Core Courses Fall 2008

CORE 1: INTRODUCTION TO THINKING AND WRITING

IDST-1000-01: Writing and Mathematics

Instructor: Dr. Mark Lynch. We’ll study the mathematics of voting, which will lead to an analysis of the ‘fairness’ (we’ll have to define it) of various voting schemes used around the world, past and present. Also, the mathematics of apportionment will be studied. An example of apportionment is how (or if?) the Constitution apportions seats of the House of Representatives. We’ll analyze several methods of apportionment and come to understand that they all lead to paradoxes or violate the Quota Rule. One of your paper topics could be about how Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth (he said 25,000 miles, a very good estimate considering he did it around 300 BC so none of the European explorers believed the Earth was flat!). His calculation involved knowing that one city was due north of another. How did he know this? He knew the time in both cities. How did people keep time then? We’ll read about the ‘Longitude Problem’, one of the most important problems in the history of global commerce, and how the measurement of time played a key role in its solution. You may write about your investigations of this. You can even write a paper on Astrology, but from a mathematical point of view (a post Isaac Newton view) by calculating the gravitational forces of several planets on a newborn and compare those values to the force of gravity exerted by the nurse (or mom, for that matter) on the newborn. Is the effect of planet alignment really that significant? But no matter what topic you write on, it must have a mathematical theme.
MTWF 8:00.

IDST-1000-02: The Problem of Human Rights in Western Civilization

Instructor: Mr. Nicholas Brown. What do Def Leppard, Boy George, Bob Marley, Leonardo DiCaprio and Tupac share in common with Buddha, Jesus, Lenin, George Bush, Gandhi, and Robespierre? They have all fought for Human Rights! This class investigates how the concept of "human rights" developed throughout the recorded historical course of "western civilization." The class will focus on selected historical examples, but draw from studies on religion, philosophy, sociology, and psychology as well. We will attempt to answer the principal questions: 1) What are human rights; 2) Who defines them; 3) Has anybody ever actually practiced them?
MTWF 8:00.

IDST-1000-03: Writing Well For College and For Career

Instructor: Dr. Ming Tsui. Good writing is essential for our academic and career success. Over the course of your four years at Millsaps, your professors will ask you to write many papers, from short literary essays to research papers and business reports. This section of IDST1000 will focus on the reading and writing of short essays in various academic disciplines. We will read and discuss different aspects of essay-writing, such as the narration of events, the interpretation of evidence, and the structure of argumentation. Readings will exemplify the various ways to write essays and will also allow us to explore broader questions about persuasion, credibility, and ethics.
MTWF 9:00.

IDST-1000-04: Art Talk

Instructor: Dr. Elise Smith. We will consider key monuments or moments in the visual arts as flashpoints that have generated questions, debates, and multiple and often conflicting viewpoints. Our course material will range widely from the Renaissance to the contemporary world and will include such issues as self-portraiture, the relation of image and text (in advertising as well as the fine arts), and ethical questions concerning the representation of war and the construction of memorials. Some of the works we look at will be beautiful and meaningful by almost any standard while others will be difficult to look at and hard to talk about, but in order to develop into active, engaged citizens who understand and appreciate the importance of cultural products in fashioning our individual and communal identities we need to figure out how to analyze images, assess the range of conflicting views about them, and articulate our own positions. This course, like all Core 1 offerings, is about analytical thinking and the communication of ideas; in our particular case we’ll do our thinking, talking, and writing about art that has been seen at some point as contentious (and maybe still is). Come with an open, exploratory mind and a willingness to look carefully, listen respectfully, and communicate thoughtfully.
MTWF 9:00.

IDST-1000-05: Adventure and Writing: Thinking and Writing about the Natural World

Instructor: Dr. James Harris. The course will focus on exploration of the natural world. We will analyze some classic adventure and survival stories and discuss human responsibility in dealing with nature. Readings include the work of Jack London, Norman Maclean, Edward Abbey, John McPhee, and Jon Krakauer.
MWF 10:00 + Th 8:00.

