Goucher College 2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
Course Descriptions
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VMC 349 - History and Methods of Art History (2 Cr.) (ARH 349)
This course explores modes of interpreting art artifacts from various perspectives, including feminism, Marxism, and structuralist methodologies, as well as different forms of analysis, including stylistic, iconographic, and contextual. Students will also learn methods of scholary research appropriate to the discipline, including finding, evaluating, analyzing, and synthesizing primary and secondary visual and textual sources. This project-based course emphasizes an object in Goucher’s Art and Artifacts Collection or documents/books in Special Collections & Archives. Prerequisite: VMC 103 (ARH 103 ) or permission of instructor. Spring semester. VMC faculty.
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VMC 350 - Practicum in Visual and Material Culture (2 Cr.) (ARH 350)
Experience first-hand knowledge in curating, hanging, and opening a show. Students will help the Art & Artifact Collection Curator create and hang a show. Students will learn collection management and registrarial practices, curating and hanging a show, writing wall text as well as being responsible for creating a student written exhibition catalog. Open to seniors. Prerequisite: VMC 205 (ARH 205 ) or permission of the instructor. Spring semester. Instructor.
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VMC 362 - Nature into Art: The Cultural Dimensions of Landscape (4 Cr.) (ARH 362) (GCR ENV)(GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
This course explores the cultural dimensions of environmental sustainability, the complex relationship between humans and nature, and the historical roots of our ecological crisis through the lens of landscapes and gardenscapes in the visual arts over time and across cultures. Through landscape painting, gardens, and earthworks, we will address the ‘legibility’ and cultural construction of landscape imagery by exploring how artists have shaped, processed, and transformed nature, how humans have projected their identity, values, politics, and myths onto the land, and how visual constructions of landscapes shaped discussions and debates about the past, the present, and the future of the environment. Prerequisite: VMC 103 (ARH 103 ), sophomore standing, or permission of instructor. Spring. Variable semesters. Oettinger.
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VMC 383 - The Art and History of the Book (4 Cr.) (ARH 383/BKS 383) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
This course surveys the history of the book and book illustration in the West, with emphasis on the art and poetics of word and image from ancient scrolls and the medieval codex to the printed and hypertext page. We will meet at Goucher’s Special Collections and Archives, which will provide a unique, hands-on opportunity to explore the art and history of the book through our “home” collection. Our visits to several area collections of books and meet with conservators, collectors, book artists, and booksellers will also comprise a major part of the course. As we travel through a wide range of books from a variety of genres, we will consider the many ways that books make meaning, physical aspects of books and their production, the evolution of writing (and type), illustration processes and styles, page design, and the artful ways that word and image embellish one another to communicate meaning. We will also touch on broader questions including the place of books in history, the role of the book in society, the history of reading, manuscript and print culture, and the transformation of illustrated books in the digital age. Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor. Fall 2018 and alternate years. Oettinger.
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VMC 497A - Visual and Material Culture Capstone I (2 Cr.)
This capstone course is the first part of a 2-part sequence involving a student project that will be developed in the junior or senior year. The first part will emphasize research and project design in consultation with VMC faculty and faculty in other relevant disciplines. For the second part of the capstone, students will finalize their project and prepare it for a public presentation. Prerequisite: At least one 200- or 300-level course in VMC and Junior standing. Open only to VMC majors and minors. Fall and Spring semesters. Oettinger, Sheller.
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VMC 497B - Visual and Material Culture Capstone II (2 Cr.)
This capstone course is the second part of a 2-part sequence involving a student project that will be developed in the junior or senior year. The first part will emphasize research and project design in consultation with VMC faculty and faculty in other relevant disciplines. For the second part of the capstone, students will finalize their project and prepare it for a public presentation. Prerequisite: VMC 497A . Open to VMC majors and minors only. Fall and spring semesters. Oettinger, Sheller.
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World Literature in Translation |
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WL 230 - Special Topics in African Literature and Film (3 Cr.)
This course, organized around a rotating thematic topic in a given semester, focuses on the construction of identity in post-colonial Africa and its varied expressions in literature and cinema. The examination of how contemporary cinematic and literary forms describe and react to the postcolonial condition highlights themes of dislocation and alienation, as well as issues of readership and audience in and out of Africa. Topic announced prior to registration. Can be repeated if different topic. Prerequisite: sophomore or permission of instructor. Can be taken in conjunction with FR 331 (inactive course). Spring semester. Offered 2014-15 and alternate years. Martin.
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WL 260 - Special Topics in European Literature (3 Cr.) (FR 260)
This course examines a theme in European literature in historical content, across diverse national cultural traditions and with attention to other genres of artistic expression such as music, cinema, theatre and the fine arts. Through analysis of these diverse engagements with a common theme, this course explores the cultural diversity of Europe and the ways Europeans today are both drawing on and recasting a rich cultural heritage to address social issues today. Prerequisites: none. Course may be repeated if topic is different. Spring semester.
