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NOTE: The following courses offered this semester meet the Fine Arts requirements:
Any IDST course with a Fine Arts focus or the two semester Heritage sequence will meet this requirement. In addition, completing four semesters of private study of voice or an instrument, completing four semesters of class piano, completing four hours in Singers, or significant participation in four Millsaps Players productions will satisfy the fine arts requirement.
Core 1: Intro to Thinking and Writing
IDST 1050-01: This Digital Life
Instructor: Dr. Anita DeRouen. Who are we when we're on the web? What does it mean to be "digital?" How does our understanding of our lives change when we start "living" on the internet? These and other questions will guide us through a semester-long examination of our digital lives. We'll consider the applications which have become almost requirements for our social lives (like Facebook), our understanding of the connections we have to the technology we use, and the way words like "community" and "privacy" take on different shades of meaning when we apply them to internet culture.
MTWF 9
IDST 1050-02: Mysteries of Human Behavior
Instructor: Dr. Laura Franey. This class is designed to get your brain (and, I hope, your heart) deeply engaged with big, relevant questions about human behavior and society; to challenge you to dig deeper into yourself and learn more about your own ways of thinking and acting; and to become more informed about and tolerant of the wide range of people in the world. Sometimes we will focus on areas within what is often called "abnormal psychology" - this includes such topics as addiction, eating disorders, and aberrant sexual behavior. At other times we will focus on the everyday decision-making we do as well as the ethical context of our actions. Readings will most likely include selections from Clashing Sides in Abnormal Psychology, selected chapters from our common first-year summer reading text - Malcolm Gladwell's Blink - and essays from the fields of media studies, anthropology, religious studies. Also, we will consistently use the common first-year writing text, Writing Analytically. Frequently, we will examine cultural products such as reality television shows, artistic self-portraits, and documentary films as part of our effort to discover why we do the things we do.
MWF 11 TH 9
Core 2-5: The Heritage Program
IDST 1128-01 through 08: Heritage of the West in World Perspective
Instructors: Dr. Ted Ammon, Department of Philosophy; Dr. Bennie Reynolds, Department of Religious Studies, Dr. Amy Forbes, Department of History; Dr. Anne MacMaster, Department of English. Beginning with antiquity and continuing to the present, this program brings together history, literature, philosophy, religion, and the arts in an integrated approach to the study of Western culture within a global context. It is the equivalent of eight semester hours each semester extending throughout the year. In the spring, this course examines developments in Western culture from 1500 to present in the context of world history. IDST 1128 is open only to students who have completed IDST 1118 in the fall. All students will be assigned to the same section and professor as in the fall. Heritage meets the Fine Arts requirements as well as the requirements of Core 2-5. Enrollment is limited to freshmen.
Core 3: Pre-modern World
IDST 1300-01: Lilith and the Myth of Sexy Death
Instructor: Dr. James Bowley. Lilith, the sensuous feminine "monster" of Jewish mythology, inspiring fear and lust and magazines and music festivals through the ages.
Focus: Religion
MTWF 8
IDST 1300-02: Feudal Europe and Japan
Instructor: Dr. Greg Miller. We will explore parallels and differences between two feudal societies: Japan and Europe between roughly 1000 and 1400 C.E. Our readings will include Marie of France's Lais, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji, and the Japanese warrior-tale Tale of the Heiki. We will also examine artistic representations of knights, samurai, and their superiors; love and intrigue in royal and aristocratic courts; and representations of the nature and function of honor and duty. We'll study the social contexts in which these works were created, exploring Japanese Buddhism and Shinto as well as medieval Christianity.
