COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 College of the Atlantic CONVOCATION Wednesday, September 13, 2023 FALL TERM Monday, September 11-Friday, November 17, 2023 WINTER TERM Monday, January 8-Friday, March 15, 2024 SPRING TERM Monday, April 1-Friday, June 7, 2024 COMMENCEMENT Saturday, June 8, 2024 College of the Atlantic is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education. COA does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, religion, ancestry or national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, or veteran's status. COA operates in accordance with federal and state laws regarding nondiscrimination. This catalog is the most complete representation of the current academic offerings and policies available. The college reserves the right to make changes in course offerings, degree requirements, regulations, procedures, and charges as new needs arise. 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COLLEF OF THE ATLANTIC COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 MCMLXIX PART I HUMAN ECOLOGY: AN EDUCATIONAL APPROACH 4 WHAT YOU SHOULD LEARN AT COA 4 INTRODUCTION 5 MISSION AND VISION 5 ACADEMIC PROGRAM AND POLICIES 6 DEGREE REQUIREMENTS 6 First-year requirements 7 Resource area requirements 7 Internship 8 Senior project 9 Writing requirement 10 Human Ecology Essay 10 Community service 11 SELF-DIRECTED STUDIES 11 Independent study 11 Group study 12 Residency 12 TUTORIAL 13 ETHICAL RESEARCH REVIEW BOARD 13 REVIEW AND APPEALS 14 ADVISING 14 CAREER DEVELOPMENT 14 STUDENT RESPONSIBILITY 14 CLASS ATTENDANCE 14 ACADEMIC INTEGRITY 15 DEGREE PROGRESS 15 CONTRACTS AND SIGNATURES 15 COURSE/FACULTY EVALUATIONS 15 ACCOMODATING STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES 15 RECORDS AND EVALUATIONS 16 TRANSCRIPTS 16 PRIVACY 16 INSTRUCTOR EVALUATIONS 17 GPA 18 STUDENT SELF-EVALUATIONS 18 MIDTERM EVALUATIONS 18 INCOMPLETE WORK 18 ACADEMIC STANDING 19 SATISFACTORY ACADEMIC PROGRESS 19 ACADEMIC PROBATION 19 TRANSFER CREDIT 20 CREDIT BY EXAM OR MILITARY EXPERIENCE 20 GRADUATION AND SENIOR YEAR 21 LEAVE OF ABSENCE 21 MEDICAL LEAVE 21 ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS 22 EDUCATIONAL STUDIES AND TEACHER CERTIFICATION 22 STUDY ABROAD 22 CONSORTIUM AGREEMENTS 23 AFFILIATION AGREEMENTS 23 GRADUATE PROGRAM 24 IMMUNIZATION REQUIREMENT 25 REGISTRATION AND FEES 25 REGISTRATION 25 ADD/DROP 26 WITHDRAWAL 26 AUDITING 26 NON-DEGREE SEEKING STUDENTS 26 TUITION 26 BILL PAYMENT 27 BILLING ERRORS 27 HOUSING AND DINING 28 STUDENT ACTIVITIES FEE 28 LAB FEES 28 CREDIT BALANCE RETURNS 28 COURSE WITHDRAWALS/FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS 28 FINANCIAL AID AND WORK-STUDY 29 PART II COA FACULTY MEMBERS 2023-2024 31 COA STAFF MEMBERS 2023-2024 34 PART III COURSE LISTINGS 37 ARTS AND DESIGN 37 EDUCATIONAL STUDIES 55 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 60 HUMAN ECOLOGY 77 HUMAN STUDIES 77 MULTIDISCIPLINARY 122 INDEX BY COURSE TITLE 127 INDEX BY COURSE NUMBER 136 PART I An HUMAN ECOLOGY: AN EDUCATIONAL APPROACH Emboldened by human ecology as an educational philosophy, faculty and students at College of the Atlantic embrace the act of knowing about the world and knowing oneself deeply. One of the touchstones of this philosophy is independent thinking that results in a diverse array of educational trajectories and transformational processes. The radicalism of an education in human ecology is a probing and determined search for the roots of contemporary social, cultural, political, and environmental issues. By engaging the experimental and pluralistic heritage of learning in the liberal arts traditions, we seek to inspire theoretically informed and personally reflective learning. Exploring human ecology requires the skills and dispositions necessary to live with commitment to a community that is both local and global. To thrive and contribute to such a complex world, students will become empowered through the mastery of intellectual and practical skills. The habits of heart and mind necessary for this challenging education include the willingness to: Be passionate about and dedicated to learning. Bring both heart and mind to the tasks of learning and living. Live in the questions and increase tolerance of uncertainty. Be playful, open, and creative. Act responsibly and with compassion. WHAT YOU SHOULD LEARN AT COA Metacognition: Awareness of one's thinking processes and patterns of thinking and learning include the ability to motivate and direct one's own learning-to understand the ways that learning is physical, social, emotional, and cerebral-which may require tolerance of uncertainty, persistence, openness to feedback, and reevaluating self-knowledge. This includes a commitment to and ability to manage time and complex projects. This also includes the ability to construct a coherent and personally meaningful narrative about one's self-designed program of study. Creativity: In all endeavors the ability to imagine and construct novel approaches or perspectives, to be innovative and to invent. This includes the flexibility to use many different approaches in solving a problem, and to change direction and modify approach, the originality to produce unique and unusual responses, and the ability to expand and embellish one's ideas and projects. This also includes taking intellectual and creative risks and practicing divergent thinking. Critical thinking: The ability to observe and question assumptions and claims about the relationships between and among living, social, and physical systems and processes. The ability to not only interpret and evaluate information from multiple sources but also to induce, deduce, judge, define, order, and prioritize in the interest of individual and collective growth. This includes the ability to recognize one's self-knowledge and its limits, challenge preconceptions, and to work with imperfect information. This also includes the ability to apply writing as a critical thinking skill. Community engagement: A deep understanding of oneself and respect for the complex identities of others, their histories, their cultures, and the ability to lead and collaborate within diverse groups, organizations, and communities. This includes the ability to work effectively within diverse cultural, civic, and political settings. This also includes the ability to assess self- and cultural knowledge and to engage constructively with complementarity, incommensurability, and dissent as opportunities for further personal and collective learning and in service to shared aims. 4 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 Communication: The ability to listen actively and express oneself effectively in spoken, written, and nonverbal domains, grounded in history, communities, and audience. This includes the ability to engage in dialogue, internally and with others, across multiple views. This also includes the ability to accommodate one's own and/ or others' proficiencies beyond a first language. Integrative thinking: The ability to confront complex situations and respond to them as systemic wholes with interconnected and interdependent parts. This includes the ability to project the social, economic, and environmental impacts of actions, which may be positive, neutral, and/or negative, known, unknown, or unknowable. Interdisciplinarity: The ability to think, research, and communicate within and across disciplines while recognizing the strengths and limitations of disciplinary approaches. This includes the ability to apply interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary knowledge and skills to a range of contexts and activities. INTRODUCTION College of the Atlantic is a small undergraduate college awarding a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Philosophy in human ecology. The college's mission is to foster interdisciplinary approaches to complex environmental and social problems and questions in the face of rapid cultural change. The academic program encourages students to view the world as an interacting whole by bringing together traditional disciplines through the unifying perspective of human ecology. A human-ecological perspective can most effectively be developed through an education that: Encourages students to pursue their individual academic interests within the context of a broad education in the arts, sciences, and humanities. Promotes the acquisition and application of knowledge through internships, independent research, and group study projects. Offers a college self-governance system that develops active, responsible citizenship, and collaborative decision-making skills. This academic catalog is intended as a resource for all members of the college community. It is to be used as a manual for academic policies and procedures and for meeting the college's goals for education. All academic requirements, guidelines, and regulations have evolved from lengthy discussions among faculty, students, and staff. Members of the community are encouraged to use this catalog as a basis for discussion of any clarification or revision to the policies and procedures of the academic program. Students who wish to see a policy change should bring their suggestions through one of the standing committees. MISSION AND VISION College of the Atlantic enriches the liberal arts tradition through a distinctive educational philosophy-human ecology. A human-ecological perspective integrates knowledge from all academic disciplines and from personal experience to investigate-and ultimately improve-the relationships between human beings and our social and natural communities. The human-ecological perspective guides all aspects of education, research, activism, and interactions among the college's students, faculty, staff, and trustees. The College of the Atlantic community encourages, prepares, and expects students to gain expertise, breadth, values, and practical experience necessary to achieve individual fulfillment and to help solve problems that challenge communities everywhere. The faculty, students, trustees, staff, and alumnx of College of the Atlantic envision a world where people value creativity, intellectual achievement, and the diversity of nature and human cultures. With respect and compassion, individuals will construct meaningful lives for themselves, gain appreciation for the relationships among all forms of life, and safeguard the heritage of future generations. COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 5 ACADEMIC PROGRAMS AND POLICIES DEGREE REQUIREMENTS The degree of Bachelor of Arts in human ecology is granted upon completion of 36 credits specified below and three requirements bearing no credit. 18 of the 36 credit units must be earned at COA, and a minimum of six terms must be spent enrolled full or part time at COA. One of those six terms may be a COA internship, but a minimum of five must be spent on campus. The normal, full-time annual load is nine credits, three in each of the three 10-week terms. One COA credit unit is the equivalent of 3.3 semester hours; nine COA credits are the equivalent of 30 semester hours. Courses that fulfill resource area and other requirements are indicated by resource area codes and noted in the course descriptions: AD = arts and design; ED = educational studies; ES = environmental sciences; HS = human studies; HY = history; QR = quantitative reasoning; and W = writing. Courses that fulfill degree requirements must earn a grade of C or higher. First-year requirements HE: Human Ecology Core Course W: One writing class or a college seminar HY: One history course within the first two years of attendance QR: One quantitative reasoning course within the first two years of attendance Resource area requirements AD: two courses (taught by different COA instructors, one must be a studio course) ES: two courses (taught by different COA instructors) HS: two courses (taught by different COA instructors) Internship Not-for-credit: 320 engaged hours, ideally full-time for about eight weeks For credit: full-time enrollment, one term, 450 engaged hours (about 10 weeks), three credits Both options require a proposal and approval by the internship committee prior to starting. The internship, whether for credit or not, must be followed by at least one term of enrollment on campus. Up to 40 hours may be recorded for time spent researching internship opportunities and writing the proposal and post- internship report. Senior project Three credits, either in a single term or split over multiple terms Additional non-course requirements Human Ecology Essay Community service Writing portfolio Components of the curriculum Small classes are the foundation of COA's curriculum. With a faculty-to-student ratio of 1:10, individualized attention and a seminar format are the classroom norm. Average class size is 12.5. A normal, full-time student load is three courses per term; a normal, full-time faculty teaching load is five courses over three terms. Students design their own programs of study, with a few distribution requirements. 6 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 FIRST-YEAR REQUIREMENTS The Human Ecology Core Course (HE) is a requirement for all first- SENIOR PROJECT year students. Additional requirements include one Writing (W) course, which should be taken in the first year, as well as one RESIDENCIES History (HY) course and one Quantitative Reasoning (QR) course, which should be taken in the first two years of attendance. Please INTERNSHIPS refer to the writing requirement section for more information. HUMAN ECOLOGY ESSAY These requirements apply to all first-time, first-year students and transfer students entering with less than the equivalent TIER 3: ADVANCED STUDIES of nine COA credits, and are waived for transfer students entering with nine or more COA credits. INDEPENDENT STUDY RESOURCE AREA REQUIREMENTS GROUP STUDIES TUTORIALS The curriculum is organized into three multidisciplinary resource areas: arts and design (AD), environmental CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF sciences (ES), and human studies (HS). A required INDIVIDUAL ACADEMIC INTERESTS distribution of two courses from each of the resource areas helps a student become familiar with the methodology and perspective of each and TIER 2: INTERMEDIATE COURSES AND incorporate these perspectives into their own work. SELF-DIRECTED STUDY A student must take a minimum of two courses in each resource area, each from a different COA HUMAN ECOLOGY CORE COURSE faculty member or approved visiting instructor. TWO COURSES FROM EACH RESOURCE AREA One of the arts and design courses must be a (ARTS & DESIGN, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES, studio-based class, listed as ADS. Amongst HUMAN STUDIES) academic disciplines, studio art is the making of art contrasted to the study of art history TIER 1: INTRODUCTORY, HUMAN ECOLOGY, AND and theory. FOUNDATIONAL COURSES COMPLEMENTARY ELEMENTS OF THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE Internship Community service Writing portfolio NON-CREDIT DEGREE Resource area requirements Human Ecology Essay REQUIREMENTS COURSEWORK Human Ecology Core Course Advanced coursework Senior project Outdoor leadership Clubs CO-CURRICULAR Committees ACTIVITIES Peer connections Counseling Mentoring Work-study COLLEGE OF THE ATL ANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 7 The resource area distribution enables a student to gain a broad foundational understanding of approaches used in each resource area of the curriculum. Courses satisfying the distribution requirement should be selected in consultation with academic advisors. A student combines coursework from all three resource areas to design programs of study which are interdisciplinary and individualized. The following cannot be used to satisfy the resource area requirements: independent studies, practica, tutorials, (except for some music tutorials), group studies, or multi-disciplinary (MD) courses. While MD courses, which are interdisciplinary by design, have validity and purpose, they are distinctly not appropriate for the distribution requirement. Transfer credits from other institutions may be used to fulfill resource area requirements. However, only one AD, HS, or ES may be used in this manner. Approval of courses to fulfill resource area requirements from other institutions is handled by the registrar in consultation with representative faculty and advisors; the student must provide the catalog descriptions of the courses to be used for this purpose. AP and IB credits may not be used to satisfy resource area requirements. INTERNSHIP An internship is a requirement for undergraduate degree candidates. Internships may be site-based or remote supervised work experiences in a field compatible with a student's academic and/or career interest. The goals of the internship program are for students to gain work experience and make professional connections off campus. Internships are encouraged with professionals who are non-familial, and with whom students do not already have prior work experience. Students are encouraged to meet with their advisor and the director of the internship program as they begin planning for their internship. Internships allow students to apply their knowledge and skills to the job market, develop new skills, clarify future goals, and establish important career contacts. Internships offer students opportunities to engage in identifying and seeking employment, developing resumes and cover letters, interviewing successfully, and making informed decisions. Interns are encouraged to take part in onboarding, training, meetings, and workshops held at the worksite or remotely. First-year students may complete an internship during the summer between their first and second year of college. Transfer students should consider meeting with the internship program director as soon as they arrive on campus. A student must be in good academic standing and have no outstanding account balances or coursework extensions prior to enrolling for an internship. In order to integrate the internship with later academic experiences, an internship cannot take place during the final term of enrollment. If you are graduating in 2024, please check in with the internship program director as soon as possible regarding your internship intentions. A student must spend at least one term enrolled (for at least one credit) following the internship and prior to graduation. The following term may be the senior project. The internship office maintains an active file of organizations, alumnx mentors, and job contacts to help students find internships that are appropriate to their career needs and interests. The director is available to help students take advantage of the resources of the office, including resume and cover letter writing, portfolio development, seeking and contacting employers, and for support during internships. Faculty advisors also have contacts that may produce internships in their academic fields. Students may elect to do an internship for-credit or not-for-credit. The successful completion of either an eleven-week, full-time (440 hours total during either the summer or an academic term) credit internship or an eight-week, full-time (320 hours total during the summer) non-credit internship satisfies the degree requirement. After accepting an internship, the student develops a proposal which includes their resume, a letter of commitment from the internship sponsor/supervisor, and health and safety forms; the documents are then submitted to the internship committee for review. After the completion of the internship, students must submit a report and an evaluation from their sponsor/supervisor. Returned interns meet with the internship committee to review their reports together. The internship director compiles a written evaluation for the student's transcript which includes excerpts from the proposal, report, and the sponsor's evaluation. All internship documentation is filed in the internship office. Current guidelines for writing proposals, resumes, and reports are available on the college's website. In certain instances students may complete up to two three-credit internships or several non-credit internships between academic years. Students wishing to take a second for-credit internship must have support from their advisors, a strong rationale for the need of a second for-credit internship, and an approved proposal. Student teaching may be used to fulfill the internship requirement. Students choosing this option must meet the standards set for both the student teaching practicum and the internship requirement. 8 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 SENIOR PROJECT The senior project is a three-credit, independent effort required for the human ecology degree. It is a significant intellectual endeavor, experiment, research project, or original work which is intended to advance understanding in a particular academic area and bring together the skills and knowledge acquired during the student's college career. It is a major work at an advanced level, occupying at least one term, earning three credits. The three credits of a senior project may be spread over two or more terms if the research requires more than 10 weeks or if the student wishes to combine the senior project with coursework in their final terms. With the exception of the spring term prior to graduation, senior project enrollment may be combined with course enrollment even if the total load is four credits. If a student wishes to conduct a senior project, in whole or in part, in the spring term and enroll for one or more classes, registering for more than three credits total, they must gain approval through an appeal to the Review and Appeals Committee prior to the end of the add/ drop period for the spring term. Once a student registers for their senior project, they will have one academic year (three consecutive terms) to complete it, barring extensions. If at the end of that time period the project is not completed the student will be withdrawn from the institution. When a student re-enrolls to complete their project, they must reapply through the Admission Office and pay all applicable fees, as well as a one-time senior project registration fee. The project must be completed by the end of the term. If the student does not complete the project in the allotted time, the next enrollment will be at the full rate of three credits with a new proposal required and with one academic year to complete the project. A COA faculty member or a non-COA expert may serve as the senior project director. This person is responsible for the final evaluation and may or may not be the faculty member on a student's permanent advising team. In addition, resource persons outside the college may be used. Non-COA project directors are eligible for a $400 honorarium paid after completion of the student's project. The Review and Appeals Committee posts deadlines for submission of senior project proposals; the deadlines are listed on the back cover of this catalog and online. Students wishing to register for senior project credits must obtain a signature from the chair of the Review and Appeals Committee on their registration form. In order to obtain a signature from the chair, a student must have submitted a complete proposal to the committee for review. Proposals should be readable by the general community and free of unnecessary jargon. The relevance of the project within the context of a COA education should be clear. A completed proposal should be submitted to the Review and Appeals Committee before registering for senior project credits. Project proposal cover sheets are available in the registrar's office and online with a checklist of required elements included. The following elements must be included in a senior project proposal: Statements describing purpose, methodology, schedule for completion, criteria for evaluation, manner of final presentation, and the role of the project director Detailed description of the way in which this project is a culmination of the student's work at COA, including academic background, career goals, and qualifications to do this work Documentation of how the student will achieve 450 academically engaged hours Bibliography and/or other references which place the work in a theoretical context, demonstrating what will be new learning or original synthesis A cover sheet bearing signatures of the permanent advising team members and the project director, including the preliminary project title Note: Senior projects without completed and approved proposals cannot receive credit, which may result in a student not being able to graduate. The completed senior project must be submitted to the COA archivist no later than the end of the ninth week of the spring term. Failure to meet this deadline will jeopardize the student's ability to graduate in June. The student is responsible for submitting their project in a format approved by the COA archivist, following the guidelines posted on the registrar's webpage. This includes a brief abstract (200-400 words, single spaced) describing the project. The project is cataloged by the COA Thorndike Library and added to its permanent collection of senior projects for reference by future students. Students must also submit a description and self-evaluation electronically to the registrar's office; the project director will submit an evaluation. Letter grades are not given for senior projects. COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 9 WRITING REQUIREMENT There are two components to the writing requirement: 1. Writing course: This is one of the first-year requirements for all students entering with fewer than nine COA credits. Students must take either one writing class or college seminar within their first year at COA. Writing courses are designated W in the course description. 2. Writing portfolio: The goal of the second phase of the writing requirement is to ensure that all students write at an advanced collegiate level. Students entering as first-year students or transfer students with fewer than nine credits must submit a writing portfolio once they have completed 18 COA credits. Transfer students with nine or more credits are required to submit a portfolio by the end of their third term of residence. Failure to meet this requirement may result in the student not being allowed to register for the following term. The portfolio should be submitted through the student portal. This portfolio, which is reviewed by a faculty member of the review team, should include three essays written for courses that explain a concept or issue: One must demonstrate that you can analyze an issue or argue a position. One (either expository or argumentative) must be five or more pages. One must demonstrate that you can use and document sources appropriately. These essays are reviewed to ensure that students meet the criteria specified in the writing rubric. These criteria include the ability to: Write coherently. Organize a paper so that the writing moves logically from sentence to paragraph to whole paper. Write sentences that do not interfere with the author's intent or meaning and use sources consistently and appropriately. When students demonstrate that they can clearly explain and/or address an issue and formulate and support a coherent and logical argument without significant mechanical or grammatical errors, they will have met the second component of the writing requirement. Students whose writing is flawed by minor mechanical errors or minor errors in documentation will be asked to work with a writing tutor until they have mastered the problem. Students with more serious writing issues will meet with their advisor and the faculty reviewer and/or writing program director to collaboratively develop a plan to improve their writing. The development and implementation of the plan should not only be supportive but should allow the student to achieve a higher level of writing competency. The written contract will not only articulate the specific goals that must be met, but also may include-but not be limited to-taking other writing or writing-focused courses, working on writing in other courses, and working on a regular basis in the writing center. HUMAN ECOLOGY ESSAY The Human Ecology Essay is a work of exposition, argumentation, extended description, or narration, and should be approximately 2,000 words. By choosing and developing a subject of personal or social significance, the student explores their perspective on human ecology. The Human Ecology Essay is not expected to be a paper done for a course, although it can evolve from such a paper or be produced in a writing class. The essay must be clear, concise, and coherent. In some cases a student may choose to do a non-traditional essay or write a piece of fiction or poetry. If this is the case, the student must submit an additional two- to four-page essay explaining how the project reflects their notion of human ecology. The student's advisor and one additional faculty member will serve as readers for the Human Ecology Essay. When the student turns in their first draft of the essay, they must specify the names of their two readers to the faculty assistant along with the draft. Both readers must be continuing faculty members. Both readers must acknowledge approval of the essay by signature in order for the essay to meet the degree requirement. Usually a student's essay goes through several drafts and takes three to six weeks to be approved. It is the student's responsibility to submit drafts to both readers and inquire about their readers' schedules for commentary no later than six weeks before the deadline for final approval (approximately the first of January). Students are strongly encouraged-though sometimes required by readers-to work with the writing center on their essays. 10 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 Students are strongly encouraged to begin work on their Human Ecology Essay during the second half of their junior year. The initial draft is due toward the beginning of the fall term of the student's senior year, and the final draft is due in mid-February. Both the initial draft and the final draft must be submitted to the faculty assistant and the two readers by the appropriate deadlines. The student's advisor oversees the Human Ecology Essay process and ensures that deadlines are met. Students who fail to meet Human Ecology Essay deadlines will jeopardize their ability to graduate or stand in June. Essays that are submitted after the deadline will not be eligible for inclusion in the Human Ecology Essay publication. COMMUNITY SERVICE All students at COA are required to complete 40 hours of community service prior to their final term of enrollment. The college believes that community service provides students with valuable experience as well as personal and educational opportunities that complement a student's studies in human ecology. A student can satisfy the community service requirement through on-campus or off-campus volunteer work. On-campus service examples include committee membership, planning campus-wide activities such as Earth Day, or volunteering at Beech Hill Farm. Off-campus service includes activities that strengthen the college's ties to the local community such as tutoring math in an after-school program, volunteering at a library on the island, or a conservation project in the park. A combination of on-campus and off-campus experiences is encouraged. Community service must be on a volunteer basis (unpaid and not for course credit) and consist of a minimum of 40 hours in total. Most students have an excess of community-oriented work and ultimately need to decide which experiences to use to fulfill the requirement. The director of internships and career development is responsible for assessing the adequacy of the student's service. A one-page form with a description of the activity, length of involvement, and reflections must be completed and returned to the internship office by the end of the winter term prior to graduation. The required form is available on the college's website. In addition, the office has resources for on- and off-campus community service opportunities. SELF-DIRECTED STUDIES INDEPENDENT STUDY An independent study provides an opportunity for the student to design their own course. It is intended to be student-initiated and carried out under the supervision of faculty or community sponsors. An independent study is appropriate for advanced or specially focused work not offered in the regular course curriculum, for study in fields not offered by the college, or study requiring work off campus. First-year students are not allowed to undertake an independent study. No more than two independent studies are permitted within one academic year. Transfer students with nine or more COA credits are permitted to take two independent studies per year starting from the first year they enroll at COA. Every independent study must have a project director. An on-campus faculty sponsor is required if the independent study project director is an off-campus resource. In the event that the off-campus project director fails to generate a grade and written evaluation, the on-campus sponsor is responsible for providing this information. Students must be in good academic standing with no prior incomplete coursework. An independent study is considered incomplete until the proposal has been completed and the student's self evaluation and description of the study have been submitted to the registrar, along with the director's grade and written evaluation. Proposals must document 150 academically engaged hours; this can include such activities as meetings with the director, reading, research, studio work, laboratory time, writing, etc. Proposals need to include educational goals, anticipated learning resources, assessment criteria, and an approximate timetable of events. An honorarium is available to off-campus project directors pending receipt of grade and evaluation of student's work. A cover sheet must be submitted with the proposal and requires the following signatures: Student Study director-COA faculty, staff or non-COA expert (non-COA directors must submit credentials specific to the independent study, for instance a CV or resume, for review by the registrar) Faculty sponsor (required when the director is not a member of the COA faculty) COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 11 Academic advisor Academic probation officer (to confirm eligibility) GROUP STUDY The group study is a student-initiated, one-term project which provides an opportunity for collective pursuit of specific academic problems, topics, or issues which are not offered in the regular curriculum. Key factors in the success of any student-designed study at COA are planning, goal setting, and evaluation. The content of group studies ranges widely. Some groups work on hands-on projects which have tangible products. Some groups are more seminar-like, with the objective being the sharing of information among members. Group studies are only taken as Credit/No Credit. First-year students and students not in good academic standing are not eligible. The group study administrator is required to submit an evaluation of each student to the registrar within three weeks from the end of the term. Participants decide how these evaluations will be done. The requirement that students describe these plans clearly in a proposal is intentional. In addition to review of the students' planning, the provost and the academic probation officer review the student's proposal for its content and relationship to the rest of the curriculum, as well as academic eligibility. A group study must be approved prior to the registration period for the term it will be done. Deadlines for submission of proposals are published in the back of this catalog and online. For a group study to be established the following requirements must be met: A minimum of five and maximum of eight active participants At least three of the five should share responsibility for the design of the group study and the preparation of the proposal. The proposal should: Contain a clear description of the educational goals and methods of the study. Identify the tangible products. Include a syllabus based upon a minimum of three hours of regularly scheduled meetings per week and a total of 150 academically engaged hours. Outline criteria for evaluation, being clear about what constitutes participation worthy of credit. Identify a faculty sponsor and any additional resource persons. Identify a student administrator. Contain an itemized budget. Budget support is available from the college for expenditures such as travel and supplies necessary to the learning activity. The maximum award is $300. Approval procedure: Proposals must be submitted to the provost by the published deadline (Friday of week three of the term prior to registration) with an itemized budget that includes expenses which are essential for the learning to take place. The group study proposal cover sheet (available on the COA registrar's web page) must accompany all proposals and have all required signatures. At midterm, representatives of the group are required to make a progress report to the provost. Students may not take two group studies in the same term or more than two per academic year. RESIDENCY A residency is a three-credit, term-long educational experience designed by an advanced student. In order to do a residency, students must have earned at least 18 credits and be in good academic standing. A maximum of two residencies may be used toward graduation requirements. Residencies offer students the opportunity to put together their own cohesive program of study in order to explore areas which may not be provided in either the content or structure of the regular academic curriculum. Students should have a developed interest in an area that cannot be satisfied by the regular curriculum, and have the motivation, work habits, and creativity necessary to pursue this interest in an academically responsible manner. Students must have an excellent academic record and be in good standing to participate in a residency. 12 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 Students have used the residency term to explore topics as diverse as: women's health; the history of Western thought; physical, cultural, and intellectual approaches to dance; issues in psychology and the treatment of mental illness. A recent residency used quilting as a theme to explore color theory, organic and chemical fabric dyeing, computer-aided design, and three quilting cultures. A residency allows a student to learn firsthand the educational value inherent in interdisciplinary study. A COA faculty member must be the primary director of a residency and have scheduled contact with the student throughout the term. This may be done by office visits (if the residency is local or on campus), or remotely by phone or email. Any non-COA director of the project will assist the primary director in completing final evaluations. Residencies are taken as Credit/No Credit only. While students are encouraged to do one residency only, a maximum of two are permitted in the student's undergraduate program. Students must submit a proposal to do a residency. The residency application form may be downloaded from the registrar's page online or picked up at the registrar's office. The application for the residency must be submitted to the review and appeals committee by the registration deadline for the term in which it is to occur (see deadlines in the back of this catalog and online). Late residency applications will not be considered. Students are advised to register for alternate classes in the event that their residency application is not approved. All residency applications will be approved or rejected by the Review and Appeals Committee before the end of the term prior to when the residency is to occur. TUTORIAL Tutorials are faculty-initiated studies for one to five students which cover specialized material not available within the regular curriculum. They differ from independent studies and group studies in that faculty members (not students) are responsible for design and implementation. Tutorials cannot be used to fulfill resource area requirements with the exception of some practical music tutorials. ETHICAL RESEARCH REVIEW BOARD Research on human subjects is an integral part of human ecology at College of the Atlantic. The college's policy on human subject research is intended to foster an environment that supports and encourages such research. In addition, the policy establishes mechanisms to assist those wishing to undertake human subject research. College of the Atlantic has in place a set of procedures concerning research involving human subjects to ensure the physical and psychological safety of participants and to ensure that researchers follow appropriate ethical standards and comply with federal laws protecting research subjects. Research that will be reviewed includes faculty research, senior projects, and graduate theses. In addition, a limited set of classroom projects, residencies, and independent studies may also require review, especially if they are disseminated publicly. An Ethical Research Review Board (ERRB) will be appointed by the provost at the beginning of each academic year. The ERRB is charged with implementing this policy in a manner appropriate to the interdisciplinary nature of COA and consistent with federal law. The ERRB will provide researchers with materials and tools to determine if their project(s) fall under the category of human subject research. The ERRB will assist researchers wishing to undertake research on human subjects to develop strategies for meeting ethical and legal standards appropriate to their research. Students and faculty must seek approval for their research from the ERRB when they initially propose their work. Student projects that do not gain approval may not be granted college credit or be counted toward graduation requirements. The application for approval, in the form of an ethical research review form and accompanying narrative, will be forwarded for review and approval to the chair of the ERRB who will convene to review proposals on a rolling basis. Researchers may appeal the ERRB's decision to the provost or their designee. The provost's decision is final. For further information, a full statement of the college's policy, and details on the process of application and review, contact the ERRB chair. COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 13 REVIEW AND APPEALS The Review and Appeals Committee, a subcommittee of Academic Affairs, considers student proposals for senior projects and residencies, along with petitions for exemption from requirements and unusual requests for credit. This subcommittee also receives and reviews appeals for reconsideration of any other decisions regarding a student's academic work, and assesses and evaluates fees related to the academic program. ADVISING Incoming students are assigned an academic advisor when they first arrive on campus. The working relationship between the student and their advisor is very important because of the self-directed nature of study at the college. The freedom of students to plan individual programs carries with it the responsibility to develop coherent courses of study. The academic advisor serves as the primary resource for this planning process. The advising relationship is critical to the success of students' academic programs and students are encouraged to change advisors as their academic interests and needs evolve. Some students find that the best advisor is the one with whom they feel most comfortable talking about academic, financial, peer, and personal subjects, and not necessarily the one who shares their intellectual or career interests. We encourage students to reach out to staff and faculty through a variety of ways, such as in work-study, committee meetings, community events, and classes. It is from these connections that students can build advising relationships with faculty who can support their educational and career pursuits. The advisors serve as both professional mentors and guides as students work their way through their college experience. Advising meetings may include discussing resource area requirements, considering further educational or career planning, or simply serving as a sounding board for a student's academic and personal concerns. Students are highly encouraged to meet with their advisors regularly. Students may also change advisors using the change of advisor form link on the college's website. As there is an atmosphere of collaboration at College of the Atlantic, students are encouraged to seek connections with other faculty, staff, and students to broaden their advising experience. For questions or further information on the advising system, please contact the provost or advising team members. CAREER DEVELOPMENT The office of internships and career development reflects the college's mission by guiding students to be empowered through the mastery of intellectual and practical skill development. Students enrolled at the college have selected human ecology as the lens through which they explore the world by recognizing its problems, studying the issues, and being motivated to make the world a better place. Career guidance is an integral part of a student's experience at COA. Students are encouraged to contact the director early in their educational trajectory. Career development services for students and alumnx include: Labor market information Resume and cover letter guidance Alumnx mentors, friends of the college, referrals One-on-one career coaching (in person, by phone, or by Zoom) Searchable employment databases, mock interviews Employment guides Graduate school information, scholarships and fellowships, and post-graduation relocation strategies College of the Atlantic's advising system is set up to provide students with help and guidance in a number of areas. However, a student's education is ultimately their responsibility. In particular, it is the responsibility of all COA students to adhere to the requirements and deadlines published in the course catalog and other college materials. STUDENT RESPONSIBILITY CLASS ATTENDANCE Students are expected to attend the first class meeting for any course in which they are enrolled. Students 14 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 who do not attend on the first day of the class may be dropped from the course at the sole discretion of the instructor. Students may also be dropped if they enroll for a course without having met the published Prerequisite. Students do not need the instructor's signature to drop a class during the add/drop period. However, students are asked to inform the instructor of their decision to drop, so that their seat in the class may be given to another student. College of the Atlantic does not have a college-wide policy concerning class attendance. However, individual faculty members may (and usually do) set attendance expectations for their classes. In the event that a class is missed, the responsibility for making up any missed work lies with the student, in negotiation with the instructor. ACADEMIC INTEGRITY By enrolling in an academic institution, a student is subscribing to common standards of academic honesty. Any cheating, plagiarism, falsifying or fabricating of data is a breach of such standards. A student must make it their responsibility to not use words or works of others without proper acknowledgment. Plagiarism is unacceptable and evidence of such activity is reported to the provost or their designee. Two violations of academic integrity are grounds for dismissal from the college. Students should request in-class discussions of such questions when complex issues of ethical scholarship arise. DEGREE PROGRESS It is the student's responsibility to be aware of their status as a degree candidate, and to utilize their advisor to certify progress for graduation. To help make this certification clearer, students should use their student portal to follow their academic progress. CONTRACTS AND SIGNATURES When a student submits their course registration, they have made a commitment to those courses or other credit units. The student will owe tuition to match that registration, and the student's transcript will list the titles of those courses, whether or not credit is earned. Add/drop forms must be filed by the deadlines set for each term in order to make changes to course registration. All financial obligations must be cleared (or loan payments made current) with the college before a student may register, receive a diploma, or have a transcript sent. Lost library books are also considered financial obligations to the college. COURSE/FACULTY EVALUATIONS At the end of a course, the Personnel and Academic Affairs Committees require course/faculty evaluations from each student enrolled. Course evaluation forms ask questions regarding course organization, idea synthesis and clarity, class-instructor rapport, importance of the course to the COA curriculum, and recommendations for future classes. These forms are extremely important in evaluating instructor performance. They provide a written history of faculty work critical to accurate assessment of teaching success. Course evaluation forms are available either in paper format or online through the student portal by choice of the instructor. Paper forms should be submitted to the Academic Services office. All evaluations are held until faculty evaluations of students are in; then they are passed to the Personnel Committee and the provost for use in continuing reviews of faculty work and in periodic reviews for contract renewal. Faculty members are expected to read course evaluations but do not have access to them before writing evaluations of students. ACCOMODATING STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES To ensure that programs, activities and services are accessible to all matriculating students, College of the Atlantic is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for students with documented disabilities. COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 15 Documented disabilities may include, but are not limited to, a learning disability, attention deficit disorder, a visual, auditory, or mobility impairment, and a physical or mental health illness. COA's policies and practices comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and the state and local requirements regarding students with disabilities. Under these laws, no qualified individual with a disability shall be denied access to or participation in services, programs, and activities at College of the Atlantic. In compliance with federal and state regulations, reasonable accommodations are provided to qualified students with disabilities. A reasonable accommodation is one that is consistent with the academic standards of the college and does not fundamentally alter the nature of the course or program. COA works directly and individually with students throughout the accommodation process. Final authority for determining the most reasonable and effective accommodation rests with the college and is based on the nature of the course or program and the individual student's disability-related need(s). A qualified individual is a person who, with or without reasonable accommodations, can perform the essential functions of a program or course requirements. The essential requirements of an academic course or program need not be modified to accommodate an individual with a disability. COA's designated disability support services are located within the Student Life office. From this office students needing accommodation will be directed to academic, programmatic, or campus mobility specialists for assistance. Students are encouraged to meet with a disability support services professional to develop a plan for their academic accommodations. A request for accommodation is deemed reasonable if it is based on documented individual needs and does not compromise essential requirements of a course or program, does not pose a threat to personal or public safety, and does not impose undue financial or administrative burden. Students seeking reasonable accommodations must provide current documentation of the disability either before or at the time they request accommodations. It is the responsibility of the student to work with appropriate staff or faculty each term to ensure that accommodations are put in place at the start of the term. COA does not provide assessment services for documentation of learning differences-all testing is done by outside evaluators at the student's expense. RECORDS AND EVALUATIONS Each unit of work completed at College of the Atlantic has a three-part evaluation consisting of a course description, instructor evaluation, and a student self-evaluation. Evaluations serve a dual purpose: they form an ongoing portfolio and permanent record for use by the student and advisors, and they comprise the narrative transcript that may be read in conjunction with applications to other schools and future employment. As a summary and synthesis of work over a period of years, the transcript is an effective way to show how courses and projects mesh into a coherent education of the student's own design. TRANSCRIPTS An official College of the Atlantic transcript can include either a single page that lists all of the course titles, credits attempted/earned, or a full transcript that also includes narrative evaluations and self-evaluations. COA has partnered with Parchment to deliver secure official transcripts either electronically or in paper format. All transcripts must be ordered online at coa.edu/transcripts, even those that will be picked up in the Registrar's office. Processing time is 2-5 business days. Current students can print unofficial transcripts directly from their student portal. Transcripts will not be released if the student has overdue bills in the Business Office and/or library. Students have access to their own files in the Registrar's office during regular office hours. In keeping with policies under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (below), the college requires the student's release, in writing, before opening educational records to third parties. PRIVACY The college's policies, consistent with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), are as follows: 16 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 This act is a federal law, which provides that academic institutions will maintain the confidentiality of student education records. College of the Atlantic accords all the rights under the law to students who are declared independent. No one outside the college shall have access to nor will the institution disclose any information from students' records without the written consent of students, except to persons or organizations providing student financial aid, to accrediting agencies carrying out their accreditation function, to persons in compliance with a judicial order, and to persons in an emergency in order to protect the health or safety of students or other persons. All these exceptions are permitted under the act. College of the Atlantic also requests, beyond the requirements of law, that all students, whether or not declared independent, give their written consent in the sending of evaluations and transcripts to parents and to officials of other institutions in which students seek to enroll. Within the COA community, only those members, individually or collectively, acting in the students' educational interest are allowed access to student educational records. These include personnel in the financial aid, business, admission, student life, internship, and registrar's offices, provosts, advisors, and faculty, within the limitations of their need to know. At its discretion, the college may provide directory information in accordance with the provisions of the act to include: student name, address (campus, email), phone number, major field of study, dates of attendance, degrees and awards received, the most recent previous educational institution attended, and participation in officially recognized activities and sports. Students may withhold directory information by notifying the registrar in writing within two weeks after the first day of an academic term. Requests for nondisclosure will be honored until the registrar is notified otherwise. The law provides students with the right to inspect and review information contained in their education records, to challenge the contents of their records, to have a hearing if the outcome of the challenge is unsatisfactory, and to submit explanatory statements for inclusion in their files if they feel the decisions of the hearing panels are unacceptable. COA students have unrestricted access to their own records; they may have copies made of their records at their own expense, with certain exceptions (in cases of overdue bills in the Business Office and/or library). Education records do not include employment records, alumnx records, student health records, or records of instructional, administrative, and other personnel which are the sole possession of the maker and are not accessible or revealed to any individual. Health records, however, may be reviewed by physicians of the student's choosing. Students who believe that their education records contain information that is inaccurate or misleading, or otherwise in violation of their privacy or other rights, may discuss their problems informally with the registrar. If the decisions are in agreement with the student's request, the appropriate records will be amended. If not, students will be informed by the registrar of their right to a formal hearing. Student requests for a formal hearing must be made to the Review and Appeals Committee, which will inform students of the date, place, and time of the hearing. Students who believe that their rights have been abridged may file complaints with The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act Office (FERPA), Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, D.C. 20201, concerning the alleged failures of the college to comply with the act. INSTRUCTOR EVALUATIONS The first part of an evaluation is written by the instructor (or by group study members, or, for an independent study, by the student) and is an objective description of the course work and criteria used for evaluation. The second part is also written by the instructor and addresses the student's performance in light of the stated criteria. The narrative evaluation is an opportunity for the instructor to discuss a student's work in a way that cannot be communicated through a letter grade alone. Student grade options are Credit/No Credit or letter grades. For some courses (residencies, internships, and senior projects), letter grades are not an option; the instructor may also choose to opt only for Credit/No Credit. Requests for a Credit/No Credit grade must be made in writing on the add/drop form no later than the add/ drop deadline. Grade options may not be changed retroactively. The grading option to be selected should be discussed thoroughly with advisors and instructors. For determining Credit/No Credit the following criteria are used: Credit: Satisfactory completion of the requirements as stated in the course description. The quality of the work may range from an excellent to an average comprehension of course material. Equivalent to C or above in a letter grade system. COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 17 No Credit: Failure to complete the requirements as stated in the course description or to demonstrate satisfactory comprehension of the course material. A final status of No Credit means that work was not sufficient for credit and/or that it is too late for credit to be considered. For letter grades the following criteria are used. A Excellent: Outstanding or superior insight extending beyond the normal requirements for the course; exceeding expectations; completion of all required work B Good: Conversant in all course topics; completion of all course work C Satisfactory: Comprehension of the material and completion of basic requirements D Unsatisfactory: Completion of minimal requirements and demonstration of minimal competence; academic credit is awarded F Failure to complete minimal requirements or to demonstrate comprehension of key course topics, recorded as No Credit for those not opting for letter grades GPA COA does not provide/calculate GPAs for its students. However, upon special request, the registrar will calculate a GPA based only on courses for which the student received letter grades, and include it in a separate letter that also states the number of courses from which the GPA is calculated. STUDENT SELF-EVALUATIONS The third part of the evaluation is the student's self-evaluation. While optional for most courses, it is required for independent studies, residencies, and senior projects. The self-evaluation is an important component of the narrative transcript. It provides an opportunity to record the student's assessment of the progress of their education and provides valuable insights to the reader about the student's performance in classes beyond what is conveyed by a letter grade. Instructions for submitting self-evaluations are distributed by the registrar at the end of each term and are available on the student portal. Self-evaluations may be submitted for up to two weeks following the end of the term and are posted after faculty have submitted their grades and evaluations. Late evaluations are not accepted since they must remain independent of faculty evaluations. MIDTERM EVALUATIONS An in-class midterm evaluation is done in every course, and although this does not become part of a student's permanent academic record, it is an important means of student-instructor evaluation. Ideally, the midterm evaluation is a class-wide discussion of students' performance, class expectations, and suggested enhancements for the remainder of the term. If students are under-performing at this point in the term, their academic advisor and the provost or their designee are notified. INCOMPLETE WORK Completing assigned work for classes in a timely manner is a necessary part of education just as effective time management is a necessary skill in the world beyond COA. If a student encounters difficulty completing work by the specified deadline, they should speak with their instructor and/or advisor to seek assistance. Similarly, if an instructor finds that a student repeatedly turns assignments in late or not at all, they should speak with the student to determine how to help the student complete work necessary for learning and academic credit. An incomplete grade will automatically turn to an F three weeks into the subsequent term unless proper paperwork is filed with the registrar. If a student has not completed all of the work necessary to meet the requirements of a course by the end of the term, the student must either complete a written extension request (form available in Registrar's office and online) or be evaluated on the merit of work completed. A student who falls behind in their work should speak to the instructor(s) as soon as possible to determine if an extension may be approved. It is the student's responsibility to request an extension and submit the form. When the instructor receives a completed extension form, they may either deny the request and evaluate the student on the merit of work completed, or grant an extension up to the end of the fourth week of the following 18 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 term. The extension may be lengthened beyond the end of the fourth week at the instructor's and academic probation officer's discretion. Any extenuating circumstances requiring extensions beyond this deadline should be determined jointly by the student, instructor, and academic probation officer since such extensions impact grading, financial aid, and billing. If by the contracted extension deadline the work still is not complete and there is no further extension, the instructor will evaluate the student based on work completed to date. If the instructor does not assign a grade or credit, the extension will revert to a failing grade or no credit. Students must file signed extension contracts with the Registrar's office within three weeks from the end of the term. ACADEMIC STANDING A COA student's progress toward their degree is measured in credit units. To be considered in good standing, a student must be earning credits in satisfactory proportion to the number attempted and must not be on academic probation. Each COA course is worth one credit, though amounts of commitment and effort required may vary. With permission of an advisor, students other than first-term registrants may register for a maximum of four credits in a term. SATISFACTORY ACADEMIC PROGRESS Normal or satisfactory progress toward the degree is made through the equivalent of four full-time years of study, or nine COA credits per year. The student must be aware of this definition of full-time for various purposes of eligibility for financial aid and student loans, especially from sources such as VA benefits. Full- time enrollment is three credits per term and nine per year. The college recognizes many good reasons for graduation timetables that differ from a traditional four-year program. It is a student's responsibility to discuss their program with advisors and to be aware of financial aid implications. Financial aid implications include the potential loss of all aid if the student does not maintain satisfactory academic progress (SAP). Generally, this means the student must maintain the equivalent of a C average or GPA of 2.0 or higher (some exceptions may apply). If a student loses aid due to failure to maintain SAP, they must reestablish SAP before aid can recommence, assuming the student is otherwise eligible. The full SAP policy can be found on the COA website and in the Financial Aid office. Credit issued for any courses taken as Credit/No Credit versus a letter grade is treated, for financial aid purposes, as the equivalent of a C or 2.0 GPA. Students should be aware of the implications of this and the potential impact on their overall GPA at any given time. ACADEMIC PROBATION Students who receive a D, F, or NC (fails to receive credit in a class taken Credit/No Credit) in a given term, or have two or more extensions, are automatically placed on academic probation. There are three levels of academic probation, and the changes to the criteria for getting off of academic probation require more consistent academic success in subsequent terms. Students on academic probation are notified in writing (as are their advisors) and the student must attend a mandatory meeting with the academic probation officer or the provost within the first three weeks of the subsequent term. Such meetings are used to identify and address the issues causing the student to get probationary status and to ensure successful future terms. Failure to attend a probation meeting will result in blocked registration for the upcoming term. Although academic probation is a serious issue, the tenor of this meeting is to be constructive and supportive, not punitive. In order to be removed from academic probation, the student must pass all of their classes in the subsequent term with grades of c or higher and receive no new extensions. Students on academic probation are not considered in good academic standing. Students on academic probation are not eligible for independent studies, residencies, EcoLeague, or other consortium exchanges. If a student remains on academic probation for a second consecutive term, the student will have an academic contract created for them. Academic contracts are individually constructed and have carefully defined outcomes targeted to enhance the student's success. Example contract conditions may include, but not be limited to: Reduced course load for the subsequent term Mandatory attendance at study skills group COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 19 Mandatory check-in meetings with advisors/teachers/counselors Required work with a writing tutor Requirements that students turn in no late work and/or miss no classes Included in the academic contract will be clearly spelled out consequences for failing to meet the terms of the contract. International students and the academic probation officer should be attentive to the consequences academic probation has for maintaining F-1 student status and for eligibility to remain in the United States. The academic probation officer is appointed by the provost. The academic probation officer has discretion to interpret the above procedures to support student success while maintaining high academic standards. Decisions made by the academic probation officer may be appealed to the provost or their designee, whose decision is then final. In order to be removed from academic probation, a student must pass their classes with a C or higher in the subsequent term with no extensions. After three consecutive terms on academic probation, or accumulating a total of five Fs, students will be suspended from the college for one academic year. Students who return from the one-year academic suspension will be on level-three probation. Failure to receive grades of C or above and any course extensions will lead to expulsion. TRANSFER CREDIT A student can transfer a maximum of 18 credits to COA, the equivalent of 60 semester credit hours or 90 quarter hours in systems commonly used at other institutions. One COA credit is equivalent to 3.3 semester hours or five quarter hours. Work at another accredited institution is transferable with a grade of c or above and approval by the registrar, and will appear on the COA transcript with a grade of CR. Except for students receiving VA benefits, COA degree candidates may elect not to use transfer credit toward the degree even though all work from previous institutions must be submitted during the admission process. Transfer credits must be authorized by the student before the registrar can apply them to the student's transcript. Once transfer credit has been applied to a student's COA record, it cannot be removed. A transfer student bringing in nine or more COA credits is exempt from the first-year requirements (Human Ecology Core Course, history, writing, and QR courses). A student transferring in 18 credits is encouraged to begin planning for the completion of degree requirements and to select an advising team as soon as possible. New transfer students should first make sure that the Registrar's office has received final transcripts of all previous college course work; students are often accepted for admission before the final transcript of previous work is available, and students must send for an update to ensure that all transfer credits are applied. First-time, first-year students who have taken college courses while enrolled in high school may elect to transfer in these credits after they have earned nine COA credits. This transfer of credits does not exempt them from the first-year requirements. A COA student planning to take a course or a term of work as a visiting student at another college is advised to get approval in advance from the registrar of eligibility for credit transfer. Credit is rarely granted for work done at non-accredited institutions. Proposed study of this type must be evaluated and approved for transferability in advance by the review and appeals committee. CREDIT BY EXAM OR MILITARY EXPERIENCE A maximum of one term (three credits) may be given for credit by examination or military experience. Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB), and other successful examinations may also serve as Prerequisite for COA courses. AP and IB credits cannot be used to meet HY, QR, W, or resource area requirements. Students entering as first-time, first-year students must earn nine COA credits before AP or IB credits may be applied to their COA transcript. Advanced Placement: Scores of four or higher on AP exams are acceptable for transfer. International Baccalaureate: Scores of five or higher on IB Higher Level exams are acceptable for transfer. Standard Level exam scores are not eligible for transfer. DANTES: Passing exam scores are eligible for credit under the American Council on Education recommendations. Requests for credit are handled on a case-by-case basis. Contact the registrar's office for more information. 20 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 Military training experience: May be acceptable for credit under the American Council on Education guidelines. As with DANTES, credit requests are handled on a case-by-case basis. Contact the Registrar's office for more information. Official scores and transcripts must be mailed directly to the Registrar's office. Advanced standing credit earned while in high school is held in reserve and may not be recorded on the student's record until the beginning of the student's second year. A student has the opportunity any time after their first year to request the addition of these credits to their transcript. The amount of credit transferred affects the long-term eligibility for federal financial aid funds and speed of progress toward graduation; a student is strongly advised to discuss their individual situation and timetable with academic and financial advisors. GRADUATION AND SENIOR YEAR Students should submit intent to graduate forms prior to the academic year in which they intend to graduate (see deadlines on the inside back cover of this catalog). There are a number of important deadlines that fall during the student's senior year-e.g., the Human Ecology Essay, the senior project, and the certification of graduation requirements. It is the student's responsibility to adhere to all published deadlines, even in the event that the student is away from campus. In some cases students may stand at graduation even if they have not completed all graduation requirements. Students who stand may participate in all graduation ceremonies and celebrations, but will not receive a diploma nor be considered a graduate of the college until all graduation requirements are met. Students may participate in only one graduation ceremony. Students who wish to stand must submit a completed standing contract form to the provost for the privilege to do so. This contract must include a detailed plan with clear deadlines for completing all degree requirements. A student may stand only if they have three or fewer COA credits remaining to be earned. If these credits are for the senior project, the student must have their senior project proposal fully approved at the time they petition to stand. Students may not stand if they have not completed their Human Ecology Essay, writing portfolio, community service, or internship. The provost will decide on this request, in consultation with the student and their advisor(s). The provost's decision is final. If the standing contract is accepted, the student is required to submit a $500 deposit, which is returned in full to the student upon completion of all work/graduation. Standing is not an option for graduate students. LEAVE OF ABSENCE A student may request a leave of absence for one term at a time (up to three terms total). Guidance for this purpose are available in the registrar's office and online. Approval depends upon justification of the leave in the context of the student's overall academic plan. Failure to file a request for leave by the end of the add/drop period for any given term results in automatic withdrawal from the college. A student who has either formally withdrawn from the college or lost matriculant status, as stated above, but desires to return to the college, must complete a short re-application form, available from the office of admission, in order to be reconsidered as a candidate for matriculation. For purposes of repayment of student loans, a student is considered to be withdrawn as of the end of the last term of enrollment, even though they are on an approved leave of absence. For COA purposes, the student can continue as a degree candidate not enrolled. For loan purposes, however, a student is either a registered, tuition-paying student or not. This rule applies to students away on non-credit internships and to seniors whose last enrollment (usually the senior project) takes place in a term earlier than spring term prior to graduation. MEDICAL LEAVE College of the Atlantic strives to maintain an environment that supports intellectual wellbeing and academic excellence. Nevertheless, unexpected circumstances can and do occur that affect a student's ability to succeed COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 21 in COA's rigorous intellectual climate. The following policy is intended to facilitate a student's necessary departure from and subsequent re-entry into the college. A medical leave of absence is available for students who have medical or psychiatric conditions that severely limit their ability to perform academic work. Students who need this type of leave of absence must meet with the dean of student life and the provost. All medical leaves must have the written recommendation of a physician or mental health professional. Medical leaves are usually granted for up to three terms. Medical leaves are not possible after week eight of the term. Students who take a medical leave during a term will earn no academic credit for the term and their class enrollments will show a grade of W (withdrawn). They will be refunded for tuition and room as dictated by the refund policy detailed in this catalog. During the time of the leave, students must actively engage in appropriate treatment as recommended by their physician or therapist. Return and re-enrollment from a medical leave of absence are contingent on a written assessment by a physician or therapist that is evaluated by the dean of student life in consultation with on-campus health services staff. The dean of student life will then establish a re-entry plan (e.g. referral to a local specialist, ongoing treatment plan) as necessary with the returning student to ensure that they are fully aware of the resources available to support them. The provost will meet with the student to review an appropriate academic course load upon their return to the college. In the event that a student's continuation at the college poses a significant risk to the wellbeing of that student or to others in the community, the dean of student life can place a student on involuntary medical leave. The student may appeal this decision (in writing) to the president of the college within five working days. ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS EDUCATIONAL STUDIES AND TEACHER CERTIFICATION COA has been granted authority by the state of Maine to recommend successful program completers for Maine licensure. Preparation for teaching certification is available in the following areas: art education (grades K-12); elementary education (grades K-8); and secondary certification (grades 7-12) in English language arts, life sciences, and social studies. COA has an excellent working partnership with the local public and private schools. This relationship affords our students the opportunity to practice what they learn by getting them abundant, hands-on experiences in classrooms, afterschool programs, museums, alternative educational settings, and summer camps. Students electing to pursue professional teacher certification may either complete 15 weeks of student teaching as an internship or take three additional credits beyond the COA graduation requirement. Maine is a signatory of the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification interstate agreement with 47 other states, the District of Columbia, Guam, and the Department of Defense schools. The interactive and interdisciplinary nature of education at College of the Atlantic serves as a model for the kind of education our students hope to create as teachers. Many graduates are teachers in public and private schools; others have chosen careers as outdoor educators, interpretive naturalists, and environmental educators. STUDY ABROAD Study abroad or study away opportunities allow students to take classes outside of COA for up to 18 credits. Students take courses in language studies, international public health, culture and ethnic studies, and other academic fields at accredited institutions within the United States or elsewhere around the world. Students can begin to plan ahead with support from their advisors, guidance from the internship and career development office about funding sources, and the college's Financial Aid office, in addition to the registrar's office for approval of transfer credits outside of COA. International students should speak with the coordinator of international student services. Students must be in good academic standing and have the appropriate documentation completed in advance of a term/semester away. Programs regularly attended by COA students, such as School for International Training, SEA|mester, SEA Education, and Center for Ecological Living and Learning offer scholarship assistance. These are just a few of the many options available for study abroad and students are encouraged to contact the internship program director. 