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Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies |
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WGS 100 - Introduction to Gender, Race, and Sexuality in American Society (4 Cr.) (Formerly WS 100) (LER DIV) (GCR RPP) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
This introductory course is an interdisciplinary examination of historical and contemporary issues in gender, race, and sexuality studies. This course draws upon a variety of sources - scholarly journals, autobiography, fiction, poetry, blogs and online media, political and historical analysis, and pop-culture discourses - with an emphasis on racial and ethnic diversity in American society. This course explores a variety of topics, including the evolution of women and gender studies, sexual orientation and gender identity, racial and ethnic identity formations, family, marriage and motherhood, masculinity, education, cultural images, health, sexual violence, creativity and performance, and political activism. Fall semester.
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WGS 150 - Women’s Experiences in Global Perspectives (4 Cr.) (Formerly WS 150) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
An interdisciplinary examination of women’s status and activism worldwide, including regional and local comparisons and the roles of government, nongovernmental, and international organizations in shaping women’s experiences. Fall and spring semester. TBA.
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WGS 205 - Maintaining the Status Quo: Power and Privilege in the United States (4 Cr.) *course becomes WGS 306 beginning spring 2020.
This course will examine the history of race-based privilege and its evolution from the nineteenth century to today. By reading historical documents, biography and socio-economic studies, students will explore samples of structural violence in education, housing and employment. They will analyze the means through which injustices have been challenged. This course serves as the WID course for PCE and WGS. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. Fall and spring semester.
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WGS 222 - Women and Literature (4 Cr.) (Formerly WS 222) (LIT 222 ) (LER TXT and LER DIV)
Topic: Working Class Women’s Literature. For too long the working class has been used as a coded term for white male blue-collar workers. Women, including women of color, form a large part of the working class. In literary works - fiction, poetry, and memoirs - these women represent themselves and their communities. Yet many readers are not even aware that the category “working-class women’s literature” exists. In LIT/WS 222 we’ll begin by talking about just what we mean by working-class women’s literature. We will then look at several literary works in their historical and cultural context. Writers we’ll study include Sandra Cisneros, Rebecca Harding Davis, Dorothy Allison, and June Jordan. Prerequisite: WRT 181 or instructor’s permission. Next offered Fall 2016. Tokarczyk.
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WGS 223 - African American Women Writers (4 Cr.) (LIT 223) (GCR RPP)
Topics course.
Topic Spring 2020: African American Women Writers: Toni Morrison and Her Contemporaries
This course focuses on the novels of Toni Morrison and reads them in the context of her contemporaries in order to explore the realities that African American women writers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries present, along with the language they create. We’ll read four of Morrison’s novels-The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved, and Home-and contextualize her work by also reading additional writers such as Alice Walker, ntozake shange, Gloria Naylor, June Jordon, Gwendolyn Brooks, Audre Lorde, Octavia Butler. We’ll explore the ways that these writers confront the violence of power and oppression as complex forces in society and human lives while at the same time giving us beauty-and love.
Prerequisite: WRT 181 or instructor’s permission.
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WGS 224 - Is there life beyond the Looking Glass? Gender, Identity, and Race in Caribbean Culture (4 Cr.) (Formerly WS 224) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
An interdisciplinary examination of women, their families, and society in Caribbean culture. Emphasis is given to the process of representation and self-portraiture of women in the works of contemporary Caribbean women writers, including Jean Rhys, Simone Schwarz-Bart, Ramabai Espinet, Ana Lydia Vega, Michelle Cliff, Edwidge Danticat, and Jamaica Kincaid, as well as to the themes of colonialism, resistance, migration, and exile. Prerequisite: WGS 100 or WGS 150 or sophomore standing. Fall semester. Offered 2015-16 and alternate years. François.
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WGS 225 - Gender and Sexuality Studies (4 Cr.) (Formerly WS 225) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
An interdisciplinary examination of theories of sexuality and their impact on specfic historical and contemporary sociopolitical movements and issues, such as marriage equality, sexual identity, motherhood, prostitution, race and sexual politics, formations of femininty and masculinity, youth access to sexual health education, and constructions of desire. With an emphasis on racial and cultural diversity in a US context, this course will engage with history and theory, expressions in the arts, personal narratives, contemporary social debates, and legal discourses. Prerequisite: WGS 100 or WGS 150 or permission of instructor. Spring semester.
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WGS 227 - Becoming Visible: Fictions of International Female Identity (4 Cr.) (Formerly WS 227) (LER DIV ONLY IF TAKEN PRIOR TO FALL 2015)(GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
This course looks at the social, cultural, and political construction of femininity within different sociopolitical contexts. We read an internationally diverse range of women writers from various countries from the non-Western world. Thus we can explore the concept of female marginality in various modalities and its relationship to questions of power and gender formation. We look at the geographical, political, personal and imaginative space women occupy and discuss how women move through the world both literally and figuratively. Prerequisite: WRT 120 or WRT 181 or FYS 100W , and sophomore standing or permission of instructor. Fall semester. Offered 2011-12 and alternate years. François.
