Department of Foreign Languages at UNCA-Faculty Office Hours

BIOL 115 Concepts in Ecology and Evolution (all sections)
Introduction to basic concepts in evolutionary biology and ecology. Fall

BIOL 498 Undergraduate Research in Biology: Suriman/Guyana (Clarke) Independent research under the supervision of a faculty mentor. Includes literature, laboratory preparation and completion of a research project. Students with ongoing research projects nearing completion, after consultation with their instructor, may opt to submit their work to the faculty as a demonstration of senior competency. A written research paper and oral presentation are required. Prerequisite: senior standing. An IP grade may be awarded at the discretion of the instructor. Fall and Spring

ENVR 130 Introduction to Environmental Science
The biological, chemical, physical and societal implications of human impact on the environment with consideration of selected contemporary problems such as population issues, acid rain, energy supply, water pollution, etc. Fall and Spring

ENVR 443 Tropical Ecosystems (Miller)
Study of the important organisms, habitats and ecosystems characteristic of the tropical world. Emphasis will be on management practices, rates of destruction and need for species/habitat conservation. Prerequisite: ENVR 130. Odd years Fall

ENVR 444 Topical Ecosystems Field Experience (Miller)
Field trip (one to three weeks) to study tropical organisms and ecosystems in Puerto Rico or another tropical country. Expenses paid by the students. Corequisite: ENVR 443. Winter break

SOC 357 Development and Social Change in Latin America (Frank)
Examines historical, political and socio-economic perspectives on Latin America by focusing on the region’s development through the 19th and 20th centuries. Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Chile, as well as other countries, will be used as case studies. Also examines historic relations between the region and the United States. Fall

ARTS 310 Caribbean Studies (Trautmann)
Arts and Ideas is an interdisciplinary course that introduces the student to the creative process using a number of artistic disciplines including dance, drama, film and video, music, poetry and the visual arts. This class can include a mixture of readings of essays, artworks, attendance at outside performances and events, lectures, classroom presentations and performances, informal discussion and development of written responses. Each section will have a specific topic that will serve as the focus of the semester. Prerequisite: 60 earned hours (junior standing). Spring

ARTS 310 Postcolonial Francophone Arts (Malicote)
In this class, we will explore cultural, social, and political dimensions of globalization and environmental issues in the context of the postcolonial francophone arts experience through poetry, drama, the novel, music, the visual arts and the cinema. We will study nostalgic postcolonial French artistic views of decolonization, as seen in the film Indochine. We will examine decolonization and globalization and its impact on the arts in francophone Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos), in French West Africa, or the Maghreb, and in francophone Africa. We will explore Jean-Marie Teno’s hypothesis of “cultural genocide” in the arts and literature of modernization and globalization in postcolonial Cameroon through his film, “Africa, I will Fleece You!” which focuses on both cultural and environmental issues. We will study a French woman’s autobiographical film as she attempts to re-capture and understand her childhood experience colonial in Cameroon in Claire Denis’ Chocolat, which promotes indigenous music in a context of globalization. We will study the Caribbean postcolonial arts experience through the award-winning novel Texaco, by Patrick Chamoiseau, in its description of the shantytown environment and also through the major poems of Haiti’s René Depestre (A Rainbow for the Christian West) and Martinique’s Aimé Césaire (Notebook of the Return of a Native Son), as illustrated by the engravings of Wilfrido Lam, and we will juxtapose the two authors’ politics of artistic engagement in the face of repression and in the context of the visual arts of Haiti. We will do a dramatic reading of Guadeloupean playwright Suzanne Schwartz-Bart’s important drama, “Your Handsome Captain” and discuss the theories of “antillanité” and “créolité” in relation to economic issues of globalization in the postcolonial arts of the Antilles. Students present short oral reports throughout the semester, take a midsemester exam and a final exam, and prepare and present a final paper or project.

ARTH 381 Art in Latin America (Canejo)
This course will focus on the strength and diversity of art and architecture produced in Latin American from the European conquest to the present. Topics include religious and secular art and architecture, hybridization of indigenous and imported styles, national styles after independence, Mexican murals, women artists, Latin American modernism, and Chicano and Border art. Among issues to be discussed are: preconceptions of Latin American art, African art in the Diaspora, the political role of art, appropriation and adaptation, the formation of national identity, the question of modernity, and the intersection of national and international movements in Modern art.

FREN 435 Francophone Studies: The Antilles (Malicote)
Examination of the French-language culture of Antilles concentrating on its particular cultural forms, its literature, its social and political history and the relation between its development and that of France. Prerequisite: FREN 320. Content varies; course may be repeated for credit. See department chair.

INTS 365 Paradise in Honduras: How long can it last? (Frank)

This course introduces students to the region and the country, its immediate history as well as its socio-economic, political and environmental development. Development itself will be subject to analysis, and what, exactly, development can and does mean for Honduras as well as the specific area students will be visiting. A visit to Honduras makes up the second part of this course. Upon arrival in Tegucigalpa (capital of Honduras), students will embark on a 18 day trip which includes a 10 day rafting and camping trip through the rain forest along the Rio Platano. Following this, students will spend time in two villages (La Ceiba and Tela), located on the north coast of Honduras, and engage in service learning projects.

6 credits. Summer 08.

MCOM 482 International Mass Communication (West)
Communication of news and opinion among nations and under various political and economic systems; role of media in international affairs; barriers to the free flow of information; comparison of world press and entertainment systems. Odd years Fall

SPAN 410 Hispanic Studies: Caribbean Arts (Trautmann)
Provides an introduction to the theory and history of Hispanic cinema and integrates sociological and artistic interpretations of Spanish and Latin American films. Content may vary. Prerequisites: SPAN 310, 320. Every other year

SPAN 495 Hispanic Studies: Caribbean Arts (Trautmann)
Topics in linguistics, cultural studies, or the study of peninsular or Spanish-American literature, including various periods, genres or themes. May be taken up to three times for credit. Prerequisites: SPAN 310, 320. Every year