The following are approved 3-credit UB Seminar courses for Fall 2017 with open seats. Incoming first-year and transfer students with less than 45 domestic credits will take a 3-credit UB Seminar.
Before registering, browse all UB Seminar options and ensure you have found your final choice. After enrolling, you will be unable to make a change in your selection.
From their earliest arrival in the American colonies until current times, African American artists have strived to establish their artistic traditions, while at the same time grappling with their historical social, economic, and political statuses in society. This course will explore that journey, including their struggles for self-identity in an art world whose traditions are rooted in disparity. This class will focus on different eras, art movements, and the lives and works of key artists that define this vision. We will examine the overall impacts of the African Diaspora on artistic expression, and the interwoven social issues confronting each generation.
Section: NEZ2
Registration Number: 22282
Instructor: Zarragoitia,Nestor E
Schedule: MWF 9:00am - 9:50am
Location: Clemen 103 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 19
This course will offer the opportunity to explore various African and African American, traditions and life experiences through the lens of film. From an aesthetic point of view we will gain insight and appreciation by analyzing cinematic productions through various methodologies. Students will gain knowledge of the deciphering modes of viewing movies while developing reception skills that are unique to the understanding of the African American experience. The socio-cultural issues being addressed by these films, while experiencing the artistic forces that shape them.
Section: PAP
Registration Number: 21864
Instructor: Pappas,James G
Schedule: T 7:00pm - 9:40pm
Location: Clemen 103 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 6
This seminar explores the social, political, and economic development, as well as the transformation of African American urban experiences from the early 19th century through the 20th century. Emphases will be placed on the social conditions of urban life, the impact of economic policies, geographical location, labor, migration, family and institutional development, and responses to new forms of social control. The course explores the relationship between racial identification and community formation, and assesses the impact of notions of community and community solidarity. It also examines the impact of class and gender on community formation and how communities evolve over time as populations, the economy, and government policies and change in a climate of disinvestment and reinvestment.
Section: WIL
Registration Number: 23510
Instructor: Williams,Lillian S
Schedule: R 1:00pm - 3:40pm
Location: Talbrt 103 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 15
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Section: BODY
Registration Number: 22506
Instructor: Tauke,Beth A
Schedule: M 11:00am - 11:50am
Location: Dfn 146 (South Campus)
Seats Available: 9
Section: GN
Registration Number: 24701
Instructor: Nickard,Gary L.
Schedule: TR 12:30pm - 1:50pm
Location: Filmor 328 (Ellicott Complex)
Seats Available: 19
Each week we will explore a specific work of art that A) was made after 1945 and B) has been read through feminist and/or queer interpretive models. Pairing each work of art with at least two pieces of critical writing, our task will be to understand the different kinds of interpretation offered. How do early approaches to theorizing art after modernism differ from later approaches rooted in social politics? How do interpretations of art influenced by different social theories differ from one another?
Section: TT
Registration Number: 21593
Instructor: Triandos,Theodoros I
Schedule: M 6:30pm - 9:10pm
Location: Capen 260 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 18
The New Comers is a multi-disciplinary course which explores the urban experiences of the United States largest Latino immigrants including Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Cubans and compare their experiences with those of West Indians from Jamaica and Barbados. The course will draw on the methodology of documentary, history, sociology, and economics to examine this topic. We will further explore the socio-cultural, economic experiences and identity formation of these immigrant groups in the United States.
Section: CEN
Registration Number: 21934
Instructor: Centrie,Craig G
Schedule: TR 3:30pm - 4:50pm
Location: Talbrt 111 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 3
The New Comers is a multi-disciplinary course which explores the urban experiences of the United States largest Latino immigrants including Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Cubans and compare their experiences with those of West Indians from Jamaica and Barbados. The course will draw on the methodology of documentary, history, sociology, and economics to examine this topic. We will further explore the socio-cultural, economic experiences and identity formation of these immigrant groups in the United States.
Section: CEN2
Registration Number: 22283
Instructor: Centrie,Craig G
Schedule: TR 5:00pm - 6:20pm
Location: Talbrt 111 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 21
This course is affiliated with The Academies. It features experiential learning and may include field trips, guest speakers and mentored exploration. This First-Year Seminar immerses students in the world of contemporary and historical community activism through reading, documentary film viewing, class discussion, extensive writing and oral presentation, and multiple class-wide field-research trips in and around Buffalo to parts of the city where Community Activism has had a particularly important impact. We will place contemporary community activism into three broader contexts: 1) the political-philosophical distinction between service and activism; 2) the history of mass-movement building reaching back to the abolitionist, nonviolent resistance, and civil rights movements, as well as their contemporary offshoots across the world; 3) and the current social context of the divided and unequal cities of the United States as exemplified by the Buffalo metropolitan area. From there we will discuss how to analyze power structures, how to establish targets for campaigns, how to imagine effective strategies and tactics, how to use existing sources of power and organizations to win real benefits for communities, how to motivate people to join in campaigns, and how to acquire the skills necessary for all of these activities.
Section: CNI
Registration Number: 22284
Instructor: Nightingale,Carl H
Schedule: W 3:00pm - 5:40pm
Location: Dfn 208 (South Campus)
Seats Available: 26
A World of Stone is a mixed seminar and laboratory-oriented course that focuses on the importance of stone as a natural resource and aspect of technology in world prehistory. The primary focus of the course is on the analysis and interpretation of chipped stone tools in archaeological context from a design perspective, including the hands-on production of tools through flint-knapping. The course also provides a survey of the use of stone in various contexts, from monumental architecture to the smallest of stone tool fragments, and from around the globe and at different times in prehistory to include: stone tools in paleo-anthropology- as critical elements of hominid evolution, Olmec Heads, Inca Stones, Stonehenge, birdstones and bannerstones, among others. The course examines stone tool materials, production technologies, use and discard patterns- from design and organization of technology frameworks. These aspects of technology are discussed in the context of problem-oriented research relating to subsistence, settlement patterns, land use, social organization and political development at various times in human history. Laboratory sessions will involve hands-on projects to aid in recognizing characteristics of stone artifacts and developing analyses that incorporate such characteristics. Students will participate in flint-knapping experiments and are encouraged to use the tools and debitage they make as experimental archaeological data.
Section: PER
Registration Number: 22071
Instructor: Perrelli,Douglas J
Schedule: MWF 10:00am - 10:50am
Location: Capen 260 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 4
Europe is an area of the world facing many challenges right now, with issues of immigration attracting much attention, in addition to the aftermath of the so-called Brexit vote in the UK to leave the European Union. One theme that draws upon several areas of research in Europe is that of what it means to belong in a society, and what does it mean to be at home? Is home connected to a building or a place? Is it connected to what you do, or where you live? In what ways is tied to emotion? In this UB Seminar we think about the meanings of home in European societies and for people living in Europe. We will look at such topics as the concepts of home and homeland, homelessness, refugees and migrants, and the role of the European Union in ideas of belonging and feeling at home in Europe. You are encouraged to think comparatively and cross-culturally about ideas of home.
Section: RDA
Registration Number: 21786
Instructor: Reed-Danahay,Deborah E.
