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| Biology |
 BIOL 4585 | Selected Topics in Biology |
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| | Genetics of Metabolic Health |
| | Genetics of Metabolic Health |
| January 2025 10119 | 001 | SEM (3 Units) | Open  | 19 / 20 | Benedict Lenhart | MoTuWeThFrSa 10:00am - 3:30pm | Gilmer Hall 257 |
| | This course aims to benefit undergrad education by both enriching
their knowledge of metabolism and genetics and developing the tools to
expand their learning. The curriculum will focus on modern
understandings of genetics and metabolic health, viewed through metrics
such as insulin resistance, obesity, and cholesterol levels. Through
covering the genetic components of metabolic disorders, students will gain
more background when considering society’s bias toward obesity. Finally,
this course aims to improve student proficiencies in several key research
skills through self-driven inquiry and workshops. Students will practice
data analysis, organization of a research plan, and examination of
literature, to propose a research study of their own design |
| Creative Writing |
| ENCW 4830 | Advanced Poetry Writing I |
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| | ENCW 4830 : Advanced Poetry Writing (The Poetry of Place) |
| January 2025 10105 | 001 | WKS (3 Units) | Open  | 6 / 12 | Lisa Spaar | MoTuWeThFrSa 10:00am - 4:00pm | Bryan Hall 310 |
| | This course can accommodate writers of all levels of experience. Please contact Professor Lisa Russ Spaar if you are interested in enrolling in this class.
LRS9E@virginia.edu |
| | Seamus Heaney has written that “one perceptible function of poetry is to write place into existence.” In the symbiotic, natal sea of our beginnings, where the mouth is our primal mind, we may have no sense of place or personhood, but once we “fall,” once we become aware of the boundaries of our bodies as distinct entities, consciousness is born, and we realize that we are in, and that we are, a place. We are struck, too, by the forceful knowledge of an interior and an outer realm – of an edge. Of the necessity of discovering and knowing those desires best through the necessary transgression that is language. In this advanced poetry writing course, each of you will be exploring a personally crucial, resonant, haunted/haunting place, or places, perhaps literal, perhaps imaginary. How have our beloved places been affected by forces both personal and global? Students will write a poem a week, many in response to assignments. We will read a few shared texts, engage in something Marina Warner calls “memory mapping,” and generate new work about psychic, geographical, emotional, historical, nostalgic, and/or provocative places, those “flood subject” landscapes by which, as Malcolm Cowley says of childhood, “all others are reckoned and condemned.” |
| English-Literature |
| ENGL 3559 | New Course in English Literature |
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| | A History of Romance |
| January 2025 10128 | 001 | Lecture (3 Units) | Open | 10 / 15 | Cristina Griffin | MoTuWeThFrSa 10:00am - 3:30pm | Bryan Hall 312 |
| | Romance is both the most popular and often the most maligned genre of the publishing world. In this course, we will ask why romance matters in our particular cultural moment and also why it is so heavily criticized. We will read contemporary romance novels, watch romantic comedies, engage with romantic poetry and love songs, and investigate various historical romantic forms. Across these media, we will query: What are the aesthetic and ethical stakes of romance? What forms of romantic love are valued or socially sanctioned across our texts, and have those values shifted in our contemporary moment? How and why did romance become aligned with dangerous reading habits or so-called “guilty pleasures”? How are romantic genres gendered and what is the history of this gendering of romantic forms? Put more pointedly, when did we begin to gender romance as feminine or feminized?
Like the romance genre itself, this course is designed for English majors and non-majors alike. J-Term is the ideal time to study romance: frequently, romantic forms are conceptualized (or criticized) as “fast reads”—art that can be inhaled quickly and with delight. In this sense, a glut of romance in nine class days suits the genre perfectly, and offers us a unique opportunity to interrogate the reading practices, expectations, and values that shape romance in literature. |
| Media Studies |
| MDST 3559 | New Course in Media Studies |
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| | Al and the Future of Creativity |
| | Meets in New York City January 5-11 |
| January 2025 10110 | 001 | SEM (3 Units) | Open, WL (2 / 10) | 18 / 20 | Siva Vaidhyanathan | TBA |  TBA |
| | There is a substantial course fee to cover the cost of lodging and programming in New York City. |
| | This course will examine the way various forms of generative artificial intelligence are enhancing, challenging, or unde1mining professional, creative roles and careers in film, video, television, audio, photography, and writing. We will meet with executives, academics, lawyers, and artists in New York City to learn from their experiences. |
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