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WGS 229 - Contemporary Brazilian Voices (4 Cr.) (Formerly WS 229) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
Brazil is a country rich in haunting paradoxes, contradictions, awesome in its diversity and multiplicity with renowned writers, artists, and grassroots activists mostly unfamiliar to Americans. This interdisciplinary course aims to introduce students to selected contemporary Brazilian women writers, activists, and artists with emphasis on the complex web interconnecting and disconnecting representations of nationality, geography, race, class, ethnicity, gender, religion, and sexuality. It is organized around a cultural/women’s studies perspective, taking as a point of departure and returning to the dis-junctures between popular film constructions of Brazil and its people, in particular Brazilian women, by U.S./European filmmakers and representations by Brazilian themselves. Analyses of texts, films, telenovelas, music, and dance will center on fantasies/quests of female subjectivity or stardom in specific historical and contemporary contexts, as opposed to pervasive and entrenched national myths of racial democracy and pluralistic identities. Prerequisites: Any WGS, SOA, PSC, or LAM course at the 100-level and sophomore standing. Spring semester. Offered 2014-15 and alternate years. François.
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WGS 242 - Women and Environmental Justice (4 Cr.) (Formerly WS 242) (LER ENV)(GCR ENV)(GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
Environmental issues do not affect all of us equally. In the United States, poor and minority groups are disproportionately impacted by pollution, toxic dumping, mountaintop removal and other issues. For women, there are reproductive implications, as well as health issues. This course will examine both articles on environmental issues and imaginative writing (novels, poetry, etc.) depicting the environment’s affect on working-class and poor people’s lives. The course will address national and international concerns. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or permission of the instructor. Fall semester. Tokarczyk.
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WGS 250 - Special Topics (4 Cr.) (Formerly WS 250) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
Topics vary by term.
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WGS 253 - Haitian History and the Culture of Resistance (4 Cr.) (Formerly WS 253) (cross listed with PCE 253 ) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
This course examines Haitian history through various forms of creative expression that serve as forms of political, economic or epistemological resistance. The course addresses Haiti’s long history of resistance and social justice action before and since its birth as a nation in 1804. Of particular interest will be issues of nationalism, colonialism/racism, difference/identity, resources/wealth/environmental degradation, U.S. occupations (military and non-profit), displacement, trauma, geo-psychoanalytic space, exile and globalization. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. Spring semester every other year. Bess, Francois.
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WGS 265 - Law, Ethics, and Public Policy: Current Issues (4 Cr.) (Formerly WS 265) (LER Textual Analysis)(GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
An examination of the legal, ethical, and public policy questions raised by controversial contemporary issues. Topic: abortion and reproductive technology. Focus on the impact of these issues on women’s lives. Prerequisite: WGS 100 or WGS 150 or sophomore standing. Fall semester. Offered 2011-12 and alternate years.
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WGS 270 - Gender, Work, and Family (4 Cr.) (Formerly WS 270) (cross listed as SOA 270 ) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
Examination of gender expectations and experiences in work and family. Review of theories explaining effects of gender on employment and family life. Issues discussed include occupational segregation, pay inequities, household division of labor, intimate partner violence, and alternate family forms.
Prerequisite: SOA 100 , WGS 100 , or WGS 150 . Fall semester. Offered 2013-2014 and alternate years. Shope, Smith.
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WGS 276 - Feminist Philosophy (4 Cr.) (Formerly WS 276) (Cross listed as PHL 276 ) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
A philosophical study of questions of gender and gender inequality. The class will explore social constructions of femininity and masculinity, theories of masculine privilege, and various, competing strategies for resistance. Students will reflect on gender in relation to other social inequalities, with particular attention to sexuality and heterosexism. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy or permission of the instructor. Fall semester, alternate years.
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WGS 282 - Women of North Africa and the Middle East (4 Cr.)
This course examines the role of women in the greater Middle East region, from the pre-Islamic period through the present. Using primary sources, memoirs, and visual material, the course compares and examines the impact of religion (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), empire, slavery, colonialism, and nationalism on women in Arab, Iranian, Israeli, and Turkish civil society and history. Spring semester. Offered 2015-16 and alternate years. François.
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WGS 299 - Independent Work (1-4 Cr.)
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WGS 306 - Maintaining the Status Quo: Power & Privilege in the US (4 Cr.) (formerly WGS 205) (cross-listed with PCE 306)
This course will examine the history of race-based privilege and its evolution from the nineteenth century to today. By reading historical documents, biography and socio-economic studies, students will explore samples of structural violence in education, housing and employment. They will analyze the means through which injustices have been challenged. This course serves as the WID course for PCE and WGS. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. Fall and spring semester. Bess.
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WGS 311 - Queer Film and Media (4 Cr.) (COM 430 ) (GCR RPP)(LER DIV)(GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
This course will explore gender and sexuality nonconformity in cinema, television, video, and/or online media. Using readings drawn from queer theory and film criticism, we will examine significant queer auteurs and queer media practices, from activist videos to the New Queer Cinema movement to YouTube mashups. Topics to be considered include the politics of queer representation and visibility; appropriating and revising dominant mainstream images and genres; and queer aesthetics, sensibilities, and fandoms. Prerequisites: Completion of the WEC and WID requirements; and completion of two 200-level WGS courses, or two 300-level COM courses, or one 200-level WGS course and one 300-level COM course; and junior or senior status; OR permission of the instructor. Spring semester, alternate years. San Filippo.
