units)	Open	10 / 17	Allan Megill	Tu 5:00pm - 7:30pm	Pavilion VIII 108
	THE ACTUAL SUBTITLE OF THIS CLASS IS "HISTORY AS KNOWLEDGE, MEDIA, AND SENSIBILITY."Click "20609" for brief information. The two documents that describe this class in detail are now up in CANVAS [MINOR revisions and additions will come later]. If you can't get access to CANVAS, the same documents can be found at https://virginia.academia.edu/AllanMegill -- llim for "Teaching Documents" and then ctrl Find "1502." best, am
	This class offers an introduction to the study of history that diverges greatly from the view of historical study that many students receive in high school. The class is also concerned with perceptions of history more generally, in popular culture, in people's memories, and in propaganda. We read three exemplary (and relatively short) history books (by Natalie Davis, Christopher Browning, and Erik Midelfort). In addition, I assign for reading a selection of articles and excerpts from books by prominent theorists who discuss both historical method and the nature of history generally. Authors represented include R. G. Collingwood, Arthur Danto, Louis Mink, Thomas Kuhn, Hayden White, Frank Ankersmit, and Berber Bevernage. Most of these authors are not household names, but especially since 1970 or so, the collective impact of their work has transformed the way we theorists of history think about academic history, about memory, and about the visually often quite impressive "mediated" forms of history that have become increasingly visible in the last 10 or 15 years.
HIEU 3390	Nazi Germany

Fall 2023 18460	100	Lecture (3 Units)	Closed	60 / 60 (60 / 60)	Manuela Achilles	MoWe 12:00pm - 12:50pm	Monroe Hall 134
	This course examines the ideological foundations, political structures, social dynamics, and unprecedented crimes of the Nazi “Third Reich.” Course topics range from the upheavals of WWI to the formation of Hitler’s genocidal regime and its continued legacies for us today. Throughout this course, we will pay particular attention the role of ordinary people in the persecution and murder of minority groups. We will end our class with a discussion of post-war memory culture, including Holocaust monuments and museums, and the representation of the Third Reich in popular culture. Students should know that this class covers topics that may be disturbing or distressing, such as antisemitic ideologies, racial persecution, mass killings, and other atrocities committed by the Nazis and their allies and collaborators. Please consider your comfort level with these topics and do not hesitate to contact Prof. Achilles (ma6cq@virginia.edu) if you have questions or concerns.
HIEU 3501	Introductory History Workshop

	Crime, Scandal, & Politics in Fin-de-Siècle Europe
Syllabus 18535	002	SEM (3 Units)	Permission	16 / 16	Jennifer Sessions	TuTh 12:30pm - 1:45pm	Pavilion VIII 102
	This History Workshop seminar will explore the uses of crime for understanding the past, with a focus on European society, culture, and politics at the turn of the twentieth century. We will study spectacular, scandalous, and ordinary crimes that shed light on critical issues such as nationalism and anti-Semitism, race and empire, gender and sexuality, urbanization and mass culture at time of rapid change, and explore the methods historians have used to analyze them. Workshop participants will apply what they learn to researching a case of their choice. In addition to exploring the history of fin-de-siècle Europe, the goal of the seminar is to introduce the tools and methods of historical research, including primary source analysis, historiography, contextualization, and historical argumentation. It will prepare History majors for the major seminar or colloquium, but all participants will learn critical reading, analysis, and research skills that will be essential to your academic, professional, and civic endeavors. The participatory seminar format and collaborative microhistory project will give you hands-on experience and practice using these skills.
Latin
LATI 3010	Plautus

Fall 2023 18889	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Closed	15 / 15	Giulio Celotto	TuTh 2:00pm - 3:15pm	Cocke Hall 101
	This course is designed to introduce you to Plautus’ comedies, the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety. These comedies are mostly adapted from Greek originals. Plautus reworked his models to give them a flavor that would appeal to the Roman audience. For instance, he introduced references to contemporary events and people, and used a colloquial, yet creative style, abounding in puns and wordplay. In this course we will engage in close reading of the Menaechmi. Particular attention will be devoted to issues of grammar, syntax, meter, and style.
Linguistics
LING 3559	New Course in Linguistics

	Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics
Fall 2023 18975	100	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	12 / 30 (12 / 30)	Armik Mirzayan	MoWe 2:00pm - 3:15pm	Wilson Hall 214
	This course is an exploration of those cognitive faculties that enable people to interpret and use language in context appropriately. Our investigation involves looking closely and critically at a variety of theories that have been used to describe these faculties. These theories generally fall into two intersecting categories: those theories that ask what kinds of categories words and constructions denote (semantic theories) and those theories that ask how linguistic form is related to discourse-conversational context (pragmatic theories). To inform our study we will learn to use linguistic data (both elicited and contextual/natural phrases and sentences) from a variety of languages to make our own generalizations about the cues and information that we use to construct meaning in context.
LING 6559	New Course in Linguistics

	Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics
Fall 2023 18976	100	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	12 / 30 (12 / 30)	Armik Mirzayan	MoWe 2:00pm - 3:15pm	Wilson Hall 214
	This course is an exploration of those cognitive faculties that enable people to interpret and use language in context appropriately. Our investigation involves looking closely and critically at a variety of theories that have been used to describe these faculties. These theories generally fall into two intersecting categories: those theories that ask what kinds of categories words and constructions denote (semantic theories) and those theories that ask how linguistic form is related to discourse-conversational context (pragmatic theories). To inform our study we will learn to use linguistic data (both elicited and contextual/natural phrases and sentences) from a variety of languages to make our own generalizations about the cues and information that we use to construct meaning in context.
Leadership and Public Policy - Policy
LPPP 5559	New Course in Public Policy and Leadership

	Wicked Problem of Gun Violence
	From Etiology to Action
Fall 2023 21094	003	Lecture (3 Units)	Permission	22 / 15	Brian Williams	TBA	TBA
					Brian Williams	11/11 Sa 9:30am - 2:00pm	Contact Department
	This course leverages participatory action research to explore the wicked problem of gun violence. Students will research the origins of gun violence in American society, in conjunction with engaging with various stakeholders to propose sensible solutions to this distressing problem. Each student will be assigned to one of three groups (Baltimore, Richmond, or Washington, DC) and will participate in a site visit to their locale to gain insights from politicians, policymakers, public safety professionals, and members of the public on the policies, practices, and programs that have been implemented to mitigate the problem of gun violence. As a class, students will also play a vital role in co-designing, co-hosting, and co-facilitating the Central Virginia Listening & Learning Exchange (CVLLE 2023) - a convening of local, state, and national influencers and stakeholders with an action-oriented purpose to resolve conflict and reduce violence.
	This course leverages participatory action research to explore the wicked problem of gun violence. Students will research the origins of gun violence in American society, in conjunction with engaging with various stakeholders to propose sensible solutions to this distressing problem. Each student will be assigned to one of three groups (Baltimore, Richmond, or Washington, DC) and will participate in a site visit to their locale to gain insights from politicians, policymakers, public safety professionals, and members of the public on the policies, practices, and programs that have been implemented to mitigate the problem of gun violence. As a class, students will also play a vital role in co-designing, co-hosting, and co-facilitating the Central Virginia Listening & Learning Exchange (CVLLE 2023) - a convening of local, state, and national influencers and stakeholders with an action-oriented purpose to resolve conflict and reduce violence.
Leadership and Public Policy - Substantive
LPPS 3340	Innovating for Defense: Defense Innovation and Problem-Solving

Fall 2023 17186	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Closed	30 / 30	John Robinson	Mo 4:00pm - 6:30pm	Memorial Gymnasium 211
	This experiential course pairs student teams with U.S. Department of Defense problem sponsors to address real-world national security challenges. Through student research, stakeholder interviews, and engagements with outside experts, each team develops policy recommendations for its sponsor's organization. Beyond an understanding of defense organizations and culture, students gain problem-solving and professional skills that transfer to any field. Recent sponsors include the U.S. Special Operations Command, U.S. Cyber Command, National Security Agency (NSA), and U.S. Africa Command.
LPPS 3370	Trauma and the US Public School System

