College of Arts & Sciences Courses

January Term 2026 Courses - Arts & Sciences

Course #

Course Title

Instructor and Rank

Department Instruction Mode Time Grading Option
AAS 2224 Black Femininities & Masculinities in the US Media Lisa T Shutt, Associate Professor African American and African Studies Online Synchronous 9:00 am-2:30pm Student Option
ARTH 2052 Ancient Egypt

Anastasia Dakouri-Hild, Professor

Art Online Synchronous 10:00am-3:30pm Graded
ARTS 2560 Special Topics in Printmaking ~ Altered Paper Akemi Ohira, Associate Professor Program in Studio Art In Person 10:00am-3:30pm Graded
ARTS 2610 Drawing I

Maria Villanueva, Assistant Professor

Department of Art In Person 9:00 am-2:30pm Graded

DANC 3640

Screendance

Kim Brooks Mata, Professor, General Faculty, Director of Dance Program

Drama

In Person

10:00am-3:30pm

Graded

DRAM 2020

Acting I

David Dalton, Associate Professor

Drama

In Person

10:00am-3:30pm

Graded

ENCW 4830 Advanced Poetry Writing: The Self-Portrait Poem Lisa Russ Spaar, Full Professor English / Creative Writing In Person 10:00am-3:30pm Graded
ENGL 1910 Public Speaking

Margaret Gardiner, Adjunct Professor

English In Person 10:00am-3:30pm Student Option
ENGL 3500 A History of Romance Cristina Griffin, Assistant Professor English In Person 10:00am-3:30pm Graded

ENWR 2520

Literacy for Well-Being

Heidi Nobles, Assistant Professor

English In Person 10:00am-3:30pm Graded

ENWR 2377

Rebuilding and Expanding Democracy Stephen Parks, Full Professor & Srdja Popovic, Visiting Scholar English Hybrid 10:00am-3:30pm Graded

ETP 3500/ MUSI 3559

Sound and Sustainability

Matthew Burtner, Professor

Environmental Thought and Practice/Music

Hybrid with Remote Option

9:00 am-2:30pm

EVSC 2850 Polar Environments Lauren Miller, Associate Professor Environmental Sciences Online Synchronous 10:00am-3:30pm Graded
HIST 2013

Why Did They Kill? Interpreting Genocide and Its Perpetrators

Jeffrey Rossman, Associate Professor History Online Synchronous 10:00am-3:30pm Graded
MATH 2700 Euclidean and Noneuclidean Geometry David Sherman, Associate Professor Mathematics In Person 10:00am-3:30pm Graded

MDST XXXX

Journalism on Screen: The Struggle for Truth

Kate Sweeney, Assistant Professor of Practice

Media Studies

Online Synchronous

10:00am-3:30pm

Student Option

MDST 2000

Introduction to Media Studies

Siva Vaidhyanathan, Robertson Chair of Media Studies

Media Studies

Online Asynchronous

Online Asynchronous

Graded

MDST 2710 Screenwriting Matthew Marshall, Lecturer Media Studies Online Synchronous 10:00am-3:30pm Graded
MDST 3504 Mexico Comes to Hollywood

Keara Goin, Associate Professor, General Faculty

Media Studies Online Synchronous 10:00am-3:30pm Graded

MDST 3559-001

Love, Sex, and Media

Andrea Press, Endowed Chair Professor Media Studies Online Synchronous 10:00am-3:30pm Graded

MDST 3559-002

Screening Resistance: Film, Power, and Justice

 Jülide Etem, Assistant Professor

Media Studies

Online Synchronous

9:00am-2:30pm

Graded

MDST 4701

Media & Everyday Life

Andre Cavalcante, Associate Professor

Media Studies

In Person

10:00am-3:30pm

Graded

MUSI 2559

Multimedia Storytelling & Production Nathan Moore, Instructor Music / WTJU Online Synchronous 10:00am-3:30pm Student Option

