Courses

• CAS EN 582: Studies in Modern Literature
  Topic for Spring 2015: Joyce and After. Readings in transatlantic modernism (Irish, British, American) from 1922 forward. Joyce's Ulysses is central. Other readings from authors such as James Baldwin, Allison Bechdel, Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bishop, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Langston Hughes, Alice Walker, and Virginia Woolf.
• CAS EN 584: Studies in Literature and Ethnicity
  Two topics are offered 2014/2015. Students may take one or both for credit. Topic for Fall 2014: 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. Topic for Spring 2015: African American and Asian American Women Writers. Cross-cultural comparison of selected African American and Asian American women writers examines strategies by the "Other" to navigate cultural constructions of race, class, and gender. Attention to literary histories. Also offered as CAS AA 504.
• 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 587: Studies in African American Literature
  Topic for Spring 2013: Literacy in African American Literature. Examines literacy in African American literature and in constructions and negotiations of racial identity and social contact. Historical topics include slavery, freedom, higher education, migration, gender, sexuality, and politics. Authors include Douglass, Jacobs, Washington, Du Bois, Wright, Lorde. Also offered as CAS AA 502 B1.
• CAS EN 588: Studies in African American Literature
  Topic for Spring 2015: Tracking Changes in the Twentieth-Century African American Novel: Negotiations of Genre and Gender. Readings of Slave Narratives and Neo Slave Narratives, and the Urban Novel. Authors include Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Walter Mosley. Also offered as CAS AA 502.
• CAS EN 590: Studies in Comparative Literature
  Topic for Fall 2014: Cultural Crossings with Asia in the US. Explores how the availability of English translations and other formative cultural encounters with Asia shaped the development of American literature. Readings include works by Franklin, Paine, Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Whitman, Stein, Pound, Eliot, and Richard Wright.
• CAS EN 593: Studies in Literature and the Arts
  Topic for Fall 2014: The Coen Brothers. Intensive study of the Coen brothers' cinema, considered in relation to novels they adapted, films they re-made, and relevant genre writing. Topics: quirky wit, the death drive, character perversions. Weekly screenings.
• CAS EN 594: Studies in Literature and the Arts
  Two topics are offered 2013/2014. Students may register for one or both for credit. Topic for Fall 2013: Modernism: Text and Screen. Examines the multiple relays between the experiments of modernist literature and the (then) new art of film. Considers texts and films in which styles of writing are confused by, and bound up with, the act of seeing. Topic for Spring 2014: Dark Dreams: The Cinema of David Lynch. Intensive study of David Lynch's films, informed by readings in literature and Freudian psychoanalysis. Topics include: the logic of dreams, forms of evil, the death drive, and small-town America. 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 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.
• CAS ES 333: Earth Surface Processes
  Evolution of Earth's landscapes, including modification associated with climate change, tectonic processes, glacial & periglacial geomorphology, and physical & chemical weathering; implications for understanding landscape and climate evolution on Mars. Three hours lecture, two hours lab, occasional field trips.

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