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Class Visit Opportunities for Seniors
We invite admitted seniors to sit in on a Sewanee class during their campus visit—an inside look at the conversations, curiosity, and close-knit learning that define life on the Mountain. Browse the classes below, then schedule your visit and let us know which one you’d like to join.
What subject area are you interested in joining?
| Course Name | Instructor | Days Offered | Start | End | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction to Drawing and Two Dimensional Media | Prof. Wohl | T | 1:30 p.m. | 4:30 p.m. | An introduction to drawing and two-dimensional media that explores mark making as the basis for visualization and ideation. Course meetings are divided between lectures and demonstrations, drawing time and critiques. |
| Advanced Studio Seminar in Drawing and Painting | Prof. Wohl | TH | 1:30 p.m. | 4:30 p.m. | Students work at the advanced level in Drawing, Painting and/or Collage. Class sessions alternate between a research/discussion/work day and critiques of projects designed around prompts that are rooted in Contemporary Drawing and Painting Theory and Practice. |
| Music History | Dr. Miller | MW | 2:00 p.m. | 3:15 p.m. | Our music today builds on the foundation of past composers—Mozart and Beethoven from the Classical period, as well as other composers before and after them. We learn about the technical developments (music notation, invention of the piano) that made such music possible, as well as the cultural contexts that allowed them to thrive as creative individuals. |
| Course Name | Instructor | Days Offered | Start | End | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction to Marketing | Prof. Shipps | MWF | 9:00 a.m. | 9:50 a.m. | This course introduces students to the business of marketing both conceptually and as a profession. Study and activities include understanding the strategic marketing process, planning and research, launching new products, distribution, promotion and pricing. While studying and examining contemporary online and offline marketing methods, we will also analyze landmark marketing case studies to understand how key decisions impact outcomes and influence consumer purchasing behavior. |
| Corporate Finance | Dr. Blythe | MWF | 12:00 p.m. | 1:00 p.m. | Basics of financial analysis and business application using Excel. |
| Fundamentals of Financial Accounting | Dr. Zinn | T/TH | 8:00 a.m. | 9:30 a.m. | Focuses on the preparation of financial statements. |
| Principles of Economics | Dr. Mahler | MWF | 9:00 a.m. | 9:50 a.m. | The course introduces students to the field of economics, and explores a variety of topics spanning both microeconomics and macroeconomics. Using basic algebraic and graphical techniques, it lays the foundation for how economists model the world using mathematics to study how individuals, firms and governments make choices and how they affect the world around us. |
| Environmental Economics | Dr. Elrod | MWF | 8:00 a.m. | 8:50 a.m. | This class examines the connection between the economy and the environment. |
| Course Name | Instructor | Days Offered | Start | End | Description |
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| Greek and Roman Mythology | Dr. Papillon | MWF | 11:00 a.m. | 1:50 p.m. | Lecture style survey of Greco-Roman myth, theories of myth, and their relevance to modern life. |
| Latin American Literatures and Cultures, Independence to the Present | Dr. Burner | MWF | 1:00 p.m. | 1:50 p.m. | In this course, we engage in critical analysis of Latin American and Latinx literature, film, art, and music while exploring major trends in the region’s political, social, and economic history. Topics include coloniality, neocolonialism, the legacy of slavery, race, gender, sexuality, feminism, workers’ rights, socialism, authoritarianism, indigenous rights, neoliberalism, and migration. Course is conducted in Spanish. |
| Literary Criticism | Dr. Batkie | MW | 2:00 p.m. | 3:15 p.m. | This seminar-style class introduces students to the field of literary criticism and critical theory. Students explore different approaches to what it means to study meaning, in literary texts and elsewhere, and how language structures our world. Students will be energetically discussing a series of theoretical readings assigned for the day and applying them to literary objects. |
| Studies in Lit--The Love Arts | Dr. Engel | T/TH | 1:30 p.m. | 2:45 p.m. | Love often has been characterized by its fatalistic spontaneity, an idea theatrically portrayed by Romeo’s first encounter with Juliet (a play we will read in this course). We will engage with this topic using a wide range of works from a variety of different literary genres. In the first half, students will read and report on ancient Greek plays and an early novel (Euripides’s Medea and Alcestis; Longus’s Daphnis and Chloe), Roman poetry and prose (Ovid’s Art of Love and Apuleius’s “Cupid and Psyche”), and an anthology of contemporary poems; in the second half, two plays by Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet and As You Like It), followed by two short modern novels (E.M. Forster’s Maurice, and Virginia Woolf’s Orlando). |
| Virginia Woolf | Dr. Tucker | W | 2:00 p.m. | 4:30 p.m. | This is a writing intensive English seminar focused on the works of 20th-century British modernist Virginia Woolf. |
| Course Name | Instructor | Days Offered | Start | End | Description |
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| World Politics | Dr. Manacsa | MWF | 9:00 a.m. | 9:50 a.m. | This is an exciting introduction to international relations! |
| Principles of Psychology | Dr. Falikman | MWF | 9:00 a.m. | 9:50 a.m. | Exploration of key areas, approaches, theories, and research methodology in psychology. |
| Drugs, Brain & Society | Dr. Cammack | MWF | 10:00 a.m. | 10:50 a.m. | This introductory-level course explores how drugs impact the human brain, behavior, and society. Students will learn and apply major principles of pharmacology to understand biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors that contribute to various patterns of drug use and misuse, including substance use disorders. Students will also learn about current and emerging approaches to addiction treatment and evaluate how drug-related research informs healthcare policy, legalization, mental health services, and approaches to human flourishing. |