22 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 CONSORTIUM AGREEMENTS It is possible to set up a consortium with many accredited colleges/universities in the US and abroad. Consortium agreements allow you to take courses at another school and still use your COA federal financial aid awards. Students must have completed a minimum of three terms at COA and be in good academic and social standing. Credits will appear on your COA transcript as transfer credits. See the Financial Aid office for more information. EcoLeague exchange: The EcoLeague is a consortium of six colleges and universities that share similar missions and value systems based on environmental responsibility, social change, and educating students to build a sustainable future. The EcoLeague consists of small, liberal arts institutions with strong environmental science, marine biology, outdoor studies, education, and other academic programs. These colleges all stress experiential education so that students are prepared to take on real-world challenges when they graduate. EcoLeague partners are Prescott College, Alaska Pacific University, New College of Florida, Northland College, Dickinson College, and College of the Atlantic. How the EcoLeague works: EcoLeague exchanges are open to students studying any academic area. Students must have completed nine COA credits to be considered. COA students may spend up to two semesters (one year) at the host EcoLeague institution during their second or third years. Students continue to pay full-time tuition to their home institution. Lab and course fees, room and board, and any required fees are paid to the institution the student is visiting. Additional costs for special programs and travel are covered by the student. Credits earned at EcoLeague institutions are accepted at the home institution as COA credits (not transfer credits). Students must fill out an intent to participate form, available from the registrar's office, and once approved, the participation/registration form. Students are expected to return to their home institution upon completion of the EcoLeague semester(s). See the registrar or provost for more details. University of Maine: Any degree seeking undergraduate student enrolled at COA or the University of Maine is eligible to participate in a cooperative exchange after completing two terms as a full-time student as defined by their home institution. College of the Atlantic students may enroll for coursework at the University of Maine and UMaine students may enroll for coursework at COA. This exchange is contingent on space availability. See registrar for more information. AFFILIATION AGREEMENTS COA has affiliation agreements with a number of organizations, whereby COA agrees to award credit for courses offered through their programs. In all cases, students must have completed a minimum of three terms at COA and be in good academic and social standing to apply. Students must submit a signed consortium agreement form to the registrar's office prior to enrollment in the program, and are charged an administrative fee ($500 per COA credit) to process the credits. See registrar for more information. Center for Ecological Living and Learning (CELL): College of the Atlantic will award credit for study abroad programs offered by the Center for Ecological Living and Learning (CELL). CELL programs focus on local and global solutions to environmental, social, and economic problems and are offered in Central America, East Africa, Iceland, and the Middle East. Students apply directly to CELL and pay tuition and fees to CELL. Enrollment is limited to a maximum of one semester worth of credit (15 semester credits, equivalent to 4.5 COA credits). National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS): College of the Atlantic will award credit for semester programs offered by the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS). NOLS courses include field studies and practice of wilderness expedition skills, leadership, group dynamics, safety and judgment development, and an introduction to environmental studies and ethics. Credit value depends on the length of the NOLS course (variable up to 16 semester credits, equivalent to 4.8 COA credits). Students apply directly to NOLS and pay NOLS fees. SEA|mester: College of the Atlantic will award credit for academic courses taken on SEA|mester voyages. Students apply directly to SEA|mester and pay tuition and fees to SEA|mester. Enrollment is limited to a maximum of one semester worth of credit (12 semester credits, equivalent to 3.6 COA credits). COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 23 GRADUATE PROGRAM Since 1990, COA has offered the Master of Philosophy in human ecology degree. This program is intended both for COA graduates who want to extend the type of work begun as undergraduates and for students from elsewhere who want to add a human-ecological focus to their research. The MPhil is designed as a two-year program, involving nine credits of coursework (from upper level courses in the integrated curriculum and nine credits of thesis research). The graduate committee, composed of the director of the graduate program and faculty representatives from each resource area, is responsible for administering the MPhil program; the director reports to the president and provost. Any graduate student requesting a waiver or variance of any graduate degree requirements must submit a petition in writing to the graduate committee, which will discuss the matter as needed with the academic affairs committee. Enrollment: Students are expected to enroll full time in each term of their first year of graduate study, during which most or all of the nine required graduate course credits are to be completed. In second or subsequent years, students are encouraged to maintain full-time status and study on campus until graduation, but may petition their thesis committee and the director of the graduate program for formal approval of part-time enrollment or leaves of absence in a given term. All degree requirements must be completed within four years of first enrollment in the MPhil program. Newly admitted graduate students may begin their enrollment in any academic term. Thesis committee: Upon arrival at COA, each graduate student establishes a thesis committee composed of a chair, someone identified at the time of acceptance into the program and keenly interested in the student's research topic, at least one other COA faculty member, and an optional outside practitioner or expert in the student's field of inquiry. Working with the thesis committee, the student designs their program, including a nine-credit thesis project and nine course credits relevant to the thesis. During the thesis year, a faculty member from the graduate committee may join the thesis committee to serve as a reader and to advise regarding general policy matters. Graduate students are expected to schedule meetings of their committee as a group at least once a term. Following this meeting the chair of the committee will report progress towards the degree to the graduate program director. Plan of study and thesis proposal: Graduate students are required to turn in a plan of study at the end of their first term of enrollment. A thesis proposal is due at the end of the third term. Individualized graduate programs should combine several academic disciplines, have a strong field or applied component, or broaden current research in human ecology. Graduate courses: Graduate course credits may come from intermediate- or advanced-level courses, tutorials, and independent studies. Expectations for graduate course credit are arranged in discussion between each graduate student and the faculty member teaching a course. It is the responsibility of each graduate student to initiate these discussions at the beginning of each term. Graduate credit cannot be given for introductory level courses, group studies, courses in which the student does not receive the equivalent of a B- or better, or courses which are not completed within an academic year. If a graduate student takes a course Credit/No Credit, the student must attain the equivalent of grade B- or better to receive credit. Transfer credits: A maximum of three of the nine course credits may be transfer credits. All transfer of credit is subject to approval by the thesis committee and director of the graduate program. Credits from prior academic work must be upper-level courses relevant to the student's plan of study at COA, earned within one calendar year prior to first enrollment in the MPhil program, and from academic work above and beyond any courses that were a part of the student's undergraduate program. Transfer of credits during graduate enrollment must be approved in advance. Thesis credits: During those terms in which thesis credits are taken, students are encouraged to be in residence on campus and to meet with the chair of the thesis committee frequently for discussion, direction, and advice. They should also meet regularly with other members of their committee. The nine requisite thesis credits are not graded, but each is assessed as satisfactory or unsatisfactory by the chair of the thesis committee and reported to the registrar. Students are expected to submit a proposed plan of study for thesis credits at the beginning of each term where such credits are to be taken. This plan will indicate the intended focus for that term (literature review, writing thesis sections, field, lab or studio work, etc.). At the end of each term where thesis credits are to be awarded the student will submit a short summary of what they have accomplished. The thesis: A thesis, required of all graduate students, investigates a specific area with rigor, allowing the student to gain and demonstrate expertise in a particular topic and make an original contribution to the field. The thesis is judged on rigor, relevance, and results. The thesis must have an interdisciplinary component; sections of a thesis may be rather specialized but at least part of it must be accessible to a general audience. The college welcomes theses that take non-traditional forms, depending on the student's field and audience. Each thesis must be carefully documented and demonstrate a high standard of scholarship. The form and 24 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 structure of the thesis is to be shaped by consideration and knowledge of similar theses in a student's field, by the structure and design of the project, and suggestions of the thesis committee. A thesis of traditional form includes a title page (with signatures), acknowledgments, a table of contents, a list of figures, an abstract, the body of the thesis, a bibliography, endnotes, and appendices. Three copies of the final version of the thesis, each on thesis bond paper, must be submitted (bound or unbound) to the graduate committee prior to graduation. Note: See the COA archivist for information on formatting copies for the COA archives, due at the end of week nine. Thesis presentation: Each graduate student will arrange a public presentation of their thesis a minimum of two weeks prior to the expected date of graduation. All thesis committee members are expected to attend this presentation, and the student will be examined on the form and content of the thesis. Graduate seminar: A graduate seminar is scheduled periodically to provide a forum for discussing issues in human ecology, sharing research skills, critiquing each other's work, and fostering scholarship and identity among graduate students. Participants in the graduate seminar include all graduate students and representatives of the graduate committee, thesis advisors, and any invited participants. IMMUNIZATION REQUIREMENT Maine state law requires that all students provide certification by a doctor, nurse, or other health official of their immunity to rubella (German measles), rubeola (measles), diphtheria, and tetanus. Evidence of immunity may be demonstrated with either a record of immunization with dates and dosages or a report of laboratory results of tests for immunity. MMR (measles/mumps/rubella). Two doses of MMR vaccine, administered after the student's first birthday. DT, Td or TDaP (diphtheria/tetanus) within the last ten years As of September 1, 2021, the State of Maine does not allow religious or philosophical exemptions to required immunizations. Students seeking a medical exemption must provide a written statement from a licensed physician, nurse practitioner, or physician's assistant that, in that provider's professional judgment, immunization against one or more of the diseases may be medically inadvisable. If you have a state-approved medical exemption and an outbreak of any of these diseases should occur, you would be asked to leave the campus for the duration. The criteria for medical exemption articulated in the law are as follows. Medical exemptions to receiving tetanus-diphtheria toxoid are limited to: 1) having received tetanus toxoid or tetanus-diphtheria toxoid within five years of enrollment; 2) A hypersensitivity reaction to a prior dose of tetanus toxoid or tetanus-diphtheria toxoid. Medical exemptions to receiving measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine (MMR) are limited to: 1) pregnancy, or those students planning to become pregnant within three months; 2) a history of anaphylactic reaction following egg ingestion or receipt of neomycin; 3) students with altered immunocompetence, as occurs with leukemia, lymphoma, generalized malignancy, or therapy with alkylating agents, anti-metabolites, radiation, or large doses of corticosteroids. Students must either provide proof of immunization or of a medical exemption before they will be allowed to attend in-person classes at COA. If already immunized, the student must send or bring a copy of the immunization record signed by the health professionals who either administered the shots or have the records. Shots are available in Bar Harbor at the local health facilities; the COA nurse can also administer the immunizations. REGISTRATION AND FEES REGISTRATION Registration for an academic term takes place during week six of the preceding term. Registration materials are available approximately one week prior to registration. Students register online through their student portal. Student accounts must be paid in full in order to access online registration. COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 25 Returning students registering for classes after the registration deadline will be assessed a $100 late registration fee. If this late registration happens after the payment due date, the student will have one week to settle their account with the business office. Failure to settle the account will result in an additional $300 late payment fee. Students may not register for classes after the end of week two. Late payment policies do not apply to students receiving VA benefits. A student must have paid or made arrangements to pay all tuition and fees by the statement due date. The college accepts payment plans with an outside agency, however these plans must be in place, approved, and current by the statement due date. If previous payment plans were delinquent in the past, COA reserves the right to refuse the establishment of a new payment plan. ADD/DROP A student may make registration changes through the first week of the term by submitting an add/drop form to the registrar's office. After the add/drop period has ended, the student's current registration can be viewed on their portal. If the student feels that an error has been made on the schedule, they should notify a staff member in the registrar's office immediately. Add/drop forms returned to the registrar's office after the add/drop deadline will be assessed a $100 late fee. Appeals may be granted for extenuating circumstances; such appeals will be reviewed by the Review and Appeals Committee. WITHDRAWAL A student may withdraw from a class up through the end of week four by submitting an add/drop form specifying the request for withdrawal. A grade of W (withdrawal) will appear on the student's transcript. Students should be aware of the tuition reimbursement policy for withdrawals (refer to the course withdrawal/ financial considerations section for more information). A student wishing to withdraw after the fourth week may only do so with written consent from the course instructor and approval by the provost. Withdrawals are not permitted after week eight. AUDITING Students are allowed to audit one course during a term with the instructor's permission and with payment of the $180 audit fee. Auditing is entirely at the discretion of the instructor. Instructors cannot accept auditors if they have had to turn away credit-seeking students. Appeal for conversion of audit to credit in a case in which the student has actually participated in a course as a full-credit student must be made to review and appeals committee no later than the end of the fifth week of the term; this action does require payment of additional for- credit fees on the part of the student. Audits show on transcripts as AU. Individuals from the Bar Harbor community may also audit a COA course with permission of the instructor and payment of the audit fee plus any applicable Lab fees, providing that no COA matriculant will be displaced. Auditing is limited to one course per term. No refunds will be given for audited courses. All fees are due the date of registration. NON-DEGREE SEEKING STUDENTS Persons desiring undergraduate credit may enroll as special students if they meet the Prerequisite of the desired courses and have the permission of the instructor. Long-term residents of Hancock, Washington, and Waldo counties may enroll for a limited number of courses, on a space-available basis, at a reduced-tuition rate. To be eligible for this special rate Hancock County status must be determined by the office of admission prior to registration. Other special students pay regular, full-tuition rates. The number of Hancock County courses taken per student is restricted to three per year. Only three Hancock County classes may apply toward matriculation. Special students are expected to pay at the time of registration. Lab and activity fees apply. More information on policies and procedures for special students is available in the registrar's and admission offices. TUITION All fees are billed in June, July, November, and February, and must be paid by the specified due date. 26 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 The total annual undergraduate tuition for 2023-24 is $45,360. Tuition is charged at a flat rate of $5,070 per credit, or $15,210 per term for full-time enrollment (plus housing/dining charges and other fees). An additional fourth credit or less-than-full-time enrollment is calculated accordingly. Costs for one year at COA, including tuition, housing, food, books, materials, and miscellaneous expenses, may be estimated at $58,266. Summer enrollment is considered the first term of the next academic year. The fee for internships taken for credit, regardless of the length of the work period, is $15,210; the internship is a full-time enrollment earning three COA credits. Senior projects are worth three academic credits and therefore are also charged at the full-tuition rate. COA alumnx enrolling for student teaching after graduation will pay for three credits at the Hancock County rate. Non-matriculating students wishing to complete student teaching at COA will be charged for three credits-Hancock/Washington/Waldo county discount may apply if the student meets the criteria. Members of COA staff families receive tuition reduction per defined policy guidelines, but pay applicable student services fees. Full-time graduate tuition rates are $10,140 per term. Additional associated fees and penalties apply as outlined for undergraduates. Hancock County rates do not apply for graduate students. If a non-credit class or internship from a prior academic year is changed to credit, the costs of that credit will be at the current year's rates. BILL PAYMENT Students have access to account statements on their student portal. Paper bills are not mailed. Students must have either paid or made arrangements to pay all tuition and fees by the payment due dates. A late payment fee of $300 will be assessed on overdue accounts. PAYMENT DUE DATES: Fall: August 11, 2023 Winter: December 4, 2023 Spring: March 25, 2024 Summer 2024: July 8, 2024 Fall 2024: August 12, 2024 COA accepts payment plans with an outside agency, however, the approved plan must be in place and remain current. The college is able to assist students and/or their parents in working out a payment plan. College of the Atlantic accepts MasterCard and Visa for bill payments up to $1,000 a term. In the event that a check is returned to College of the Atlantic for insufficient funds, the student account will be charged a $40 service fee. Online payments may be made through NELNET at mycollegepaymentplan.com/atlantic. If wiring funds please request instructions from the business office. There will be a $25 fee charged for incoming wires. Bills for special term enrollment (i.e. Yucatan/Cavilam), where the student starts the term before the regular COA term begins, will be due one week before the student leaves for the program. International and special deposits are non-refundable. A late payment fee of 3% up to $300 will be assessed on overdue accounts and on delinquent payment plans. Students will not be allowed to register for the next term if there is an outstanding balance on their account. If a student has had a late payment in a prior term, COA may unenroll the student from the upcoming term if that payment is not paid by the due date. Transcripts, grades, or diplomas will not be released until the student account is paid in full. Late payment policies do not apply to students receiving VA benefits. BILLING ERRORS Students understand that administrative, clerical, or technical billing errors do not absolve them of their financial responsibility to pay the correct amount of tuition, fees and other associated financial obligations assessed as a result of their registration at College of the Atlantic. COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 27 HOUSING AND DINING The fee for a room in COA housing is $6,396 per year. There is a non-refundable $100 housing application fee charged to all students living in housing. The full meal plan is $3,705 per year (all first-time students living in COA housing are on the full meal plan). For those students living off campus and not opting to be on the full meal plan, there are three additional meal plan options they must choose from: ten meals/week for $2,886, five meals/week for $1,671, or a $110 declining balance card. Meals/week plans are not transferable from term to term. Declining meal plan balances can be used from term to term but expire at the end of the academic year. STUDENT ACTIVITIES FEE A $183 student services fee is charged each term for every enrolled student, whether the student is on campus or not. This covers the cost of visits to the campus health clinic (lab work or other tests are not covered by the fee) and helps fund student activities. The fund is managed by the Student Activities Committee. LAB FEES Laboratory fees are charged by the term for courses in which expendable materials are used and/or field trips are required. These fees usually range from $10 to $50, but may be higher depending on the nature of the class (e.g. lab and art classes have more consumables). Amounts may or may not be known in time for catalog printing, but will be listed on registration materials and billed with tuition. Lab fees are not subject to refund after the add/drop period. CREDIT BALANCE RETURNS In the event a student's bill has been overpaid, a credit balance return (CBR) will be automatically issued to the student after add/drop has been completed and all financial aid for the student has been received and applied to the student's account each term. If the CBR is a result of a PLUS loan, overpayment by a parent, or from a parent payment plan (NELNET), the refund will be returned to the parent unless a signed authorization from the parent is given to the business office to return the funds directly to the student. Parent authorizations are needed each term. Credit balance returns will not be automatically processed for overpayment from international payments, a 529 plan, or other unique payment. Students will be notified when a CBR is available for pickup in the business office; checks are not put in student mailboxes. If the credit is to be left on account for a future term, then written authorization to the business office is required. COURSE WITHDRAWALS/FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS Full course withdrawal: Students who register for a term but withdraw from all courses, either for medical or non-medical reasons, by 4:00 p.m. on the add/drop deadline will receive a full reversal except for program fees, which are non-refundable (and see health insurance below). Additionally, a prorated charge for any days of room and board will be assessed. Students who withdraw from all classes in weeks two through five will receive a daily prorated refund based upon the cash amount paid for the current term. No additional billing adjustments are computed for housing and meals as they are already included in the amount paid. There are no reversals after week one for the student services fee, program fees, or Lab fees (and see health insurance below). In the rare case of a student staying on campus for more than one night after dropping all classes, COA will assess a prorated charge for room and board. Federal aid adjustments and outside scholarships will be adjusted per the laws of such aid. If a student is enrolled in a COA-sponsored international or off-campus program and drops the program after the deposit deadline but before the program begins, a $500 fee will be assessed. If a student drops the program once the program begins, the standard reversal policy above applies. Health insurance during full course withdrawal: Except in the case of a medical leave of absence due to sickness or injury, any student who withdraws from all courses during the first 31 days of classes will not be covered under the insurance plan. A full refund of the premium will be made, minus the cost of any claim benefits paid since the effective date. If a student withdraws from all classes after 31 days, they will remain covered for the term purchased and no refund will be allowed. For additional information please visit your student health insurance website. 28 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 Partial course withdrawal: Students who drop one or two courses will receive credit toward tuition for a future term based upon the chart below. This credit must be used within the next four consecutive terms and will be factored into computing that term's financial aid award. The student may not apply the credit to a prior term balance. All balances must be paid prior to application of this credit. Reversal credit schedule per courses dropped: Add/drop deadline: Full tuition and Lab fee reversal, excluding non-refundable program fees Week two: $4,000 credit toward tuition for a future term Week three: $2,500 credit toward tuition for a future term Week four: $1,500 credit toward tuition for a future term Week five: $500 credit toward tuition for a future term Weeks 6-10: No credit or reversal The date used to determine the reversal amount is the date the completed paperwork is turned in to the Registrar's office. FINANCIAL AID AND WORK-STUDY Financial aid information is available in the Financial Aid office. The financial aid program is explained in detail in the COA publication Financial Planning Options, which is available from the office of admission and financial aid. Students applying for financial assistance at COA must complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and COA's institutional application for financial aid. New applicants should file online at fafsa.gov. Renewal applicants receive a renewal FAFSA from the federal processor via email. COA's application for financial aid is distributed to students' mailboxes and via email, usually before winter break. In a case where a student's natural parents are divorced or separated, the college requires that the non-custodial parent complete the non- custodial parent's statement (available from the office of admission and financial aid) in order for the student to be considered for institutional sources of financial aid. The timetable below applies for financial aid applications prior to the fall term: March 1, 2024: Financial aid applications should be completed and mailed May 1-June 15: COA mails financial aid replies to on-time applicants While late application does not necessarily disqualify a student from financial aid, it may reduce the student's award if COA funds have already been allocated. Students who register on time receive priority in the awarding of COA institutional financial aid. Financial aid awards are generally calculated assuming full-time enrollment. Adjustments to the award are made if a student is enrolled less than full time. Awards are also subject to adjustment if a student receives additional outside resources after the award is tendered or if a student's costs are lower than originally projected. Students are expected to complete the requirements for their self-directed programs within the 36 required COA credits and are generally not eligible to receive institutional financial aid beyond this credit limit. It is further required that a student maintain satisfactory progress toward successful completion of the human ecology degree (see section on satisfactory academic progress). Further details regarding COA's financial aid satisfactory academic progress policy as well as general financial aid policies and procedures are available in the Financial Aid office and on the COA website. Work-study assignments are managed by the Financial Aid office. Once assigned, a student sets up their work-study schedule with the job supervisor. The student and the work-study supervisor keep records of hours worked, and the student is responsible for submitting their hours online every other week. COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 29 PART II ABC FACULTY MEMBERS 2023-2024 Anderson, John: Zoology; behavioral ecology; van Vliet, Netta: Cultural anthropology; Israeli studies anatomy and physiology Waldron, Karen: Literature and writing; minority, Andrews, Nancy: Performance art; video production cultural, and feminist theory; American studies Baker, Jodi: Performing arts Baker, Laurie: Computer science EMERITI Cline, Kenneth: Public policy; environmental law Beal, Elmer: Ethnology; anthropological theory; traditional music Clinger, Catherine: Art history; studio arts Borden, Richard: environmental psychology; Colbert, Dru: Visual communications; 3D art and personality and social development; design; museum studies contemporary psychology; philosophy of human Collum, Kourtney: Food systems; sustainable ecology agriculture Carpenter, JoAnne: Art history; architectural history; Cox, J. Gray: Philosophy; peace studies; language painting learning Carpenter, William: Literature; creative writing; Feldman, David: Mathematics; physics comparative mythology Henderson, Jonathan: Ethnomusicology; African Katona, Steven: Biology American studies; music Kozak, Anne: Writing, literature Friedlander, John Jay: Green business Lerner, Susan: Women's studies Hall, Sarah: Geology; earth science Mancinelli, Isabel: Community and regional planning; Hess, Helen: Invertebrate zoology; biomechanics landscape architecture Hill, Kenneth: Education; psychology McMullen, Ernest: 2D design; painting and drawing; ceramics Hudson, Reuben: Chemistry Ressel, Stephen: Vertebrate biology; environmental Khor, Su Yin: Writing and rhetoric physiology Lakey, Heather: Philosophy; women, gender, and Taylor, Davis: Environmental and resource economics sexuality studies Visvader, John: Philosophy; philosophy of science; Letcher, Susan: Plant biology history of ideas Little-Siebold, Todd: History; Latin American studies McKown, Jamie: Government and polity LECTURERS Morse, Suzanne: Applied botany; plant ecology; Capers, Colin: Human ecology; writing; film studies agricultural ecology Donovan, Martha: English literature and writing Muller, Brook: Ecological planning, policy, and design Levin, Rob: Journalism Petersen, Christopher: Ichthyology; marine ecology Mahoney, Daniel: Writing Sebastian, Neeraj: Drawing and painting Swann, Scott: Ecology; ornithology Stabinsky, Doreen: Agriculture policy; international studies; global environmental affairs Turok, Katharine: Comparative literature Tai, Bonnie: Educational theory, research, and Weber, Jill: Botany practice Winer, Josh: Photography Taneja, Palak: Digital humanities; global Anglophone and postcolonial literature Tardif, Twila: Psychology Todd, Sean: Marine mammal physiology and behavior COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 31 LECTURERS EMERITI MacDonald, Richard: Ornithology Demeo, Anna: Sustainable energy education and Magnuson, Maddy: Introduction to Sexual Health management Mann, Rocky: Intermediate Ceramics Stover, Candice: Writing, literature McLean, Adam: Teaching and Learning Music in Human Ecology; Musicianship TEACHING STAFF Oblongata, Donna: The Art of Clown; Earth First! A New Musical Workshop Gibson, David: Energy systems; building science Olday, Fred: Bryophyte Biology: Mosses and their Graham, Carrie: Entomology; field sketching Allies Longsworth, Gordon: Geographic information Perrin, Linda: Introduction to Glass Blowing and systems Sculpture Soares, Zach: Audio production and engineering Rand, Kendra: Public Speaking Workshop Remy, Michael: Music Fundamentals: Intro to Reading/ ADJUNCT INSTRUCTORS Hearing/Writing/Playing 2022-2023 Robbins, Dani: Beginning Contemporary Dance Technique; Contemporary Dance Composition; Alex, Joanne: Child Development; Integrated Methods Sourcing the Body: Experiential Anatomy II: Science, Math, and Social Studies Robinson, Linda: History of Midwifery and Women's Beard, Ronald: College Seminar: Practical Skills in Health Care in the US Community Development Bennett, Michael: World Percussion; Advanced World Rock, Jennifer: Communicating Science; Seeing Percussion Ecology through Arts Practice Sanborn, Kelley: Supporting Students with Disabilities Berger, Nathaniel: Writing Seminar I: Exposition in the Regular Classroom Breslow, Peter: Audio Journalism: Reporting, Schroeder, Emma: Energy, Environment, Protest Producing, Storytelling Seddig, Robert: Constitutional Law: Civil Rights and Blotnick, Ryan: Improvisation in Music; Guitar Liberties; Politics and the Supreme Court Fundamentals Shaw, Matthew: Landscape Cinema Capen, John: College Seminar: Writing the Environment Soares, Zach: Audio Production and Engineering Chermak, Hilary: Introduction to Art Therapy Springuel, Natalie: Fisheries, Fishermen, and Fishing Communities Cotter, Caroline: Introduction to Songwriting Stanley, Ashley: Integrated Methods IA: Grades PreK-3 Gagnon da Silva, Pamela: Intimate Partner Reading and Writing Violence: Dynamics and Community Response; Introduction to Feminist Therapy: Practices and Summers, Kristy: Mixed Media Sculpture Principles Sweeney, Meryl: Children's Literature Hilbert, France: Figure Drawing; Introduction to Wessler, Stephen: Religious Intolerance in the United Drawing: Space and Form States; Genocide, Resistance, Response and Jacoby, Franklin: Introduction to Philosophy of Mind; Reconciliation Philosophy of Science: Reason, Truth, and Reality Kim, June: Introduction to Photography FACULTY ASSOCIATES Koch, Galen: Within Living Memory: Audio Production Frank, Katherine: Anthropology and Podcasting Honea-Fleming, Patricia: Psychology Lewis, Rhiannon: The Poet's Profession: An Introduction to Poetry; Advanced Composition Linville, Darla: Public Libraries and the People Lyon, Heather: Into Watery Realms: Image Making as Ritual 32 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 RESEARCH ASSOCIATES Allen, Judy DenDanto, Dan Mainwaring, Alan Todrank, Josephine Altair, Thiago Guenther, Carla Manski, David Vaux, Peter Anderson, Karen Harris, Tanner McGreavey, Bridie Watts, Diana Barkdoll, Edwin Hazan Connery, Judy Negoita, Luka Weber, Jill Barrows, Abby Hazard, Katherine O'Keefe, Susan Wenzel, Fred Blavascunas, Eunice Helprin, William Rajakaruna, Nishanta Zoidis, Ann Cole-Will, Rebecca Heth, Giora Rock, Jennifer Connery, Bruce Jacobi, Charles Springuel, Natalie Demeo, Anna Jones, Leslie Stevick, Peter COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 33 STAFF MEMBERS 2023-2024 OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT BOAT CAPTAIN Darron Collins: President Toby Stephenson: Captain of M/V Osprey Kara Daul: Executive Assistant to the President BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS PROVOST AND DEANS Dan Daigle: Director of Buildings, Grounds, and Campus Security Kourtney Collum: Associate Dean of Faculty Donald Bareiss: Custodian Kenneth Hill: Provost Richard Dow: Mechanical and Building Systems Jamie McKown: Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Manager Bear Paul: Administrative Dean and CFO Regan Greer: Assistant Director of Buildings, Reuben Hudson: Director of the Graduate Program Grounds, and Campus Safety Bonnie Tai: Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning Russell Holway: Head Custodian Steve Lambert: Buildings & Grounds Associate ACADEMIC SERVICES Barbara Meyers: Gardener Lothar Holzke: Academic Services Administrator Josh Miller: Lead Groundskeeper Barbara Carter: Assistant to the Faculty Natalie Nelson: Night security Jeffry Neuhouser: Director of Internships and Career Development BUSINESS OFFICE Zach Soares: Director of Audio-Visual Services Melissa Cook: Controller Kerri Sands: Sustainable Business Program Manager Patricia Pinkham: Business Office Manager and Benefit Manager ADMISSION OFFICE Jenel Thurlow: Accounts Payable Representative Heather Albert-Knopp: Dean of Admission Shana Willey: Accounts Receivable / Student Payroll Linda Black: Associate Director of Admission Representative Ryan Hewlett: Admission Operations Assistant COMMUNICATIONS Todd Miner: Assistant Director of Admission Rob Levin: Director of Communications Casey Schuller Jordan: Admission Counselor Dan Mahoney: Editor, COA Magazine ALLIED WHALE COMPUTER SERVICES Mindy Viechnicki: Photo-ID Catalog & Development Manager Jarly Bobadilla: Helpdesk Manager Lindsey Jones: Stranding Coordinator Eric Johnson: Director of Information Technology Rosemary Seton: Allied Whale Research Associate, Sean Murphy: Assistant Director of Information Marine Mammal Stranding Coordinator Technology BEECH HILL FARM EDUCATION STUDIES PROGRAM Anna Davis: Farm Manager Linda Fuller: Co-Director of Educational Studies David Levinson: Farm Manager Bonnie Tai: Co-Director of Educational Studies Tara Allen: Assistant Farm Manager 34 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 FINANCIAL AID STUDENT LIFE Amy McIntire: Director of Financial Aid Maya Caines: Director of Residence Life and the Student Experience Willow Gibson: Financial Aid Assistant Barbara Conry: Director of Student Support and Wellness FOOD SERVICES Jason Ford: Coordinator of International Student Forest Ball: Cook Services Lise Desrochers: Co-Director of Food Services Ingrid Hill: Student Life Operations Manager Nickel Glover: Manager, Sea Urchin Cafe Nick Jenei: Coordinator of Community Engagement Kathleen Mulligan: Day Cook Josh Luce: Dean of Student Life Conor O'Brien: Baker Ken Sebelin: Co-Director of Food Services SUMMER PROGRAMS Katie Hodgkins: Conferences & Events Coordinator GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION Rick Dube: Summer Field Studies Director SYSTEMS Gordon Longsworth: Geographic Information Systems SUSTAINABILITY & ENERGY Lab Director David Gibson: Director of Energy GEORGE B. DORR MUSEUM OF THORNDIKE LIBRARY NATURAL HISTORY Trisha Cantwell Keene: Co-director of the Thorndike Carrie Graham: Museum Supervisor Library Wendy Kearney: Weekend Supervisor (nights) HUMAN RESOURCES Catherine Preston-Schreck: Co-director of the Puranjot Kaur: Title IX Coordinator and HR Support Thorndike Library Elliot Santavicca: Archivist / Librarian INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT Hannah Stevens: Librarian Shawn Keeley: Dean of Institutional Advancement Jennifer Hughes: Manager of Alumnx Relations WRITING CENTER Caitlin Meredith: Manager of Advancement Services Blake Cass: Director of the Writing Center Kelly S. Dickson: Grant Writer TBD: Major Gifts Officer PEGGY ROCKEFELLER FARMS April Nugent: Farm Manager REGISTRAR'S OFFICE Krystal Meservey: Registrar Kellie Hoffart: Assistant Registrar COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 35 PART III An COURSE LISTINGS ARTS & DESIGN able to use the camera as an effective tool for self expression or in the pursuit of a documentary project is a skill which is applicable to a large number of AD 1016 World Percussion COA students. A broad introduction to photography BENNETT, MICHAEL and digital printing, this course will introduce the principles and applied techniques of contemporary This is a "hands on" class for learning and performing photographic practices. Designed to put the student conga, snare drum, drum set, and hand percussion in charge of their camera, we'll begin with basic techniques; focusing on the role of percussion in camera controls such as aperture and shutter speed, European, Latin American, African, and American and progress on to more advanced topics such as music. In addition to enjoying themselves and having the proper use of 'flash'. Also covered will be an a better understanding of the world of percussion, introduction to Adobe Photoshop and/or Adobe students master rhythmic notation, counting and Lightroom as well as good printing practices in a subdivision, time signature, and reading percussion digital environment. Students will be evaluated on the music. Requirements include: test on notation, quality of finished prints included in a final portfolio, composition of a percussion ensemble solo that will be their participation in class exercises and critiques, and performed by the group, and a paper on a percussion individual growth over the course of the term. topic of student's choice with approval of the instructor. Please note that camera equipment will not be Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: provided. Students will need to use their own DSLR 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree camera (with adjustable shutter speeds and f-stops) requirements: ADS or borrow this equipment from the library which is typically lent in 4 hour blocks of time. AD 1019 Four-Dimensional Studio Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class Limit: 13. ANDREWS, NANCY Lab fee: $110. Meets the following requirements: ADS This class gives students an opportunity to investigate time-based art. 4-D art draws on the vast and varied AD 1027 History of Filmmaking I traditions of theatre, dance, media, and music, often (1895-1945) crossing boundaries to create hybrid works. This CAPERS, COLIN course will focus on concepts and processes related to representing and experiencing events that take This course explores the history, production, and place in time. Strategies for planning, proposing, and meanings of motion pictures. Using various films producing work individually or collaboratively will as case studies, we will look at the development of be discussed and practiced. Some class periods will film forms, techniques, and genres, beginning in the be workshop in style, and include physical and vocal 1890s and progressing through the first fifty years exercises and improvisations. The course will include of cinema history. The films studied will include: basic instruction and use of video cameras and sound narrative, avant-garde, documentary, and animation. recording devices. A majority of the learning in this Students will learn concepts of film analysis and studio course will happen as students make projects criticism. Students will have opportunities to practice and reflect on their work and the work of others. critical skills in class discussions, and in research and Documentation and information about contemporary writing assignments. Students will be evaluated based and historic time-based art will be presented. on attendance, participation in class discussion, and Students will be evaluated based on imaginative written papers. Writing focus option. exploration of ideas and materials, extent and depth of Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class work processes and research, completion of assigned limit: 15. Lab fee: $35. Meets the following degree projects, and participation in class discussions. requirements: AD, HY, WFO Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: 12. Lab fee: $30. Meets the following degree AD 1036 Figure Drawing requirements: ADS HILBERT, FRANCE This course introduces students to the techniques, AD 1026 Introduction to Photography methods, and history of the depiction of the human KIM, JUNE; WINER, JOSHUA figure through direct observational drawing. We will Photography is a common language spoken across be working from a live, nude model to investigate cultural, economic and geographical boundaries-used structure, anatomy, and the expressive nature of in news gathering, commerce, and fine art. Being the human form through a variety of traditional and contemporary approaches. Students will also COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 37 be trained to look at the figure abstractly through also examine the role and work of artists' collectives careful consideration of negative space surrounding including Ant Farm, Broadside TV, Optic Nerve, and the figure, siting parallel visual relationships across Video Free America. Through secondary sources we the body, and by considering lines of gravity as a will look at the range of historical methodologies and horizontal and vertical axis for comparative analysis. critical theories that have been brought to bear on the They will also develop a rudimentary understanding works viewed. Evaluation will be based on participation of anatomy (artistically) through skeletal studies in class discussions and two research papers. Students and muscle groups while developing both traditional who come to class with experience working in video and unconventional ways of seeing and drawing will have the opportunity to create their own original the figure. Students will expand and refine their work in lieu of one of the two papers. observational skills, become proficient with a Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class variety of drawing media and understand how these limit: 18. Lab fee: $35. Meets the following degree concerns overlap to create representational images. requirements: AD Understanding the integration of formal elements of drawing and how they are combined to achieve a sense of solidity, proportion, gravity, and animation AD 1041 Art Since 1900: Harmony when representing the human figure are our primary and Conflict concern. Evaluation will be based on active physical CLINGER, CATHERINE and verbal participation in both work and in-class The artworks of Pablo Picasso and Hannah Höch; discussions or critiques, an increased proficiency to both the well-known and lesser-known artist accurately represent the human form, individually made paintings and sculptures that facilitate our designed projects, and experimentation with drawing understanding of how people experienced the media. A final digital portfolio of work and self- twentieth century. Cubism, Surrealism, Expressionism, evaluation is required. Constructivism, Arte Povera, Social Realism, among Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class others-these artist movements were initiated through limit: 12. Lab fee: $100. Meets the following degree group declarations of common aesthetic purpose. requirements: ADS Variance within artist conventions and procedures accelerated during moments of unrest and social AD 1038 History of Video Art progression, thus providing a range of counter- narratives to canonical histories of the period. The CAPERS, COLIN last quarter of the twentieth century was one in which Today, many use the words 'film' and 'video' new discourses informed creative production, and art interchangeably. In fact, these words refer to different mono-cultures gave way to intersectional experience. mediums which evolved at different times, in different Theories advanced by Edward Said, Frantz Fanon, circumstances, and whose languages and practices Linda Nochlin, Griselda Pollock, and Judith Butler originally developed around very different sets of offered new networks with which to understand concerns and purposes. In what ways is the distinction how art operates as both a reflection and critique of still useful in the digital age? This course will critically culture. This art history survey looks at how different interrogate the ways humans use moving images to artists engaged with theories of the unconscious, mediate our world, and the repercussions of these radical political programs, social upheaval, gender uses on individuals, culture, and the contents/subjects politics, and scientific advances; and how diverse of the mediated messages. Many early video artists receptions of human experience were expressed sought to distinguish the medium from film in that they through artistic production. Anxiety, joy, curiosity, wanted to create viewers who were active participants and activist predilection combine to formulate a rather than passive recipients. In this class we will rich amalgam of fresh and challenging visions of explore the political and self-expressive impulses in the world. Students will be evaluated based on class video art, and trace its history from 1965-the year in participation, reading notes, a descriptive analysis, which previously established artists Andy Warhol and and final essay. Nam June Paik first publically exhibited video work- Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class through to the current moment when film is almost Limit: 18. Lab fee: $50. Meets the following degree extinct and video has become the world's dominant requirements: AD, HY moving image medium. We will look at video art's ties to performance art and activism, and examine how many multi-media artists have situated their AD 1042 Introduction to Glass Blowing use of video in the context of their other practices. and Sculpture Artists whose work and writing about their work will PERRIN, LINDA be explored include: Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, This hands-on course will introduce the student to Dara Birnbaum, Tony Conrad, Hermine Freed, Joan glass as an artistic material. The weekly schedule Jonas, Miranda July, Mariko Mori, Bruce Nauman, includes a lecture on campus and a four-hour lab Pipilotti Rist, Bill Viola, and William Wegman. We will 38 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 off campus at a professional art glass studio. Work AD 1056 Beginning Contemporary in the studio will focus on learning the basic skills Dance Technique necessary to complete simple blown glass forms. ROBBINS, DANI Students will learn basic glass blowing techniques including gathering glass from the furnace, using In this introductory level course, we'll work to develop hand tools, and creating different shapes on the a movement practice that centers both self care blowpipe. An ongoing emphasis on shop safety will be and togetherness. This class will draw on a variety maintained during demonstrations of the proper use of contemporary practitioners and methods, relying of equipment and tools. In addition to glass blowing, on somatosensory feedback to access availability, students will be instructed to complete projects using spaciousness, presence, and pleasure both individually slumping and enameling kilns, diamond lapidary saws, and collectively. Students will investigate basic a sand blasting cabinet, and water fed grinders. The patterns of choreography, experimenting with weekly lecture will focus on the historical evolution principles of velocity and momentum and exploring of glass working methods, from the first hollow core personal and shared movement impulses. Assigned vessels to contemporary art glass by Dale Chihuly readings, screenings, and writing assignments will or Beth Lipman. Students will be evaluated based complement and support our physical practice. on attendance, regular reviews of the student's Students will be evaluated based on attendance, sketchbook, the ability to make five basic vessel successful completion of assigned work, depth of shapes, and a final sculptural project. engagement during class and with course materials, and the expansion of their individual movement Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class capacities. All class meetings will take place in-person limit: 10. Lab fee: $250 (covers energy, glass, and and on campus. Participants of diverse abilities, exhaustive materials employed in the studio, such needs, and backgrounds are encouraged to enroll. as wooden blocks, kevlar gloves etc). Meets the Dance experience is welcome, but not necessary. following degree requirements: None Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: 11. Lab fee: $30. Meets the following degree AD 1044 Audio Production and Engineering requirements: None SOARES, ZACHARY Producers and engineers paint an aural picture of AD 1058 Dissecting Popular Music the work their clients wish to share with the world. HENDERSON, JONATHAN This introductory course focuses on the techniques of producers as well as the engineering equipment Can you trace the anatomy of a catchy song? How used to create recordings for musicians. Through does the form and structure of music compare recording, editing, and mastering audio, students across culture and style? How does sound recording will learn to create and record music and will dramatize a song on the sonic stage of headphones, better understand the history of the recording and night club sound systems, and car stereos? This production process. practice-based course focuses on strengthening critical listening and musicianship skills, as students Topics that will be covered include digital and learn to dissect recorded performances of popular analog audio equipment, transducers, condenser music across divergent music genres. We will split and dynamic microphones, microphone placement, our time between the classroom and the rehearsal signal processing, ProTools software, mixing, studio, engaging in critical listening, discussion, and effects processing, and interacting with clients. An hands-on musical performance. This course is open introduction to live sound reinforcement will give to practiced musicians as well as beginners with an context to the ProTools software. Weekend sessions interest in singing, instrumental performance, or will provide hands-on experience recording demos sound recording. In our weekly classroom sessions, for local musicians while weekly listening sessions students will develop critical listening skills, including and film screenings will highlight some recording hearing component parts of a sound mix (identifying techniques used by producers and engineers over the instruments, voices, and their placement in the past sixty years. Students will be evaluated on their stereo field), identifying frequencies, recognizing participation during recording sessions, their input the use of processing effects, describing song form during weekly listening sessions and screenings, and and arrangement techniques, etc. Students will their final projects. work to articulate what they value about recorded Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: Permission of performances through written reflections and instructor; no experience playing music or recording presentations in class. In the rehearsal studio, we will audio is needed. Class limit: 8. Lab fee: $50. Meets the dissect the instrumental and vocal parts of several following degree requirements: None pieces of music to understand how the components conspire to create an overall effect. The class will also experiment with group composition, working to write a few pieces of music together towards the end of the COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 39 term. For a final project, students will create a short recommended for performers looking to deepen their podcast-essay that dissects a recorded performance relationship to their instrument, as well as students of their choosing. Evaluation will be based on class with a strong science background who are interested participation, completion of written reflections, the in additional perspectives on anatomical study. final project, and class presentations. Through consistent discussion of this work and our Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class experiences in it, we will work to place the experiential limit: 12. Lab fee: $30. Meets the following degree in dialogue with the empirical. requirements: ADS Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree AD 1060 Movement Training Basics requirements: None BAKER, JODI AD 1065 Contemporary Dance Composition This course is an introduction to a wide variety of physical skills useful for anyone interested in ROBBINS, DANI investigating their own potential for physical research This introductory course will focus on personal and self-expression. Techniques are derived from expression through movement and compositional movement training methodologies developed for techniques. Each class will begin with a gentle warm actors as well as other practices including (but not up that will help students become aware of movement limited to) classical ballet, martial arts, circus skills, impulses and locate a personal movement vocabulary. sports training, acrobatics, and improvisation. Through short, weekly assignments, students will Students gain a greater sense of physical awareness gather a collection of tools for composing movement and imaginative possibility, building strength, mental sequences including honing improvisation toward set and physical agility, stamina, and flexibility while choreography, responding to spatial and environmental grappling with questions regarding personal and conditions, and drawing inspiration from sound collective responsibility, personal and collective and imagery. Our making will be supplemented by consent, and the power/politics of a specific body in readings and screenings of 20th and 21st century a given space or circumstance. The class works to choreographers, aiding us in contextualizing challenge preconceptions about body image and body our creative process within the current field of language while working creatively and collaboratively contemporary dance. Students will be asked to craft to clarify abstract concepts through physical action. a short final piece of choreography, to be shared with Evaluation is based on class participation (including the community during a "Works in Progress" showing. labs/screenings and small group rehearsals), Evaluation will be based on attendance, satisfactory engagement with the course blog (including all completion of weekly assignments, and rigorous introduced topics and concepts), and successful engagement with the process of developing a final completion and presentation of a short sequence of piece. Students of diverse abilities and experiences are assigned projects. Students with any or no movement encouraged to enroll. It is strongly recommended that experience are welcome. students have some prior dance or theater coursework Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: 11. before taking this course. Please contact the instructor Lab fee: $50. Default grading option: Credit/No Credit. directly if you have questions about your background. Meets the following degree requirements: ADS Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree AD 1061 Sourcing the Body: requirements: None Experiential Anatomy AD 1067 Music Fundamentals: Intro to ROBBINS, DANI Reading/Hearing/Writing/Playing In this course, we will work towards an embodied understanding of our own anatomy, as well as REMY, MICHAEL a deepened sense of listening, presence, and This hands-on course deals with the aural, mental, understanding of the body as a complex system. and physical elements of music and its production. It Students will explore anatomical models and be is divided into instructional segments including: Ear led through simple, gentle movement sequences. Training and Aural Perception, Music Theory, Basic These exercises will be drawn from various somatic Keyboard Skills, Arranging and Composition, and modalities such as Mind-Body Centering, Feldenkrais Basic Guitar Skills. [Detailed descriptions of segments Technique, and Alexander Technique. Students will available in registrar's office.] This course is open to be asked to reflect on these explorations in a journal all students, regardless of musical experience. The format, and will curate a small portion of this work sole prerequisite is a desire to make music or simply to share with the class on a weekly basis. Readings, to enrich one's skills as a critical listener of music. additional viewings, and drawing assignments will Efforts are made to accommodate the special needs complement our weekly lessons. This course is of the musical novice, as well as to challenge the 40 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 experienced performer. Emphasis is on popular song singer songwriter Caroline Cotter for an adventure styles, but analysis of Western Art Music forms are in songwriting that explores the power of songs and included for comparison purposes. provides different approaches to crafting a song that Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class truly speaks to your ideas and emotions. Caroline limit: 12. Lab fee: $20 Meets the following degree shares her own process on finding inspiration and requirements: None crafting songs that have the power to move you and others. There will be opportunities for free writing, listening and dissecting songs from all genres, song AD 1068 Introduction to Ceramics; sharing, group feedback, co-writing, and lots of Hand-Built-Pots experimenting in a supportive and safe environment. DOWNING, E. SAFFRONIA For a final project, students will present their final Hand-Built-Pots explores potentialities of form work in their choice of an audio recording, video and function in contemporary ceramics. Through recording, or live performance. Evaluation will be this intro-level handbuilding course, students will based on class participation, completion of written learn ceramic methods such as coil-building, slab assignments, and the final project. construction, and press molding as they consider/ Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: create clay pots. Students in this course will take 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree up vessel-making to explore storytelling, personal requirements: None metaphor, and conceptual practice. Histories of the vessel will provide context for ceramic explorations, as AD 1071 Fundamentals of Painting artists such as Magdalene Odondo, Betty Woodman, and Toshiko Takaezu guide our conversations. SEBASTIAN, NEERAJ Assignments include the production of a series of In this course, students will be introduced to the basic vessel-inspired artworks. Students will be evaluated aspects involved in the process of translating what based on their participation in class discussions they are observing in space onto two-dimensional and critiques, as well as their inventiveness and surfaces in oil paint. Students will be introduced demonstrated effort in ceramic assignments. to the basics of color theory, mixing and matching Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class colors, and also explore how color can change limit: 12. Lab fee: $95. Meets the following degree depending on context. Through the assignments we requirements: ADS will investigate how form, volume, space, and light can be captured in paint. Students will learn how to build their own frames and stretch and prepare AD 1069 Introduction to Drawing: canvases for painting and develop a studio practice, Space and Form which includes cleaning and maintenance of brushes, HILBERT, FRANCE the palette, and other tools. A broad range of ideas and concerns in painting throughout history, from Students acquire fundamental skills and techniques various parts of the world, will be introduced in the for drawing from direct observation utilizing subjects class. In the last part of the term, different aspects such as still life, landscape, and architecture. There of composition will be discussed: the way colors and is a strong emphasis on realistically representing shapes can work together to create an integrated form, light, depth, proportion, and scale. Analysis image. Assignments will include quick paintings as of drawings, criticisms, and classroom discussions well as paintings that are made over the course of expand the students' vocabulary and knowledge of multiple class sessions. The assignments over the drawing. Concept development will be accomplished course of the term will build students' confidence using sketchbooks, thumbnails, and quick sketches. in translating what's in front of them, which makes Evaluation will depend on drawing projects and the task of taking on the images in their heads, the participation in class discussions and critiques. The lab fee covers all course materials. images they are interested in, less daunting. Students will learn how to look at and analyze their Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: 12. Lab fee: $90. Meets the following degree peers' work and provide them with constructive requirements: ADS feedback during critiques. Previous drawing experience at high school or college level is strongly recommended. Evaluation will be based on how the AD 1070 Introduction to Songwriting specific criteria set for each assignment are met, COTTER, CAROLINE participation and engagement during critiques, and Have you always wanted to write an original song, receptivity to feedback. but don't know where to start? Or perhaps you Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None, but previous have been writing songs for years and would like drawing experience at high school or college level is a different perspective. Wherever you are in your strongly recommended. Class limit: 12. Lab fee: $100. musical journey, you are welcome in this course! Join Meets the following degree requirements: ADS COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 41 AD 2011 Graphic Design Studio I: and time (including sound, sensory perceptions, Visual Communication movement, and natural processes) will be explored- with attention paid to how a work functions, involves a COLBERT, DRU viewer, activates a space, or impacts an environment; Visual communication is one of the most pervasive physically, psychically, or socially. Projects in the means of human communication. Graphic design, class will progress from the creation of objects to within the realm of visual communication, is a investigations of the sensory and objective aspects process used to effectively convey ideas and of space. Students will experiment with subtractive information visually through print, electronic and constructive processes using traditional as well media, products in the marketplace, and structural as contemporary materials such as found, recycled, elements in the built environment. Its application and natural objects. A diverse range of materials and may be promotional, editorial, informational, techniques will be introduced and demonstrated. expositional, or instigational. It may cater to, or Discussion of historic and contemporary artists' work critique-commercialism, colonialism, capitalism, will augment the course. Students will be evaluated and advertising-or alternately be used to organize based on completion of projects, participation in class information and visualize complex data or concepts. discussions, and individual/group critiques. Is it possible to construct a visual message that Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. will be received through the din and noise of Class limit: 15. Lab fee $85. Meets the following degree our overstuffed media environment? Past other requirements: ADS competing messages? What are some of the contemporary issues surrounding design and the roles and responsibilities of graphic designers in the AD 2013 Constructing Visual Narrative workplace and in their communities? COLBERT, DRU In this introductory/intermediate level studio course Narrative: n. & adj. N. a spoken or written account of you will become familiar with visual rhetoric and the connected events in order of happening. The practice basic elements, principles, and processes of graphic or art of narration. Adj. in the form of, or concerned design that will help you to construct effective visual with, narration (narrative verse). messages. You will work on a variety of conceptual How is meaning shaped by the images we create? visual communication projects in the realms of In all cultures, throughout time, artists have sought information design, editorial design, and promotional ways to tell stories about far ranging topics-the design. Lectures, demonstrations, assignments, unknown, the success of a hunt, gods and goddesses, and critiques will offer a balanced framework for historical events, wars, court tales, biblical themes, developing skills in creative perception, critical social instruction, morals, politics, product promotion, thinking and visual communication. An emphasis and personal imaginings. Historically, artists have is placed on these elements and evaluation will be adapted visual storytelling techniques to exploit weighted more heavily in these areas than technical evolving technology and changing social concerns, expertise on the computer. You will, however, be from ancient wall markings, tomb inscriptions, scrolls, required to learn the basics of several computer illuminated manuscripts, pottery decoration, carved graphic applications (Adobe Photoshop, Adobe totems, pictorial painting; to sequential engraved Illustrator, and Adobe InDesign and/or Quark) in prints, comic books, graphic novels, graffiti, and the order to complete coursework. You will receive basic web. In this studio course, students will investigate instruction in these programs in class, but will be "visual language," symbolism, and some of the expected to refer to computer manuals and guide pictorial devices, materials, and techniques employed books for specific tools and techniques that may be by artists to tell stories visually-particularly through required to visualize your ideas. sequential composition in the graphic arts. Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: Through focused assignments, discussion of Introduction to Arts and Design or Two Dimensional artists' works (historic and across cultures), and Design I recommended. Class limit: 14. Lab fee: $85. guided demonstrations in a variety of materials Meets the following degree requirements: ADS and techniques, students will respond to select historic forms of visual narrative to create unique AD 2012 3D Studio: Introduction to contemporary forms in which to tell their own relevant Three-Dimensional Art and Design stories. "Case study" studio projects will be selected COLBERT, DRU to focus on key points in world history that mark technological transition in material, technique, and This course is an introduction to three-dimensional pictorial devices employed by artists to render visual design and sculpture. Through a variety of projects, narratives. Projects will range from the hands-on students will analyze and apply the classic organizing exploration of ancient wall painting and low relief principles of three-dimensional design work. Elements carving technique; through non-press printing of form, space, line, texture, light, color, scale, techniques such as linocut, image transfer, and potato 42 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 prints; to collage of found images, xerography, Polaroid AD 2017 Drawing Mineral and Botanical print manipulation, digital prints, and "synthetic" Matter in the Forest of Maine imaging on the computer. Students will be encouraged CLINGER, CATHERINE to explore and invent new forms of sequential composition and utilize new or previously unexplored Viewed as a regular practice, the descriptive power of materials or techniques. Concurrent investigations drawing can intensify the experience of observational in visual studies will focus on the meaning created fieldwork, provide the draughtsperson with a richer through the use of pictorial devices, signs and symbols, understanding of the cycles within a landscape, and and the creation of narrative structure through deepen our relationship with the natural world. The repeated image/duplication, sequential composition, primary setting for this studio course is Mount Desert and visual allegory. Students will be evaluated on Island. The subject matter of our visual attention writing assignments, level of completion and analysis includes trees, rock features, and other indigenous of assigned readings, research and presentation, plant life of the island. Students will learn a variety quality and completion of projects, and participation in of drawing methods in order to document the natural class activities and discussion. history of a specific place. Coursework includes: maintaining a field sketchbook, graphically recording Level: Introductory/intermediate Prerequisite: None, the development of a singular botanical life form however the following courses are recommended: over the course of the term, and producing visual Intro to Arts and Design, or 2D courses in drawing, notations in the sketchbook during a bi-weekly slide painting, printmaking, graphic design, photography, lecture on the history of artistic representations or writing and/or literature courses. Class Limit: of the natural world. Evaluation is based on class 15. Lab fee: $85. Meets the following degree participation, evidence of completion of weekly requirements: ADS assignments, and final project. Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: AD 2014 Curiosity and Wonder: Design and Permission of instructor. Class limit: 12. Lab fee: $120. Interpretation in the Museum Meets the following degree requirements: ADS COLBERT, DRU From "cabinet of curiosity" to "exploratorium," AD 2020 History of Photography this studio course surveys contemporary museum WINER, JOSHUA activities and methods of communication through visual display, space, and interaction. Students This introductory course charts the history of will engage in a project-development process to photography from early nineteenth-century nascent refine "big ideas," determine educational goals, and technologies (daguerreotypes and tintypes) through learn techniques to design and build their projects. to the diverse range of photographic media currently Class participants will gain an understanding of practiced by contemporary artists and photographers factors that influence learning, media, and modes (film and digital). In this art history course, we will that may be utilized to communicate complex consider how the new visual discourse of photography content, and how meaning is constructed by the was informed by both technological and social selection, organization, and layering of intellectual developments. Photography cannot be defined as a material through the use of object, text, image, and unified medium; therefore, this course investigates both discontinuous as well as coalesced conventions experiential devices. within its own history; in other words, how and Projects and hands-on workshops will provide why photographs look different from each other. an opportunity to gain skills and techniques in In addition to noting external influences upon the visualizing ideas by developing concepts in the form photographic object, we will explore how photography of plans, sketches, models, and narrative description. helped to shape a variety of visual disciplines from Students will have an opportunity to evaluate and painting to zines. Accordingly, our class will discuss create interpretive material for the COA George B. formal photographic syntax (how they are composed Dorr Museum of Natural History. Students will be and the forms they appear represent) and allied evaluated through participation in class discussion aesthetic practices as well as the wider social and and critiques, attendance, and for completion political issues that influenced the content of its visual and quality of assigned projects. This course is culture. We will study how artists use photographic appropriate for all students interested in informal practices in the context of social and activist functions education in the museum environment, design, and to examine a diversity of subjects: gender and class, visual communication. ethnic and national identity, among others; and how Level: Introductory/intermediate. Prerequisite: One categorical distinctions between mass culture and or more courses in Arts and Design OR Educational avant-garde art, commercial, and fine art photography Studies. Class limit: 15. Lab fee: $85. Meets the are not always stable. Course readings include following degree requirements: ADS writings by historians, artists, and critics that reflect the unstable status of the photographic object within COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 43 the intersections of science, technology and culture, politics of location, and fan cultures. We will listen to aesthetic discourse and everyday documentation. punk rock, hip hop, riot grrrl, shoegaze, noise, psych, We will look at many photographs. Students will be death metal, doom drone, post rock, grindcore, and evaluated on their participation in class discussions, pop (among others); we will analyze visual artists short essay assignments, and a final project or paper. who come to represent musical movements (such as Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. Raymond Pettibon and Winston Smith, Fab 5 Freddy Class Limit: 15. Lab fee: $30. Meets the following and Cey Adams) and we will read socio-cultural degree requirements: HY, AD criticism of the times and places from which these artists sprang (Joan Didion, Steve Waksman, Theodor Adorno, Tobi Vale, Kathleen Hanna, and Kevin Young). AD 2029 Contemporary Artist as The class will explore analogue artifacts from the 70s, Researcher and Activist 80s, and 90s (posters, zines, fine art, and videos) and CLINGER, CATHERINE compare them to digital artifacts found today on the The student will be introduced to a contemporary internet. Students are required to attend all weekly stream of visual culture that places nature, ethos, film screenings and sound sessions. Evaluations will competing ideologies, and our relationship to these be based on regular critical responses, a final project, within the context of emergent forms of art activism. and participation in discussion and class activities. In response to environmental and social crisis, Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. theory and praxis figure significantly in the work of Class limit: 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the following artists and artist collectives from around the globe degree requirements: None whose practice manifests as socially engaged art (SEA) defined by Pablo Helguera; data/information AD 2037 Guitar Fundamentals reimagined as by Mona Hatoum and Trevor Paglen; or examinations of reconciliation and mass trauma in BLOTNICK, RYAN the work of Doris Salcedo and Kara Walker. In some This course is a fundamental study in guitar cases, artworks engage with nature/culture by their chord construction, note reading, chord symbol placement in site-specific locations, through new identification, fingerboard facility, and theory as modes of picturing, and/or through the appropriation related to guitar and scale and mode work. Students of hypothetical scientific musings or emerging will develop a practice routine in order to attain technologies (e.g., Ed Atkins, fictionalized genetic introductory improvisational skills and basic facility hybridization and subversion of surveillance tools). in practical guitar performance. Intermediate Many of the artists we examine make use of new tools students will expand their existing knowledge and designed for industrial purpose, medical, agricultural, skill in these areas. Assessment is based on class or scientific research. Others further participatory participation, reading, listening, and notation dialogues within anti-racist, decolonizing, and assignments; and the development of a self-directed queer-centered discursive practices. This work is practice routine with specific goals, weekly practice inherently transdisciplinary and human ecological in tapes, and a final performance. disposition and character. Many of these producer- Students that play another stringed instrument are artists appropriate the role of "researcher" in order welcome but they will be responsible for translating to bring attention to ecologies that human beings the teachings to their instrument. Students must have disrupted or will disrupt. Doris Salcedo, Tacita provide their own instruments (acoustic or electric). Dean, Kara Walker, Mark Dion, Shirin Neshat, Ai Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. Weiwei, Andra Ursuta, Karim Ben Khelifa, Raven Class limit: 12. Lab fee: $10. Meets the following degree Chacon, Frances Alys, Natalie Jeremijenko, and requirements: ADS Guillermo Galindo, among others, will be considered. Evaluation is based on class participation, evidence of completion of weekly readings, a final paper, and a AD 2038 The Theory and Mystery of Color class presentation. MCMULLEN, ERNIE Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. Color touches on nearly every aspect of life on earth. Class limit: 15. Lab fee: $50. Meets the following It is used to elicit the widest range of emotions and degree requirements: AD, HY feelings by quickly influencing cellular activity, or raising or lowering blood pressure, or triggering AD 2035 Our Band Could Be Your Life: wakefulness and sleep. Color plays a vital role in Music, Art, Zines 1975-2015 mating and reproduction for most life forms and a central role in symbolizing the aspirations of MAHONEY, DANIEL nation states, corporations, and even the humble This course is an investigation of how we consume neighborhood grade school. In the realm of the visual and are consumed by music. Topics include youth arts, color has reigned supreme since the earliest cave and subcultures of music, power and identity, the paintings; and in the mundane material world, color is 44 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 used universally to influence the buying decisions of one required field trip. Students will be evaluated everything from Ferraris to Fruit Loops. on demonstrated participation in all class activities, A theory can be defined as a well-substantiated screenings, and discussion; successful completion of explanation of some aspect of the natural world all writing and performance assignments; and a final based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly project of their own design. confirmed through observation and experiment, and Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. a mystery is defined as something that baffles our Course limit: 10. Lab fee: $110. Meets the following understanding and cannot be explained. This course degree requirement: AD will move between modern scientific color theory and the mysterious world of color mixing, interaction, and AD 2040 The Art of Clown design. We will study historic and modern pigments and their uses and applications across a broad range OBLONGATA, DONNA of the visual arts, and will devote substantial class The archetype of the clown exists in many cultural time to the design and execution of color design contexts throughout time-those individuals whose problems. The five goals of this course are: to role it is to turn society on its head, poke fun at the develop a solid working knowledge of scientific color powerful, and make literal fun of our own flaws and theory; to develop significant skills in seeing, mixing vulnerabilities-society's pressure-release valve. and organizing color through studio exercises and Contrary to common pop-culture depictions, clown is assignments; to produce a body of work that you are a form that requires tremendous vulnerability, self- proud of; to develop constructive and helpful critiquing knowledge, and the ability to respond spontaneously skills; and to permanently enliven and enrich the way in any performance context. The work in this class will you move through the visual world in a way that invites be derived from a sequence of games and exercises you to share the mystery of color with others. geared toward the discovery and development of each Class time will be divided into lecture, critique, studio student's own clown self. Training and research will exercises, and explanation of assignments due for the be drawn from theatrical improv traditions, stand-up following class critique. Students will be evaluated comedy, circus history, and European and Canadian on the quality of the required assignments presented clown pedagogies. Students will perform for each for critiques, as well as their class attendance and other every week, experimenting with different attentive participation in all aspects of the studio approaches. Some readings and video will be required. meetings. This class is an excellent option for students Students will be evaluated on effective preparation who are interested in the visual arts, but also will have and engagement with all materials and course topics value for students with a wide range of interests and as well as completion of all class assignments. The backgrounds outside of the arts. Prior experience default grading for this course is Credit/No Credit. in drawing, painting, or other visual arts is not a Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. necessary prerequisite for the course. Class limit: 12. Lab fee: $50. Meets the following Level: Introductory-Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. degree requirements: None Class limit: 12. Lab fee: $100. Meets the following degree requirements: ADS AD 2042 Ecologies of Cities MULLER, BROOK AD 2039 Dramatic Mechanics We typically think of cities as centers of political BAKER, JODI and economic power; social vibrancy (and tension); Theatre is, at its core, an embodied investigation of and cultural richness, diversity, and production. the dynamics of difference and power. This course This course explores ecological "readings" of cities, will focus on how that investigation works both on landscapes transformed irrevocably due to human the page and in production. Students will study the activities and the introduction of unprecedented unique architecture of texts written for performance, concentrations of "unnatural" substances and how plays are built, and how they function for an significant loss of biological and hydrological integrity. audience. Students will read aloud a varied selection The course also examines processes by which cities of contemporary and historical texts for performance, have transformed surrounding regional landscapes examining them structurally, logistically, aesthetically, as both "wells" of resources and "sinks" for waste and from multiple points of view within production and the planetary scale environmental impacts of work (i.e. dramaturgy, design, direction, acting, urban growth in the contemporary global economy. and audience). The class will consider differences Following a succinct historical survey in the first part in staging and determine through practice how of the class (with focus on the interrelated forces of those choices impact meaning. Students should be industrialization, colonization, and explosive urban prepared to actively engage with the work through growth in the nineteenth century), we will look to discussion, table reads, weekly writing assignments, recent efforts to reimagine cities such that they are and occasional informal scene work. There will be more "ecological." These efforts come in a variety COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 45 of forms from "city as refugia" (establishing habitat AD 3013 Animation for nonhumans) to "novel ecosystems" (working with ANDREWS, NANCY new concentrations of contaminants and colonization of non-native biological communities) to cities as This course explores animation as a form of creative settings in which closed-loop, ecologically inspired expression, experimentation, and personal vision. systems drive processes of development. Of concern Various techniques; such as drawing, cut-out, painting on related to all of these ecological urbanisms is that film, and under-the-camera collage; will be introduced. conversion of city landscapes from grey to green and Students will create flip-books, video pencil tests, blue can lead to ever greater levels of inequality. In and animated films. Students will be given exercises the final section of the course, we will speculate as to and assignments that guide them through processes ways to intervene in cities-as-ecosystems that build for making art. Various artists' animated films will be on commitments to both social justice and ecological screened and discussed. History and concepts related replenishment, bringing into relation the flourishing of to animation and film will be introduced through humans and nonhumans in urbanized environments. screenings, reading, and discussions. Evaluations will be based on class participation Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: Previous and sustained engagement with the core themes: introductory art course. Class Limit: 12. Lab fee: $30. attendance, demonstration of close readings of Meets the following degree requirements: ADS texts, contributions to group discussions (including listening), honing of collaborative capabilities, and AD 3014 Soundscape commitment to an iterative process with the three ANDREWS, NANCY; TODD, SEAN course projects (the last of which will be worked on in teams) that involve succinct compositions of Soundscape may be defined as an environment of written narratives and diagrams and other visual sound (or sonic environment) with emphasis on the representations (multiple graphics workshops will be way it is perceived and understood by the individual, structured into the class). or by a society. It thus depends upon the relationship between the individual and any such environment. The Level: Introduction/Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. term may refer to actual environments, or to abstract Class limit: 12. Lab fee: $25. Meets the following constructions such as musical compositions and degree requirement: AD tape montages, particularly when considered as an artificial environment. In this interdisciplinary course AD 3012 Documentary Video Studio we investigate a broad range of acoustic concepts, ANDREWS, NANCY ranging from a scientific treatment of the nature and behavior of sound both in air and underwater, the A documentary video or film purports to present biology of hearing, the use of sound by animals in factual information about the world. A documentary communication, and the cultural applications of sound may take a stand, state an opinion, or advocate a and music in human society. solution to a problem. A documentary may function in the realm of art. Documentaries may compile Students will explore methods of composition using images from archival sources, interview testimonies sounds as materials for assigned projects. Various about social movements or events, record an ongoing approaches to understanding and experiencing sound event "as it happens," or synthesize these and other will be examined, including spoken word, radio shows, techniques. We will look at various documentaries music, and experimental forms. Labs will focus on both historic and contemporary, and a number understanding the nature of sound, and practical of strategies and styles, including video diaries/ application of sound equipment, technique, and autobiographical works, cinema verite, propaganda, theory. Students will learn about microphones, sound documentary activism, nature documentaries, and recording, amplification, and the physics of sound. experimental genres. Students will learn the basics The course will culminate in a performance to the of video production including using a video camera, community of student presentations that expresses video editing, production planning, lighting, microphone the wide use of sound as part of our culture. use, and interview techniques. Students will make Evaluation will be based on class participation several documentary projects, both collaboratively and a set of assignments, including a final project. and individually. Students will be evaluated on their Emphasis will be placed on an artistic interpretation participation in group discussions and critiques, and on of soundscape, although students will be expected to the documentary projects they produce. have a basic understanding of the scientific basis of Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: Any introductory- acoustic phenomena. level arts and design studio course or film history Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: One AD and one course (previous video production experience is not ES course. Class Limit: 12. Lab fee $60. Meets the required). Class limit: 12. Lab fee: $40. Meets the following degree requirements: ADS following degree requirements: ADS 46 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 AD 3018 History of Filmmaking II TEAM, Radiohole, and more. Evaluation is based (1946-Present) on full participation in class discussion, successful completion of all short projects and assignments, and CAPERS, COLIN a major final project/paper. D. W. Griffith, pioneer of early cinema, prophesied Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: Successful in 1924 that by 2024 cinema would have been completion of the writing requirement and at least one instrumental in "eliminating from the face of the literature course. Class limit: 12. Lab fee: $75. Meets civilized world all armed conflict." Where have things the following degree requirements: AD, HY gone wrong? Cinema is a powerful medium that in many ways is still struggling to find its place among the other arts; there are many promising byways that AD 3025 Special Topics in Production have been overlooked or under-explored. This course BAKER, JODI explores the histories, production, and meanings of This course provides practical experience in the motion pictures. Using various films as case studies, processes required to build a theatrical production. we will look at the development of film forms, Because each rendition of the class focuses on new techniques and genres from 1946 to the present- source material, and new production methods and the second half of cinema history. Films studied concepts, students may receive credit for this course will include examples of narrative, documentary, multiple times. Students research, rehearse, and animation, and the avant-garde. Students will learn produce a performance for the public in collaboration concepts of film analysis and criticism, and will with a faculty director. The material and pedagogical have opportunities to practice critical skills in class focus of the course changes with each successive discussions and in research and writing assignments. rendition. The number of students enrolled in the Evaluation will be based on attendance, participation course varies depending upon the demands of the in class discussion, written papers, and research project. Students with any or no experience in theater presentations. Film gives us the opportunity to, in the are welcome, but priority is based on seniority words of David Lynch, "get lost in another world and/or specific academic investment in the given to dream in the dark." Who decides which dreams we project, process, or subject matter. In most cases, all will see? Through an understanding of where cinema assignments (cast and crew) will be made the previous has been we can more effectively shape its, and our, term through auditions and interviews. Those future. Writing Focus option. interested in non-actor aspects of production (set Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. Class design, light and sound design, stage management, limit: 20. Lab fee: $35. Meets the following degree dramaturgy, etc.) are especially encouraged. The requirements: AD, HY course meets four days a week and those enrolled must be available for a certain amount of additional AD 3020 American Dreaming: Theatre and collaborative work outside class time (extra Activism in the US rehearsals, construction and tech work, plus final performance dates and strike). A production schedule BAKER, JODI will be available by week one. Evaluation is based on The course focuses on dramatic literature connected demonstrated commitment to the process as well as a to historically relevant political and social issues in final reflective paper based on the experience. Default the US. Students will read plays and study a variety grading option is Credit/No Credit. of artists that have used theatre as a viable force Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. Class for change over the last century. Together we'll Limit: 12. Lab fee: $75. Meets the following degree explore the mechanics and dynamics of particular requirements: ADS performances as well as the cultural context in which these works were conceived. We will investigate significant periods in American history such as AD 3077 Black Atlantic Music the New Deal, the House Un-American Activities HENDERSON, JONATHAN Committee, the Civil Rights Movement, the emergence In Black Atlantic Music, students will work to of the AIDS epidemic, the attack on the World Trade understand how histories of slavery, colonialism, Center, and the economic crash of 2007-08-and diasporic imagination, and networks of cultural we will explore the impact of these events on exchange form the basis for popular music in the this particular form. Research will include Circuit African diaspora. Tracing musical and political Chautauqua, Pat Chappelle, Hallie Flanagan and The histories through a series of case studies routed Federal Theatre Project, Susan Glaspell, Clifford throughout the diaspora, this course aims to develop Odetts, Arthur Miller, Lorraine Hansberry, The Living a theory of "the Black Atlantic" as a sonic geography. Theatre, The Open Theatre, Adrienne Kennedy, Marie After establishing a foundation in the key historical Irene Fornes, The Wooster Group, Anna Deavere- forces leading to the creation of the African diaspora, Smith, Luis Valdez, Tony Kushner, Suzan-Lori Parks, students will explore case studies related to the Young Jean Lee, Brandon Jacob Jenkins, The COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 47 development of local and transnational musical required to ensure a workable balance of instruments. styles from salsa to hip-hop, funk, reggae, and more. Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: Permission of We will explore the intersecting work of artists instructor and working knowledge of an instrument. (such as Janelle Monae, Angélique Kidjo, Fela Kuti, Class limit: 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the following Lee "Scratch" Perry, and Bob Marley) and scholars degree requirements: ADS (such as Paul Gilroy, Angela Davis, Amiri Baraka, and Michael Veal). Equal weight in the course will be given to reading, listening, and writing as valuable modes AD 3081 Craft Ecologies: Mount Desert Island of interacting with music. Throughout the course of DOWNING, E. SAFFRONIA the term, students will learn to listen more closely to Through the course Craft Ecologies, students will sound and to develop a critical capacity for relating trace the complex systems which bring material into these sounds to the political and social worlds from being. Exploring the natural substances of Mount which they emerge. Turning our attention back and Desert Island, students will harvest raw materials, forth between the local and the transnational, Black think through material as an extension of place, Atlantic Music is a window into how music takes shape and create process-based artworks. In this studio in the context of culture, politics, geography and seminar, we will consider the correspondence between history. Evaluations will be based on regular written maker and material. Wild clay, natural pigments, and responses, a final project, and participation in class foraged fibers will enter contemporary art discourse discussions and activities. as students explore entanglements between the Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: None, but previous natural and human-built worlds. Coursework will coursework in anthropology, literature, or history will include a term-long self-designed project related be helpful. Class limit: 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the to course themes. We will also undertake weekly following degree requirements: AD reading assignments such as Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass, Ursula Le Guin's Carrier Bag AD 3079 Jazz Manouche Theory of Fiction, and Tim Ingold's Making. Students will be evaluated based on their participation in class HENDERSON, JONATHAN discussions and critiques, as well as their inventiveness During the 1930s, the French-Romani guitarist and demonstrated effort in ceramic assignments. Django Reinhardt launched a new musical style. Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: At least one Arts Combining the traditional music of his Romani and Design studio course in any discipline. Class heritage with French bal-musettes and the Swing limit: 12. Lab fee: $30. Meets the following degree music storming Europe from the other side of the requirements: ADS Atlantic, Reinhardt pioneered a sound that came to be known as "Gypsy Jazz," "Jazz Manouche," or "Hot Club Jazz." This class will focus on the rich musical AD 3083 Mixed Media Sculpture repertoire flowing from this history as we work to SUMMERS, KRISTY practice, perform, and learn about its sounds and This course will focus on creating sculptural objects histories. A practice-based course organized around through the use of mixed media. This course is learning and performing the music, it will treat a designed to build off of three-dimensional design and series of compositions as entry points for lessons in continue exploring various materials and processes jazz improvisation, understanding harmonic motion, as they relate to sculpture. Through this course chord voicing, and rhythmic awareness (swing, students will be introduced to a range of materials and waltz, bossa, bolero, etc). In addition to practice- processes addressing their use, ranging from aesthetic based work, students will also learn about the to conceptual considerations. This may include histories of Romani (Sinti) migration across Europe additive, subtractive, found object, mold making and and the genealogies of musicians as they relate casting, as well as other traditional and alternative to the development of Jazz Manouche. Students processes as the opportunity presents itself. will read texts concerning Django Reinhardt and This is a studio/classroom based course that other key figures and will write a final paper that will introduce materials and methods, provide reflects research into the people, places, and sounds demonstrations, require research, discuss concepts associated with this music. Assessment will be based of planning and construction, address safe material on class participation, weekly practice logs, and the handling and tool usage when applicable, as well final paper/project. as provide the opportunity to experiment and play. The course is designed for students with a working Students will create projects based off of their knowledge of an acoustic instrument (guitar, strings, own designs that push them both technically and bass, percussion, accordion, mandolin, woodwinds, conceptually. Student evaluations will be based on brass, percussion, etc). The class will be held largely completion of projects and related research, class outdoors, so we cannot accommodate piano or participation in demonstrations and class discussions, electric instruments. Permission of instructor is and project-based critiques. 48 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: Students taking expansion of improvisational ability. this class should have previously completed an Participants of diverse abilities, needs, and introductory course in ceramics, sculpture, or 3D backgrounds are encouraged to apply, including design, or have equivalent professional experience. those who play non-traditional jazz instruments. Class limit: 12. Lab fee: $120. Meets the following This course is scheduled from 11:10-2:25 with a break degree requirements: None for lunch. The second studio block will at times be used for small group work and other assignments as AD 3084 Into Watery Realms: needed. Image Making as Ritual Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: Some improvisation LYON, HEATHER experience; ability to read music or learn music quickly by ear. Class limit: 8. Lab fee: $30. Meets the In this intermediate level painting course the focus following degree requirements: None will be on ritualized processes of image making and creative thinking using water-based media. Painting is a collaboration between the maker, the "paint," and AD 4013 Installation Art: Activating the subject, characterized by fluidity and interchange. Spaces It has the potential to bring us closer to ourselves, COLBERT, DRU our materials, and the world around us. We will "space in active dialogue with the things and people explore listening and responding sensitively through it contains..." -RoseLee Golberg, from Space as various awareness building practices. Questions of Praxis content, composition, and aesthetic choices that best serve our expressive needs will be part of Installation art is one of the most original, vigorous, our group conversations. Building a daily practice and fertile forms of contemporary art. will be supported with required visual and written It often involves working in specific non-art sites journaling. Our work will take place both in the studio where the activation of the place, or context, of and outside, using various methods of research and artistic intervention is concerned not only with art mark/record making. Sources will include the study of and its boundaries, but also with the fusion of art and Hilma af Klint and her contemporaries, Haitian Vodou life. Installation art extends the area of practice from painting, and Tantric Painting from Rajasthan, among the studio to public space. Architects, urban planners, others. Students will be evaluated based on in-class and environmental designers consider similar formal assignments, out-of-class assignments, participation and social aspects of space in the creation of city in class discussions, research, and an individual plans, buildings, and public spaces. Through hands-on cohesive final project. projects and a survey of historic and contemporary Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: Students taking this art and design work, this intermediate level 3D studio class should have had prior introductory coursework course offers an opportunity to explore formal in painting or other college level coursework in related aspects and social contexts of space and time as a arts (performance, illustration, printmaking) that medium for making art. would prepare them for an intermediate studio arts Students will create interior and exterior installations class. Class limit: 12. Lab fee: $90. Meets the following that may incorporate sculptural elements, everyday degree requirements: None objects, light, sound, or other devices. Course work will investigate the objective and subjective qualities AD 3085 Jazz Ensemble of space, material, and form, and the meanings created through their juxtaposition. In addition to BLOTNICK, RYAN studio work, we will survey a variety of historic and In this intermediate-level course we will form a contemporary contextual art works including spaces medium-sized ensemble to rehearse and perform laid out by architects and designers, installation jazz music. Some prior experience with improvisation itself as an art form, public art projects, sacred is required, as well as an ability to read music or to spaces, the work of visionary artists, historic sites, learn quickly by ear. Rehearsals will focus on playing and monuments. Students will be evaluated on their with good time, intonation, feel, and blend; while participation in class activities and critiques, their respecting various stylistic and historical elements timely completion of projects, and attendance. of jazz. Emphasis will be placed on improvisation, Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: 3D which will be taught from the ground up with a focus studio classes in art, architecture, environmental on ear-training and harmony. There will be a concert design, performance art, or signature of instructor. performance toward the end of the term and there is Class limit: 10. Lab fee: $90. Meets the following the potential for additional off-campus performances degree requirements: ADS and jam sessions. Students will be evaluated based on attendance, commitment to learning the material, successful completion of assigned work, and the COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 49 AD 4014 Graphic Design Studio II: Europe. Although we look at ecologies through the Digital Projects eyes of artists, students interested in science, history, and literature are encouraged to take the course. COLBERT, DRU Evaluation will be based on a research paper and class This studio course offers students an opportunity for presentation. There will be a class trip to view art and/ in-depth study of contemporary issues, applications, or sites relevant to our discussion. and techniques in graphic design. Students will Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: pursue conceptual problem solving through creative Permission of instructor. Lab fee: $50. Class limit: 12. exercises and theoretical and applied studio projects. Meets the following degree requirements: AD, HY Particular emphasis will be placed on advancing skills in creative problem solving, typography, layout, image generation, and preparing art for print. Digital and AD 4018 Movement Training Basics II hands-on methods (techniques such as block print) for BAKER, JODI image generation will be explored to create original Building on skills introduced in Movement Training illustrations. Projects will include typography and Basics, students will continue investigating their illustration exercises, identity design, environmental physical potential and deepening their understanding design, and interpretive information design. Students of the movement theory and languages covered. will be encouraged to solicit a design project from Techniques will be derived from classical ballet, the local community and produce it in the context of martial arts, acrobatics, improvisation, circus skills, the class by engaging in the creative process from and more. The work will promote a greater sense concept to production oversight during the course of physical awareness and imaginative possibility. of the 10-week term. In addition to structured class Advanced students will build strength, mental and assignments, students will have an opportunity to physical stamina, and flexibility. Students will translate propose and pursue their own design projects. the work into a variety of practical applications and This class will be conducted in seminar/studio format. performance pieces based on a series of exercises and Emphasis will be placed on the design process from prompts. Evaluation is based on class participation creation to production, the timely completion of and engagement with introduced topics and concepts. project phases; creative solutions; and advancing Default grading option is Credit/No Credit. skill in typography, layout, and image generation. The Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: Previous detailed schedule will depend largely on the course completion of Movement Training Basics and/or make-up and individual project proposals. significant movement training or dance experience Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: Signature is required. Course limit: 15. Lab fee: $20. Meets the of instructor and Graphic Design Studio 1. Class following degree requirements: ADS. limit: 12. Lab fee: $85. Meets the following degree requirements: ADS AD 4019 Studio Printmaking CLINGER, CATHERINE AD 4016 The Wilderness in Landscape Art I: Proto-Ecological Visions Printmaking is the process of transferring an image from one surface to another. A print mirrors the CLINGER, CATHERINE surface whence it came and also performs as a This course is concerned with the visualization reflection of the physical and/or immaterial realms of what is wild in the landscape and how artists of objects and ideas. Representing concepts clearly pictured that which others saw as untamed. Course in any medium requires an artist to engage in readings will engage with a variety of texts written thoughtful collaboration with materials in order to by art historians, geographers, historians, writers, realize the potential of form as a means of expression. and theoreticians that address the invention of the This studio course will explore ways to address this modern idea of wilderness. Assumptions governing aesthetic challenge through printmaking. Students what constitutes wilderness and how artists have will acquire basic skills as printmakers with an shaped our perception of it are among topics which emphasis on relief (woodcut and linocut) and intaglio we will consider. Landscapes contain life that seems (line etching, engraving, and aquatint) techniques. to fluctuate between haggard or feral states of They will also develop a broad understanding of nature. We will investigate how an artist distinguishes the history of prints; how they have functioned to between that which is cultivated and that which is communicate, document, and transmit information natural; what images evoke nostalgia for a lost past through images on paper. Students will be evaluated or suggest the preference for a human dominance on their projects, participation in critiques, level over those origins we have isolated ourselves from. of engagement with materials, ability to work in a Students will examine visual evidence in the fine arts collaborative studio, and final project. that indicates a growing awareness of the effect of Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: the Industrial Revolution in North America and in Permission of the instructor, Introduction to Arts and 50 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 Design, and a drawing class. Class limit: 6. Lab fee: readings, screenings, and the landscape around them. $200. Meets the following degree requirements: ADS A brief tutorial in Adobe Premiere Pro will be offered at the beginning of the term. AD 4020 Object and Performance Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: BAKER, JODI; ANDREWS, NANCY Coursework in filmmaking or photography. Class limit: 12. Lab fee: $40. Meets the following degree Objects have long been significant elements in requirements: ADS ritual, dance, theatre, and performance art; they might be props, body extensions, idols, and avatars. Taught in a workshop format, this course will AD 4035 Improvisation in Music explore a variety of techniques from traditional BLOTNICK, RYAN theatre arts, as well as sculptural ideas that can be This "hands on" theory/performance course for integrated into performance. Goals will be to gain a singers, instrumentalists, guitarists, pianists, deeper understanding of the power of objects in a drummers, etc, deals with improvisation, a performative context; to experiment with a variety spontaneous exchange or interplay of musical ideas of building techniques; to practice, create, and and moods. It offers the musician the opportunity refine personal and found objects as art; to explore to utilize their technical ability to its fullest extent an object's potential to spark narrative, illustrate while enjoying the creative freedom of spontaneous relationship dynamics, and fuel theatrical action. composition. The class addresses technical and We'll also study the use of objects in connection with aesthetic aspects of improvisation in all styles of certain forms of performance training and creative music (jazz, rock, blues, classical, folk, etc.) including collaboration strategies. The course will provide a the elements of melodic development, melodic historic context of objects in performance and will cliches, rhythmic and melodic embellishment, utilize improvisational exercises, personal writing, harmonic substitutions, and development of the movement, and bodywork. Class topics may include ear. It is multilevel in format, allowing for students relationship, scale, sound, duration, repetition, of all technical proficiency to participate. In short, archetype, and viewer participation/performance. this course enables students to use the "tools of Evaluation will be based on attendance, participation improvisation" to be able to make a "personal in all group projects, in-class assignments and musical statement" while playing, singing, discussions, demonstrated understanding and "jamming," etc. mastery of basic skills through the creation of Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: None. projects, timely completion of all assignments and Class limit: 12. Lab fee: $20. Meets the following readings, and effective participation in class critiques. degree requirements: None Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: Movement Training (I or II) or 3D Studio, and permission of either instructor. Class limit: 12. Lab fee: AD 4036 Silt to Shard; Rethinking Residues $50. Meets the following degree requirements: ADS DOWNING, E. SAFFRONIA Heaps accumulate behind the studio: broken AD 4030 Landscape Cinema flowerpots, mugs, and tchotchkes. Through this ceramic sculpture seminar, students will consider the SHAW, MATTHEW lifecycle of clay-from slip to stoneware. In an age This course focuses on the relationship between of mass-production, what meanings do we pull from filmmakers and nature. From the opening question- the shard pile? Students in this course will make, "What is landscape?"-we will address through video unmake, and remake iterative ceramic artworks while projects, readings, and screenings the theories and experimenting with ceramics repurposing methods practices of artist's moving image practice such as such as mosaic, clay recycling, and re-firing found eco-cinema, sonic ethnography, ecological filmmaking, ceramic. Artists such as Phoebe Cummings, Nicole and slow cinema that emerged in the second half of the Seisler, and Sterling Ruby will guide our discourse as twentieth century. Students will make regular visits into reclaim and remnants become conceptual material for their local landscape over the term and will create short sculptural practice. Students will be evaluated based videos in response to topics addressed in class, leading on participation in class discussions and critiques, up to a final video inspired by that location. At the end as well as inventiveness and demonstrated effort in of the term, students will have a closer connection to ceramic assignments. the physical environment they live in and will leave the Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: Students course with an understanding of the role nature and should have taken a previous college-level course in landscape has played in film history and contemporary ceramics or have equivalent experience. If you are film practice. Evaluation will be based on completion of field notes (written, visual, and/or sonic), short video unsure about your prior work, please contact the instructor directly. Class limit: 12. Lab fee: $140. Meets projects, a final project, and participation in class discussions that demonstrate critical encounters with the following degree requirements: ADS COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 51 AD 4037 Futurity: A Production into scenes, songs, characters, and conflict. Students Monster Course will be evaluated on the successful completion of all individual and collaborative assignments as well as BAKER, JODI; HENDERSON, JONATHAN their demonstrated commitment and contributions This winter, students will collaboratively research and to the shared project. The class will culminate with stage a production of César Alvarez and the Lisps' an informal showing of the work in progress. Default Futurity (2015), a work of musical theater about two grading for this course is Credit/No Credit. people dreaming of a technological utopia during Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: Previous one of the darkest periods of American history. theatre and production experience recommended The musical looks back to the Civil War to raise but not required. By nature, the course necessitates contemporary questions about the role of technology creating a small collaborative working production in visions for liberation. The "thinking machine" at ensemble. Participants will be selected based on the center of Futurity asks us to consider the merger level and qualities of interest and experience with of human and machine in today's technological the specific content and genre of this work. Seniority age. Our staging of the production will benefit from will also be taken into account. Class limit: 11. Lab fee: the collaboration of electroacoustic sculptor Mark $35. Meets the following degree requirements: None Dixon, whose novel musical instruments will feature in the role of the "Steam Brain," the "thinking machine" that Futurity's protagonists hope will AD 4040 Music Ensemble: African Liberation bring an end to human suffering. Evaluation will be HENDERSON, JONATHAN based on demonstrated engagement with all course As newly independent African nations claimed their elements and materials, and successful navigation freedom from colonial rule, an effort was underway and contributions to the shared production project. to define the sound of these nations. State-sponsored Students interested in being a part of the performing bands likes Bembeya Jazz and Balla et ses Balladins ensemble (actors, singers, musicians) and/or those in Guinea developed a sound that announced interested in set, lighting and sound design, stage Guinea as a modern nation. Their music drew management, dramaturgy, etc. are encouraged to heavily from the sounds of Cuban son, entering the apply. To be considered, students must complete the newly independent nation into an African diasporic questionnaire provided via email by the end of week discourse that signaled alliances with international 5 of fall term. This intensive process will result in a Marxist movements. In 1977 Fela Kuti released the run of performances at the end of the winter term. track "Colonial Mentality," a song that forcefully The course counts for three full credits and requires argued that even seventeen years into Nigeria's a considerable time commitment. The default grading independence from colonial rule, euro-centric option is Credit/No Credit. If a letter grade is desired, mindsets continued to haunt Nigerian politics. That it would need to be requested by the student. same year, Kalakuta, Kuti's autonomous communal Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: compound, was burned to the ground after an assault Experience in acting, music, stage direction, etc. will by Nigerian soldiers. In 1987, Hugh Masekela released be helpful. Class limit: 12. Lab fee: $150. Meets the the track "Bring Him Back Home (Nelson Mandela)" following degree requirements: AD on his album Tomorrow. The song caught fire as an anthem of the anti-apartheid movement that would AD 4039 EF!: A New Musical Workshop see the political prisoner Mandela freed in 1990 and inaugurated as President in 1994. OBLONGATA, DONNA This practice-based music course will sharpen In this practice based course, multidisciplinary students' music performance skills as they engage theater artist Donna Oblongata will work with in the critical study of popular music from the era of COA students to further develop materials for EF!, African independence. Students will work to perform a new musical about the Earth First! movement. a musical repertoire drawn from this time period, Often labeled "eco-terrorists" by the media and including the artists listed above as well as Miriam government, Earth First! pioneered, over 40 years, Makeba, Franco Luambo, E.T. Mensah, The Rail Band, many of the direct action techniques that have now OK Jazz, Manu Dibango, and more. In addition to become de rigueur in the fight for climate change rehearsing and performing a selection of songs, awareness, protest, and intervention. Students will students will engage with reading, listening, and have the opportunity to engage dramaturgically, viewing that informs a historical understanding of researching the history of the direct action how music became a venue for contesting visions for environmental movement as well as American post-colonial Africa. In addition to the practice-based musical and documentary theater forms. Students research involved in learning a musical repertoire, will also work as a small ensemble, effectively students will undertake a research project examining workshopping and evolving production materials. the life of an artist who helped shape the sound of Each week will offer opportunities for both solo and post-colonial Africa (sounds that often resonated collaborative work, developing the group's research 52 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 out into the diaspora). The course will take place techniques may include camera work and sound in two lab sessions each week, one of which will be design. Work completed over the term may be a dedicated to rehearsal, and one that will be split single longer animation or a series of animated between rehearsal and academic study/analysis. shorts, depending on the student's preference There will also be an evening session reserved for and animation goals. However, all students will film screenings and independent rehearsal time. be expected to produce advanced level work and Participants will be assessed based on attendance encouraged to experiment and push their work to and participation in class, individual practice and the highest level. Students will be evaluated on their preparedness, the research project, and map quizzes projects, participation in critiques and discussions, on the African continent. and overall level of engagement with the course This ensemble course is open to students who play material and class. an instrument or sing. To achieve a workable balance Level: Advanced. Prerequisite: Animation; signature of instruments, the course will be by permission of of instructor. Class size: 12. Lab fee: $80. Meets the instructor. Students wishing to take the course should following degree requirements: ADS email a brief statement to the instructor describing their musical practice and what they hope to get out AD 5023 Romanticism: The Triumph of the of the course. This class will be graded Credit/No Imagination over Reason? Credit by default, but students may also choose to take the course for a letter grade if they wish. CLINGER, CATHERINE Level: Intermediate/Advanced Prerequisite: Scholar Isaiah Berlin considered Romanticism to Permission of instructor. Class limit: 10. Lab fee: $35. be "the greatest single shift in the consciousness Meets the following degree requirements: ADS of the West." This advanced course will consider the diverse body of Romantic art through thematic enquiry, case studies, critical and historical analysis. AD 4041 Advanced World Percussion Divergent aesthetic ideologies in Romantic art will BENNETT, MICHAEL be examined in relationship to both major trends Students will build on their previous studies in West and minor currents of intellectual thought during African and Afro-Cuban percussion music to elevate the period 1780-1840 in Europe, with an emphasis their rhythmic skills and knowledge of these musical placed largely on German Romanticism. Taken cultures. In this advanced class, students will learn together, many of the literary and philosophical texts to utilize rhythmic notation and focus on developing associated with the movement have been understood a performance for the COA community. In addition, as fundamental critiques of rationality; however, it students will create a group composition. Assessment is the less celebrated illustrations found in scientific will be based on attendance, a final test, the end of treatises and works of art not acknowledged in the term performance, and their group composition. canon of the visual arts, as well as images embedded Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: World in various forms of printed matter, which effectually Percussion or Samba Percussion Ensemble or capsize Enlightenment aesthetic theories and provide permission of instructor. It is beneficial but not impetus to the development of Realism. Although the necessary for students to have their own djembe. body of scholarly work that studies the interstices of Romantic art, literature, and music is enormous, Class limit: 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree requirements: ADS the course will narrow the scope by focusing on certain works as sites of a particular pictorial kind of representational transdisciplinarity. The course AD 5017 Animation II proposes that the widespread interconnectedness ANDREWS, NANCY within the fine and popular arts, through aesthetic and The class further develops ideas, skills, and material production, inform the conceptualization of animation projects through a mix of in-class projects/ Romantic imagery. Excellent evaluations will be based demos/skill based activities, readings, discussions, on a high level of class participation, a consistent screenings, presentations, and individual meetings demonstration of the close reading of assigned texts, with the instructor. Students will write a production and a commitment to generous listening during group plan that will serve as an outline of each student's discussions, along with timely submission of two short project(s) for the term. The instructor will provide essays and a final research paper. useful activities, information, resources, critiques, Level: Advanced. Prerequisite: A minimum of one and guidance. A schedule of presentations of student history, anthropology, or literature course and works-in-progress will be created. Readings will permission of instructor. Class limit: 12. Lab fee: $30. address ideas and theories related to animation Meets the following degree requirements: AD, HY studies and processes. Advanced animation COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 53 AD 5025 Strangers and Performance to realize the potential of form as a means of BAKER, JODI expression. This advanced studio course will explore ways to address this aesthetic challenge through This course explores the dynamics of stranger printmaking by experimenting with conventional and interactions across disciplines and in a variety of non-traditional ways of creating a range of matrices. contexts, first by gaining a basic understanding of Students will acquire skills as printmakers with an how the topic has been considered by scientists, emphasis on multiple-plate, collagraph, and other social theorists, architects, and city planners over the advanced techniques. Students will develop a deeper last century; but also by understanding how these understanding of the history of prints; how they have particular social dynamics fundamentally connect functioned to communicate, document, and transmit to work in theatre and in art. Through a series of information through images on paper-engaging with practical experiments, students discern when, why, more complex discourses of representation. Students and how stranger interactions are meaningful, how will be evaluated on their projects, participation in they differ in urban and rural contexts, and how critiques, level of engagement with materials, ability that meaning is tied to the shared work ethic at the to work in a collaborative studio, and final project. heart of the theatrical contract. We will consider the politics of public and private spaces as well as key Level: Advanced. Prerequisite: Studio Printmaking and strategies in staging urban centers, national parks, at least one drawing class; permission of instructor. schools, museums, and theatres. We'll also examine Class limit: 5. Lab fee: $150. Meets the following stranger archetypes and related terminology like degree requirements: ADS mob-rule, groupthink, bystander effect, and collective consent. Students will explore the inherent risks and AD 5033 Making Art: Effort, Resilience, rewards that stem from personal interactions with Persistence strangers, and they will study existing and emerging ANDREWS, NANCY art, performance, and technology projects that attempt to incite these interactions. Students will also In this advanced art practicum and seminar, students develop their own ideas for public performance and will pursue the development of a body of artwork new theatre technology. Readings will likely include or series of artworks. Through practice, critique, work from Kio Stark, Paul Auster and Sophie Calle, discussion, readings, and interactions with artists Bertolt Brecht, Peter Brook, Roland Barthes, William and those involved in supporting and presenting H. Whyte, George Simmel, Anne Bogart, Susan artists, students will gain a better understanding Sontag, and Jorge Luis Borges. Visual, theatre, and of art as an ongoing pursuit, beyond classes and performance artists may include Andrew Schneider, assignments. What does it take to maintain and Richard Renaldi, Natalia Koliada and Nicolai fertilize the long-term project or a life's work? How Khalezin, Marina Abramovic, Chris Burden, Rotozaza, can a creative process be carried on, maintained, Mammalian Diving Reflex, and Complex Movements. and sustained? The primary goal of this course is for each student to develop their art practice, The course requires a large amount of off-campus better understand their creative processes, and work and at least one weekend field trip. Evaluation show evidence of these developments. This course will be based on consistent engagement with course is an excellent lead-up to a senior project in the topics and the class blog, successful completion arts. Students may work in any medium, but should of a series of solo and collaborative fieldwork already have the basic skills required for their assignments, and a comprehensive final project with chosen project(s)/body of work. This course requires process essay. significant dedication outside of class to make Level: Advanced. Prerequisite: This course is by artworks. Students are expected to possess and/or permission only. Previous coursework in theatre and extend their ability to be self-directed and motivated. movement, art history, design and social theory is Students will be evaluated on their progress towards strongly encouraged. A written expression of interest their goals, and participation in discussions and in the course is required. Class limit: 10. Lab fee: $150. critiques; Credit/No Credit grade encouraged. Meets the following requirements: ADS Level: Advanced. Prerequisite: Multiple previous art classes and permission of instructor. Class AD 5032 Advanced Studio Printmaking limit: 12. Lab fee: $80. Meets the following degree CLINGER, CATHERINE requirements: ADS This art studio course is a continuation of the introductory course Studio Printmaking. A print AD 6030 Samba Percussion Ensemble mirrors the surface of its matrix and presents a HENDERSON, JONATHAN reflection of the physical and/or immaterial realms Samba is one of music's great spectacles-loud, of objects and ideas. Representing concepts clearly coordinated, precise, and kinetic. The music is in any medium requires an artist to engage in equally at home on the stage and in the street. All are thoughtful collaboration with materials in order 54 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 welcome to participate in COA's samba percussion ensemble. The individual percussion parts range in EDUCATIONAL complexity, so the music suits a wide range of skills STUDIES and levels of experience. The musical repertoire for the ensemble will be developed in coordination with Caique Vidal, a Brazilian percussionist who will ED 1010 Experiential Education visit the class (virtually) on a few occasions to offer TAI, BONNIE perspective and insights drawn from his experience Even before John Dewey published Experience with the music. Alongside rehearsal and performance, and Education in 1938, experiential education had students will study the history of samba music in been practiced in various forms around the world. Brazil. We will read Barbara Browning's Samba: This course explores the philosophy of experiential Resistance in Motion and also discuss what the education and its diverse practices in the realms of music's recontextualization to a college campus in adventure education, service learning, workplace Maine might mean for its performers and listeners. learning, environmental education, museum education, The class will include a weekend field trip to the and school reform. Group activities and field trips HONK! festival in Boston. Student assessment will will provide opportunities to participate as both be based on rehearsal attendance, class discussion learner and teacher in a variety of teacher-led and participation, reading response journals, and a final student-designed experiences. The final project group presentation. involves researching an existing experiential education Level: Variable, Introductory through Advanced. program, its philosophy, and its practices. Evaluation Prerequisite: None. Class limit: 16. Lab fee: $100. is based on class and field trip participation (including Meets the following degree requirements: ADS one multi-day field trip), reflective logs, curriculum design, service-learning journal, an oral presentation AD 6031 Musicianship of the service-learning, and a final essay that articulates a philosophy of experience in education. MCLEAN, ADAM Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: Interested in learning about music theory? Want 15. Offered every other year. Lab fee: $30. Meets the to learn how to better explain your songs to other following degree requirements: HS, ED musicians? Hoping to return to an instrumental practice that you have neglected lately, or to begin studying a new instrument? Have a group ED 1011 Children's Literature of musicians looking to take your performance SWEENEY, MERYL practice to the next level? Musicianship is an applied This course is a broad overview of children's literature theory-practice course for students interested in and its place in the elementary school classroom. developing their skills as instrumentalists, vocalists, It examines the range and trends in literature for composers, songwriters, or beatmakers. Students children that includes all genres, prominent authors, will work independently (or in small groups) to create illustrators, awards, critical evaluation, and integration and implement a learning plan that reflects their into instruction across the curriculum. Students specific musical goals. Students are welcome to sign participate in and design lessons which incorporate up individually or in groups (e.g. a string quartet, a or extend children's response to literature. They songwriting partnership, or a band would be welcome survey poetry and media appropriate for elementary to sign up together). students. Students read an extensive amount of The first class session each week will focus on key children's literature, keep a response journal, develop lessons in musicianship (applied music theory, an author study, and create a teaching unit using rhythmic awareness, song analysis, music production, children's literature. etc.), and the second weekly session will focus on Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: practice/rehearsal strategies. Practice outside of 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree class is expected and will be documented through requirements: ED a reflective practice log. A final project will be determined in consultation with the professor. At the term's close, students will complete a self-assessment ED 1013 Changing Schools, Changing Society reflecting on how successfully they progressed TAI, BONNIE towards their learning goals, with an optional How have schools changed and how should opportunity for sharing/performance. schools change to ensure "the good life"? This Level: Variable, Introductory through Advanced. interdisciplinary, team-taught course examines the Prerequisite: None. Class limit: 12. Lab fee: $35. Meets potential and limits of a human ecological education the following degree requirements: ADS as an instrument of enlightened progress and lasting positive social, cultural, and environmental change. It explores three essential questions about education COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 55 and its relationship to human development and social ED 1016 Introduction to Adolescent progress. Looking at the role of formal educational Psychology institutions and their relationship to government and HILL, KENNETH other social institutions: What is the role of schools in development and social change? Considering the This course focuses on the segment of the human life role of teachers as agents of change: What is the span from puberty to early adulthood. In this class role of the teacher in school/organizational change we will examine the physical, cognitive, social, and and community development? And finally, reflecting moral aspects of adolescent growth and development. on our subjective motives for working in the field of Issues to be considered include adolescent education: Why do you want to become an educator? relationships (peers, family, romantic), adolescent Through course activities such as service-learning in issues (identity formation, at-risk behavior, schooling, schools and group project work on a contemporary and stereotypes), and critical reflection on one's educational phenomenon (e.g. school choice, new own adolescent experience. The main objectives of technologies for learning, single-sex education), this course are to: 1) provide students with a working students will learn how educational policy at the knowledge of the theories of psychology which pertain federal, state, and local levels impacts teaching to early adolescent development; 2) help students and learning, investigate the moral dimensions of develop the ability to critically analyze information the teacher-student relationship, and reflect on and common assumptions about the development the construct of teacher-learners. Students will of adolescents; 3) consider contemporary issues be introduced to a variety of educational research and concerns of the field; and 4) afford students methods (i.e. ethnography, case study, quasi- the opportunity to explore their own adolescent experimental, correlational) that will allow for critical development. Course work entails lecture, discussion, analysis of the knowledge base that strives to impact extensive case analysis, and a field component. educational policy and practice. Evaluation will be Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: based on participation, reflective writing, service 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree learning, and group projects and presentations. requirements: HS, ED Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: 15. Offered every other year. Lab fee: $20. Meets the ED 2010 Disability Rights in Education following degree requirements: HS, ED RABASCA, ADAM Across the country, varying state regulations and ED 1014 Child Development practices call into question the manner with which ALEX, JOANNE students with disabilities are taught, served, and How does a child think? What causes him/her to learn? prepared for the future in an economically and socially What teaching approaches work best with young challenging community and environment. Their rights children? These questions and more will be explored are governed by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the through readings, lectures, field observations, and Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Individuals planned class activities. This course will provide an with Disabilities Education Act. Course participants introduction to early childhood education (preschool will learn how students with disabilities are ensured to eighth grade). Theorists such as Piaget, Vygotsky, their rights to access and a free appropriate public Montessori, Gardner, Erikson, Maslow, Kohlberg, education as well as how this translates into post- and Gilligan will be used to examine the physical, secondary education, employment, and society. mental, emotional, moral, and social aspects of Students will be evaluated on synthesis of information childhood growth and development. Students will in written format and in visual presentation, and on explore a range of curriculum models, approaches, in-class mutli-modal engagement. Students will also and strategies as they learn to apply developmental be expected to complete an independent research theory to best practices. These best practices will project evaluating the manner in which disability include the role of teachers in creating meaningful rights are ensured within the very community and learning experiences and classroom environments environment in which we live. (curriculum), documenting learning, assessment, Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. inclusion, and family involvement. The primary Lab fee: None. Class Limit: 15 Meets the following modes of instruction for this class will be lectures, degree requirements: None classroom discussions, field observations/reflections, and cooperative hands-on learning activities. Short ED 2013 Teaching and Learning Music reflective papers, an observational journal, and class projects will be used to assess learning. in Human Ecology MCLEAN, ADAM Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree Music has been a powerful component of human requirements: ED ecology since time immemorial. It can carry our 56 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 stories, express our values, communicate aspects of to addressing fossil fuel consumption and climate our individual and communal identities, and help us change. Students will use a lesson plan template understand those of others. Consequently, the ways provided by Envirolution, which will allow lessons that music has been transmitted across generations developed to be added into the Project ReCharge have had profound impacts on the course of humanity. curriculum package, with the opportunity for them Understanding how and why music is taught and to be made available to other teachers using the learned is, therefore, crucial to understanding human curriculum. This course could contribute to practica ecology. Using transdisciplinary resources from social requirements for teaching certification candidates. studies, musicology, education studies, neuroscience, Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. and more, this course will explore how people learn Class limit: 15. Lab fee: $50. Meets the following music, what people learn through music, and how degree requirements: None musical teaching practices can reflect and shape the cultural identities of individual learners and their communities. In addition to taking part in seminars ED 3010 Understanding and Managing centered around multimedia course materials, Group Dynamics students in this course will observe and engage TAI, BONNIE in music teaching and learning experiences-both This course will examine essential questions formal and informal. Assessment of student work will about how groups function, whether the group is include participation in class discussions and musical a committee involved in institutional governance, experiences, a report on music education practices a class of adolescents, or a cohort of business in a chosen cultural context, reflective journals on a colleagues. Readings, activities, and assignments multi-week music teaching or learning practice, and a will weigh traditional and alternative conceptions of demonstration lesson that uses music in some way. All leadership, power, authority, community, diversity, musical interests and levels of musicianship (including membership, and exclusion. Students will engage in novices) are welcome in this course. case discussions, writing (including autobiography Level: Introductory/Intermediate Prerequisite: None. and creative writing), and research activities. A major Lab fee: None. Class limit: 15. Meets the following component of the course will be the observation and degree requirements: None analysis of a group (e.g. in a community organization, business, or school). The final paper will be the ED 2014 Interactive K-12 Energy Education creation and analysis of a case. Evaluation will be based on class participation, responses to readings, GIBSON, DAVID facilitation of a case discussion, an autobiographical In this course, students will examine existing essay, a short story, reports of observations, and curriculum and lesson plans for hands-on energy the final paper. Students will be expected to take the education (created by the non-profit Envirolution). course Credit/No Credit, with special arrangement to This project-based science, technology, engineering, be made for those needing to take it for a grade. art, and mathematics (STEAM) curriculum engages Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. Class K-12 students to learn how their home, school, and limit: 15. Lab fee: $50. Meets the following degree community use energy. It culminates with students requirements: HS, ED conducting an energy assessment of their school, identifying ways to reduce energy consumption, costs, and carbon emissions. Envirolution is a non-profit ED 3012 Supporting Students with organization based in Reno, Nevada that works with Disabilities in the Regular Classroom 200+ teachers in Nevada, California, and Arizona. SANBORN, KELLEY Through this course we will be helping to introduce This is an introductory course in special education. their Project ReCharge lessons and activities to We will explore the needs of children with disabilities teachers and students in Maine. and techniques for meeting these needs in the Working in pairs or small groups, students will trial the regular classroom. The course will emphasize both lessons with their COA classmates, taking feedback the social and instructional aspects of the concepts and refining their approach. They will deconstruct of inclusion, differentiation and serving students in the lesson plans and identify ways that climate the "least restrictive environment." Participants will change and environmental justice can be further be introduced to concepts central to understanding incorporated into the activities. We will discuss the role of regular classroom teachers in meeting the systemic injustices rooted in fossil fuel consumption, academic, social, and emotional needs of students and the impacts of energy use on the environment with disabilities. Objectives: By the end of the course and marginalized communities. At the end of the students will be able to identify and describe current term, each group will partner with a local K-12 school issues and trends in education related to individuals and lead the students through one or more lessons with disabilities and their families; describe the centered on energy efficiency. This course will feature special education laws and procedures impacting community partnerships and collaborative approaches COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 57 individuals with disabilities; develop a working teaching portfolio: a lesson plan, teaching video, definition for each area of exceptionality in relation self-assessment, assessment of PK-12 student work, to achievement of educational goals; and develop and communication with families and community strategies and resources for modifying, adapting, and/ members. Although there are no prerequisites, or differentiating curriculum and instruction. the following are recommended: Learning and/ Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: Introductory course or proficiency in a language other than English; a in education. Class limit: 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the psychology, sociology, or anthropology course; and/or following degree requirements: ED a prior education course. Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. Class ED 3107 Culturally Sustaining and limit: 15. Lab fee: $25. Meets the following degree requirements: ED, HS Revitalizing Education TAI, BONNIE ED 4016 Integrated Methods IA: Grades This course is designed for students planning to teach PreK-3 Reading and Writing in schools whether in Maine or outside of the United States. Culturally sustaining/revitalizing education STANLEY, ASHLEY (CSRE) builds on the aims, values, insights, and This course is designed to prepare prospective teachers practices of anti-racist education, culturally relevant with methods necessary to implement a comprehensive pedagogy, culturally responsive teaching, culturally literacy program for grades PreK-3 to include all sustaining/revitalizing pedagogy, decolonizing aspects of literacy acquisition. Major areas of focus will education, global education, intercultural education, include oral, visual, and technological communication, and multicultural education. In particular, it aims to shared and interactive strategies, phonics, word study contextualize education in the history of colonization, and spelling, independent and guided reading, writing land theft, slavery, the continued struggle for workshop, and writing in all content areas. The course sovereignty and self-determination of native tribes content focuses on an integrated approach to the and First Nations, and calls for wider community acquisition of literacy skills, current best practice, and accountability. This educational approach challenges lesson design, questioning techniques, and formative deficit mindsets and structures that undergird and summative assessment. Learning objectives policies and practices that widen the opportunity address the standards for Maine's teaching standards gap and equitable access to basic human and civil and Maine's Learning Results. There is a fieldwork rights and impede educational access for sustaining component of 50 hours for this ten-week course. There and revitalizing cultures that settler colonialism has will be a weekly one-hour lab, shared with Integrated attempted to eliminate, assimilate, or marginalize. Methods I: Gr 5-8. Evaluation will be based on the quality Students will practice asset-based and growth of a course portfolio to include class participation, mindsets to gain an understanding of the relationship curriculum and assessment design, performance between CSRE and respect for tribal sovereignty assessments, cooperating teacher feedback, and and support of contemporary struggles for tribal reflections on the fieldwork and required readings. continuity and resistance to cultural genocide and Level: Intermediate/Advanced Pre or corequisites: Child epistemicide. The course also opens a dialogue on Development, Supporting Students with Disabilities, the applicability of CRSE for immigrant, refugee, Integrated Methods I: Gr 3-6, and, if possible, Children's and asylum-seeking students whose relationship to Literature. Class limit: 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the their new place of residence may be tenuous at best, following degree requirements: HS, ED and whose heritage languages and cultures are also endangered as a result of first- to second-generation ED 4017 Integrated Methods IB: Grades 3-6 assimilation in their adopted communities. Students Reading and Writing will gain an understanding of conceptual frameworks, knowledge of empirical studies documenting FULLER, LINDA outcomes and impacts of these approaches, and This course is designed to prepare prospective teachers skills in ethically and effectively teaching indigenous, with methods necessary to implement a comprehensive immigrant, and other culturally and linguistically literacy program for grades 3-6 to include: motivation diverse learners. and the upper elementary reader; helping middle For students seeking Maine teaching endorsements, grade students develop their writing voice through this course will prepare them to implement LD291 knowledge of language, vocabulary acquisition and use, requiring Maine educators to teach Wabanaki history and working with a variety of text; teaching critical, and culture. Students will learn through field trips, creative, and collaborative technology use; using guest speakers, films, discussions, critical exploration multiple tools to differentiate instruction; creating and and reflection, independent research, observation/ using rubrics/alternatives for assessing writing. The fieldwork/practicum, and peer teaching. Evaluation course content focuses on an integrated approach will include artifacts to be incorporated into a to the acquisition of literacy skills, current effective 58 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 practices, lesson design, questioning techniques, natural and social worlds in a way that promotes and formative and summative assessment. Learning their capacity to know themselves and the objectives address Maine's teaching standards and communities in which they act? For those preparing Maine's Learning Results. There is a field studies to be elementary school educators (grades K-8), this component of 50 hours and there will be a weekly three-credit course provides an intensive guided one-hour lab, shared with Integrated Methods IA: Gr apprenticeship that prepares the student-teacher with PreK-3. Evaluation will be based on the quality of a the necessary knowledge, skills, and experience to course portfolio to include curriculum and assessment design an integrated math, science, and social studies design, performance assessments, cooperating teacher curriculum, create and maintain a constructive learning feedback on classroom performance, and reflections on environment, teach diverse learners using appropriate the fieldwork and required readings. teaching methods and learning technologies, and Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Pre or corequisites: assess student learning. Learning objectives include Child Development, Supporting Students with all eleven of Maine's teaching standards as well as a Disabilities, Integrated Methods IA: Gr PreK-3 Reading working knowledge of the Parameters for Essential and Writing, and, if possible, Children's Literature. Instruction (PEI) for Math, Science, and Social Studies. Class limit: 12. Lab fee: $20. Meets the following Students will participate in a ten-week field work degree requirements: HS, ED practicum observing and participating in elementary classrooms as well as planning and teaching weekly in a lab environment. Readings, discussions, and ED 5010 Curriculum Design and Assessment experiential learning in class will complement the field TAI, BONNIE work component. Evaluation will be based on reflection Human ecologists who educate, embrace not only the on field work, participation in discussions of readings interdisciplinarity of knowledge, but also the complexity and field work, curriculum and assessment design and of individual student development in political school implementation, and professional performance in lab environments. This course focuses on two essential school and at the practicum site. nuts and bolts of teaching: curriculum design and Level: Advanced. Prerequisite: Supporting Students assessment. How can a teacher learn what students with Disabilities in the Regular Classroom, Integrated know, how they think, and what they have learned? Elementary Methods I: Reading and Writing, and How can a teacher use this knowledge of students permission of instructor. Class limit: 12. Lab fee: $25. and subject matter to plan learning experiences that Meets the following degree requirements: ED, HS will engage diverse interests, adapt to a wide range of learning styles and preferences, accommodate ED 5013 Student Teaching exceptional needs, and meet state-mandated curriculum standards? This course is a required FULLER, LINDA course for prospective secondary school teachers The student teaching internship represents the that provides an introduction to the backward design student teaching requirement for COA'S teacher process and diverse assessment strategies. Students certification candidates. Success in this experience will engage in examining theory and practice designing is a pivotal criterion in the student's certification and implementing curricula and assessments. A candidacy. The student is placed in a school, usually service-learning component will provide students in the immediate region, with a cooperating teacher with the opportunity to observe and participate in a who teaches subjects and grade levels that match variety of assessment methods in the subject they the certification goals of the student. The roles of aim to teach. The final project will be a collaboratively student teacher, cooperating teacher, school principal, designed, integrated curriculum unit, including lesson and COA supervisor are discussed and agreed upon plans and assessments. Evaluation will be based on in advance. Incrementally, the student teacher participation, reflective writing, individually designed becomes familiar with class routines and gradually lesson plans and assessments, and the final project. takes responsibility for teaching. Within the 15-week Level: Advanced. Prerequisite: Supporting Students experience, the student teacher must take on a full with Disabilities in the Regular Classroom. Class load (all classes and all duties) for the number of weeks Limit: 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree agreed upon by all parties. This period of time varies requirements: HS, ED with subjects, grade level, and specific student goals. The COA supervisor visits the schools in a liaison capacity, and also evaluates the student teacher's ED 5011 Integrated Methods II: Science, performance a minimum of eight times in the term. Math, and Social Studies Student teachers meet together regularly to discuss FULLER, LINDA such issues as curriculum planning, instruction, best How can an integrated curriculum for elementary teaching practices, classroom learning environment, school students help to deepen the relationships and broader educational issues. Students may children and young adolescents construct with the use student teaching to fulfill the COA internship requirement if it is completed prior to graduation. COLLEGE OF THE ANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 59 Level: Advanced. Prerequisite: Permission of Ed larger observations about their environment. Studies Program Director. Lab fee: None. Meets the Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class following degree requirements: ED limit: 12. Lab fee: $75. Meets the following degree requirements: ES ENVIRONMENTAL ES 1018 Physics I: Mechanics and Energy FELDMAN, DAVID SCIENCES This course is the first of a two course sequence covering a range of standard introductory physics topics. The goals of the course are: to ES 1014 Gardens and Greenhouses: introduce students to important physical ideas Theory/Practice of Organic Gardening both conceptually and mathematically; and to help MORSE, SUZANNE students improve their quantitative skills. The This class offers a good foundation of knowledge for first part of the course consists of a broad look at a gardener to begin the process of organic gardening, the three conservation laws: the conservation of as well as an understanding of what defines organic momentum, energy, and angular momentum. Along gardening. The information presented focuses on the way, we'll learn about vectors, work, potential soil fertility and stewardship; the ecology of garden energy, thermal energy, and the energy stored in chemical bonds. We'll conclude with a treatment of plants, soil, and insects; and practical management of the above. The garden is presented as a system of Newton's laws of motion. If time permits, we may dynamic interactions. Emphasis is given to vegetable briefly cover some topics from chaotic dynamics. crops and soil fertility. Laboratories include soil Evaluations will be based on participation in class and analysis, tree pruning, seedling establishment, lab, weekly homework, and two untimed, open-notes weed and insect identification, garden design, exams. This course makes extensive use of algebra covercropping, composting, and reclamation of and trigonometry. Potentially difficult math topics will comfrey infested area. Evaluations are based on be reviewed as necessary. participation in class and lab, written class work, Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: Prerequisite: exam, and final individual garden design. Understanding Functions, a strong high school Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: Permission of the algebra background, or consent of the instructor. instructor. Class limit: 15. Lab fee: $25. Meets the Class limit: 20. Lab fee: $40. Meets the following following degree requirements: ES degree requirements: ES, QR ES 1016 Ornithology ES 1022 Introduction to Oceanography MACDONALD, RICHARD; SWANN, SCOTT TODD, SEAN The study of ornithology is as old as human society Planet Earth is misnamed. Seawater covers itself. Birds are particularly conspicuous elements of approximately 70% of the planet's surface, in one our world, and figure prominently in our art, religious giant all-connected ocean. This ocean has a profound symbolism, mythology, scientific endeavors, and effect on the planet's climate, chemistry, ecosystem, even sport. Birds appear in European paleolithic cave and energy resources. Billions of years ago life began paintings from 14,000 years ago, domesticated fowl there, in what now we regard as the last unexplored are known from India circa 3000 BC, and ancient frontier of this planet. In this course we examine the scholars such as Aristotle and Pliny the Elder devoted various disciplines within oceanography, including considerable time to ornithological observations. aspects of geology and sedimentology, chemical, In this century, great strides have been made in the dynamic and biological oceanography. The course study of population biology and ecology, navigation concludes with an introduction to marine ecosystems and migration, and human induced ecological change examined at various trophic levels, including phyto/ (sometimes called human ecology), all through the zooplankton, fish and other macrofauna. Fieldwork study of birds. (weather dependent) includes trips on RV Indigo, trips to intertidal and estuarine ecosystems, and This class introduces the student to the ornithological possible visits to the college's islands, Mount Desert world by using both scientific literature and direct Rock and Great Duck Island. Evaluation will be by lab, field observation. Systematics and physiology will be quizzes, and a final paper. reviewed, but much of our effort will concentrate on reproductive ecology, behavior and the environment, Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class and population dynamics. There will be a strong limit: 15. Lab fee: $150. Meets the following degree emphasis on field observation-learning how to look requirements: ES at birds and their behavior in order to perhaps make 60 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 ES 1024 Calculus I ES 1028 Marine Biology FELDMAN, DAVID PETERSEN, CHRISTOPHER The goal of this sequence of courses is to develop This is a broad course, covering the biology of the essential ideas of single-variable calculus: the organisms in various marine habitats (rocky limit, the derivative, and the integral. Understanding intertidal, mud and sand, estuaries, open ocean, concepts is emphasized over intricate mathematical coral reefs, deep sea), and some policy and marine maneuverings. The mathematics learned are applied management and conservation issues. The largest to topics from the physical, natural, and social part of this course is focused on learning to identify sciences. There is a weekly lab/discussion section. and understand the natural history and ecology of Evaluations are based on homework, participation in the marine flora and fauna of New England, with an class and lab, and tests. emphasis on the rocky intertidal of Mount Desert Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: Precalculus or Island. The course meets twice per week with the equivalent or signature of the instructor. Class one afternoon for laboratory work or field trips. limit: None. Lab fee: $5. Meets the following degree Evaluations are based on the quality of participation requirements: QR in class, one in-class practical, several sets of essay questions, and a field notebook emphasizing natural history notes of local organisms. This class is intended ES 1026 Introduction to Chaos and Fractals for first year students, who will have priority during FELDMAN, DAVID registration. Returning students may take this course This course presents an elementary introduction to only with permission of the instructor. chaos and fractals. The main focus will be on using Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: Signature of discrete dynamical systems to illustrate many of instructor for returning students. Class limit: 20. the key phenomena of chaotic dynamics: stable and Offered at least every other year. Lab fee: $80. Meets unstable fixed and periodic points, deterministic the following degree requirements: ES chaos, bifurcations, and universality. A central result of this study will be the realization that very simple ES 1030 Chemistry II non-linear equations can exhibit extremely complex behavior. In particular, a simple deterministic system HUDSON, REUBEN (i.e., physical system governed by simple, exact This is the second half of a two-term sequence mathematical rules) can behave in a way that is designed to help students describe and understand unpredictable and random, (i.e., chaotic). This result properties of materials. This course begins with suggests that there are potentially far-reaching a survey of how the internal structure of atoms limits on the ability of science to predict certain leads to the formation of different sorts of bonds phenomena. Students in this class will also learn about between them. It then considers how weaker forces fractals-self-similar geometric objects-including the can arise between molecules and the sorts of Mandelbrot set and Julia sets. We will also read about physical phenomena that such forces explain. The and discuss the development of the field of chaos. class concludes by considering how to describe In so doing, we will examine the nature of scientific and explain the rates at which (and the extents to communities, with a particular eye toward how which) chemicals reactions occur and applies such changes in scientific outlooks occur. descriptions and explanations to common types of Throughout the course, students will be encouraged reactions (acid/base and redox). Throughout the to explore the relations between chaos, fractals, course, examples are drawn from living systems, the and other areas of study such as literature, art, and natural environment, and industrial products. The cultural studies. Students who successfully complete course meets for three hours of lecture/discussion this class should gain a quantitative and qualitative and for three hours of lab each week. Chemistry 1 understanding of the basic ideas of chaos and fractals, is a strongly recommended a prerequisite for this a greater understanding of the cultural practice of course. Evaluations are based on class participation, science, and improved mathematical skills. Evaluation homework, midterm and final exams, and a term will be based on class and lab participation, weekly project or paper. problem sets several short writing assignments and a Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: 30. final project. Offered every year. Lab fee: None. Meets the following Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: A high school requirements: ES, QR algebra course or signature of instructor. Class limit: 24. Lab fee: $10. Meets the following degree requirements: ES, QR COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 61 ES 1038 Geology of Mount Desert Island and reproduction of individuals and the evolution of HALL, SARAH; BRADDOCK, SCOTT populations We will explore principles of evolution, classification, anatomy and physiology, epidemiology, This course is designed to introduce students to behavior, and basic ecology. The primary focus of the geological concepts, tools of the trade, and to the course is on vertebrate animals and vascular plants, geological history of Mount Desert Island. Throughout but we will make forays into other phylogenetic the course, students will learn skillsets (topographic lineages at intervals. Weekly field and laboratory and geologic map reading, orienteering, field studies introduce students to the local range of observation, note taking, field measurements) and habitats and a broad array of protists, plants, and geologic principles (rock types, stratigraphy, plate animals. Attendance at two lectures and one lab tectonics, earth systems, geologic time, surface each week is required; course evaluation is based processes) both in the classroom and in the field. We on class participation, exams, preparation of a lab/ will conduct multiple short field excursions on MDI field notebook, and a presentation. It should be and one extended weekend field trip to explore the stressed that this course emphasizes the unity of the regional geology. Students will submit a term project organism within its environment. Ideally students will complete with their own field data, maps, photos, and subsequently enroll in Biology: Cells and Molecules in analysis of the local and regional geology. Students order to further their exploration of issues in a more will be evaluated on the term project, short quizzes, reductionist form, but neither course is a pre-requisite additional written assignments, and lab reports. for the other. Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: 16. Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Binoculars Offered every fall. Lab fee: $100. Meets the following and a good pair of walking boots strongly advised. degree requirements: ES Class limit: None. Offered every year. Lab fee: $40. Meets the following degree requirements: ES ES 1052 Biology: Cellular Processes of Life STAFF ES 1056 Physics and Mathematics of This course introduces students to the molecular Sustainable Energy and cellular processes that are essential for life. FELDMAN, DAVID We will initially cover some basic chemistry to In this course students will learn content and skills develop a common language for discussing the so that they can participate effectively in sustainable complex molecular events that are the basis of energy projects, make personal and community the structure and function of cells. This class will decisions that reduce carbon emissions, and work explore cellular processes involved in metabolism, in ventures in sustainable energy. Additionally, this communication, growth, and reproduction. There course will be useful for those interested in energy and is a strong emphasis on the understanding the climate policy, either internationally or domestically. genetic basis of these processes as well as how these We will begin with a quick overview of current CO2 processes are controlled, and we will delve into the emissions levels and look at how this is related to structure and function of the DNA molecule in some energy use. We will then turn our attention to basic detail. We will examine how our understanding of ideas from physics, including the definition of energy genetic processes and genome sequencing has led and the difference between energy and power. The to applications in research, medicine, agriculture, bulk of the course will consist of a survey of different and industry, with time also devoted to discussion forms of energy consumption and generation. of the social and ethical consequences attached to Throughout, we will quantitatively analyze technology these technological innovations. Students will be from both a local and global point of view. For evaluated on participation, performance on problem example, we will calculate how much electricity one sets and quizzes throughout the term, and a final oral can generate on a rooftop, and we will also examine presentation. the role that solar PV could play toward the goal of Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: eliminating fossil fuel use worldwide. In a unit on None. Lab fee: $25. Meets the following degree financial mathematics, students will learn about the requirements: ES time value of money and several ways of quantifying investments, including ROI (return on investment) ES 1054 Biology: Form and Function and IRR (internal rate of return). Students will apply these financial tools in several short case studies. If STAFF time permits, we may also cover negative emissions This is one half of a 20-week, two-term introductory technologies and the electrical grid, including grid course in biology, providing an overview of the stability issues and the potential of smart-grid discipline and prerequisite for many intermediate technology. This will be a demanding introductory and advanced biology courses. The course will class. Evaluation will be based on weekly problem sets. emphasize biological structures at the level of whole Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class organisms and organs and their role in the survival 62 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 Limit: 30. Lab fee $10. Meets the following degree rocks and minerals, and surface processes through requirements: QR, ES an exploration of some of the National Parks of the United States. Through virtual field trips of various ES 1066 Chemistry I parks, students will visualize how regional climate and surface processes such as rivers, glaciers, and wind HUDSON, REUBEN interact with the bedrock and surficial materials to This is the first half of a two-term sequence designed produce some of the most iconic landscapes. While to help students describe and understand properties Acadia National Park offers a view of an ancient and of materials. The course first explores how atomic and eroded supervolcano, Yellowstone offers a glimpse of molecular structure relates to the physical properties a dynamic landscape built on a modern supervolcano. of materials and their reactivity. The course explores While a few glaciers still cling to the high peaks of the reasons, rates, and outcomes of chemical Glacier National Park, Yosemite hosts steep glacially reactions. Course material is applied to better carved valleys and polished domes reminiscent of a understand living systems, the natural environment, glaciated past. Class time will be used for lectures, and industrial products. The course meets for three discussions of readings, and laboratory exercises. hours of lecture/discussion and for three hours of lab During labs, students will get to know approximately each week. Students are strongly urged to take both six different parks in detail through interaction with terms of this course. Evaluations are based on class geologic maps, rock samples, aerial imagery, and participation, lab reports, and quizzes. scientific reports. The students will be evaluated based Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: on laboratory exercises and a final project through which None. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree students will explore one park of their choosing. requirements: ES, QR Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: 16. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree ES 1072 Chemistry and Biology of Food requirements: ES and Drink HUDSON, REUBEN ES 1076 Polar Ecology and Exploration Introductory chemistry and biology are explored in TODD, SEAN the context of food and drink: the biology of crops, The Arctic and Antarctic represent some of the most culinary chemistry, and the biochemistry of brewing. extreme environments on the planet. As physical Major chemistry topics include atomic structure, places, both poles play an important role in governing periodicity, bonding, acid base chemistry, kinetics, the planet's climate and heat flow. Both are suspected equilibrium, colloids, and solubility of gases in to be rich in minerals and are thought to perhaps liquids. Major biology topics include photosynthesis, hold short-term relief from current world shortages respiration, plant and yeast life histories, cellular in natural resources. As ecosystems, both are hugely reproduction, and metabolism. We will also explore productive in spite of, and in part because of the agricultural chemistry from a systems perspective: extreme temperatures they experience; certain examining strategies to for keeping pace with the species are found nowhere else and in fact thrive demand for nitrogen and phosphorous in soils. This in these remote locales. Superimposed upon these course is meant to offer important, fundamental natural environments is the presence of humans. chemistry and biology through the framework of food, Exploration of both areas has been particularly a universal human experience. These fundamental focused in the past century, with countless stories of topics in Chemistry and Biology will be explored from the perseverance and persistence of our pioneering the ground up, so no prior experience is required. spirit. Initially surveyed to forward nationalistic Meanwhile, the culinary and agricultural framework agendas, both poles are now sites of scientific inquiry. should offer enough new content for students with In particular, the political model that currently a background in natural sciences. Students will be governs Antarctica as one massive Protected Area evaluated based on participation in classroom and has no precedent and perhaps suggests a way forward laboratory sessions, projects, and quizzes. for environmental agendas working on global scales. Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class More recently, the poles have been exploited by limit: 15. Lab fee: $60. Meets the following degree ecotourism businesses. requirements: ES This class examines the provinces of the Arctic and Antarctic, wildernesses whose boundaries can be defined physically, biologically, geologically ES 1075 Geology of National Parks and politically. We will examine the rich and highly HALL, SARAH adapted diversity of life as it is affected by local and In this introductory geoscience course students will global oceanography and atmospheric science, and learn foundational principles and concepts such as assess the impacts of climate change on these fragile plate tectonics, geologic time, climate and weather, environments. We will also review our relationship COLLEGE OF THE ANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 63 with these places and examine what future we instructor. Class Limit: 6. Lab fee: None. Meets the might play in preserving, and/or exploiting the polar following degree requirements: None regime, using human ecology as a model for our understanding. Evaluation will be by two term papers ES 1085 Data Science I: Visualization and participation in class activities. BAKER, LAURIE Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: 15. Lab fee: $50. Meets the following degree How can one summarize information and data requirements: ES and convey its meaning to others? What is an effective data visualization? What is an ineffective or dishonest one? And, for that matter, what is ES 1081 Plants and People: Economic Botany data? This course will explore these questions by LETCHER, SUSAN introducing students to the broad field of information This class offers an introduction to plant biology visualization. Students will learn about different centered around plants that are useful to human types of visualizations that may be used to explore societies. We will explore plant anatomy, physiology, variation and covariation, the evolution of processes evolution, and ecology through case studies involving through time and space, and representing parts plants that are useful to humans. Through lectures, of a whole. Much of the work of this course will be readings, and discussions, students will gain a rich carried out using computers and the R programming understanding of how plants function and how language, but we will also explore non-computational human societies depend on them in myriad ways. We approaches to visualization. Students will develop will cover universal and familiar uses of plants such skills in data collection, data cleaning, and creating as food, building materials, and textiles, as well as different types of data visualizations (e.g. bar charts, less widely practiced uses including arrow poisons, scatter plots, density plots, heat maps, violin plots, lacquers, and living fences. We will discuss the origins time series, and interactive graphics) and effective of agriculture and methods of plant breeding, as data communication while working on problems and well as the biogeographical history of important case studies inspired by and based on real-world cultivated plant lineages. The focus will be on plants questions. We will also critique and reflect upon data and our uses for them, but we will also discuss ethical visualizations in our daily lives. Students will also concerns surrounding practices like bioprospecting gain familiarity with descriptive statistics and ways to and ex situ conservation. Students will be evaluated organize and summarize categorical and numerical on participation and the successful completion of two data to pick out key information. presentations and a research paper. This course is designed to serve as an introduction to Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: programming in R. Students will learn to gain insight 20. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree from data, to use literate programming and version requirements: ES control so that these insights are reproducible by others, and to develop code collaboratively. Students who successfully complete this course will be able to ES 1082 Climate and Seasons: work with large data sets, transform those data, and Maple Production implement effective visualizations. Throughout the HUDSON, REUBEN course we will be using GitHub, ggplot2, Rmarkdown, Through the lens of maple production, we will gganimate, RShiny and the tidyverse packages for explore a variety of chemistry, biology, and climate data manipulation. This course is intended to appeal science topics, including: climate, seasonality, plant to a wide range of students. The skills and habits of physiology, density, (reverse) osmosis, and the mind taught in this course are applicable not only chemistry of sugars. The hands-on aspects of these in the sciences and social sciences, but in almost topics will be covered during an intensive 2-week all fields. Evaluation will be based on several short period over spring break, which historically overlaps homework and lab assignments, participation in in- with the maple sap run in this area. Students will class activities, and a final project. learn how to identify maple, birch, butternut and Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: other tree species which produce viable sap for syrup 16. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree production. Students will tap these trees, collect requirements: QR the sap, and concentrate it by reverse osmosis and by boiling. Students will also learn how to prune ES 1086 Introduction to Field Sampling: fruit trees, and why we do this in the same season. Collection to Data Points Students will be evaluated based on their participation in the 2-week spring-break session, as well as through HUDSON, REUBEN assignments, papers, and a final project completed In this course, students will learn how to ask relevant during the spring term. field science questions, how to collect samples in Level: Introductory: Prerequisite: Permission of the field (soil, water, air, plant, plankton, sediment), 64 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 and how to process the samples in the lab (sieving, in contemporary issues in equity and social justice counting, digesting, extracting), how to turn those related to our digital world, community, and identity. samples into data points, and how to communicate This course is intended to appeal to a wide range of the findings. When technical field skills are necessary students. The computing skills learned in class are for sample collection, we will offer co-curricular language independent, thus this class will be helpful instruction (knot tying, canoeing for lake sediment for students interested in computing, regardless of coring, kayaking for water sampling, etc). This course the languages and domains they'll end up working in. will cover microplastic analysis in water and soils, The skills and habits of mind taught in this course are water chemistry (ions, pH, organic pollutants), and applicable to the sciences, arts, social sciences, and charcoal analysis in sediments. Students will be beyond and lay the foundation for future computing evaluated based on participation in field sampling, courses and varied computational applications such as lab processing, and lecture discussions, as well as generative art, software development, bioinformatics, through regular problem sets and a term-long writing and sensor and app design. project. Students will need waterproof shoes, sturdy Evaluation will be based on several short homework hiking boots, raingear (rain pants and raincoat) and and lab assignments inspired by real-world problems, appropriate layers (synthetic or wool) for spending weekly reflections, and a final creative project. prolonged periods of time outside. If students do not Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: have their own personal gear we can provide it for 16. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree them if we are informed by the start of the course. requirements: QR All technical equipment (canoes, lifejackets, coring equipment) will be provided. This course is not permission of instructor, but it is ES 2010 Ecology: Natural History linked to a pre-matriculation summer STEM program. SWANN, SCOTT All seats will be reserved for first year students. As This course emphasizes field studies of the ecology was done last year, admitted students will be invited of Mount Desert Island, incorporating labs and to join the pre-matriculation summer STEM program. field trips. Each exercise focuses on a central Students who join the summer STEM program (this ecological concept. Topics include intertidal biology will happen prior to registration) will be given priority and diversity, forest trees and site types, bedrock to join the class. If there are open seats not taken geology, soil biology, insect diversity, pollination by students doing the summer STEM program, then ecology, freshwater biology, predation, herbivory, these seats can be made available to other incoming and the migration of birds. Discussions include the first year students when they register. development of natural history as a science and the Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: role of natural selection in the evolution of diversity. 10. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree Students are expected to keep a field notebook or requirements: ES, QR journal, to undertake a project, and to write a term paper. Class meets for two lecture sessions and ES 1087 Introduction to Programming one lab session or two field/lab sessions per week. The course is particularly appropriate for students and Computing concentrating in Environmental Education. BAKER, LAURIE Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: Computer science is about discovering accurate None. Field work involves strenuous hiking. Class solutions to interesting, challenging problems that Limit: 11. Lab fee: $75. Meets the following degree have real-world impact, and about representing requirements: ES the solutions in a precise way so that computers can assist with solving the problems. This course ES 2012 Introduction to Statistics and explores computational thinking and problem solving via an introduction to computer programming. Research Design Students learn the fundamentals of programming LETCHER, SUSAN; TODD, SEAN using Python, including basic data structures, flow This course introduces the basics of statistical control structures, functions, recursion, elementary analysis that can be used in either a scientific or object-oriented programming, and discussion a social science frame of reference. While this of higher-level concepts including abstraction, course teaches you to perform both nonparametric modularity, testing, and debugging. and simple parametric analysis both by hand Like many fields of study, computing does not occur and computer, an emphasis will be placed on in a vacuum, but has real social, environmental, understanding the principles and assumptions of and political implications; whether it be the carbon each test, rather than mathematical ability per se. footprint of running Google's language model, BERT, We will also learn how to report statistical results or how missing data undermines equitable societies. in journal format, and there will be plenty of lab Through reflection and class discussion we will engage time to sharpen skills. Evaluation is based on lab COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 65 participation, three quizzes, and a team project. ES 2030 Marine Mammal Biology I Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: A TODD, SEAN college mathematics course, or signature of the This course provides an introduction to the biology instructor. Class limit: 20. Lab fee: $40. Meets the and natural history of marine mammals, specializing following degree requirements: QR in species resident within the North Atlantic. Topics covered include phylogeny and taxonomy, anatomy ES 2014 Trees and Shrubs of Mount and physiology, behavior, sensory ecology, and Desert Island management/conservation issues. The course WEBER, JILL includes field trips to observe animals in their natural habitat, dissection of specimens, and exposure to the This course introduces you to the native and professional peer review field. Students are expected ornamental shrubs and trees of Mount Desert Island. to complete two individual literature-based reviews, Lectures will cover basics of plant taxonomy and one species- and one system-based, to be presented forest ecology focusing on the dominant woody plant in class. Assessment is based on class participation, species of the region. Laboratory and field sessions presentations as well as written submissions. Lab fee will involve the identification of woody plants and an covers costs of field trips, including potential boat and introduction to the major woody plant habitats of the field station time, and optional travel to a regional island. The course is designed to teach botany and conference during the term. plant taxonomy for students interested in natural history/ecology, forestry, and landscape design. Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: Biology: Form and Function, Biology: Cellular Evaluations are based on class participation, weekly field/lab quizzes, a plant collection, and term project. Processes of Life, and a writing-focused class or permission of instructor. Class limit: 12. Offered every Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: other year. Lab fee: $200. Meets the following degree None, but some background in botany and ecology is requirements: ES recommended. Class limit: 16. Offered every year. Lab fee: $40. Meets the following degree requirements: ES ES 2037 Introductory Entomology ES 2020 Art and Science of Fermented Foods GRAHAM, CARRIE MORSE, SUZANNE Nearly 80% of all described species belong to the class Insecta. Due to their abundance, diversity This course will take an in depth look at the art and adaptability, insects are crucial components of and science of fermented and cultured foods. The terrestrial, freshwater and human-made ecosystems. first half of the class will focus on the microbiology Students with a background in entomology can apply of fermentation with a specific focus on products their knowledge of insects to many other fields, derived from milk and soybeans. Each week there including botany, ecology, anthropology, epidemiology will be a laboratory portion in which students will and medicine, agriculture, climate change, visual arts, explore how the basic fermentation processes and history, and even the culinary arts. This course will products change with different milk and soy qualities. give students a sampling of entomological applications These small-scale experiences and experiments within these diverse fields. Students will be given a will be complemented with field trips to commercial solid introduction to insect biology, ecology, taxonomy enterprises in Maine and Massachusetts. In the and identification through lectures, lab sessions second half of the term students will explore the and field trips. They will assemble their own insect differences in flat, yeast, and sourdough breads. collections and will learn to identify all Maine insect Final projects will focus on a foodway of choice orders and many common insect families. Lectures, and will culminate in presentations that explore field trips and readings will emphasize the important the historical and cultural context in which these role of insects in human lives and our impact on the different cultured foods were developed and how environment. Students will be evaluated on their insect these microbial-mediated processes enhance collections, performance on lab quizzes, participation preservation, nutritional and economic value, and one paper with presentation. and taste. Evaluations will be based on class participation, short quizzes, a lab report, journal, and Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: Biology 1 or permission of instructor. Class limit: 15. Lab fee a final project. $35. Meets the following degree requirements: ES Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Class limit: 12. Lab fee: $75 (to cover use of the community kitchen and one two- ES 2041 Physics II: Relativity day field trip to Massachusetts to visit commercial FELDMAN, DAVID soy product companies and supplies). Meets the This version of Physics II covers Einstein's theory of following degree requirements: ES special relativity. Topics covered include the principle of relativity, spacetime intervals and proper time, 66 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 coordinate transformations, Lorentz contraction, ES 3020 Invertebrate Zoology and relativistic energy and momentum. We will start HESS, HELEN with first principles and carefully build toward key results, allowing students to see how relativity-one This course is a phylogenetic survey of the major of the pillars of modern physics-was constructed groups of animals without backbones. These animals and how it coheres as a mathematically consistent range in size from single cells to giant squids, and and experimentally verified theory. To gain a sense they include the vast majority of animals on earth. of the scientific, social, and material context in which Using text readings, assigned articles, and one the theory of relativity was developed, we will read afternoon per week of field/lab work, students Einstein's Clocks and Poincaré's Maps: Empires of Time gain an understanding of the classification, by Peter Galison. This class makes extensive use of ecology, evolutionary relationships, and economic algebra. Students should be comfortable working with significance of this remarkably diverse collection of mathematical abstraction. Evaluation based on weekly organisms. Students are evaluated on participation, problem sets, class participation, several short writing lab notebooks, and performance on weekly quizzes and two tests. assignments, and a final exam or project. Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: Comfort Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: Biology: Form and with high-school level algebra. Class limit: 40. Lab fee: Function and Biology: Cellular Processes of Life, or $25. Meets the following degree requirements: ES, QR signature of instructor. Class limit: 16. Offered every other year. Lab fee $25. Meets the following degree requirements: ES ES 3012 Calculus II FELDMAN, DAVID ES 3028 Calculus III: Multivariable This course is the continuation of Calculus I. It begins Calculus by considering further applications of the integral. We FELDMAN, DAVID then move to approximations and series; we conclude the course with a brief treatment of differential The functions studied in Calculus I and II are one- equations. The mathematics learned are applied to dimensional. But the universe of everyday experience topics from the physical, natural, and social sciences. is, at minimum, three-dimensional. In this course There is a weekly lab/discussion section. Evaluations we explore how calculus can be extended so as are based on homework, participation in class and to apply to functions of more than one variable, lab, and tests. and thus apply to the three-dimensional world. We will begin by reviewing vectors and functions of Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: Calculus I or the several variables. We will then learn about partial equivalent. Class limit: None. Lab fee: None. Meets the derivatives and gradients and how apply these tools following degree requirements: QR, ES to multivariable optimization. Turning our attention to integral calculus, we will next cover double and ES 3014 Ecology triple integrals and their applications. We will conclude ANDERSON, JOHN with a treatment of line integrals, flux integrals, the divergence and curl of a vector field, and Green's and This course examines ecology in the classic sense: Stokes's theorems. Evaluation will be based on class the study of the causes and consequences of the participation and lengthy weekly problem sets. distribution and abundance of organisms. We examine the assumptions and predictions of general models To enroll in Calculus III students must have a of predator-prey interactions, inter- and intra-species background in single-variable calculus. Students who competition, island biogeography, and resource have done IB maths at either the standard or higher use, and compare these models to the results of level, or either the AB or BC Advanced Placement experimental tests in lab and field. In addition we Calculus tests, are ready for Calculus III, as are discuss appropriate techniques used by ecologists students who have had Calc I and Il here or at another in collecting data in the field, note-taking and the college. Calculus III re-visits topics from Calc I and appropriate collation and storage of field data. II and extends them to multivariable functions and Although this course is NOT a course in Conservation vector fields. This is a great class for students who Biology, we examine how ecological principles are want to review their calculus and take their math to applied to conservation questions. Readings include the next level. selections from the primary literature. Students are Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: Calculus II or the evaluated on the basis of class participation and two equivalent or signature of instructor. Class limit: in depth problem sets, drawing extensively on the None. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree primary literature. requirements: QR Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: Biology: Form and Function. Class limit: 12. Lab fee $75. Meets the following degree requirements: ES COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 67 ES 3032 Genetics ES 3050 Organic Chemistry I HESS, HELEN HUDSON, REUBEN This course will explore the many roles that genes This course explores the physical, chemical, and play in the biology of organisms, the molecular basis environmental properties of carbon-containing of gene function, and the methodologies used in materials such as plastics, solvents, dyes, as well as all genetic research and application. Students in this living things, and once-living materials. The emphasis course should already have a basic understanding is on learning fundamental principles that allow one from an introductory biology course of the structure to understand and to predict the behavior of various and function of genes and chromosomes, the types of organic substances. There is an optional lab processes involved in gene expression, and patterns section. Evaluations are based on midterm and final of inheritance. This course will explore these exam. The equivalent of this course is a prerequisite phenomena more deeply as well as delve into a for biochemistry. range of other topics, including population genetics, Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: A previous quantitative genetics, genes in development, chemistry course. Class limit: 14. Offered every genomics, and using genetic data to understand other year. Lab fee: $60. Meets the following degree human evolution. We will also discuss the use requirements: ES of genetic engineering in industry, agriculture, medicine, and research. We will meet twice weekly for lectures and once per week for discussion of ES 3060 Marine Mammal Biology I: readings and problem sets. Evaluation is based Field Studies on short problem sets, take-home exams, an oral TODD, SEAN presentation, and a final paper. This fall course provides an introduction to the biology Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: Successful and natural history of marine mammals, specializing completion of Biology: Cellular Processes of Life or in species resident within the North Atlantic, in a field permission of instructor. Class limit: 16. Lab fee: None. setting. Students spend two weeks prior to the start Meets the following degree requirements: ES of the fall term at COA Mount Desert Rock Marine Research Station. In addition to introductory topics ES 3044 Climate and Weather in marine mammal biology that include phylogeny and taxonomy; anatomy and physiology; behavior; HALL, SARAH sensory ecology; and management/conservation This class will explore general weather and climate issues, students also integrate themselves into the patterns on global, regional, and local scales. We resident research team and work on team projects will discuss the major forcings driving global climate that will include observation of animals in their natural fluctuations-on both long (millions of years) and short habitat. In the fall, students meet 3-4 further times for (days) timescales, including natural and anthropogenic dissection of specimens, team project presentations, processes. We will also learn about basic meteorology and optional attendance at a regional conference. and the processes producing some common Assessment is based on two individual literature- spectacular optical weather phenomena (rainbows, based reviews, one species- and one system-based, coronas, cloud-types, etc). Students will complete a to be presented in class, participation in research term project comprising a photo-documentary journal projects, and written submissions of their research. of the different weather phenomena they observe Lab fee covers costs of field trips, including boat during the 10-week term. The field component of this and field station time, and conference costs. A $250 course will be self-guided through the observation and nonrefundable deposit is required by June 1. documentation of weather phenomena. Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: Biology I, Biology Who should take this course: No prior geology/science II, and a writing-focused class or permission of experience is needed-but expect to do a bit of basic instructor. Class limit: 15. Offered every other math in this course! The course level is intermediate year. Lab fee: $600. Meets the following degree because it will not cover foundational principles of requirements: ES geology (or other sciences) but instead the course will be integrative and require students to practice both their quantitative and qualitative skills. Take this ES 3065 Molecular Genetics Workshop course if you are passionate or curious about climate PETERSEN, CHRISTOPHER change, but do not know much about the science of This workshop teaches students how to apply and use climate and weather! a variety of molecular genetic and cellular laboratory Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. Class techniques at Mount Desert Island Biological limit: 16. Lab fee: $10. Meets the following degree Laboratory. Students learn how to do basic molecular requirements: ES genetic techniques, including some subset of DNA extraction, RNA extraction, PCR, RT-PCR, cloning, 68 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 and bioinformatics. Students work on how to carry the field, students will use their data to calculate flows out a research design around a specific question, how and sediment loads associated with less frequent flood to carry out the research and interpret results. The events. Large magnitude flow events tend to shape material will be taught around a research question steam channels and have implications for human that the group will work on for a one-week period over infrastructure and intertidal zone dynamics. spring break. The course is taught by various MDIBL Students will be evaluated based on weekly research staff. Successful completion of the workshop assignments, quizzes, presentations, and the term- requires attendance for the entire week. long project. Students will work in teams to complete Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: One class in cellular a basin-wide study of one of the island watersheds and molecular biology (Biology: Cellular Processes of of interest to community partners for long-term Life counts) or genetics, and permission of instructors. monitoring. The field project will culminate in a Class limit: 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the following written report and presentation. They will work degree requirements: None on their project report throughout the term with opportunities for peer review and revision. It is ES 3076 Restoration Ecology strongly recommended that students have taken high school math courses (algebra and geometry), at LETCHER, SUSAN least one introductory Earth Science course, and are The Society for Ecological Restoration defines comfortable using Excel. ecological restoration as "the process of assisting the Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: HS2020 recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, Introductory GIS. Class limit: 16. Lab fee: $100. Meets damaged, or destroyed." In this era of widespread the following degree requirements: ES, QR environmental degradation, restoration ecology provides an important set of methods for mitigating anthropogenic damage. However, the science of ES 3090 Practicum in Sustainable Energy restoration is still in its early phases, and important GIBSON, DAVID theoretical and practical questions remain to be This is a hands-on, project-based class in which resolved. This class will critically examine the students will collaboratively plan for and participate assumptions that underlie restoration planning, both in all aspects of renewable energy projects on in the ethical dimension and in the realm of scientific College of the Atlantic's campus. Examples of theory. We will consider the validity of conceptual projects include installation of a solar photovoltaic models of ecological communities and ecosystems array, airsealing and insulating one of the college's and the way that these models shape decision-making. buildings, or planning and installing a greenhouse We will survey the factors that must be taken into heating system. Students will learn how to take a account during restoration and study best-practices project from design through fruition while navigating approaches, with a focus on adaptive management. In the various phases of the project lifecycle including the final project, groups of students will develop and operation and maintenance. The course will begin present restoration plans for a local site. Students will with an overview of existing technology and an be evaluated based on two essays, class participation, analysis of the current energy generation and and the final project. consumption data for the project site(s). The class Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: Any of a number of will then plan the project and present this plan to courses including Biology: Form and Function, Trees the community. As part of this planning process, and Shrubs, Ecology, Weed Ecology, or Landscape students will learn about the economics of renewable Architecture Design Studio. Class limit: 20. Lab fee: energy systems, including return on investment None. Meets the following degree requirements: ES (ROI), internal rate of return (IRR), and related quantities. Students who successfully complete this ES 3085 Watersheds class will gain the skills necessary to conceptualize, plan for, finance, and implement renewable energy HALL, SARAH projects. Evaluation will be based on several short In this course students will learn the basic field and presentations, problem sets, and active and effective quantitative methods used to characterize watersheds. participation in all aspects of the project. Default The course will focus mainly on watersheds of Mount grade is Credit/No Credit. Desert Island and some of the larger rivers in Maine Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: Permission of and will build upon foundational concepts in Earth instructor; Physics and Mathematics of Sustainable Science. The course will feature field, lab, and lecture Energy is strongly recommended. Class limit: 10. Lab fee: components. Students will conduct geomorphic $50. Meets the following degree requirements: None mapping (field and GIS), surveying, stream discharge measurements, pebble counts, and other common tools and methods to conduct a term-long field study of multiple island watersheds. Upon returning from COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 69 ES 3094 Dynamic Landscapes ES 3096 Tutorial: Introduction to Proofs HALL, SARAH and Mathematical Structures In this course students will learn to make place- FELDMAN, DAVID based observations of landscapes to consider This course is an introduction to mathematical the processes shaping them. Various climatic and structures, proof techniques, and the language and tectonic processes such as erosion and active style of formal mathematics. Topics to be covered mountain building are continuously shaping Earth's include: intuitive and direct proofs, sets and functions, diverse landscapes. Humans and other organisms induction, logic, the contrapositive, and proof by are also shaping and reshaping the Earth's near contradiction. Additionally, this course aims to surface and have been for at least thousands introduce students to some of the key elements of of years. We can describe these geomorphic higher mathematics, and so, as time permits, we processes both qualitatively and quantitatively in will cover introductory topics from areas such as order to understand the rates and timescales over number theory, topology, real analysis, and group which different landscapes develop and evolve. theory. Throughout the course we will emphasize Our descriptions and interpretations of evolving clear mathematical exposition and methods of proof. landscapes enable thoughtful interaction and In addition to gaining an understanding of the topics inhabitation. Students will learn about the processes listed above, students who complete this course forming and shaping landscapes through both will be able to: read and understand mathematical the interpretation of their own local observations exposition, think critically as mathematicians and as well as an exploration of prior accounts. We present convincing arguments, and read and write are fortunate to have a rich record of people's formal proofs. This class will help prepare students for interactions and considerations of the landscape further advanced study in mathematics and related of coastal Maine spanning thousands of years. fields. It will also be of value to those who wish to Students will engage with different accounts of explore the logical structure of mathematics, gain the regional landscape through readings, maps, increased facility with abstract mathematical thought, and conversations with community members. We or sharpen analytic and critical reasoning skills. This will also compare aspects of this region's iconic course will be taught in a seminar style; students will glacially carved coastal landscape with that of other frequently be asked to prepare proofs and examples similarly formed landscapes that are currently for discussion in class and to work collaboratively on located in different geographic, climatic, tectonic, problems. Evaluation will be based on problem sets and built environments and therefore exposed and active and collaborative class participation. to different active processes. Students will learn Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: Calculus II and methods of determining the rates of landscape- permission of instructor. Class limit: 5. Meets the shaping processes in order to consider the role of following degree requirements: QR human activities in landscape change. By combining different types of temporal and spatial information, students will learn to identify regional hazards such ES 3097 Introduction to Epidemiological as mass-wasting events (landslides, debris flows, Modeling rock falls, etc.), flooding and coastal erosion. BAKER, LAURIE; FELDMAN, DAVID Students will be evaluated based on their Mathematical models are an essential tool in performance on weekly assignments and a final epidemiology. Models are used in a number of ways, project in which students choose one specific coastal including: to predict the course of an epidemic; Maine location to study. As we will engage with to estimate key epidemiological parameters; to various materials describing landscapes throughout determine an optimal vaccination strategy; or to the term (i.e. narrative accounts, maps, scientific gain a general, qualitative understanding of the reports), this project will be an opportunity for salient features of the dynamics of a disease. This students to practice place-based communication. course will focus on differential equations, a class This course does not have any prerequisites, but of mathematical models used across the sciences to a college-level introductory geoscience course is model quantities that change continuously in time. recommended; this course will make use of algebra, The course will begin with a short introduction to GIS-online software, and digital spreadsheets (using differential equations. We will then step through Excel or similar software). the full "pipeline" of mathematical modeling using Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: This course epidemiology as a case study. We will begin with a does not have any Prerequisite, but a college-level first-principles derivation of several models and will introductory geoscience course is recommended. consider how the natural history of an infectious Class Limit: 12. Lab fee: $100. Meets the following disease influences modeling choices. We will then degree requirements: ES see how to solve and analyze differential equations computationally. We will then cover how to calibrate a model to epidemiological data and estimate key 70 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 model parameters in a principled way. Finally, we will ES 3099 Introduction to Tropical Field see how to create model projections for different Ecology intervention scenarios and will explore the strengths RESSEL, STEPHEN and limitations of a mathematical model in relation to given research and policy questions. Through this This intensive, field-based course examines process, students will gain skills and experiences that fundamental concepts and processes of tropical will apply to mathematical modeling in a range of ecology through exploration and investigation of a settings across the natural and social sciences. diverse array of bioclimatic zones found within the Central American country of Costa Rica. Students In addition to learning the mathematics of differential will spend extensive time in the field learning the equations applied to epidemiology, a central goal of biotic diversity of each region through observation this course is to gain skills necessary for research in and application of field techniques. Students will the mathematical, natural, and social sciences. This then integrate these field experiences with readings includes conceptualizing and framing a research from the primary literature and classic works to question, formulating a model to explore that contemplate and discuss current topics in tropical question, engaging with peer-reviewed research ecology. Primary emphasis in this course will be publications, and giving a research presentation and placed on the vertebrate fauna of Costa Rica, with preparing a short technical report. Evaluation will arthropod diversity and ecology addressed in the be based on class participation, problem sets and Tropical Entomology course. programming exercises, and a term-long project culminating in a research presentation and short The course will visit Caribbean slope rainforest, pre- technical report. montane forest, montane cloud forest, Pacific slope dry forest, Pacific wet forest, and Pacific beach/marine Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: Calculus II or the communities. Non-travel days will typically consist equivalent or permission of instructor. Prior experience of early morning to early/mid-afternoon field time, with either R or Python. Class limit: 16. Lab fee: None. afternoon lectures, or discussions followed by early Meets the following degree requirements: ES, QR evening to late night field time. Evaluation will be based on quality of work associated with a series of field-based ES 3098 Data Science II: Programming for independent research projects, level of engagement in Data Analysis class discussions, and overall commitment to all aspects BAKER, LAURIE of this immersion experience. Continuing on the themes explored in Data Science Permission of instructor required. Previous I, students will go beyond data visualization to gain coursework in the areas of ecology, organismal insight from data using statistical and machine biology, or natural history will be taken into account learning techniques. Students who successfully during the selection process. complete this course will be able to work with large This course is part of a three-credit expeditionary data sets, transform those data, and apply statistical program in neotropical field ecology. Students must and machine learning techniques to analyze data. enroll in all three courses. Students will build on their knowledge of GitHub, Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: Co-enrollment in ggplot2, Rmarkdown, and the tidyverse packages ES3100 Tropical Entomology and MD1032 The Art for data manipulation, visualization and analysis, to and Practice of the Natural History Field Journal, include an analytical toolkit for answering different and permission of instructor. Class limit: 12. Lab fee: types of questions and working with different types $1,600 (for all three courses). Meets the following of data. Students will be exposed to a variety of degree requirements: ES topics including: webscraping, generalized linear models, machine learning, and text analysis. We will also explore rotating advanced special topics in data ES 3100 Tropical Entomology science (e.g. image processing, spatial analysis). GRAHAM, CARRIE This course is intended to appeal to a wide range of Insects are the dominant animals in nearly all students. The skills and habits of mind taught in this terrestrial ecosystems. However, in places like Maine, course are applicable not only in the sciences and their abundance, diversity, and impact are not always social sciences, but in almost all fields. Evaluation apparent to the casual observer. This is not so in the will be based on several short homework and lab tropics! Nowhere else are insects as large, showy, and assignments, participation in in-class activities, and a numerous. Costa Rica is home to at least 300,000 final project. species of insects, approximately one third of all Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: Data Science I: described insect species. Visualization. Class limit: 16. Lab fee: None. Meets the We will travel to and observe insects in a Caribbean following degree requirements: QR slope rainforest, pre-montane forest, montane cloud forest, Pacific slope dry forest, Pacific wet forest, and Pacific beach/marine communities. Non-travel days COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 71 will typically consist of early to late-morning field analyse the production of organic compounds. If time, afternoon lectures or discussions followed by organic compounds are detected by MS, further early evening to late night field time. characterization via Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Students will spend extensive time in the field learning (NMR) will be carried out at Colby College. Students and practicing insect identification to the order and will be evaluated based on their participation family level, observing insect behavior, and studying in the discussion of primary literature and their interspecies interactions. Reading and discussion laboratory work. Participation in this tutorial will be a topics will include insect conservation and declines, prerequisite for any student wishing to participate in a relationships between insects and plants, humans, and paid summer internship (potentially coupled with a fall other animals, and control of agricultural and medical or spring term) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. insect pest species. Particular attention will be paid Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: College-level to leafcutter ants, army ants, and other ecologically chemistry or geology course and permission from and culturally significant species. The course schedule the instructor. Class limit: 12. Lab fee: $50. Meets the will complement the content taught in Introduction to following degree requirements: None Tropical Field Ecology and will be reinforced through assignments in the field journal course. Introductory ES 4010 Biomechanics Entomology is helpful but not a prerequisite. HESS, HELEN This course is part of a three-credit expeditionary program in neotropical field ecology. Students must Why do we get shorter and wrinklier with age? Were enroll in all three courses. dinosaurs warm-blooded? How do grasshoppers hop? These diverse questions are all within the realm Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: Co-enrollment in of biomechanics. A knowledge of biomechanics, or ES3099 Introduction to Tropical Field Ecology and the ways in which plants and animals cope with the MD1032 The Art and Practice of the Natural History laws of physics, can promote an understanding of Field Journal, and permission of instructor. Class limit: organisms at all levels of organization, from molecules 12. Lab fee: $1,600 (for all three courses). Meets the to ecosystems. In this course we explore several areas following degree requirements: ES of physical science, including mechanical engineering, materials science, and fluid dynamics, as a means ES 3101 Chemical Origins of Life of gaining insight into the biological world. Students ALTAIR FERREIRA, THIAGO attend two lecture sessions per week and one three- hour lab session for discussions of current research in The origin of life remains one of science's greatest biomechanics, review of homework assignments, and unresolved questions. In this tutorial, students will laboratory observations or demonstrations. Evaluations delve into competing theories regarding the chemical are based on participation in discussions, weekly origins of life on Earth and other planets. Of the many problem sets, two term papers, and a final exam. environments proposed as potential hatcheries for the first living beings, alkaline hydrothermal vents Level: Intermediate/Advanced Prerequisite: One stand out for providing a remarkable link between college-level course in biology and one college-level geology and biology. These vents are not volcanic, but course in math or physics, or signature of instructor. produced by "serpentinization," i.e. the reaction of the Class limit: 16. Offered every other year. Lab fee: $15. ubiquitous mineral olivine with water in the mantle, Meets the following degree requirements: QR, ES which results in the release of alkaline fluids (OH-), hydrogen (H2), sulphides (HS-), and ammonia (NH3). ES 4012 Winter Ecology The fluids would have percolated through the crust RESSEL, STEPHEN and met seawater, which, due to anoxic conditions and high volcanic activity on the early Earth, was In higher latitudes and higher altitudes of the world, comparatively acidic (H+), and rich in carbon dioxide up to nine months of each year can be spent locked (CO2), ferrous iron (Fe2+), and nickel (Ni2+). The in winter. Although migratory species appear to meeting of these two fluids produced the precipitation have a selective advantage over non-migratory of iron (and nickel)-sulphur clusters (Fe(Ni)S), which species during the winter season, year-round we will investigate as a catalyst for the production of resident animals have evolved a remarkable array organic compounds from CO2. of physiological, morphological, and behavioral adaptations that allow them to cope with potentially In a collaboration with researchers from NASA's Jet lethal environmental conditions. In this course, we Propulsion Lab, and the Ludwig Maximillian University focus on the special challenges of animals wintering of Munich, we will build a microfluidic device that in northern latitudes. Some of the topics that we mimics in a laboratory setting, the conditions of an address are: the physical properties of snow and early-Earth hydrothermal vent (high temperature, ice, general strategies of animals for coping with high pressure, and inclusion of the various gaseous sub-freezing temperatures, life in the subnivean and ionic solutes). This microfluidic device will environment, animal energetics and nutrition, connect directly to a mass spectrometer (MS) to 72 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 physiological acclimatization, and humans and ES 4018 Human Anatomy and Physiology I cold. There are two discussions/lectures and one ANDERSON, JOHN field exercise every week, as well as two weekend field trips. Students should be prepared to spend This is the first course in a two-term sequence a significant amount of time outdoors in winter designed for students interested in pursuing medicine conditions. Students are evaluated on class or biomedical research examines aspects of human participation, exams, and a student term project. anatomy and physiology, with particular emphasis on the digestive system, reproductive physiology, the Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: circulatory system, immune response, and elements Permission of instructor. Class limit: 10. Lab fee $165. of nutrition and neurophysiology. This course will Meets the following degree requirements: ES emphasize the relationships between anatomy and physiology and will focus on basic principles of ES 4016 Island Life biochemistry, the musculoskeletal system, digestion, ANDERSON, JOHN nutrition, osmoregulation, and circulation. Readings include a standard pre-medical text and some primary Islands have played a major role in the development literature. Evaluation is based on a number of in-class of ecological and evolutionary theory. Most recently, quizzes, a term paper, participation in discussion, and islands have served as an important metaphor in the a final exam. development of conservation biology. Maine is blessed with a plethora of islands-between 4500 and 6000 Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: Biology at the last count-and the history and pre-history of course work, some background in chemistry. Students these islands is intimately entwined with that of the are strongly encouraged to take both terms. Class continent itself. size: 15. Lab fee: $30. Meets the following degree requirements: ES This course examines historical and current interpretations of island biogeography and the interplay between natural and human history ES 4026 Cross Kingdom Interactions and human ecology. The class will be taught as a MORSE, SUZANNE combination of term-time seminar and in the field, This course focuses on the ecological and based on the COA field station on Great Duck Island evolutionary consequences of associations formed and the COA research vessel. During the spring between organisms that are markedly different in term we will be meeting regularly to examine the form and function. A diverse array of interactions theoretical basis of Island Biogeography and islands ranging from pollination and termite digestion to as the subject of scientific and literary discussion hitch-hiking mites are examined in order to explore since Aristotle. Readings will include Darwin, Alfred the role of symbioses in biological systems. In this Russell Wallace, and contemporary authors. context we explore the changing conceptions of the In late August we will re-convene for the field major divisions of life; current models for explaining component of the class. During the first half of this the origin of eukaryotes, angiosperms, and two-sex component, we will be focusing primarily on Great systems; coevolution; keystone species; and models Duck Island and its immediate surroundings, learning for assessing mutualism and parasitism within an and applying theoretical approaches to islands' ecological context. Evaluations are based on ability to landscapes, with extensive reading from the primary read and critique primary scientific literature, class literature. During the second half of the class, we will participation, and the completion of a term project. move further afield, exploring a variety of islands Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: Biology in eastern Maine, and relating our observations to I, Biology II, and Ecology. Class limit: 15. Lab fee: $25. theoretical predictions. Ultimately we hope to travel Meets the following degree requirements: ES to Grand Manan Island in the Bay of Fundy to observe a large island community, see the traditional weir fishery, and observe firsthand migrating right and ES 4036 Wildlife Ecology humpback whales, and northern seabirds. Evaluation ANDERSON, JOHN based on participation, quizzes, and a term project. This course is intended to complement the overall Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: sequence of classes developed with a focus on Permission of instructor; knowledge of boat- the landscape and ecology of the Northeast Creek handling and/or significant experience on the water Watershed and is intended to provide students is recommended. Class limit: 8. Lab fee: $500, with practical skills in observation, data collection, which helps cover food and travel for the field analysis and presentation. It is particularly suitable component of the course. Meets the following degree for students wishing to pursue careers in field biology requirements: ES, HY with federal or state agencies or land conservation NGOs. We will examine measures of distribution and abundance in animals and relate these to quantitative and qualitative measures of habitat complexity. Much COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 73 of this class will be field based. Students will work in consolidation, community initiatives, and possible teams collecting data on vegetation structure and mechanisms for developing crops in the face of topography, trapping small mammals and estimating global climate change? What is the "free the seed abundance through mark/re-capture techniques, movement" and why might it be important? The radio telemetry and game cameras. Data will be second major debate to be explored will be the analyzed using simple statistics including ANOVA, ethical and ecological implications of the "assisted regression analysis, and means-separation tests. migration" of wild plants as a means of conservation Spatial components will be included in an on- and adaptation to global climate change and the going GIS for the watershed region. Readings will replacement of horticultural materials with wild plants come from a text and primary sources. Students as means for expanding native habitat corridors. should expect to spend significant amounts of time We will contextualize these two major themes with outside of formal class meetings in data collection, an in-depth look into the biology of seeds as well analysis and write-up. Assessment will be based on as the ecological and evolutionary significance of participation, a number of quizzes, and an end-of seeds. In preparation for required attendance at term team report/presentation. the Organic Seed Alliance conference, laboratory Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: Biology exercises will cover seed dormancy and germination, and Ecology. Critical Zone 1, GIS, Statistics strongly and build skills in hand pollination and trait selection. encouraged. Class limit: 10. Lab fee: $50. Meets the Evaluation will be based on class participation, following degree requirements: QR, ES leadership in seminar discussions, quizzes, a group report on the Organic Seed Alliance Conference, and ES 4040 Animal Behavior the development of a final project based on one or both of themes in the course. ANDERSON, JOHN Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: Strong This course reviews how simple and stereotyped understanding of botany (at least two botany actions may be built into complex behaviors and even courses); one course with an introduction to some into apparently sophisticated group interactions. kind of policy strongly recommended; permission of Emphasis is placed on contemporary understanding instructor. Class limit: 10. Lab fee: $150. Meets the of Darwinian selection, ethology, behavioral ecology, following degree requirements: ES and sociobiology. There are two classes a week. Extensive readings are chosen from a text and articles from scientific and popular periodicals. ES 4048 Biostatistics Evaluations are based on participation in discussions LETCHER, SUSAN and several quizzes. This course will provide students with a toolbox of Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: Previous techniques in statistical analysis, with a focus on intermediate-level course in species zoology. Class the biological sciences. Students will learn how to limit: 10. Offered every other year. Lab fee: $10. Meets choose and apply a variety of widely used statistical the following degree requirements: ES tests, how to design experiments and studies with statistical analysis in mind, and how to use a range ES 4041 Seeds of specialized statistical approaches for data types frequently encountered in the biological sciences. MORSE, SUZANNE The methods we will cover include parametric and Over 90% of today's terrestrial flora are seed plants nonparametric tests; approaches designed for and provide the majority of the ecological energy categorical, ordinal, and continuous data; biodiversity across the world. Today the majority of the human statistics and ordination methods; Bayesian vs. population is dependent on the energy and nutrients frequentist inference; and robust experimental design. stored in the seed of a remarkably few crops that The class will highlight the assumptions involved in arose through the breeding and saving of seeds. statistical inference and the conditions that must be Today this critical interdependence is rich with met in order to use statistical tests appropriately. In questions and are at the center of the food security the lab, students will use the statistical programming and food sovereignty debates. language R to explore, display, and analyze data Some questions of this human-plant co-evolutionary using the methods covered in class. By the end of the story to be addressed in this course are: How is crop term, students should be able to choose appropriate breeding done in different parts of the world? What analytical methods for a wide range of data types, are the techniques for breeding, seed saving, and design statistically valid experiments, and write code storage? What traits are selected for in traditional for basic statistical tests in R. and modern breeding? What role do seed banks and Students will be evaluated based on daily homework libraries play in our common future? What are the assignments, weekly lab work, several take-home current laws governing seed quality and ownership? exams, and a final group presentation based on an How do these laws and treaties structure corporate original analysis of an archived data set chosen by the 74 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 students. Note: each student should have a laptop for disciplines, and it is open to anyone with relevant lab (PC preferred; limited support will be provided for background knowledge and curiosity. Students will be Mac users). Contact the instructor if you do not have evaluated based on participation in class discussions, your own laptop. a series of problem sets, and a final paper. Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: An Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: At least introductory course in statistics (Intro to Statistics one intermediate course in ecology and a knowledge and Research Design, Probability and Statistics, of algebra is necessary, along with a willingness or equivalent), and permission of instructor. Class to grapple with mathematical thinking. Knowledge limit: 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree of calculus and linear algebra is helpful but is not requirements: QR required. Class limit: 20. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree requirements: ES, QR ES 4049 Biochemistry HUDSON, REUBEN ES 4053 Ecosystem Ecology: This course explores the fundamentals of Biogeochemistry biochemistry. Emphasis will be placed on the flow and LETCHER, SUSAN regulation of genetic information from DNA to RNA to Ecosystem ecology is the branch of ecological protein, protein composition, structure and function, science that considers the large-scale transfer of enzyme kinetics, metabolic pathways, and sensory matter and energy among different living and non- systems. The integration of these key concepts will living compartments in ecosystems. Thinking about be explored through the lens of drugs: mechanism the natural world with this level of abstraction has of action, metabolism in the body, and manipulation provided critical insights into the processes that of protein and pathway function. This course should support life on Earth, the feedbacks that connect be especially useful to students with an interest in the geosphere and atmosphere to the biosphere, medicine, nutrition, physiology, toxicology, genetics, and the ways life is likely to respond to large-scale and pharmacology. This class meets for three hours perturbations such as climate change. In this course, of lecture per week; some sessions will include we will explore the deep history of life on earth and laboratory demonstrations and/or experiments. how living things have transformed the chemistry Evaluations are based on class preparation and of the planet. We will study how energy flows and participation, mid-term exam, and final paper. nutrients cycle in present-day ecosystems, and Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: At how these processes are coupled and regulated least one term of organic chemistry and genetics is by the actions of living organisms. Using examples preferred. Class limit: 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the from terrestrial, freshwater, and marine systems, following degree requirements: None we will study how to quantify fluxes of energy and matter. We will analyze the factors that affect rates of ecosystem processes such as plant growth and ES 4050 Population and Community Ecology decomposition in different ecoregions. We will LETCHER, SUSAN explore the feedbacks that link living and non- Ecology, in the narrowest sense, is the study of the living matter into a single complex network. The distribution and abundance of organisms on the drivers and ramifications of climate change will be a earth. This class focuses on ecology as a science, and recurring theme throughout the term. particularly the intellectual tradition within ecology This course will be useful for students interested that has sought to develop simple mathematical in global change research, particularly those who descriptions of complex phenomena. Population plan to pursue graduate degrees in related fields. ecology studies the growth and decline of populations Students will be assessed based on class participation, (i.e. groups of organisms of the same species), a research paper and presentation, and a project on while community ecology studies the interactions communicating scientific information. among populations. We will study classic models in Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: Cellular population and community ecology, developing the Processes of Life (or equivalent) AND Ecology, and models from first principles, applying them to real permission of instructor. Class limit: 20. Lab fee: None. data, and critically examining the shortcomings of Meets the following degree requirements: ES the modeling approach. Concepts to be covered in the class include exponential vs. logistic population growth, competition, predator-prey interactions, ES 4060 Mammalogy metapopulation dynamics, stochastic vs. deterministic ANDERSON, JOHN processes, optimal foraging theory, succession, and This class will examine the anatomy, physiology, behavioral ecology. ecology, and evolutionary history of the class This course will be useful for students who are Mammalia. Beginning with the evolutionary origin considering graduate school in ecology and related of the first mammals in the Triassic we will follow COLLEGE OF THE ANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 75 the adaptive radiation within the group, and the ES 5014 Organic Chemistry Il development of increasingly specialized organisms HUDSON, REUBEN in response to changing climactic and biological This class will continue to discuss the occurrence and conditions. During the final portion of the course, we will examine current theories of hominid evolution behavior of additional functional groups not covered and the effects of human dispersal patterns on in Organic Chemistry I. Meeting twice a week, we mammalian biodiversity. Lab work will focus on the will work our way through the remainder of the fall identification of North American mammals, but we text and then apply the material by reading articles will also take advantage of other specimens, as they from the current literature of environmental organic become available. Evaluation based on a series of chemistry. Assessment will be based on keeping up quizzes, a lab practical, and a term project focusing with the reading, class participation, and three take- on one family of mammals. Three hours of lecture/ home problem sets. discussion per week plus one three hour lab. Level: Advanced. Prerequisite: Organic Chemistry I. Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: Class limit: None. Offered every other year. Lab fee: Permission of instructor and Biology I and II required; $50. Meets the following degree requirements: ES additional courses in ecology and evolution strongly encouraged. Lab fee: $25. Meets the following degree ES 5046 Electrochemistry requirements: ES HUDSON, REUBEN In this course, students will learn the fundamentals of ES 4063 Analytical Chemistry electrochemistry: how electrons pass through solid HUDSON, REUBEN materials, aqueous and non-aqueous solutions, and This course will focus heavily on field sampling about any oxidation/reduction phenomenon that may (primarily lake sediment coring), technical occur alongside the passage of electrons. Students field skills (canoeing, knot tying, camping), and will learn about conductivity, resistance, and diffusion, laboratory processing of the collected samples through a variety of hands-on laboratory experiments. (extraction, analysis, selection). This course will Most of our laboratory electrochemical experiments cover a variety of analytical techniques including will be relevant to elucidating potential mechanisms gas chromatography mass spectrometry (analysis for the origin of life at deep sea hydrothermal vents, and others will center around characterization of of biomarkers from human habitation preserved in lake sediment cores), inductively coupled plasma novel organic macromolecules. atomic absorption (heavy metal analysis in sediment Students will be assessed based on their participation samples), thermogravimetric analysis (to determine in laboratory experiments, through laboratory organic and carbonate content of soil and sediment reports, and participation in discussions of assigned samples) and 14C dating. For each type of analysis, readings. Students will be expected to complete three students will learn the technique's theory, followed hours of self-scheduled laboratory work outside of by hands-on laboratory practice. Students will be normal class sessions. These will be supervised by evaluated based on participation in field sampling, lab the instructors. Organic Chemistry II is a prerequisite processing, and lecture discussions, as well as through for this class. Students who have not had Organic regular problem sets and a term-long writing project. Chemistry II but want to take the class should contact Although field sampling will be a major component the instructor directly for potential permission to add. of the course, students do not need to have any prior Level: Advanced. Prerequisite: Organic Chemistry II or experience with technical field skills; we will teach the permission of instructor. Class limit: 10. Lab fee: None. necessary field skills as part of the course. Meets the following degree requirements: ES, QR Students will need waterproof shoes, raingear (rain pants and raincoat) and appropriate layers for ES 5047 Plant Systematics (synthetic or wool) for spending prolonged periods of time outside. If students do not have their own LETCHER, SUSAN personal gear we can provide it for them if we are Systematics is the scientific study of classification, informed by the start of the course. All technical specifically the placement of organisms into groups equipment (canoes, lifejackets, coring equipment) based on their common descent. This course focuses will be provided. on the classification of land plants, with a particular focus on herbaceous taxa found in coastal Maine. Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: At least one college-level science course. Class limit: 10. Lab fee: Through lectures and field, lab, and herbarium None. Meets the following degree requirements: ES, QR work, we will gain familiarity with the practice of systematics and the characteristics of plants that are used to infer their phylogenetic relationships. Lectures will cover the theory and practice of systematics, including botanical nomenclature, plant 76 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 identification terminology, relationships among the major plant groups and characters with taxonomic HUMAN STUDIES significance, herbarium specimen preparation, and bioinformatics. Labs will cover collection methods, HS 1011 Environmental History specimen preparation, and field characters for LITTLE-SIEBOLD, TODD about 30 plant families in the region. Evaluation will be based on participation, field and lab quizzes, a How has human history shaped and been shaped by "the environment"? Environmental history is one of 5-minute oral presentation on a plant species chosen by the instructor, a 15-minute oral presentation on a the most exciting new fields in history. In this course topic in plant systematics chosen by the student, and we examine world history from Mesopotamia to a collection of at least 30 plant specimens from at the present to see the role such things as resource least 20 different families prepared and identified by scarcity, mythology, philosophy, imperialism, land the student. Students should plan to begin collecting policy, theology, plagues, scientific revolutions, the specimens over the summer in preparation for the discovery of the new world, the industrial revolution, etc. on the natural, social, and built environments. course, following guidance that will be provided to registered students during the spring term. Please Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: note: all collecting must be done in accordance with 20. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree state and federal laws; there must be NO collecting in requirements: HS, HY Acadia National Park and no importation of specimens from outside the US. HS 1019 Beginning Spanish I Level: Advanced. Prerequisite: Biology Form & PEÑA, KARLA Function and Trees and Shrubs of MDI or equivalent This course is for students who have had no contact knowledge of local flora. Class limit: 15. Lab fee: $40. with Latin American culture, do not possess basic Meets the following degree requirements: ES Spanish language structures and expressions, and have no Spanish vocabulary. The emphasis is on development of the basic skills required in any HUMAN ECOLOGY language-listening, speaking, writing, and reading comprehension. Objective: Students will be able to express themselves orally and through writing, using HE 1010 Human Ecology Core Course vocabulary and simple construction of Spanish in the STAFF indicative tense. This includes present tense study, Human ecology is the interdisciplinary study of the vocabulary, numbers, proper nouns, salutations and relationships between humans and their natural and presentations, present perfect tense, action verbs, the cultural environments. The purpose of this course is usage of "to be" and "is," future tense, vocabulary, to build a community of learners that explores the and some usage of "for." Evaluation criteria: two question of human ecology from the perspectives compositions, two auditory tests, two writing tests of the arts, humanities, and sciences, both in and covering grammar, two oral tests, assignments/ outside the classroom. By the end of the course homework, and class participation. students should be familiar with how differently these Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: 10. three broad areas ask questions, pose solutions, and Offered every fall. Lab fee: $20. Meets the following become inextricably intertwined when theoretical degree requirements: None ideas are put into practice. In the end, we want students to be better prepared to create their own HS 1020 Beginning Spanish II human ecology degree through a more in-depth PEÑA, KARLA exploration of the courses offered at College of the Atlantic. We will approach this central goal through a This course is intended for students with a basic series of directed readings and activities. knowledge of grammar, using common vocabulary Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: that is needed for every day situations. Objective: The None. Lab fee: $30. Meets the following degree students will be able to express themselves orally and requirements: HE through writing using subject-verb agreement, basic form in the indicative tense, and an introduction to the imperative moods. It includes a review of the present and future tenses, study of the imperfect tense, action verbs, direct object, proper nouns, the indicative tense, the use of the "to be" and "is" verbs, and an introduction to prepositions. Evaluation criteria: two compositions, two auditory tests, two writing tests covering grammar, two oral tests, assignments/ COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 77 homework, and class participation. park management and day-to-day challenges of Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: 10. implementing the "national park idea." Through Offered every fall. Lab fee: $20. Meets the following weekly field trips, journaling, service learning degree requirements: None opportunities, and projects, we will be immersed in the management and experience of Acadia. We will explore, through reading and writing, the broader HS 1021 History of the American themes of wilderness preservation, attitudes Conservation Movement toward nature, the history of conservation, and the CLINE, KEN commodification of nature. This experiential class is This course provides students with an overview of specifically geared toward first-year students and they the American conservation movement from the will be given preference for enrollment. Assignments 1600s through the present. Through an examination will include journal writing, short exercises, a of historical accounts and contemporary analysis, group project/service learning opportunity, short students develop an understanding of the issues, presentations, and papers. places, value conflicts, and people who have shaped Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class conservation and environmental policy in the United limit: 20. Lab fee: $40. Meets the following degree States. They also gain an appreciation for the requirements: HS relationship between the conservation movement and other social and political movements. Students should HS 1039 Writing Seminar I: Exposition come away with a sense of the historical and cultural STAFF context of American attitudes toward nature. We also seek to apply these lessons to policy debates currently Designed to serve the overall academic program, underway in Maine. Working from original writings, this course focuses on formal writing based on students do in-depth research on a selected historical rhetorical principles of exposition and concentrates figure. Evaluation is based on problem sets, group on the writing process: prewriting, writing, and activities, participation, and a final paper. rewriting. Assigned readings both illustrate how to Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: use these principles and develop students' analytical 20. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree skills. Through a research paper or case study, this requirements: HS, HY course introduces students to library research and documentation of an academic paper. Each section emphasizes peer review, revision, regular conferences, HS 1025 Business and Non-Profit Basics and some class presentations. FRIEDLANDER, JAY Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: Anyone who is involved with for profit or non-profit 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree enterprises needs to understand a wide variety of requirements: W interdisciplinary skills. This introductory course will introduce students to marketing, finance, leadership, HS 1046 Introduction to Economics strategy, and other essential areas of knowledge and the Economy needed to run or participate in any venture. This course is meant to build basic skills and expose TAYLOR, DAVIS students to a variety of business disciplines. This course provides students with an introduction Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: to both economic theory and the historical and 18. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree institutional background needed to understand the requirements: HS context, functioning, and trajectory of 21st century economies. On the theoretical side, students will be introduced to explanations of the economic HS 1032 Acadia: Exploring the National behavior of individuals and firms (microeconomics) Park Idea and the workings of national economies and CLINE, KEN money (macroeconomics), including economic Using Acadia National Park as a case study, this development and international topics such as trade course will explore the various facets of "the national and exchange rates. In addition to the standard park idea" and what it means for Americans in terms neoclassical approaches to these topics, we will of history and identity. Through direct experiences also introduce behavioral, feminist, Marxist, and in one of the "crown jewels" of the park system, the ecological economics perspectives. Complementing class will examine the historical, ecological, cultural, these theoretical approaches will be a rich immersion in historical and institutional themes such as the social, legal, economic, and spiritual context in which national parks are formed and continue to exist in history of capitalism, the rise of corporations, the the 21st century. We will work with National Park institutional background of markets for stocks, Service professionals to look at various aspects of bonds, and derivatives, inequality and poverty, 78 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 state-led capitalism (e.g. as seen in China and Brazil) and global levels. We will review the history of the and the events that led up to recent financial crises domestic violence movement, including its roots in in the United States and Europe. Evaluation will be the women's movement and how that movement based on bi-weekly problem sets, a final exam, and grew into a network of victim-centered services and various forms of classroom participation. Learning community-based advocacy responses. As a student will be facilitated by a weekly lab session that will be you will learn how best to respond to victims of scheduled the first week of the term. intimate partner violence, and how to apply the core Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: principles of individual, community, institutional, 20. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree and social change advocacy. You will be challenged requirements: HS, QR to consider and reflect upon your own beliefs and cultural lenses throughout the course. HS 1052 Ethnographic Methods The class format includes lectures, role-plays, media presentations, interviews with guest speakers, VAN VLIET, NETTA group work, and discussions. Opportunities will be Ethnographic research is based primarily on provided for students to reflect upon experiences, anthropology's signature research method known to practice skills, and apply new learning through as "participant-observation fieldwork." This course community and cultural change projects. Students introduces students to the main techniques, questions, will be evaluated on their critical thinking, analysis, insights and debates that this research method and synthesis of the course goals and objectives has historically involved in the formation of the as demonstrated by participation in class activities discipline of anthropology, and the contemporary (responsiveness to required and suggested readings relevance of these questions and debates for a range and materials, guest and peer generated discussion) of ethnographic and interdisciplinary projects. Over and personal culture analysis (personal reflection, the term, students will view ethnographic films and self-evaluation). read classic and contemporary ethnographic texts, as Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class well as social and political theory that has informed limit: 15. Lab fee: $10. Meets the following degree ethnography. The course will address questions about requirements: HS representation, authenticity, experience, evidence, familiarity and difference, place and time, the everyday and the extraordinary, politics and ethics. Students HS 1054 Climate Justice will be asked to participate in the central methods of STABINSKY, DOREEN ethnographic research including taking fieldnotes, Climate change is one of the biggest and most conducting formal and informal interviews with both difficult challenges faced by contemporary societies. familiar others and with strangers, formulating a The challenge has multiple facets: environmental, research question, and analyzing qualitative data. social, political, economic-each with its own Assignments will include informal reading responses, complexities. This course focuses primarily on the a mid-term mini-field project, and a final mini-field social, political, and economic components of the project that builds on the mid-term. Evaluation will be climate problem, framed by the concept of climate based on these assignments and on class participation justice. In the course students are introduced to and final presentations of their projects. basic conceptions of justice, the latest findings of Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: climate science and possible impacts on regional 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree scales, and the global politics of climate change, requirements: HS principally in the context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Climate justice and HS 1053 Intimate Partner Violence: its operationalization is the principal organizing theme for work over the term, addressing questions Dynamics and Community Response such as: how the costs of climate change impacts and GAGNON DA SILVA, PAMELA efforts to address climate change could or should From a historical perspective, domestic violence be distributed between rich and poor, global north has been noted as primarily a "women's issue." We and global south; and what are the possible means now recognize the misuse of power and control in whereby those costs might be addressed through relationships as a complex and prevalent social issue collective action at various levels: local, national, and that profoundly impacts our society as a whole. To global. Students will be evaluated based on regular address the complexity of domestic violence we quizzes, several short papers, class participation, and must strive toward changing the belief systems a final synthetic paper or project. that allow this problem to exist. Together we will Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: 25. explore these belief systems by examining the Lab fee: $10. Meets the following requirements: HS aspects of culture that shape and support domestic violence on individual, community, institutional, COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 79 HS 1062 Problems and Dilemmas in assignments. Evaluation will be based on preparation Bioethics for and participation in class discussion, several short papers, participation in field work, and contribution to LAKEY, HEATHER a successful group project. This class meets the first- Bioethics studies ethical problems that occur in year writing course requirement. medical practice and the life sciences. Contemporary Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: bioethics is an expansive and fundamentally 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree interdisciplinary field, but this course will consider requirements: W, HS key dilemmas in bioethics from a philosophical perspective. We will begin by reviewing dominant ethical frameworks, including teleological ethics, HS 1065 Philosophies of Good and Evil deontological ethics, utilitarianism, natural law LAKEY, HEATHER theory, and virtue ethics. Next, we will discuss specific Good and evil are timeless topics and they have ethical issues such as abortion, euthanasia and motivated centuries of philosophical thinking. physician-assisted suicide, life-sustaining treatments, Although the terms "good" and "evil" are commonly resource allocation, cloning, biotechnologies, animal used across a range of discourses, they are research, and informed consent and the doctor- ambiguous, equivocal, and contested concepts. In patient relationship. In particular, we will consider how an effort to clarify our ideas about good and evil, different ethical frameworks shape our assessment this course provides a broad overview of the issues, of specific ethical dilemmas. My goal in this course arguments, and debates that shape philosophical is to introduce students to the principles of ethical ethics. Guiding questions include the following: What thinking, to familiarize students with pressing debates are the origins of good and evil? What makes an in bioethics, and to consider how ethical thinking action right or wrong? Why do we act morally? What impacts our response to issues that are politically and should we do with someone who commits a horrific socially contentious. Course requirements include act? Who decides what counts as a horrific act? Is evil class participation, an in-class presentation, a midterm an outdated or relevant concept? Do the concepts of exam, and a final paper. good and evil help or hinder moral thinking? Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class To critically explore the concepts of rightness, limit: 15. Lab fee: $20. Meets the following degree wrongness, goodness, and badness, we will move requirements: HS between fiction and philosophical treatises. We will read works by key thinkers including St Augustine, HS 1064 College Seminar: Practical Skills in Niccolo Machiavelli, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Community Development Nietzsche, Hannah Arendt, Jean-Paul Sartre, BEARD, RONALD Simone de Beauvoir, Flannery O'Connor, James Baldwin, William Golding, Sherman Alexie, Rosalind In rural areas throughout the world, citizens, Hursthouse, and Cornel West. Along the way, we will nonprofit leaders, agency staff, and elected officials study deontology, utilitarianism, natural law ethics, are coming together to frame complex issues and virtue ethics, ethical relativism, feminist ethics, bring about change in local policy and practice. This existentialism, and nihilism. In addition, we will unpack course outlines the theory and practice of community the ethical arguments that orbit concrete topics such development, drawing on the instructor's experience as execution, murder, abortion, moral character, racial with the Dùthchas Project for sustainable community injustice, pornography, prostitution, duties to animals, development in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, and our duties to one another. Mount Desert Island Tomorrow, and other examples in the literature. In short, community development This course will familiarize students with the allows community members to frame issues, envision a influential frameworks of moral philosophy, and it will preferred future, and carry out projects that move the encourage students to apply these frameworks to community toward that preferred future. specific moral problems. Students will be evaluated on class participation, weekly writing assignments, a By using writing as process-prewriting, writing, and midterm exam, a final paper, and a presentation. rewriting-to frame and communicate complex public issues, students gain practical skills in listening, Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None, but students designing effective meetings, facilitation, project should be prepared to engage difficult, philosophical planning and developimng local policy. Readings, texts and to discuss these texts in class. Class discussions, and guests introduce students to limit: 15. Lab fee: $30. Meets the following degree community development theory and practice. requirements: HS Class projects are connected to community issues on Mount Desert Island. By writing and revising short papers, students can reflect on class content, community meetings, newspaper stories, and reading 80 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 HS 1073 Beginning Spanish I with ethical debates regarding human-animal relationships. Vocabulary Course requirements include class discussion, weekly PEÑA, KARLA writing exercises, a midterm exam, and a research project focusing on a human-animal relationship This course is for students who have some somewhere in Maine. Students should come to this acquaintance with general ideas, basic expressions, class prepared to engage challenging philosophical and vocabulary of the Spanish language but lack essays and to share their ideas with others. grammatical structures and development of the Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class basic language abilities of speaking, writing, and limit: 12. Lab fee: $30. Meets the following degree listening comprehension skills. Objective: Students requirements: HS will express themselves orally and through writing, using vocabulary and simple construction of Spanish in the indicative tense. It includes present tense study, HS 1076 College Seminar: Truth vocabulary, numbers, proper nouns, salutations and COX, GRAY presentations, present perfect tense, action verbs, What is the opposite of "fake news"? Does science the use of "to be" and "is," future tense, vocabulary, have the power-or the right-to tell us where we and some use of "for." Evaluation criteria: two came from or what the future of our climate will be? compositions, two auditory tests, two writing tests Are there such things as universal human rights or covering grammar, two oral tests, assignments/ ethical norms that are independent of the prejudices homework, and class participation. of individual people or cultures? Do intuitions or Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: 10. emotions give us higher truths than rationality? Can Offered every fall. Lab fee: $20. Meets the following computers with Big Data discover truths that are degree requirements: None inaccessible to mere humans? This course will explore these and related questions about what "truth" HS 1075 Animals and Ethics might mean, what forms it might take, how we might arrive at it, and how it might inform our public politics LAKEY, HEATHER and private lives. It will look at a mix of classic and This discussion-based course will explore philosophical contemporary short texts that exemplify good writing and ethical questions pertaining to the relationships about these general questions. It will also look at between humans and non-human animals. We will current cases and applications of these ideas in the read a wide range of fiction, philosophical essays, and news of the day. ethical arguments in order to articulate and unpack Using a College Seminar format, the course will our beliefs, assumptions, and understandings of emphasize the writing process to practice skills to animals, human-animal relations, and the implications formulate, thoughtfully analyze, and revise views and consequences of the human-animal binary. about these issues. The course goals are to develop This course will focus on a wide range of theoretical student skills in the critical analysis of arguments and approaches, including the tradition of animals rights texts and to increase skills in writing clear expositions and animal liberation as articulated by thinkers such and persuasive prose. It will include some reading as Peter Singer, the growing field of animal studies materials and in-class exercises to explore alternative as represented by thinkers like Donna Haraway and writing processes. Course assignments will include Kari Weil, as well as texts rooted in the tradition of brief homework activities, short papers with revised Continental philosophy which includes thinkers like versions of each, and one longer research paper Derrida, Agamben, and Irigaray. providing an extended revision of an earlier piece. This course is premised on the following questions: Students will be evaluated based on the extent to What are our moral obligations to other animals? which their class participation, homework and writing Should non-human animals have legal rights and moral assignments demonstrate substantive progress on the standing? If so, on what basis? How does the moral course goals. Class sessions will alternate between treatment of animals change across the contexts of seminar discussions, short lectures, and peer review food, research, captivity, and the home? Do we have sessions of papers. different ethical obligations to wild and domestic Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: animals? Historically, western philosophers construct 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree the "animal" in opposition to the human. Why? What is requirements: HS, W an "animal" and why is the "human" contrasted with it? How do we use the concept of the "animal" to delimit our concept of the "human"? How does language shape HS 1077 Ethnographic Writing and produce our relationships with animals? VAN VLIET, NETTA Upon complete of the course, students will have Ethnographic writing, literally the "writing of a refined their understanding of the concept of the people," is anthropology's primary disciplinary mode "animal" and they will be familiar with the key legal and of representation, based on participant-observation COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 81 fieldwork. Early ethnographies were usually written Additional course questions include: What motivates by anthropologists from Europe and the United States us to envision utopias and dystopias? Does political about people they had studied in other parts of the philosophy require a utopian vision? What do utopias world. In the 1970s and on, critical questions about and dystopias tell us about social fears, anxieties, and representation increasingly challenged assumptions hopes? Course readings will focus on classical Greek about ethnographic work, raising questions about thought, Enlightenment thought, political theory, and objectivity, transparency, politics and the relationship critical theory. Texts may include Plato's Republic, of ethnographers to the people and places about Thomas More's Utopia, Marx and Engels' Communist which they are writing. Manifesto, William Godwin's Enquiry Concerning This class will introduce students to a range of Political Justice, Sigmund Freud's Civilization and ethnographies in the discipline of anthropology, Its Discontents, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland, as well as to some of the political, cultural, and Octavia Butler's Blood Child, Ursula K. Le Guin's The intellectual debates and contexts in which these Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, Hannah Arendt's ethnographies were produced. At the same time, we The Origins of Totalitarianism, George Orwell's will consider epistemological, ethical, philosophical, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and selections form The Utopia and methodological issues that such writing involves, Reader by Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent. including questions about representation, translation, Since this course is being offered as a college seminar difference, and interpretation. In addition to classic and will meet the first-year writing requirement, we ethnographies, we will also read some fiction, travel will focus on writing as process-prewriting, writing, writing, and journalism. We will consider questions and rewriting. As students draft bi-weekly writing about how ethnographic knowledge is authorized, how assignments, they will meet with the professor or TA assumptions about interpretation shape ethnographic either individually or as part of a weekly writing lab. writing, relations between individual and group, and Papers will be peer reviewed and each student will the relations between author and reader. be expected to revise each paper. In addition to bi- Students will be asked to experiment with weekly papers, there will be an in-class presentation, a ethnographic writing themselves, through a series of midterm exam, and a final paper. short writing assignments as well as a final project. Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class The course is designed to allow students to workshop limit: 12. Lab fee: $30. Meets the following degree their own writing. Students will be evaluated on the requirements: HS, W development and improvement of their own writing over the course of the term, on their attention to HS 1085 Introduction to Sexual Health observation of selected ethnographic sites, on their ability to critically evaluate and closely read MAGNUSON, MADALYNNE ethnographies as texts, and on their engagement with This multi-disciplinary course will explore a breadth their peers' writing in peer review exercises. of human sexuality topics drawing from public Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: health theories, prevention education practices, 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree feminist scholarship, and queer activism. Prevention requirements: HS education promotes the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary for a sexually healthy population and seeks to prevent the spread of disease and violence. HS 1084 College Seminar: Utopia/Dystopia In addition to educating individuals in how to engage LAKEY, HEATHER in health promoting behaviors, effective prevention The practice of social dreaming has a long history in education takes into consideration cultures that philosophical thinking, stretching back to Hesiod and inhibit or facilitate health. Prevention education Plato. What constitutes a perfect or ideal society? supports policies, practices, and norms that create an Or, if no such place is possible, what makes for a environment where all populations can thrive. well-functioning society? Likewise, what constitutes The World Health Organization defines sexual health a terrible society? What kind of places and spaces as "a state of physical, emotional, mental and social do we want to avoid? These are important questions well-being in relation to sexuality; it is not merely the for human ecologists to ask as we seek to improve absence of disease, dysfunction or infirmity. Sexual our relationships with our natural, social, and health requires a positive and respectful approach technological environments. To explore questions to sexuality and sexual relationships, as well as the of ideal and flawed places, this course studies the possibility of having pleasurable and safe sexual concepts of utopia and dystopia across a range experiences free from coercion, discrimination of philosophical, political, and literary writings. and violence. With this definition in mind, we Although we will focus our attention on theoretical will discuss topics including sexual health and literature, we will read several novels and short reproduction, sexual identity, intimacy, sensuality, stories, and students will present research on a work and sexualization. Sources of discussion may include of utopian or dystopian fiction. the social-ecological model of health, theories from 82 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 twentieth century sex researchers such as William and domestic economics, and many other factors Masters and Virginia Johnson, tactics of sexual health have influenced how women have been treated in activists such as ACT UP, feminist writers such as our health care system. This course will explore the Audre Lorde, and web-based sex education platforms history of women's health care and societal changes such as Afrosexology and Amaze. From discussions, that shaped and influenced its delivery. The role of students can expect to examine their personal midwives, the education requirements, expectations, attitudes, gain up-to-date knowledge and resources, credentialing, and licensing in the United States will and grow their skills for promoting sexual health in be discussed. After completing this course, students their lives and communities. will have a broader view of factors that influence how This course may be most helpful for students interested women's health care is delivered. They will know the in working in the fields of sexual and interpersonal options and requirements for midwifery education, violence prevention, HIV prevention, or reproductive and understand the varied roles that midwives health. Students will be evaluated based on class perform in our health care system. Evaluation will be participation, two papers, and a final project. This is based on preparation for and participation in class an online course and will be taught using platforms for discussion, research paper, and design of a project for synchronous and asynchronous discussions. meeting an unmet need in women's health. Level: Introductory: Prerequisite: None. Class Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: Limit: 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree requirements: None requirements: None HS 1086 The Poet's Profession: HS 1091 Introduction to Feminist Therapy: An Introduction to Poetry Practices and Principles LEWIS, RHIANNON GAGNON DA SILVA, PAMELA What kind of work is writing poetry? How do poets Feminist Therapy is focused on empowerment construct verse through diction, imagery, and through self-awareness and self-assertion as shaped technical elements? This introductory course traces by an understanding of the larger social and political the development of the poetic vocation and poetic constructs that influence our thoughts and behaviors. form through Western literature. We will focus on how In practice the application of feminist therapy poets writing in English from the 14th century onward synthesizes tenets of gender-based psychology, have worked to establish their profession, drawing on psychosocial theories of lifespan development, classical tradition to define a new social and economic multicultural analysis, and applied social change role. We will also investigate how social, political, activism with the objective of self evolution in relation economic, and linguistic developments, such as the to personal, social, political, and cultural exchanges. Industrial Revolution, Great Depression, movements of This course offers an overview of the origins and the 1960s, and rise of internet culture, have informed applications of feminist therapy as a conceptual what it means to be a poet in our society. Reading framework developed in response to androcentric selections of poetry from medieval and early modern therapies. We will begin by acknowledging the periods through the present will enable us to study forerunners of feminist therapy such as Karen Horney how socioeconomics, race, gender, and assumptions and Leta Stetter Hollingworth. We will continue about the nature of work shape who has historically studying the contributions of contemporary feminist been eligible for and excluded from the profession. therapists such as Ellyn Kaschak, Lenore E. Walker, Evaluation is based on two short papers, weekly Jean Baker Miller, and Laura Brown, including response papers, and class participation. Students prominent contributions by women of color in clinical are encouraged to consider poetry broadly, including psychology such as the work of Ruth Winifred Howard spoken word, song, and concrete poetry, and to and Ellen Kitch Childs, and those who are currently explore other national poetic traditions in assignments pioneering the development of women's psychology and class discussions. in other countries such as Vindhya Undurti. We Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class will explore the core principles of feminist therapy, limit: 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree and the influences and implications of power and requirements: None gender biases at play in clinical practice throughout assessment, diagnosis, and treatment. Students will have the opportunity to learn about feminist HS 1090 History of Midwifery and Women's therapeutic techniques. Health Care in the US The objective of the course is to aid students in ROBINSON, LINDA developing a functional knowledge of feminist therapy Women's health care and those who provide it have and its various clinical applications. Students who changed dramatically over the history of this country. have a desire to pursue psychotherapy and social work Formal education for women, world politics, global are encouraged to consider this course as a means of COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 83 understanding the benefit of feminist therapy in the mic. This course will prepare you to thoughtfully development of egalitarian therapeutic relationships. analyze your audience, research and organize relevant The class format includes lectures, roleplays, media information, and deliver the critically important, presentations, interviews with guest speakers, group well-prepared presentation that you're capable of. work, and discussions. Opportunities will be provided Along the way we will be guided by, and critically for students to reflect upon experiences, to practice analyze, three varied and sometimes contradictory skills, and apply learning through a community premises: that it's imperative to master the art of project. Students will be evaluated on their critical formal, standard presentation/speech delivery; that thinking, analysis, and synthesis of the course goals it's equally important to respect and refine your own and objectives as demonstrated by participation unique, authentic voice and speech communication in class activities, responsiveness to required and style; and that important change happens when we suggested readings as evidenced by successful both listen carefully and speak up loudly. completion of course assignments and active This class will be conducted as a workshop with participation in lecture generated discussion. an emphasis on students producing increasingly Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: Introductory advanced speeches for public performance and/or Psychology and/or courses in feminist theory. Class consumption. Students will complete three graded Limit: 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree "formal" presentations while also considering requirements: None additional creative approaches and formats for public communication. Students will work with a variety of short texts and videos to generate new ideas and HS 1092 This Place Called India helpful public speaking habits. The real benefits TANEJA, PALAK of this course come from the positive, supportive What is the first thing that comes to mind when you environment in which students can practice new hear the word, India? Bollywood? Curry? Poverty? The public speaking skills and learn from each other. way we encounter a place/space and form an opinion This class emphasizes a fun, dynamic, "hands-on" about it has a lot to do with the kind of popular cultural approach to constructing speeches. representations that float around with the power Students who feel that they are less proficient in the to perpetuate (or dispel) stereotypes. Literature, area of public communication should not be worried for example, offers a fertile ground to explore the that this would somehow disadvantage them in terms idea of a place like India. Therefore, this class will of their overall evaluation. All students, regardless of be your literary introduction to India in its diversity. their levels of comfort, experience, and/or English- Students will be evaluated based on class participation, proficiency are encouraged to consider this course. along with written assignments and a multimodal This workshop is designed to help you improve your presentation. So, by producing well-thought-out public presentation skills, regardless of whether you and carefully researched responses, movie reviews, are a complete novice to public speaking or already presentations, and more, you will get to engage with have many years of practice. Your final evaluation for various aspects of India. We will be studying works by the course will be based on your engagement with the Jhumpa Lahiri, William Dalrymple, and Anita Desai, process, not on some objective standard of who gave among others. These literary texts and additional the best speeches. materials like films, food, advertisements, and Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: newspaper reports will be a means to study the politics 14. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree of history, location, image, identity, diaspora, gender, requirements: None and (mis)representations. The main purpose of this class is to help you use literature to develop your own idea of this place called India. HS 1095 Introduction to Postcolonialism Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: TANEJA, PALAK 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree This course will engage with postcolonialism as a field requirements: HS of academic inquiry and culture critique in a globalized world, especially as a tool to analyze postcolonial HS 1094 Public Speaking Workshop literature. We seek to understand how multiple histories and different aspects of colonialism inform RAND, KENDRA the content and form of the fiction we read and our Consider all the ways that public speaking could lives today. Postcolonialism, with its interdisciplinary be a part of your academic and professional paths: approach, offers a lens to look at imperial literature presenting your research, sitting on a webinar panel, and the new literature produced in the former speaking up at ACM, advocating for an urgent cause colonies of Africa, South Asia, the Caribbean, and or policy, preparing your senior project presentation, the like. The course will begin with a brief history delivering a formal address at a special occasion, or and exploration of the word "post-colonial" before even deciding to perform spoken word at an open- moving on to look at some of the significant issues 84 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 and intersections in the field, such as the questions on topics such as reality, consciousness, nothingness, of language, nation, gender, and otherness, among selfhood, and ethical conduct. others. The texts by Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie, We will begin by reading Asvaghosa's Buddhacarita, Jean Rhys, accompanied by theorists like Frederic which tells the story of Siddhartha Gautama, the Jameson, Aijaz Ahmad, and Gayatri Spivak, will create historical Buddha. Next, we will study the Theravada, a balance where we will use the theoretical pieces Buddhism's foundational structure, and then as a lens to read and parse out the major and, in proceed to explore the later Mahayana teachings. some senses, representative postcolonial texts. You This course will study primary literature, including will be evaluated on class participation and written excerpts from the Pali Canon and several Mahayana assignments like discussion posts, a book review, an sutras, alongside selections from contemporary annotated bibliography, and a short paper. thinkers such as Thich Nhat Hanh, angel Kyodo Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: williams, and Pema Chodron. Along the way, we will 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree discuss suffering (duhkha), emptiness (sunyata), requirements: HS impermanence (anitya), non-self (anatman), interdependence (pratityasamutpada), craving HS 1096 Introduction to Art Therapy and attachment (trsna), the four noble truths, the eightfold path, liberation and enlightenment CHERMAK, HILARY (nirvana), action and causation (karma), wisdom Not all people are able to talk about their feelings, (prajna), compassion (karuna and bodhicitta), and our some people need to express them. Introduction to responsibilities to other beings. Art Therapy is designed to introduce undergraduates Over the course of the term, students will consider to the philosophical, pragmatic, and historical the relationship between Buddhist philosophy and foundations of the human service field of art therapy. Buddhist practice. To do so, students will be introduced Art processes have been used successfully in almost to different meditation practices through a series of all psychotherapeutic contexts, ranging from work guest speakers and, depending on COVID restrictions, with those who are severely ill to the facilitation a visit to a local Buddhist center. This course will be of mindfulness. Art therapy continues to grow in conducted in seminar style with an emphasis on class communities to bring personal healing to mental, participation. No prior background in Buddhism or emotional, and physical health concerns. Art therapy philosophy is required. Course requirements include an is used in educational settings, hospitals, hospice, in-class presentation, weekly writing assignments, corporations, and community art projects, especially a midterm essay, and a final project. after traumatic events. The intellectual framework and methodologies of art and psychotherapy will be Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class outlined and discussed within the course lessons. limit: 15. Lab fee: $25. Meets the following degree requirements: None Class discussions will stimulate integrated thinking and provide a platform to reflect on personal growth. Specific art directives will give you an opportunity HS 1100 College Seminar: Writing the to be creative and strengthen your understanding of Environment art therapy. A weekly visual journal will be required CAPEN, JOHN (prompts will be given). Lecture, discussion, audio- visual presentation, and experiential exercises How and why are we here, at College of the Atlantic, creating expressive art comprise the structure of nestled and nesting together on an island along the class. Evaluations are based on two papers, class the coast of Downeast Maine? We'll appreciate our presentations, participation and weekly visual journal, surroundings, and our purpose as stewards of our and a final self reflection. environment, by exploring a few writers who have inspired our understanding of where we stand on the Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class world around us. And we'll learn to write like them. limit: 15. Lab fee: $35. Meets the following degree Henry David Thoreau wrote about walking and living requirements: None in the woods in his journal Walden. Rachel Carson discovered the beauty and power of our oceans HS 1097 Buddhist Philosophies in The Sea Around Us. Aldo Leopold went back to LAKEY, HEATHER the land and took many readers with him in A Sand County Almanac. Robin Wall Kimmerer embraced What is the nature of self? What is the nature of mind? "the notion that plants and animals are our oldest Why do we suffer? What is enlightenment? This course teachers" in Braiding Sweetgrass. Terry Tempest introduces students to the foundations of Buddhist Williams meditated on the meanings and merits of philosophy and practice. Buddhism encompasses a places like Acadia National Park and "why wild lands variety of different traditions, teachings, practices, matter to the soul of America" in The Hour of Land. and goals. In this class, we will adopt a philosophical We'll spend some hours reading excerpts of these and perspective to explore a range of Buddhist thinking other works, including a few of Basho's haikus, Mary COLLEGE OF THE ANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 85 Oliver's Devotions, Richard Powers's The Overstory, class discussions, short writing assignments, and a Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones, Thich Nhat Hanh's final project, either individual or collaborative, which Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet, wandering we will develop during the term. through the woods, and putting our words in print Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: and into action. 14. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree This course is a college seminar and meets the first- requirements: None year writing requirement. We meet three times a week-twice to discuss the readings and once a week HS 1102 Equal Rights, Equal Voices: in a writing workshop where students will work on Articulating Suffrage their writing using writing as process-prewriting, writing, and rewriting. In both the workshop and some MCKOWN, JAMIE discussion classes, we will also peer review papers. This seminar will provide an in-depth exploration of Students will be evaluated on their participation public speech texts by a wide array of 19th century in class discussions and peer reviews, as well as woman suffrage activists in the United States. This their ability to use writing as process to craft and includes works by those individuals most often substantively revise their essays. associated with the first wave of the movement Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: including: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree Sojourner Truth, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, requirements: W Ernestine Rose, Anna Dickinson, Lucretia Mott, Victoria Woodhull, as well as other activists who are generally less well known today. While this is HS 1101 American Exceptionalism: Land of a course rooted in the history of what we might Liberty, Built on Slavery consider early American feminism, it should come BLAINE, JAMES as no surprise that, along the way, we will confront One day in the late spring of 1630, somewhere in issues that continue to have salience today. Many the North Atlantic, John Winthrop told his Puritan of the topics surrounding gender, sex, identity, congregation that "we must consider that we shall equality, empowerment, and political allyship that be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are these activists wrestled with are still just as relevant upon us." And so, days before the Arbella anchored for us to consider in our contemporary context. This in what would become Boston Harbor and 146 years is especially true when it comes to the topic of race before independence had been declared, American and the intersectional nature of the discourse around Exceptionalism was born. Or was it? Eleven years gender equality, both then and now. earlier, write the authors of The 1619 Project, "a ship We will spend time examining how the idea of race appeared [off] the British colony of Virginia. It carried was rhetorically constituted, in both exclusionary and more than 20 enslaved Africans, who were sold to inclusionary ways, within these texts. We will also the colonists. America was not yet America, but this look specifically at the works of early Black feminists was the moment it began [and from it] grew nearly in the United States, and the myriad of ways they everything that has made America truly exceptional." navigated the challenges of the moment, especially as This seminar will examine the complex legacy of they confronted a deeply embedded legacy of white the idea of American Exceptionalism through four supremacy within the early woman suffrage movement. defining primary documents across four centuries: Rather than rely primarily on secondary historical "A Model of Christian Charity" (1630), "Declaration accounts, there will be a heavy emphasis on the close of Independence" (1776), "Gettysburg Address" reading of primary source materials, mostly speeches, (1863), and "I Have a Dream" (1963). We will also draw as we encounter these speakers "in their own words." from recent academic and popular works by Edward In addition, students will also take part in "hands Baptist, Isabel Wilkerson, Nikole Hannah-Jones, on" recovery projects designed to locate, transcribe, James McBride, and Clint Smith, among others, that document, and make broadly accessible works from will provide both historical and critical context to help the period that have been previously undocumented situate these texts and make sense of what they mean or left unaccounted for. In doing so, students will learn for us today. Drawing from additional accounts from basic techniques for exploring and making effective use various periods in US history, we will wrestle with the of various types of digitized historical collections that contrasting narratives of identity and lived experience have emerged in recent years. to learn what they can tell us about the past, present, Class sessions will be organized as a discussed and future of the United States, its people, and its based seminar. Assignments will emphasize critical, relationship to the rest of the world. reflective, and analytical writing. Evaluation will be This is an introductory discussion-based reading based on participation in class discussion, short seminar. Prior coursework or knowledge of United written response papers, two longer form take- States history is not necessary for taking the class. home essays, individual presentations, and a final Students will be evaluated on their contributions to "recovery" project. Students interested in topics 86 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 related to gender, politics, historical research, and working meetings as well as one "experiential" session activism are especially encouraged to enroll. This is an per week including a hike or other ways of spending introductory class and open to all students regardless time in natural and/or cultivated environments of whether they have a previous background in on land or water. Classroom sessions will involve feminism, social theory, US history, or politics. discussion with written responses, opportunities to Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: lead discussions, and assignments throughout the 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree semester. We will learn to observe our own responses requirements: HS, HY to experiences and combine these with readings and discussions of both qualitative and quantitative research for understanding our experiences in nature. HS 1103 Addiction and the Brain: An Students will be evaluated based on attendance, in- Introduction to Neuropsychology class/experiential participation, reading responses, TARDIF, TWILA and a final project that demonstrates depth of This course focuses on the human brain, including understanding on a topic of their choice in the its structural and functional aspects, as it relates to Psychology of Nature. addiction. Addiction comes in many forms-drugs, A note about accessibility: This will be an inclusive sex, food, video games, and virtually anything to experience and you are not expected to be able to hike which we become "addicted." We will explore the the Appalachian Trail or canoe the Allagash. It will be neurobiological mechanisms of addiction and how a "choose your challenge" approach with respect to they relate to human behavior. Basic structures and both difficulty/strenuousness and degree of "nature" functions of the brain, neurons, neural networks, that is involved, although you are expected to dress and neurotransmitters will be covered in addition appropriately for being outside during the experiential to theories of learning and motivation that relate sessions. Outdoor adventurers of all sorts are to addiction. Readings will include original research welcome from the intrepid to the trepid and everyone articles, media coverage on addiction, and textbook- in between. style chapters with self-paced quizzes on the basic Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class psychological and neuropsychological concepts limit: 12. Lab fee: $25. Meets the following degree covered throughout the term. requirements: HS Students will be evaluated based on attendance, in-class participation, reading responses, short quizzes, and a HS 1106 Bilingualism and Bilingual final research paper that examines one type of addiction Education and its treatment approaches in downeast Maine. TARDIF, TWILA Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: 14. Lab fee: $20. Meets the following degree Learning to speak is one of the most remarkable feats requirements: HS of early childhood. Speaking and becoming literate in multiple languages is even more amazing. This course will examine how children accomplish this HS 1105 The Psychology of Nature task and the steps they go through in becoming (bi) TARDIF, TWILA lingual and (bi)literate in two or more languages. We Understanding how we as humans experience life will discuss both "typical" and atypical development beyond our "built" and "human" environments in the learning of multiple languages, and media and ought to be a fundamental aspect of our existence educational efforts to improve children's language but, increasingly, it is not. This class considers the and literacy development. Importantly, we will also relationship of humans to their natural environments consider how "English only" policies have affected and asks how our natural environments impact indigenous, immigrant, and minority communities, and us as individual humans, humans in different how language revitalization practices are attempting natural settings, and groups of humans. It will to reinstitute bi/multilingual education. include perspectives from Ecopsychology, Positive Topics include both "myths" and realities of bi- and Psychology, and ways of understanding nature and multilingualism around the world. It will include how our relationship(s) with it from multiple perspectives, children come to learn the first and second languages, including Indigenous perspectives from Turtle Island, including phonological, lexical, and grammatical the perspective of Settlers and Migrants, as well as development. It will also consider differences in both Indigenous and Non-Indigenous perspectives "acquired" bilingualism versus second-language from non-Western societies. We will also explore learning through instruction, relations between different research methods to help us understand the spoken and written language development, language effects of nature on well-being. disorders, efforts to improve language development The course will include an experiential and journaling and second-language learning, and relations between component in addition to discussions and assigned language and thought. It will consider how policies readings. Classes will include two regular discussion/ and practices in creating bi- and multilingual citizens COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 87 vary across the world, and with different languages have pointed to the fact that cinematic technologies as L1 and L2, and the implications for language use in and humans' adaptation to them anticipated many these regions. The course is a lecture and discussion traits and use patterns of digital media. We will look format with written responses, opportunities to at the ephemerality of newness as we explore what lead discussions, and assignments throughout the lessons studying old (previously new) media can afford semester. We will also observe how multiple languages us. Media culture affects our interpretation of the are used in daily lives and engage in conversations events that occur to and around us, how we teach and with researchers and language instructors who visit learn, our choices regarding how we spend our time our class either "virtually" or in person. It should be and money; and increasingly influences not only how of interest for students interested in developmental we construct our identities externally, but how we psychology, linguistics, education, and language initially establish a sense of self, a set of values, and a learning in general. conception of how to engage in community. Current Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: issues studied in the class will depend on the interests 14. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree of the group but may include debates in any of the requirements: HS following areas: genre, archival practices, simulation/ reproducibility/modes of consumption, social media and democracy, technology/inclusion/representation, HS 1107 Public Libraries and the People production/access/ownership/copyright/remix culture, LINVILLE, DARLA media convergence. This course will explore the history of public libraries, This course is a college seminar which meets the first- primarily in the United States, as democratic and year writing requirement. We will focus on writing as educational institutions. Students will examine the process-prewriting, writing, and rewriting. Students philosophical approaches that have shaped public will write and revise three short essays over the library services, and changes that have occurred in course of the term, meeting weekly with the professor response to social and political movements. Different or TA and participating in peer review as part of the segments of the public will be explored in terms of writing lab component of the class. Each student their need for and use of the public library, including will also develop a research paper on a topic of their parents, youth, teachers, and elders. Students will own choosing determined in consultation with course read and discuss various claims about the current faculty and TA. Evaluation will be based on class purpose of public libraries in the digital age, research participation; commitment to and effective use of the library services in communities across the US and writing process; and the proposal for, presentation of, internationally, and survey their community about and research into their final project. desired information and services at their local public Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: library. They will then develop mission statements 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree and service plans for public library services to meet requirements: HS, W the needs of local communities that they will present in the final class meeting. Coursework will include readings, videos, guest lectures, off-site visits, and HS 1109 Genre Explorations student-led discussions. KHOR, SU YIN Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: As someone who writes every day, you have probably 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree noticed that it's more common to text LOL to a friend, requirements: None as opposed to writing "LOL things were busy" when emailing to ask a professor for an extension on a HS 1108 College Seminar: Current Topics paper. Similarly, you probably expect this course description to include certain information about the in Media Studies course rather than tips for becoming a viral sensation CAPERS, COLIN on TikTok. Why do these differences exist? What is From McLuhan on, the term media (frequently a plural the point of knowing the differences? And how is this word employed as singular) has been notoriously relevant to writing? difficult to define. Starting in the mid-1980s, scholars, In this course, you will explore different kinds of theorists, and practitioners added the modifier new writing (genres) to understand how the context to the mix. What are/is new media and when does it shapes the way we write. The explorations of various become old? In this course we'll study foundational everyday, academic, and professional genres will texts in this recent field-Manovich, Rice, Doane, Kittler- help refine the rhetorical skills that you already have along with historical influences and parallel thinkers- and develop your awareness of how writing is used in Lovelace, Haraway, Brand-and artists such as Mendi & different contexts. The goal is to build your knowledge Keith Obadike, Jennifer Chan, Electronic Disturbance of writing and make your repertoire of languages and Theater-to determine for ourselves what new media literacies visible so you can transfer these skills and have most to offer a human ecologist. Many observers write in other courses and non-academic settings. 88 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 The class activities will provide you with many hands- HS 2017 City/Country: Literary Landscapes on opportunities to explore and analyze writing in 1860-1920 a collaborative setting with your peers in small and WALDRON, KAREN large group activities. You will complete inquiry- based projects to examine different genres and This class focuses on American fiction from the reflect on your evolving understanding of writing. realist/naturalist period (roughly 1860-1920), a time Your learning will be evaluated based on these when enormous changes were occurring in and on assignments and activities. By the end of the course, the American landscape. Increasing urbanization, you will have developed the language to talk about immigration, and industrialization corresponded both writing and built the skills, agency, and confidence with a desire for 'realistic' fiction of social problems, to engage in different kinds of writing activities in and nostalgic stories of a more 'realistic' rural life. For academia and beyond. the first time there was a national literature, resulting from the capabilities of large publishing houses, Level: Introductory. Class Limit: 16. Prerequisite: urban centers and mass production-but this national None. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree literature was acutely self-conscious of regional requirements: W differences, and especially of the tension between city and country. As writers tried to paint the American HS 2010 Literature, Science, and landscape in literature, their works subsumed major Spirituality social issues to place and formal arguments about WALDRON, KAREN the true nature of realistic description. Examining works that portray factory towns, urban tenements, A survey of Anglo-American literature from the midwestern prairies, New England villages, and Scientific Revolution to the present. Focuses on the the broad spectrum of American landscapes, we ongoing debate about the role of science in Western look at how a complex, turbulent, multi-ethnic, and culture, the potential benefits and dangers of scientific simultaneously urban and rural American culture experimentation, the spiritual, religious, social and defined itself, its realism, and thus its gender, class, political issues that come about with the Ages of race, and social relations and sense of values, against Discovery and Reason, and their treatment in literature. these landscapes. There are two extra, evening Specific debates include concerns over what is classes during week 7 (Short Fiction Week), and "natural," whether knowledge is dangerous, the perils a modest lab fee. Evaluation is based on weekly of objectivity, and the mind/body dichotomy; works response papers, two short papers, and a short fiction include Shelley's Frankenstein, Ibsen's An Enemy of the project, as well as class participation. People, Brecht's Galileo, Lightman's Einstein's Dreams and Naylor's Mama Day as well as short stories and Level: Introductory/Intermediate Prerequisite: Writing poems. Writing-focused option. Seminar I or the equivalent. Class limit: 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree requirements: HS Level: Introductory/Intermediate Prerequisite: Writing Seminar I. Class limit: 15. Offered every two or three years. Lab fee: $10. Meets the following degree HS 2020 Geographic Information Systems I: requirements: HS Foundations and Applications LONGSWORTH, GORDON HS 2011 Nineteenth Century American Women Ever-rising numbers of people and their impact on WALDRON, KAREN the Earth's finite resources could lead to disaster, not only for wildlife and ecosystems but also for human This course studies the American novel as written by populations. As researchers gather and publish more women of the nineteenth century. It focuses on how data, GIS becomes vital to graphically revealing women's issues and styles change over the course the inter-relationships between human actions and of the century, with its revolutionary economic, environmental degradation. Much of what threatens technological, social and political shifts, as well as the earth and its inhabitants is placed-based. on enduring questions. As we read from among Solutions require tools to help visualize these places the wide selection of nineteenth century American and prescribe solutions. This is what GIS is about. Built women novelists (who outnumbered and outsold on digital mapping, geography, databases, spatial male authors)-such as Rowson, Foster, Child, Cooke, analysis, and cartography, GIS works as a system to Fern, Stowe, Phelps, Jewett, Chopin, and Gilman-we enable people to better work together using the best consider how they have shaped the tradition of the information possible. For these reasons, some level novel and social values Americans encounter today. of competency is often expected for entry into many Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: Writing graduate programs and jobs, particularly in natural Seminar I or signature of the instructor. Class limit: resources, planning and policy, and human studies. 