IDST-1000-06: This Digital Life

Instructor: Dr. Anita DeRouen. In this course, we will explore our digital lives, focusing our attention on the technological tools we create as extensions of our selves into the digital world. We'll begin by examining a few texts that presage our contemporary situation (including selections from Marshall McLuhan, Walter Ong, and Vannevar Bush). We will then interrogate the systems that mediate our wired experiences, analyze our social lives on the web, and consider the impact of technology on our classroom experiences. As we move through these topics, we will analyze traditional print texts, web texts, and video to determine how writers/composers craft their messages in various mediums. While the majority of our writing assignments will be completed in the traditional print format, we will also examine the demands of writing in changing venues (the blog, the wiki, the forum, etc.).
MWF 10:00 + Th 8:00.

IDST-1000-07: Faith and Fanaticism

Instructor: Dr. Steven Smith. Some (not all) religious communities claim that faith is the greatest thing (in this world) for human beings. Meanwhile, many people outside of religious communities say that faith is a big problem, an obstacle to clear thinking and social progress. If you listen to the more thoughtful discussions on both sides of that divide, however, you will find that religious people distinguish between authentic faith and counterfeit or distorted or immature faith, while critics of religion are willing to distinguish between relatively "healthy" versions of faith and harmful versions. What standards are being used here? Do the different ways of evaluating faith agree in any of their conclusions? Is a "mature"/"healthy" faith consistent with some religious beliefs but not others? We will explore possible definitions of "mature," "healthy," "responsible" etc. religious attitudes and their opposites, drawing on our own experiences of religion in the contemporary world and on some of the most relevant theories offered by religious thinkers in various traditions and students of religion in various disciplines. Note: This course is not designed to change anyone’s faith, but it does require that diverse perspectives on faith be taken seriously so that our understanding of faith issues may be enriched.
MWF 11:00 + Th 9:00.

IDST-1000-08: The Many Faces of Beauty

Instructor: Dr. Ramon Figueroa. In this class we will review a variety of visual and literary texts to facilitate a discussion on what our society understand as beautiful and the many factors that contribute to this definition. We will see beauty as a relative value and also look at its commercialization as well as works that try to sidestep ethical issues by focusing on the aesthetic value of such works.
MWF 11:00 + Th 9:00.

IDST-1000-09: Creation from Myths to Megabytes

Instructor: Dr. William Bares. We will explore various forms of creation from ancient myths, scientific advances, and virtual computer worlds. We will begin by exploring the stories told by different cultures that represent diverse explanations for how the world and its inhabitants came to be. How do these myths help their peoples understand the world? The desire for knowledge and creative power is one of the central themes in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Shelley’s novel raises issues that are relevant today. Genetic engineers can create new breeds of plants or animals that possess desirable features. How far can and should our creative powers go? How should we use these powers? Thanks to recent advances in computers, we can create our own virtual worlds and virtual representations of ourselves online. Examples include massively-multiplayer online games such as EverQuest, virtual reality simulations, MySpace, YouTube, etc. How do we set limits to protect ownership of digital creations and personal information? How do we balance time spent in the real world and these virtual online spaces?
MWF 11:00 + Th 9:00.

IDST-1000-10: How to Think Clearly

Instructor: Dr. Patrick Hopkins. In this course we will study critical thinking, which is how someone analyzes a claim that has been made and then decides whether to accept, reject, or suspend judgment on that claim. We will first look at the psychological ways in which people try to get you to accept their claims, learning how to see through rhetoric and figure out whether you have been given any good reasons for a claim at all. Then we will look at how to decide whether or not the reasons you have been given are good reasons. In short, we will learn how to recognize arguments, how to analyze arguments, how to write arguments, and how to judge arguments. The arguments will come in many forms - political ones, moral ones, scientific ones. We will learn how to understand them all.
MWF 11:00 + Th 9:00.

IDST-1000-11: Thinking, Writing and Making Your Way through Fields of Reading

Instructor: Dr. Priscilla Fermon. The purpose of this course is to embark on voyages toward becoming better thinkers, readers and writers. Participation in the journey requires that each one of you asks yourself the following questions: Who am I? How do I know? How do I act responsibly? Throughout the semester you will gain insights into who you are, how you know and how you act responsibly and you will share those insights with others. Beginning questions will lead to other questions as you work on developing strategies for finding honest answers in order to reach valid conclusions.
MW 1:00.