Schedule: W 2:00pm - 4:40pm
Location: Filmor 354 (Ellicott Complex)
Seats Available: 20
Section: JO
Registration Number: 24771
Instructor: Unknown
Schedule: 5:00pm - 6:20pm
Location: Park 145 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 22
The idea of a journey suggests an intensely personal quest for change or fulfillment where a considerable amount of time and distance will be covered. Making the decision to be an artist is committing to a lifelong journey where one expects to encounter unknown obstacles and detours. There is no map to follow or guarantee of safe passage. It is risky but it can also be highly rewarding. In this course a diverse group of emerging, mid-career and established artists are observed as they reflect upon their lives, sources of inspiration, motivations and working processes. Profiled artists include painters, sculptors, printmakers, photographers, installation and new media artists from diverse demographic and cultural backgrounds. Through exposure to these artists, students will be introduced to the expanded field of contemporary visual art.
Section: MG
Registration Number: 23090
Instructor: Goldfarb,Maximilian
Schedule: 12:00pm - 2:40pm
Location: Cfa 117 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 10
Section: 4
Registration Number: 24862
Instructor: Unknown
Schedule: MWF 12:00pm - 12:50pm
Location: Alumni 90 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 26
There is no bigger idea than that one that is passed from one culture to another to endure for millennia and provide the very foundation of humanistic values. The ancient Greeks, beginning with the poet Homer, are typically viewed as the people who gave literature to the west. But in that time when Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were beginning to take shape, Greeks were in contact with people of Asia whose attested story-crafting traditions were already centuries old people of Anatolia, Syria-Palestine, and Mesopotamia- that is, people of that region called the Near East. Ideas about the nature of the gods and of the human condition had been spread from culture to culture between these peoples, giving rise to the Hebrew Bible among other codified expressions of such ideas. In their wanderings into Asia the Greeks too came to be exposed to these and still other ideas, and they adopted these big ideas and incorporated them into their culture in their own efforts to engage meaningfully and effectively with the phenomena of human life. In this seminar we will examine the archaic Greek communities who ventured east, the peoples whom they encountered, and the transference of ideas that resulted.
Section: MAL
Registration Number: 21960
Instructor: Malamud,Martha Anne
Schedule: TR 2:00pm - 3:20pm
Location: Filmor 317 (Ellicott Complex)
Seats Available: 3
This course will explore the representation of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds in modern cinema, focusing on films made between 1960 and the present. We will pay attention not only to what these films show us about modern attitudes toward the ancient world, but also to how modern filmmakers use these films, set in antiquity, to talk about our modern world. Students will explore works of literature, ancient and modern, that offer our discussions rich context and further into how narratives reflect and shape cultural values.
Section: MCG
Registration Number: 21966
Instructor: McGuire,Donald T.
Schedule: TR 12:30pm - 1:50pm
Location: Filmor 325 (Ellicott Complex)
Seats Available: 6
What is dignity? What is the relationship of dignity to what Victor Hugo calls the inviolability of life, but also and no less trenchantly to both the death penalty and the right to die? How does the concept of dignity work both to defend and to challenge both the death penalty and the right to die? On Dignity and Death explores these questions through readings of philosophy (Cicero, Kant, Hegel, Foucault), criminology (Beccaria), legal and medical accounts (Dworkin, Cohen-Almagor), literature (Hugo, Camus, Capote, Mailer), and abolitionists (Badinter, Prejean). We will also read the Universal Declaration of Universal Human Rights (1948) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (proposed 1966, ratified 1976) in order to examine the paradox of a universal human right to life that coexists with the death penalty. In addition, we will read several United States Supreme Court decisions concerning both the States right to put to death and its right to make live.
Section: DJ
Registration Number: 21594
Instructor: Johnson,David E.
Schedule: TR 12:30pm - 1:50pm
Location: Clemen 204 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 2
Why do philosophers read poets, and why do poets read philosophy? The course will trace the history of this question, beginning with the ?quarrel? between philosophy and poetry in antiquity and leading up to the contemporary conversations and polemics between the two disciplines. This quarrel between philosophy and poetry is mentioned in Plato, and already at that time it was perceived as ?ancient.? The course will begin by exploring the provenance and the stakes of this quarrel as seen by Plato and proceed on this basis to inquire into its formulations in later texts, from ancient Greece to 20th literature, philosophy, and film. This seminar is open to all students interested in exploring the fascinating and challenging intersections between the two main areas of the humanities: literature and philosophy. Reading literary and philosophical texts, we will discuss such questions as the nature of human existence, the problem of time, death, and finitude, the role of gender, as well as the differences and similarities between imagination and reason, passion and logic, literary language and philosophical argumentation. What is the difference between how poetry and philosophy address and express those issues? How is poetic/literary saying different from philosophical ways of telling? How do we think between poetic images and philosophical reasoning/argumentation? In the first part of the course, we will examine convergences and differences between literary and philosophical texts in antiquity (Plato, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Sophocles' tragedies), the Middle Ages (Boethius), and the Enlightenment (Voltaire). Rethinking the heritage of Greek culture and tragedy for the moderns, Nietzsche's influential study The Birth of Tragedy will serve as the transition to the questions that characterize contemporary debates between philosophy and literature. After The Birth of Tragedy, we will read essays by Heidegger and Irigaray, and a number of literary texts: short stories by Dinesen, Borges, and Faulkner, poetry by Wislawa Szymborska, Reggio?s film, Koyaanisqatsi.
Section: KZ
Registration Number: 23358
Instructor: Ziarek,Krzysztof
Schedule: MW 3:30pm - 4:50pm
Location: Norton 216 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 15
This course will explore the intersections between literature and human rights through a number of contemporary post-modern, diasporic and post-colonial works.Summary: a). Narratives of witness; b). poetics of sentiment, creating an audience; c) politics of representation / aestheticization d.) suffering of others, e.) articulation of rights. How does literature bear witness to human suffering and crimes against humanity? A prominent dimension of the novel since its inception has been the drama of human suffering and championship of the persecuted. In the 18th century, an iconic instance of this was Richardsons heroine, Clarissa; in the 19th century, the social protest novels of Charles Dickens, Mrs. Gaskell and others charted the horrors of industrialization in Victorian Britain while Zola?s Rougon-Macquart cycle did the same for the French underclasses. Across the Atlantic, a large corpus of slave narratives and novels like Uncle Toms Cabin gave momentum to the abolitionist movement which became to precursor to the contemporary discourse around human rights.
Section: SI
Registration Number: 21649
Instructor: Irlam,Shaun A.
Schedule: TR 11:00am - 12:20pm
Location: Capen 110 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 25
The Internet is changing every aspect of our lives, including how we communicate, learn, navigate, organize, work, play, and love. The Internet also represents a crowning achievement of computing: a single system uniting hardware and software, theory and implementation, standards and innovation, engineering and science, protests that topple governments and stupid cat videos. This course provides an overview of how the Internet works by describing everything required to answer a single search query. Along with its technologies, we will delve into the Internet?s past and future, policy challenges, and societal implications. The course is targeted at a general audience, but because the Internet reflects contributions from many areas of computer science and computer engineering, it also provides a good overview for potential majors. Familiarity with the web and access to a personal computer are assumed, but no technical background is required. Enrollment in this course includes a lecture twice per week and your selection of a once per week recitation topic.
