Arts & Sciences Day Audit Program
In addition to the Special Audit option for evening courses in University College, adult students may audit selected undergraduate day courses in the College of Arts & Sciences for $350 on a noncredit, space-available basis. 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 2008 day audit courses are noted below. Register online for Arts & Sciences day audit courses. Call (314) 935-6759 for more information.
SPECIAL AUDIT COURSES Fall 2008
African American Studies: An Introduction (U84 208) The study of African American people through literature, history, archeology, sociology, and the arts. W 1:00-3:30 p.m./Instructor: Duncan
Anthropology and the Modern World (U69 204) Anthropologists’ views on major issues, including cultures facing destruction, communal societies, sex roles, poverty, political repression in the Third World. MWF 9:00-10:00 a.m./Instructor: Canfield
Africa: Peoples and Cultures (U69 306) Anthropological survey of Africa from classic ethnographies to contemporary development. TuTh 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m./Instructor: Stone
Introduction to Public Health (U69 3283) The philosophy, history, organization, functions, activities, and results of public health research and practice. MWF 12:00-1:00 p.m./Instructor: Benson
Religion and Society (U69 3293) A broad and practice-oriented view of religion. Special attention to the ways religions shape politics, law, war, and everyday life. TuTh 10:00-11:30 a.m./Instructor: Bowen
Introduction to Western Art (U10 112E) Painting, sculpture, and architecture of the western world from ancient Egypt to the present with emphasis on the relationship of art to society, political and cultural events. TuTh 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m./Instructor: Wallace
Homeric Archaeology (U10 3301) Art and culture of prehistoric Greece in The Iliad and The Odyssey of Homer. TuTh 10:00-11:30 a.m./Instructor: Symeonoglou
American Art to 1960 (U10 372) American art from 1900 Modernism to Abstract Expressionism and the Beat aesthetic. MW 10:00-11:30 a.m./Instructor: Miller
The Greek Imagination (U02 235) Introduction to Greek culture with emphasis on Archaic and Classical ideas about man, the gods, and the cosmos. MW 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m./Instructor: Lamberton
Geology of National Parks (U13 118A) Survey of geologic processes occurring at the Earth's surface and its interior using national parks and monuments as the prime venue for presentation. MWF 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m./Instructor: Dymek
Human Use of the Earth (U13 221A) The impacts of a growing population on the Earth, including habitat destruction, resource depletion, and air and water pollution. MWF 9:00-10:00 a.m./Instructor: Criss
British Fiction Since 1945 (U65 3142) British fiction from the Second World War to the end of the twentieth century. TuTh 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m./Instructor: Mackay
The Golden Age of Children’s Literature (U65 334) Major American and English children's books published between 1865 and 1915. TuTh 10:00-11:30 a.m./Instructor: Pawl
The Bible as Literature (U65 365F) Extensive reading in English translations of the Old Testament and the New Testament, with emphasis on literary forms and ideas. TuTh 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m./Instructor: Lawton
Introduction to Environmental Studies (U29 1101) Environmental issues and challenges of today's world. TuTh 1:00-2:30 p.m./Instructor: Knight
Economic History & Entrepreneurialism in Modern Western Civilization (U16 115) Western Civilization, 17th century-present, focusing on economic history and the rise of entrepreneurialism. MW 3:00-4:00 p.m./Instructor: Hause
Freedom, Citizenship, and the Making of American Life (U16 163) American history from the era before European settlement to the late twentieth century, exploring changes in the meanings of freedom, citizenship, and American identity. MW 10:00-11:00 a.m./Instructor: Kastor
Modern South Asia (U16 3192) History of the Indian sub-continent in the 19th and 20th centuries. MW 2:30-4:00 p.m./Instructor: Adcock
Introduction to Islamic Civilization (U94 210) Islamic civilization from Near East beginnings to the present. MW 10:00-11:00 a.m./Instructor: Reynolds
History of Jazz (U24 105) History of jazz to the present, including its African elements. TuTh 10:00-11:30 a.m./Instructor: Demarinis
Philosophy of Science (U22 321) Pivotal concepts common to empirical sciences and scientific theory are examined, including explanation, confirmation, prediction, systematization, empirical significance. TuTh 10:00-11:30 a.m./Instructor: Craver
Existentialism (U22 375) Philosophical systems Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Sartre. TuTh 1:00-2:30 p.m./Instructor: Evans
American Politics (U25 1011) Survey of a variety of topics of contemporary concern in American politics. MW 10:00-11:00 a.m./Instructor: Miller
Introduction to Political Theory (U25 106) Introduction to political theory, democracy, social justice, and freedom. TuTh 10:00-11:30 a.m./Instructor: MacMullen
Civil War and Peace (U25 3090) Causes and consequences of intra-state conflict, drawing on examples from Bosnia-Herzegovina, India, Iraq, Russia, Rwanda, Spain, and others. TuTh 10:00-11:30 a.m./Instructor: Brancati
African American Politics (U25 316B) Historical and contemporary efforts by African Americans to gain full inclusion as citizens in the U.S. political system. TuTh 10:00-11:30 a.m./Instructor: Minta
Law, Politics, and Society (U25 358) Introduction to the functions of law and the legal system in American society. TuTh 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m./Instructor: Gibson
Introduction to Religious Traditions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (U66 2021) Introduction to three major religions. MWF 2:00-3:00 p.m./Instructor: Ahmed
Chinese Thought (U66 3091) Introduction to Chinese thought early classical texts from the Daoist, Confucian, Mohist, and Legalist traditions. MW 8:30-10:00 a.m./Instructor: Lee
Introduction to Russian Civilization (U39 215C) Main currents and developments in Russian culture and the arts--folk literature and art, architecture, dress, music, literature, film. TuTh 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m./Instructor: Svobodny
Register online at ucollege.wustl.edu.