Fall 2023 17190	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	17 / 40	Kristen Roorbach	MoWe 2:00pm - 3:15pm	Claude Moore Nursing Educ 1120
	Taught by a pediatric psychotherapist and educational psychologist, this course explores trauma in the context of child development and how the United States public school system serves to address this issue from policy perspective. Neurobiology of trauma and stress and the effects of trauma on learning will be addressed. Applied policy will be a unique focus of this course with case studies. School based mental health services, educational supports, and the historical context of education will be covered.
	Taught by a pediatric psychotherapist and educational psychologist, this course explores trauma in the context of child development and how the United States public school system serves to address this issue from policy perspective. Neurobiology of trauma and stress and the effects of trauma on learning will be addressed. Applied policy will be a unique focus of this course with case studies. School based mental health services, educational supports, and the historical context of education will be covered.
LPPS 3460	Poverty & Policy

	How Landmark Social Policies Have Impacted How We Live, Work and Die and How to Create Policy Change
Fall 2023 17192	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	10 / 30	Brooke Lehmann	TuTh 2:00pm - 3:15pm	Ridley Hall 177
	Taught by a federal lobbyist, social justice attorney, and clinical social worker, this course introduces students to landmark social policies that have shaped—and continue to shape—this nation, its laws, and its people. In addition, participants will analyze current policies that strive for equality, protection, and prevention with respect to those whose access to justice and human privilege has been compromised. How do we improve outcomes for populations affected by disability, sexual and domestic violence, the prison industrial complex, environmental stress, xenophobia, and other related social ills? Students will learn about the legislative process and how to influence the course of this process and ultimately determine how to work within that context to achieve change in real-world social policy.
LPPS 7050	The National Security Process

Fall 2023 17188	001	SEM (3 Units)	Open	14 / 40	John Robinson	TuTh 3:00pm - 4:15pm	Claude Moore Nursing Educ 1120
	This seminar provides students with a foundational understanding of the organizations, culture, and processes that ensure U.S. national security, learning directly from current national security professionals across the U.S. government. Our guest lecturers share their experiences and professional guidance in class and during optional lunches at the National Security Policy Center. After discussing U.S. interests and strategy, students will explore how elements of national power are brought to bear to further these interests. Students will become familiar with the Department of Defense, the intelligence community, diplomacy and aid, as well as the National Security Council and policymaking process.
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
MAE 6592	Special Topics in Mechanical and Aerospace Science: Intermediate Level

	Estimation and Control of Stochastic Systems
Fall 2023 21053	003	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	11 / 15	Frank Lagor	TuTh 12:30pm - 1:45pm	Mechanical Engineering 206
	This course provides an introduction to stochastic dynamical systems and estimation and control design for stochastic systems. This course introduces necessary topics in probability theory, random variables, stochastic processes, and linear systems theory. The course further develops variance minimizing state feedback control, stochastic estimation (including the development of the discrete-time and continuous-time Kalman filters), and linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) controller design. These topics are highly relevant to linear control system design in mechanical, aerospace, and electrical engineering.
MAE 6720	Computational Fluid Dynamics I

Fall 2023 19358	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	15 / 25	Xinfeng Gao	MoWe 11:00am - 12:15pm	Mechanical Engr Bldg 213
	This course is designed for MAE graduate students who seek a deep understanding of the mathematical and computational fundamental principles which provide the foundation for CFD software and algorithms. Course materials include CFD solution techniques for the partial differential equations (PDEs) governing the physics of mechanical and aerospace engineering problems and the mathematical structure describing the behavior and results of most numerical methods in common used in these CFD problems. Students will gain an in-depth understanding of the mathematical tools in linear algebra, ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and PDEs, and their extensive applications in aerospace and mechanical engineering problems. Students will write codes using Matlab, C++ and FORTRAN.
Fall 2023 19359	600	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	4 / 15	Xinfeng Gao	TBA	TBA
	This course is designed for MAE graduate students who seek a deep understanding of the mathematical and computational fundamental principles which provide the foundation for CFD software and algorithms. Course materials include CFD solution techniques for the partial differential equations (PDEs) governing the physics of mechanical and aerospace engineering problems and the mathematical structure describing the behavior and results of most numerical methods in common used in these CFD problems. Students will gain an in-depth understanding of the mathematical tools in linear algebra, ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and PDEs, and their extensive applications in aerospace and mechanical engineering problems. Students will write codes using Matlab, C++ and FORTRAN.
Media Studies
MDST 3501	Special Topics in Directors and Auteurs