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WGS 325 - Women and Film (4 Cr.) (Formerly WS 325) (Cross listed as COM 425 ) (GCR RPP)(GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
This course examines films and filmmakers noted for their singular, provocative approaches to screening women. Drawing on feminist and queer theories, we will explore how these films and filmmakers challenge and transgress gender roles and sexual norms while experimenting with cinematic form. Filmmakers to be studied represent a variety of historical periods, nationalities, and film traditions, including classical and contemporary Hollywood, avant-garde cinema, documentary, independent film, and international art cinema. Prerequisites: WGS 330 and junior or senior status; OR COM 341 or COM 342 , and COM 262 , and junior or senior status; or permission of the instructor. Offered alternate years, Spring semester. San Filippo.
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WGS 326 - Latin American/Carribean Women, Resistance, Protest (4 Cr.) (formerly WGS 226) (LAM 326/PCE 326) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies Area)
This course examines women’s participation in the human rights, social and political movements in Latin America and the Caribbean. The following questions will be addressed: 1) Why and under what circumstances gender and race became a central force in the development of these movements? 2) To what extent have feminist theory and theories of the state accounted for the nature of women’s protest and resistance? 3) How, why and were South American women instrumental in the sociopolitical process that led from authoritarian to democratic rule in their countries in the 1980’s and 1990’s? We will also explore Amerindian feminist agency being forged in the current round of struggles for the protection of territory and autonomy in Brazil, Chile and Mexico. The course will also be devoted to Afro-Iberian descendent forms of resistance, as expressed in the literary, visual and creative arts in Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil but also in the Caribbean: Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Cuba. Prerequisite: PCE or WGS 100/200 level course, sophomore standing; OR permission of the instructor.
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WGS 330 - Intersectionality: Diverse Feminisms (4 Cr.) (Formerly WS 230) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
This course examines intersectional feminist theory in the United States, tracing its emergence in foundational texts from the 1960’s and 70’s, through contemporary intersectional discourses on race, class, gender, and sexuality. This course focuses on issues raised and analytic frameworks used by women of color and queer scholars, activists, and artists seeking to theorize power, critique privilege, examine identity, and envision liberation. Prerequisite: WGS 100 or WGS 150 or sophomore standing. Offered Fall 2016 and alternate years.
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WGS 332 - Black Women’s History in the U.S. (4 Cr.) (Formerly WS 232) (GCR RPP)(GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
This course will examine the social, political, and cultural history of Black women in the United States from the Colonial period through the present. With an emphasis on intersectionality, special attention will be given to constructions of race, gender, sexuality, and the diversity of Black experiences in the United States. Prerequisite: WGS 100 , WGS 150 , AFR 200 , or permission of instructor. Spring semester. Offered 2012-2013 and alternate years.
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WGS 335 - Gender Identity, Expression, and the Body (4 Cr.) (Formerly WS 235) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
This course will examine the social constructions of sex and gender, and will explore gender identity and expression, non-conforming gendered bodies, variance, ambiguity, performance, and embodiments. This course will employ an intersectional approach that evaluates the science of biological sex, race, class, sexual orientation, and other dimensions of identity using methods of inquiry from feminist studies, LGBT studies, queer theory, performance studies, and popular culture discourses. Prerequisite: WGS 100 , WGS 150 , or permission of the instructor. Fall semester.
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WGS 337 - Gender and Migration: Where are you from? I “detect” an accent (4 Cr.) (formerly WGS 237) (LER DIV)
This course on gender and migration focuses on recurrent and recognizable patterns of migration that takes into account gender, politics, war, race, ethnicity, class and sexuality. It considers how economic factors, geopolitics, empire-building, neoliberal principles of national security and fighting terrorism affect the contemporary lived experience of migration. It will also address the human dimension of migration, of resisting, of border zones, statelessness, of identity, and dignity, survival and personal security. Prerequisite: WGS 150 , or a 100-level PCE course, or FYS 100 , or AFR 100, or permission of the instructor. Francois.
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WGS 348 - Towards Collective Liberation: Activism and Organizing (4 Cr.) (Formerly WS 248) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
Taking an intersectional and interdisciplinary feminist perspective, this course will examine the ways in which gender, sexuality, culture, race-ethnicity, and class shape political consciousness in the U.S.Topics include the evolution of conflicts and coalitions within organizations and social movements, neoliberal and progressive discourses around feminism, marriage equality, racial profiling, war, immigration, poverty, urban education, and health care, and the transformation of divisions into catalysts for vision, strategy, and implementing change through organizing. This course will engage the debate between community activists and academic theorists while highlighting coalition work and multi-issue approaches. Prerequisite: WGS 100 or WGS 150 or permission of the instructor. Spring semester.
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WGS 400 - Seminar in Selected Topics in Women’s Studies (4 Cr.) (Formerly WS 300)
An interdisciplinary seminar aimed at integrating theoretical approaches and research on women, gender, and sexuality that have emerged from a number of academic disciplines. Prerequisite: WGS 100 or WGS 150 . Spring semester.
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WGS 420 - Transnational Feminist Theory and Women’s Activism (4 Cr.) (Formerly WS 320) (Cross listed as AMS 320 and PCE 321 )
Crossing the boundaries of nationality, ethnicity, citizenship, sexuality, and genre, this course brings together a plurality of women’s voices of the non-Western world that counter colonial, post-colonial, multinational, and masculine paradigms of “otherness.” The central aims are to examine the extent to which their activism and theoretical thinking grew out of historical conditions, to establish a dialog that forms the wide-ranging spectrum of women’s experiences across the globe, and to assess these social and political writings for national change in the 21st century. Prerequisite: junior standing. Fall semester. François.