IDST-1000-12: Lessons in Leadership Taken From Unlikely Places

Instructor: Dr. Patrick Taylor. Using excerpts from literature, some great literature, some merely important literature, we will work to find lessons for leaders in training, as Millsaps students are. Writings of such people as Martin Luther King, Machiavelli, Gandhi, Tom Clancy, and others will be mined for their leadership lessons. We will approach material through both the written word and film.
MW 1:00.

IDST-1000-13

Instructor: Dr. Judith Caballero.
MW 1:00.

IDST-1000-14: Terrorism Through History

Instructor: Dr. Michael Reinhard. We look at terrorism down through the ages. Who is a terrorist? Is there anything different about terrorism and war? Does who gets labeled a terrorist depend on anything more than which side the observer is on? How do different definitions of terrorism implicate different political actors and ideologies? We will examine a range of actions that have been called terrorism from the Ancient Jewish Fanatics in the 1st century B.C. To al Qaeda in ours. We will examine different theories about the causes and consequences of terrorism and weigh different policy responses. We will watch several movies as well as read a range of original source material and research articles on the topic of terrorism.
MW 1:00.

IDST-1000-15: Leadership Lessons from Readings and Movies

Instructor: Dr. Jesse Beeler. The goal of this course is to develop skills in the areas of reasoning, communication, historical consciousness and social and cultural awareness. To accomplish this we will explore issues in leadership using classic literature texts and selected readings. This activity affords students the opportunity to enhance their personal understanding of leadership theories, concepts, contexts, and competencies. Additionally, students should gain a greater understanding of the moral responsibilities of leadership and become better prepared to exercise leadership in service to society. The course is intended to assist students in learning to interpret people and situations from multiple perspectives, to envision multiple possibilities from a given situation, to move beyond literal thinking to metaphorical thinking and to synthesize ideas into meaningful concepts or theories. The students in this course will learn that leadership ability is fostered by focusing on attributes such as vision, communications ability, understanding interpersonal behavior, creativity, and a sense of humility. Such concepts are elemental components of the liberal arts and humanities.
MW 2:45.

IDST-1000-16: Clarifying My Beliefs Through Writing and Discussion

Instructor: Dr. Lee Lewis. This class uses class discussions and writing to focus on learning the skills of recognizing bias and persuasion in writing and how to prevent these in our own writing. To learn these skills — as well as to answer the three questions of "Who am I?," "How do I think and know?," and "How do I make decisions?" — we will examine and discuss writings of differing belief systems. (Note—This class is not designed to change any person’s ideals but to examine all the evidence surrounding an issue and to learn to fairly present the issue with evidence that firmly supports one’s personal opinion on the issue).
TTh 10:00 + W 12:00.

IDST-1000-17: From Spice Trade to eBay: Making Sense of Business

Instructor: Dr. Diane Baker. This class will explore the nature of business by reading what people from across time and cultures have said about it. As we consider a variety of perspectives, our own beliefs and assumptions about business will become clearer. We will ponder numerous questions that people have been asking through the centuries. For example: How costly is a "free market?" Does the "invisible hand" of the marketplace provide a handshake or a shove? Do shareholders ever share? Why does fuel cost so much?
TTh 10:00 + W 12:00.

IDST-1000-18: Science, Religion, and Politics

Instructor: Dr. Sarah McGuire. Science and society are intricately intertwined: scientific advances can change societies, and societal issues can significantly impact science. In this course, we will critically examine several seminal scientific discoveries throughout the course of history and consider how these discoveries changed society, as well as how society affected these discoveries. Central to the discussion will be considerations of the influences of science, religion, and politics on each other. Class discussions and essays will focus on critical analysis of these interactions and will require evidence-based arguments in support of your analysis.
TTh 1:00.

IDST-1000-19: Eat, Drink and be "Mary:" Cause and Effect of American Indulgences

Instructor: Dr. Kurt Thaw. Overconsumption of food and drink and sex, along with more lenient views on such practices, seems "acceptable" given such coverage of topics in the media. But what do we really know about recent increases in obesity, alcoholism rates and the percentage of persons engaging in non-traditional sexual behaviors? More importantly, can we identify factors contributing to these changes? Some surprising answers to these topics along with controversial discussions that touch on American culture, religion and science will be covered in this course. Readings will include books on the psychology and marketing of eating, scientific journal articles on the economic role of food and drugs, and a variety of articles and essays on sexual behavior (good and bad) in America. Students of this course should be open to discussing sensitive topics, arrive with an open mind (or at least opinions that you are willing to explore or challenge), and the ability to discuss the above topics in a collegial, intelligent manner.
TTh 1:00.

