Supplement Spring 2006
Spring 2006	BIOL 253.00	Paleomarine Biololgy		0.50	Holdner, Eric
This course will survey the techniques used by geologists and paleobiologists when interpreting Earth's ancient oceans. We will review physical and chemical aspects of modern oceans (e.g., salinity, temperature, currents and upwellings, depth-related variations) and discuss how these aspects have varied throughout geologic time. Examinations of the major taxa appearing in the fossil record will provide past analogues of modern organisms that, along with physical and chemical lines of evidence, will allow for the reconstruction of paleoenvironments of deposition. The fossil record of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environments will be explored. At least one field trip will be required. Prerequisite is Biol 112. This class fulfills the Environmental Biology diversity requirement for the Biology major.
Spring 2006	CHNS 324.00	Modern China in Film and Fiction		0.50 units	Zhang, Jie
This seminar explores how the image of modern China has been constructed through a variety of cinematic and literary representations. Both Chinese and foreign perspectives will be introduced. Background readings and documentaries will provide basic historical narrative. Class discussions will focus on how cultural, social, and political changes find their expressions in film and fiction, and more importantly, how China has come to be imagined and represented as primitive, exotic, oppressive, revolutionary, modern, and most recently, postmodern and economically appealing. Some of the key issues include gender, youth, family, ethnicity, modernity, visuality, violence, identity, and cultural stereotyping. The course aims to acquaint students with major works of twentieth century Chinese filmmaking and fiction as well as with foreign works on China and to promote students’ critical understanding of Chinese literature, culture, and society. All readings, films, and discussion are in English. Advanced Chinese language students also have the opportunity to read Chinese versions of assigned stories, watch movies in Chinese, and write short essays in Chinese. This course will count towards the Asian Studies concentration and the Asian Area distribution for the International Studies major.
Spring 2006	CLAS 292.00	Rome’s First Emperors: The Julio-Claudian Dynasty		0.50 units	Drogula, Fred
When Gaius Octavius was born in 63 BC, Rome was approaching its 450^th anniversary as a republic. By the time of his death in AD 14, Rome had become an empire obedient to the commands of a single man, and Octavius had become Augustus, the first emperor of Rome. Augustus completely reformed and rebuilt the Roman world, establishing a system of imperial government that would rule the Roman Empire for centuries to come. His place at the pinnacle of Roman society became a hereditary possession of his clan, and over the next fifty-five years his successors—Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero—would have a tremendous impact on the development of Roman government and society. This course seeks to understand how one clan established itself as the supreme ruler of Roman politics and society, how it held this unprecedented position of authority, and why it was ultimately toppled from imperial power. Alongside these questions we will also ask when the Republic actually “fell,” how and why it did so, and what the Republic actually was. In addition, a heavy emphasis will be placed on examining how Roman society developed under the rule of the Caesars, with particular attention given to groups such as freedmen, senators, slaves, and women. Readings will focus primarily upon ancient sources, with careful attention given to scrutinizing and evaluating the content of each source.
Spring 2006	ENGL 104.08	Contemporary Minority Literature		0.50 units	Neti, Leila
This course will focus on the political, social and literary impact of American “multiculturalism” with regard to the vexed terrain of self-representation and identity formation(s). Using the representation of race as our organizing principle, we will trace its interplay with questions of gender, class and sexuality as taken up in literary texts by women of color from diverse social and cultural backgrounds. In The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois made the now famous claim that “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.” As immigrant writers contribute to the growing canon of minority literature, race, along with gender, class, and sexuality, continues to be among the most crucial sites of literary study. Our examination of American minor literature from the twentieth-century will take us through a broad range of works that collectively represent their own, often alternative, histories. In addition to looking at dominant representations and theorizations of multiculturalism, we will also consider how the very rhetoric of American multiculturalism functions with regard to those who occupy spaces of particular marginality. For example, how has multiculturalism both been taken up and critiqued in terms of its relevance to discourses of gender, queer sexuality, urban poverty, etc.? This course will apply an interdisciplinary approach to American ethnic studies, working with both primary texts, films, and cultural theory. Representative texts include: Firoozeh Dumas’s Funny in Farsi, Louise Erdrich’s Tracks, Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban, and Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake.