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WGS 490 - Internship in Women’s Studies (0-4 Cr.) (Formerly WS 390)
A variety of WGS related internships are available. Students participate on site under the supervision of professionals in the field and also complete specific assignment(s) as determined by the faculty internship sponsor. Prerequisite: Permission of the director. May be taken for letter grade or pass/no pass.
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WGS 499 - Advanced Independent Work (1-4 Cr.) (Formerly WS 399)
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WRT 101 - Studio for Writers (1 Cr.)
Students will concentrate on craft in this fast-paced, interactive studio. The Writing Studio covers eight points of emphasis for writers: drafting and composing, revising and editing, mechanics and grammar review, style and voice, research, collaboration, critical thinking, and effective writing strategies and habits of mind. Final evaluation will be based on an e-Portfolio. Pass/No-Pass graded only. Fall and spring semesters. This course may be taken twice for credit.
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WRT 107 - Creative Screenwriting (4 Cr.)
This creative screenwriting workshop course guides participants through the process of transforming an original story into a feature film script. Students begin by analyzing award-winning original screenplays in order to understand cinematic language and its unique method of communication, the demands of its particular form of narrative design, and the importance of act structure in this medium. Students then are shepherded through the complex screenwriting process together in workshop format. They will share with each other several project steps along the way to ensure that the screenplay itself reaches full potential. Students examine storyline and structure from concept to synopsis to script, with particular attention to act structure, scene arc design, dialogue, characterization, plot development, pacing, subtext, and visual storytelling. The class features a roundtable workshop format in a demanding environment where students participate as both artist and critic, providing analyses of each other’s work. The course allows each student the opportunity to complete a large-scale project in a fully realized workshop environment. Spring semester. U’Ren.
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WRT 108 - Intro to Creative Writing: Mixed Genres (4 Cr.) (LER ARC)
Students will explore several genres in creative writing, including poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction, as well as multimodal texts and emerging genres. Students’ work, plus the work of published authors in these fields, will form the foundation of the class discussions. Fall semester. Poliakoff-Chen.
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WRT 120 - Introduction to Fiction Writing (4 Cr.) (Formerly ENG 120) (LER Artistic/Creative Expression)
This introduction to fiction writing seminar/workshop guides students as they develop basic techniques of fiction writing: plot, characterization, imagery, tone, narrative design, theme, and other fundamentals. The discussion group employs student work as text along with exemplary works of fiction. Fall and spring semesters. U’Ren.
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WRT 181 - Writing Studies (4 Cr.)
This course welcomes you into the Goucher Community of Writers and to the creative processes of inquiry, composition, collaboration, revision, and editing. You will develop strategies to read perceptively, think deeply, and write with clarity about complex issues. This course emphasizes research - the thoughtful, responsible use of sources that is part of joining ongoing academic conversations. In this intensive workshop, you will develop the habits of mind and practice of craft that characterize academic writing in all its complicated and graceful forms. Fall and spring semesters. (Please note that more sections are offered in the fall semester.)
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WRT 199 - Independent Work (1-4 Cr.)
Advanced studies and directed research. Center faculty.
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WRT 201 - Studio for Writers II (2 Cr.)
This writing studio is designed to help students earn College Writing Proficiency (CWP). Student will develop, research, and write an extended argumentative paper on a topic of their own choosing. Fall and spring semesters. Writing Program Faculty.
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WRT 202 - Short Story Writing (4 Cr.) (Formerly ENG 202) (LER Artistic/Creative Expression)(GCR Arts area)
This course further examines craft in fiction writing, with special attention to the short story. Students write original short stories and discuss each other’s work in a seminar (workshop) format. Additional readings (stories, novels, and essays) will also be required and discussed. Prerequisite: WRT 108 or WRT 120 , or permission of instructor. Fall and spring semesters. U’Ren, Poliakoff-Chen.
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WRT 203 - Feature Writing for Newspaper and Magazines (4 Cr.) (formerly ENG 203)
This intensive writing workshop focuses on identifying and interviewing candidates for feature stories. Students will write feature stories based on their interviews, and learn how to organize the material into compelling narratives. Students will discuss each other’s work in a seminar (workshop) format. Additionally, students will read and discuss published feature stories and articles about journalism. Students will also examine ethical concerns in interviewing and publishing. Guest lectures from professional journalists. The final project will be aimed at publication. Fulfills WEC requirement. Spring semester.
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WRT 205 - Introduction to Poetry Writing (4 Cr.) (Formerly ENG 205) (LER Artistic/Creative Expression)(GCR Arts area)
A poetry-writing course with in-class discussion of each class member’s poems. Assignments in common poetic forms (sonnet, sestina) as well as “free verse.” Readings in recent British and American poetry. Fall semester. Kunz.
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WRT 206 - Professional Communication (4 Cr.)