Focus: Literature
MTWF 9
IDST 1300-03: The F in Middle Ages: Fighting, Fervor and Funniness in Philosophy and Literature of Medieval Worlds
Instructor: Dr. Kristen Golden. Despite a legacy of awesome technological achievements, America in 2012 cannot seem to avoid war and its horrors. In this, our nation and cultural fabric are certainly not unique. The theme of fighting, whether external like war and homicide or internal like personal anguish, comes up routinely in medieval texts, as does a focus on religious fervor. In this course we will read some of the most beautiful and unforgettable literature and philosophy ever written. The texts will span the cultures of Great Britain, Europe and China and will present the human condition as predicament - a sometimes funny one! - in need of being fixed. If these traditions agree that humans need fixing, they do not agree on what the problem is or on how to treat it. As we address the broad question of human fulfillment, we will ask why intense feelings: fury, fervor and funniness are so pervasive in Medieval texts and what relationship they have to the big questions humans ask about life's meaning through the ages. These questions and themes will absorb us through the course as we discover lasting connections between medieval problems and remedies, and contemporary ones.
Focus: Philosophy
MWF 11 TH 9
IDST 1300-04: Early Modern Spanish Theatre
Instructor: Dr. Judith Caballero. In this class we will read in translation and analyze some of the most famous plays written during the 1500s and 1600s in Spain; for example, The Trickster of Seville (El burlador de Sevilla), Lady Nitwit (La dama boba), Life Is a Dream (La vida es sueño), and Don Gil of the Green Breeches (Don Gil de las calzas verdes). We will explore the different types of plays, theatre spaces, actors, and theatre companies that existed during that era, as well as the government's laws and censorship. In addition to reading the plays, we will be performing some of them in class.
Foci: Literature, Fine Arts (satisfies the Fine Arts Requirement)
MW 1:00-2:40 pm
IDST 1300-05: Encountering the Americas
Instructor: Dr. Andrew Paxman. This class surveys and compares the Spanish and British colonial encounters with the Americas, from 1492 to 1825. It draws upon literature as well as history and incorporates ancient and modern depictions of the encounter in letters, travel writing, art, and film.
Focus: History
MW 1:00-2:40 pm
IDST 1300-06: How To Control The World: From Magic to Alchemy to Science
Instructor: Dr. Patrick Hopkins. This course will examine the development of "natural philosophy" (the ancestor of what we now call "science") in the medieval and early Renaissance period. To do that, we will look at several surprisingly interrelated phenomena: magic (the attempt to control the external world through words, spirits, and rituals); alchemy (the attempt to control material substances through understanding and altering their occult powers); and early chemistry (the attempt to use human reason to decipher the nature of matter and control it through mechanical manipulation). In studying these phenomena, we will examine ways in which magic and science are not opposites, as is commonly thought, but are related manifestations of the desire to manipulate the world around us by understanding hidden realities and principles.
Foci: Philosophy, Religion
TTH 10 W 12
IDST-1300-07: Speculum Musicae (The Mirror of Music): How Music Reflected Life, Thought and Spirituality, from Hildegard's Celestial Visions to the Horrors of the Black Death
Instructor: Lynn Raley, D.M.A. Speculum Musicae can be translated "The Mirror of Music." This course is designed to deepen your understanding of the Middle Ages through encounters with music that was heard on the European subcontinent between c. 900 and 1500 CE. Music reflects aspects of life in any given era, including our own. Our goal will be to understand the role music played as an outlet for spiritual, intellectual and emotional expression as we speculate about what life was like for different classes of society in the Medieval period. Although the primary focus of this course is music, a reading knowledge of music is not necessary for success in the course. That said, you will learn to manipulate musical materials (also known as "composing") using Medieval nuemes and clefs to compose a short plainchant. To allow you to hear your own creativity, a group of Millsaps music students has volunteered to come sing selected compositions for us. Beyond this, the approach will be interdisciplinary, with both primary and secondary readings touching on the areas of philosophy (religion), history, music, art, and literature.
Focus: Fine Arts
MTWF 9
Core 5: Modern World
IDST 2500-01: Religion, Spirituality and Popular Culture
Instructor: Dr. Ann Gleig. From the Matrix to Hip Hop, the Da Vinci Code to Oprah Winfrey, contemporary society is witnessing a proliferation of notions of "the sacred" and the "religious quest" being produced by and disseminated through popular culture. This class will examine how the popular arts and media not only implicitly and explicitly convey religious ideas and spiritual meaning but also function as alternative forms of religiosity in a secular age.
