Occurrence, movement, quality, and behavior of water in the hydrologic cycle with emphasis on groundwater, streams, lakes and karst systems. Includes techniques and problems of measurement and utilization. Lectures, three hours; laboratory and field trips, three hours.
A survey of the important natural and human-made contaminants and their movement through the groundwater and surface water systems of a watershed. Special emphasis is placed on metals and microplastics.
German and German Studies
This course continues the introduction to life and culture in German-speaking societies. It enables students to more fully express their ideas in German about everyday topics, including friends, relationships, weather, clothing, food, and daily routines. Through communicative activities, students learn to ask and answer questions, seek information and share opinions, navigate a variety of conversational settings, and develop sensitivity for cultural difference.
This course continues the introduction to life and culture in German-speaking societies. It enables students to more fully express their ideas in German about everyday topics, including friends, relationships, weather, clothing, food, and daily routines. Through communicative activities, students learn to ask and answer questions, seek information and share opinions, navigate a variety of conversational settings, and develop sensitivity for cultural difference.
This intermediate-level course continues to develop a deeper understanding of cultural production in German-speaking societies. Students interpret films, stories, and graphic novels that present life before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. As a bridge to 300-level courses taught in German, students broaden their understanding of literary forms, build their range of expression in spoken German, and expand their writing skills.
This course orients students in the concepts underlying literary trends from 1900 to the present and enables them to analyze these trends within their historical and cultural context. Examining trends reveals the evolution of concepts underlying shifting literary themes such as self and identities; gender, race, and sexuality; immigration and citizenship; memory and memorial culture; nature and the environment. This inquiry demonstrates how texts and writers engage in dialog with their time period and an increasingly global literary culture.
From soup chefs and grammarians to zombies and supervillains, Nazis are ubiquitous in pop culture, most frequently serving as representations of pure evil. This course introduces students to key ideas/concepts of National Socialist ideology and examines the use and misuse of National Socialism across the 20th and 21st centuries. Through an analysis of depictions of Nazis within cultural and historical contexts, the course considers the reasons for, and the impact of compartmentalizing and oversimplifying Nazis and National Socialism, and investigates what these pop culture representations obscure. This course is taught in English.
From soup chefs and grammarians to zombies and supervillains, Nazis are ubiquitous in pop culture, most frequently serving as representations of pure evil. This course introduces students to key ideas/concepts of National Socialist ideology and examines the use and misuse of National Socialism across the 20th and 21st centuries. Through an analysis of depictions of Nazis within cultural and historical contexts, the course considers the reasons for, and the impact of compartmentalizing and oversimplifying Nazis and National Socialism, and investigates what these pop culture representations obscure. This course is taught in English.
Global Citizenship
The course prepares students for study abroad experiences by introducing them to concepts of global citizenship, techniques for field investigation (borrowed mostly from anthropology), and, to a lesser degree, social processes of integration into a new host culture.
Students reflect on the study away experience, use storytelling techniques to consider and express the personal impact of study away, and undertake a project that puts into action the awareness, skills, and attitudes of global citizenship. Through topics including culture shock, identity development, and readjustment to social life in the US, students work to integrate their study away experience with their academic and co-curricular work at Sewanee and beyond.
Through pre-departure meetings, an immersive cross-cultural spring break experience, and post-trip meetings, students will develop a greater understanding of global citizenship, place-based learning, and community engagement and empowerment. The in-country experience will include field trips, close interactions with local populations, organized community engagement opportunities and hands-on work experience. In this section, students will learn about Costa Rican agriculture, with an emphasis on sustainable food systems. Students will also learn about traditional cuisines, issues of regional and international food security, and the impact of industrial agriculture on traditional food systems. This course will require additional costs associated with the spring break outreach trip to Costa Rica.
Greek
An intensive, introductory course in classical and koine Greek emphasizing forms and syntax and with extensive readings. Four class hours per week.
Selected books of the Odyssey with supplementary reading.
History
Topics and themes related to the development and impact of Western civilization upon the human community. This subject will be analyzed through an intensive examination of a specific historical theme, issue or period.
Two principles central to modern American culture are "separation of church and state" and individual freedom of religious choice. For most of Western history, however, these principles would have been largely incomprehensible. This course examines the close relationship between religion and "the state" in ancient Greece, ancient Rome, and medieval Europe, analyzing the ways in which they reinforced each other as well as instances in which they came into conflict. More broadly, the course examines ways in which religion reinforced or challenged social norms relating to gender, hierarchy, and the identification of "insiders" and marginalized groups.
This course studies the sciences and their histories as social practices. Focusing on the cultural meanings and politics of scientific work in many different contexts, special attention is given to the early modern period of global history. Consideration is given to the important role archives play in the work of historians. Topics include knowledge networks, translation, archives and imperialism; secrecy and the suppression of scientific expertise, scientific consensus and policy-making; science and gender; scientific racism; artificial intelligence and cultures of innovation; observation and the history of objectivity.
This course examines the history of the interconnected region that scholars today call the Indian Ocean World. One of the oldest and most significant maritime highways in the world, it joined the east coast of Africa with the Chinese empires. The course focuses on the adventures of people who traversed long distances and shaped this world - merchants, soldiers, religious pilgrims, sailors, pirates, coolie laborers and sex workers. It considers the varieties of sources that can aid in constructing the history of the region, how forces of globalization and colonization affected its development, and how this region influenced the patterns of world history.
This course focuses on Race, Class, and Identity in American history since the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 to the present, emphasizing specific political, social, and economic developments. It examines such topics as expansion, Populist and Progressive movements, the Great Depression, the World Wars, reform and dissent in the 1960s and the Vietnam conflict.
Survey level courses generally focused on a specific geographical region of the world.
A general survey of the political, constitutional, economic, and social history of the United States.