Evangelical Christianity, or evangelicalism, eludes precise definition. As most commonly used, the term refers to a sector of Protestant Christianity whose historical provenance runs from the eighteenth century to the present day. Originating in Europe and North America but now a global phenomenon, evangelicalism in the United States has enjoyed periods of pervasive influence and times of cultural marginality—recovering in the late twentieth century a mainstream status it had seemingly lost. This course is concerned with the history and shifting nature of evangelicalism.

Iconic and diverse landscapes characterize the National Parks of the United States, including snow-capped mountain ranges, deep canyons, volcanoes, geyser fields, and vast plateaus. North America is a dynamic, at times cataclysmic, continent that preserves a record of how Earth has evolved over four billion years. In this course, we will focus our attention on reading the geologic record of the rocks exposed in Glacier, Grand Canyon, Mount Rainier, Rocky Mountain, Yellowstone, and Yosemite National Parks.

(Offered as ENGL 378 and FAMS 382)

(Offered as ENGL 378 and FAMS 382)

This advanced Arabic course covers a number of topics that survey the linguistic, geographical, historical, social, religious, cultural, and artistic aspects of the Arab world. Special emphasis will be on varieties of the Arabic language, Arabic literature, Arabic political discourse, religions in the Middle East, Arabic folkloric traditions, Arabic Media and film, women in the Middle East and Arabic cuisine and music.

How do actors offer vigorous contributions towards ensemble storytelling, while refining their own interpretive capacities? How do we shape and deploy the full energy and specificity of our individual, relational, and collective performance possibilities? How do we work together in manipulating myriad dynamics to hold and shape space, direct focus, orchestrate sound and rhythm, build and release tension, all towards distinctive group playmaking?

(Offered as HIST-476 [AS/TC/TE/TR] and ASLC-476) During the second half of the nineteenth century, treaty ports like Yokohama, Kobe, and Nagasaki connected the Japanese archipelago to a global network through which people, ideas, and commodities flowed and interacted. Treaty ports emerged in the first half of the nineteenth century as the hallmark of imperialist encroachment in Asia, most famously in post-Opium War China.

(Offered as HIST-476 [AS/TC/TE/TR] and ASLC-476) During the second half of the nineteenth century, treaty ports like Yokohama, Kobe, and Nagasaki connected the Japanese archipelago to a global network through which people, ideas, and commodities flowed and interacted. Treaty ports emerged in the first half of the nineteenth century as the hallmark of imperialist encroachment in Asia, most famously in post-Opium War China.

(Offered as GERM 368, ARCH 368, EUST 368, and FAMS 380) This research seminar will explore conceptions of space as they have informed and influenced thought and creativity in the fields of cultural studies, literature, architecture, urban studies, performance, and the visual, electronic, and time-based arts.

(Offered as GERM 368, ARCH 368, EUST 368, and FAMS 380) This research seminar will explore conceptions of space as they have informed and influenced thought and creativity in the fields of cultural studies, literature, architecture, urban studies, performance, and the visual, electronic, and time-based arts.