Open to students from any major, this course will develop and enhance students’ skills in a range of written and verbal communications in organizational settings. Students will work on a variety of projects, including standard business correspondence and career development documents in multiple platforms. Students will also craft persuasive arguments in the form of longer researched articles and grant proposals. Students will learn to write for a range of audiences. There will be an emphasis on presentations as well. Prerequisites: WRT 181 or WRT 181H or FYS 100W or CWP. Enrollment preference is for Business Management Majors and Professional Writing Minors. Fulfills WEC requirement. Fall and spring semesters. Poliakoff-Chen, Roswell, Oweidat, Cottle, and Writing Program faculty.
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WRT 208 - Journalism Workshop (4 Cr.) (formerly ENG 208)
This course introduces students to the basic techniques of journalism and practice in forms of news, interviews, features, and reviews. Students learn specific techniques of newswriting, such as leads, edits, styles, and research. The course also asks students to engage in a critical study of the media and examine key ethical issues in journalism. Guest lectures by professional journalists. Prerequisite: WRT 181 or WRT 181H or FYS 100W or CWP. Fall semester.
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WRT 210 - Act Structure and Plot (2 Cr.)
The act structure component of narrative design is much like the blueprint of a building – never seen or examined by those who walk inside on ribbon-cutting day to appreciate carefully crafted archways, ceilings, and windows. Yet, this unseen blueprint is just as vital to the success of the plot in a novel, film, or story project. Act structure is an element considered at every stage of the writing process even though it is not meant to be detected or evaluated by outsiders. Understanding this unseen, yet vital, structural component in writing is crucial for anyone working in narrative design in any form: novel, film, or story. This two-credit course allows students to identify, analyze, and explore the act structure component of plot development. Students will study award-winning work as a means of understanding and appreciating the importance of dramatic act structure. The two credit course will culminate with each student analyzing and presenting an act structure analysis from a medium of their choice. Spring semester, first offered 2020. U’Ren.
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WRT 215 - Point of View (2 Cr.)
In-depth examination of points of view in fiction - the choices available and their effects. Reading of published texts, seminar discussion, writing exercises. Spring semester, first offered 2020. U’Ren, Poliakoff-Chen, Staff.
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WRT 217 - Literature and Film: Screenplay Adaptation (4 Cr.) (Formerly ENG 217) (GCR Arts area)
Writing for a visual medium poses a set of unique challenges, especially in the adaptation process. This course guides participants through the elements of film writing and the methods of transforming the literary narrative into a feature film script. Students analyze award-winning adaptations of novels and short stories in order to understand cinematic language and its unique method of communication, the demands of its particular form of narrative design, and the importance of advanced structural planning for the medium. Students then are shepherded through the complex screenwriting adaptation process, going through several related projects and approval stages to ensure that their semester project reaches full potential. Students examine storyline and structure from concept to synopsis to script, with particular attention to dialogue, adaptation techniques, characterization, plot development, pacing, subtext, and visual storytelling. The class also features a roundtable workshop format in a demanding environment where students participate as both artist and critic, providing analyses of each other’s work. The course allows each student the opportunity to complete a large-scale project in a fully realized workshop environment. Prerequisite: WRT 181 or FYS 100W or CWP or sophomore standing. Fall semester. U’Ren.
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WRT 219 - Linguistics (4 Cr.) (formerly ENG 219) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
Linguistics is the study of human language in all its complexity. This survey course covers the sound systems of the world’s languages; word formation, the creation of new words, and etymology; grammar, sentences structure, and style; semantics and meaning; pragmatics; language change and history of languages; dialects; slang; language and power; language and gender; and language acquisition. Students will analyze data from English and many other languages through linguistic problem sets and explore various aspects of their own language individually and in groups. Fulfills WEC requirement. Prerequisite: WRT 181 or WRT 181H or FYS 100W or College Writing Proficiency (CWP). Spring semester. Garrett.
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WRT 221H - Theories and Practice in Composing, Tutoring, and Teaching - Honors. (4 Cr.) (formerly ENG 221 and WRT 221) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
This course introduces students to the current theories of writing and composing both in print and digital environments, as well as to a variety of methods and strategies for teaching and tutoring. Students will learn about different learning styles, the various genres of writing, revision strategies, and helping writers across the curriculum, while enhancing their own writing, listening, and speaking. Intersections with issues of racial diversity, identity, power, ethics, and disability will be at the heart of this course. Students will also gain insight into the best practices in responding to multimodal texts and to the texts of multilingual writers. This course is designed for students who are recommended as potential Writing Center tutors and those interested in teaching careers. Students will be required to shadow current Writing Center tutors the first half of the course and to tutor toward the end of the course. Fulfills WEC requirement. Prerequisite: WRT 181 or WRT 181H or FYS 100W or CWP. With permission of instructor. Fall semester. Oweidat.
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WRT 226 - Creative Nonfiction I (4 Cr.) (Formerly ENG 226) (LER Artistic/Creative Expression)(GCR Arts area)
This course introduces students to the breadth of creative nonfiction. The course focuses on building skills, learning techniques of creative nonfiction writers, and examining potential subjects. Students will read and discuss contemporary essays, as well as each other’s writing in a seminar (workshop) format. Additionally, students will be asked to consider the ethical responsibilities of writers and to examine the qualities of successful creative nonfiction. This class fulfills the WEC requirement. Prerequisite: WRT 181 or WRT 181H or FYS 100W or College Writing Proficiency (CWP). Fall and spring semesters. Writing Program faculty.