IDST-1000-20

Instructor: Stacey DeZutter.
TTh 1:00.

IDST-1050-01: Mysteries of Human Thought and Human Behavior

Instructor: Dr. Laura Franey. Every day newspapers, television news shows, and web blogs report stories about strange and often horrifying things that human beings do to one another and to themselves. But the really strange thing is how many of these stories overlap, thereby creating a sense that what at first appear to be unusual events might actually be somewhat common occurrences. In this class, we will explore together some of these mysteries of human thought and human behavior, focusing especially on those that may be related to mental illness of some kind. (We will likely discuss such things as eating disorders, cult mass suicides, pedophilia, and the use of torture in political/governmental settings). We will explore these "mysteries" as generally educated people, not as trained scientists, but I hope that we will gain valuable insights through critical analysis of resources available to us as students of the liberal arts. There will be readings from a textbook in abnormal psychology, a collection of essays, a memoir, and other sources, and we will watch at least two films, including a fascinating HBO documentary entitled "Capturing the Friedmans." The classroom discussions, readings, and paper assignments are all designed with the following goal in mind: to help students dramatically enhance their critical thinking skills, their oral communication skills, and their writing skills.
MTWF 8:00.

IDST-1050-02: Funny Business: Professional-Grade Humor

Instructor: Dr. Michael Gleason. Nothing kills humor like trying to explain it. Let’s do it anyway. As an introduction to this college’s liberal arts abilities, this course is designed not only to sharpen your writing and thinking but also to foster historical and cultural insight. Your job is to analyze a wide array of elements in the prose and poetry of funny, famous, and not-so-famous "Southern" writers, including Mark Twain, Nikki Giovanni, Richard Wright, Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, Padgett Powell, and Zora Neale Hurston. Ranging over two hundred years and several genres, in both fiction and non-fiction, our selections include works by men and women, blacks and whites, native Southerners and the honorary sort.
MWF 10:00 + Th @ 8:00.

IDST-1050-03: Labors of Love: The Liberal Arts, The Art of Love, and The Love of Art

Instructor: Dr. L. A. Wilson. This course explores the meaning of love by examining love in its broadest and its most intimate aspects from a variety of liberal arts perspectives: religion, philosophy, classical literature and myth, history, psychology, art, music, literature, and film studies. We will be reading, discussing, and writing about various definitions and theories of love, and we will be analyzing some of the many works of art and literature, including some movies and pop music, taking love as their subject and theme.
TTh 10:00 + W 12:00.

CORE 2-5: THE HERITAGE PROGRAM

IDST 1118-1128: Heritage of the West in World Perspective

Instructors: Dr. Theodore Ammon, Department of Philosophy; Dr. Eric Griffin, Department of English; Dr. Amy Forbes, Department of History; Dr. Lola Williamson, Department of Religious Studies. Heritage is a team-taught interdisciplinary course incorporating history, literature, philosophy, religion, and the fine arts. It examines developments in Western culture from prehistory to the present in the context of world history; it carries eight hours credit each semester. The class meets three times a week for discussion and four times a week for lecture. IDST 1128 is open only to students who have completed IDST 1118. Heritage meets the Fine Arts requirement of Core 2-5. Enrollment is limited to freshmen.

CORE 2: ANCIENT WORLD

IDST-1200-01: Love, Friendship, and Desire in the Ancient World

Instructor: Dr. Holly Sypniewski. Is love warm and fuzzy? A brutal attack on the senses? A divine good? This course provides a cross-cultural examination of inter-personal relationships, male and female ideals, and conceptions of love and desire in the ancient world. Our texts will range from the erotic to the philosophical including personal lyric, drama, philosophic dialogue, and epigram from ancient Greece, Rome and India. Special attention will be given to understanding the cultural context of hetero- and homosexual relations and their representation in literature and art.
Focus: Literature
MWF @ 8:00 + T @ 8:00