Focus: Religion
MTWF 9
IDST 2500-02: London Bridge is falling down: Identity, Faith, and Beauty in Twentieth-Century British Literature
Instructor: Dr. Lara Kees. A childish voice in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land sings about the destruction of London Bridge, and the poem dramatizes the profound shock of World War I to England. Writers like Eliot asked what they could make of the "fragments" that remained of religion, order, and established notions of beauty. In their place, argues the modern-day philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, has risen a cult of personality: we long to know what movie stars are really like, and we elect our leaders in part because we believe the personas they project. But literature and films show the uneasy strain of developing an identity in the first place and then attempting to answer life's ultimate questions using such a changeable, subjective tool. If religion, morality, and aesthetics all become personal, how do we find belief in an unseen, transcendent, immutable God, or in the truth that beauty is supposed to reveal? In this course, we will spend the first half of the semester on the British High Modernist writers and then consider how later artists deal with Modernism. Sampling other disciplines will help us understand the literature's context: the historical background of the First World War will lead us to consider how the war affected philosophy and religion. With these tools, we can make more sense of the agonizing questions posed by Modernist literature. The British imperialist project further illustrates the fragmented world that Eliot describes, and we will look at it from the viewpoints of English, Irish, and post-colonial writers.
Focus: Literature
MTWF 9
IDST 2500-03: Utopia/Dystopia: WW1 and Art
Instructor: Professor Sarah Archino. Faced with the devastation of modern warfare, there arose a broad range of artistic reactions to World War I. While some artists looked for ways to rebuild a new, utopian society, others explored the irrational dystopia of the ravaged, modern world. We will look at the period of 1914-1945 and consider this mixed environment of artistic optimism and despair. This course will examine a broad range of work, from the geometric abstractions of the Russian Constructivists to the classically-inspired paintings of the Purists and the irrational works of Dada and Surrealism. We will also look at how the careers of artists like Picasso and Matisse changed during these tumultuous years. In addition, the role of the manifesto as both a statement of intention and an artistic strategy, will be discussed throughout the semester.
Foci: FA, Literature
MWF 11 Th 9
IDST 2500-04: Utopian Visions: Ideas and Popular Movements in the Caribbean
Instructor: Dr. Sarah Bares. Stunning in its physical and geographical beauty, from its first reporting in the diaries of Christopher Columbus to the travel brochures of today, the Caribbean has been a site of projection for visions of utopia. Simultaneously, dystopian realities such as slavery, poverty and dictatorship not only form stark contrast with these visions, but also have spawned a series of popular movements such as socialism and Rastafarianism that envision a social utopia to match. In this course, we will examine utopian thinking as it evolved in the Caribbean basin and its impact on society through the study of literature, essay and film. Although the course will primarily focus on contemporary times, we will need to reach backward from time to time, in order to better understand the forces that have impacted upon the region's present. The provocative and challenging material in this course will allow us to explore the areas of ethical reasoning, communication, historical consciousness and social and cultural awareness.
Focus: History, Literature
MW 1:00-2:40 pm
IDST 2500-05: We Are the 80s
Instructor: Dr. Steve Kistulentz. If the 1970s were famously labeled the "me decade," what labels do the films and novels of the 1980s put on the decade of Ronald Reagan? It is in the 1980s that we see the beginning of trends that have a drastic effect on our everyday lives three decades later. Whether it is the seismic shift in broadcasting (such as the advent of MTV and the emergence of the 24-hour news cycle), the re-emergence of American social conservatism, or the eventual dismantling of the once-monolithic Eastern bloc, the 1980s are a decade of monumental change. From "Where's the beef?" to "It's morning in America, again," to "Just say no," were the 1980s a decade of clever slogans and little substance, or do they mark a seminal period in the emergence of an American culture dominated more by consumption than production? We'll read history, novels, screen a few films, and even watch a few music videos, all in an attempt serious answers at any or all of the following questions: what were the cultural, personal and artistic values of the 1980s and to what extent are those values reflected today?