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WRT 272G - Intensive Course Abroad (4 Cr.) (LER SA)(GCR SA)
SUMMER 2018 Offering:
TRAVEL WRITING IN CURACAO
This course asks you to explore the craft and the ethics of travel writing. The best travel writing offers readers an understanding of a country’s culture and history beyond the requisite descriptions of food and sunsets. While you visit and study on the Caribbean-Dutch island of Curacao, you will learn about the history of the island, and how this continues to impact life for Curacao’s citizens, residents, and tourists. Curacao’s unique mix of languages and religions, together with Curacao’s economic and environmental struggles, provide a prime opportunity to understand a reporter’s ethical responsibilities.. Explore these issues in depth while you explore Curacao’s culture, history, economy, and beauty. Preference will be given to Creative Writing minors, Professional Writing minors, and English Majors with the Creative Writing Concentration. Prerequisite: WRT 181 or WRT 181H or FYS 100W or College Writing Proficiency (CWP). Summer 2018. Poliakoff-Chen.
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WRT 281 - Writing Studies II: Special Topics (4 Cr.)
Writing Studies II offers students the opportunity to examine specific genres in depth. Special topics include feminist rhetoric, community-based learning, medical narrative, and the graphic novel. This class fulfills the WEC requirement. Prerequisite: WRT 181 or WRT 181H or FYS 100W or sophomore standing or College Writing Proficiency (CWP). Writing Program faculty.
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WRT 282 - Comics, Composition and Creativity (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
Many children learn to read by reading comics, yet for years comics were, at best, considered poor writing and were banned from classrooms and libraries. Today, however, comics have become a multi-million-dollar industry and have captured both the popular and scholarly imaginations. Why is this so? This class seeks to investigate this paradox and other related big questions (what is originality? What makes great art great?) by examining comic and sequential art through its representative genres, and diving into the creative process itself. No prior drawing experience required. This class fulfills the WEC requirement. Prerequisite: WRT 181 or WRT 181H or FYS 100W or sophomore standing or College Writing Proficiency (CWP). Fall semester. Sterling.
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WRT 283 - Writing Harry (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
Calling all witches and wizards! Grab your pens and quills and join us for an exploration of the world of Harry Potter: what role does the series play in promoting literacy? What influence does it continue to have in publishing and pop culture? In this course we will discuss both the Harry Potter books themselves, and the books that influenced Rowling in creating the Harry Potter universe. We will also investigate understandings of fandoms, genre fiction, and distinctions between literary influence, canonical conventions and plagiarism. Prior experience reading the Harry Potter books is not required, but suggested. This class fulfills the WEC requirement. Prerequisite: WRT 181 or WRT 181H or FYS 100W or sophomore standing or College Writing Proficiency (CWP). Spring semester. Sterling.
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WRT 284 - The Rhetoric of Islamophobia (4 Cr.)
How is the rhetoric of Islamophobia constructed, circulated, received, and enacted? How can we encounter and disrupt this rhetoric and its manifestations? This course will examine the discourses of anti-Muslim prejudice and the mechanisms that drive Islamophobia in the U.S. in particular and the West in general. Using feminist rhetorical methodologies, we will investigate the historical roots of current Islamophobic attitudes, practices, and policies. Special attention will be given to Muslim women’s agency within this religious discourse and the ethical implications surrounding the discussions of their artifacts. This course will provide a space for us to engage in discussions with Muslims from Muslim-majority countries (via Skype) and Muslim Americans from our community. We will collaboratively think of creative ways to combat Islamophobia while producing written and multimodal works that make visible the network of relations keeping this hateful rhetoric alive and well. Class materials will include current events pieces, fictional and autobiographical accounts, scholarly articles, and films. This class fulfills the WEC requirement. Prerequisite: WRT 181 or WRT 181H or FYS 100W or sophomore standing or College Writing Proficiency (CWP). Oweidat.
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WRT 285 - Analyzing Linguistic Data (4 Cr.) (GCR DA-AC)
This course has four main goals: to introduce students to some areas of linguistic study such as dialect variation, register analysis, and sociolinguistics; to explore some of the ways that linguists use data to learn more about language and how people use language; to examine how linguists, academics in general, and students themselves use written language; and to introduce students to the genre of scholarly linguistic writing (and academic writing more generally). Students will read scholarly and popular works in the field of linguistics; collect, analyze, present, and write about linguistic data; conduct group and individual research; and share their findings with the class. Students will learn to work with several corpora including the Corpus of Contemporary American English and the Dictionary of American Regional English, and will also create and analyze data from their own corpus. The class will culminate with students developing their own research question, conducting their own research, and presenting it to the class as both an oral presentation and a paper written in the style of published linguistic research. This final paper will be a multi-draft paper, and we will conduct peer review and one-on-one conferences to help students revised their work. Prerequisites: WRT 181 - Writing Studies (4 Cr.) or WRT 181H - Writing Studies - Honors (4 Cr.) or FYS 100W - First Year Seminar Writing (4 Cr.), and GCR Data Analytics Foundational Level completion. This class fulfills both the WEC and DA-AC requirements. Fall semester. Garrett.