IDST-1200-02: The Bestial Mirror: Animals and the Self

Instructor: Dr. Daniel Turkeltaub. You may feed one at home or you may eat one for dinner. Perhaps you had an exterminator kill an infestation of them last month. That is as much as many of us living in modern western societies interact with animals. Bit in many ancient cultures, animals played a part in almost every aspect of daily life, and that interaction profoundly influenced how people thought about the natural world and their own position in that world. In this class, we will explore how people considered animals reflections of themselves, their desires, and their fears. We will address questions of personal identity, the nature of humanity, and the interpenetration of the human, then animal, and the divine. This class will focus on ancient Greece, but will included comparative material from other ancient cultures as well. Our investigations will encompass literary evidence such as The Epic of Gilgamesh and Aesop’s fables, paintings and sculptures of animals and monsters, ancient biological and philosophical treatises, and the religious practice of animal sacrifice.
Focus: Religion and Literature
MWF @ 9:00 + T @ 9:00

IDST-1200-03: The Many and the One: Polytheism and Monotheism in the Ancient World

Instructor: Dr. Blake Couey. Monotheism is one of the most important cultural legacies of the religions of the Bible. It has exercised a profound influence on the intellectual traditions of Western civilization, informing religious belief and practices as well as philosophy, science, and other disciplines. This course will explore the interplay of polytheism and monotheism in the religious of the ancient Near East, India, and Greece. Belief in a single god developed in stages in different cultures in the ancient world; monotheistic tendencies are evident in many polytheistic religious systems, while some polytheistic reflexes persist in monotheistic religious systems. We will look at ways that polytheism and monotheism affect the understanding of such issues as good and evil, the gender of deities, and religion as a force of political control. Special attention will be give to the emergence of monotheism in ancient Israel and its impact on the development of early Judaism and Christianity.
Focus: Religion
MWF @ 10:00 + Th @ 8:00

IDST-1200-04: The Nature of Power in the Ancient World

Instructor: Dr. William Storey. In this class about the ancient world, we will examine questions that are still relevant today. What makes some people more powerful than others? What skills tend to make some individuals more powerful than others? Why is it that some societies are able to dominate others? Why do so many societies sanction male domination over women? What is the right way for power to be allocated to individuals, groups, and societies? As we consider the history of ancient empires and republics, we will examine works by historians writing today as well as sources from ancient times. The course will focus on the ancient Mediterranean, with comparisons to Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
Focus: History
TTH @ 10:00 + W @ 12:00

IDST-1200-05

Instructor: Staff
TBA

IDST-1200-06: Sex, Religion, and Prehistory

Instructor: Dr. Robert McElvaine. After an examination of the effects of evolution on human nature, this course will explore the effects of the disruption in human life caused by the invention of agriculture. Effects on the roles of women and men, on scientific understanding, and on religious outlooks in the Neolithic and ancient worlds will be discussed.
Focus: History and Religion
TTH @ 10:00 + W @ 12:00

IDST-1200-07: Ancient Literature and Modern Film: Gods and Heroes of Ancient Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, and India

Instructor: Dr. Anne MacMaster. Examining Mesopotamia, India, Greece, and Rome, this course explores Ultimate Reality as he/she/it is portrayed in some of the world’s most beautiful and influential works of literature. By asking, “What is an epic?” and “What is a god?” we hope to determine how ancient societies viewed the proper relationship between the human and the divine and what we have inherited of their view. In addition to grand questions of fate, mortality, and justice, we also consider conventions of literary form, including the elements of the epic and the tragic, of tradition and innovation, of prose vs. poetry, of authorial anonymity vs. literary fame.
Focus: Literature and Religious Studies
TTH @ 1:00

IDST-1200-08: The Nature of Power in the Ancient World

Instructor: Dr. William Storey. In this class about the ancient world, we will examine questions that are still relevant today. What makes some people more powerful than others? What skills tend to make some individuals more powerful than others? Why is it that some societies are able to dominate others? Why do so many societies sanction male domination over women? What is the right way for power to be allocated to individuals, groups, and societies? As we consider the history of ancient empires and republics, we will examine works by historians writing today as well as sources from ancient times. The course will focus on the ancient Mediterranean, with comparisons to Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
Focus: History
TTH @ 1:00