MUSI 3559/ ETP 3500

Sound and Sustainability

Matthew Burtner, Professor

Music/Environmental Thought and Practice

Hybrid with Remote Option

9:00 am-2:30pm

Student Option

PHYS 1130 Physics of Sports

Richard A Lindgren, Research Professor Physics Emeritus

Physics Online Synchronous 10:00am-3:30pm Graded
PLAP 3160 Politics of Food Paul Freedman, Associate Professor Politics (and ETP) In Person 10:00am-3:30pm Student Option

PLAP 3420

Virginia Government & Politics

Ken Stroupe & Mary Brown, Lecturers

Center for Politics

In Person

10:00am-3:30pm

Graded

PSYC 2500 The Psychology of Misinformation

Hudson Golino, Associate Professor

Psychology Online Asynchronous

Online Asynchronous

Student Option
PSYC 3210 Research Methods: Psychobiology Research Laboratory

Erin Clabough, Professor

Psychology In Person 10:00am-3:30pm Graded
PSYC 3490 Infant Development Tobias Grossmann, Professor Psychology Online Asynchronous

Online Asynchronous

Graded
PSYC 3559 RM: Data Modeling with Regression in R M. Joseph Meyer, Associate Professor, Karen M. Schmidt (Professor) & Xin Cynthia Tong (Associate Professor) Psychology Online Synchronous 10:00am-3:30pm Graded
PSYC 4100 Neuroscience of Emotions and Motivation of Functional Behavior Cedric L. Williams; Professor Psychology In Person 9:00 am-2:30pm Graded

PSYC 4260

Genetic & Epigenetic Research in Behavior

Jessica Connelly, Professor

Psychology

In Person

10:00am-3:30pm

Graded

PSYC 4310 Cognitive Aging

Mariana Teles, Associate Professor, General Faculty

Psychology Online Asynchronous

Online Asynchronous

Graded

PSYC 4350

Research Methods in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Meghan Puglia, Assistant Professor

Neurology

In Person

10:00am-3:30pm

Graded

PSYC XXXX

The Neuroscience of Social Relationships

James Coan, Professor

Psychology

In Person

10:00am-3:30pm

Graded

PSYC XXXX

Criminal Minds: The Science of Forensic Psychology

Lucy Guarnera, Associate Professor

Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences (School of Medicine)

In Person

TBD

Student Option

PSYC XXXX

Qualitative Methods in Psychological Research

Channing Mathews, Assistant Professor

Psychology

Online Synchronous

10:00am-3:30pm

Student Option

RELB 2100 Buddhism Kurtis R. Schaeffer, Frances Myers Ball Professor Religious Studies Online Synchronous 10:00am-3:30pm Graded
SLAV 2250 The Dark Side of the Twentieth Century Dariusz Tolczyk, Professor Slavic Languages and Literatures In Person 10:00am-3:30pm

Graded

SLAV 2360 Dracula Stanley Stepanic, Associate Professor Slavic Languages and Literature

In Person

10:00am-3:30pm Graded
SOC 3050 Autoethnography

David Skubby, Assistant Professor, General Faculty

Sociology In Person 9:00 am-2:30pm Graded

SOC 3260

Prozac Culture

Joseph E. Davis, Professor

Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture

In Person

10:00am-3:30pm

Graded

SPAN 2010

Intermediate Spanish

Eliud Encarnacion Segura, Graduate Instructor

Spanish

In Person

10:00am-3:30pm

Graded

STAT 1601-001

Introduction to Data Science with R

Kristen Roland, Assistant Professor, General Faculty

Statistics

Online Asynchronous

Online Asynchronous

Graded

STAT 1601-002

Introduction to Data Science with R

Rich Ross, Assistant Professor, General Faculty

Statistics

In Person

10:00am-3:30pm

Graded

WGS 3897 Gender Violence and Social Justice

Lisa Speidel, Associate Professor, General Faculty

Women, Gender and Sexuality In Person 10:00am-3:30pm Graded