Spring 2006	ENGL 254.00	Literary Women:  Nineteenth-Century British Literature		0.50 units	Mankoff, Ellen
"What art's for a woman?" asks Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Her question was echoed by many writers throughout the nineteenth century, nonetheless – or all the more - a great age for literary women. This course will introduce major writers of the romantic and Victorian periods, exploring the relationships between their lives and works, and examining issues such as women as leaders; the education of women; the changing roles of women in the home, in the workplace, and in the community; the growth of the reading public and the gendering of authorship. We will consider relations between genres as we read fiction ("gothic" and "realistic" novels), poetry, letters, journals, biography, autobiography, and essays on education, travel, literature, and politics. Authors will include Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria Edgeworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Florence Nightingale, George Eliot, Christina Rossett, and Virginia Woolf.  This course is open only to sophomores and first-year students with advanced placement credit.  Enrollment limited for sophomores.  Permission of instructor required for first-year students. Students who have taken ENGL 210, Proper Ladies and Women Writers, are not eligible to take this course.
Spring 2006	ENGL 268.00	The Global Novel		0.50 units	Neti, Leila
This course will focus on the global novel in English. By 1914 the British Empire had colonized almost 85% of the world, bringing diverse cultural traditions under the encyclopedic gaze of Western modernity. If part of the project of the colonial apparatus was to collect knowledge of the world in ways that bodies, cultures, and landscapes could be understood and ordered by the West, contemporary societies are now negotiating their own means of self-representation in the often violent space of postcolonial rupture. Throughout the term, we will work with texts and visual images produced out of, and in response to, the history of the colonial encounter. Drawing on a broad range of literary, filmic, and theoretical materials we will develop strategies for understanding the production and consumption of postcolonial representation, in both local and global contexts. As consumers of these cultural products within the space of the Western academy, we will be attentive to the function of the stereotype as we consider representations of gender and sexuality, violence and terrorism, class structures, and migration. Texts considered will include Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions, Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night, and Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia.
Spring 2006	ENGL 365.00	Objects of Beauty		0.50 units	Neti, Leila
In her recent book, On Beauty and Being Just, Elaine Scarry makes the claim that “At the moment we see something beautiful, we undergo a radical decentering.” Others might suggest that notions of beauty have been used precisely to center certain normative standards, often violently marginalizing those who do not adhere. Whether dismissed as frivolous, theorized as a philosophical category of inquiry, or politicized in the service of feminist or anti-racist discourse, beauty does many things: it captivates, it incites pleasure and desire, it oppresses and subjugates, and it excludes. Throughout the course of this term, we will evaluate Scarry’s claim, looking at texts dealing with both theoretical and practical aspects of aesthetic experience. Texts such as Paula Black’s The Beauty Industry and Robert Young’s Colonial Desire, will provide a framework for examining how politics of race, class, and gender shape questions of aesthetic value. Within this theoretical context, we will consider representations of beauty in print and visual culture, from popular cinema and magazines to literature. Among the literary and filmic texts to be examined are Ousmane Sembene’s Black Girl, Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy, Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, Nella Larsen’s Passing and W.E.B. Du Bois’s Dark Princess.
Spring 2006	ENGL 412.00	Transnational Feminism		0.50 units	Nadkarni, Asha
This course engages U.S. Third World and postcolonial feminisms to ask how they transform feminist theory and practice. We begin with critiques of the exclusions engendered by certain feminist models. What issues must a feminism that locates gender as the only site of oppression ignore? Which women are left out of its universalist discourse? How do the perspectives of feminists of color in the U.S. and postcolonial world radically reshape feminist politics? In asking these questions the aim of this course is not simply comparative: we will not look at different feminist movements as representative of the national contexts from which they emerge. Rather, this course understands feminisms in different parts of the globe as mutually constitutive and informing. As such, the “transnational” in the course title signals that we will theorize feminism as a global phenomenon that challenges and complicates the bounded nature of the nation-state itself. Readings may include essays by Gayatri Spivak, Chandra Mohanty, Rey Chow, Saidiya Hartman, and Kumari Jayawardena, as well as novels by Jessica Hagedorn, Michelle Cliff, Audre Lorde and Arundhati Roy.