Section: A
Registration Number: 21753
Instructor: Unknown
Schedule: MW 11:00am - 11:50am
Location: Nsc 222 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 10
The Internet is changing every aspect of our lives, including how we communicate, learn, navigate, organize, work, play, and love. The Internet also represents a crowning achievement of computing: a single system uniting hardware and software, theory and implementation, standards and innovation, engineering and science, protests that topple governments and stupid cat videos. This course provides an overview of how the Internet works by describing everything required to answer a single search query. Along with its technologies, we will delve into the Internet?s past and future, policy challenges, and societal implications. The course is targeted at a general audience, but because the Internet reflects contributions from many areas of computer science and computer engineering, it also provides a good overview for potential majors. Familiarity with the web and access to a personal computer are assumed, but no technical background is required. Enrollment in this course includes a lecture twice per week and your selection of a once per week recitation topic.
Section: B
Registration Number: 21754
Instructor: Unknown
Schedule: MW 4:00pm - 4:50pm
Location: Knox 109 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 7
The Internet is changing every aspect of our lives, including how we communicate, learn, navigate, organize, work, play, and love. The Internet also represents a crowning achievement of computing: a single system uniting hardware and software, theory and implementation, standards and innovation, engineering and science, protests that topple governments and stupid cat videos. This course provides an overview of how the Internet works by describing everything required to answer a single search query. Along with its technologies, we will delve into the Internet?s past and future, policy challenges, and societal implications. The course is targeted at a general audience, but because the Internet reflects contributions from many areas of computer science and computer engineering, it also provides a good overview for potential majors. Familiarity with the web and access to a personal computer are assumed, but no technical background is required. Enrollment in this course includes a lecture twice per week and your selection of a once per week recitation topic.
Section: C
Registration Number: 21762
Instructor: Sridhar,Ramalingam
Schedule: MW 4:00pm - 4:50pm
Location: Knox 110 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 5
The Internet is changing every aspect of our lives, including how we communicate, learn, navigate, organize, work, play, and love. The Internet also represents a crowning achievement of computing: a single system uniting hardware and software, theory and implementation, standards and innovation, engineering and science, protests that topple governments and stupid cat videos. This course provides an overview of how the Internet works by describing everything required to answer a single search query. Along with its technologies, we will delve into the Internet?s past and future, policy challenges, and societal implications. The course is targeted at a general audience, but because the Internet reflects contributions from many areas of computer science and computer engineering, it also provides a good overview for potential majors. Familiarity with the web and access to a personal computer are assumed, but no technical background is required. Enrollment in this course includes a lecture twice per week and your selection of a once per week recitation topic.
Section: D
Registration Number: 22879
Instructor: Regan,Kenneth W
Schedule: MW 11:00am - 11:50am
Location: Baldy 101 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 13
This is the recitation for companion twice weekly lecture.
Section: D1
Registration Number: 22880
Instructor: Unknown
Schedule: F 4:00pm - 4:50pm
Location: Bell 138 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 3
This is the recitation for companion twice weekly lecture.
Section: D2
Registration Number: 22881
Instructor: Unknown
Schedule: R 4:00pm - 4:50pm
Location: Hoch 307 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 1
This is the recitation for companion twice weekly lecture.
Section: D4
Registration Number: 22883
Instructor: Unknown
Schedule: F 3:00pm - 3:50pm
Location: Norton 216 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 9
The Internet is changing every aspect of our lives, including how we communicate, learn, navigate, organize, work, play, and love. The Internet also represents a crowning achievement of computing: a single system uniting hardware and software, theory and implementation, standards and innovation, engineering and science, protests that topple governments and stupid cat videos. This course provides an overview of how the Internet works by describing everything required to answer a single search query. Along with its technologies, we will delve into the Internet?s past and future, policy challenges, and societal implications. The course is targeted at a general audience, but because the Internet reflects contributions from many areas of computer science and computer engineering, it also provides a good overview for potential majors. Familiarity with the web and access to a personal computer are assumed, but no technical background is required. Enrollment in this course includes a lecture twice per week and your selection of a once per week recitation topic.
Section: E
Registration Number: 23656
Instructor: Ren,Kui
Schedule: MW 11:00am - 11:50am
Location: Nsc 210 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 45
This is the recitation for companion twice weekly lecture.
Section: E2
Registration Number: 23669
Instructor: Unknown
Schedule: F 8:00am - 8:50am
Location: Cooke 248 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 15
This is the recitation for companion twice weekly lecture.
Section: E3
Registration Number: 23670
Instructor: Unknown
Schedule: R 3:00pm - 3:50pm
Location: Capen 260 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 9
This is the recitation for companion twice weekly lecture.
Section: E4
Registration Number: 23833
Instructor: Unknown
Schedule: R 4:00pm - 4:50pm
Location: Park 152 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 24
The Internet is changing every aspect of our lives, including how we communicate, learn, navigate, organize, work, play, and love. The Internet also represents a crowning achievement of computing: a single system uniting hardware and software, theory and implementation, standards and innovation, engineering and science, protests that topple governments and stupid cat videos. This course provides an overview of how the Internet works by describing everything required to answer a single search query. Along with its technologies, we will delve into the Internet?s past and future, policy challenges, and societal implications. The course is targeted at a general audience, but because the Internet reflects contributions from many areas of computer science and computer engineering, it also provides a good overview for potential majors. Familiarity with the web and access to a personal computer are assumed, but no technical background is required. Enrollment in this course includes a lecture twice per week and your selection of a once per week recitation topic.
Section: F
Registration Number: 23655
Instructor: Unknown
Schedule: MW 4:00pm - 4:50pm
Location: Nsc 215 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 28
This is the recitation for companion twice weekly lecture.
Section: F1
Registration Number: 23671
Instructor: Unknown
Schedule: F 10:00am - 10:50am
Location: Hoch 139 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 9
This is the recitation for companion twice weekly lecture.
Section: F2
Registration Number: 23672
Instructor: Unknown
Schedule: F 11:00am - 11:50am
Location: Norton 213 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 5
This is the recitation for companion twice weekly lecture.
Section: F4
Registration Number: 23674
Instructor: Unknown
Schedule: R 11:00am - 11:50am
Location: Hoch 307 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 13
Every built space, whether a public building, a private residence, or a set for a play, is a performance space, in which a visual artist tells a story to an audience. This course will examine the ways in which visual artists (set designers and architects) manipulate three dimensional space, ornament, and movement to tell these stories. Using FLW?s Darwin Martin House as a point of departure (for storytelling in architecture), we will explore the language of architecture and of theatrical design as an aspect of storytelling through performance. Through research and direct observation of buffalo's architecture, students will identify story, audience, and historical context and the creative use of built space.