| Introduction to Public Policy | Dr. Gaulding | MW | 3:30 p.m. | 4:45 p.m. | Students are introduced to foundational theories of public policy, gaining valuable insight into "who gets what, when, and how" in the political process. Through a series of case studies in environmental, social welfare, criminal justice, and health policy, students are asked to apply and critically evaluate policy problems and solutions, given existing public policy theories. |
| Introduction to Psychology | Prof. Mendez | T/TH | 8:00 a.m. | 9:30 a.m. | An introductory course focusing on a topic or issue in psychology, designed for students who do not plan to pursue psychology as a major/minor. |
| Immigration, Identity, and Politics | Dr. Dragojevic | T/TH | 8:00 a.m. | 9:30 a.m. | Factors that facilitate or hinder political, social, and economic incorporation of immigrants are examined. In addition to reviewing the early twentieth century theories of immigration in the discipline of sociology, contemporary research on immigration in political science and related disciplines are analyzed. While the course focuses primarily on explaining the patterns of incorporation of immigrants in the United States and Europe, it also compares cases from Latin America, Eurasia, the Middle East, and other regions that have different, or share similar, immigration policies, the level of economic development, and demographic composition. |
| Course Name | Instructor | Days Offered | Start | End | Description |
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| Multidimensional Calculus | Dr. Drinen | MWF | 10:00 a.m. | 10:50 a.m. | At some schools, this would be called Calculus III. It's what comes next after BC Calculus. |
| Theory of Computation | Dr. Sowell | M | 2:00 p.m. | 4:30 p.m. | This course introduces computability and the theory of computational complexity. Topics include automata, regular and context-free languages, the Church-Turing thesis, decidability, reducibility, and recursive function theory. |
| Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics | Dr. Sowell | T/TH | 9:30 a.m. | 10:45 a.m. | Introduction to interactive computer graphics including 2D and 3D viewing, clipping, hidden line/surface removal, shading, interaction handling, geometrical transformations, projections, and hierarchical data structures. Brief introductions to related and dependent fields of physically-based modeling and scientific visualization will be included. |
| Course Name | Instructor | Days Offered | Start | End | Description |
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| Forest and Watershed Restoration | Dr. Harris | MWF | 10:00 a.m. | 10:50 a.m. | A study of the principles and practices employed in forest and watershed restoration across North America. Emphasis placed on the scientific tenets of restoration (ecosystem function and process), field monitoring techniques, the concept of adaptive management, collaboration and conflict resolution, and the development of restoration policy. |
| Tropical Forest Ecology and Management | Dr. Harris | MWF | 12:00 p.m. | 12:50 p.m. | An introduction to the ecology and management of forests and natural resources in the tropical biome. Technical aspects of forestry and natural resource management are considered. Topics include tropical forest ecology, techniques of forest and natural resource management. |
| Course Name | Instructor | Days Offered | Start | End | Description |
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| General Chemistry II | Dr. Seballos | MWF | 8:00 a.m. | 8:50 a.m. | Second semester of introductory general chemistry sequence. |
| Pharmacology: From Molecules to Society | Dr. Shelley | MWF | 9:00 a.m. | 9:50 a.m. | How do drugs shape not only cells, but also culture? This course introduces the principles of evidence-based medicine, pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, and the actions of drugs on major organ systems —while situating these scientific foundations in a broader liberal arts context. Case studies of recreational drugs, cognitive enhancers, and therapeutic agents highlight ethical debates, historical trajectories, and social implications. |
| Experimental Neurobiology | Dr. Shelley | T/R | 9:30 a.m. | 10:45 a.m. | This lecture and laboratory course utilizes electrical recordings from a variety of invertebrates to build upon topics discussed in NEUR 208, illustrating the principles of nervous system communication in sensory and motor systems. The course will also include the roles of hypothesis testing, models, data analysis, and the scientific method in understanding how experimental data can lead to knowledge of nervous system function. |
| Molecular Cellular Biology | Dr. Buckingham | MWF | 12:00 p.m. | 12:50 p.m. | A Biology required course typically taken by 2nd & 3rd year STEM students. Class covers topics such as protein quality control, protein trafficking, cellular organization and cellular behavior mechanisms. |
| Biochemistry | Dr. Kikis | MWF | 11:00 a.m. | 11:50 a.m. | An upper level course on metabolic pathways. |
| Advanced General Chemistry II | Dr. Joslin | MWF | 9:00 a.m. | 9:50 a.m. | Solution and solid state chemistry is fundamental in a variety of contexts from biological to geological systems. This course explores the behavior of these systems as well as applications of chemical theory in a variety of contexts. Students gain experience with the measurements and analysis necessary to characterize both solution and solid samples in the laboratory setting. |
| Inorganic Chemistry | Dr. Bachman | MWF | 10:00 a.m. | 10:50 a.m. | Inorganic Chemistry is an intermediate majors/minors course for Chemistry and Biochemistry. It is a lab course with a lecture and lab. In the lab the students will be carrying out real research projects derived from a couple of faculty members' ongoing projects. |
| Environmental Geochemistry | Dr. Bachman | T/TH | 11:00 a.m. | 12:15 p.m. | Environmental Geochemistry is an elective class that explores all the chemical processes in the environment as well as current environmental problems. It only requires some general chemistry knowledge to participate. |