	The Films of Alfred Hitchcock
	Please see website link for more info!
Website 19422	001	SEM (3 Units)	Open	22 / 28	Sean Duncan	MoWe 2:00pm - 3:15pm	New Cabell Hall 368
	Please see the website link for more on the course. No experience with Hitchcock films or the history of film is required, but interest is encouraged!
MDST 3704	Games and Play

	Semester Focus: Non-Digital Games
Website 14051	001	SEM (3 Units)	Open	23 / 28	Sean Duncan	TuTh 11:00am - 12:15pm	New Cabell Hall 368
	Please note the semester focus — we will not focus on commercial, digital games, instead addressing board games, card games, role-playing games, larp, etc. We will explore "indie" games, folk games, and games made for artistic and persuasive intent. Students primarily interested in digital video games or sports may be disappointed and should seek out a different course!
MDST 3760	Reading Black Digital Culture

Fall 2023 14041	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Closed	15 / 15 (30 / 30)	Ashleigh Wade	TuTh 9:30am - 10:45am	New Cabell Hall 332
	Using a mix of scholarly and popular-press readings and an examination of digital artifacts, we will analyze the creations and contributions of Black digital culture from the mid-90s to the present. Topics we will cover include: the early Black blogosphere, the creation of niche content sites like BlackPlanet.com, the emergence of Black Twitter, the circulation of memes, and the use second-screening.
MDST 4251	Histories of Games

	Semester Focus: The Legend of Zelda & Nintendo
Website 19455	001	WKS (3 Units)	Permission	12 / 20	Sean Duncan	Mo 4:00pm - 6:30pm	New Cabell Hall 407
	In Fall, 2023, we will focus on the history of one company (Nintendo) through a deep dive into the history of one, significant franchise, The Legend of Zelda. Instructor approval is required! Please see the website link for more details and a link to the instructor approval Google Form.
MDST 7559	New Course in Media Studies

	Social Media Methodologies
Fall 2023 17701	001	SEM (3 Units)	Closed	16 / 15	Ashleigh Wade	Th 2:00pm - 4:30pm	New Cabell Hall 594
	This course will explore a variety of methodologies for conducting social media research. The course will cover key theoretical frameworks as well as practical and ethical implications of doing research that utilizes social media platforms. Additionally, students will design their own social media research projects that will potentially inform their future academic work (thesis/dissertation chapters, articles, grant proposals, etc.).
Music
MUSI 4545	Computer Applications in Music

	Designing Audio Effect Plug
	Designing Audio Effect Plugins
Fall 2023 12291	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Permission	14 / 15	Luke Dahl	MoWe 9:30am - 10:45am	TBA
	Audio effects are common and useful tools used in the recording, mixing, and mastering of music and sound, as well as in sound design. This course focuses on understanding, designing and implementing audio effects, and using them for musical projects. We will cover the signal processing involved in effects such as EQ, delay, chorus, flanger, reverb, distortion, and compression, and we will implement these effects as VST or AudioUnit plug-ins by programming in C++ and using the JUCE framework. We will emphasize the musical application of our designs, and as a final project students will create a unique effect that addresses their own musical goals. In other words we will learn fundamental aspects of digital audio, how audio effects work, how all real-time audio processing works "under the hood", and we will design and build our own audio effects. Enrollment is by instructor permission. Students are expected to have experience using digital audio tools (for example as covered in Musi 2350 or Musi 3390), and to have an ongoing music-making or sound-based practice. Previous programming experience is _highly_ desirable. Enrollment requires instructor permission. Please sign up on the Waitlist in SIS and describe your experience with digital audio tools (such as DAWs), your musical experience, your programming experience, your major, and your year.
Physics
PHYS 1655	Introduction to Python for Scientists and Engineers

	Introduction to Python for Scientists and Engineers
Website 19245	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Permission	42 / 44	Robert Group	MoWe 3:30pm - 4:45pm	Gilmer Hall 257
	Note that this class is taught by PHYS, but cross listed with CS1113. This is a new class! Along with an introduction to the PYTHON programming language, the course will introduce three core skills: analyzing data, simulating data, and visualizing data. It assumes no prior programming experience or knowledge about the inner workings of computers. It will concentrate on applications to common problems in science and engineering.
PHYS 5310	Optics