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WRT 290 - Internship in Writing (0-4 Cr.)
Students’ internships in editing, publishing, journalism, radio and television, advertising, public relations, mentoring other students, and TAing for classes can qualify for credit in WRT 290. Internships can be on- or off-campus endeavors. Students have interned at a variety of sites, including journals, newspapers, magazines, literary agencies, literary magazines, radio stations, and book publishers. (Occasionally, students may receive internship credit while working for the college newspaper.) Faculty sponsorship is required. The number of credits correlates to the number of hours worked. May be taken either for a letter grade or pass/no pass.
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WRT 299 - Independent Work (1-4 Cr.)
Advanced studies and directed research. Center faculty.
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WRT 301 - Studio for Writers 3: Special Topics (1 Cr.)
This writing studio is designed for students to write about their shared experiences such as Study Abroad and Community Based Learning, in a group setting. Students will have the opportunity to discuss their writing with each other and receive feedback from their peers, in this instructor-guided writing course. The Special Topics will include high impact practices, as well as other significant shared experiences, such as the Grieving Process through Writing. Fall semester. Rauwerda, Oweidat, Terry, Poliakoff-Chen.
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WRT 305 - Writing Workshop: Poetry (4 Cr.) (Formerly ENG 305)
Supervision of individual creative projects in poetry. Formal and thematic weekly assignments with in-class discussion of class members’ poems. Suggested prerequisite: WRT 205 (ENG 205) or WRT 415 or permission of the instructor. Spring semester. Spires.
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WRT 306 - Writing Workshop: Fiction (4 Cr.) (Formerly ENG 306)
Supervision of individual creative projects. Individual conferences and weekly seminar meetings. Prerequisites: WRT 108 or WRT 120 or WRT 202 or permission of the instructor. Spring semester. Bell.
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WRT 307 - Creative Nonfiction II (4 Cr.) (Formerly ENG 307)
Further work in creative nonfiction. This writing workshop requires several extensively revised papers and peer critiques of essays. Prerequisite: WRT 226 (ENG 226) or another 200-level writing course. Spring semester. Center faculty.
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WRT 401 - Studio for Writers 4 (1 Cr.)
This writing studio is designed to support students across disciplines who are writing senior capstone projects and senior theses. Spring semester. Writing faculty.
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WRT 414 - Advanced Seminar: Creative Non-Fiction (4 Cr.)
An advanced workshop in creative non-fiction. Written work for the seminar will be an extended creative non-fiction project. In-class critique of students’ work, as well as discussion of published creative non-fiction works. Prerequisites: WRT 226 /ENG 226 or WRT 307 /ENG 307 or another 200-level WRT course. Spring semester.
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WRT 415 - Advanced Writing Workshop: Poetry (4 Cr.) (Formerly ENG 315)
An advanced workshop in poetry. Written work for the seminar will be an extended project consisting of 10-15 pages of poetry. In-class critique of students’ work. Prerequisites: WRT 205 (ENG 205) or WRT 305 (ENG 305) or permission of the instructor. Fall semester. Spires.
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WRT 416 - Advanced Writing Workshop: Fiction (4 Cr.) (Formerly ENG 315)
An advanced workshop in fiction. Written work for the seminar will be an extended project consisting of either three or four finished short stories (or chapters, with permission of instructor). In-class critique of students’ work. Prerequisites: ENG/WRT 202 or ENG/WRT 306 or permission of instructor. Fall semester. Bell.
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WRT 420 - Advanced Creative Writing: Visiting Writer (4 Cr.) (Formerly ENG 300)
The Kratz Center for Creative Writing invites an established fiction or creative nonfiction writer (from outside the current Goucher community) to teach this semester-long course. May be taken twice for credit. Spring semester. Manko.
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WRT 488H - Advanced Self-Directed Projects in Professional and Creative Writing (4 Cr.)
This course provides the opportunity for students to consult with each other and the instructor toward identifying creative and professional writing projects of individual interest and developing these projects into completed manuscripts ready to submit for publication. These projects may include novels, collections of short stories, book-length creative nonfiction manuscripts, screenplays, or professional writing projects. Students will work with their instructor and their classmates to share their manuscripts. They will read literature relevant to their indvidual concerns. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Spring and Fall semesters. Bell, Poliakoff-Chen, and Writing Faculty.
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WRT 495 - Senior Thesis (4 Cr.) (Formerly ENG 450)
Fall and spring semesters. Faculty sponsorship is required. Writing faculty.
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WRT 497 - Capstone (2 Cr.)
This course allows students to look back at their coursework, and look ahead at how they might continue to develop as writers. Discussion will include possible career paths and advanced degrees for writers. Center faculty.
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WRT 497H - Capstone Honors (4 Cr.)
The Honors Capstone in Writing is for students who are ready to complete a book length work suitable for publication. This course allows students to look back at their coursework, and look ahead at how they might continue to develop as writers. Discussion will include possible career paths and advanced degrees for writers. Prerequisite: 300 and/or 400 level courses in Creative Writing, and permission of instructor. Fall semester. Bell, Center faculty.
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WRT 499 - Independent Work (1-4 Cr.)
Advanced studies and directed research. Center faculty.
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