Sophomore College 2009 Faculty and Courses
August 31 - September 18, 2009
* Dates and locations may vary slightly for off-campus seminars.
Natural History, Marine Biology, and Research*
Stuart Thompson, Department of Biology
Energy Technologies for a Sustainable Future
Bruce Clemens; Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Ghost Stories: Why the Dead Return and What They Want from Us
Russell Berman, Department of Comparative Literature
Great Ideas in Computer Science
Mehran Sahami, Department of Computer Science
Learning Theater: From Audience to Critic at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival*
Alice Rayner and Linda Paulson; Department of Drama
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
John Shoven, Department of Economics
Mathematics of the Information Age
Brad Osgood, Department of Electrical Engineering
Scott Sagan, Department of Political Science and co-director Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC)
The Meaning of Life: Moral and Spiritual Inquiry through Literature
Scotty McLennan, Program in Ethics in Society
Environmental and Geological Field Studies in the Rocky Mountains*
C. Page Chamberlain, Departments of Environmental Earth System Science and of Geological and Environmental Sciences
(No staff applications are being accepted for this course.)
Smallpox: Lethal Legacy, Forbidding Future
Robert Siegel, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Course Description available at a later date.
Darwin, Evolution, and Galápagos
William Durham, Program in Human Biology
Myra Strober, Professor, School of Education and Graduate School of Business
American Foreign Policy and the Challenges in the Twenty-First Century
Stephen Stedman, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Department of Political Science
Food and Politics
Robert Reich, Department of Political Science
Celluloid America: Explorations in Film and History
James Campbell, Department of History