Website 13009	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	6 / 18	Cass Sackett	TuTh 2:00pm - 3:15pm	Kerchof Hall 317
	– What’s the best thing about optics class? – All the reading assignments are light! Well maybe that’s not really the best thing… in fact there are too many great things to pick just one! Optics is a particularly fascinating subject because humans come equipped with quite remarkable optical detectors, so understanding optics is directly applicable to the main way that most of us interact with the world. The physics and mathematics of optics are incredibly elegant, and the techniques developed for it turn out to work in many other contexts as well. And optical technologies are a crucial part of modern society, from the screen on your phone to the optical fibers that let you access information from anywhere in the world. PHYS 5310 covers the broad field of optics at an intermediate level. You should have taken an introductory course in electromagnetism like PHYS 1720 or PHYS 2415. We won’t directly use very many of the techniques from that course, but you should understand what electric and magnetic fields are, and we’ll start off with a recap of Maxwell’s equations. Mathematically, you should have taken a vector calculus course like MATH 2310, and you should be very comfortable with calculus in general. You won’t need to solve very many differential or partial differential equations, but you should be able to look at those kinds of equations and understand what they mean. The most advanced mathematical tool we will use is Fourier analysis, but I won’t assume you are familiar with Fourier techniques ahead of time. PHYS 5310 is open to both graduate and undergraduate students. It is a crucial course for graduate students interested in AMO research, and it can also work as a nice preliminary to quantum field theory for students with more theoretical interests. For undergraduate physics majors, 5310 can substitute for PHYS 3430 Electricity and Magnetism 2. We recommend that students who plan to pursue a physics PhD should take 3430, but if you are thinking of going into industry, PHYS 5310 could be more useful. PHYS 5310 is also designed to be accessible to students in other fields… undergrad and grad students from astronomy, chemistry, math and engineering have all taken it in the past and done well.
PHYS 5720	Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics

Fall 2023 10584	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	14 / 30	Dinko Pocanic	TuTh 2:00pm - 3:15pm	Dell 2 101
	This is a “field survey” course intended to acquaint the interested advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate student with the foundations, achievements, and current status of the field of elementary particle and nuclear physics.
Politics-Political Theory
PLPT 1010	Introduction to Political Theory

Fall 2023 20353	100	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	119 / 120	Kevin Duong	MoWe 8:00am - 8:50am	Nau Hall 101
	What makes a people unfree? What should a just society look like? And how do we bring about social change? This class surveys how canonical political theorists, from Plato to Mao, have answered these questions in moments of revolutionary upheaval. Students will read major figures from the “Age of Revolutions” in the United States, France, and Haiti. Students will also study the industrial revolution, its nineteenth century critics, and challenges to liberalism by twentieth century revolutionaries. Surveying debates over “revolution” will allow us to trace how perennial themes of political theory, like freedom and equality, have been debated and deployed in modern life.
Religion-Christianity
RELC 3181	Medieval Christianity

	Medieval Christianity: Thomas Aquinas
Fall 2023 18621	100	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	32 / 40 (32 / 40)	Kevin Hart	TuTh 9:30am - 10:45am	New Cabell Hall 232
	This lecture course offers a general introduction to the writings and thought of St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-74), the pre-eminent Catholic theologian and one of the greatest thinkers of the middle ages. His influence is extensive; it embraces many Protestants as well as most Catholics. It’s simply impossible to understand many writers, from Dante to T. S. Eliot, without knowing Aquinas. Students will read a mixture of Aquinas’s treatises and his almost unknown popular writings. Among the popular writings will be Aquinas’s explanation of the Lord’s Prayer and his exposition of the Apostle’s Creed; and among the treatises will be readings in all three parts of the Summa theologiæ. Students will have the opportunity to compare Aquinas on the same topics (Trinity and sacraments) in the Summa theologiæ and in less well-known works. What did Aquinas say about aesthetics (especially his teachings about beauty, pleasure and play), about God, about the sacraments, and about love? How does he work rhetorically when preaching and commenting on Scripture? Are there ways in which Aquinas can help us be better readers of medieval literature? These are some of the questions we shall consider. The course can be taken at BA level through Religious Studies (RELC 3181) or through English (ENGL 3515). It can also be taken at MA level (ENGL 5830). MA candidates will take an additional seminar of “enrichment” and will focus on Aquinas’s commentary on the Gospel of John.
South Asian Studies
SAST 1600	India in Global Perspective

