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Spring 2000 Course Offerings

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	Film & Television 98T Intelligent Technologies in Contemporary American Film
	French 98T Paris 1900: The Other Turn of the Century
	Germanic Languages 98T Beyond Babel: Translating the Holocaust at Century's End
	History 98T Socio-Cultural Aspects of 20th Century Technogies in the American West: Case Study of the Los Alamos, NM Science City
	Organismic Biology, Ecology and Evolution 98T Sex in the Sea: The Oddity, Ecology, & Evolution of Marine Invertebrate Life Cycles
	Philosophy 98T Understanding Emotion
	Psychology 98T The Acquisition and Understanding of Expertise

#206-291-200	Film & Television 98T Intelligent Technologies in Contemporary American Film
Offered	MW 2:00 - 3:50 p.m., Screenings Section W 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Location	Dodd 67, W section meets in Melnitz 2534
Instructor	Kevin Fisher
Grade	Letter grade
L&S GE Credit	Social Science/Social Analysis
Course Description	This seminar will examine American Film History as a space of articulation and arbitration for the issue of human-technological couplings, cybernetics, and artificial intelligence. The class will engage a number of films and texts from the 1960's to the present, which present existential, epistemological, and ethical questions related to new frontiers in human-technological relations.
Class Requirements	Class discussion, class presentation and term paper.
Prerequisite	Satisfaction of Subject A

#205-295-200	French 98T Paris 1900: The Other Turn of the Century
Offered	TR 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
Location	Public Policy 2292
Instructor	Stacey L. Meeker
Grade	Letter grade
L&S GE Credit	Humanities/Culture & Civilization
Course Description	Using the unmatched Paris Exhibition of 1900 as our privileged focal point, this seminar will provide students with an introduction to the hopes, preoccupations and fears of French society as it made the sometimes difficult, sometimes barely noticeable transition into the twentieth century.
Class Requirements	Class discussion, class presentation, midterm and term paper.
Prerequisite	Satisfaction of Subject A

#215-290-200	Germanic Languages 98T Beyond Babel: Translating the Holocaust at Century's End
Offered	TR 12:30 - 1:45 p.m.
Location	Kinsey 94
Instructor	Zaia Alexander
Grade	Letter Grade
L&S GE Credit	Humanities/Literature (Pending)
Course Description	Is translation a "doomed" endeavor? Is it [im]possible to represent traumatic events in words/images? The Babelian metaphor found in much Holocaust literature and translation theories symbolizes the struggle that joins these disciplines. This interdisciplinary seminar explores their connection and challenges dominant discourses of incommensurability.
Class Requirements	Class discussion, class presentation, position papers, midterm and term paper.
Prerequisite	Satisfaction of Subject A

#221-270-200	History 98T Socio-Cultural Aspects of Twentieth-Century Technopoles in the American West: Case Study of the Los Alamos, NM Science City
Offered	R 10:00 - 12:50 p.m.
Location	Bunche 5288
Instructor	Reynal Guillen
Grade	Letter Grade
L&S GE Credit	Social Science/Historical Analysis
Course Description	This course will examine Los Alamos as a case study on how the Cold War shaped the social, political, and intellectual terrain of Los Alamos, New Mexico, and the American West using a multidisciplinary science studies approach.
Class Requirements	Class discussion, class presentation, paper bibliography, outline draft and term paper.
Prerequisite	Satisfaction of Subject A

#309-291-200	Organismic Biology, Ecology, and Evolution 98T Sex in the Sea: The Oddity, Ecology, & Evolution of Marine Invertebrate Life Cycles
Offered	MW 10:00 - 11:50 a.m.
Location	Hershey 1657
Instructor	Shannon Erickson Lee
Grade	Letter Grade
L&S GE Credit	Life Science
Course Description	This seminar is designed as a lower-division lecture/discussion/field experience for any student interested in marine biology, invertebrate zoology and/or developmental biology. This course will cover aspects of invertebrate reproduction and larval biology including-ecology, development, and evolution.
Class Requirements	Class discussion, class presentation, midterm, term paper and final exam.
Prerequisite	Satisfaction of Subject A

#312-287-200	Philosophy 98T Understanding Emotion
Offered	TR 12:00 - 1:50 p.m.
Location	Dodd 67
Instructor	Larry Herzberg
Grade	Letter Grade
L&S GE Credit	Humanities/Philosophy
Course Description	This course introduces lower-division students to philosophical issues relating to emotion. Reading both historical and contemporary philosophical texts, we focus on the nature of emotion; how emotion is related both to other mental states (like belief and desire) and to other faculties (like perception and reason).
Class Requirements	Class discussion, class presentation, midterm and term paper.
Prerequisite	Satisfaction of Subject A

#328-284-200	Psychology 98T The Acquisition and Understanding of Expertise
Offered	TR 3:30 - 4:45 p.m.
Location	Franz A258
Instructor	Tate Kubose
Grade	Letter Grade
L&S GE Credit	Life Science
Course Description	It is obvious that an expert and novice have vastly different commands of a given subject. However, the ways that the knowledge underlying these differences is organized are not obvious. It is the goal of this seminar to both introduce students to the concepts which have been discovered in recent research, and more importantly to provide them with the benefits that come from greater understanding of expertise.
Class Requirements	Class discussion, class presentation, project proposal and term paper.
Prerequisite	Satisfaction of Subject A


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