Spring 2006	PSCI 427.00	Nietzsche and Political Philosophy		0.50 units	Baumann, Fred
Spring 2006	PSCI 492.02	ST: Failed States and State Collapse: Causes, Consequences and Curses		0.50 units	Charlick-Paley, Tanya
This seminar explores why states collapse or fail and what state failure means for regional and international security.  The first part of the course will examine the causes of internal violence and state breakdown including; demographic patterns, ethnic conflict, the nature of the regime, the level of economic development and the degree of global economic integration.  We will also examine external explanations for state failure including opportunistic aggression by neighbors.  The middle part of the course will examine cases of state weakness and collapse including; Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Colombia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone…to test the theories on the origin of state collapse and examine the consequences of the collapse. In addition to traditional case studies, we will use role-playing simulations and statistical data analysis of existing failed states databases. The course will conclude with an examination of strategies for both prevention of state failure and post-collapse reconstruction. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. Enrollment limited.
Spring 2006	PSCI 492.03	ST: Tocqueville on Democracy and Revolution		0.50 units	Atanassow, Ewa
Alexis de Tocqueville made democracy and revolution the principal themes of his two masterpieces, "Democracy in America" and "The Old Regime and the Revolution." Working with extensive selections from these works, this seminar will examine the phenomena of democratization and revolutionary struggle which, according to Tocqueville, epitomize modern times. Enrollment limited.
Spring 2006	PSYC 112.00	Honors Intro Psychology: Behavior in Context		0.50 units
Spring 2006	SOCY 226.00	Sociology of Law		0.50 units	Johnson, Jennifer
This course examines law and legal institutions in the United States from theoretically diverse sociological perspectives.  It begins by surveying how classical and contemporary sociologists have conceptualized the relationship between law and society, then introduces students to empirical research on law with a particular emphasis on penal or criminal law.  The course concludes by discussing how social change impacts the nature of law in the United States and, conversely, how legal change shapes American culture. Prerequisite: foundation course or permission of instructor
Spring 2006	SOCY 292.01	ST: Sport in Society		0.50 units	Cash, Robin
The study of sport helps us understand sport as social phenomena. Sport may be viewed as both a social institution and a microcosm of society. Sports provide valuable functions to society; and, as a reflection of society, sport often leads to the discovery of problems based in the structure and organization of the greater society. In this course we will examine sport as an institutionalized competitive activity. We will study the social constructions found in sport in connection with the greater society including the political, economic, and education institutions.  We will also focus on the race, gender, and class dimensions of sport. Prerequisite: socy 110, 111, 112, 113, 114 or 115 or permission of instructor
Spring 2006	SOCY 292.02	Sociology of Food	0.50 units		Johnson, Jennifer
This course asks what we can learn about the social world we live in by analyzing what we eat, how we eat it, where we buy it, how much it costs, who prepares it, who produces it and how. In particular, it examines contemporary patterns and practices of food production, distribution, preparation and consumption as reflections of the unprecedented scale and interconnectedness of human organization characteristic of globalization. This class is discussion-based and requires that students actively engage in both reading and real world observations that approach food as an object of social inquiry. Prerequisite: an intro Sociology course.
Canceled Courses
Spring 2006	ARTS 101.00	Color/Design
Spring 2006	BIOL 251.00	Marine Biology
Spring 2006	ENGL 104.04	Agents and Accidents
Spring 2006	ENGL 104.05	Literature of Resistance
Spring 2005	ENGL 231.00	Renaissance Poetry
Spring 2006	ENGL 252.00	19thC.British Novel: Work,Sex,Death
Spring 2006	ENGL 411.00	Narrative Regret
Spring 2006	ENGL 483.00	American Indian Literature
Spring 2006	MUSC 303.00	Women & Music
Spring 2006	PSYC 304.00	Neuropsychology
Spring 2006	PSYC 305	Physiological Psychology
Spring 2006	SOCY 229.00	Social Movements