Special Audit Programs (Arts & Sciences Day and University College Evening)
Adult students may audit selected undergraduate day courses in the College of Arts & Sciences for $117 per unit on a noncredit, space-available basis (graduate courses are $183 per unit). The Arts & Sciences Day Audit Program is designed for personal enrichment, and courses taken on a special audit basis do not receive credit toward a degree or certificate program. Students are encouraged to attend lectures and discussions, but are not expected to do written work. Fall 2011 day audit courses are noted below. Register online at ucollege.wustl.edu for Arts & Sciences day audit courses. Call (314) 935-6720 for more information.
In addition to the Special Audit Day courses, adult students may audit certain evening courses in University College. These courses are described in full in the online course listings. To find them, click on "course listings" and in the "School" box choose "University College" and then in the "Other Filters" box, choose "Special Audit Only," then click Search.
SPECIAL AUDIT DAY COURSES Spring 2012
African Studies: An Introduction (U84 209B)
History, politics, literature, and artistic creativity of the African
continent.
TuTh 10:00–11:30 a.m./Instructor: Mutonya
African Civilization: 1800–Present (U84 322)
Intellectual and material culture of colonialism, survival of precolonial
values and institutions, and African resistance and adaptation
to social change.
MW 1:00–2:30 p.m./Instructor: Parsons
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (U69 160K)
Basic concepts, theories, and methods of cultural anthropology,
which studies the diversity of human cultures and societies.
MWF 1:00–2:00 p.m./Instructor: Childs
World Archaeology: Global Perspectives on the Past
(U10 200C)
Archaeologists rediscover forgotten, sometimes embarrassing
aspects of our human past.
TuTh 10:00–11:30 a.m./Instructor: Kelly
People and Cultures of the Middle East (U69 302)
Diversity and change in contemporary Middle Eastern societies
and cultures.
TuTh 1:00–2:30 p.m./Instructor: Hodges
Anthropology of Modern Latin America (U69 3093)
Current issues in the anthropological study of culture, politics,
and change across contemporary Latin American and the
Caribbean.
MW 1:00–2:30 p.m./Instructor: Gustafson
Introduction to Asian Art (U10 111)
Selected topics in the arts of South and East Asia from earliest
times to the present.
TuTh 1:00–2:30 p.m./Instructor: Kleutghen
Introduction to Modern Art, Architecture, and Design
(U10 215)
Developments in modern art, architecture, and design in Europe,
the Americas, and across the globe from the mid-19th century to
the present.
TuTh 11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m./Instructor: Klein
Magicians, Healers, and Holy Men (U02 3831)
Examination of Greco-Roman, early Christian, and Judaic
“magical” practices.
MW 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m./Instructor: Abraham
Introduction to Global Climate Change in the 21st
Century (U13 111)
Global climate and global climate change and their impacts on
life and civilization.
MF 11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m./Instructor: Smith
Energy and the Environment (U13 219)
Energy resources from scientific, social, economic, and political
viewpoints.
TuTh 1:00–2:30 p.m./Instructors: Gibbons, Wysession
Topics in American Literature: American Identity
(U65 318)
The transformation of the European into an American—writings
from the Puritan origins of America to the Civil War.
TuTh 11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m./Instructor: Spar
Masterpieces of Literature: European Fiction (U65 348)
Major European (German, Russian, French, Italian) writers who
helped reshape the way we understand what it is to be human.
MWF 12:00–1:00 p.m./Instructor: Rosenzweig
Freedom, Citizenship, and the Making of American
Culture (U16 162)
The emergence and expansion of the nation, migration and
immigration, changing meanings of freedom, citizenship, and
American identity.
TuTh 10:00–11:30 a.m./Instructor: Lee
The American City in the 19th and 20th Centuries
(U16 3066)
Cultural, political, and economic history of U.S. cities in the 19th
and 20th centuries.
TuTh 1:00–2:30 p.m./Instructor: Garb
The Early Medieval World (U16 3262)
A principal theme of this course is the Christianization of
Europe.
MW 10:00–11:30 a.m./Instructor: Pegg
Modern Eurasia: Afghanistan and Central Asia
(U16 3371)
Introduction to the political, religious, cultural and social history
of Russian Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Xinjiang in modern
times.
MW 11:30–1:00 p.m./Instructor: Tasar
Modern Germany (U16 3450)
The history of Germany since its unification in the 1860s–70s.
MWF 12:00–1:00 p.m./Instructor: Brown
Introduction to Jewish Civilization (U94 209)
Introduction to Jewish history, culture, and society.
MW 10:00–11:30 a.m./Instructor: Kieval
Popular Music in American Culture (U24 1022)
American popular music from 1920 to the present, with emphasis
on technology, social and political contexts.
MWF 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m./Instructor: Decker
Great Philosophers (U22 125C)
Major philosophers and texts, including Plato, Aristotle,
Descartes, Hume, Kant, Mill, Marx, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein
TuTh 10:00–11:30 a.m./Instructor: Towl
Introduction to Environmental Ethics (U22 235F)
Current issues in environmental ethics, endangered species,
animal rights, energy and pollution, global justice, and business
obligations.
TuTh 10:00–11:30 a.m./Instructor: Evans
Classical Ethical Theories (U22 331)
Great works in the history of ethics, especially by Plato, Aristotle,
Hume, Kant, and Mill.
MW 10:00–11:30 a.m./Instructor: Crookston
Introduction to Comparative Politics (U25 102B)
A broad array of political systems and tools for looking at the
political world.
MW 1:00–2:30 p.m./Instructor: Tavits
Development of the American Constitution (U25 3256)
Changes and interpretations of the U.S. Constitution.
MW 2:30–4:00 p.m./Instructor: Calvert
Justice, Virtue, and the Soul (U25 3911)
Issues and debates in Western political theory, on justice, legitimacy,
equality, democracy, liberty, sovereignty, and the role of
history in the political and social world.
MW 2:30–4:00 p.m./Instructor: Rehfeld
Latin American Politics Through Film (U25 4331)
Major issues that have defined Latin American politics—through
film.
Th 3:00–6:00 p.m./Instructor: Crisp
Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology (U23 126A)
Stars, black holes, galaxies and quasars, cosmology, and the Big
Bang theory.
TuTh 10:00–11:30 a.m./Instructor: Krawczynski