Foci: Literature, Philosophy
TTH 10 W 12
IDST 2500-06: Postmodernism, Media and Social Movement
Instructor: Dr. Stephanie Rolph. The postwar climate of the 1950s sowed seeds of social tension long in the making. Notions of race, gender, class and political identity struggled for dominance within a larger climate of ideological warfare between communism and capitalism. The postmodernist movement thrived in an atmosphere where multiple truths existed. No one knew anything and anybody could know everything. This class uses the social and political movements of the twentieth century to examine the significance of postmodernism. It also uses postmodernism to examine the significance of social and political movements. We will navigate art, media, film, politics and language on our path to unraveling everything we ever knew about nothing.
Foci: History, Philosophy
TTH 10 W 12
IDST 2500-07: The Greening of America - The Long Environmental Movement
Instructor: Dr. Drew Swanson. The United States is in the throes of an environmental revolution with global tentacles, though its outcome is far from certain. Everywhere we turn we are bombarded with "green" products and messages, from entreaties to eat "local" to advertisements for the latest hybrid automobile. While this cultural transformation may seem a contemporary phenomenon, American environmentalism has roots that penetrate the expanse of the twentieth century (and even earlier in some cases), and extend beyond our national borders. This course will explore this long and broad environmental movement, covering such subjects as its origins in the Progressive Era, the federal environmental management of the New Deal, the development of a scientific "land ethic," the back-to-the-earth movement, international trade, and contemporary "locavore" campaigns. Along the way we will work to understand what it has meant to be "green" at various points in contemporary history.
Focus: History
TTH 1:00-2:40
Core 6: Topics in Social and Behavioral Science
SOAN 1000: Introduction to Sociology
SOAN 1100: Introduction to Anthropology
SOAN 1110: Introduction to Archaeology and World Prehistory
PSYC 1000: Introduction to Psychology
PSYC 1100: Love and Human Sexuality
IDST 1610-01: Human Development-Cross Cultural Perspective
Instructor: Dr. Stacy DeZutter. Human development permeates every aspect of our lives from our own individuation to our families, our work, and the rearing of our children. One can argue that all the compartmentalized studies of the social and behavioral sciences have as a source of origin human growth and development. It encompasses one's entire experience within this world. Human Development in Cross-Cultural Perspective demands an immediate and personal perspective, as well as a multi-disciplinary approach including such disciplines as psychology, biology, sociology, anthropology, education, and others.
PLSC 1000-01 Introduction to American Government
Core 7 or 9: Topics in Natural Science with Laboratory
Biol1001-01: Intro Cell Biology Lab
Biol1003-01: Intro Cell Biology
Biol 1011-01: Botany Lab
Biol 1013-01: Botany
Biol 1021-01: Zoology Lab
Biol 1021-02: Zoology Lab
Biol 1021-03: Zoology Lab
Biol 1023-01: Zoology
Biol1023-02: Zoology
Biol1023-03: Zoology
Biol1710-01: Human Evolution
GEOL 1200: Geosystems
GEOL 1000: The Physical Earth
GEOL 2000: Plate Tectonics and Earth History
Chem-1223 + lab Chem-1221: General Inorganic Chemistry II
Physics 1013: General Physics II
Physics 1011: General Physics LAB II
Physics 1213: College Physics II
Physics 1211-001: College Physics Lab II
Physics 1211-002: College Physics LAB II
Core 8: Topics in Mathematics
MATH 1000-01: Topics in Mathematics
MATH 1130-01, 02 & 03: Elementary Functions
MATH 1150-01, 02, 03 & 04: Elementary Statistics
Core 8 or 9: Mathematics
MATH 1210-01: Survey of Calculus
MATH 1220-01, 02 & 03: Analytic Geometry and Calculus
MATH 2230-01: Analytic Geometry and Calculus II
MATH 2310-01: Introduction to Higher Mathematics
Core 9: Topics in Natural Science, or Computer Science
CSCI 1000-01: Problem Solving with Computer Software
CSCI 1010-01 & 02: Computer Science I
CSCI 1020-01: Computer Science II
ENVS 1100-01: Environmental Issues
Astronomy 1000-01: Introduction to Astronomy
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