CORE 4: MODERN WORLD

IDST-2400-01: Revolution and Romanticism

Instructor: Dr. H. L. Raley. How music in the Age of Revolutions reflected the culture’s dominant concerns and contained within itself the seeds of a musical revolution which continued into the next century. Three major works are studied: the Ninth Symphony of Beethoven, Symphonie Fantastique of Berlioz, and Salomé, the opera by Richard Strauss.
MWF @ 9:00 + T @ 9:00

IDST-2400-02: Mark Twain and His World

Instructor: Dr. Suzanne Marrs. We will investigate the writings of Mark Twain and the way those writings reflect and comment upon the world in which he lived. We will discuss Twain’s evolving and ever darkening world view. We will examine his comic artistry and his use of a variety of literary genres. And we will pay particular attention to Twain’s portraits of differing European and American societies, of the frontier and its transformation, of slavery and racism in America, and of the rise of technology and its consequences. Your grade in the course will be based upon reading quizzes, a 2-3 page paper, an 8-10 page term paper, a mid-term exam, and a final examination. Texts: Innocents Abroad, Life on the Mississippi, Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Pudd’nhead Wilson, Mark Twain: Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches.
Focus: Literature and History
MWF @ 11:00 + TH @ 9:00

IDST-2400-03: Passion and Persuasion in Nineteenth Century America

Instructor: Dr. Greg Miller. This course will examine persuasion in the arts, religion, and politics in nineteenth-century America. We will listen to and interpret folk songs, hymns, and ballads; examine political tracts and speeches; view and analyze paintings and photographs; and read imaginative literature by poets, novelists, and essayists. We will explore the ties of the United States to Africa, Asia, and Europe through both its diverse populations and its involvement in international movements such as Romanticism and Social Realism.
Focus: Literature, Fine Arts, and History
MWF @ 11:00 + TH @ 9:00

IDST-2400-04: Early Civil Rights and the Roots of Resistance in Nineteenth Century America

Instructor: Rebecca Miller. This course will examine the origins of civil rights for African Americans in the Nineteenth Century. While the traditional definition of the civil rights movement spans the 1950s and 1960s, this course shows that there is a tradition of resistance and activism that dates back to the Nineteenth Century. We will study the antebellum period, Civil War, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow period to trace the efforts of African Americans, both in the North and South, to win freedom, equality, and their civil rights. We will read slave narratives, journals, abolitionist literature; listen to slave songs; and read several key historical texts that deal with this struggle for rights that shaped the century that followed.
Focus: History
MW @ 2:45

IDST-2400-05: Sappho in Southampton

Instructor: Dr. Paul Smith. Muse, matron, maiden, ravishing beauty, homely schoolmistress, alluring seductress, feminist, forsaken lover who throws herself into the sea—in various and contradictory ways, the figure of the ancient Greek lyric poet Sappho of Lesbos has captivated the poetic and popular imagination for 2,600 years. This course is an examination of the surviving fragments of Sappho’s poetry, and a number of nineteenth century British poets who appropriate the myth and work of Sappho for their own social and cultural contexts. Writers whose works will be considered include Felicia Hemans, Letitia Landon, Caroline Norton, Christina Rossetti, Mary Robinson, Michael Field, Mary Coleridge, Alfred Tennyson, and Algernon Charles Swinburne.
Focus: Literature
M @ 6:30-9:00

IDST-2400-06: Religious Meaning in Russian History

Instructor: Mary Louise Jones. This course will explore religious themes in 19th century Russian literature with particular attention to Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. The literary study will be set within a historical, philosophical, and religious context that includes attention to the Russian Orthodox Church, its beliefs, and practices. This study of the history of 19th century Russia and the Russian Church will enable the student to get a clear picture of the great literary and religious themes found both in Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky: the concepts of good and evil; the individual versus society; the rich dilettante versus the simple peasant; the alienation and struggle of the human spirit in an oppressed society. The religious themes are very strong and give the literature great power.
Focus: Literature and Religious Studies
TTH @ 10:00 + W @ 12:00