Section: EF
Registration Number: 22007
Instructor: Frank,Erich
Schedule: W 10:00am - 12:40pm
Location: Dfn 208 (South Campus)
Seats Available: 27
Engineers are problem solvers. Problem solving in engineering practice (i.e., industry) differs from the problems typically encountered in the classroom. Notably, "real world" problems are ill-structured, have multiple conflicting objectives, non-engineering standards and constraints, require knowledge from multiple disciplines (even beyond engineering!) and necessitate working on a team. The objective of this course is to allow students with an interest in engineering to explore an engineering identity. Through this exploration, students will gain an appreciation for the characteristics of good engineers: (1) Technical competence (technical knowledge, problem-solving skills, creativity; (2) Interpersonal skills (strong technical communication, effective teamwork); (3) Work ethic (attention to detail, diligence, persistence); and (4) Moral standards: honesty, integrity. This exploration will be facilitated through team projects, individual assignments and a professional development and career planning portfolio. The theme for this course will be consideration of the "Grand Challenges for Engineering" as defined by the National Academy of Engineers (www.engineeringchallenges.org).
Section: I
Registration Number: 22218
Instructor: Haggerty,Jennifer R
Schedule: MW 11:00am - 11:50am
Location: Nsc 205 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 7
Engineers are problem solvers. Problem solving in engineering practice (i.e., industry) differs from the problems typically encountered in the classroom. Notably, "real world" problems are ill-structured, have multiple conflicting objectives, non-engineering standards and constraints, require knowledge from multiple disciplines (even beyond engineering!) and necessitate working on a team. The objective of this course is to allow students with an interest in engineering to explore an engineering identity. Through this exploration, students will gain an appreciation for the characteristics of good engineers: (1) Technical competence (technical knowledge, problem-solving skills, creativity; (2) Interpersonal skills (strong technical communication, effective teamwork); (3) Work ethic (attention to detail, diligence, persistence); and (4) Moral standards: honesty, integrity. This exploration will be facilitated through team projects, individual assignments and a professional development and career planning portfolio. The theme for this course will be consideration of the "Grand Challenges for Engineering" as defined by the National Academy of Engineers (www.engineeringchallenges.org).
Section: I4
Registration Number: 22222
Instructor: Haggerty,Jennifer R
Schedule: F 10:00am - 10:50am
Location: Bell 138 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 10
Engineers are problem solvers. Problem solving in engineering practice (i.e., industry) differs from the problems typically encountered in the classroom. Notably, "real world" problems are ill-structured, have multiple conflicting objectives, non-engineering standards and constraints, require knowledge from multiple disciplines (even beyond engineering!) and necessitate working on a team. The objective of this course is to allow students with an interest in engineering to explore an engineering identity. Through this exploration, students will gain an appreciation for the characteristics of good engineers: (1) Technical competence (technical knowledge, problem-solving skills, creativity; (2) Interpersonal skills (strong technical communication, effective teamwork); (3) Work ethic (attention to detail, diligence, persistence); and (4) Moral standards: honesty, integrity. This exploration will be facilitated through team projects, individual assignments and a professional development and career planning portfolio. The theme for this course will be consideration of the "Grand Challenges for Engineering" as defined by the National Academy of Engineers (www.engineeringchallenges.org).
Section: J
Registration Number: 22223
Instructor: Burke,Kevin M
Schedule: TR 1:00pm - 1:50pm
Location: Nsc 216 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 4
Engineers are problem solvers. Problem solving in engineering practice (i.e., industry) differs from the problems typically encountered in the classroom. Notably, "real world" problems are ill-structured, have multiple conflicting objectives, non-engineering standards and constraints, require knowledge from multiple disciplines (even beyond engineering!) and necessitate working on a team. The objective of this course is to allow students with an interest in engineering to explore an engineering identity. Through this exploration, students will gain an appreciation for the characteristics of good engineers: (1) Technical competence (technical knowledge, problem-solving skills, creativity; (2) Interpersonal skills (strong technical communication, effective teamwork); (3) Work ethic (attention to detail, diligence, persistence); and (4) Moral standards: honesty, integrity. This exploration will be facilitated through team projects, individual assignments and a professional development and career planning portfolio. The theme for this course will be consideration of the "Grand Challenges for Engineering" as defined by the National Academy of Engineers (www.engineeringchallenges.org).
Section: K
Registration Number: 22228
Instructor: Latorre,Julia Talarico
Schedule: MW 1:00pm - 1:50pm
Location: Alumni 97 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 14
Engineers are problem solvers. Problem solving in engineering practice (i.e., industry) differs from the problems typically encountered in the classroom. Notably, "real world" problems are ill-structured, have multiple conflicting objectives, non-engineering standards and constraints, require knowledge from multiple disciplines (even beyond engineering!) and necessitate working on a team. The objective of this course is to allow students with an interest in engineering to explore an engineering identity. Through this exploration, students will gain an appreciation for the characteristics of good engineers: (1) Technical competence (technical knowledge, problem-solving skills, creativity; (2) Interpersonal skills (strong technical communication, effective teamwork); (3) Work ethic (attention to detail, diligence, persistence); and (4) Moral standards: honesty, integrity. This exploration will be facilitated through team projects, individual assignments and a professional development and career planning portfolio. The theme for this course will be consideration of the "Grand Challenges for Engineering" as defined by the National Academy of Engineers (www.engineeringchallenges.org).
Section: K3
Registration Number: 22231
Instructor: Latorre,Julia Talarico
Schedule: R 10:00am - 10:50am
Location: Cooke 127A (North Campus)
Seats Available: 14
Section: L
Registration Number: 22872
Instructor: Unknown
Schedule: MW 11:00am - 11:50am
Location: Obrian 112 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 29
Section: L1
Registration Number: 22873
Instructor: Unknown
Schedule: W 4:00pm - 4:50pm
Location: Park 145 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 6
Section: L2
Registration Number: 22874
Instructor: Unknown
Schedule: R 4:00pm - 4:50pm
Location: Capen 260 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 4
Section: L3
Registration Number: 22875
Instructor: Unknown
Schedule: T 4:00pm - 4:50pm
Location: Capen 260 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 10
Section: L4
Registration Number: 22876
Instructor: Unknown
Schedule: M 4:00pm - 4:50pm
Location: Capen 260 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 11
Engineers are problem solvers. Problem solving in engineering practice (i.e., industry) differs from the problems typically encountered in the classroom. Notably, "real world" problems are ill-structured, have multiple conflicting objectives, non-engineering standards and constraints, require knowledge from multiple disciplines (even beyond engineering!) and necessitate working on a team. The objective of this course is to allow students with an interest in engineering to explore an engineering identity. Through this exploration, students will gain an appreciation for the characteristics of good engineers: (1) Technical competence (technical knowledge, problem-solving skills, creativity; (2) Interpersonal skills (strong technical communication, effective teamwork); (3) Work ethic (attention to detail, diligence, persistence); and (4) Moral standards: honesty, integrity. This exploration will be facilitated through team projects, individual assignments and a professional development and career planning portfolio. The theme for this course will be consideration of the "Grand Challenges for Engineering" as defined by the National Academy of Engineers (www.engineeringchallenges.org).
