2025 Courses

J-Term 2025 courses

The default mode of instruction for January Term 2025 is in-person. Exceptions are noted in SIS under "Instruction Mode" and noted below. This list is subject to change.

2025 College of Arts and Sciences

AAS 2224
Black Femininities & Masculinities in the US Media ONLINE
African-American and African Studies
Lisa Shutt, Associate Professor
AAS 3671
History and Memory of the US Civil Rights Movement: A Southern Civil Rights Tour CANCELLED
African-American and African Studies
Jalane Schmidt, Associate Professor
Hashim Davis, Assistant Dean and Director of the Luther P. Jackson Black Cultural Center
ARTS 2560
Special Topics in Printmaking on/of Paper
Art
Akemi Ohira, Associate Professor
ARTS 2610
Drawing I
Art
Maria Villanueva, Associate Professor
BIOL 4559
Plants and Global Warming: From Cell Function to Ecology and Evolution
Biology
Antoine Perrier, Lecturer
Alfredo Lopez, Lecturer
BIOL 4585
Genetics of Metabolic Health
Biology
Benedict Lenhart, PhD Candidate
ENCW 4830
Advanced Poetry Writing: The Poetics of Place
English
Lisa Spaar, Professor
ENGL 3559
A History of Romance
English
Cristina Griffin, Assistant Professor
ENWR 3500
Rhetoric of Documentary Films
English
Rhiannon Goad, Assistant Professor
ENWR 3559
Rebuilding (and Expanding) Democracy: A Workshop with Global Advocates HYBRID
English
Stephen Parks, Professor
EVSC 2850
Polar Environments
Environmental Sciences
Lauren Miller, Assistant Professor
EVSC 4050/5050
Topics in Oceanography
Environmental Sciences
Stephen Macko, Professor
HIST 2013
Why Did They Kill? Interpreting Genocide and Its Perpetrators ONLINE
History
Jeffrey Rossman, Associate Professor
MATH 2700
Euclidean and Noneuclidean Geometry
Math
David Sherman, Associate Professor
MDST 2508
Experiential Multimedia Storytelling (with travel to New York City)
Media Studies
Anna Katherine Clay, Assistant Professor
Matt Weber, Chief Creative Officer
MDST 2710
Screenwriting ONLINE
Media Studies
Matthew Marshall, Lecturer
MDST 3504
Mexico Comes to Hollywood ONLINE
Media Studies
Keara Goin, Associate Professor
MDST 3559
Al and the Future of Creativity: Film; Video; Music; Text (with travel to New York City)
Media Studies
Siva Vaidyanathan, Professor
MUSI 2559
Sound Production & Storytelling
Music
Nathan Moore, Instructor
Mary Garner McGehee, Instructor
PHYS 1130
Physics of Sports ONLINE
Physics
Richard Lindgren, Research Professor Emeritus
PHYS 1559
Crash Course in Machine Learning
Physics
Craig Group, Professor
Bob Hirosky, Professor
PLAP 3160
Politics of Food
Politics
Paul Freedman, Associate Professor
PLAP 3420
Virginia Government and Politics
Politics
Kenneth S. Stroupe, Lecturer
Mary Brown, Lecturer
PSYC 2150
Introduction to Cognition ONLINE
Psychology
Mariana Teles Santos Golino, Associate Professor
PSYC 2500
The Psychology of Misinformation ONLINE
Psychology
Hudson Golino, Associate Professor
PSYC 3210
Research Methods: Psychobiology Laboratory
Psychology
Erin Clabough, Associate Professor
PSYC 3280
Imag(in)e Neurons: Inferring Brain Function from Structure
Psychology
Adema Ribic, Assistant Professor
PSYC 4100
The Neuroscience of Emotion & Motivation
Psychology
Cedric L. Williams, Professor
PSYC 4260
Research Methods: Genetic and Epigenetic Research in Behavior
Psychology
Jessica Connelly, Professor
PSYC 4350
Research Methods in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Psychology
Meghan Puglia, Assistant Professor
PSYC 4500
Consciousness
Psychology
Toby Grossmann, Professor
PSYC 5326
The Neuroscience of Social Relationships
Psychology
James Coan, Professor
RELB 2100
Buddhism ONLINE
Religious Studies
Kurtis Schaeffer, Professor
SLAV 2250
The Dark Side of the Twentieth Century
Slavic
Dariusz Tolczyk, Professor
SLAV 2360
Dracula
Slavic
Stanley Stepanic, Assistant Professor
SOC 3056
Culture and Power
Sociology
Ian Mullins, Assistant Professor
SOC 3260
Prozac Culture
Sociology
Joseph Davis, Professor
SPAN 2010
Intermediate Spanish
Spanish
Patricio Arriagada Soto, Lecturer
STAT 1601
Introduction to Data Science with R ONLINE
Statistics
Kristen Roland, Assistant Professor
STAT 1601
Introduction to Data Science with R ONLINE
Statistics
Richard Ross, Assistant Professor
STAT 3220
Introduction to Regression Analysis ONLINE
Statistics
Krista Varanyak, Lecturer
WGS 3897
Gender Violence and Social Justice
Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Lisa Speidel, Assistant Professor

2025 Data Science

DS 4002
Data Science Project Course ONLINE
Brian Wright, Assistant Professor

2025 Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy

LPPP 3500
Impact Investing in Action: Appalachia
Stephanie Randolph, Lecturer

2025 School of Engineering and Applied Science

STS 2500
The LEGO Course: Engineering Design and Values
Benjamin Laugelli, Professor