Principles and practices involved in the establishment and management of deciduous orchards. Basic botany course suggested.

Methods, theories, and techniques of teaching prose composition.

What is medieval? Most people learn very little about the foggy period that lies between the end of the Classical era and the start of the Renaissance. What we do learn usually consists of stereotypes. Jousting, chivalry, repression of women, religious fervor, medical ignorance, lice, Crusades, King Arthur, economic injustice, knights, ladies, and plague: such words, concepts, images predominate. How were these stereotypes produced? How are they reinforced or challenged on-line? What is their relationship to the ways the medieval world saw itself?

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Intensive study of major British and Irish dramatists from the 1890s to the 1950s, such as Pinero, Jones, Shaw, Wilde, Granville Barker, Synge, Yeats, Gregory, O'Casey, Coward, Eliot, Beckett, and Pinter. Close readings of plays; consideration of the relationship between popular and experimental forms, intellectual issues, and cultural and social contexts. (Gen.Ed. AL)

This is a seminar in both cultural discourse theory and in the practice of analyzing discourse as a cultural phenomenon. Issues of concern will span face-to-face, rhetorical, and mediated communication, cultural forms of communication (such as ritual, mythic narrative, and social drama), cultural terms for pragmatic action, and dialectical forms of discursive phenomena. Four modes of inquiry will be introduced including descriptive, interpretive, comparative, and critical inquiry.

The notion that contemporary times are characterized in part by a "consumer culture" permeates many vernacular as well as scholarly analyses. In this course we will examine what people mean by the term "consumer culture" and what particular kinds of social arrangements and ideologies this term attempts to capture for analysis or critique. We will aim for empirical and theoretical comparison across historical, cross-cultural, and disciplinary perspectives.

This seminar examines the theoretical perspectives that lie behind the formation of cultural studies. Instead of discussing works claiming to do cultural studies, we will read a number of authors, from whom cultural studies draws its concepts and analytic procedures. Special attention will be given to structuralist and poststructuralist writings. Authors we will read include Derrida, Foucault, Nancy, Althusser, Laclau, Hamacher, and others.

As a form of entertainment and industry, and as a route to pleasure and self-discovery, popular culture takes up a lot of time and space in our lives. This course is pays scholarly and critical attention to popular culture, to understand the industries, pleasures, and stories that captivate us.

First part: historical transformations in family life (relationships between husbands and wives, position and treatment of children, importance of kinship ties); second part: the contemporary family through life course (choice of a mate, relations in marriage, parenthood, breakup of the family unit). (Gen.Ed. SB, U)