Section: T
Registration Number: 22234
Instructor: Unknown
Schedule: TR 8:30am - 9:20am
Location: Talbrt 107 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 34
Engineers are problem solvers. Problem solving in engineering practice (i.e., industry) differs from the problems typically encountered in the classroom. Notably, "real world" problems are ill-structured, have multiple conflicting objectives, non-engineering standards and constraints, require knowledge from multiple disciplines (even beyond engineering!) and necessitate working on a team. The objective of this course is to allow students with an interest in engineering to explore an engineering identity. Through this exploration, students will gain an appreciation for the characteristics of good engineers: (1) Technical competence (technical knowledge, problem-solving skills, creativity; (2) Interpersonal skills (strong technical communication, effective teamwork); (3) Work ethic (attention to detail, diligence, persistence); and (4) Moral standards: honesty, integrity. This exploration will be facilitated through team projects, individual assignments and a professional development and career planning portfolio. The theme for this course will be consideration of the "Grand Challenges for Engineering" as defined by the National Academy of Engineers (www.engineeringchallenges.org).
Section: T2
Registration Number: 22236
Instructor: Unknown
Schedule: W 1:00pm - 1:50pm
Location: Furnas 206 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 17
Engineers are problem solvers. Problem solving in engineering practice (i.e., industry) differs from the problems typically encountered in the classroom. Notably, "real world" problems are ill-structured, have multiple conflicting objectives, non-engineering standards and constraints, require knowledge from multiple disciplines (even beyond engineering!) and necessitate working on a team. The objective of this course is to allow students with an interest in engineering to explore an engineering identity. Through this exploration, students will gain an appreciation for the characteristics of good engineers: (1) Technical competence (technical knowledge, problem-solving skills, creativity; (2) Interpersonal skills (strong technical communication, effective teamwork); (3) Work ethic (attention to detail, diligence, persistence); and (4) Moral standards: honesty, integrity. This exploration will be facilitated through team projects, individual assignments and a professional development and career planning portfolio. The theme for this course will be consideration of the "Grand Challenges for Engineering" as defined by the National Academy of Engineers (www.engineeringchallenges.org).
Section: T3
Registration Number: 22237
Instructor: Unknown
Schedule: F 1:00pm - 1:50pm
Location: Furnas 206 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 17
This course studies the history of Black Student and other Social Movements in the U.S. in the struggle for equal and high quality educational opportunities. We will look at the ideological, political and economic origins of Black Protest movements for equal education, and explore the rhetoric and tactics employed to achieve those goals. We will pay particular attention to the structures of oppression (slavery, Jim Crow and ultimately mass Incarceration) and how they have worked to suppress and oppress the rights and freedom of both poor people and Black people of all economic statuses.
Section: A
Registration Number: 24214
Instructor: Durand,Henry J
Schedule: T 1:00pm - 3:40pm
Location: Greiner 116B (Ellicott Complex)
Seats Available: 1
Section: B
Registration Number: 24788
Instructor: Durand,Henry J
Schedule: R 1:00pm - 3:40pm
Location: Park 440 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 17
William Shakespeare really did exist, and really did write all or most of the plays traditionally attributed to him, as well as some others which have been lost. But how did Shakespeare become Shakespeare, the quintessential author in the western literary tradition, the bane and delight of every school child today, and the continued subject of critical, philosophical, and aesthetic appreciation and reinterpretation? We can address this question through any number of Shakespeare's plays. Our proof text for this semester will be Hamlet, in the 2010 Norton Critical Edition of the play, edited by Robert Miola, which combines comparative texts from the early editions of the plays with records of performances from Edwin Booth to Jude Law, contexts from the Bible to Thomas Kyd, criticism from John Dryden to Margreta DeGrazia, and afterlives from 18th-century experimentation with the plays ending to Tom Stoppard and John Updike.
Section: BON
Registration Number: 21603
Instructor: Bono,Barbara J
Schedule: MWF 2:00pm - 2:50pm
Location: Hoch 307 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 17
What is the name game? In this course, we'll investigate onomastics, or names and naming, paying close attention to the peculiar nature of names and to the interesting, sometimes complicated or contested, and often strange processes by which all sorts of entities receive their names. What do names tell us of the named? Do names and the act of naming exert special power over the named, somehow helping to form or create them? Who gets to name, and who gets to use that name? Which names stick (or don't), and why? How do names change in different times and contexts? What is at stake in a name? Why do names matter? Over the semester, we'll develop insights into such questions of the poetics and politics of naming.
Section: GOL
Registration Number: 21622
Instructor: Goldman,Judith Elizabeth
Schedule: TR 12:30pm - 1:50pm
Location: Clemen 438 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 13
In recent years, the politics of food has become a focus of both academic and popular attention. In this seminar, we will read some recent and canonical books and essays that have helped determine how scholars, pundits, citizens, and policymakers think about food. The aim of this class is not to examine how we do or should eat, but rather to explore how various ways of producing, distributing, and consuming food are implicated in specific organizations of power. As a result, the books and essays we read will offer opportunity for exploring how food, and the discourses surrounding food, help structure academic and popular understandings of a variety of issues, such as identity, property, labor, gender, responsibility, and death. Your assignments will ask you to explore an analogous issue: how books and ideas get ?digested.?
Section: LAV
Registration Number: 21620
Instructor: Lavin,Chad David
Schedule: MWF 12:00pm - 12:50pm
Location: Clemen 438 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 13
This class teaches students how to write compelling stories drawn from real life using the form known as creative nonfiction. The essence of creative nonfiction is all in its name factual stories (non-fiction) written stylishly and well (or creatively). Creative nonfiction is especially known as a vehicle for memoirs or personal essays, but this wide-ranging term also includes a diverse number of styles that include travel writing, popular science, investigative reporting, autobiography, political opinion, magazine journalism, war writing, sports writing, current affairs, and popular science. The opportunities are endless and creativity is key.
Section: LY1
Registration Number: 21621
Instructor: Lyon,Arabella
Schedule: MWF 3:00pm - 3:50pm
Location: Alumni 90 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 9
This class teaches students how to write compelling stories drawn from real life using the form known as creative nonfiction. The essence of creative nonfiction is all in its name factual stories (non-fiction) written stylishly and well (or creatively). Creative nonfiction is especially known as a vehicle for memoirs or personal essays, but this wide-ranging term also includes a diverse number of styles that include travel writing, popular science, investigative reporting, autobiography, political opinion, magazine journalism, war writing, sports writing, current affairs, and popular science. The opportunities are endless and creativity is key.
Section: LY2
Registration Number: 24103
Instructor: Lyon,Arabella
Schedule: MWF 4:00pm - 4:50pm
Location: Alumni 88 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 20
Economic recession, health consciousness, environmental sustainability, and the new urbanism have all contributed to a resurgence of interest in bicycling as a hobby and form of transportation in twenty-first-century life. This course will examine both the history of pedaling and bicycling and the technological, ethical, environmental, and social aspects of the bicycle: materials, doping and cheating in racing, green transportation, the ability of women and children and teenagers to ride freely. We will focus in part on Buffalo, a site of innovation in the manufacturing of bicycles and bicycle tires, and a locus of bicycle racing and riding for fun and transportation in the city?s heyday. Buffalo is adding miles of bike lanes now, giving us the opportunity to study intermodal transportation and what it means to be a city undergoing a renaissance. We will also look at the social implications of bicycles for women and youth who had new means of self-powered transportation in their grasp through the twentieth century. Ultimately, we will consider bicycles in a global context, from the decline of bicycling in China and India in favor of cars to the development of courier bicycles for use in Africa and in cities around the world. You don?t need to be a rider to join the class!