IDST-2400-07: British Reading Culture

Instructor: Dr. Anita DeRouen. This course will examine the construction of reading publics in the literary world from the 1780s through the 1850s. By looking at a range of literature, we will try to determine what relationships authors created with their readers and what relationships authors created with one another as they were writing. The ways texts were created and crafted for readers, in terms of the physical presentation of those texts, will also be studied. Some of the texts and authorship circles or collaborations that will most likely be studied include William Blake's fascinating engravings of poems with images in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; Wordsworth and Coleridge's various editions of The Lyrical Ballads; Jane Austen's satirical gothic novel, Northanger Abbey; Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin and their writings; Felicia Hemans's writings concerning British colonies; and a Charles Dickens novel.
Focus: Literature
TTH @ 10:00 + W @ 12:00

IDST-2400-08 Women in Art and Literature, 1700-1900

Instructor: Dr. Carolyn Brown. This course will examine the construction of reading publics in the literary world from the 1780s through the 1850s. By looking at a range of literature, we will try to determine what relationships authors created with their readers and what relationships authors created with one another as they were writing. The ways texts were created and crafted for readers, in terms of the physical presentation of those texts, will also be studied. Some of the texts and authorship circles or collaborations that will most likely be studied include William Blake's fascinating engravings of poems with images in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; Wordsworth and Coleridge's various editions of The Lyrical Ballads; Jane Austen's satirical gothic novel, Northanger Abbey; Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin and their writings; Felicia Hemans's writings concerning British colonies; and a Charles Dickens novel.
Focus: Literature
TH @ 10:00 + W @ 12:00

CORE 6: TOPICS IN SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

The following courses offered in the fall have been approved by the Core Council as also satisfying Core 6:

• Economics 2000
• Political Science 1000
• Psychology 1000
• Sociology/Anthropology 1110

IDST-1610-01: Human Development in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Instructor: Dr. Connie Schimmel. Students explore and apply theories surrounding the physical, social, emotional, and cognitive aspects of human development. The course demands an immediate and personal perspective for college students as they construct underlying frameworks for understanding human development.
TTH @ 10:00 + W @ 12:00

CORE 7: TOPICS IN NATURAL SCIENCE WITH LABORATORY

The following courses offered in the fall have been approved by the Core Council as also satisfying Core 7:

• Biology 1000, 1010, 1020
• Chemistry 1213
• Geology 1000, 1100
• Physics 1003 + 1001, 1203 + 1201

IDST-1710: Humans and Natural Disasters

Instructor: Dr. Stan Galicki, Professor Robert Nevins. Human & Natural Disasters is part of an integrated 2-semester course sequence (with IDST1720) which encompasses geology and biology and emphasizes applications to real-world situations. Modules will include human evolution, plagues, biological and chemical warfare, climatic and geologic disasters such as earthquakes, and tsunamis. The two-semester course sequence fulfills Core 7 and Core 9 and is designed for freshman and sophomore non-science majors.
TTH@ 10:00 + TH @ 1:00

  CORE 8: TOPICS IN MATHEMATICS

The following mathematics courses offered in the fall have been approved by the Core Council as also satisfying Core 8:

• Mathematics 1100, 1110,1130, 1150, 1210, 1220 2230, 2310
• Mathematics - Any mathematics course above 2310 (with departmental and Core Council approval) that has not been used to meet another core requirement.

CORE 9: TOPICS IN MATHEMATICS, NATURAL SCIENCE, OR COMPUTER SCIENCE

 The Core Council has approved the following courses offered in the fall as satisfying Core 9:

• Computer Science 1000, 1010, 1020
• Geology 2000
• Sociology/Anthropology 1710
• All courses approved as satisfying (but not used as) Core 7
• Mathematics 1210, 1220, 2230, 2310 or any mathematics course above 2310 (with departmental and Core Council approval) that has not been used to meet another core requirement.

FINE ARTS

The following courses offered this fall meet the Fine Arts requirements:

• Art 2200, 2230, 2580, 2590, 2750, 3300, 3310, 3350, 3360, 3400, 3410, 3450, 3460, and all studio art and art history classes
• CLST 3750
• Theatre 1010

Any IDST course with a Fine Arts focus or the two-semester Heritage sequence will meet this requirement.  In addition, completing four semesters in Singers or a music ensemble, or completing four semesters of studio music lessons (voice or instrument) or significant participation in four Millsaps Players productions will satisfy the fine arts requirement.