Website 20195	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	20 / 30	Richard Cohen	We 3:30pm - 6:00pm	New Cabell Hall 338
	This course primarily focuses on India since 1947. We will investigate how India's democracy has evolved over time, zeroing in on economic and political development.
Swahili
SWAH 1010	Introductory Swahili I

Fall 2023 11566	002	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	11 / 18	Anne Rotich	MoWeFr 11:00am - 11:50am	Wilson Hall 238
	This course is intended for students with no previous experience with Swahili. In this course you will be an introduced to basic Swahili language skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing.Through songs and games, you learn about a variety of topics including how to greet others, introduce yourself, basic social conversations, and talk about a variety of topics of common interest.
SWAH 2010	Intermediate Swahili I

Fall 2023 11673	001	SEM (3 Units)	Open	8 / 20	Anne Rotich	MoWeFr 12:00pm - 12:50pm	Wilson Hall 238
	This course is a continuation of SWAH 1010. The course is designed to advance your knowledge of Swahili from the SWAH 1010. It is expected that you will build your Swahili lexicon and Swahili grammar to enable you to adequately contribute to basic conversations with Swahili speakers. You will be able to talk more deeply about your work, studies, country and your preferences, needs, and interests following the correct grammar rules. You will learn how to handle basic social conversations at the market, in the hospital, and also talk about a variety of topics of common interest. You will also learn about more cultural aspects of everyday culture in East Africa from class and from engaging with the Swahili community in Charlottesville.
Fall 2023 13935	002	SEM (3 Units)	Open	5 / 30	Anne Rotich	MoWeFr 12:00pm - 12:50pm	Web-Based Course
	This course is a continuation of SWAH 1010. The course is designed to advance your knowledge of Swahili from the SWAH 1010. It is expected that you will build your Swahili lexicon and Swahili grammar to enable you to adequately contribute to basic conversations with Swahili speakers. You will be able to talk more deeply about your work, studies, country and your preferences, needs, and interests following the correct grammar rules. You will learn how to handle basic social conversations at the market, in the hospital, and also talk about a variety of topics of common interest. You will also learn about more cultural aspects of everyday culture in East Africa from class and from engaging with the Swahili community in Charlottesville.
Systems & Information Engineering
SYS 3501	Special Topics in Systems and Information Engineering

	Design and Analysis of Human Technology Systems
Fall 2023 20273	002	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	11 / 30	Sara Riggs	TuTh 2:00pm - 3:15pm	Thornton Hall D115
	This course provides an introduction to the tools and techniques used to design and analyze systems for human use. It presents an introduction to the application of Human Factors and Ergonomics to the design and analysis of human technology systems by taking into consideration both human and engineering capabilities and limitations.
SYS 6060	Autonomous Mobile Robots

Website 16941	001	Lecture (3 Units)	Open	5 / 8 (30 / 40)	Nicola Bezzo	We 12:30pm - 1:45pm	Rice Hall 120
					Nicola Bezzo	Tu 5:00pm - 6:15pm	Olsson Hall 011
	Have you ever wonder how an autonomous car or the Mars rover work? Or how a drone can fly autonomously avoiding obstacles while tracking objects on the ground? ...Then, this is the class for you!
	Have you ever wonder how an autonomous car or the Mars rover work? Or how a drone can fly autonomously avoiding obstacles while tracking objects on the ground? ...Then, this is the class for you! The objective of this course is to provide the basic concepts and algorithms required to develop mobile robots that act autonomously in complex environments. The main emphasis is on mobile robot locomotion and kinematics, control, sensing, localization, mapping, path planning, and motion planning. The class is organized in lectures on Tuesday and labs on Wednesday where you will have the chance to program state-of-the-art ground and aerial vehicles and participate in a competition during the semester! Please note that this class is combined in Systems Eng (SYS 6060), Electrical and Computer Eng (ECE 6501), and Computer Science (CS 6501). In case one section is close, please try to enroll in any of the other sections.