Section: SCH
Registration Number: 23602
Instructor: Schen,Claire
Schedule: MWF 12:00pm - 12:50pm
Location: Obrian 214 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 13
Joan of Arc's success in a male-dominated era and especially in the male domain of war, her piety, her famed virginity soon gave rise to legends. She fascinated not only her contemporaries but people ever since. She has been the subject of biographies, hagiographies, scholarly analyses, poems, plays, novels, films, and endless artistic representations. She therefore offers an ideal opportunity to examine an historical figure from multiple perspectives. In this course, we will therefore read about Joan herself, her myth, her trial, and her legend. We will discuss several movie versions, and end with a staging of George Bernard Shaw's play Saint Joan.
Section: VAR
Registration Number: 21827
Instructor: Vardi,Liana
Schedule: M 4:00pm - 6:40pm
Location: Park 532 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 17
Hardly any other events in human history have contributed more greatly to the transformation of humanity and its self-understanding after the rise of modern science, than the industrial revolution (steam engine, railroad, factory line), the spread of democracy (American and French revolutions) and the spectre of socialism (Russian revolution). They opened prospects such as the universal spread of democracy, the liberal transformation of religion, the growth of a worldwide metropolitan culture, and the prospect of general prosperity. Seeking to better understand these ends by examining their beginnings, we will explore the old and the new in the prose and poetry of such thinkers and artists as Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach, Marx, Dostoyevsky, Darwin, Bergson and Nietzsche, among others.
Section: COH
Registration Number: 23551
Instructor: Cohen,Richard A
Schedule: TR 2:00pm - 3:20pm
Location: Baldy 119 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 18
Hardly any other events in human history have contributed more greatly to the transformation of humanity and its self-understanding after the rise of modern science, than the industrial revolution (steam engine, railroad, factory line), the spread of democracy (American and French revolutions) and the spectre of socialism (Russian revolution). They opened prospects such as the universal spread of democracy, the liberal transformation of religion, the growth of a worldwide metropolitan culture, and the prospect of general prosperity. Seeking to better understand these ends by examining their beginnings, we will explore the old and the new in the prose and poetry of such thinkers and artists as Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach, Marx, Dostoyevsky, Darwin, Bergson and Nietzsche, among others.
Section: COH2
Registration Number: 23579
Instructor: Cohen,Richard A
Schedule: TR 3:30pm - 4:50pm
Location: Clemen 19 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 16
The course will examine various depictions of human-animal relationship in Western literature and culture, from classical times to modern times. By looking at these texts, we will chart the emergence of a figure that occupies a borderline state between human and animal, and explore its implications for our understanding of Jewish and Christian relationships as well as human and animal nature. Readings include: Ovid, Marie de France, Hobbes, Shakespeare, Heine, Baudelaire, Tolstoy, Nietzsche, Kafka, and more.
Section: PIN
Registration Number: 21965
Instructor: Pines,Noam
Schedule: TR 11:00am - 12:20pm
Location: Filmor 328 (Ellicott Complex)
Seats Available: 14
Section: SEG
Registration Number: 24371
Instructor: Segol,Marla B
Schedule: TR 12:30pm - 1:50pm
Location: Baldy 125 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 14
The threats posed by globalization and modernization to the world's linguistic and cultural diversity are a popular topic of public and academic discussion. This seminar contrasts the effects of these homogenizing forces with the persistent emergence of new diversity. We will investigate language divergence at two levels. A number of special topics- including trade pidgins, language-like whistling and drumming, and invented languages such as Esperanto, Klingon and Quenya- provide additional perspective on communicative inventiveness and on our often conflicted attitudes toward diversity and uniformity.
Section: A
Registration Number: 21734
Instructor: Fertig,David L.
Schedule: MWF 12:00pm - 12:50pm
Location: Baldy 108 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 16
The most up-to-date estimates count over 2000 languages spoken by the one billion people living in Africa, about the same number of languages as spoken by the more than four billion people of Asia. These languages are divided across four large language families and a dozen or so smaller ones, and they show considerable variation in the way they sound and the way that words and sentences are formed within them. Next to this linguistic diversity, one finds extraordinary cultural diversity as well, with hunter-gatherers living alongside farmers and rapidly growing urban areas increasingly dominating the lives of Africa?s people. The continent spans diverse ecologies as well: rainforest, savannah, desert, and even mediterranean climates are found there. This course will examine Subsaharan African diversity?from the perspective of the present day and what we know about the African past?through the lens of language. Students will be introduced to basic concepts of linguistics in order to be able to understand the ways in which the continent?s languages are different from, and similar to, each other in an informed way, and the course will also consider topics at the intersection of linguistics and other fields, in particular: the historical development of African languages and what this tells us about the continent?s prehistory, how patterns of language use relate to other features of culture, the relationship between the languages that people speak and their genes, and how the natural environment influences the maintenance and spread of languages. By the end of the course, students will have a basic understanding of the nature of linguistic scholarship, the ways in which language can be used to illuminate a wide range of questions of human history and culture, and an appreciation of the linguistic, cultural, and political diversity of African communities.
Section: D
Registration Number: 21737
Instructor: Michelson,Karin E
Schedule: MWF 10:00am - 10:50am
Location: Talbrt 103 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 19
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is when management decides to "do good for society". In other words, companies use some of their profits towards initiatives that benefit society. Some initiatives that are focused on include improving the environment, donating to charities (locally & nationally), and assisting community programs. These Corporate Social Responsibility actions obviously benefit our society. But, they also benefit corporations as more and more customers expect companies to act socially responsible. Satisfied customers can often mean more profit. We will examine specific examples of CSR. What has been successful? What has been unsuccessful? We will also debate why companies participate in CSR. Is it more socially-oriented or profit-oriented? Does that really matter as long as our communities and our world benefit? Furthermore, we will discuss social responsibility on an individual basis and how you can improve our society as a student, right now. In addition, this course will help freshmen students make the transition to higher education. College-level skills, including oral and written communication, study skills, time management, and library skills will be emphasized. These critical skills will help ensure the success of students during their freshman year, as well as their entire college career. Enrollment in this course includes a lecture twice per week and your selection of a once per week recitation topic.
Section: A
Registration Number: 21695
Instructor: Grossman,Debora M
Schedule: WF 9:00am - 9:50am
Location: Obrian 112 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 10
Is Greed Good? Gordon Gekko, played by Michael Douglas in the 1987 movie Wall Street, tells us that "greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works." But should corporations really be concerned only with shareholder wealth maximization, or do they need to take into account a larger group of stakeholders? Do managers have the right to make moral decisions on behalf of shareholders? Do firms have a moral responsibility to pay a "fair" amount of taxes? Are corporate social responsibility and profit maximization really incompatible? These are some of the questions we will try to answer in this freshmen seminar. This is the recitation for companion twice weekly lecture.
Section: A2
Registration Number: 21697
Instructor: Fotak,Veljko N
Schedule: T 2:00pm - 2:50pm
Location: Jacobs B32 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 3
Is Greed Good? Gordon Gekko, played by Michael Douglas in the 1987 movie Wall Street, tells us that "greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works." But should corporations really be concerned only with shareholder wealth maximization, or do they need to take into account a larger group of stakeholders? Do managers have the right to make moral decisions on behalf of shareholders? Do firms have a moral responsibility to pay a "fair" amount of taxes? Are corporate social responsibility and profit maximization really incompatible? These are some of the questions we will try to answer in this freshmen seminar. This is the recitation for companion twice weekly lecture.
