Courses

• CAS EN 582: St Mod Lit
  This course description is currently under construction.
• CAS EN 584: Studies in Literature and Ethnicity
  Topic for Fall 2012: Literature of the Migrant. A reading of eleven novels that all bear on human migrations. Besides examining major issues, the focus is on how these books were made. Some of the texts are translations, but most of them are written by American authors.
• CAS EN 585: Contemporary American Poetry
  Tradition and innovation among post-WWII poets. Focus on individual volumes; may include: Plath, O'Hara, Ginsberg, Lowell, Bishop, Ashbery, Merrill, Simic, Hass, Glück, Komunyakaa.
• CAS EN 586: Studies in Anglophone Literature
  Topic for Fall 2011: Caribbean Poetry. Study of twentieth-century Caribbean poetry written in English(es), surveying anthologies and concentrating on major figures (Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite, Lorna Goodison, Eric Roach). Emphases: the function of poets in small societies, and their choices concerning linguistic and aesthetic traditions. Also offered as CAS AA 538.
• CAS EN 587: Studies in African American Literature
  Topic for Spring 2013: Transformations of Genre in the Twentieth-Century African American Novel. Major works drawn from the Harlem Renaissance, Realism, Modernism, the Black Arts Movement, and the contemporary period. Authors may include Jean Toomer, Nella Larsen, Wallace Thurman, Richard Wright, Anne Petry, Ralph Ellison, Octavia Butler, John Wideman, Gloria Naylor, and Toni Morrison. Also offered as CAS AA 502.
• CAS EN 588: Studies in African American Literature
  Topic for Fall 2012: African American Drama. A study of African American and Afro-Caribbean dramatic literature. Focus on the work of August Wilson, Lorraine Hansberry, Aimé Césaire, and Derek Walcott in the context of Western drama. Also offered as CAS AA 510 A1.
• CAS EN 593: Studies in Literature and the Arts
  Topic for Fall 2012: Frightening Children. What's scary about childhood? The figures of the terrified and terrifying child in literature and film, examining the cultural anxieties they represent about innocence, corruption, and adult-child relations. Weekly screenings, some of them disturbing.
• CAS EN 594: Studies in Literature and the Arts
  Topic for Spring 2013: Stanley Kubrick. The cinema of Stanley Kubrick, from Killer's Kiss to Eyes Wide Shut. The novels he adapted by Nabokov, Burgess, Thackeray, Stephen King, Arthur C. Clarke, and other pertinent fiction are read. Topics include: black comedy, visionary experience, dreadful stories. Weekly screenings.
• CAS EN 595: Studies in Literary Topics
  Topic for Fall 2012: Language and Literature. Theories of language, meaning, signs, speech, and writing in relation to literary forms. What is language--and what is literary expression? Readings in theory include Nietzsche, Freud, Wittgenstein, Derrida; and literary texts include works by Rousseau, Shelley, Woolf, and Beckett.
• CAS EN 596: Studies in Literary Topics
  Topic for Spring 2013: Science Fiction, Race, and Gender. Focuses on the contributions of writers of color and women to science fiction. Studies the features of the genre and asks how these texts articulate a social and political critique. Authors: Butler, Delany, Gibson, Hopkinson, LeGuin.
• CAS ES 101: The Dynamic Earth
  Introduction to the dynamic Earth, including plate tectonics, earthquake hazards and volcanic hazards, mountain-building processes; igneous, and metamorphic processes; surface processes, erosion, soil, and sediment formation; and hydrogeology. Interactions among the lithospheric, hydrospheric, atmospheric, and biospheric systems are emphasized. Three hours lecture, two hours lab, including field trips. Carries natural science divisional credit (with lab) in CAS.
• CAS ES 105: Environmental Earth Sciences
  Geological processes in environmental science; groundwater quantity and quality; geological resource supply and recovery; earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and other natural hazards; landforms, climate, desertification, glaciation, and ocean circulation patterns. Three hours lecture, two hours lab, including field trips. Carries natural science divisional credit (with lab) in CAS.
• CAS ES 140: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Other Natural Disasters
  Explores the large natural events that affect us; examines their geologic causes, as well as their natural and human consequences. Topics include earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, impacts of extraterrestrial objects, andother near-surface disasters, with an emphasis on destructive solid-earth phenomena. Carries natural science divisional credit (without lab) in CAS.
• CAS ES 142: Introduction to Beach and Shoreline Processes
  Coastal processes including tidal currents, wave action, longshore transport, and estuarine circulation; barrier island and spit formation; study of beaches, dunes, and marshes; effects of tectonics, glaciers, and rivers on beaches and coastal morphology. Cape Cod field trip. Carries natural science divisional credit (without lab) in CAS.
• CAS ES 144: Oceanography
  Examines the physical, chemical, and biological processes by which the oceans serve as an agent to accelerate or moderate the pace of global change. Dynamic nature of the oceans on both a short- and a long-term scale is emphasized. Carries natural science divisional credit (without lab) in CAS.
• CAS ES 222: Mineralogy
  Introduction to mineral properties, chemistry, structure, and petrographic microscope. Minerals in Earth systems including the dynamic interior, surface, environment, and societal uses. Minerals as recorders of past Earth processes and conditions. Three hours lecture, three hours lab, field trip.
• CAS ES 301: Structural Analysis of Rocks
  Deformation of rocks and minerals, stress, strain; kinetic and dynamic analysis of folds, faults, joints, rock fabrics; regional settings of rock structures; interpretation of geological maps. Three hours lecture, three hours lab, and occasional field trips.
• CAS ES 302: History of Earth
  Introduction to earth history; origin of the earth and solar system; origin and evolution of life; mass extinctions; interpretation of the geological record of earth history; measurement of geological time; plate tectonics and the formation of mountains; continents and ocean basins. Three hours lecture, two hours lab, with occasional field trips.
• CAS ES 317: Introduction to Hydrology
  Introduction to the science of hydrology and to the role of water as a resource, a hazard, and an integral component of the Earth's climatic, biological, and geological systems.
• CAS ES 331: Sedimentology
  Properties and classification of clastic and carbonate sediments and sedimentary rock; processes that form, transport, and deposit sediments; environments of deposition; diagenesis; methods of analysis. Three hours lecture, three hours lab, and occasional field trips.

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