15. Offered every other year. Lab fee: None. Meets the The flow of this course has two tracts, technical and following degree requirements: HS applied. The course begins with training in the basics of the technology. Then, skills are applied to projects COLLEGE OF THE ANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 89 that address real-world issues. Project work composes psychologists, biologists, historians, linguists, artists, the majority of course work and each student has the anthropologists, and educators? Do they politicize opportunity to develop their own project. Because GIS or de-politicize? socialize or subvert? What is the provides tools to help address many kinds of issues, postfeminist, postmodern response to the Brothers GIS lends itself well to the theory of thinking globally Grimm? What do fairy tales convey about animal and acting locally. Projects often utilize the extensive behavior, entomology, and cosmology? How might data library for the Acadia region developed by the tales shape human limitations, moral values, and students since the lab was founded in 1988. The GIS aspirations? Lab acts as a service provider to outside organizations This course will explore the storytelling and re- and students can tap into the resources of a broad telling of literary, cultural, and scientific stories network of groups and individuals working towards from a comparative perspective, imagining their a more sustainable future. Course evaluations are interpretations and how they may be re-told with partially based on the on-time completion of exercises an eye toward new understandings of human and problem sets. Most of the evaluation is based on interrelationships, of a given sociohistorical critique of student independent final project work and moment, the culture of COA, and the larger culture. related documentation. Students will read folklore and fairy tales, view Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: Basic several films, and discuss essays by writers such computer literacy. Class Limit: 10. Lab fee: $75. Meets as Cristina Bacchilega, Bruno Bettelheim, Ruth the following degree requirements: None Bottigheimer, Michel Butor, Italo Calvino, Robert Darnton, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Maria Tatar, and HS 2021 Immersion Practica in Spanish Jack Zipes. Contemporary works by writers, visual and Yucatecan Culture artists, and musicians inspired by traditional tales will also be explored. Writers may include Margaret PEÑA, KARLA Atwood, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Robert Coover, This course is intended to provide students with an Michael Cunningham, Neil Gaiman, Tanith Lee, immersion experience in the language and culture Naguib Mahfouz, Haruki Murakami, Helen Oyeyemi, of Spanish speakers in the Yucatán Peninsula. The Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Francine Prose, and Anne objectives are to increase their abilities to navigate Sexton. Reflections may center on recurrent motifs the linguistic and cultural terrain of another society in and patterns; and social, sexual, moral, scientific sensitive, ethical, and effective ways. Class sessions, and political content; with emphasis on race, gender, visiting lecturers, field trips, and readings will provide and class structure. Students will be evaluated on background on the history and anthropology of two short papers; one creative project that may be Yucatecan culture. Immersion experiences and living expressed in writing, visual art, music, or dance; and with a family will provide one important source of a final written assignment in any genre-poems, plays, experiential learning. A second will be provided fiction, or nonfiction. by an independent project or activity developed Level: Introductory/Intermediate Prerequisite: None. for each student based on the student's interests. Class limit: 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the following This independent project will include a practicum degree requirements: HS experience in some institutional setting that might be a class room (e.g. an art class at the local university), HS 2049 Marvelous Terrible Place: Human a bakery, an internet café, a church group, or some other place for social service or other work relevant Ecology of Newfoundland to a student's interests. This practicum experience TODD, SEAN will involve weekly activities during the term and Where is the largest population of humpback whales more intensive work during the last three weeks. in the world, the largest caribou herd in North Evaluation will be based on participation in weekly America, the only confirmed Viking settlement in class discussions and on weekly reflective papers North America, and Paleozoic water bottled for written in Spanish. consumption? The remote Canadian province of Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. Newfoundland and Labrador presents a stunning Class limit: 12. Lab fee: TBA. Meets the following landscape, an astoundingly rich ecological setting, and degree requirements: None a tragic history of poverty amidst an incredible natural resource, the northern cod fishery, that was ultimately HS 2038 Gender, Politics, and Nature destroyed. The province has been alternately invaded in Folk/Fairy Tales of the World or occupied by different groups of Native Americans along with Norseman, Basques, French, British, and TUROK, KATHARINE the US military, because of its strategic location and Why do fairy tales capture the attention of adults rich fishing and hunting grounds. One of the first and and children all over the world and endure in popular one of the last British colonies, this richest of fisheries literary and cinematic forms? What do they reveal to produced a very class based society, composed 90 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 of a wealthy few urban merchants and an highly HS 2055 Writing Seminar II: Argumentation exploited population of fishing families often living STAFF on the edge of survival. But within the past 50 years, Newfoundland society has been forced to evolve. The A logical sequence to Writing Seminar I, this course provincial government looks towards oil and mineral emphasizes argument and persuasion. The assigned exploitation to turn around the economy, while ex- readings show students not only how others fishermen consider eco- and cultural tourism with passionately and creatively argue points but how growing ambivalence. argument and persuasion are integral to writing effective papers on topics ranging from the need This then is our setting, and background, for an to diversify the student body to protecting Atlantic intense examination of the human ecology of this salmon. Like Writing Seminar I, this course also province; the relationship between humans and their requires library research and an understanding of environment, sometimes successful, sometimes different forms of documentation. otherwise, the struggle between the tenuous grasp of civilization and this marvelous, terrible place. To do Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. this we will discuss various readings, examine case Class limit: 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the following studies and review the natural and human history of degree requirements: W this unique province. Our learning will culminate with a two-week trip to Newfoundland to examine its issues HS 2056 Constitutional Law: firsthand. Evaluation will be based on class and field Civil Rights and Liberties trip participation, responses to reading questions, a SEDDIG, ROBERT field journal, and a final project. This course on US constitutional interpretation Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: focuses on civil rights and liberties especially since Signature of instructor. Class limit: 14. Lab fee: $850. the "Due Process Revolution of the 1960s" and will Meets the following degree requirements: HS emphasize the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment using landmark Supreme Court decisions. Topics HS 2050 Religious Intolerance in the include: speech, press, expressive conduct, religious United States liberty, race-based and gender-based discrimination, WESSLER, STEPHEN L personal autonomy (such as privacy and right to die), and reproductive rights, marriage equality, and the This course will examine bias directed at religions in rights of the accused. With sufficient enrollment, all the contemporary United States. In this course we students will participate in a moot court (simulated will examine our own religious identities as well as Supreme Court) decision, arguing a case currently the stereotypes we have about religions. We will also pending before the US Supreme Court. Student probe the level and impact of bias toward a number evaluation will be based upon written quizzes, short of religions in the US, including Jehovah's Witnesses, papers, case briefing (case summary writing), and the members of the Church of the Latter Day Saints, moot court decision (either a lawyer's brief or justice's Catholics, members of new religious movements, opinion). This course is appropriate for students Jews and Muslims. This course will address timely and interested in rights advocacy, rights activism, diversity controversial issues including the relationship between studies, public policy, and legal studies. religion and laws and policies affecting the LGBTQ population, immigration and terrorism. Finally, conflict Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. resolution efforts both in Kosovo, aimed at resolving Class limit: 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the following tensions and violence between Albanian Muslims degree requirements: None and Serbian Orthodox Christians, and in Northern Ireland, addressing animosity and violence between HS 2057 Fail Better: Writing Short Fiction Catholics and Protestants, will prompt a discussion of MAHONEY, DANIEL approaches for reducing anti-religious bias. This course will serve as a workshop both for creating Students will be evaluated on three papers (a paper our own short fictions as well as a forum for reading on each student's religious or non-religious identity, a and responding to work by established authors. As a research paper on a topic chosen by each student, and class we will get down to business; we will read and an opinion editorial), class discussion, and short written discuss amazing short stories and amazing authors; assignments relating to the readings for the course. we will learn how to offer constructive criticism of Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. each other's work; and we will write, we will write, Class limit: 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the following we will write. Class meetings will combine analysis of degree requirements: None published work with a discussion of how individual writers approach their craft. We will study the conflict, character, plot and music of prose. The focus of this class will be literary fiction. I define literary fiction as work that is concerned not just with what COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 91 happened, but why it happened. It is character driven ethnic, racial, gender, sexual orientation and religious and explores the motivations, desires, drives and identities as victims and/or perpetrators of bias and consequences of the complex human experience. violence. The course will examine bias and violence It is the stuff of life. Representative authors: Jorge in Europe toward traditionally targeted groups Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Amelia Gray, Makoto such as LGBTQ, Muslim, Jewish, migrant and Roma Kawabata, Gish Jen, Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, people. Finally, the course will examine approaches Milan Kundera, Mary Gaitskill, James Baldwin, Junot to reducing bias motivated violence by police toward Diaz. Students are expected to create four shorter groups such as blacks, Muslims and Roma. and one longer piece of fiction, respond to published Students will be evaluated based on short written writers, lead weekly discussions, participate in class responses to readings, in-class discussion, two papers response to fellow writers, and to revise their own and a final project. The final project will explore some work in substantive ways. aspect of bias motivated violence through persuasive Level: Introductory/Intermediate: Prerequisite: None. writing, fiction, poetry, art, photography/film, advocacy Course limit: 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the following or interviews. Course readings will include scholarly degree requirements: HS writing, reports from human rights NGOs, first person accounts, and one novel. Class sessions will involve HS 2061 Indigenous America discussions led by me and at times by students, small group discussions between students and occasional LITTLE-SIEBOLD, TODD guest presenters. The class will travel to Portland or This course will provide an introduction to the history Lewiston to meet with refugees from places in which of indigenous peoples in the Americas. Using a bias motivated violence has been significant. seminar style the class will combine some overview Level: Introductory/Intermediate Prerequisite: None. lectures, student-led discussion of books, and project- Class limit: 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the following based learning to provide an initial introduction to the degree requirements: None diverse histories of native peoples from Canada to the Andes. The course will focus on both pre-contact societies as well as the processes of interaction HS 2071 Little Magazines: Seminar in between Europeans and indigenous peoples in the Contemporary Literary Publishing Americas. Using a selection of case studies, the MAHONEY, DANIEL course will highlight building an understanding of This course is an introduction to literary magazines indigenous worldviews as well as socio-political and the work of editing. We will examine the history organization and the ways both were transformed of "little" magazines from the mid nineteenth century by colonialism. A range of books will introduce to the present day. We will investigate the impact of students to the ethnohistorical literature on native literary magazines on literary culture in America and communities from Mesoamerica, North America, and the world. This class will also be dedicated to surveying the Andes. A simultaneous component of the course the current literary landscape, both print and digital, will be student's research projects on a topic of their with special emphasis on BATEAU, the new literary choosing that explores a dimension of native people's magazine being published at College of the Atlantic. histories. Students will be evaluated on attendance, Through the production of BATEAU, the course will course participation, short analytical essays, and offer practical experience in literary publishing: their final project. students will gain experience in editing, layout and Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: None, production, as well as publicizing and promoting the however, students without any background in history finished product. Students will be expected to respond should expect to invest extra time with the readings to course readings on literary magazines and culture as and writing assignments. Class limit: 15. Lab fee: None. well as keep detailed response notes to submissions to Meets the following degree requirements: HS, HY the magazine. Student editors will recommend pieces for publication, rejection and/or further consideration. HS 2063 Hate Crimes in the Contemporary In addition to editorial duties, students will be expected US and Europe to complete a midterm and a final project. WESSLER, STEPHEN L Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: Writing Seminar, a creative writing or literature class. Class Students will learn what causes bias motivated limit: 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree violence in schools and communities, how to develop requirements: None effective prevention strategies, how to reduce police violence toward traditionally targeted groups, and why hate crimes have such destructive impacts on HS 2072 Sex, Gender, Identity, and Power individuals and communities. The course will focus on LAKEY, HEATHER hate crimes and police and community response in the This course offers an overview of feminist and US and in Europe. The students will examine their own queer thinking. The purpose of this course is two- 92 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 fold. First, it will provide a snapshot of the ideas, HS 2076 Life Stories: Memory, Family, traditions, and debates that shape feminist and queer and Place philosophy. Second, this course will teach students DONOVAN, MARTHA to critically interrogate the meaning of sex, gender, sexuality, power, and oppression. Along the way, One of the deepest human instincts is to tell our life we will consider a host of arguments regarding the stories, to figure out who we are. This course will sources of sexism, racism, and heteronormativity, the use a workshop approach with a particular focus on grounds of sexual dimorphism, and the relationship memoir writing rooted in an exploration of family and between subjectivity and oppression. Although this place. We will study the writing process and matters course will stress the many ways feminist theory of craft by reading and responding to memoirs by and queer theory overlap, we will also consider the contemporary writers (e.g., Terry Tempest Williams' emergence and development of queer philosophy as When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on a distinct and unique discipline. Some of the principal Voice), practical guides to memoir writing (e.g., questions for this course include: Which categories Bill Roorbach's Writing Life Stories), and essays on are used to study the human being and when are memoir and memory (e.g., Patricia Hampl's I Could these categories potentially oppressive or violent? Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory). When is language a mechanism for social and political Class time will include discussion of readings, writing oppression and when does language facilitate exercises designed to help students with matters liberation? How do multicultural, intersectional, of language and technique in their own writing, and transgender, and queer approaches inform feminist group critiques of work-in-progress. Student work politics? How do queer philosophers challenge the will be publicly shared through a reading and exhibit theoretical orthodoxies of identity, gender, and on campus. Students will be evaluated on the effort sexuality? Students will be evaluated on weekly and quality of their writing, their commitment to the writing assignments, a presentation, a midterm exam, writing process, their participation in peer review and and a final paper. This will be a discussion-driven workshops, a final portfolio of all their writing, and a course and students should be prepared to engage public presentation of their finished work. and discuss philosophical literature. Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. Level: Introductory/Intermediate Prerequisite: None. Class limit: 12. Lab fee: $20. Meets the following Class limit: 15. Lab fee: $25. Meets the following degree requirements: None degree requirements: None HS 2081 Postcolonialism and Psychoanalysis HS 2074 Philosophy of Death and Dying VAN VLIET, NETTA LAKEY, HEATHER The course considers the definition of the human by This course philosophically explores the concepts bringing together the field of postcolonial studies of death, dying, killing, and life. Topics include the with the field of psychoanalysis. Both postcolonial soul, the afterlife, euthanasia, physician-assisted studies and psychoanalysis engage questions of suicide, evolving medical definitions of life and sexualized and racialized difference in the context of death, hospice and end-of-life care, the ethics 20th century Europe and the legacies of colonialism. of killing, biotechnologies, and cross-cultural Postcolonial studies and psychoanalysis both also conceptions of death and grief. Although this course contend with notions of individual and collective well- is primarily grounded in the Western philosophical being, with belonging and exclusion. and bioethical traditions, we will also consider non- Psychoanalysis is a colonial discipline which produced Western perspectives in an effort to both clarify and a form of analysis that emerged in the time of complicate our conceptions of death and dying. The colonialism. As such, psychoanalysis contributed to purpose of this course is not to articulate conclusive colonial notions of civilized and primitive, of man answers, but rather to compel students to think and woman, of normal and abnormal, of Europe and philosophically about the many profound questions its others. At the same time, however, contexts of that arise in the face of death. This is a discussion- anticolonial struggle in turn shaped psychoanalytic based course and students should be prepared thought. By examining texts central to these two to engage and discuss challenging philosophical fields, this course considers how psychoanalytic literature. Students will be evaluated on the basis of thought can help us understand the processes weekly writing assignments, a midterm, a final, and through which individuated subjects become defined class participation. in terms of collective groups of belonging such as the Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. nation, and how filiation and family is connected to Class limit: 15. Lab fee: $15. Meets the following degree affiliation and nation, through relations of affect and requirements: HS concepts of representational politics. We will begin with an introduction to the inception of psychoanalysis in Europe, and examine how it COLLEGE OF THE ANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 93 travels and is taken up in Europe's colonies. Drawing HS 2086 Politics and the Supreme Court on postcolonial theory and literature, we will SEDDIG, ROBERT learn about the historical emergence of the term "postcolonial," the political and disciplinary debates The US Supreme Court has been called "the most to which the term gave rise, and its relation to ideas powerful court in the world," and yet the founders of nationalism, diaspora, Orientalism. Geographically, regarded the judiciary as "the least dangerous we will examine examples of anticolonial struggle branch" of government, exercising "neither force nor in Algeria, India, and Palestine/Israel. Readings will, but merely judgment." (Alexander Hamilton) will focus on texts by Sigmund Freud, Jacques This seminar will examine the three branches of Derrida, the Subaltern Studies group, and scholars the US national government, with its primary focus who directly engage with these thinkers, including on the Supreme Court. We will assess the relations Jacques Lacan, Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, and among the branches at the beginning of the twenty- Gayatri Spivak. Students will be evaluated based on first century, asking whether separation of powers class participation, reading responses, a mid-term and 'checks and balances' exist today. Added focus essay, and final paper. on executive authority (including the increased use Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: Prior of executive orders by the President) and legislative coursework in literature, anthropology, or related powers (often under conditions of stalemate). Is the fields recommended; permission of instructor Supreme Court supreme in its power? What does it required. Class limit: 12. Lab fee: $10. Meets the do? Does the Supreme Court "interpret the law"? following degree requirements: HS Does it, in fact, make public policy, by mediating conflicts over values and power at the national level? Was Hamilton "wrong" in his projection of its role HS 2084 European Political Institutions in American national government? The Supreme STABINSKY, DOREEN Court in recent years has been at the "storm center" The European Union is a fascinating, ongoing of protracted disputes on segregation, abortion, experiment in international cooperation. Currently affirmative action, marriage and partnering, free twenty-eight countries have joined together in a exercise of religion, and the death penalty. Can the supra-national political and economic union, creating Court resolve these national disputes more easily a political entity unique to a world of sovereign than other governmental institutions? And, if so, individual nation-states. This course focuses on why? Is the Supreme Court resolution of disputes understanding this complex and evolving union circumventing our "democratic" institutions? through study of its main political institutions: This seminar seeks to improve our understanding the European Council of Ministers, the European of how the Supreme Court functions and to develop Parliament, and the European Commission. We will our analytic skills about rival claims of liberal or look at the workings of and functional relationships conservative ideologies at work. Main topics include: between these institutions through readings, meetings judicial politics and appointments, jurisdiction, with politicians, bureaucrats, and NGOs involved standing, collegial decision-making, adhering to in European-level politics, and visits to each of the or undermining key precedents, judicial activism institutions during two weeks in Brussels. We will and restraint, and the impact of judicial holdings. also spend some time in the course looking at the Evaluation will be based upon class participation, broader political and cultural context in which the two short papers, and a research-based term paper. institutions operate, through examination of several Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. important current topics in European politics. Topics Class limit: 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the following could include: refugees and migrants in Europe, the degree requirements: HS reauthorization of the Common Agricultural Policy, Brexit, the rise of right-wing movements across countries in the EU. Students will be evaluated based HS 2087 Transforming Food Systems on participation in class discussions, a reflective COLLUM, KOURTNEY journal kept during their time in Brussels, and a This course explores possibilities for transformative presentation and final essay on a current EU-relevant change across local and global food systems. The political issue of their choosing. course centers on the questions: What would it take to Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: ensure access to healthy, safe, affordable, culturally Prior French language instruction, permission appropriate foods for all people? The first part of the of instructor, and co-enrollment in 2-cr HS6015 course critically examines capitalist food systems with Immersion Program in French Language and Culture. particular attention to the ways culture, politics, and Class limit: 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the following economics shape our interactions with food. Through degree requirements: HS readings and exercises, we explore issues such as nutrition, worker safety, contested agricultural and land use policies, hunger, and environmental 94 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 and community health. The second part of the Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. course examines case studies of transformative Class limit: 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the following food movements around the world, from the Zero degree requirements: HS Hunger programs in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, to La Via Campesina global campaign for agrarian reform. HS 2092 Race and Racism in America: We focus particularly on food sovereignty and agroecology movements. The final third of the course A Very Short History focuses on transformative work in Maine and at COA. LITTLE-SIEBOLD, TODD Students take multiple field trips to participate in local This readings seminar will explore the history of race movements and to learn about their philosophies, thinking and structural forms of power in America objectives, and activities. By the end of the course, from the earliest settlement of the hemisphere by students will be able to analyze how power shapes Europeans to the twentieth century. We will emphasize food systems and articulate a theory of change for the specific mechanisms of power used to produce and addressing a food systems problem of their choice. reproduce the ideas and institutions that oppressed Students are evaluated based on participation in African Americans, Native Americans, and "ethnics" class discussions and field trips, a series of reflection over the course of the country's history. As a nation papers, and a final project including a paper and an built on slavery, racial discrimination, and white audio-visual presentation. supremacy, the United States provides a unique Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. vantage point from which to examine the workings Class limit: 20. Lab fee: None. Meets the following out of the strange ideologies of difference that took degree requirements: HS root in the New World. The class will explore a wide range of histories from the origins of slavery in the seventeenth century as a solution to the "the problem HS 2091 Forms of Poetry of the poor" to the inclusion of Irish, Jewish and others MAHONEY, DANIEL in the category of "White" in the twentieth. A key This class is a study of, and a writing workshop in, aspect of the course will be examining the construction poetic forms. We will look at constraints, techniques, and workings of Whiteness. The seminar will be based and directions of contemporary poetry through on discussion of key texts in the scholarship of race intensive reading, writing, and criticism of our own and racism in the United States, and students will lead poetic work. This background is useful and significant those discussions. Other core work of the class will for the study of poetry at any level, and is especially be mastering the complex arguments and evidence helpful in light of the fact that, for better or worse, used to reveal the inner workings of white supremacy free verse techniques have dominated poetry in through readings, analytic writing, and an independent the twentieth century. This course is valuable for project. The course is intended for a wide range practiced poets, emerging poets, and prose writers of students willing to dig in to the work of reading alike. Forms of Poetry asks students to pay attention, extensively about a contentious topic to form their own create poetry of attention, and revel in poetry historical analysis of the past. Evaluation will be based that is attentive to language; this process will help on discussion, mastery of the readings, short analytic students develop voice and lyrical content in their writing, and a final project. own writing. We will look older, "received forms" Level: Introductory/Intermediate Prerequisite: None. (Sonnet, Ghazal, Villanelle) and create our own forms Class limit: 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the following by using experimental techniques (homophonic degree requirements: HS translation, concrete poetry, erasure, nonsense words (i.e. Jabberwocky) and look to end the term with the HS 2095 Philosophy of Science: Reason, amazing Japanese form, Zuihitsu. Truth, and Reality You might be thinking: Why write with these crazy constraints or in these old timey poetic forms? And JACOBY, FRANKLIN R what the heck is a Zuihitsu? Those are good questions, What makes science special? In answering this questions we will address on a weekly basis. Over the question, this course will look at several more specific last seventy years, the debates over poetic expression inquiries: Is science rational? Does science have an have been shaped in visceral ways, from "raw" versus aim and does this aim have anything to do with truth "cooked," "academic" versus "beat," "formal" versus or with reality? Is there a scientific method? Can "antiformal." This class is designed to deepen your science tell us how to live our lives? How should we knowledge of these debates and to inspire you to understand the relationship between science and draw upon a variety of modes in your own writing. other systems of thought? This course will address Evaluations: Students will be expected to contribute to these questions by examining texts from a number of a class blog, write several poems a week, revise poetic 20th century philosophers. We begin with the earlier output, participate in class workshop, and hand sew a part of the century and the logical positivists. With chapbook of their own revised, creative work. this groundwork, we will then analyze the movement COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 95 in philosophy of science towards an emphasis on include weekly writing assignments, a midterm exam, history and on scientific practice, especially work by a final paper, and class participation. There are no Kuhn, Feyerabend, and Toulmin. The final part of the Prerequisite, but students should arrive to this class course will discuss responses to these philosophers. prepared to engage difficult philosophical texts and to By taking this course, students will become familiar share their ideas with others. with central issues in the philosophy of science, how to Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. read dense texts, and how to develop a philosophical Class limit: 15. Lab fee: $10. Meets the following argument through writing. Students will be evaluated degree requirements: HS based on class participation, two take-home exams, and a final term paper. HS 2098 Introduction to Philosophy of Mind Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree JACOBY, FRANKLIN R requirements: None What is the mind and how does it relate to the body? This two-part question will guide the structure of HS 2096 Nature, Humans, and Philosophy this introductory course in the philosophy of mind. Other questions that will arise include how can the LAKEY, HEATHER mind influence the body? Is this distinction between According to COA's website, human ecology studies mind and body deep? Is there a single discipline that the relationship between humans and their natural, can tell us what the mind is and, if not, why not? Is cultural, built and technological environments. But science of help? What strategy or method is best what do we mean by "nature" and what distinguishes suited to understanding the mind? Do other cultures a natural environment from a cultural one? Moreover, or religions offer insight? Is the mind inherently what kind of relationships should we cultivate with mysterious and unknowable? our natural environments? This discussion-based Attempts to understand the mind have vexed and course offers a philosophical and ethical exploration stimulated philosophers, scientists, and others since into the concept of nature. We will draw on a variety at least as far back as Descartes. Starting with his of readings from environmental ethics, ecofeminism, work, we'll explore classic and contemporary texts in deep ecology, American philosophy, Taoism, and western thought, with particular focus on philosophy, Post-Structuralism in order to critically interrogate but with some psychology, neuroscience and non- our understanding of nature, as well as our ethical western thought. We will cover a number of theories beliefs regarding human responsibility to the natural and our own assumptions about this basic and world. We will read selections from thinkers such as fundamental feature of human life. Some of the main Aristotle, Carolyn Merchant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, accounts students will gain familiarity with include Ramachandra Guha, Aldo Leopold, John Muir, Arne dualism, materialism, panpsychism, emergence, and Naess, Val Plumwood, Kate Soper, Mark Sagoff, phenomenology. Vandana Shiva, Gary Snyder, Henry David Thoreau, Evaluation will be based on participation, two short Lao Tzu, Terry Tempest Williams, and others. response essays, a midterm essay, a final essay, and a In the first half of the course, we will examine final presentation. different philosophical frameworks that theorize Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. the idea of nature and environmental responsibility. Class limit: 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the following Guiding questions include the following: What is degree requirements: None "nature"? How is the concept of nature politicized and socially constructed? Do we have moral obligations to nature? How should humans relate to nature? HS 2101 Latin American Literature: What assumptions drive the conceptual distinction Border Stories between humans and nature? During the second half MAHONEY, DANIEL of the course, we will pivot our attention to specific ethical topics such as: control over natural resources, Since 1848, the border between the United States environmental justice, the land ethic, rights for non- of America and Mexico has posed a cultural enigma. human objects, wilderness, and sustainability and The literature of the people inhabiting this area consumption. Throughout the course, we will revisit reflects the diverse and complex society that has questions pertaining to philosophy and environmental evolved over a period spanning almost 200 years. activism, and we will consider how philosophy can We will begin by reading selections from Neil Foley's help us to articulate our ethical responsibilities to our Mexicans in the Making of America and Gloria natural environments. Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera in order to locate ourselves geographically. We will then read a Upon completion of this course, students will have variety of contemporary Mexican and Latinx writers, gained a richer philosophical understanding of the whose work confronts the border from different idea of nature and they will be familiar with key perspectives and literary genres which may include: debates in environmental ethics. Course requirements Octavio Paz, Ada Limón, Natalie Scenters-Zapico, 96 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 Yuri Herrera, Carlos Fuentes, Tomás Rivera, Gloria philosophy, postcolonial studies, and feminist theory. Anzaldúa, Valera Luiselli, and Jeanine Cummins. We Along the way, we will read essays that analyze the will also consider film (Chulas Fronteras, Espaldas concept of "the canon," and we will consider how mojadas, Backyard/El traspatio, Sin Nombre, A Touch different theoretical interventions advance the of Evil) and music from the borderlands to aid in our discipline of philosophy. study of this complex area of the world. Evaluation To rethink the canon, this course will center on will be based on engagement with the materials and four philosophical questions: 1) What is the self or discussion, weekly written responses, a midterm subjectivity? 2) What is the relationship between essay, and a final project. self and other? 3) What makes someone a good Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. or virtuous person? 4) How do different linguistic Class Limit: 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the following forms (propositional, poetic, narrative) shape our degree requirements: HS thinking about reality and relationships? For each set of questions, we will pair texts from different HS 2103 Writing for Nonprofits historical and cultural contexts. Possible philosophers include Gloria Anzaldúa, Charles Mills, W.E.B Du Bois, LEWIS, RHIANNON Henry Odera Oruka, Kwasi Wiredu, Ofelia Schutte, This course is designed for students who are René Descartes, Kris Sealey, Alain LeRoy Locke, interested in nonprofit organizations and want to David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Frantz Fanon, Maria become strategic and effective communicators in Lugones, Plato, John Locke, Brian Yazzie Burkhart, this setting. We will learn to compose clear, concise, Friedrich Nietzsche, Simone de Beauvoir, Winona and compelling materials that meet the varied LaDuke, Judith Butler, Kwame Gyekye, Jean Paul communication needs typical of nonprofits. Through Sartre, Oyèrónké Oyèwùmí, and Kathryn Sophia Belle. analyzing the writing of nonprofits, investigating case Course requirements include four 3-page papers, a studies and sector trends, and producing a portfolio presentation, and a final paper. of original materials, we will gain an understanding of Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: Prior the common genres of nonprofit writing and develop work in philosophy will be helpful, but not required. skills needed to support a successful mission-driven Class limit: 15. Lab fee: $20. Meets the following organization. In addition to writing for multiple degree requirements: HS audiences and communication channels, students will practice selecting appropriate imagery and creating content collaboratively. Students are encouraged to HS 2110 College Seminar: Barbed Wires, pursue a service-learning opportunity by working with Drawn Lines a local nonprofit organization. Evaluation is based on TANEJA, PALAK class participation and successfully completing four How many times have you mused about the idea short writing assignments (options include a mission of borders? What do the lines that divide us mean, statement, case for support, fundraising letter, and how are we to make sense of them? Literature brochure, talking points, press release, and content has always been a place where questions like these marketing piece) and one longer project, such as a have been thought aloud. Whether the borders grant proposal, report, or study. are geographical or metaphorical, whether they Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: keep people out or fence people in, borders are Permission of instructor. Class Limit: 12. Lab fee: None. liminal spaces that raise questions about politics, Meets the following degree requirements: W oppression, belongingness, and identity, which makes them an important subject for our interrogation. HS 2109 Rethinking the Canon: Self, Since these literatures are born of political events, Others, and Philosophy our first concern will be to understand the history of the events themselves. We will achieve that by LAKEY, HEATHER reading excerpts from the works of Gyanendra How do "philosophies born of struggle" (Leonard Pandey, Stanley Waterman, Joe Cleary, and others in Harris) change, disrupt, and advance the discipline of juxtaposition with literature. In addition, the literary philosophy? Academic philosophers have historically works by Saadat Hasan Manto, Seamus Deane, Gloria studied a select group of thinkers, most of whom are Anzaldúa, and the like will help put the bigger picture white men from Europe. European philosophers offer in perspective bringing in various thematic concerns wonderfully rich arguments, but like all perspectives, like religion, violence, language, and gender together. theirs are partial and limited. To explore foundational This class will thus explore two types of borders: one philosophical questions, this course will read canonical that course texts evoke, helping you critically engage European philosophers alongside scholars who with the theme. The other kind exists between various engage with this canon from a diverse set of cultural, genres you will encounter like short stories, novels, political, and historical contexts, such as indigenous literary theory, official reports, and movies. The latter, studies, Africana philosophy, Latin American coupled with your writing assignments that we will COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 97 workshop throughout the term-personal narrative, nature poems. Like each of us, Neruda was a witness online article, movie review, multimodal project, and to history, and special attention will be devoted to that others-will facilitate and deepen your understanding history, particularly in terms of the Spanish Civil War, not only of literature from the borders but also writing The Cold War, and the Chilean coup. We will look at a as a process-prewriting, writing, and rewriting. This broad selection of Neruda's poetry, historical texts, course meets the writing requirement. as well as texts on literary translation. Students will Level: Introductory/Intermediate Prerequisite: be expected to complete weekly responses to class Some knowledge about world history and experience readings, group projects, a mid term drafted essay, in writing about literature would help. Class limit: and a final of the student's own design. 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. requirements: HS, W Class limit: 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree requirements: None HS 2112 Midnight's Children TANEJA, PALAK HS 2114 Social Media and Its Effects: An Introduction "Only by unleashing the fictionality of fiction, the imaginativeness of the imagination, the dream songs TARDIF, TWILA of our dreams, can we hope to approach the new, Social media is an aspect of modern life that has and to create fiction that may, once again, be more become ubiquitous. It is difficult to meet someone and interesting than the facts." -Salman Rushdie, "Ask part ways without asking for how to keep in touch with Yourself". Nobody exemplifies these notions better them. Instagram, TikTok, SnapChat, Discord? What than Rushdie himself. Therefore, this course will be is it that you spend your time on and why? Have you an exploration of the fantastical world of Salman met all the people you're connected with? What do Rushdie through his seminal novel Midnight's Children. you share? What do you view? Why do we connect? Deemed as one of the Great Books of the 20th A lot comes with these connections. Good things-like century, which won the Booker prize the year of its the ability to instantly connect not only with your publication, 1981, and the Booker of Bookers twice friends, but also thousands or hundreds of thousands over (in 1993 and 2008), the novel is a prime example of followers worldwide; the ability to see news and of postcolonialism with a magical realist twist. search for information in any language anywhere and In this class, we will take a deep dive into Rushdie's at any time of day; movies, books, and music; and novel by paying close attention to the prose and his the ability to share your views and voice with others style and the history and contexts that he sets up in without having to pay for any of it. And other things this novel. Therefore, the reading of the novel will too there are many costs associated with social be supplemented with historical background and media use, and many feel that regular breaks or even literary criticism that bring up questions of utopia, complete ruptures from social media are necessary, nation, politics, identity, and subalternity, to name a whereas others feel that they could never let it go. In few. You will be evaluated on class participation and this class we will examine our own use of social media, written assignments like discussion posts, an oral learn ways to understand how and when it is harmful presentation, a paper, and a final project. or helpful to mental health and other aspects of daily Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. life, and how to do research on this important topic. Class limit: 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the following Students will gain a general understanding of how to degree requirements: HS approach psychological questions using the methods of scientific psychology, as well as learn about basic concepts in social, personality, developmental, and HS 2113 Latin American Literature: Pablo cognitive psychology. Students will be evaluated Neruda-Residencia En La Tierra based on attendance, in-class participation, reading MAHONEY, DANIEL responses, and a final research paper that proposes Residencia En La Tierra can be translated in many a research study or is a detailed literature review on different ways: A Residency on Earth, Residence social media and its effects. on Earth, Living on Earth. However, each distinct Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. translation points us toward a single question: What Class limit: 16. Lab fee: None. Meets the following does it mean to be at home on Earth? This is an degree requirements: HS introduction, in English translation, to the person considered by many to be the greatest Latin American HS 2115 College Seminar: The World poet of the 20th century, Pablo Neruda. Neruda's of Ms. Marvel poetry is marked by a series of aesthetic and political metamorphoses as he continually seeks to address TANEJA, PALAK the aforementioned question in his early love poems, As a Pakistani-American teenager from New Jersey, political poems, sweeping historical works, odes, and Kamala Khan must contend with being a non-white 98 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 female offspring of an immigrant family, a reality to attend at least four of the weekly screenings, and further complicated by her newfound superhero you'll receive extra credit for attending more. abilities. In this college seminar course, we will dive Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. into the world of Kamala Khan as she follows in the Class limit: 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the following footsteps of her role model and the first Ms. Marvel, degree requirements: HS Carol Danvers, one of the few female superheroes in the universe. She'll change your idea of a superhero and what it means to be one as she balances her HS 2117 Gandhian Economics and Green personal and superhero identity and navigates Entrepreneurship questions of race, religion, culture, power, and ORUGANTI, RAMASUBRAMANIAN teenage angst. In critically examining existing global economic We will explore all the abovementioned ideas and models, we will use case studies from India that draw more as we read three to four volumes of Ms. on the lens of Gandhian Economics and ways to Marvel comics (2014 onwards), paying attention remake society through green entrepreneurship. We to storytelling through the genre of sequential will focus on ideas that bring ethics to the forefront of art. We will also watch the recent TV adaptation the enterprise creation process, drawing, especially, (2022) and finally pair the two with theories of race, on ideas of J.C. Kumarappa. We will look closely Islamophobia, gender, and current world politics. at ways in past societies, cultural ethos guided Since this class also meets the writing requirement, enterprise and how there is a need to recreate/revive part of your focus will be on understanding the writing these to ensure sustainability. Extensive examples process by composing varied works. For example, will be provided from my own research work on the you'll write short blog posts responding to questions rural local institutions that manage large enterprises like, "Are comics literature?", opinion pieces that could in India. These will be compared as well with the appear in The New York Times, and fan fiction. All successes and challenges, in Gandhi's time, of the these are different genres and targeted at a specific village industries movement for which Kumarappa audience, me, online readers, fans, and your peers. was the chief architect. We will explore the successes You will be evaluated on class participation, written as well as challenges in examples of how green work, oral presentation, and a final project. entrepreneurship is manifesting within the market Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. paradigm of today in contemporary India. Class limit: 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the following The initial two weeks of class will be in person degree requirements: HS, W and then online sessions will be used to allow for engaging with entrepreneurs on the ground in HS 2116 Postcolonial Shakespeares India. Assignments for the course will include short reflective writings and a term project. Criteria for TANEJA, PALAK evaluation will be based on the extent to which In her introduction to Post-Colonial Shakespeares, student writing and class participation demonstrate Ania Loomba says, "Shakespeare lived and wrote at a close familiarity with the readings and a thoughtful, time when English mercantile and colonial enterprises collaborative, critical engagement with the ideas were just germinating." The star of Shakespeare developed in the course. and colonialism rose at the same time, making Level: Introductory/Intermediate Prerequisite: None. Shakespeare's work a symbol of colonial supremacy. Class limit: 15. Lab fee: $25. Meets the following As such, you cannot be a literature student without degree requirements: None encountering Shakespeare; the canon has made sure of that. While those who loved the Empire see Shakespeare as an exemplar of English ideals, anti and HS 2118 Introduction to Journalism: post-colonial theorists and artists beg to differ. Telling the Story Therefore, this course will be an introduction to some LEVIN, ROB such theorists and artists. We will read Shakespeare's The main goal of this course is to guide students to plays like Othello, The Tempest, and others from produce interesting, accurate, well-written, compelling among the following-Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, A articles about people, processes, and events. The Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing- course aims to give students an understanding of with an eye toward postcolonial interpretations, the principles of American journalism, the structure thinking about the issues of race, power, hierarchy, of journalistic writing, the techniques for identifying, and others. We will also spend some time exploring sourcing, and gathering information, and insight adaptations of his work that come from Asia, Africa, into how news is disseminated and read, watched, or and other parts of the world, providing new avenues listened to in the digital age. Students will produce of postcoloniality. You will be evaluated on class several short articles for the course, learning the participation, short papers, an oral presentation, basics of story development, interviewing, research, and a final project. In addition, you will be required and covering meetings and events. Students will COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 99 be tasked with thinking critically, understanding HS 3015 African American Literature and using news judgment, and developing skills for WALDRON, KAREN efficiency and self-critique. They will be introduced to the history of American journalism, the ethics This survey of African American literature from its and laws specific to the field, and the modern media origins in the slave narrative to the present vivid landscape. Students will also learn about and practice prose of some of America's best writers considers photojournalism. A final project in the course will the impact of slavery and race consciousness on include significant research and utilize students' skills literary form and power. Readings include letters, in interviewing, observation, and documentation essays, poems, short stories, and novels of some learned over the term. of the following authors: Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Pauline Hopkins, Langston Students will be evaluated on the following criteria: Hughes, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, the quality of their reporting, the effectiveness of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison. their revisions, and participation in class discussions and peer review sessions. Students taking this Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: A previous literature course should have sufficient sentence structure, course or permission of the instructor. Class limit: 15. grammatical, and word usage skills to communicate Offered every other year. Lab fee: None. Meets the effectively in writing. Students that are not confident following degree requirements: HS in those areas may enroll, but should strongly consider taking the course Credit/No Credit. HS 3021 Intermediate Spanish I Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. PEÑA, KARLA Class limit: 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the following This course is for students who are competent in the degree requirements: W use of basic Spanish structures, of the simple and compound of the indicative tenses, and some forms HS 2119 Global Politics of Climate Change of the imperative tense. Objective: The students will STABINSKY, DOREEN be able to express themselves orally and through writing using a variety of vocabulary, the indicative Two international treaties, the UN Framework and imperative moods, and some applications of Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the the subjunctive mood. This includes a review of Paris Agreement, are the legal architecture for the present, preterite, future imperfect, preterite global cooperation to address climate change. The imperfect tenses, pronouns of object direct and national governments that are signatories to the indirect, imperative mood, expanded use of the "to be" treaties gather yearly at the Conference of the and "is" verbs, the prepositions and simple conditional, Parties (COP) to negotiate the implementation of the the study and practice of the compound tenses of the agreements. A large number of non-governmental indicative mood, present perfect, plus perfect, and actors also attend the meetings, including many from future perfect. They will also study the subjunctive civil society and social movements who are there to mood and verbs that express emotion. Evaluation pressure governments to act with the speed and scale criteria: two compositions, two auditory tests, two necessary to address the growing climate crisis. writing tests covering grammar, two oral tests, This course is an introduction to both these assignments/ and class participation. treaties and the global politics surrounding Level: Intermediate. Offered every fall. Class their implementation. In the course, students limit: 10. Lab fee: $20. Meets the following degree will gain strong foundational historical, legal, requirements: None and political knowledge of both of the treaties and the intergovernmental processes of treaty implementation. Through a focus on politically HS 3023 International Wildlife Policy contested issues within the negotiations, students and Protected Areas will be introduced to a range of the civil society CLINE, KEN organizations and social movements that engage "Save the whales;" "save the tiger;" "save the in the global politics of climate change, and their rainforest"-increasingly wildlife and their habitats politics, strategies, and tactics. Course material are the subject of international debate with many will include primary documents from negotiations, seeing wildlife as part of the common heritage of civil society documents, and conversations with humankind. Wildlife does not recognize the political key actors. Evaluation in the class will be based on boundaries of national states and as a result purely class participation, several problem sets, and a final national efforts to protect wildlife often fail when individual or group project. wildlife migrates beyond the jurisdiction of protection. Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. This course focuses on two principle aspects of Class limit: 20. Lab fee: None. Meets the following international wildlife conservation: 1) the framework of degree requirements: HS treaties and other international mechanisms set up to protect species; and 2) the system of protected areas 100 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 established around the world to protect habitat. We or motifs into original short fiction, or selecting begin with an examination of several seminal wildlife and following a Shakespeare play through all its treaties such as the International Convention for the cinematic variations. Texts will be individual editions Regulation of Whaling, CITES, migratory bird treaties, of the plays, along with Michael Greer's Screening and protocols to the Antarctica Treaty. Shakespeare for individual background. Using case studies on some of the more notable Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: Prior writing or wildlife campaigns, such as those involving whales literature course recommended. Class limit: 16. Lab and elephants, we seek to understand the tensions fee: $10. Meets the following degree requirements: HS between national sovereignty and international conservation efforts. The Convention on Biological HS 3031 Our Public Lands: Past, Present, Diversity and its broad prescriptions for wildlife and Future protection provide a central focus for our examination of future efforts. Following on one of the key CLINE, KEN provisions in the Convention on Biological Diversity, By definition "public lands" belong to all of us, yet the second half of the course focuses on international public lands in this country have a history of use and national efforts to create parks and other (and abuse) by special interests and a shocking protected areas. In particular we evaluate efforts absence of any coherent management strategy for to create protected areas that serve the interests long-term sustainability. This course is taught in of wildlife and resident peoples. Students gain seminar format in which students read and discuss familiarity with UNESCO's Biosphere Reserve model several environmental policy and history texts that and the IUCN's protected area classifications. We also concern the history and future of our federal lands. examine in some depth the role that NGO's play in We also use primary historic documents and texts international conservation efforts. The relationship to understand the origins of public ownership and between conservation and sustainable development is management. We examine the legal, philosophical, a fundamental question throughout the course. ecological, and political problems that have faced our Level: Intermediate. Recommended courses: Use National Parks, wildlife refuges, national forests, and and Abuse of Public Lands, Global Politics and other public lands. An effort is made to sort out the Sustainability, and Global Environmental Politics. Class tangle of laws and conflicting policies that govern limit: 20. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree these public resources. Special attention is given to requirements: HS the historic roots of current policy debates. Evaluation is based upon response papers, a class presentation, participation in class discussions, and a group project HS 3029 Shakespeare: Character, Conflict, looking closely at the historical context and policy and Cinematography implications of a management issue facing a nearby TANEJA, PALAK public land unit. This course will focus on Shakespeare's tragedies as Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: Introductory history a direct link between the birth of tragedy in ancient or policy class recommended. Class limit: 20. Lab fee: Greece and the violence of contemporary cinema. The $15. Meets the following degree requirements: HS, HY class begins with a week of Shakespeare's sonnets as an entry into the co-evolution of language, metaphor HS 3032 The Cold War: Early Years and human emotion. We'll then compare Hamlet and Sophocles' Oedipus Rex in the light of Freudian MCKOWN, JAMIE theory to shed light on universal issues of incest and This course provides a broad historical overview of domestic violence, and continue with a play every the early years of the "Cold War" period that shaped week in two extended evening sessions, 4-9 Monday global politics generally and American foreign policy and Thursday, with pizza intermission. The Monday specifically. Beginning in the 1940's and leading up sessions will be a complete dramatic reading of the to Richard Nixon's election in 1968 we will examine play involving the whole class, stopping to discuss the diplomatic relationship between the United States salient points, with the aim of complete understanding and the Soviet Union and how this relationship has of language, structure and meaning. The Thursday impacted state actors, economic policies, cultural sessions will be a single or double feature of production, and conceptions of identity. While contemporary and classic film adaptations, followed there will be a heavy focus on traditional state-level by discussion of the relation between play and film. diplomatic history, students will also explore a broad Sample pairings would be Romeo and Juliet with array of methodological approaches. Class sessions Bernstein's West Side Story; Macbeth with Geoffrey will include a mix of traditional lecture formats, class Wright's Macbeth and Kurosawa's Throne of Blood, discussion, and outside presentations. An evening lab King Lear with Moorhouse's A Thousand Acres. Two is scheduled in order to screen a variety of cultural written assignments will involve a choice of structural artifacts from the various periods we will cover. The analysis of a play, re-casting Shakespearean scenes primary goal is to give students an intensive 10-week COLLEGE OF THE ANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 101 crash course into key events, concepts, figures, etc.. with an emphasis on the types of available sources, that defined the early decades of Cold War diplomacy. the use of evidence, and how each author builds their At the same time there is also time allocated for argument. We will explicitly compare the methods, use students to explore their own independent research of evidence and other aspects of different disciplinary interests. Given the far-reaching force of Cold War approaches to the topic to highlight the strengths politics into everyday life, individuals with widely and limitations of each approach. This dimension of varying academic interests will find the course the class is particularly interesting because of the informative and productive. Evaluation will be based dynamic and interdisciplinary nature of scholarship on a mix of class participation, individual research right now that brings a wide range of research into assignments, and exams. All students, regardless of dialogue. Students will learn about the history of their backgrounds, previous coursework, or interests oceans and fishes by looking at how historians and are welcome. other scholars frame their works and make their Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: arguments. 30. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree Students will be evaluated on their preparation for requirements: HY, HS discussion, mastery of the material, short written assignments, and a final project made up of a HS 3035 Sustainable Strategies presentation and essay. This course is appropriate for students with interest in history, community-based FRIEDLANDER, JAY research, marine studies, and environmental policy. Business has tremendous societal ramifications. Students who are just curious and interested in lots of Inventions and industries from the automobile to things are also most welcome. the internet impact everything from air quality to Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. Class economic and political freedom. Entrepreneurs, limit: 15. Lab fee: $75. Meets the following degree who are often at the forefront of business and thus requirements: HS, HY societal innovation, are changing the way business is conducted by creating businesses that are beneficial to the bottom line, society and the environment. HS 3038 The Cold War: The Later Years Through cases, projects and present day examples, MCKOWN, JAMIE the course will challenge students to understand the This course provides a broad historical overview of impact of business on society and the challenges and the later years of the "Cold War" period that shaped pitfalls of creating a socially responsible venture. In global politics generally and American foreign policy addition, it will offer new frameworks for creating specifically. Beginning with the election of Richard entrepreneurial ventures that capitalize on social Nixon's in 1968 and following up to today, we will responsibility to gain competitive advantage, focus on the diplomatic relationship between the increase valuation while benefiting society and the United States and the Soviet Union/Russia and how environment. The final deliverable for the course is this relationship has impacted state actors, economic an in-class presentation in which student teams will policies, cultural production, and conceptions of either: (1) recommend ways to improve the social identity. While there will be a heavy focus on traditional and environmental impacts of a company, while state-level diplomatic history, students will also increasing competitive advantage and bottom line; or explore a broad array of methodological approaches. (2) benchmark two industry competitors, a socially Class sessions will include a mix of traditional lecture responsible company versus a traditional company. formats, class discussion, and outside presentations. Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. Class An evening lab is scheduled in order to screen a limit: 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree variety of cultural artifacts from the various periods requirements: HS we will cover. The primary goal is to give students an intensive 10-week crash course into key events, HS 3036 Oceans and Fishes: Readings in concepts, figures, etc. that defined the later decades Environmental History of Cold War diplomacy. At the same time there is also time allocated for students to explore their LITTLE-SIEBOLD, TODD own independent research interests. Given the far- This course will explore the rapidly expanding field reaching force of Cold War politics into everyday life, of marine environmental history and historical individuals with widely varying academic interests will studies that focus on fish and fisheries. Recent find the course informative and productive. methodological and conceptual work as well as Evaluation will be based on a mix of class growing interest in the history of these topics driven participation, individual research assignments, and by conservation and policy issues has made this an exams. While this class is designed to compliment the important and innovative field. Using the work of a topics covered in The Cold War: Early Years, students variety of scholars from different fields, the class will are not required to have had this earlier class. Both explore how historical accounts can be constructed courses are designed as "stand alone." All students, 102 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 regardless of their backgrounds, previous coursework, develop. At all times discussion will be grounded and or interests are welcome. informed by successful poems in the tradition, both Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: contemporary and from the canon. Assigned readings 20. Lab fee: Nona. Meets the following degree from the two texts above will inform discussion of requirements: HS, HY important poetic devices, such as use of image, metaphor, voice, sentence, and meter. HS 3040 History of Agriculture: Apples Assignments will include: writing new poems; revising these poems (addressing at least some of the issues LITTLE-SIEBOLD, TODD identified by me and by the class); providing detailed This course will explore the history of agriculture comments on poems by other class members; reading from the vantage point of Downeast Maine with a and discussing assigned poems; and writing several focus on apples. The premise of the course is that brief written responses to readings of the student's by exploring this fascinating crop in detail from the choice from the two texts or other books local vantage point of Downeast Maine students will of contemporary poetry. be able to grasp the many historical processes at Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: Some experience work from the introduction of the fruit in the late writing poetry. Class limit: 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries to the following degree requirements: None age of agricultural improvement in the eighteenth on to the rise and fall of commercial orcharding as a major component of Maine's farm economy in the HS 3055 The Mayas of Yesterday and Today early twentieth century. Using sources ranging from PEÑA, KARLA secondary sources, historical atlases, aerial surveys, This is a course in the history and culture of the and diaries, we will explore how the culture of apple Yucatec Maya offered as part of the College's Yucatán agriculture in Maine develops over time as part of an Program in Mexico. It will cover key features of the interconnected Atlantic World where crops flow back Pre-Hispanic, Colonial and Modern eras. Readings and forth between Britain and the colonies/US over will include classic texts by and about them as hundreds of years. well as contemporary studies in archaeology and Course activities will include fruit exploration and anthropology. Themes will include social structure, fieldtrips to track down and identify antique varieties, religion, politics, agricultural practices, language as well as visits to the local farms where a new and family life. Homework will include various short generation of apple culture is taking shape. The writing assignments and oral project reports. Field course will also engage students with the process of trips in and around Mérida will be included both to cider-making, both sweet and hard, as well as exercises visit archaeological sites of special interest and also in the preparation, storage, and processing of apples. to visit contemporary communities of Maya. Each Students will be evaluated on their participation in student will do a major final project which will include discussion, how they collaborate with others in class research in texts and fieldwork which culminate in an projects, and a final individual or collaborative project. extended study on site in a Maya village. This course This course is designed for students interested in will be taught entirely in Spanish. history, farming and food systems, community-based Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: Signature of research, and policy/planning issues. It is also very Yucatán program director and co-enrollment in appropriate for students who like apples and just want HS6010 Spanish Language and HS2021 Immersion to know (a lot) more. Practica. Lab fee: TBA. Class limit: 12. Meets the Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. Limit: 12. Lab following degree requirements: None fee: $125. Meets the following degree requirements: HS, HY HS 3059 Native American Literature WALDRON, KAREN HS 3050 Poetry Workshop This course is a challenging introduction to several MAHONEY, DANIEL centuries of Native American literature, the relevance This class is designed to teach the skills and of historical and cultural facts to its literary forms, techniques of writing poems. We will begin by and the challenges of bridging oral and written discussing what makes a poem a poem-specifically, traditions. Authors include such writers as Silko, intensity of language, image and metaphor. Students Erdrich, Harjo, Vizenor, and McNickle as well as earlier will craft their own poems and submit them for peer speeches and short stories. We also consider non- and instructor review, which will focus on these three native readings and appropriation of Native American aspects and expand from there. In discussion, we will styles, material, and world views. look at what is giving a poem life, and what is taking Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. Class life away from a poem, such as breakdowns in logic or limit: 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree syntax, the use of derivative material, or the failure to requirements: HS COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 103 HS 3061 Postcolonial Islands to create our own solutions for the issues that concern VAN VLIET, NETTA us and inspire us to action. This course focuses on islands-geopolitically Changing the world takes more than a critical eye and conceptually-to consider the significance of for what is wrong, proselytizing a good idea and postcolonial difference for contemporary political hope. There are many factors which contribute to questions about representation, violence, exile and creating social change and in this course we explore diaspora, climate change, poverty, racialization and what it takes to be a successful change maker in our sexuality. Islands have long been imagined as sites communities, and thus in the world. Reversing the lens of fantastic possibility and power, as places of refuge we use to approach the problems of the world is part and respite as well as places of horror and dread. of what a human ecologist needs to do to understand They are places imagined as home to cannibals and our challenges: "...social entrepreneurs are uniquely monsters, but also as idyllic vacations spots and safe suited to make headway on problems that have havens for shipwrecked sailors. Etymologically, the resisted considerable money and intelligence. Where word island carries with it the meaning of both land governments and traditional organizations look at and water, and islands are defined as fragments of a problems from the outside, social entrepreneurs come whole, and simultaneously as whole unto themselves, to understand them intimately, from within." -David raising questions about binaries and boundaries Bornstein, How to Change the World between self and other and about the conceptual In this experiential, project-based course students topographies of territory, land and water, thresholds will select a specific problem they would like to between here and there. Islands have been sites ripe solve. Students will perform thorough research for colonial ventures, understood as isolated, insular into a problem of their choosing, understanding it and susceptible to translation and appropriation but from within by identifying root causes and other also as resistant, bounded and singular, fertile sites of exacerbating factors as well as investigating positive diversity. Islands have also been significant in religious deviance and what people around the world are doing understandings of them as sites for communion with to solve this issue. Through these projects and other God or as final places of burial. This course will examine readings, students will examine a myriad of problems islands in these terms as they have been articulated around the world and look at different strategies in the literary imagination, in postcolonial studies and people are using to tackle them and create positive ethnography, and in political theory. social change. The final project for the course will Drawing on examples such as Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, be a concrete proposal for solving the problem they selected. Students will be evaluated based on their J.M. Coetzee's Foe, The Odyssey, Plato's Atlantis, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Shakespeare's The performance, participation and the quality of the Tempest, Octave Mannoni's Prospero and Caliban, projects they produce over the course of the term. Aime Cesaire's A Tempest, as well as on ethnography Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. Class in Island Studies (including classic ethnography limit: 15. Lab fee: $50. Meets the following degree such as Malinowski's Trobriand Islands, and recent requirements: HS scholarship such as "The Island Studies Journal" and A World of Islands), we will consider questions about HS 3068 Linguistics, Language, and political representation, language and translation, Culture: Human Ecological Approach religious, ethnic and sexual difference, the definition of the human, mobility and sovereignty, resistance COX, GRAY and domination. Students will be evaluated based on This course explores the basic questions concerning attendance, in-class participation, reading responses, the origins, nature, history, functions and one short analytical essay, and a final exploratory philosophical significances of human languages. research project that examines Mount Desert Island in Comparisons to other species and to machine the context of course materials. languages will also be examined. Readings will Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. Class include classics texts by Chomsky and others as limit: 10. Lab fee: $10. Meets the following degree well selected materials from diverse disciplines such requirements: HS as linguistic anthropology, psychology, ethology, aesthetics, history of languages, and philosophy. Class sessions will include a mix of discussion, HS 3062 Solutions lecture, and visiting speakers. Each student will FRIEDLANDER, JAY undertake a term-long project examining some topic We live in a world of problems global warming, of interest and examine it from the point of view of inequality, discrimination, child labor, slavery, waste, the different disciplines and theories covered in the species extinction, domestic violence, and a myriad course. Project topics might include, for example: of other issues occupy the headlines, courses and can the development of identity, the articulation of feel overwhelming at times. Unfortunately, we rarely gender, forms of representation, the expression of here about solutions, let alone have the opportunity emotion, concepts of rationality, relations between 104 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 meaning and truth, and communication in an age HS 3073 Bees and Society of artificial intelligences. The goals of the course COLLUM, KOURTNEY are: 1) to familiarize students with the range of phenomena associated with language and the In the last decade the plight of wild and domesticated principal questions they raise and the theories bees has pervaded the media and public discourse, used to interpret them and 2) to develop skills in yet bees remain largely misunderstood in our researching interdisciplinary questions. Assignments society. This course examines the interconnected will include two problem sets, a series of weekly relationship between humans and bees and asks what bees can teach us about ourselves and our homework exercises, and the term project which must be presented both orally and in a major paper food systems. Through readings, fieldtrips, and due at the end of the term. Evaluation will be based guest lectures, students will examine the social, on the extent to which in-class participation and economic, and political dimensions of human-bee work on the assignments demonstrates substantive interactions, investigating topics such as: historical progress on the two goals of the course. There are no and contemporary beekeeping practices; the specific prerequisites, but students will be expected political economy of honey; the role of pollination to be able to contribute insights, information and in agriculture and agroecosystems; domestication questions from previous work in relevant disciplines and human-animal relationships; biodiversity loss and/or studies of languages, undertake challenging in agricultural systems; pollinator conservation readings, and pursue a major independent project. and policy; and cooperation and decision-making in human and bee societies. A truly human-ecological Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. Class course, Bees & Society integrates the humanities, limit: 20. Lab fee: $20. Meets the following degree natural sciences, and social sciences to examine requirements: HS the applied problem of protecting pollinators in a time of abrupt environmental change. Students HS 3069 Genocide, Resistance, Response, will be evaluated based on: (1) participation in class and Reconciliation discussions, fieldwork, and field trips; (2) a series of WESSLER, STEPHEN L short reflection papers; and (3) a final class project. For their final project, students will develop two native Students will explore the differences and similarities bee conservation workshops-one for elementary between genocides and ethnic cleansings; why people school students and one for farmers and gardeners- join resistance groups; why other countries intervene and host the workshops at COA's farms. or fail to intervene to stop genocide; and whether Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. Class post genocide reconciliation is effective. The course limit: 14. Lab fee: $60. Meets the following degree will focus on several genocides or ethnic cleansings requirements: HS from different parts of the globe: for example, toward American Indians in the US, Chinese in Nanking, Jews, Roma and others during the Holocaust, Muslims in HS 3076 US Farm and Food Policy Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Tutsi people (and a COLLUM, KOURTNEY smaller number of Hutus) in Rwanda. This course offers a broad introduction to food Students will be evaluated based on short written and farm policy in the United States. Food and responses to readings, in class discussion, two papers farm policy encompasses laws, regulations, and a final project. The final project will explore the norms, decisions, and actions by governments and topics in the course through fiction, poetry, art, film, other institutions that influence food production, advocacy, interviews or other forms of expression. distribution, access, consumption, and recovery. The course readings will be a mix of scholarly writing This course focuses on the policy process and two about genocide, first person accounts and perhaps major policy tools: the US Farm Bill and US Dietary some fiction and poetry. We will also watch and Guidelines for Americans. discuss videos. Class sessions will involve discussions The course begins with an overview of the evolution with all of us together and also in small group discussions between students. The focus on both of food and farming technology in the United States. Students are then introduced to the concepts, resistance and reconciliation are important in their institutions, and stakeholders that influence farm and own right but also will provide the students and me food policy, and examine examples of some of the with the opportunity to temper the highly disturbing most salient contemporary issues. Topics covered material on genocide by focusing on the remarkable include: food production and the environment; courage of individuals both during and after genocide has run its course. farm-based biodiversity conservation; international food and agricultural trade; food processing, Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. Class manufacturing, and retail industries; food safety; limit: 15. Lab fee: $20. Meets the following degree dietary and nutrition guidelines; food labeling and requirement: HS advertising; food and biotechnology; food waste and recovery; food advocacy and activism; and food COLLEGE OF THE ANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 105 insecurity and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance HS 3083 Feminist Theory in a Program (SNAP). Through case studies and exercises Transnational Frame II students examine the policymaking process at the VAN VLIET, NETTA local, state, and federal level and learn to evaluate various policy options. Finally, the course compares This course covers some of the central texts and and contrasts international perspectives on farm and genealogies of feminist thought, with a focus on food policies and programs. Students are evaluated transnational feminist theory. We will address periods based on participation in class discussions, a series of of feminist thought that have been significant in op-ed essays, in-class briefs and debates, and a policy shaping the concerns of transnational feminisms, recommendation report on the upcoming US Farm Bill. including 1970s US feminism, French feminism, postcolonial theory, and Marxist thought. Through Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: Must have taken seminar discussion about a variety of texts and at least one course in food systems, economics, or films, we will consider how differences across global politics. Class limit: 16. Lab fee: None. Meets the national borders have informed discussions about following degree requirements: HS transnational feminist solidarity. We will examine how feminist theory can help us think about the HS 3079 College Seminar: following: kinship; reproduction; the law and justice; The Anthropology of Food human rights discourse, political economy, racialized COLLUM, KOURTNEY and other forms of difference; existence and the subject; the relation between individual and group; This course uses food as a lens to explore human the relation between terms such as "gender" and origins, cultural diversity, social structure, and "sex;" and the varied currencies the terms "queer" human/environment interactions. Through academic and "feminist" have carried in different national and articles and films, the course exposes students to transnational contexts. the different ways anthropologists think about food and the frameworks they use to answer questions This course builds on Feminist Theory in a concerning the human experience. The course also Transnational Frame, and while prior coursework engages other disciplinary perspectives-including in feminist and sexuality studies is beneficial, it is history, economics, and political ecology-to make not necessary. Ideally, students in the course will larger connections between food and society. have varied degrees of familiarity with the central questions of the course. This should allow for Designed as a survey course, this course introduces substantive discussion and opportunities to both students not only to writing as process-prewriting, formulate and respond to questions posed by class writing, and rewriting-but also to the broad and material. This class builds on work done in other dynamic subfield of food anthropology. The course courses that address questions of feminist thought, is organized around four themes. The first-human but also is intended to include students with a range origins, diets, and biocultural evolution-explores the of backgrounds. Students will be evaluated based on uniqueness of cooking to the human species, and class participation, weekly reading responses, a mid- how the co-evolution of human diets and culture has term and a final essay. shaped different groups' dietary needs, practices, and restrictions. The second-globalization and Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: Prior coursework in international trade-looks at the flow of foods and the fields of feminist thought, sexuality, and gender food practices around the world, from sugar to sushi. studies is useful, but not necessary. Permission of The third-hegemony and difference-considers how instructor required. Class limit: 12. Lab fee: $10. Meets race, gender, and class are constructed and expressed the following degree requirements: HS through food. The final theme-consumption and embodiment-considers the relationship between HS 3085 College Seminar: Nutritional eating and the body; readings in this section focus on Anthropology body image, eating practices, and critical studies of COLLUM, KOURTNEY the rhetoric around hunger and obesity. Eating is both a biological need and an intensely social Students are evaluated based on class participation, activity. This course examines the evolution, diversity, a series of reflection papers, a dietary analysis, and a social significance, and health consequences of the recipe project involving a prepared meal, an audio- human diet across time and space. Designed as a visual presentation, and a critical analysis paper. This college seminar, this course introduces students to course meets the first-year writing requirement. writing as process-prewriting, writing, and rewriting- Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. Class and the broad and dynamic subfield of nutritional limit: 12. Lab fee: $20. Meets the following degree anthropology. Through academic articles, films, requirements: HS, W and guest lectures, the course weaves together the biological and cultural threads of anthropology to consider human nutrition in all its complexity. The 106 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 course is designed to complement The Anthropology and creating sound-rich audio productions in digital of Food by focusing in on biocultural approaches editing software. to the study of human diets. The course covers This class will focus primarily on digital material foundations and theories of nutritional anthropology, already collected in the field or found in local the evolution and adaptation of human diets, dietary collections. These stories are from downeast transitions and globalization, and under- and over- communities in Hancock and Washington Counties nutrition. Students are evaluated based on class and will build on ongoing collaborative work. Students participation, a series of synthesis papers, a critical will work in small groups and individually on each analysis paper, and a research project including a stage of production based on their interests as paper and an audio-visual presentation. well as on ongoing projects. Opportunities exist to Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. Class explore various forms of audio storytelling in a final limit: 12. Lab fee: $10. Meets the following degree project. This course is for students with interests requirements: HS, W in documentary work, storytelling, oral history, and community-based research broadly construed. Students will be evaluated on individual audio HS 3099 A History of God: Mysticism, assignments (transcription, scripting, digitizing, and Metaphysics, Politics, and Nature production work) as well as their contribution to COX, GRAY group projects. Religious experiences and concepts have been Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: Permission of central in history. They have informed ideas of self, instructor; preference will be given to students who community and nature as well as practices of science, have academic background in community-based work technology and politics. This course provides an or documentary work or who are in their third or intellectual history of the concepts of god or gods fourth year. Class limit: 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the and related notions and practices. It will focus on following degree requirements: None them as they have developed in the West but will also look, briefly, for comparative purposes at India and China. It will use secondary materials like Karen HS 3102 The Human Ecology of Wilderness Armstrong's A History of God and Peter Adamson's CLINE, KEN A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps to follow Wilderness has been the clarion call for generations of threads of the story from early polytheism up through environmentalists. Henry David Thoreau once said, "In the present day. It will also focus on a series of short wildness is the preservation of the world." That single selected primary sources including sacred texts as sentence and the controversy surrounding that idea well as writings by philosophers, theologians, political provides the central focus of our explorations over the thinkers and mystics. Class format will be a mixture term. This course examines the question of wilderness of lecture and discussion. Students will be evaluated from multiple perspectives in the hopes of providing on their participation in discussions and their ability an understanding of the concept and real spaces that to convey their understanding of material in short constitute wilderness. Starting with a week-long canoe homework assignments, two problem sets and two trip down Maine's Allagash Wilderness Waterway, we papers analyzing the historical connections between look at historical and contemporary accounts of the one or more texts and their contexts. value of wilderness, biological, and cultural arguments Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. Class for wilderness, and the legal and policy difficulties of limit: 16. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree "protecting" wilderness. Considerable time is spent requirements: HS, HY evaluating current criticisms of the wilderness idea and practice. Students are involved in a term-long project involving potential wilderness protection in HS 3100 Within Living Memory: Maine. This involves some weekend travel and work Audio Production and Podcasting in the Maine Woods. Classwork emphasizes hands-on KOCH, GALEN projects as well as theoretical discussions. This course will explore the process of narrative Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: HS4026 storytelling with sound. We will study a broad Environmental Law & Policy or permission of range of audio formats, from podcasts to audio instructor. Class limit: 14. Lab fee: $275. Meets the installations to interactive soundwalks. Students following degree requirements: HS learn each step of creating an audio story, from recording techniques and initial collection in the HS 3105 Policing in Communities of Color field or in archival collections through the writing to the final production of a podcast or audio piece. WESSLER, STEPHEN L Students will learn the technical skills of digitizing This course focuses on policing in communities audio and conducting interviews, scripting and of color. We will examine the long and continuing writing stories based on that audio, editing audio history of destructive and violent policing toward COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 107 Black people in the United States. We will also situate a reading and discussion based course, we will that history in the context of other ongoing crises primarily examine our topic through books and peer- including the decades long war on drugs and the reviewed articles as we consider the questions: How disproportionate mass incarceration of people of color has food been used as both a weapon of war and a in US prisons. The course will especially focus on the tool of diplomacy? How has conflict transformed the efforts of organizations such as Black Lives Matter ways people grow, harvest, and eat food? And how to reduce the high level of deaths of black people at have agricultural methods, inputs, technologies, and the hands of police as well as their advocacy for the cuisines spread and evolved in relationship to war? "defunding" of police. We will also examine strategies Students will be evaluated based on preparation to reduce both implicit bias and explicit bias among for and participation in class discussions; a series police officers, as well as efforts to reduce the distrust of synthesis papers; and a final paper. As an of police in communities of color by training police intermediate seminar, this course is best suited for in effective skills for de-escalating tense situations. students who have taken a course in food studies We will examine recent efforts by the United States such as Transforming Food Systems or US Farm and Department of Justice to improve policing by the use Food Policy, and who have had at least one course of restraining orders. As a point of comparison, we will in history, anthropology, or international studies. spend some of our time reviewing recent or ongoing Students who take Food and War Part I are not work conducted in Europe to develop and implement required to take Part II. training programs for police officers with the aim to Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: This course is best reduce unnecessary and unlawful violence toward suited for students who have taken a course in food Roma people. studies such as Transforming Food Systems or US In addition to the readings, students can expect Farm and Food Policy, and who have had at least presentations from and discussions with guest one course in history, anthropology, or international speakers who have been recently working to address studies. Class limit: 16. Lab fee: None. Meets the the harms of police violence, both in the US and abroad. following degree requirements: HS Student evaluation will be based on class participation, a series of short written responses related to readings, a longer form essay or short fictional story related to HS 3110 Satanic Verses a single reading, the drafting of an Opinion Editorial CARPENTER, WILLIAM piece regarding the effectiveness of "defunding" the This course will examine the figure of Satan in police, and a written response to a case study that is literary and scriptural texts with particular reference coauthored with a partner. to contemporary political violence and the 2022 Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. Class attack on Salman Rushdie. We will look back at the limit: 16. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree evolutionary origins of good and evil, then track requirements: None the political uses of demonization and apocalyptic language in contemporary news media as we HS 3109 Food and War Part I approach the November election. Readings will include Sharon Olds' poem "Satan COLLUM, KOURTNEY Says," selections from the Old Testament and the Food systems have long been globalized and Koran, Euripides' The Bacchae, Milton's Paradise interconnected. Consequently, conflict in one part of Lost, Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Arthur Miller's the world often affects food systems in other parts The Crucible, and a close reading of Rushdie's novel, of the world. Indeed, some scholars have argued The Satanic Verses. We will also have a weekly film that war has made our contemporary food systems. series including The Seventh Seal, The Crucible, The In this course, we will draw on the fields of food Exorcist, Angel Heart, Barton Fink, Under the Sun studies, history, anthropology, international studies, of Satan, Rosemary's Baby, and Antichrist. Updated and political science to understand how war has film suggestions are welcome. Student reports could shaped and been shaped by past and contemporary extend the class into areas of art history, Tarot, food systems. Designed as a two part course, Food witchcraft, Tantric Buddhism, Pizzagate and other and War Part I focuses on World War I, World War Satanic accusations, and freedom of expression II, and the Cold War between the United States, versus cultural sensitivity. Evaluations will be based the Soviet Union, and their respective allies. We on midterm and term papers and in-class reports. will also examine the influence of the Cold War on Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. Class efforts to bring about a "green revolution" across Asia in the 1950s and 1960s and across Africa limit: 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree requirements: HS today. Throughout the term we will consider how modern war tactics have evolved from historical approaches to conflict, from burning and salting fields to slaughtering livestock and wild game. As 108 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 HS 3111 Designing Your Life Reading": a deep engagement with a particular text FRIEDLANDER, JAY or a passage from a text. Distant Reading engages not with a particular text, but with a large corpus Students hear a series of conflicting messages when it of texts: e.g., all novels published in English in the comes to their education and future. Advice, impulses 20th century, all articles written in The New York and pressures to "follow your passion", "study Times and The Washington Post in the last decade, something that will lead to a job", "create positive or the lyrics of all top-100 pop songs from the 1980s. change in the world", can be overwhelming. This is Computational techniques applied to large collections especially true at a school where students design their of texts allow one to ask broad questions about own major and pathway through the curriculum. structural and linguistic change over time and to look In this course, students will embark upon a journey for patterns of language use that would not be evident to design their lives, while simultaneously learning from analysis of one or even several individual texts. from others who are seeking to balance work, life, Distant Reading, and computational text analysis more family, education, creating change and the myriad of generally, is not intended to replace close reading, but other quotidian tasks. Two central questions frame to complement it. this course: We will use CTA to explore how power structures How have people seeking to change the world and systems-such as race, gender, and colonialism- and pursuing their passion sustained themselves manifest themselves in bodies of text. For example, personally and professionally? CTA has been used to investigate Islamophobia, How should human ecologists think about and analyze race in US novels, explore settler colonialism plan their future? in the Americas, and to investigate shifts in anti-Asian To enrich the process of designing their own lives, sentiments in the US brought on by the COVID crisis. students will also learn about the challenges and Students will who successfully complete this course rewards people encounter when dedicating their lives will: 1) gain a conceptual understanding of various to creating change. Resources include articles, guest CTA techniques, including word frequency analysis, lectures, case studies, interviews and other sources. topic modeling, and sentiment analysis; 2) learn how Highlighting the essential links that exist between to apply these techniques using pre-existing software professional and personal, ideas and implementation, and doing their own coding; 3) gain experience students will examine a range of careers and asking questions about power structures/systems- endeavors united by their desire to create change. race, gender, colonialism-and how those structures Through this process, students should reflect on manifest themselves in corpora of text; 4) learn how what it means to create change in the world and how these questions of power can be explored using to embark on that journey. algorithmic methods; and 5) gain experience critiquing Students will be evaluated based on their algorithmic methods through the lenses of race, performance, participation and the quality of the gender, and colonialism. assignments they produce over the course of the Classes will be a mixture of lecture, group exercises, term including: class participation and facilitation; discussion, and live coding. Readings will include reflection papers; and a final project. case studies and selections from literary theorists. Evaluation will be based on participation in discussion Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: 14. Lab fee: $40. Meets the following degree and in-class activities, several short coding/analysis requirements: None exercises, several short reflection assignments, and a group project on a topic of the students' choosing. Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: Either an HS 3112 Language, Power, and Computation: introductory coding class (in any language) or a Algorithmic Text Analysis college-level course that introduced critical and/ FELDMAN, DAVID; TANEJA, PALAK or literary theory. Students unsure about their Computational text analysis (CTA) is an emerging field background are encouraged to reach out to the that uses computation to analyze texts. CTA draws instructors. Class limit: 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the on the fields of computer science, machine learning, following degree requirements: HS, QR computational linguistics, and literary theory. Using machine learning and statistics, computers can be HS 3113 Then the Queen Died of Grief: used to explore how language is used in particular The Craft of Plot contexts, including how frequently different words are CASS, BLAKE used, the sentiment of a word/text, as well as nuances in the ways words are associated with one another. In Aspects of the Novel, E.M. Forster differentiated between "story" and "plot," defining a story as "a We will use CTA to engage in "Distant Reading", a term narrative of events arranged in their time sequence" coined by literary theorist Franco Moretti. Distant Reading stands in contrast to the more familiar "Close and plot as also a narrative of events but with "the emphasis falling on causality." The king died and COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 109 then the queen died. That's a story. The king died and to explore economic phenomena that cannot readily then the queen died of grief. That's a plot. Of course, be explained by Neoclassical Economics. We will start not everyone agrees. Grace Paley claimed, "Plot is with a fairly succinct and less-technical introduction nothing; the plot is simply a timeline." Edna O'Brien to the elements of Complexity outlined above, in offered a blunter assessment: "F*** the plot! That is part using Agent Based Modeling (ABM) to illustrate for precocious school boys." various phenomena; in this process, students will Many creative writing classrooms have embraced be introduced to NetLogo, a powerful software O'Brien's denigration of plot. When plot is dealt for ABM. (No prior background in programming is with, if it is dealt with at all, it is done as a means required.) We will then move to exploring Complexity to an end. And yet it is plot and hang-ups about it Economics, with an initial emphasis on evolutionary that often prevent developing fiction writers from processes within markets and economies. We will finishing promising stories. Inspiration only carries conclude with examinations of particular complex you so far. As Toni Morrison said, "Art appears economic and social phenomena, such as wealth natural and elegant only as a result of constant distribution, climate action, and scaling in firms, practice and awareness of its formal structures." urban areas, and sociopolitical units. And so this is what we will do-spend ten weeks This course is particularly relevant for students examining the structure of short stories that present interested in economics, business, climate change a range of strategies for plot. But we won't stop policy and action, social-ecological systems, and there. Students will write and workshop three of their environmental policy. Evaluation will be based on own short stories, intentionally experimenting with classroom engagement, four problem sets, and a plotted and "plotless" structures. Students will not final poster on a topic of the student's choosing. be evaluated on the quality of their short stories, as Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: One course in judging that is often quite arbitrary. We will employ college-level economics. Class limit: 15. Lab fee: None. a labor-based grading system that puts emphasis on Meets the following degree requirements: HS, QR your engagement with assignments and participation in group writing sessions designed to help students HS 3117 Energy, Environment, Protest create a sustainable writing practice. SCHROEDER, EMMA Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: Prior work in literature/creative writing or a discussion with the How have changes in energy mapped onto existing instructor about where they are in their writing. social, political, and economic structures? What are Class limit: 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the following people's reactions to changing energy regimes? degree requirements: None How have people resisted and protested the effects energy infrastructures have on their lives? This course will examine the social history of energy in HS 3114 Economics of Surprise: the United States and Canada from the early 1900s Complexity in Economic Systems through the present. Using case studies of energy TAYLOR, DAVIS regimes and energy transitions, it explores the Economies don't behave, and markets are full uneven effects of energy technologies on disparate of surprises: housing prices crash, stock market groups of people. Students will study the impact of bubbles pop, once-powerful firms wither while energy transitions on individuals and communities previously unknown start-ups surge, and economic through the lenses of race, class, gender, and production and unemployment yo-yo in the face coloniality. The course will focus on case studies of a global pandemic. These and many other including petrochemical landscapes, nuclear surprising phenomena occur because markets and imperialism, electrification, and energy consumption. economies are complex adaptive systems: they Students will also explore the ways individuals have involve a host of nonlinear relationships that make resisted and protested environmental injustices them unpredictable beyond the short-term. Such stemming from energy production. These include systems additionally exhibit long memories (history grassroots mobilizations for alternative energy matters), extract and process information from their technologies, consumer movements, and activism environment, and exhibit evolutionary processes. against mountaintop removal and highway Mainstream Neoclassical Economics is well-suited construction, to name just a few. for short term predictions and suggesting market This course is not a comprehensive social history of tendencies, but a different kind of economics is energy but introduces students to the ways social, necessary for a comprehensive understanding of cultural, political, and environmental contexts shape markets and economies. technological change over time. Students will engage This course uses concepts of Complexity, a tapestry in several essay assignments that synthesize course of interrelated ideas that includes nonlinear readings. We will also work on a class project that dynamics, emergence, fractals, scaling, cellular begins to map out the social history of energy in automata, networks, evolution, and related concepts, Maine. What questions do we have about Maine's 110 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 energy landscapes? Who are the main protagonists? studied as multifaceted humans. We'll not only close What energy transitions have shaped this state? read their novels but also supplement their work with Where would we find the archival evidence to write feminist theory and short videos. Eventually, we'll trace a social history of energy in Maine? Students will how these epics stay relevant with regard to the issues be evaluated on the basis of participation in class that plague modern Indian women. discussion, several writing assignments that focus Students will be evaluated based on class on synthesizing course materials and course themes, participation, oral presentation, final paper, and and a research project proposal which will include a multimodal project. This class will be good for an annotated bibliography. They may choose to work students who are interested in reading feminist with others for the research proposal. Students can literature and theory and understanding Indian choose to create a proposal for a creative project culture, past and present. (podcast, video, website, art piece, etc). Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. Class Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree limit: 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree requirements: HS requirements: None HS 3120 Audio Journalism: Reporting, HS 3118 Communicating Science Producing, Storytelling ROCK, JENNIFER BRESLOW, PETER This course is designed for science students This will be a "soup to nuts" course in audio developing their professional communication journalism geared towards the beginner. In this skills. It will improve the students' writing ability class we will detail: how to record and edit audio; by introducing them to writing for the scientific interviewing techniques; writing for broadcast; community and for the lay public. The course how to voice a script-all leading to the creation of involves understanding the protocols for writing a an NPR style piece. This is very much a journalism scientific paper based on lab or field data, including class. Through a series of ever more challenging learning to write an abstract and literature review. assignments-both individual and with a partner; Students will also learn and apply visual and oral in class and out-students will not only acquire the communication skills to construct and present a expertise to produce a compelling radio piece, but scientific poster. In addition to working with the come to understand the ethics of audio journalism. instructor and in-class peer reviews, students will The format for the course will be a hands-on work on the content of their writing and grammar with writing tutors. workshop with a heavy workload of reporting assignments that we will critique together in review Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: Permission of sessions. A significant amount of a student's time instructor. Class Limit: 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the outside of class will be dedicated to reporting following degree requirements: W stories, editing audio and writing scripts followed by individual edit sessions with the instructor. We will HS 3119 Epic Heroines: Feminist Retellings also be hearing from a number of noted journalists of Indian Mythology who will Zoom into the class on a broad range of TANEJA, PALAK topics. Students will be evaluated on their timely completion of assignments, overall improvement, This course will be an exploration of four heroines their constructive engagement with group critique from two Hindu epics, Mahabharata and Ramayana. sessions and Zoom guest speakers, and their follow- Central to the upbringing of more than half of the up on edit suggestions from the instructor. This class Indian population through comic books, TV shows, is open to all students interested in journalism and movies, and the like, these texts have set the standard audio production. There are no prerequisites, though for what an ideal Hindu woman should be, bolstering prior experience in journalism, narrative writing, or the patriarchal system in the name of religion and audio recording and production is helpful. culture. Much like Helen of Troy, "the face that launched a thousand ships," some of these women Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. Class have been the cause of wars of "epic proportions." limit: 10. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree The myth of their beauty has long been part of these requirements: None narratives, but do we hear them speak? What do we know about the power they yield? Epics have been HS 3121 Current Trends in AI: unable to provide us with concrete answers. Problems and Projects Therefore, we will turn to female authors like Chitra cox, GRAY Banerjee Divakaruni, Kavita Kané, Volga, and Vaishnavi This course explores the nature of current Patel, who have created spaces where these voices can developments in artificial intelligence and how they be heard and analyzed, where these women can be present challenges and opportunities in ways they COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 111 are transforming the world. We will adopt a broad supplementary lecture, visiting speaker, collaborative definition of AI that includes everything from simple coding activities and extended project work. The thermostats to the most advanced machine learning class as a group will develop at least one major systems and we will look at ways these are altering hackathon style project as a way of exploring key life processes in the natural world and institutions issues and developing key skills. Evaluation will be throughout society. based on the extent to which students demonstrate Course goals are: 1.) to advance understandings in homework, class participation and individual of different programming principles, research projects that they have advanced in each of the and development strategies and underlying four main goals for the course. This class will be philosophical assumptions guiding development especially well suited for students who want to in such technologies; 2.) to develop abilities to use continue computer assisted research, art work, interdisciplinary[, problem centered approaches to coding, or other projects they previously explored in understand the distinctions between complicated other classes. and wicked problems associated with rapid Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. Class technological change in this area and key approaches limit: 15. Lab fee: $35. Meets the following degree to dealing with them; 2.) to cultivate skills in working requirements: HS collaboratively on problem-centered studies as well as programming projects that deal with AI in areas HS 3122 Navigating Change: History, of student interest, 4.) to develop meta-cognitive Place, Stories abilities to learn these kinds of material in groups as well as on your own. BAKER, LAURIE; KOCH, GALEN; LITTLE-SIEBOLD, TODD; SMITH, HILLARY A major part of the course for each student will be a term project which can be pursued either This three-credit interdisciplinary course will individually or collaboratively. It may take a variety explore how coastal communities, especially around of forms including, for instance: 1.) a Futures Studies Frenchman Bay, have navigated and are navigating investigation using methods of historical and/or major changes in their communities, the Bay, and social science research culminating in a report on the ecology around them. This place-based course some emerging, Al-related social or environmental will use the Bay and surrounding towns to explore concern; 2.) a computer programming project how history, geography, audio storytelling, and that solves a practical problem, is conducive to data science can illuminate, document and nurture artistic expression, performs scientific analysis of community perspectives on their past, present and quantitative data, or demonstrates an established future. Students will undertake research projects or experimental feature of an ML or otherwise focused on communities and their stories of AI system; 3.) a philosophical and/or theoretical adaptation and community members' reflections on critical analysis of underlying concepts, values or the dramatic changes they have witnessed in the assumptions that are at stake in the emerging AI last decades both onshore and at sea. The class will technologies. provide opportunities to learn about and use skills from data analysis and visualization, oral history Readings will include some classic texts in AI theory, and audio story-telling as well as community-based philosophy, and futures studies as well as selections research rooted in both history and geography. from standard texts on AI programming. We will also use podcasts, films, and other media to pursue key This interdisciplinary approach will allow the class topics and trends. There will be a series of short to grapple with how projects can be used to help programming activities to study basic principles facilitate community conversations about how their and try modeling aspects of more complicated and/ inhabitants have used different strategies to adapt in the past and present in ways that could inform or complex systems. These will be done, at least their future. The course will involve field trips, initially, in block coding which will be accessible overnight stays, and community work throughout to students without any previous programming experience and which allows people to see how this the region, and the monster course format provides extended periods of time on the projects they translates into other languages such as C or Python. undertake. The course will include time on the We will examine the ways in which they can be coded water and in communities, and students should in Python and students familiar with that or other expect to spend substantial time on and off campus languages will be able to pursue homework and final for the class. Students will be evaluated on short project work in whatever language they may prefer. assignments, team projects, and overall level of We will also explore methods of prompt engineering effort on coursework. This course is appropriate for for working with emerging systems that have students from a wide range of backgrounds and both dialogical interfaces. academic and personal experiences, and there are no The course will include two weekly class sessions prerequisites. Given the immersive approach of the as well as a lab. Class sessions will vary in format class, students are encouraged to reach out to the from extended discussion of texts and problems to instructors prior to the class. 112 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. Class United States. Students are required to complete four limit: 10. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree problem sets in which they apply legal principles to a requirements: HS, HY, QR given fact scenario. Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: HS 4012 Contemporary Women's Novels Introduction to the Legal Process or Philosophy of the Constitution strongly recommended. Offered at least WALDRON, KAREN every other year. Class limit: 20. Lab fee $10. Meets This course selects from among the most interesting, the following degree requirements: HS diverse and well-written of contemporary women's fiction to focus on questions of women's writing (and how/whether it can be treated as a literary and formal HS 4053 Economics of Cooperation, category), gender identity and women's issues, and Networks, and Trust the tension between sameness and difference among TAYLOR, DAVIS women's experiences, and narrations of women's Economics is slowly expanding from equilibrium- experience, around the world. The course begins based, atomistic optimization, through dyadic by examining two relatively unknown yet rather strategic interaction, to the consideration of extraordinary novels from earlier in the twentieth networks and complexity. At the same time, it is century: Alexandra Kollantai's Love of Worker Bees beginning to incorporate more complex human (1927) and Sawako Ariyoshi's The Doctor's Wife (1967). motivations beyond simple optimization as means of After these, we read from truly contemporary authors explaining economic outcomes. This course captures and quite varied authors published within the last these trends by the study of the economics of twenty years, like Buchi Emecheta, Gloria Naylor, cooperation, networks, and trust. Ursula Hegi, Nawal El Saadawi, Sue Grafton, Graciela Limon, Tsitsi Dargarembga, Barara Yoshimoto, We will focus on four major ways of understanding Dorothy Allison, Rose Tremain, Julia Alvarez, Leslie cooperation: individual optimization, strategic Feinberg, April Sinclair, and Achy Obejas. Students optimization, institutions, and embedded social each choose an additional author to study and read relationships (networks), and we will apply a novel outside of class. An extensive list of authors is cooperation to the contexts of commonly held included in the syllabus. Evaluation be based on class resources (such as fisheries and climate), networks participation, either two short papers or one long paper and strategic alliances, and formal economic on works discussed in class, a presentation to the class organizations (cooperatives). of the outside novel, and a final evaluation essay. After an introduction to the relevant issues and an Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: A examination of the standard neoclassical approach previous literature course and signature of the of optimization (with cooperation as part of the instructor. Class limit: 15. Offered every other choice set), we will enrich our understanding of year. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree group cooperation through the examination of requirements: HS social capital, tacit knowledge, and common pool resources. We will then have a brief exposure to game theoretic approaches to conceptualizing HS 4026 Environmental Law and Policy strategic behavior, along with graph theory as a CLINE, KEN means of conceptualizing networks. With these This course provides an overview of environmental tools in hand, we will examine the role of networks law and the role of law in shaping environmental in economic contexts such as the networks of Emilia policy. We examine, as background, the nature Romagna, the Mondragón complex, and worker- and scope of environmental, energy, and resource owned businesses in the United States and Canada. problems and evaluate the various legal mechanisms This course will be of interest to students interested available to address those problems. The course in business and organizational management, natural attempts to have students critically analyze the role resource management, sociology, community of law in setting and implementing environmental development, globalization, social movements, policy. We explore traditional common law economic democracy, and a host of other topics. remedies, procedural statutes such as the National Evaluation will be based on participation in classroom Environmental Policy Act, intricate regulatory discussions, several major assignments, and schemes, and market-based strategies that have responses to reading questions. We will collaboratively been adopted to control pollution and protect natural decide on a final project; possibilities poster resources. Students are exposed to a wide range of presentations, a community presentation, or a jointly environmental law problems in order to appreciate produced research or policy paper. both the advantages and limitations of law in this Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: One course context. Special attention is given to policy debates in college or IB economics. Class limit: 15. Lab fee: $40. currently underway and the use of the legal process to Meets the following degree requirements: HS foster the development of a sustainable society in the COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 113 HS 4054 Philosophies of Love it meant to be human, the construction of whiteness, COX, GRAY and the history of slavery in the new world. The period covered by the class spans from the origins of race as This course investigates the intellectual history of an idea to the late nineteenth century. concepts of love that provide origins for notions of it central in our time. Is love the key to giving meaning The course will be a hybrid of a lecture course and to our individual lives? Is it a transformative power a readings seminar. Students will read major works that can empower and heal us and our societies? in the field and develop an understanding of the How are the many different concepts of it related? historical background of contemporary forms of To what extent are these concepts grounded in structural inequality justified and reinforced by biological, historical, philosophical or spiritual racialized thinking. Students will do a series of short truths-or mere reflections of collective myths, self assignments, lead discussion of books, and undertake delusions or manipulative deceptions? How can we a major research paper. The research projects as individuals most fully realize ourselves? How can will allow students to explore topics beyond the our society best promote flourishing lives and how chronological and spatial scope of the course. can this be brought about? The theme of love winds Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: None. like an Ariadnean thread through the labyrinth of Class limit: 12. Lab fee: $45. Meets the following the history of ideas about the nature of self, Other, degree requirements: HS, HY community, knowledge, reality and ethics. The class uses overview materials from intellectual historians HS 4069 Leaving Capitalism like de Rougemont, Singer and May. It picks away through central passages in that labyrinth by reading TAYLOR, DAVIS key selections from Plato, New Testament writers, Markets are the dominant form of economic Medieval poets, Nietzsche, de Beauvoir, Irigary, organization in the world today: particularly in the Gandhi, King, Levinas, Thich Nhat Hanh, Mortimer- Global North, the vast majority of people sell their Sandilands, pop culture and others. specialized labor to earn money, and use the money Class format relies on seminar discussion with to obtain, via markets, the goods and services they occasional short lectures. Goals of the course are need or desire. However, since the earliest days to advance students' abilities to critically analyze of capitalistic production, there were voices that texts in context in intellectual history, and to articulated deep-seated critiques of capitalism while advance understanding of nuanced ways key ideas finding value in non-commodified production and in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics and social- consumption. These voices are still with us today, change theories inform and are informed by concepts along with those who seek to act on such critiques including: eros, philia, agape, courtly love (fin amour), by meeting much of their material needs through love force/satyagraha, romantic love, ahimsa, and non-market means such as self-production, acts of compassion. Students will be responsible for leading reciprocity, and, and gift exchange. seminar sessions. There will be one problem set, two This course examines theories, concepts, and short papers and a term project presented in class experiences centered on this practice of "leaving as well as developed in a final paper of 15-20 pages. capitalism": seeking food, shelter, and clothing to the Includes a lab session for viewing films and television greatest degree possible through non-commodified and discussing student work. production and consumption, in places where Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: At least commodified production and consumption are the one prior course in intellectual history, philosophy, or dominant norms. We will examine counter-hegemonic comparable class in human studies. Class limit: 15. Lab activities, particularly homesteading, that seek fee: None. Meets the following degree requirements: HS to restore visible, non-exploitive relationships to production activities, thus challenging commodity fetishism and alienation (in Marxist terms) and narrow HS 4056 Histories of Race definitions of economic efficiency (in Neoclassical LITTLE-SIEBOLD, TODD terms). We will lean heavily on theories and case Race as a concept was constructed in the western studies of diverse/ community/ solidarity economies world in the early modern era as commentary on as articulated by JK Gibson-Graham, Ethan Miller, and and explanation of human differences. This class others; other topics will include capitalism (alienation will examine the origins of the idea of race and the and commodification), Buddhist/ Gandhian economics ways it is central to the creation of the modern world. (which emphasizes local economies, community self- Drawing on histories of Europe and the Americas this reliance), work (the nature of work, what constitutes class will look at the different ways racialized thinking good work), resistance/avoidance (James C. Scott), was deployed in colonial contexts. Central themes of and degrowth. By studying and integrating these ideas the course will be the history of race as an idea, the as they relate to production, consumption, and social nature and impact of the Atlantic slave trade, how relations, we will also seek to redefine contemporary indigenous peoples reshaped European ideas of what economics beyond its traditional emphasis on 114 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 commodity production, restoring "the social" to this can explore a topic of the student's choosing in social science. Evaluation will be based on problem consultation with the faculty. sets, participation and engagement in classroom This class is appropriate for students from a range discussions and field experiences, and a final poster of backgrounds. Previous coursework such as presentation. Indigenous America, Native American Law, Race Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: One and Racism in America, the Yucatán Program, or course in economics or social theory, and permission other relevant courses will be extremely helpful, and of instructor. Class limit: 15. Lab fee: $40. Meets the preference will be given to students who have some following degree requirements: HS previous academic background in historical research, indigenous studies, and ethnography. Students who HS 4079 Skills for Conflict Resolution have taken classes with a strong component of textual analysis of historical sources are also encouraged to and Advocacy on Human Rights take the class. Students will learn to work with both WESSLER, STEPHEN L primary and secondary sources (both written and The course provides students with skills and strategies visual). Students will be evaluated on their contribution for conflict resolution and advocacy on human rights to the group projects, participation in discussion, and social justice issues. Students will practice leading several small assignments, and their final project. focus groups, facilitating conflict resolution dialogues, Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: None. conducting workshops and developing workshop Class limit: 12. Lab fee: $60. Meets the following agendas and curricula. Students will also explore degree requirements: HS, HY strategies for effective advocacy by examining case studies from the instructor's work on human rights HS 4092 The Measure of Our Lives: Toni and social justice issues in Europe and the USA and from the work of other advocates. Advocates from Morrison Seminar Europe or the USA will present either in person or by WALDRON, KAREN Skype. Students may be able to observe active conflict This course will be an intermediate/advanced seminar resolution or advocacy projects in Maine during the honoring and exploring the works of Toni Morrison term. Students will be evaluated on their work during (1931-2019), an African-American author who won practice sessions on conflict resolution and on other the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, the Pulitzer skills relating to advocacy on human rights issues, their Prize for Fiction in 1988 and numerous other notable written analysis of case studies, their final project, and awards. She was a giant of a public intellectual and their participation in class discussion. contemporizing figure in American Literature; her Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: works continue to inspire and transform readers and Coursework addressing conflict resolution or scholars of all identities although her primary purpose social justice advocacy, or significant experience in was to write for black people. As Morrison herself working on social justice and human rights issues said, "If there is a book that you want to read, but it recommended. Class limit: 16. Lab fee: $25. Meets the hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write following degree requirement: HS it." In writing she changed the literary landscape of the US. In particular, her poetics illustrate how HS 4087 History Workshop: Wabanaki Studies African-American and especially African-American women authors express depths of meaning and LITTLE-SIEBOLD, TODD experience absolutely central to any understanding of This class will be an empirically-based research the complex culture and histories of the US. Another seminar on the history, politics, archaeology, and Morrison quote hints at the profundity of her own view culture of Maine's Wabanaki tribes that tackles a wide of her life's work: "We die. That may be the meaning range of issues. The class will consist of several group of life. But we do language. That may be the measure projects on topics such as cataloging indigenous of our lives." These two quotes provide a framework place names to the loss of cultural heritage sites due for the course, which seeks students interested in to coastal erosion. After completing several of these language and its power, literature and its insights, and projects, students will develop their own research the black female experience. project on Wabanaki history and culture that they Over the course of the term students will read will conceptualize, plan and carry out. The class through Morrison's oeuvre of novels (The Bluest will also cover the themes of colonialism, cultural Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved, Jazz, revitalization, tribal sovereignty, preservation of Paradise, Love, A Mercy, Home, God Help the Child) cultural resources, and much more. The course will as well as a number of her key essays and addresses be based on projects developed in consultation with (Playing in the Dark, The Source of Self-Regard), tribal cultural preservation specialists and tribal scholarly criticism, and responses to Morrison's historians from Maine's Wabanaki communities. Final 2019 passing. There may be some division of labor projects, so long as they have a historical component, with the later novels (after Paradise), but the course COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 115 is reading intensive. Students will also prepare HS 4102 Methods of Tutoring Writing frequent short written responses and a final project Across the Curriculum responding to Morrison in some way. Evaluation will CASS, BLAKE be based on class participation, response papers, passage analysis, and the final Morrison project to be The roles and responsibilities of a writing tutor are shared with the class. evershifting. As writing studies scholar Toni-Lee Capossela tells us, a tutor will at various times be "a Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: Prior reader, a respondent, a questioner, a critic, a listener, literary study, and permission of instructor. Class a friend, a colleague, a collaborator, or a guide." By Limit: 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree presenting a range of writing center theories and requirements: HS research, this course will give students theoretical knowledge and practical tutoring strategies that will HS 4097 Spanish Conversation I enable them to make informed choices when working PEÑA, KARLA with developing writers across different disciplines and conventions. Topics include negotiating the priorities This course develops intermediate and advanced of a tutoring session, differentiating between and skills in verb use, idiom, and vocabulary. It responding to the needs of global and small-scale emphasizes Spanish competencies most relevant revision, motivational scaffolding, and understanding to work in Latin American cultural settings. It also the often recursive nature of the writing process. focuses on developing language competencies Additionally, students will be exposed to active learning directly relevant to projects people are interested strategies and concepts such as cognitive load theory, pursuing in Spanish speaking environments. This the zone of proximal development, embodied cognition, course presupposes competence in the simple tenses and the affective domain. In the first part of the and a basic vocabulary. term, students will put their practical and theoretical Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: knowledge into use by conducting one-on-one tutoring Permission of instructor. Class limit: 10. Lab fee: $20. sessions with their classmates. During the second half Meets the following degree requirements: None of the term, students will collaborate with experienced tutors, and by week 8 they will begin to tutor on their HS 4101 Troubadours, Nuns, Concubines, own. Students will write two major essays-the first a and Witches before 1500 literacy narrative, the second an expository essay on a writing center topic of their choosing. TUROK, KATHARINE Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: Students This course traces variations in the social, legal, need to have a commitment to writing and a political, and economic status of women in Asia, demonstrated ability to write successfully for college Africa, and Europe from antiquity to about 1500. classes. They don't need to have previously taken a Students will examine letters, diaries, songs, artwork writing program-approved writing course, though. and artifacts, court documents, poems, essays, and Class limit: 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the following fiction primarily by and about women. Students degree requirements: W will also consider such questions as: Why and to what extent did women in some parts of the world- China, southern India, Japan, Catalonia-experience HS 4105 Readings in Political Ecologies relative freedom? What were women's attitudes STABINSKY, DOREEN toward sexuality, men, children, religion, love, work, This is an intermediate/advanced reading seminar magic, and education? How was gender negotiated, focused on contemporary, experimental, and with female identity in girlhood, adolescence, and speculative political ecologies. Readings will include adulthood established or modified, within various books, dissertation manuscripts, and scholarly sociocultural contexts? What were the achievements articles. The course is designed to allow students to and accomplishments of women during these early explore intersections between their own individual periods, whether they managed households and and collective intellectual interests and endeavors property; wandered the land as minstrels; practiced and political ecologies. The course will be a collective medicine; worked at court, in the religious life, in the intellectual endeavor conducted through conversation visual and performing arts, or as political leaders and written reflections, including through regular such as pharaohs, priests, and emperors. Students interaction on an online blog. Evaluation will be based will be evaluated on the basis of class participation, on participation in real-time and blog conversations, two short papers, and one substantial essay. including twice-weekly reflective blog postings; Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: None. leading several class discussions; and a final synthetic Class limit: 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the following essay on a topic of their choosing. degree requirements: HS Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: None. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree requirements: None 116 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 HS 4106 Spanish Writing Composition response papers and passage analyses, and carry out PEÑA, KARLA a sustained independent project to be presented to the group. The outside project will involve additional This course develops intermediate and advanced research into one of the major authors, to include skills in written Spanish. It emphasizes Spanish both the reading of another novel, biographical competencies most relevant to work in Latin American information, and critical analyses. Projects will give cultural settings. It also focuses on developing participants the opportunity to explore a particular language proficiency directly relevant to projects author, question, or form in depth. The reading load people are interested in pursuing in Spanish-speaking for this tutorial is very heavy. Evaluation will focus on environments. Work involves both reading and writing preparation, participation, insight, critical thinking, activities designed around individual goals of students and the outside project, which will be be presented and may include any genres. Evaluation is based on orally and developed in an analytic fashion to be progress in producing effective and eloquent texts determined by the class. as well as the progress in developing functional writing skills for working in Spanish. This course Level: Advanced. Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor. Class limit: 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the presupposes competence in the simple tenses and a basic vocabulary. following degree requirements: HS Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Class limit: 10. Lab fee: None. HS 5015 Hydro Politics in a Thirsty World Meets the following degree requirements: None CLINE, KEN This course will look at the complex issues HS 5010 Advanced Composition surrounding the development, distribution, use and KOZAK, ANNE control of fresh water around the world. Focusing primarily on developing countries, we will examine This course has two goals: 1) to aid the student in three aspects of water use and control. First we will developing and refining a style and 2) to make the look at the scope and impact of water development student cognizant of the interaction between style, projects; second we will examine the conflicts and content, and audience. To achieve these goals, solutions related to transboundary river basins; and students write several short papers or one or two third we will consider the implication of privatization longer ones, meet regularly with the instructor to go of water resources. By way of background, we will over these, edit and discuss the exercises in Style: Ten review the variety of demands placed on fresh Lessons in Clarity and Grace by Joseph Williams, and water and the political institutions related to water participate in review sessions. development. Students will gain a solid background Level: Advanced. Prerequisite: Signature of instructor. in international environmental law as it relates Class limit: 12. Offered every winter. Lab fee: None. to multilateral and bilateral treaties, customary Meets the following degree requirements: W law, multilateral institutions, and the guidance of international "soft law." They will also understand HS 5014 Austen, Brontë, Eliot the allocation and equity issues surrounding the privatization of water and the political dimensions of WALDRON, KAREN this shift. Ultimately, these issues will give a concrete This is an advanced course which explores in depth understanding of some aspects of the concept of the works of three major writers of the Victorian sustainable development. Evaluation will be based period: Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and George on class participation, short analytical papers, and a Eliot. The set-up of the syllabus, group meetings, substantial term-long assignment. and individual projects require that participants talk Level: Advanced. Prerequisite: Solid background in about connective factors between texts and the international politics, economics, human rights, or development of women writers' voices and narrative development policy through coursework or personal structures during this period. Emphasis will also be experience. Class limit: 20. Lab fee: $15. Meets the placed on the construction of the heroine, the use and following degree requirements: HS manipulation of the marriage plot, developments in linguistic and narrative practice, and developments in each author's work- from the juvenilia to the HS 5017 Advanced Spanish I later fiction. Historical perspectives, gender roles, PEÑA, KARLA and theoretical approaches will all be taken into This course is for students who are competent consideration as we analyze novels such as: Lady in the principal grammatical forms of Spanish. In Susan, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion (Austen); The this class, students increase their mastery and Professor, Villette, and Shirley (Brontë); and The automatic command of grammar and nuances Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch (Eliot). Rather of idiomatic usages, broaden their vocabulary in than prepare papers and exams, participants will general and deepen it in targeted areas, enrich their prepare and ask questions of each other, develop COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 117 understanding of multiple dimensions of Hispanic issues raised by the 1992 United Nations Conference culture, and increase their ability to read, write, on the Environment and Development and subsequent hear and speak in a variety of rhetorical forms environmental fora. Students will also consider the and genres. Student are evaluated based on class interface between international environmental law participation, homework and their ability to work and other important international forces such as the effectively with multiple kinds of texts, interviews, Bretton Woods institutions, human rights frameworks, conversations, formal interviews, oral presentations, and international development entities. Students writing exercises in different styles, and non-verbal will be evaluated on the quality of their classroom communication. Typically offered in fall or winter. comments and several analytical problem sets Level: Advanced. Prerequisite: Permission of given during the term. Students will also be asked instructor. Class limit: 10. Lab fee: $20. Meets the to complete a major research project examining the following degree requirements: None effectiveness of a treaty or a proposed international environmental legal arrangement. HS 5018 The Nature of Narrative Level: Advanced. Prerequisite: Environmental Law and Policy or Global Environmental Politics; signature of WALDRON, KAREN instructor; sophomore or higher college level. Class This is an advanced writing focused course in which limit: 10. Lab fee: $10. Meets the following degree students practice the human ecology of literary requirements: HS analysis. We explore the 'mind' or consciousness of fictional writing (specifically, novels) by looking at HS 5022 Hatchery how narratives make meaning, and at how we make meaning from narratives. The course surveys some FRIEDLANDER, JAY of the best modern fiction, with a particular focus on The Hatchery is applied human ecology in action; it works that highlight narrative technique, stretch the offers students a bridge from coursework to actively boundaries of the imagination, have a rich and deep creating their vision of the future. The Hatchery gives texture, and push against the inherent limitations students from across the campus the opportunity of textuality. Students also hone their reading and to move from ideas to action. Hatchery students analytic skills as they work closely with twentieth work either individually or in teams on a wide century texts that broke new literary ground. Some array of enterprises. Past projects have included: of the authors we may read include: Joseph Conrad, urban farming; international development; policy Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, Monique Wittig, and planning; photography and film; alternative John Dos Passos, Toni Morrison, N. Scott Momaday, transportation; biofuel production; renewable Bessie Head, Manuel Puig, and Margaret Atwood. We energy; food systems; the arts; furniture production; also study some narrative (and possibly film) theory. technology development; social enterprise. Ventures Evaluation is based on class participation, frequent have been for-profit and non-profit, encompassing the short response and passage analysis papers, and an range from local businesses to scalable start-ups. independent project. Students selected for the Hatchery are required to Level: Advanced. Prerequisite: Signature of Instructor. devote an entire term to launching their venture. Each Class limit: 15. Offered every other year. Lab fee: Hatchery enterprise, whether a team or an individual, None. Meets the following degree requirements: HS must take the course for a minimum of three credits. Along with weekly instructional meetings, students HS 5020 Advanced International receive office space, supplies, professional services, mentors and potential access to seed capital to Environmental Law Seminar develop their ventures. After the initial ten weeks of CLINE, KEN class, if students decide to continue their enterprises, This course is designed to provide an overview of they have access to the Hatchery space and resources the use of international law in solving transnational for an additional nine months. environmental problems and shaping international The Hatchery takes place in three phases: behavior. We examine, as background, the nature and Application: Students apply for a position in the limitations of international law as a force for change. Hatchery over winter term. The course will then explore customary law, the relationship between soft and hard law, enforcement Rapid Prototype: The ten weeks of the Hatchery of international law, implementation mechanisms, course. Students create a rapid prototype to and the effectiveness of multilateral environmental test their ventures in the marketplace. These agreements. Special attention is given to existing prototypes vary widely depending on the type of international environmental law frameworks ventures. addressing climate change, Arctic and Antarctic Creating an Enterprise Structure: During the development, ozone depletion, biological diversity, ten weeks of the course, students will have forest loss, export of toxic chemicals, and the host of weekly assignments that introduce key elements 118 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 in an organizational structure and highlight Class sessions will be organized as a weekly three hour operational considerations that are universal seminar and will be predominantly discussion driven. amongst enterprises. Students will be responsible for presenting certain Development: The following 9-months. Students works and will also lead some of our discussions. have access to the Hatchery space and resources Assignments will emphasize critical, reflective to continue developing their enterprises. and analytical writing. Evaluation will be based on participation in class discussion, short written response Grading is Credit/No Credit only. papers, several longer essays, individual presentations, Level: Advanced. Prerequisite: Permission of and a final "recovery" project. instructor. Class limit: 6. Lab fee: None. Meets the Level: Advanced. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: following degree requirements: None 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree requirements: HS, HY HS 5039 Equal Rights, Equal Voices: The Rhetoric of Woman Suffrage HS 5057 Active Optimism: Practices in MCKOWN, JAMIE Transforming Food Systems This seminar will provide an in-depth exploration of COLLUM, KOURTNEY public speech texts by a wide array of 19th century In Beginning to End Hunger, M. Jahi Chappell quotes woman suffrage activists in the United States. This the Brazilian sociologist Herbert Jose "Betinho" de includes works by those individuals most often Souza, who said "I'm not some stupid optimist. I'm an associated with the first wave of the movement active optimist." Chappell goes on to argue that active including: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, optimism-the notion that problems can be solved if we Sojourner Truth, Ernestine Rose, Lucy Stone, Anna act on them with critical knowledge-is precisely what Dickinson, Lucretia Coffin Mott, Adelle Hazlett, is needed to end hunger. This course will embrace the Victoria Woodhull, Anna Julia Cooper, and others. practice of active optimism by engaging students in There will be a heavy emphasis on the close reading of place-based efforts to address food systems issues primary source materials as students encounter these at COA. In this advanced course, students will form speakers "in their own words." project teams and work collaboratively to build on There are five main goals of this seminar. First, to on-going campus food systems initiatives. During week familiarize students with the works of prominent one of the course, students will select project teams suffrage and equal rights activists from the period. and work with the instructor to develop a reading list Second, to help illuminate how the ideas, choices, and schedule tailored to the groups' needs. Thereafter, narratives, and arguments reflected in these texts class time will be dedicated to discussing readings, have some relation to contemporary discourses of developing and peer-reviewing research plans and gender, power, and equality. Third, to offer students materials, presenting progress-reports, collecting the opportunity to conduct close textual readings of and analyzing data, and facilitating community input significant texts in the field of public address. This and outreach activities. Depending on their project, seminar is rooted in what might be described as students may focus more or less on data collection an experiential, grassroots approach to rhetorical and analysis, policy development, or program criticism, one that is unconstrained by the needs implementation. Students will be evaluated based on of overly deterministic reading strategies. We will their participation (including self-directedness and focus more on building a "theory of the case" from professionalism), the quality of the processes and the ground up and through the eyes of the seminar outputs of their projects, and their ability to work participants, rather than subjecting each case to the collaboratively with classmates and the campus- demands of a predetermined comprehensive model community (in particular, community-partners of rhetorical action. The fourth goal of the class is to including COA's dining managers, farm managers, Food offer students the first hand opportunity to conduct Systems Working Group, and the Cabinet). their own "recovery" projects with the aim of locating, Level: Advanced. Prerequisite: Two previous courses transcribing, documenting, and presenting to the class in food systems; permission of instructor. Class new variations of texts from the period that have been limit: 12. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree previously undocumented or left unaccounted for. requirements: HS In doing so, students will learn basic techniques for exploring the types of digitized historical collections that have emerged in only the past few years. The HS 5061 Wildlife Law Seminar final goal for the seminar is to prompt an even CLINE, KEN broader series of questions about the relationship In his seminal essay on the "Land Ethic," Aldo between text, society, and the "public." These are Leopold explores the incongruity between man's questions that would obviously be salient for students legal structures and the natural world around him. of all interests. This incongruity is particularly acute in the area of COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 119 wildlife conservation. Students will develop the ability readings will provide students with a snapshot to analyze and understand complex legal problems of trends in both history and ethnography while involving wildlife. In addition, this course examines the broader synthetic analyses of both corn and coffee legal, philosophical, scientific, economic, and political will embody more popular approaches to the topic. problems surrounding man's relationship with other Students will lead discussions of the readings, write species on this planet. The far-reaching goals and short synthetic essays, and undertake a research impacts of the Endangered Species Act are a central project for the class. Evaluation will be based on short focus of the course. Significant time is also dedicated writing, course participation and the final project. to legal issues concerning marine mammals, Native Level: Advanced. Prerequisite: Signature of the American's wildlife concerns, migratory birds, animal instructor and any of the following courses: Native rights, and agencies entrusted to manage wildlife. Empires to Nation States; Articulated Identities; The class will also cover the growing rights of nature American Worlds. Class Limit: 12. Lab fee: $50. Meets movement, the plight of Right Whales, and 30x30 the following degree requirements: HS, HY campaigns in some depth. Students will complete a term-long group project that applies the course content to a pressing wildlife issue. Evaluation is based HS 5063 Conspiracy Theories and Theories on class participation, problem sets, and contribution of Conspiracy to the group project. MCKOWN, JAMIE Level: Advanced. Prerequisite: Environmental Law The fear of the "hidden" enemy that lurks behind and Policy or permission of the instructor. Class the curtain, controlling events from the shadows, limit: 10. Lab fee: $20. Meets the following degree is a narrative topos that continually seems to raise requirements: HS its conspiratorial head in all kinds of spaces and venues: from politics to pop culture, movies, novels, HS 5062 Corn and Coffee music, political speeches, etc. Yet, there is also evidence to suggest that widespread acceptance LITTLE-SIEBOLD, TODD of these conspiracy "theories" has the potential to This course explores the rich history of capitalism cultivate and propagate inherently antidemocratic, through the lens of two of the most ubiquitous divisive, and dangerous beliefs. Those who posit the and valuable crops in the world: corn and coffee. existence of conspiracies, or at least certain ones, The crops provide insight into the global and local are often dismissed outright as irrational, without any dimensions of both historical and contemporary consideration made as to the substance of their claims. reality in the countries where they are grown with a Belief in conspiracies, or at least certain ones, is taken focus on Guatemala, Mexico, and the United States. as a sign of faulty logic or reason. Yet, despite this, Corn and coffee provide a convenient vantage point conspiratorial explanations of various phenomenon from which to examine the social, economic, and actually have a long and vibrant history of popular cultural dynamics of community-based production acceptance in US political culture (as well as in other of both crops on the one hand and their globally- parts of the world). Some have gone so far as to connected production as commodities. The course suggest that narratives of conspiracy, as alternative or moves from a broad macro perspective on each resistant explanatory frames, are actually a necessary crop to an intensive exploration of how both are component of democratic political life. After all we produced in Guatemala. In this way, class participants know that conspiracies, political and otherwise, will be able to look at how global historical trends have existed in the past, and may exist again in in consumption have played themselves out in local the future. How do we make sense of this tension? communities. The class will simultaneously be able to If conspiracy theory as a mode of explanation is look at the processes at work in pueblos throughout inherently "irrational," what does this mean for its Guatemala that root the corn economy into rich enduring presence in our political discourse? Is the cultural and social dynamics that are at the core of only difference between a "reasonable" claim rooted communal life. Using these two crops as a starting in fear and what we consider the paranoid ramblings point, the class will allow students to develop a of "kooks" and "nutjobs" simply a matter of which holistic and synthetic understanding of how global one is "correct?" Is there a silver bullet theory or food systems land in places. The course emphasizes magic wand that would allow us to differentiate the attention to the broad global dimensions of corn and supposed good from the bad? Is the very act of coffee's production as well as the fine-grained study labeling something a conspiracy theory itself a form of Guatemala's socio-cultural life in historical and of political hegemony? Even if conspiracies might anthropological perspective. exist, is it better to live in a world in which we assume Through discussions of the books, this seminar-style they don't? What do we actually mean by conspiracy course seeks to provide students with deep insights theory in the first place? into the history of a specific place while maintaining This seminar will explore a variety of topics related a sense of the global and regional context. Intensive directly to how threats of conspiracy become manifest 120 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 in public discourse. Readings will focus on secondary work, discussion, and debate. We will ground our research that examines the role of conspiracy theories work as a group in tangible solutions that address in political and social life, both in the United States existing problems in how elections are conducted in and abroad. We will also supplement this with primary the United States. While the emphasis of the class "artifacts" such as pamphlets, social media postings, will be on the US context, we will often draw on videos, speeches, etc. Along the way we will also use international case studies as comparative reference this as an opportunity to reflect on what inter and points to assist in evaluating possible policy trans disciplinary research actually looks like. The alternatives. While familiarity with the US political study of conspiracy narratives is an ideal example system is not a requirement for this class, students that helps us think about how different fields attempt should have completed some previous coursework to make sense of a phenomenon. We will survey, in areas related to law, policy, government, or compare, and attempt to synthesize research from a politics (domestic or international). Students will wide range of fields, disciplines and methodologies be evaluated based on their participation and including those from historians, anthropologists, engagement with class discussion, various short in- political scientists, legal scholars, literary critics, class presentations, short form individual response psychologists, and others. papers, and a longer form research and advocacy This is an advanced seminar and students should project due at the end of the term. expect to encounter readings that are rooted in Level: Advanced. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: disciplinary perspectives they are not familiar with. 8. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree Students will need to adapt to shifting perspectives requirements: HS in order to both the various texts in conversation with each other. Evaluation will be based on in-class HS 6012 Learning a Language on Your Own discussion as well as individual student writing assignments. Students will produce several short COX, GRAY length essay assignments during the term as well as a The goal of this course to help each student design longer research paper at the end of the term. Weekly and implement an effective learning program for the lab sessions will be used for screenings of primary study of a language of her choice at whatever level material and students may also be responsible for of learning she is currently at. A very wide variety at least one primary source presentation during of general strategies, resources and practical advice these sessions. This class is open to students of all for independent language learning are reviewed interests regardless of their experience with politics, in weekly class sessions along with progress and government, or social theory. reflection reports from each student that can help Level: Advanced. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: guide and motivate independent work. The core 16. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree common text for this work will be Betty Lou Leaver, requirements: HS Madeline Ehrman and Boris Shekhtman's Achieving Success in Second Language Acquisition. The primary focus of the class is on the development HS 5064 Voting and Elections: Case Studies and implementation of each student's individually MCKOWN, JAMIE designed plan for learning a language of their choice. This course will be an in depth exploration of Materials for this will be identified by each student as contemporary flashpoint issues involving the design, part of their work on their chosen language. Progress administration, and regulation of elections for in these plans are discussed in one on one weekly public office in the United States. We will take up a meetings with the teacher. Plans may include the series of case studies by examining their history, the use of software, peer tutors, Skype, videos, standard stakeholders involved, and the pros and cons of the texts, flash cards, specialized technical material, relevant alternative reform measures that have been music, visual art, field trips, and a wide variety of proposed. Topics covered in a given term will vary other materials as appropriate. Evaluation will be based on changing external factors such as the timing based on the clarity, coherence and effectiveness of elections as well as student interests. Students of the student's developed plan and the discipline enrolling in the class should expect to be contacted by with which they actually pursue it and revise it the instructor prior to the start of the term to discuss appropriately as the term progresses. Students will areas of interest. Likely areas that may be covered be asked to meet with the instructor prior to the include: campaign finance reform, gerrymandering, start of the term to discuss their motivation, aims, instant runoff voting, election technologies, voter possible resources and possible plans for language suppression, alternative governmental models, learning after the course is over. the electoral college, party primaries, campaign Level: Variable. Prerequisite: Permission of the communication regulation, government funding of instructor. Class limit: 10. Lab fee: $35. Meets the elections, nationalization of election standards, etc. following degree requirements: HS This advanced seminar will emphasize collaborative COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 121 HS 6013 Immersion Program in French Sea by Arthur Ransome as well as excerpts from The Language, Art, and Culture Greenlanders' Saga, Moby Dick, The Old Man and the Sea, The Voyage of the Beagle, and Two Years Before STABINSKY, DOREEN the Mast. Students will be evaluated on the basis of This course is offered through collaboration with class participation, a number of short "quizzes"-which CAVILAM as part of the COA program in Vichy, France. will include practical elements-and a term paper Students take 20 hours a week of language classes focusing on one aspect of working the sea. and workshops taught by immersion methods and Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: Permission of advanced audio-visual techniques. Students live instructor. Class limit: 10. Lab fee $100. Meets the with host families in homestays and take part in a variety of cultural activities. They are carefully tested following degree requirements: None and placed at levels appropriate to their ability and are expected to advance in all four language skills- MD 1030 Zoological Field Sketching reading, writing, speaking and listening-as gauged by GRAHAM, CARRIE the European Erasmus scale of competency. This multidisciplinary course will encourage students Level: Beginning to Advanced (depending on prior to develop a regular sketchbook practice using language level). Prerequisite: At least one previous animals as the focus of study. It is intended for any French course and permission of instructor. This course student who wishes to improve their sketching and is intended to complement a term of COA instruction in observational skills, gain an understanding of animal Vichy, France. Class limit: 12. Program fee: $1500. Meets anatomy, and learn about local animal life. Students the following degree requirements: None will draw from museum specimens, taxidermy mounts, and live animals using a variety of media and techniques suitable for field sketching. Class will take MULTIDISCIPLINARY place in the Dorr Museum and at field sites within Acadia National Park. We will also visit live animals at locations that may include the COA farms, Acadia MD 1022 Working the Sea Wildlife, Birdsacre, and the COA islands. The ability to ANDERSON, JOHN; STEPHENSON, TOBY make careful observations and record them through sketches is an invaluable tool for artists, scientists, For much of the past 5000 years the sea has played and other curious and creative people. Maintaining a a major role in a broad variety of human cultures, sketchbook can be both a professionally useful and histories, arts, and economies. Sea-faring peoples personally rewarding practice. have developed a rich lore and technology that allows them to both survive and even thrive in an often This course will meet for two three-hour sessions per hostile element. This course will mix practical, hands- week. The first session will include a lesson about on learning of aspects of seamanship with a survey of a particular animal taxon, followed by sketching fiction and non-fiction that address maritime themes. exercises using museum specimens and mounts as During the early part of the term we will concentrate references. In the second session, students will draw on aspects of small-boat handling, using the College's from live animals in the field. Students will also spend inflatables, rowing boats, and the larger research approximately nine hours per week outside of class on vessels, Osprey and Laughing Gull. Students will learn additional field sketching assignments, readings, and how to launch and land small-craft from docks and research. Evaluations will emphasize participation and beaches, basic rowing skills and use of an outboard student growth rather than artistic ability. Our focus motor. They will learn essential knots useful aboard will be on practice and learning to effectively record ship and on the dock, how to lay out a course using a observations, not on creating polished illustrations. chart and compass, use of GPS and depth sounders, Prior experience with drawing is not required. basic Rules of the Road, and elements of celestial Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class navigation. During some lab periods we will go on limit: 15. Lab fee: $50. Meets the following degree short voyages in the general area of Frenchman Bay. requirements: None As the term proceeds and weather worsens, we will turn to an increasingly greater literary component, MD 1031 Seeing Ecology through Arts Practice reading accounts of famous voyages and local ROCK, JENNIFER fishermen, discoveries, battles, legends and poetry. Possible texts include, but are not limited to: Working This course experiments hands-on in understanding the Sea by Wendell Seavey, Master and Commander ecology through integrated art-science practice. We use by Patrick O' Brian, Maiden Voyage by Tania Aebi, a transdisciplinary approach (in questioning, observing, The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger, In the Heart documenting, interpreting and hypothesising) to of The Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick, Longitude by Dava develop a reflective practice for considering ecological Sobel, Slave Ship: A Human History by Marcus Rediker, interactions and biological processes. From visualising Kon Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl, We Didn't Mean to Go To relationships and 'drawing to know', to multi-sensory 122 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 pattern recognition, we explore how arts practice can Evaluation will be based on completion of assigned help inform scientific inquiry. entries, individual growth, and overall commitment to The first seven weeks of the course involve readings all aspects of this immersion experience. (from historic, such as Goethe, to contemporary, like This course is part of a three-credit expeditionary Gemma Anderson), lectures, class discussion and program in neotropical field ecology. Students must practical exercises in a diverse set of creative methods enroll in all three courses. for inquiry. These exercises include time outside each Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: Co-enrollment in week producing work for a field book (a combined ES3099 Introduction to Tropical Field Ecology and sketchbook, observation notebook and reflective ES3100 Tropical Entomology, and permission of practice journal etc). Later in the course each student instructor. Class limit: 12. Lab fee: $1600 (for all then focuses more intensively on 1-2 methods of inquiry three courses). Meets the following degree in a final study of their own devising. requirements: None Evaluation will be based on successful completion of 3 course components: (1) reflective interaction and MD 1033 Organic Poultry Practicum discussion of assigned readings; (2) weekly exercises and work in a field notebook; and (3) a final study that NUGENT, APRIL develops a particular vein of creative questioning This course will introduce students to the basics of and observation about ecological interaction. These organic poultry management. The course will focus can involve diverse methods (from painting to print, on raising poultry for meat production with some video, animation, and sound recordings, to sculpture, attention to egg production. All classes will be taught dance and other mixed-media but the final work at Peggy Rockefeller Farm (PRF) or other local farms. will be encapsulated in a format for sharing with an Students will have the chance to work with chickens external audience. and turkeys at PRF. The course will meet once a week Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None; no science or for three hours. In each class we will discuss an article arts experience or skills required. Class limit: 12. Lab fee: about poultry husbandry and work hands-on with the $35 (goes toward a starter kit of required art materials). flocks. Students will learn about the anatomy and Meets the following degree requirements: None physiology of poultry and the distinct features of raising meat versus egg breeds. We will cover poultry nutritional needs, common diseases that affect flocks MD 1032 The Art and Practice of the (e.g. bird flu), and learn how to keep flock records and Natural History Field Journal budgets. GRAHAM, CARRIE; RESSEL, STEPHEN Week one of the course, students will begin caring When you keep a natural history field journal, you join for newly hatched chicks. Throughout the term a long and proud tradition, shared through time with students will learn how to care for their flock of birds naturalists, explorers, and artists. Careful observation by participating in daily poultry chores (feeding and of nature, followed by careful writing and illustration, watering), rotational grazing, and monitoring for is a time-tested technique for "capturing" some of disease. For the final project students will participate the wonders of the planet's life. While many of us in the slaughter and packaging of the meat birds and have become dependent on technology to record determine how they want to market and distribute notes and photographs, the practice of keeping a them. Options could include hosting a pop-up market, physical journal confers many advantages. Making a donating them to a local food access organization, sketch requires you to look closely at your subject in helping prepare them for COA's dining hall, or a way that taking a photograph does not. A carefully something else. Students will be evaluated based created field notebook is a permanent record that will on class participation (participation in discussions, outlive technical obsolescence and even the life of its activities, and field trips; feeding and caring for the creator. Today, the field notebooks of figures such as flock), a reflection paper, and the final project. Henry Walter Bates, Alexander von Humboldt, and Level: Introductory. Prerequisite: None. Class Maria Sibylla Merian continue to provide useful data limit: 8. Lab fee: $40. Meets the following degree and artistic inspiration centuries after the death of requirements: None their creators. Students will develop a regular natural history field journal practice by creating a journal as a record MD 2011 Fisheries, Fishermen, and Fishing of their journey through Costa Rica. Along the way, Communities they will document their observations through PETERSEN, CHRISTOPHER structured and unstructured entries using a variety of Downeast Maine, from the Penobscot River east writing and drawing techniques. Assignments will be to the Canadian border, includes Hancock and based on content from Introduction to Tropical Field Washington Counties, a region of extremes between Ecology and Tropical Entomology. The journals will be high levels of tourism, like Mount Desert Island, exhibited in an end of term show at the Dorr Museum. COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 123 and many coastal towns that are heavily reliant on scholarship about climate change? What are their fisheries for their economic existence. This long central questions and key terms? We will consider history of cultural and economic dependence on how understandings of geological time and the stories fisheries makes the region particularly vulnerable to rocks tell, might inform thinking in the humanities fisheries decline, such as the collapse of the sardine about climate change. In turn, we will consider how and cod fisheries. Recent trends in the lobster, clam, humanist questions about the definition of the human scallop, and elver fisheries, as well as aquaculture, might inform the ways in which science interfaces with show various levels of instability and risk. At the same politics and policy regarding climate change. time, numerous initiatives in the region focus on This course is co-taught by a geologist and an revitalizing and stabilizing fisheries, while enhancing anthropologist, and will be an exercise in translation community resilience. between very different fields. Class material will This class uses a variety of inter-disciplinary include laboratory activities, seminar discussions, approaches to examine the relationships among and close readings of texts in postcolonial studies, marine resources, fisheries policy, harvesters, and geology, anthropology, and literature. Students will communities. We are interested in examining the be assessed based on class participation, reading relationships within this linked social-ecological responses, laboratory activities, and a final project. system, and use historical data, current documents, Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: None, but preference interviews and oral histories to examine the will be given to those who have had prior course work human-ecological relationships among residents, in either anthropology or geology. Permission of policy, and resources. We also will examine new instructor required. Class limit: 16. Lab fee: $10. Meets economic initiatives in these communities, including the following degree requirements: None ecotourism, aquaculture, and renewable energy. We have several individuals coming to campus to discuss issues with the class, and we will take several MD 3013 Sheep to Shawl field trips (including an overnight to the Cobscook LETCHER, SUSAN Bay area) to Downeast communities. Evaluation will Sheep play profoundly important roles in human be based on several assignments during the term, societies. This course is a human ecological exploration including an oral history, sets of essay questions, and of sheep and wool, combined with a hands-on research on a fishery. Students will also work on a component in which we will work with sheep and learn small-group project examining a research question fiber arts. This class will meet for one studio session using multiple methodologies, with a presentation and two lecture/discussion sections per week, plus at and paper due at the end of the term. Active least one Saturday field trip. In the studio sessions, we engagement during class, with guest speakers, and will study sheep husbandry through visits to Peggy on field trips will be expected. Rockefeller Farm, and learn a variety of techniques Level: Introductory/Intermediate. Prerequisite: A for working with wool, from the preparation (shearing, class in anthropology, marine biology, fisheries, or washing, and carding) to spinning and working with environmental policy, and permission of instructor. yarn (including knitting, crochet, and weaving). The Class limit: 15. Lab fee: $100. Meets the following lecture/discussion sessions will cover topics such as degree requirements: None the ecological impacts of sheep in different parts of the world, the physics of spinning and the chemistry of MD 3012 The Anthropocene dyes, and the symbolism of sheep in the mythology of different cultures. The course will draw on a wide range HALL, SARAH; VAN VLIET, NETTA of material and intellectual approaches, with sheep and This course considers the definition of the human in wool as the unifying theme. Students will be evaluated terms of the politics of climate change and discussions based on participation, short written assignments, and about the notion of the Anthropocene, by staging an a final oral presentation. encounter between the discipline of geology and work No prior knowledge of fiber craft is necessary, but in the humanities. Suggestions by scientists over the students who come in knowing one of the basic last few decades that human activity on the planet techniques may be able to explore advanced techniques has attained geological force led Nobel Laureate like lacework or design in three dimensions. Students Paul Crutzen to argue in 2000 that the current should meet with the instructor before spring break epoch should be called the "Anthropocene." Others to discuss goals and equipment needs for the studio challenge this suggestion, pointing out that humans sessions. Some basic supplies will be provided, but have long left traces on the earth. Discussions about students should plan to purchase additional equipment the Anthropocene are tied to the challenge of how such as knitting needles depending on the projects that to respond to the effects of human-induced climate they choose. change, including the threat of human extinction. Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: Permission of This course will address questions such as: How do instructor. Class limit: 10. Lab fee: $100. Meets the scientists and humanists engage with policy and following degree requirements: None 124 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 MD 3016 Origins: History, Genetics, and explore the tragic modern history of Hiroshima, as Memory well as the 1500-year-old Miyajima shrine, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Once on Osakikamijima, we LITTLE-SIEBOLD, TODD; HESS, HELEN place local knowledge and experiences at the center Families are a touchstone of many people's identity, of the course with students immersing themselves in and stories about where we come from and who came activities to spark their curiosity in Japanese island before us are often key ways of orienting ourselves and life and the natural environment. understanding who we are. Storytelling, documentary Students will engage with Japanese culture and and photographic collections, and other methods of language by interacting with island residents. To preserving memories serve as the very concrete ways support their connection to community members, that many of us come to learn about our immediate students will study beginner-level Japanese family and our ancestors. New techniques of genetic throughout their time on Osakikamijima. These ties testing provide a method that can contribute to that will be reinforced with local travel and explorations understanding and in some cases fill in blanks left as well as community members participating as about ancestors and provide a new source of stories workshop instructors and classroom guest speakers. in addition to those passed along from generation to To build familiarity with the island and the intersection generation. Recreational DNA testing can also provoke of the natural and human worlds, students will discussion about how to make sense of the genetic conduct terrestrial and aquatic microplastics stories revealed and how they mesh with or challenge research. Further interaction between students people's sense of themselves. and the community will be promoted with weeklong This class will explore the traditional methods of "micro-internships" at a variety of food systems collecting family histories (oral history, genealogical and other enterprises working in harmony with research) and recreational genetic testing as the natural environment. At the conclusion of the a point of entry into complex issues around program, students will give short presentations to history, memory, ethics, race and the role of new the community showing what has made the strongest technologies. Students will learn the basic skills of impression on them during their time here, and doing genealogical research as well as develop an how it could be used to draw in the people to help understanding of the strengths and limitations of Osakikamijima survive. human genetic testing, which can reveal our shared Students will be evaluated based on their history as well as our differences. Evaluation will be performance, participation and the quality of the based on class participation, short assignments, and assignments they produce over the course of the term a final project. The expectations surrounding the including: class participation; a video montage; verbal final project explain why this course is designated as presentations; reflection papers; and a final project intermediate even though there are no specific pre- presentation to the community. requisites. Students will be expected to conceptualize, plan and carry out their own projects, and they will be Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. Class limit: evaluated on their ability to self-direct, seek feedback 10. Lab fee: $1200. Meets the following degree and complete those projects. This class is appropriate requirements: None for a wide range of students with diverse interests concerning identity and history. MD 4013 Demons from the Depths Level: Intermediate. Prerequisite: None. Class CLINGER, CATHERINE; HALL, SARAH limit: 15. Lab fee: None. Meets the following degree Across a range of epochs, cultures, and territories, requirements: None human beings have proffered myths, stories, and scientific theories in order to explain catastrophic MD 3017 Human Ecology Lab in natural events. From kata=down, strephein=turn, Ösakikamijima the Greek katastrephein meant "under-turning" in the ancient world. This course explores postulations BARROWS, ABBY; FRIEDLANDER, JAY; regarding large- and small-scale calamitous events NAGAO, HIROMI that seem to originate from below the surface of This course will be an interdisciplinary exploration Earth. Our enquiry engages with legendary tales, of the relationship between the place and people historical records, material culture and scientific of Osakikamijima island in Hiroshima prefecture, discourses that document attempts to explain the Japan. With a rich maritime heritage, local farms, meaning and/or mechanism of such memorable traditional culture, and tight knit community this episodes. What causes a mountain to eject ash and Japanese island has many parallels with Mount Desert toxic gases? What infernal force creates lava flow? Island. In addition, Osakikamijima's aging population, Why does the earth shake? Why do some natural depopulation, and isolation, also mimics the waters cause harm? How do we understand that which opportunities and challenges faced by much of Japan. we cannot see? Through case-studies informed by the The class begins in Hiroshima, where students will literature of science, the arts and humanities, we will COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 125 plumb the depths and limits of the human imagination. and experience to reduce building energy use and This class uses both a lecture-based and seminar-style greenhouse gas emissions in a holistic, whole-building discussion approach as well as time spent visiting local approach. Evaluation will be based on completion of lab and field sites. Students will be evaluated based on assignments, participation in class discussions, and their weekly activities and writing assignments, and a mastery of field skills. final project with both oral and written presentation Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: Physics components. and Mathematics of Sustainable Energy. Class Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Prerequisite: Limit: 12. Lab fee: $50. Meets the following degree Permission of instructor and at least one previous requirements: None class in either art history or literature is required; an additional class in, or knowledge of, geoscience is MD 5012 Politics, Body, Representation strongly suggested. Class limit: 12. Meets the following degree requirements: HY. Lab fee: None. Meets the BAKER, JODI; VAN VLIET, NETTA following degree requirements: None Drawing on performance studies, movement training, postcolonial studies and feminist theory, this class MD 4014 Building Science and Energy Auditing will investigate understandings of what is made to count as "political" in relation to claims about GIBSON, DAVID representation and the body. Over the course of Buildings account for nearly 40% of global carbon the term, we will investigate and produce a range of emissions. Sixty percent of Maine homes are heated conditions through which we consider ideas about with heating oil, the highest percentage of any state, responsibility, decision, the unknown and unexpected, and Mainers spend more than a billion dollars on repetition and difference, translation and dialogue, and heating oil each year. Improving the efficiency of our relations of individual to group. We will do so through homes and buildings is essential for transitioning away learning about the ways in which bodies matter in the from fossil fuels and reducing carbon emissions. fields of theatre, anthropology and literature. Both In this course, students will learn how to safely anthropology and theatre are often presumed to be transition buildings away from fossil fuels. This vehicles for representation and for political change, includes understanding the science of energy but they have also posed questions about how the and moisture movement through a building, how body challenges assumptions about representation to monitor carbon monoxide and other harmful and politics. This course will grapple with assumptions combustion gases, and methods to reduce energy that politics is primarily about representation, speaking loss, while maintaining comfortable levels of humidity in "one's own name," or in the name of others. We will and fresh air. Students will gain proficiency measuring take questions about representation and its limits as a air leakage with a blower door, using an infrared point of departure to consider the significance of the camera to assess insulation levels, calculating heat body (and bodies) for understandings of politics. We loss, and identifying solutions and best practices to will focus on questions of affect, the sensory, proximity, develop a plan of action for homeowners. temporality, scale and place. In so doing, we will consider the idea of politics as based on a relation and They will also learn about high efficiency mechanical response to an other, rather than on representation. In systems like air source heat pumps, heat pump water turn, we will address questions about the relationship heaters, and how to assess lighting and appliance between art and politics. electrical usage. Students will learn how to carry out cost calculations for energy savings and research and Classes will include movement training practices and share information on rebates and incentives available seminar discussion. Course materials may include for homeowners. This will be a very hands-on course, works by Hannah Arendt, Anne Bogart, Charlie with weekly labs to teach energy auditing field skills. Chaplin, Charles Darwin, Jacques Derrida, Sarah This course will include presentations from local DeLappe, Cornelius Eady, Shoshana Felman, Sigmund energy contractors, and students will participate Freud, Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins, Valeria Luiselli, Jean- in energy audits of residential buildings on or off Luc Nancy, William Shakespeare, Sophocles, Tadashi campus. Through these experiences, students will Suzuki, and Anna Tsing. Students will be evaluated meet and interact with home performance businesses based on class participation, collaborative group and non-profit organizations in the local community. projects, seminar discussion, short topic responses, As time and weather conditions permit, students will and a final project. gain experience implementing efficiency solutions Level: Advanced. Prerequisite: Permission of such as insulation and air sealing. instructor; priority will be given to students who Students who successfully complete this course have successfully completed advanced coursework will be able to conduct energy audits for homes, in literature, anthropology, or performance studies. identify cost-effective improvements, and prioritize Class limit: 12. Lab fee: $50. Meets the following energy improvements to maximize energy savings. degree requirements: None This course will provide students with the tools 126 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 INDEX BY COURSE TITLE Course number indicates level as follows: 1000 Introductory; 2000 Introductory/Intermediate; 3000 Intermediate; 4000 Intermediate/Advanced; 5000 Advanced; 6000 Independent work (Internships, Residencies, Independent Studies); 8000 Graduate. NUMBER TITLE FACULTY PAGE AD 2012 3D Studio: Introduction to Three-Dimensional Art and Design COLBERT, DRU 42 HS 3099 A History of God: Mysticism, Metaphysics, Politics, and Nature cox, GRAY 107 HS 1032 Acadia: Exploring the National Park Idea CLINE, KEN 78 HS 5057 Active Optimism: Practices in Transforming Food Systems COLLUM, KOURTNEY 119 HS 1103 Addiction and the Brain: An Introduction to Neuropsychology TARDIF, TWILA 87 HS 5010 Advanced Composition KOZAK, ANNE 117 HS 5020 Advanced International Environmental Law Seminar CLINE, KEN 118 HS 5017 Advanced Spanish I PEÑA, KARLA 117 AD 5032 Advanced Studio Printmaking CLINGER, CATHERINE 54 AD 4041 Advanced World Percussion BENNETT, MICHAEL 53 HS 3015 African American Literature WALDRON, KAREN 100 AD 3020 American Dreaming: Theatre and Activism in the US BAKER, JODI 47 HS 1101 American Exceptionalism: Land of Liberty, Built on Slavery BLAINE, JAMES 86 ES 4063 Analytical Chemistry HUDSON, REUBEN 76 ES 4040 Animal Behavior ANDERSON, JOHN 74 HS 1075 Animals and Ethics LAKEY, HEATHER 81 AD 3013 Animation ANDREWS, NANCY 46 AD 5017 Animation II ANDREWS, NANCY 53 ES 2020 Art and Science of Fermented Foods MORSE, SUZANNE 66 AD 1041 Art Since 1900: Harmony and Conflict CLINGER, CATHERINE 38 HS 3120 Audio Journalism: Reporting, Producing, Storytelling BRESLOW, PETER 111 AD 1044 Audio Production and Engineering SOARES, ZACHARY 39 HS 5014 Austen, Brontë, Eliot WALDRON, KAREN 87 HS 3073 Bees and Society COLLUM, KOURTNEY 105 AD 1056 Beginning Contemporary Dance Technique ROBBINS, DANI 39 HS 1019 Beginning Spanish I PEÑA, KARLA 77 HS 1073 Beginning Spanish I with Vocabulary PEÑA, KARLA 81 HS 1020 Beginning Spanish Il PEÑA, KARLA 77 HS 1106 Bilingualism and Bilingual Education TARDIF, TWILA 87 ES 4049 Biochemistry HUDSON, REUBEN 75 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 127 ES 1052 Biology: Cellular Processes of Life STAFF 62 ES 1054 Biology: Form and Function STAFF 62 ES 4010 Biomechanics HESS, HELEN 72 ES 4048 Biostatistics LETCHER, SUSAN 74 AD 3077 Black Atlantic Music HENDERSON, JONATHAN 47 HS 1097 Buddhist Philosophies LAKEY, HEATHER 85 MD 4014 Building Science and Energy Auditing GIBSON, DAVID 126 HS 1025 Business and Non-Profit Basics FRIEDLANDER, JAY 78 ES 1024 Calculus I FELDMAN, DAVID 61 ES 3012 Calculus Il FELDMAN, DAVID 67 ES 3028 Calculus III: Multivariable Calculus FELDMAN, DAVID 67 ED 1013 Changing Schools, Changing Society TAI, BONNIE 55 ES 3101 Chemical Origins of Life ALTAIR FERREIRA, THIAGO 72 ES 1072 Chemistry and Biology of Food and Drink HUDSON, REUBEN 63 ES 1066 Chemistry I HUDSON, REUBEN 63 ES 1030 Chemistry II HUDSON, REUBEN 61 ED 1014 Child Development ALEX, JOANNE 56 ED 1011 Children's Literature SWEENEY, MERYL 55 HS 2017 City/Country: Literary Landscapes 1860-1920 WALDRON, KAREN 89 ES 1082 Climate and Seasons: Maple Production HUDSON, REUBEN 64 ES 3044 Climate and Weather HALL, SARAH 68 HS 1054 Climate Justice STABINSKY, DOREEN 79 HS 2110 College Seminar: Barbed Wires, Drawn Lines TANEJA, PALAK 97 HS 1108 College Seminar: Current Topics in Media Studies CAPERS, COLIN 88 HS 3085 College Seminar: Nutritional Anthropology COLLUM, KOURTNEY 106 HS 1064 College Seminar: Practical Skills in Community Development BEARD, RONALD 80 HS 3079 College Seminar: The Anthropology of Food COLLUM, KOURTNEY 106 HS 2115 College Seminar: The World of Ms. Marvel TANEJA, PALAK 98 HS 1076 College Seminar: Truth cox, GRAY 81 HS 1084 College Seminar: Utopia/Dystopia LAKEY, HEATHER 82 HS 1100 College Seminar: Writing the Environment CAPEN, JOHN 85 HS 3118 Communicating Science ROCK, JENNIFER 111 HS 5063 Conspiracy Theories and Theories of Conspiracy MCKOWN, JAMIE 120 HS 2056 Constitutional Law: Civil Rights and Liberties SEDDIG, ROBERT 91 AD 2013 Constructing Visual Narrative COLBERT, DRU 42 128 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 AD 2029 Contemporary Artist as Researcher and Activist CLINGER, CATHERINE 44 AD 1065 Contemporary Dance Composition ROBBINS, DANI 40 HS 4012 Contemporary Women's Novels WALDRON, KAREN 113 HS 5062 Corn and Coffee LITTLE-SIEBOLD, TODD 120 AD 3081 Craft Ecologies: Mount Desert Island DOWNING, E. SAFFRONIA 48 ES 4026 Cross Kingdom Interactions MORSE, SUZANNE 73 ED 3107 Culturally Sustaining and Revitalizing Education TAI, BONNIE 58 AD 2014 Curiosity and Wonder: Design and Interpretation in the Museum COLBERT, DRU 43 HS 3121 Current Trends in AI: Problems and Projects COX, GRAY 111 ED 5010 Curriculum Design and Assessment TAI, BONNIE 59 ES 1085 Data Science I: Visualization BAKER, LAURIE 64 ES 3098 Data Science II: Programming for Data Analysis BAKER, LAURIE 71 MD 4013 Demons from the Depths ANDERSON, JOHN 125 HS 3111 Designing Your Life FRIEDLANDER, JAY 109 ED 2010 Disability Rights in Education RABASCA, ADAM 56 AD 1058 Dissecting Popular Music HENDERSON, JONATHAN 39 AD 3012 Documentary Video Studio ANDREWS, NANCY 46 AD 2039 Dramatic Mechanics BAKER, JODI 45 AD 2017 Drawing Mineral and Botanical Matter in the Forest of Maine CLINGER, CATHERINE 43 ES 3094 Dynamic Landscapes HALL, SARAH 70 AD 2042 Ecologies of Cities MULLER, BROOK 45 ES 3014 Ecology ANDERSON, JOHN 67 ES 2010 Ecology: Natural History SWANN, SCOTT 65 HS 4053 Economics of Cooperation, Networks, and Trust TAYLOR, DAVIS 113 HS 3114 Economics of Surprise: Complexity in Economic Systems TAYLOR, DAVIS 110 ES 4053 Ecosystem Ecology: Biogeochemistry LETCHER, SUSAN 75 AD 4039 EF!: A New Musical Workshop OBLONGATA, DONNA 52 ES 5046 Electrochemistry HUDSON, REUBEN 76 HS 3117 Energy, Environment, Protest SCHROEDER, EMMA 110 HS 1011 Environmental History LITTLE-SIEBOLD, TODD 77 HS 4026 Environmental Law and Policy CLINE, KEN 113 HS 3119 Epic Heroines: Feminist Retellings of Indian Mythology TANEJA, PALAK 111 HS 1102 Equal Rights, Equal Voices: Articulating Suffrage MCKOWN, JAMIE 86 HS 5039 Equal Rights, Equal Voices: The Rhetoric of Woman Suffrage MCKOWN, JAMIE 119 HS 1052 Ethnographic Methods VAN VLIET, NETTA 79 COLLEGE OF THE ANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 129 HS 1077 Ethnographic Writing VAN VLIET, NETTA 81 HS 2084 European Political Institutions STABINSKY, DOREEN 94 ED 1010 Experiential Education TAI, BONNIE 55 HS 2057 Fail Better: Writing Short Fiction MAHONEY, DANIEL 91 HS 3083 Feminist Theory in a Transnational Frame Il VAN VLIET, NETTA 106 AD 1036 Figure Drawing HILBERT, FRANCE 37 MD 2011 Fisheries, Fishermen, and Fishing Communities PETERSEN, CHRISTOPHER 123 HS 3109 Food and War Part I COLLUM, KOURTNEY 108 HS 2091 Forms of Poetry MAHONEY, DANIEL 95 AD 1019 Four-Dimensional Studio ANDREWS, NANCY 37 AD 1071 Fundamentals of Painting SEBASTIAN, NEERAJ 41 AD 4037 Futurity: A Production Monster Course BAKER, JODI; HENDERSON, JONATHAN 52 HS 2117 Gandhian Economics and Green Entrepreneurship ORUGANTI, RAMASUBRAMANIAN 99 ES 1014 Gardens and Greenhouses:Theory/Practice of Organic Gardening MORSE, SUZANNE 60 HS 2038 Gender, Politics, and Nature in Folk/Fairy Tales of the World TUROK, KATHARINE 90 ES 3032 Genetics HESS, HELEN 68 HS 3069 Genocide, Resistance, Response, and Reconciliation WESSLER, STEPHEN L 105 HS 1109 Genre Explorations KHOR, SU YIN 88 HS 2020 Geographic Information Systems I: Foundations and Applications LONGSWORTH, GORDON 89 ES 1038 Geology of Mount Desert Island HALL, SARAH; BRADDOCK, SCOTT 62 ES 1075 Geology of National Parks HALL, SARAH 63 HS 2119 Global Politics of Climate Change STABINSKY, DOREEN 100 AD 2011 Graphic Design Studio I: Visual Communication COLBERT, DRU 42 AD 4014 Graphic Design Studio II: Digital Projects COLBERT, DRU 50 AD 2037 Guitar Fundamentals BLOTNICK, RYAN 44 HS 5022 Hatchery FRIEDLANDER, JAY 118 HS 2063 Hate Crimes in the Contemporary US and Europe WESSLER, STEPHEN L 92 HS 4056 Histories of Race LITTLE-SIEBOLD, TODD 114 HS 3040 History of Agriculture: Apples LITTLE-SIEBOLD, TODD 103 AD 1027 History of Filmmaking I (1895-1945) CAPERS, COLIN 37 AD 3018 History of Filmmaking Il (1946-Present) CAPERS, COLIN 47 HS 1090 History of Midwifery and Women's Health Care in the US ROBINSON, LINDA 83 AD 2020 History of Photography WINER, JOSHUA 43 HS 1021 History of the American Conservation Movement CLINE, KEN 78 AD 1038 History of Video Art CAPERS, COLIN 38 130 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 HS 4087 History Workshop: Wabanaki Studies LITTLE-SIEBOLD, TODD 115 ES 4018 Human Anatomy and Physiology I ANDERSON, JOHN 73 HE 1010 Human Ecology Core Course STAFF 77 MD 3017 Human Ecology Lab in Osakikamijima BARROWS, ABBY; FRIEDLANDER, JAY; 125 NAGAO, HIROMI HS 5015 Hydro Politics in a Thirsty World CLINE, KEN 117 HS 2021 Immersion Practica in Spanish and Yucatecan Culture PEÑA, KARLA 90 HS 6013 Immersion Program in French Language, Art, and Culture STABINSKY, DOREEN 122 AD 4035 Improvisation in Music BLOTNICK, RYAN 51 HS 2061 Indigenous America LITTLE-SIEBOLD, TODD 92 AD 4013 Installation Art: Activating Spaces COLBERT, DRU 49 ED 4016 Integrated Methods IA: Grades PreK-3 Reading and Writing STANLEY, ASHLEY 58 ED 4017 Integrated Methods IB: Grades 3-6 Reading and Writing FULLER, LINDA 58 ED 5011 Integrated Methods II: Science, Math, and Social Studies FULLER, LINDA 59 ED 2014 Interactive K-12 Energy Education GIBSON, DAVID 57 HS 3021 Intermediate Spanish I PEÑA, KARLA 100 HS 3023 International Wildlife Policy and Protected Areas CLINE, KEN 100 HS 1053 Intimate Partner Violence: Dynamics and Community Response GAGNON DA SILVA, PAMELA 79 AD 3084 Into Watery Realms: Image Making as Ritual LYON, HEATHER 49 ED 1016 Introduction to Adolescent Psychology HILL, KENNETH 56 HS 1096 Introduction to Art Therapy CHERMAK, HILARY 85 AD 1068 Introduction to Ceramics; Hand-Built-Pots DOWNING, E. SAFFRONIA 41 ES 1026 Introduction to Chaos and Fractals FELDMAN, DAVID 61 AD 1069 Introduction to Drawing: Space and Form HILBERT, FRANCE 41 HS 1046 Introduction to Economics and the Economy TAYLOR, DAVIS 78 ES 3097 Introduction to Epidemiological Modeling BAKER, LAURIE; FELDMAN, DAVID 70 HS 1091 Introduction to Feminist Therapy: Practices and Principles GAGNON DA SILVA, PAMELA 83 ES 1086 Introduction to Field Sampling: Collection to Data Points HUDSON, REUBEN 64 AD 1042 Introduction to Glass Blowing and Sculpture PERRIN, LINDA 38 HS 2118 Introduction to Journalism: Telling the Story LEVIN, ROB 99 ES 1022 Introduction to Oceanography TODD, SEAN 60 HS 2098 Introduction to Philosophy of Mind JACOBY, FRANKLIN R 96 AD 1026 Introduction to Photography KIM, JUNE; WINER, JOSHUA 37 HS 1095 Introduction to Postcolonialism TANEJA, PALAK 84 ES 1087 Introduction to Programming and Computing BAKER, LAURIE 65 HS 1085 Introduction to Sexual Health MAGNUSON, MADALYNNE 82 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 131 AD 1070 Introduction to Songwriting COTTER, CAROLINE 41 ES 2012 Introduction to Statistics and Research Design TODD, SEAN 65 ES 3099 Introduction to Tropical Field Ecology RESSEL, STEPHEN 71 ES 2037 Introductory Entomology GRAHAM, CARRIE 66 ES 3020 Invertebrate Zoology HESS, HELEN 67 ES 4016 Island Life ANDERSON, JOHN 73 AD 3085 Jazz Ensemble BLOTNICK, RYAN 49 AD 3079 Jazz Manouche HENDERSON, JONATHAN 48 AD 4030 Landscape Cinema SHAW, MATTHEW 51 HS 3112 Language, Power, and Computation: Algorithmic Text Analysis FELDMAN, DAVID; TANEJA, PALAK 109 HS 2101 Latin American Literature: Border Stories MAHONEY, DANIEL 96 HS 2113 Latin American Literature: Pablo Neruda-Residencia En La Tierra MAHONEY, DANIEL 98 HS 6012 Learning a Language on Your Own COX, GRAY 121 HS 4069 Leaving Capitalism TAYLOR, DAVIS 114 HS 2076 Life Stories: Memory, Family, and Place DONOVAN, MARTHA 93 HS 3068 Linguistics, Language, and Culture: Human Ecological Approach COX, GRAY 104 HS 2010 Literature, Science, and Spirituality WALDRON, KAREN 89 HS 2071 Little Magazines: Seminar in Contemporary Literary Publishing MAHONEY, DANIEL 92 AD 5033 Making Art: Effort, Resilience, Persistence ANDREWS, NANCY 54 ES 4060 Mammalogy ANDERSON, JOHN 75 ES 1028 Marine Biology PETERSEN, CHRISTOPHER 61 ES 2030 Marine Mammal Biology I TODD, SEAN 66 ES 3060 Marine Mammal Biology I: Field Studies TODD, SEAN 68 HS 2049 Marvelous Terrible Place: Human Ecology of Newfoundland TODD, SEAN 90 HS 4102 Methods of Tutoring Writing Across the Curriculum CASS, BLAKE 116 HS 2112 Midnight's Children TANEJA, PALAK 98 AD 3083 Mixed Media Sculpture SUMMERS, KRISTY 48 ES 3065 Molecular Genetics Workshop PETERSEN, CHRISTOPHER 68 AD 1060 Movement Training Basics BAKER, JODI 40 AD 4018 Movement Training Basics Il BAKER, JODI 50 AD 4040 Music Ensemble: African Liberation HENDERSON, JONATHAN 52 AD 1067 Music Fundamentals: Intro to Reading/Hearing/Writing/Playing REMY, MICHAEL 40 AD 6031 Musicianship MCLEAN, ADAM 55 HS 3059 Native American Literature WALDRON, KAREN 103 HS 2096 Nature, Humans, and Philosophy LAKEY, HEATHER 96 132 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 HS 3122 Navigating Change: History, Place, Stories BAKER, LAURIE; KOCH, GALEN; 112 LITTLE-SIEBOLD, TODD; SMITH, HILLARY HS 2011 Nineteenth Century American Women WALDRON, KAREN 89 AD 4020 Object and Performance BAKER, JODI; ANDREWS, NANCY 51 HS 3036 Oceans & Fishes: Readings in Environmental History LITTLE-SIEBOLD, TODD 102 ES 3050 Organic Chemistry I HUDSON, REUBEN 68 ES 5014 Organic Chemistry II HUDSON, REUBEN 76 MD 1033 Organic Poultry Practicum NUGENT, APRIL 123 MD 3016 Origins: History, Genetics, and Memory LITTLE-SIEBOLD, TODD; HESS, HELEN 125 ES 1016 Ornithology MACDONALD, RICHARD; SWANN, SCOTT 60 AD 2035 Our Band Could Be Your Life: Music, Art, Zines 1975-2015 MAHONEY, DANIEL 44 HS 3031 Our Public Lands: Past, Present, and Future CLINE, KEN 101 HS 1065 Philosophies of Good and Evil LAKEY, HEATHER 80 HS 4054 Philosophies of Love COX, GRAY 114 HS 2074 Philosophy of Death and Dying LAKEY, HEATHER 93 HS 2095 Philosophy of Science: Reason, Truth, and Reality JACOBY, FRANKLIN R 95 ES 1056 Physics and Mathematics of Sustainable Energy FELDMAN, DAVID 62 ES 1018 Physics I: Mechanics and Energy FELDMAN, DAVID 60 ES 2041 Physics II: Relativity FELDMAN, DAVID 66 ES 5047 Plant Systematics LETCHER, SUSAN 76 ES 1081 Plants and People: Economic Botany LETCHER, SUSAN 64 HS 3050 Poetry Workshop MAHONEY, DANIEL 103 ES 1076 Polar Ecology and Exploration TODD, SEAN 63 HS 3105 Policing in Communities of Color WESSLER, STEPHEN L 107 HS 2086 Politics and the Supreme Court SEDDIG, ROBERT 94 MD 5012 Politics, Body, Representation BAKER, JODI; VAN VLIET, NETTA 126 ES 4050 Population and Community Ecology LETCHER, SUSAN 75 HS 3061 Postcolonial Islands VAN VLIET, NETTA 104 HS 2116 Postcolonial Shakespeares TANEJA, PALAK 99 HS 2081 Postcolonialism and Psychoanalysis VAN VLIET, NETTA 93 ES 3090 Practicum in Sustainable Energy GIBSON, DAVID 69 HS 1062 Problems and Dilemmas in Bioethics LAKEY, HEATHER 80 HS 1107 Public Libraries and the People LINVILLE, DARLA 88 HS 1094 Public Speaking Workshop RAND, KENDRA 84 HS 2092 Race and Racism in America: A Very Short History LITTLE-SIEBOLD, TODD 95 HS 4105 Readings in Political Ecologies STABINSKY, DOREEN 116 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 133 HS 2050 Religious Intolerance in the United States WESSLER, STEPHEN L 91 ES 3076 Restoration Ecology LETCHER, SUSAN 69 HS 2109 Rethinking the Canon: Self, Others, and Philosophy LAKEY, HEATHER 97 AD 5023 Romanticism: The Triumph of the Imagination over Reason? CLINGER, CATHERINE 53 AD 6030 Samba Percussion Ensemble HENDERSON, JONATHAN 54 HS 3110 Satanic Verses CARPENTER, WILLIAM 108 ES 4041 Seeds MORSE, SUZANNE 74 MD 1031 Seeing Ecology through Arts Practice ROCK, JENNIFER 122 HS 2072 Sex, Gender, Identity and Power LAKEY, HEATHER 92 HS 3029 Shakespeare: Character, Conflict, and Cinematography TANEJA, PALAK 101 MD 3013 Sheep to Shawl LETCHER, SUSAN 124 AD 4036 Silt to Shard; Rethinking Residues DOWNING, E. SAFFRONIA 51 HS 4079 Skills for Conflict Resolution and Advocacy on Human Rights WESSLER, STEPHEN L 115 HS 2114 Social Media and Its Effects: An Introduction TARDIF, TWILA 98 HS 3062 Solutions FRIEDLANDER, JAY 104 AD 3014 Soundscape ANDREWS, NANCY; TODD, SEAN 46 AD 1061 Sourcing the Body: Experiential Anatomy ROBBINS, DANI 40 HS 4097 Spanish Conversation I PEÑA, KARLA 116 HS 4106 Spanish Writing Composition PEÑA, KARLA 117 AD 3025 Special Topics in Production BAKER, JODI 47 AD 5025 Strangers and Performance BAKER, JODI 54 ED 5013 Student Teaching FULLER, LINDA 59 AD 4019 Studio Printmaking CLINGER, CATHERINE 50 ED 3012 Supporting Students with Disabilities in the Regular Classroom SANBORN, KELLEY 57 HS 3035 Sustainable Strategies FRIEDLANDER, JAY 102 ED 2013 Teaching and Learning Music in Human Ecology MCLEAN, ADAM 56 MD 3012 The Anthropocene HALL, SARAH; VAN VLIET, NETTA 124 MD 1032 The Art and Practice of the Natural History Field Journal GRAHAM, CARRIE; RESSEL, STEPHEN 123 AD 2040 The Art of Clown OBLONGATA, DONNA 45 HS 3032 The Cold War: Early Years MCKOWN, JAMIE 101 HS 3038 The Cold War: The Later Years MCKOWN, JAMIE 102 HS 3102 The Human Ecology of Wilderness CLINE, KEN 107 HS 3055 The Mayas of Yesterday and Today PEÑA, KARLA 103 HS 4092 The Measure of Our Lives: Toni Morrison Seminar WALDRON, KAREN 115 HS 5018 The Nature of Narrative WALDRON, KAREN 118 134 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 HS 1086 The Poet's Profession: An Introduction to Poetry LEWIS, RHIANNON 83 HS 1105 The Psychology of Nature TARDIF, TWILA 87 AD 2038 The Theory and Mystery of Color MCMULLEN, ERNIE 44 AD 4016 The Wilderness in Landscape Art I: Proto-Ecological Visions CLINGER, CATHERINE 50 HS 3113 Then the Queen Died of Grief: The Craft of Plot CASS, BLAKE 109 HS 1092 This Place Called India TANEJA, PALAK 84 HS 2087 Transforming Food Systems COLLUM, KOURTNEY 94 ES 2014 Trees and Shrubs of Mount Desert Island WEBER, JILL 66 ES 3100 Tropical Entomology GRAHAM, CARRIE 71 HS 4101 Troubadours, Nuns, Concubines, and Witches before 1500 TUROK, KATHARINE 116 ES 3096 Tutorial: Introduction to Proofs and Mathematical Structures FELDMAN, DAVID 70 HS 3076 US Farm and Food Policy COLLUM, KOURTNEY 105 ED 3010 Understanding and Managing Group Dynamics TAI, BONNIE 57 HS 5064 Voting and Elections: Case Studies MCKOWN, JAMIE 121 ES 3085 Watersheds HALL, SARAH 69 ES 4036 Wildlife Ecology ANDERSON, JOHN 73 HS 5061 Wildlife Law Seminar CLINE, KEN 119 ES 4012 Winter Ecology RESSEL, STEPHEN 72 HS 3100 Within Living Memory: Audio Production and Podcasting KOCH, GALEN 107 MD 1022 Working the Sea ANDERSON, JOHN; STEPHENSON, TOBY 122 AD 1016 World Percussion BENNETT, MICHAEL 37 HS 2103 Writing for Nonprofits LEWIS, RHIANNON 97 HS 1039 Writing Seminar I: Exposition STAFF 78 HS 2055 Writing Seminar II: Argumentation STAFF 91 MD 1030 Zoological Field Sketching GRAHAM, CARRIE 122 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 135 INDEX BY COURSE NUMBER NUMBER TITLE FACULTY PAGE ARTS AND DESIGN AD 1016 World Percussion BENNETT, MICHAEL 37 AD 1019 Four-Dimensional Studio ANDREWS, NANCY 37 AD 1026 Introduction to Photography KIM, JUNE; WINER, JOSHUA 37 AD 1027 History of Filmmaking I (1895-1945) CAPERS, COLIN 37 AD 1036 Figure Drawing HILBERT, FRANCE 37 AD 1038 History of Video Art CAPERS, COLIN 38 AD 1041 Art Since 1900: Harmony and Conflict CLINGER, CATHERINE 38 AD 1042 Introduction to Glass Blowing and Sculpture PERRIN, LINDA 38 AD 1044 Audio Production and Engineering SOARES, ZACHARY 39 AD 1056 Beginning Contemporary Dance Technique ROBBINS, DANI 39 AD 1058 Dissecting Popular Music HENDERSON, JONATHAN 39 AD 1060 Movement Training Basics BAKER, JODI 40 AD 1061 Sourcing the Body: Experiential Anatomy ROBBINS, DANI 40 AD 1065 Contemporary Dance Composition ROBBINS, DANI 40 AD 1067 Music Fundamentals: Intro to Reading/Hearing/Writing/Playing REMY, MICHAEL 40 AD 1068 Introduction to Ceramics; Hand-Built-Pots DOWNING, E. SAFFRONIA 41 AD 1069 Introduction to Drawing: Space and Form HILBERT, FRANCE 41 AD 1070 Introduction to Songwriting COTTER, CAROLINE 41 AD 1071 Fundamentals of Painting SEBASTIAN, NEERAJ 41 AD 2011 Graphic Design Studio I: Visual Communication COLBERT, DRU 42 AD 2012 3D Studio: Introduction to Three-Dimensional Art and Design COLBERT, DRU 42 AD 2013 Constructing Visual Narrative COLBERT, DRU 42 AD 2014 Curiosity and Wonder: Design and Interpretation in the Museum COLBERT, DRU 43 AD 2017 Drawing Mineral and Botanical Matter in the Forest of Maine CLINGER, CATHERINE 43 AD 2020 History of Photography WINER, JOSHUA 43 AD 2029 Contemporary Artist as Researcher and Activist CLINGER, CATHERINE 44 AD 2035 Our Band Could Be Your Life: Music, Art, Zines 1975-2015 MAHONEY, DANIEL 44 AD 2037 Guitar Fundamentals BLOTNICK, RYAN 44 AD 2038 The Theory and Mystery of Color MCMULLEN, ERNIE 44 AD 2039 Dramatic Mechanics BAKER, JODI 45 136 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 AD 2040 The Art of Clown OBLONGATA, DONNA 45 AD 2042 Ecologies of Cities MULLER, BROOK 45 AD 3012 Documentary Video Studio ANDREWS, NANCY 46 AD 3013 Animation ANDREWS, NANCY 46 AD 3014 Soundscape ANDREWS, NANCY; TODD, SEAN 46 AD 3018 History of Filmmaking Il (1946-Present) CAPERS, COLIN 47 AD 3020 American Dreaming: Theatre and Activism in the US BAKER, JODI 47 AD 3025 Special Topics in Production BAKER, JODI 47 AD 3077 Black Atlantic Music HENDERSON, JONATHAN 47 AD 3079 Jazz Manouche HENDERSON, JONATHAN 48 AD 3081 Craft Ecologies: Mount Desert Island DOWNING, E. SAFFRONIA 48 AD 3083 Mixed Media Sculpture SUMMERS, KRISTY 48 AD 3084 Into Watery Realms: Image Making as Ritual LYON, HEATHER 49 AD 3085 Jazz Ensemble BLOTNICK, RYAN 49 AD 4013 Installation Art: Activating Spaces COLBERT, DRU 49 AD 4014 Graphic Design Studio II: Digital Projects COLBERT, DRU 50 AD 4016 The Wilderness in Landscape Art I: Proto-Ecological Visions CLINGER, CATHERINE 50 AD 4018 Movement Training Basics II BAKER, JODI 50 AD 4019 Studio Printmaking CLINGER, CATHERINE 50 AD 4020 Object and Performance BAKER, JODI; ANDREWS, NANCY 51 AD 4030 Landscape Cinema SHAW, MATTHEW 51 AD 4035 Improvisation in Music BLOTNICK, RYAN 51 AD 4036 Silt to Shard; Rethinking Residues DOWNING, E. SAFFRONIA 51 AD 4037 Futurity: A Production Monster Course BAKER, JODI; HENDERSON, JONATHAN 52 AD 4039 EF!: A New Musical Workshop OBLONGATA, DONNA 52 AD 4040 Music Ensemble: African Liberation HENDERSON, JONATHAN 52 AD 4041 Advanced World Percussion BENNETT, MICHAEL 53 AD 5017 Animation Il ANDREWS, NANCY 53 AD 5023 Romanticism: The Triumph of the Imagination over Reason? CLINGER, CATHERINE 53 AD 5025 Strangers and Performance BAKER, JODI 54 AD 5032 Advanced Studio Printmaking CLINGER, CATHERINE 54 AD 5033 Making Art: Effort, Resilience, Persistence ANDREWS, NANCY 54 AD 6030 Samba Percussion Ensemble HENDERSON, JONATHAN 54 AD 6031 Musicianship MCLEAN, ADAM 55 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 137 EDUCATIONAL STUDIES ED 1010 Experiential Education TAI, BONNIE 55 ED 1011 Children's Literature SWEENEY, MERYL 55 ED 1013 Changing Schools, Changing Society TAI, BONNIE 55 ED 1014 Child Development ALEX, JOANNE 56 ED 1016 Introduction to Adolescent Psychology HILL, KENNETH 56 ED 2010 Disability Rights in Education RABASCA, ADAM 56 ED 2013 Teaching and Learning Music in Human Ecology MCLEAN, ADAM 56 ED 2014 Interactive K-12 Energy Education GIBSON, DAVID 57 ED 3010 Understanding and Managing Group Dynamics TAI, BONNIE 57 ED 3012 Supporting Students with Disabilities in the Regular Classroom SANBORN, KELLEY 57 ED 3107 Culturally Sustaining and Revitalizing Education TAI, BONNIE 58 ED 4016 Integrated Methods IA: Grades PreK-3 Reading and Writing STANLEY, ASHLEY 58 ED 4017 Integrated Methods IB: Grades 3-6 Reading and Writing FULLER, LINDA 58 ED 5010 Curriculum Design and Assessment TAI, BONNIE 59 ED 5011 Integrated Methods II: Science, Math, and Social Studies FULLER, LINDA 59 ED 5013 Student Teaching FULLER, LINDA 59 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES ES 1014 Gardens and Greenhouses:Theory/Practice of Organic Gardening MORSE, SUZANNE 60 ES 1016 Ornithology MACDONALD, RICHARD; SWANN, SCOTT 60 ES 1018 Physics I: Mechanics and Energy FELDMAN, DAVID 60 ES 1022 Introduction to Oceanography TODD, SEAN 60 ES 1024 Calculus I FELDMAN, DAVID 61 ES 1026 Introduction to Chaos and Fractals FELDMAN, DAVID 61 ES 1028 Marine Biology PETERSEN, CHRISTOPHER 61 ES 1030 Chemistry II HUDSON, REUBEN 61 ES 1038 Geology of Mount Desert Island HALL, SARAH; BRADDOCK, SCOTT 62 ES 1052 Biology: Cellular Processes of Life STAFF 62 ES 1054 Biology: Form and Function STAFF 62 ES 1056 Physics and Mathematics of Sustainable Energy FELDMAN, DAVID 62 ES 1066 Chemistry I HUDSON, REUBEN 63 ES 1072 Chemistry and Biology of Food and Drink HUDSON, REUBEN 63 ES 1075 Geology of National Parks HALL, SARAH 63 ES 1076 Polar Ecology and Exploration TODD, SEAN 63 138 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 ES 1081 Plants and People: Economic Botany LETCHER, SUSAN 64 ES 1082 Climate and Seasons: Maple Production HUDSON, REUBEN 64 ES 1085 Data Science I: Visualization BAKER, LAURIE 64 ES 1086 Introduction to Field Sampling: Collection to Data Points HUDSON, REUBEN 64 ES 1087 Introduction to Programming and Computing BAKER, LAURIE 65 ES 2010 Ecology: Natural History SWANN, SCOTT 65 ES 2012 Introduction to Statistics and Research Design TODD, SEAN 65 ES 2014 Trees and Shrubs of Mount Desert Island WEBER, JILL 66 ES 2020 Art and Science of Fermented Foods MORSE, SUZANNE 66 ES 2030 Marine Mammal Biology I TODD, SEAN 66 ES 2037 Introductory Entomology GRAHAM, CARRIE 66 ES 2041 Physics II: Relativity FELDMAN, DAVID 66 ES 3012 Calculus II FELDMAN, DAVID 67 ES 3014 Ecology ANDERSON, JOHN 67 ES 3020 Invertebrate Zoology HESS, HELEN 67 ES 3028 Calculus III: Multivariable Calculus FELDMAN, DAVID 67 ES 3032 Genetics HESS, HELEN 68 ES 3044 Climate and Weather HALL, SARAH 68 ES 3050 Organic Chemistry I HUDSON, REUBEN 68 ES 3060 Marine Mammal Biology I: Field Studies TODD, SEAN 68 ES 3065 Molecular Genetics Workshop PETERSEN, CHRISTOPHER 68 ES 3076 Restoration Ecology LETCHER, SUSAN 69 ES 3085 Watersheds HALL, SARAH 69 ES 3090 Practicum in Sustainable Energy GIBSON, DAVID 69 ES 3094 Dynamic Landscapes HALL, SARAH 70 ES 3096 Tutorial: Introduction to Proofs and Mathematical Structures FELDMAN, DAVID 70 ES 3097 Introduction to Epidemiological Modeling BAKER, LAURIE; FELDMAN, DAVID 70 ES 3098 Data Science II: Programming for Data Analysis BAKER, LAURIE 71 ES 3099 Introduction to Tropical Field Ecology RESSEL, STEPHEN 71 ES 3100 Tropical Entomology GRAHAM, CARRIE 71 ES 3101 Chemical Origins of Life ALTAIR FERREIRA, THIAGO 72 ES 4010 Biomechanics HESS, HELEN 72 ES 4012 Winter Ecology RESSEL, STEPHEN 72 ES 4016 Island Life ANDERSON, JOHN 73 ES 4018 Human Anatomy and Physiology I ANDERSON, JOHN 73 COLLEGE OF THE ATL ANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 139 ES 4026 Cross Kingdom Interactions MORSE, SUZANNE 73 ES 4036 Wildlife Ecology ANDERSON, JOHN 73 ES 4040 Animal Behavior ANDERSON, JOHN 74 ES 4041 Seeds MORSE, SUZANNE 74 ES 4048 Biostatistics LETCHER, SUSAN 74 ES 4049 Biochemistry HUDSON, REUBEN 75 ES 4050 Population and Community Ecology LETCHER, SUSAN 75 ES 4053 Ecosystem Ecology: Biogeochemistry LETCHER, SUSAN 75 ES 4060 Mammalogy ANDERSON, JOHN 75 ES 4063 Analytical Chemistry HUDSON, REUBEN 76 ES 5014 Organic Chemistry Il HUDSON, REUBEN 76 ES 5046 Electrochemistry HUDSON, REUBEN 76 ES 5047 Plant Systematics LETCHER, SUSAN 76 HUMAN ECOLOGY HE 1010 Human Ecology Core Course STAFF 77 HUMAN STUDIES HS 1011 Environmental History LITTLE-SIEBOLD, TODD 77 HS 1019 Beginning Spanish I PEÑA, KARLA 77 HS 1020 Beginning Spanish II PEÑA, KARLA 77 HS 1021 History of the American Conservation Movement CLINE, KEN 78 HS 1025 Business and Non-Profit Basics FRIEDLANDER, JAY 78 HS 1032 Acadia: Exploring the National Park Idea CLINE, KEN 78 HS 1039 Writing Seminar I: Exposition STAFF 78 HS 1046 Introduction to Economics and the Economy TAYLOR, DAVIS 78 HS 1052 Ethnographic Methods VAN VLIET, NETTA 79 HS 1053 Intimate Partner Violence: Dynamics and Community Response GAGNON DA SILVA, PAMELA 79 HS 1054 Climate Justice STABINSKY, DOREEN 79 HS 1062 Problems and Dilemmas in Bioethics LAKEY, HEATHER 80 HS 1064 College Seminar: Practical Skills in Community Development BEARD, RONALD 80 HS 1065 Philosophies of Good and Evil LAKEY, HEATHER 80 HS 1073 Beginning Spanish I with Vocabulary PEÑA, KARLA 81 HS 1075 Animals and Ethics LAKEY, HEATHER 81 HS 1076 College Seminar: Truth COX, GRAY 81 HS 1077 Ethnographic Writing VAN VLIET, NETTA 81 140 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 HS 1084 College Seminar: Utopia/Dystopia LAKEY, HEATHER 82 HS 1085 Introduction to Sexual Health MAGNUSON, MADALYNNE 82 HS 1086 The Poet's Profession: An Introduction to Poetry LEWIS, RHIANNON 83 HS 1090 History of Midwifery and Women's Health Care in the US ROBINSON, LINDA 83 HS 1091 Introduction to Feminist Therapy: Practices and Principles GAGNON DA SILVA, PAMELA 83 HS 1094 Public Speaking Workshop RAND, KENDRA 84 HS 1095 Introduction to Postcolonialism TANEJA, PALAK 84 HS 1096 Introduction to Art Therapy CHERMAK, HILARY 85 HS 1097 Buddhist Philosophies LAKEY, HEATHER 85 HS 1100 College Seminar: Writing the Environment CAPEN, JOHN 85 HS 1101 American Exceptionalism: Land of Liberty, Built on Slavery BLAINE, JAMES 86 HS 1102 Equal Rights, Equal Voices: Articulating Suffrage MCKOWN, JAMIE 86 HS 1103 Addiction and the Brain: An Introduction to Neuropsychology TARDIF, TWILA 87 HS 1105 The Psychology of Nature TARDIF, TWILA 87 HS 1106 Bilingualism and Bilingual Education TARDIF, TWILA 87 HS 1107 Public Libraries and the People LINVILLE, DARLA 88 HS 1108 College Seminar: Current Topics in Media Studies CAPERS, COLIN 88 HS 1109 Genre Explorations KHOR, SU YIN 88 HS 2010 Literature, Science, and Spirituality WALDRON, KAREN 89 HS 2011 Nineteenth Century American Women WALDRON, KAREN 89 HS 2017 City/Country: Literary Landscapes 1860-1920 WALDRON, KAREN 89 HS 2020 Geographic Information Systems I: Foundations and Applications LONGSWORTH, GORDON 89 HS 2021 Immersion Practica in Spanish and Yucatecan Culture PEÑA, KARLA 90 HS 2038 Gender, Politics, and Nature in Folk/Fairy Tales of the World TUROK, KATHARINE 90 HS 2049 Marvelous Terrible Place: Human Ecology of Newfoundland TODD, SEAN 90 HS 2050 Religious Intolerance in the United States WESSLER, STEPHEN L 91 HS 2055 Writing Seminar II: Argumentation STAFF 91 HS 2056 Constitutional Law: Civil Rights and Liberties SEDDIG, ROBERT 91 HS 2057 Fail Better: Writing Short Fiction MAHONEY, DANIEL 91 HS 2061 Indigenous America LITTLE-SIEBOLD, TODD 92 HS 2063 Hate Crimes in the Contemporary US and Europe WESSLER, STEPHEN L 92 HS 2071 Little Magazines: Seminar in Contemporary Literary Publishing MAHONEY, DANIEL 92 HS 2072 Sex, Gender, Identity and Power LAKEY, HEATHER 92 HS 2074 Philosophy of Death and Dying LAKEY, HEATHER 93 HS 2076 Life Stories: Memory, Family, and Place DONOVAN, MARTHA 93 COLLEGE OF THE ANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 141 HS 2081 Postcolonialism and Psychoanalysis VAN VLIET, NETTA 93 HS 2084 European Political Institutions STABINSKY, DOREEN 94 HS 2086 Politics and the Supreme Court SEDDIG, ROBERT 94 HS 2087 Transforming Food Systems COLLUM, KOURTNEY 94 HS 2091 Forms of Poetry MAHONEY, DANIEL 95 HS 2092 Race and Racism in America: A Very Short History LITTLE-SIEBOLD, TODD 95 HS 2095 Philosophy of Science: Reason, Truth, and Reality JACOBY, FRANKLIN R 95 HS 2096 Nature, Humans, and Philosophy LAKEY, HEATHER 96 LITTLE-SIEBOLD, TODD; SMITH, HILLARY HS 2098 Introduction to Philosophy of Mind JACOBY, FRANKLIN R 96 HS 2101 Latin American Literature: Border Stories MAHONEY, DANIEL 96 HS 2103 Writing for Nonprofits LEWIS, RHIANNON 97 HS 2109 Rethinking the Canon: Self, Others, and Philosophy LAKEY, HEATHER 97 HS 2110 College Seminar: Barbed Wires, Drawn Lines TANEJA, PALAK 97 HS 2112 Midnight's Children TANEJA, PALAK 98 HS 2113 Latin American Literature: Pablo Neruda-Residencia En La Tierra MAHONEY, DANIEL 98 HS 2114 Social Media and Its Effects: An Introduction TARDIF, TWILA 98 HS 2115 College Seminar: The World of Ms. Marvel TANEJA, PALAK 98 HS 2116 Postcolonial Shakespeares TANEJA, PALAK 99 HS 2117 Gandhian Economics and Green Entrepreneurship ORUGANTI, RAMASUBRAMANIAN 99 HS 2118 Introduction to Journalism: Telling the Story LEVIN, ROB 99 HS 2119 Global Politics of Climate Change STABINSKY, DOREEN 100 HS 3015 African American Literature WALDRON, KAREN 100 HS 3021 Intermediate Spanish I PEÑA, KARLA 100 HS 3023 International Wildlife Policy and Protected Areas CLINE, KEN 100 HS 3029 Shakespeare: Character, Conflict, and Cinematography TANEJA, PALAK 101 HS 3031 Our Public Lands: Past, Present, and Future CLINE, KEN 101 HS 3032 The Cold War: Early Years MCKOWN, JAMIE 101 HS 3035 Sustainable Strategies FRIEDLANDER, JAY 102 HS 3036 Oceans & Fishes: Readings in Environmental History LITTLE-SIEBOLD, TODD 102 HS 3038 The Cold War: The Later Years MCKOWN, JAMIE 102 HS 3040 History of Agriculture: Apples LITTLE-SIEBOLD, TODD 103 HS 3050 Poetry Workshop MAHONEY, DANIEL 103 HS 3055 The Mayas of Yesterday and Today PEÑA, KARLA 103 HS 3059 Native American Literature WALDRON, KAREN 103 HS 3061 Postcolonial Islands VAN VLIET, NETTA 104 142 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 HS 3062 Solutions FRIEDLANDER, JAY 104 HS 3068 Linguistics, Language, and Culture: Human Ecological Approach COX, GRAY 104 HS 3069 Genocide, Resistance, Response, and Reconciliation WESSLER, STEPHEN L 105 HS 3073 Bees and Society COLLUM, KOURTNEY 105 HS 3076 US Farm and Food Policy COLLUM, KOURTNEY 105 HS 3079 College Seminar: The Anthropology of Food COLLUM, KOURTNEY 106 HS 3083 Feminist Theory in a Transnational Frame Il VAN VLIET, NETTA 106 HS 3085 College Seminar: Nutritional Anthropology COLLUM, KOURTNEY 106 HS 3099 A History of God: Mysticism, Metaphysics, Politics, and Nature COX, GRAY 107 HS 3100 Within Living Memory: Audio Production and Podcasting KOCH, GALEN 107 HS 3102 The Human Ecology of Wilderness CLINE, KEN 107 HS 3105 Policing in Communities of Color WESSLER, STEPHEN L 107 HS 3109 Food and War Part I COLLUM, KOURTNEY 108 HS 3110 Satanic Verses CARPENTER, WILLIAM 108 HS 3111 Designing Your Life FRIEDLANDER, JAY 109 HS 3112 Language, Power, and Computation: Algorithmic Text Analysis FELDMAN, DAVID; TANEJA, PALAK 109 HS 3113 Then the Queen Died of Grief: The Craft of Plot CASS, BLAKE 109 HS 3114 Economics of Surprise: Complexity in Economic Systems TAYLOR, DAVIS 110 HS 3117 Energy, Environment, Protest SCHROEDER, EMMA 110 HS 3118 Communicating Science ROCK, JENNIFER 111 HS 3119 Epic Heroines: Feminist Retellings of Indian Mythology TANEJA, PALAK 111 HS 3120 Audio Journalism: Reporting, Producing, Storytelling BRESLOW, PETER 111 HS 3121 Current Trends in AI: Problems and Projects COX, GRAY 111 HS 3122 Navigating Change: History, Place, Stories BAKER, LAURIE; KOCH, GALEN; 112 HS 4012 Contemporary Women's Novels WALDRON, KAREN 113 HS 4026 Environmental Law and Policy CLINE, KEN 113 HS 4053 Economics of Cooperation, Networks, and Trust TAYLOR, DAVIS 113 HS 4054 Philosophies of Love COX, GRAY 114 HS 4056 Histories of Race LITTLE-SIEBOLD, TODD 114 HS 4069 Leaving Capitalism TAYLOR, DAVIS 114 HS 4079 Skills for Conflict Resolution and Advocacy on Human Rights WESSLER, STEPHEN L 115 HS 4087 History Workshop: Wabanaki Studies LITTLE-SIEBOLD, TODD 115 NAGAO, HIROMI HS 4092 The Measure of Our Lives: Toni Morrison Seminar WALDRON, KAREN 115 HS 4097 Spanish Conversation I PEÑA, KARLA 116 HS 4101 Troubadours, Nuns, Concubines, and Witches before 1500 TUROK, KATHARINE 116 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 143 HS 4102 Methods of Tutoring Writing Across the Curriculum CASS, BLAKE 116 HS 4105 Readings in Political Ecologies STABINSKY, DOREEN 116 HS 4106 Spanish Writing Composition PEÑA, KARLA 117 HS 5010 Advanced Composition KOZAK, ANNE 117 HS 5014 Austen, Brontë, Eliot WALDRON, KAREN 87 HS 5015 Hydro Politics in a Thirsty World CLINE, KEN 117 HS 5017 Advanced Spanish I PEÑA, KARLA 117 HS 5018 The Nature of Narrative WALDRON, KAREN 118 HS 5020 Advanced International Environmental Law Seminar CLINE, KEN 118 HS 5022 Hatchery FRIEDLANDER, JAY 118 HS 5039 Equal Rights, Equal Voices: The Rhetoric of Woman Suffrage MCKOWN, JAMIE 119 HS 5057 Active Optimism: Practices in Transforming Food Systems COLLUM, KOURTNEY 119 HS 5061 Wildlife Law Seminar CLINE, KEN 119 HS 5062 Corn and Coffee LITTLE-SIEBOLD, TODD 120 HS 5063 Conspiracy Theories and Theories of Conspiracy MCKOWN, JAMIE 120 HS 5064 Voting and Elections: Case Studies MCKOWN, JAMIE 121 HS 6012 Learning a Language on Your Own COX, GRAY 121 HS 6013 Immersion Program in French Language, Art, and Culture STABINSKY, DOREEN 122 MULTIDISCIPLINARY MD 1022 Working the Sea ANDERSON, JOHN; STEPHENSON, TOBY 122 MD 1030 Zoological Field Sketching GRAHAM, CARRIE 122 MD 1031 Seeing Ecology through Arts Practice ROCK, JENNIFER 122 MD 1032 The Art and Practice of the Natural History Field Journal GRAHAM, CARRIE; RESSEL, STEPHEN 123 MD 1033 Organic Poultry Practicum NUGENT, APRIL 123 MD 2011 Fisheries, Fishermen, and Fishing Communities PETERSEN, CHRISTOPHER 123 MD 3012 The Anthropocene HALL, SARAH; VAN VLIET, NETTA 124 MD 3013 Sheep to Shawl LETCHER, SUSAN 124 MD 3016 Origins: History, Genetics, and Memory LITTLE-SIEBOLD, TODD; HESS, HELEN 125 MD 3017 Human Ecology Lab in Osakikamijima BARROWS, ABBY; FRIEDLANDER, JAY; 125 MD 4013 Demons from the Depths CLINGER, CATHERINE; HALL, SARAH 125 MD 4014 Building Science and Energy Auditing GIBSON, DAVID 126 MD 5012 Politics, Body, Representation BAKER, JODI; VAN VLIET, NETTA 126 144 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC COURSE CATALOG 2023-2024 DATES AND DEADLINES FOR 2023-2024 TERMS FALL 2023 WINTER 2024 SPRING 2024 FALL 2024 DATES First day of class 9/11/23 1/8/24 4/1/24 9/16/24 Last day of class 11/17/23 3/15/24 6/7/24 11/22/24 Commencement 6/8/24 BUSINESS OFFICE Online statements available 7/14/23 11/3/23 2/28/24 7/12/24 Payment due dates 8/11/23 12/4/23 3/25/24 8/12/24 Course withdrawal (no reversals) 10/13/23 2/10/24 5/4/24 10/18/24 REGISTRAR 10/15/23- 2/11/24- 5/5/24- 10/20/24- Registration 10/20/23 2/16/24 5/10/24 10/25/24 Add/drop 9/15/23 1/12/24 4/5/24 9/20/24 Independent study proposals 9/15/23 1/12/24 4/5/24 9/20/24 Residency applications due 5/12/23 10/20/23 2/16/24 5/10/24 Pre-registration fair 10/11/23 2/7/24 5/1/24 10/16/24 Student self-evaluations 12/1/23 3/29/24 6/21/24 12/6/24 Faculty grades and evaluations 12/8/23 4/5/24 6/28/24 12/13/24 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