Section: A3
Registration Number: 21698
Instructor: Fotak,Veljko N
Schedule: T 3:00pm - 3:50pm
Location: Jacobs B32 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 3
Marketing-Nomics: The Stranger than Fiction "Reality" of People and Products. Why do people buy more Squid when it's not referred to as Squid but instead Calamari? Why is a Credit Card Surcharge illegal in some states but a Cash Discount legal, when they are the exact same thing? Can how a simple form is worded affect such things as important as Organ Donation giving rates? Can the price of water and wine influence how good it tastes? Why are diamonds the gem of choice for engagement and wedding rings? Why do we really buy brands? These questions and more will be addressed in this freshman seminar. This is the recitation for companion twice weekly lecture.
Section: A4
Registration Number: 21699
Instructor: Krupski,Michael Dennis
Schedule: M 3:00pm - 3:50pm
Location: Jacobs B30 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 4
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is when management decides to "do good for society". In other words, companies use some of their profits towards initiatives that benefit society. Some initiatives that are focused on include improving the environment, donating to charities (locally & nationally), and assisting community programs. These Corporate Social Responsibility actions obviously benefit our society. But, they also benefit corporations as more and more customers expect companies to act socially responsible. Satisfied customers can often mean more profit. We will examine specific examples of CSR. What has been successful? What has been unsuccessful? We will also debate why companies participate in CSR. Is it more socially-oriented or profit-oriented? Does that really matter as long as our communities and our world benefit? Furthermore, we will discuss social responsibility on an individual basis and how you can improve our society as a student, right now. In addition, this course will help freshmen students make the transition to higher education. College-level skills, including oral and written communication, study skills, time management, and library skills will be emphasized. These critical skills will help ensure the success of students during their freshman year, as well as their entire college career. Enrollment in this course includes a lecture twice per week and your selection of a once per week recitation topic.
Section: B
Registration Number: 21700
Instructor: Grossman,Debora M
Schedule: WF 3:00pm - 3:50pm
Location: Nsc 201 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 1
Happy and Productive: Getting Ready to Enter the 21st Century Work-Force. Why are some employees happier than others? Why are some leaders able to get their subordinates to work harder whereas other subordinates sabotage their leaders? How can companies remain innovative and at the same time be efficient? How should one learn and network so that they can be successful? Why is Google so innovative where as Microsoft is not? When is working in teams a drag and what can one do to make it a better experience? The purpose of this seminar is to identify and answer such important questions as one seeks to become a part of the work force. This is the recitation for companion twice weekly lecture.
Section: B5
Registration Number: 21706
Instructor: Balkundi,Prasad
Schedule: T 11:00am - 11:50am
Location: Jacobs B30 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 1
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is when management decides to "do good for society". In other words, companies use some of their profits towards initiatives that benefit society. Some initiatives that are focused on include improving the environment, donating to charities (locally & nationally), and assisting community programs. These Corporate Social Responsibility actions obviously benefit our society. But, they also benefit corporations as more and more customers expect companies to act socially responsible. Satisfied customers can often mean more profit. We will examine specific examples of CSR. What has been successful? What has been unsuccessful? We will also debate why companies participate in CSR. Is it more socially-oriented or profit-oriented? Does that really matter as long as our communities and our world benefit? Furthermore, we will discuss social responsibility on an individual basis and how you can improve our society as a student, right now. In addition, this course will help freshmen students make the transition to higher education. College-level skills, including oral and written communication, study skills, time management, and library skills will be emphasized. These critical skills will help ensure the success of students during their freshman year, as well as their entire college career. Enrollment in this course includes a lecture twice per week and your selection of a once per week recitation topic.
Section: C
Registration Number: 21705
Instructor: Grossman,Debora M
Schedule: WF 1:00pm - 1:50pm
Location: Talbrt 107 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 5
Answering with Analytics. How do you support or take down claims about a baseball players performance in a given season? What goes into making a good recommendation system, be it for shopping online or browsing movies? Can Internet search patterns tell us something about the state of the world? How does data on a tennis player?s popularity, play schedule and social media chatter help power computing infrastructure planning? How do you stop suspicious cars at border crossings? How do airlines decide how many tickets to sell at each price for a flight? Learn how analytics can help answer such questions. This is the recitation for companion twice weekly lecture.
Section: C1
Registration Number: 21707
Instructor: Smith,Sanjukta Das
Schedule: M 5:00pm - 5:50pm
Location: Jacobs B34 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 1
Happy and Productive: Getting Ready to Enter the 21st Century Work-Force. Why are some employees happier than others? Why are some leaders able to get their subordinates to work harder whereas other subordinates sabotage their leaders? How can companies remain innovative and at the same time be efficient? How should one learn and network so that they can be successful? Why is Google so innovative where as Microsoft is not? When is working in teams a drag and what can one do to make it a better experience? The purpose of this seminar is to identify and answer such important questions as one seeks to become a part of the work force. This is the recitation for companion twice weekly lecture.
Section: C2
Registration Number: 21708
Instructor: Balkundi,Prasad
Schedule: T 9:00am - 9:50am
Location: Jacobs B30 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 2
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is when management decides to "do good for society". In other words, companies use some of their profits towards initiatives that benefit society. Some initiatives that are focused on include improving the environment, donating to charities (locally & nationally), and assisting community programs. These Corporate Social Responsibility actions obviously benefit our society. But, they also benefit corporations as more and more customers expect companies to act socially responsible. Satisfied customers can often mean more profit. We will examine specific examples of CSR. What has been successful? What has been unsuccessful? We will also debate why companies participate in CSR. Is it more socially-oriented or profit-oriented? Does that really matter as long as our communities and our world benefit? Furthermore, we will discuss social responsibility on an individual basis and how you can improve our society as a student, right now. In addition, this course will help freshmen students make the transition to higher education. College-level skills, including oral and written communication, study skills, time management, and library skills will be emphasized. These critical skills will help ensure the success of students during their freshman year, as well as their entire college career. Enrollment in this course includes a lecture twice per week and your selection of a once per week recitation topic.
Section: D
Registration Number: 21710
Instructor: Grossman,Debora M
Schedule: WF 2:00pm - 2:50pm
Location: Nsc 222 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 9
Happy and Productive: Getting Ready to Enter the 21st Century Work-Force. Why are some employees happier than others? Why are some leaders able to get their subordinates to work harder whereas other subordinates sabotage their leaders? How can companies remain innovative and at the same time be efficient? How should one learn and network so that they can be successful? Why is Google so innovative where as Microsoft is not? When is working in teams a drag and what can one do to make it a better experience? The purpose of this seminar is to identify and answer such important questions as one seeks to become a part of the work force. This is the recitation for companion twice weekly lecture.
Section: D1
Registration Number: 21711
Instructor: Balkundi,Prasad
Schedule: M 3:00pm - 3:50pm
Location: Jacobs B32 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 3
Happy and Productive: Getting Ready to Enter the 21st Century Work-Force. Why are some employees happier than others? Why are some leaders able to get their subordinates to work harder whereas other subordinates sabotage their leaders? How can companies remain innovative and at the same time be efficient? How should one learn and network so that they can be successful? Why is Google so innovative where as Microsoft is not? When is working in teams a drag and what can one do to make it a better experience? The purpose of this seminar is to identify and answer such important questions as one seeks to become a part of the work force. This is the recitation for companion twice weekly lecture.
Section: D2
Registration Number: 21712
Instructor: Balkundi,Prasad
Schedule: M 4:00pm - 4:50pm
Location: Jacobs B32 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 3
Happy and Productive: Getting Ready to Enter the 21st Century Work-Force. Why are some employees happier than others? Why are some leaders able to get their subordinates to work harder whereas other subordinates sabotage their leaders? How can companies remain innovative and at the same time be efficient? How should one learn and network so that they can be successful? Why is Google so innovative where as Microsoft is not? When is working in teams a drag and what can one do to make it a better experience? The purpose of this seminar is to identify and answer such important questions as one seeks to become a part of the work force. This is the recitation for companion twice weekly lecture.
Section: D3
Registration Number: 21713
Instructor: Balkundi,Prasad
Schedule: M 5:00pm - 5:50pm
Location: Jacobs B32 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 3
The Exploding Piano - The piano has long been regarded as a laboratory for musical experimentation and the last 100 years have been notable for the degree to which musicians and artists of all kinds have felt free to experiment. This course seeks to examine some of the big musical innovations of the 20th and 21st centuries as reflected in the piano music of the time. Each course meeting consists of a mix of lecture and listening with some examples performed live in class. The course strives to broaden students understanding of modern music and emphasizes critical listening, reading and writing.
Section: HUE
Registration Number: 22309
Instructor: Huebner,Eric H
Schedule: M 2:00pm - 4:30pm
Location: Baird 327 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 2
On the Edge: A course to Practice Performing A course designed for the performer as a practical method to bridge the gap between the studio and the stage. Performers will concentrate on strengthening performance skills, building a strong stage presence, and increasing confidence and awareness in an effort to reach "peak" performance. Note that performance here includes many different categories of activity the class is not simply for performers such actors, musicians and dancers, but welcomes everyone, since we are all called upon to perform, whether in public speaking, presentation and leadership in the workplace, as part of our civic responsibilities as citizens of a democracy, in advocative and interpersonal roles of every kind. Taught in intensive two or three-hour segments, classes are small with a maximum of twenty-five students. Participants perform in every class building to the final public concert.
Section: KOP
Registration Number: 22310
Instructor: Kopperud,Jean K
Schedule: TR 5:00pm - 6:20pm
Location: Baird 250 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 3
?OPEN EARS, OPEN MINDS? is a listening and discussion-based class that explores the way indie rock and indie pop music intersect with classical new music (music composed within the last 50 years). Each week will feature a new classical work juxtaposed with a piece of popular music with the intention of drawinf parallels between the two seemingly disparate worlds. Through weekly listening and writing assignments, students will learn to open their minds and ears to a variety of sound worlds. By cultivating critical listeners who are willing to explore challenging sounds and dismiss genre barriers, the hope is that students will apply this openness of thinking to their academic journey and beyond.
Section: MOS
Registration Number: 24498
Instructor: Moseley,Brian C
Schedule: MW 9:30am - 10:50am
Location: Baird 327 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 5
Frank Zappa, Media Bias & Censorship The purpose of this course is to explore issues of media bias and censorship in modern American society through the life and work of Frank Zappa. As a musician, Zappa was internationally recognized for composing and performing his own unique genre of music. He also garnered attention from political movements and media outlets for his writings and statements about bias and censorship. This course will survey a thorough body of Zappa's work. Students will examine and analyze song lyrics, along with political trends in media and government that existed concurrently to Zappa's career.
Section: NEL
Registration Number: 22336
Instructor: Nelson,Jon R.
Schedule: MW 1:00pm - 2:15pm
Location: Baird 227 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 13
Beethoven and the Economics of Genius - Trained from a young age to serve as a court musician, Ludwig van Beethoven instead spent much of his career navigating a treacherous new world of public concerts, sheet music sales, and contract negotiations. Beethoven and the Economics of Genius begins with a look at Beethoven as a businessman, and considers how the composer?s professional decisions influenced not only his financial situation but also the style of his music itself. The seminar investigates the reasons why the public?s fascination with Beethoven?s life and music increased following his death in 1827, and how the composer?s legacy influenced both the development of nineteenth-century style and the growth of the modern musical marketplace. At the end of the seminar, we will explore Beethoven?s ongoing role and importance as an icon of classical music in contemporary culture.
Section: STR
Registration Number: 24169
Instructor: Strykowski,Derek Robert
Schedule: MWF 1:00pm - 1:50pm
Location: Baird 318 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 22
Literary works often deal with important philosophical issues. For example, many narratives are structured around underlying ethical distinctions between good and bad actions or between good and bad character traits. In addition, many narratives raise questions about human nature or the structure of the world in which we live and act. The purpose of this class is to consider how a general philosophical issue might be investigated through a work of literature. We will read both philosophy texts and literary texts, using the philosophy texts first for a basis understanding of a particular issues and then comparing the treatment of that philosophical issue in a selection of literary works. We focus initially on questions of human freedom. What does it mean for human beings to be free to direct their lives and choose to commit, or refrain from committing, particular actions? Is the world structured in a way that allows for human freedom? Is freedom a requirement for moral responsibility? The second half of the course focuses on ethical issues. What sorts of actions are morally permissible? What sorts of actions are morally impermissible? What sorts of habits or personality traits characterize morally virtuous people? What sorts of habits or personality traits characterize morally degenerate people? How, generally, should we live? What are the attributes of a good life? Particular philosophical texts used in the course include selections from Aristotle, Epictetus, Boethius, Kant, and Bentham. Literary readings include works of Sophocles, Henry James, David Thoreau, and Benjamin Franklin.
Section: DON
Registration Number: 22081
Instructor: Donnelly,Maureen
Schedule: TR 11:00am - 12:20pm
Location: Alumni 90 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 3
The goal of the class is to identify and evaluate the image of tobacco and the tobacco user in representative selections from the literary, cinematic, and artistic traditions of French-, Italian-, and Spanish-speaking countries. In particular we will seek to trace how that image has evolved since the introduction of tobacco to Europe. Given its evolution and impact, tobacco use must be understood in a broad historical and social context; the course will therefore take into account economic and political factors as well as public health issues.
Section: JAM
Registration Number: 22233
Instructor: Jameson,Maureen
Schedule: MWF 9:00am - 9:50am
Location: Alumni 88 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 18
Learn what it takes to put on a show: Live event (theatre, dance, concerts) production requires skilled technicians and managers to bring designs to life on a grand scale. Each production presents unique challenges that require research and planning. This course introduces students to issues that arise in the production of live event. In the progression of the semester, students will solve a production problem, be introduced to industry standards, and see live theatre.
Section: JS
Registration Number: 23687
Instructor: Shimon,Jonathan Rory
Schedule: TR 8:00am - 9:20am
Location: Cfa 144 (North Campus)
Seats Available: 15
