SUPPLEMENT TO THE 2001-02 COURSE CATALOG
ANTH 249.00 200180 Maya, Ancient and Modern, P. Urban, E. Schortman, .5 unit, will be offered.
One of the largest modern indigenous groups of Mexico or Guatemala is the Maya, and the archaeological remains of their florescence--Chichen Itza, Tikal, Copan, and other sites--are well-known visual images. The Maya presence can be traced back to at least 800 B.C., and perhaps further, thereby providing a continuous record of cultural change virtually 3000 years long. This course will trace the development of Maya culture from its earliest prehistory up through the present, using insights from archaeology, art history, ethnography, ethnohistory, geography, history, political science, and religion to help us understand the present situation of the Maya in long-term perspective. Enrollment limited.
ANTH 333.00 200180 Old World Archaeology, has been cancelled.
ARHS 115.00 200210 ST: History of Photography, D. Younger, .5 unit, has been cancelled.
ARHS 220.00 200210 Greek Art, J. Clinton, .5 unit, will be offered.
This course will emphasize the particular subject matter of Greek art: the gods and heroes (and their mythology), and humans (portraits, religion, history, and genre). The social context will also be considered with respect to individual subjects and monuments. The format is lecture and discussion. Prerequisite: ARHS 110 or equivalent.
ARHS 233.00 200210 ST: Early Christian and Byzantine Art, J. Clinton, .5 unit, will be offered.
This course will cover the various forms of painting, sculpture, and architecture encountered in the period from the time of Constantine the Great in the early fourth century to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. This time-span saw the transformation of classical values in the figurative arts at the end of pagan antiquity into the spiritualized forms so typical of both medieval and Byzantine art. It also saw the development of a Christian place of worship that split along western and eastern lines, reflecting the ecclesiastical split, to form the western basilical and the eastern centralized religious spaces. The course will focus on tracing these transformations and on examining the role of early Christian and Byzantine arts in the formation of western art in the Middle Ages.
ARHS 371.00 200210 Museum Studies, has been cancelled.
ARHS 375.00 200210 Women as Artists and Subjects in 16th and 17th Century Art, K. Van Ausdall, .5 unit, will be offered.
The odds against a woman becoming an artist were formidable in 16th and 17th century Europe, but an increasing number of women were able to transcend dominant cultural expectations and demonstrate both technical skill and creative genius in the visual arts. Often acclaimed and heavily patronized in their own lifetimes, the art historical canon mysteriously came to exclude artists such as Artemisia Gentileschi, Lavinia Fontana, Clara Peeters, and Judith Leyster. Only in recent years have scholars started to reexamine their works and piece together their artistic personalities. This seminar will explore women as artists and women as subjects of art in Renaissance and Baroque Europe. Pivotal trends in artistic style and production will also be examined in order to place artists and subjects into context. Students will be active participants in the seminar: completing selected readings outside class (primary documents in translation and scholarly articles) and engaging in discussion during class time. In a group project, members of this seminar will write a new canon for Renaissance and Baroque art-one which reflects the best artists of both genders. Prerequisite: ARHS 111, 223, or the equivalent.
BIOL 346.00 200210 Microscopy & Image Analysis, has been cancelled.
CHNS 305.00 200210 Philosophical Taoism in Chinese Literature, Bai, .5 unit, will be offered.
This course examines a special group of early Chinese texts from antiquity to the 12th century which will not only enlighten, but also delight, modern readers: ancient texts of philosophical Taoism in fascinating literary style and a variety of literary works informed with Taoist spirit. No knowledge of Chinese required.
DANC 228.00 200180 The Choreographer, B. Craig-Quijada, .5 unit, will be offered.
DANC 392.00 200210 ST: Yoga, B. Francis, .25 unit, will be offered.
ECON 205.00 200180 Empirical Economics, has been cancelled.
ECON 343.00 200180 Money and Financial Markets, has been cancelled.
ECON 346.00 200180 Industrial Organization, G. Rodriquez, .5 unit, will be offered.
This course provides an introduction to Industrial Organization, a field that focuses on how firms, interacting through markets, attempt to exploit opportunities for profit. The standard models of perfect and imperfect competition are examined, emphasizing the strategic behavior of the interacting firms. Topics include pricing models, strategic aspects of business practice, vertical integration and technological change. Prerequisites: ECON 101 (11) and ECON 102 (12), or permission of the instructor.
ECON 378.00 200180 Economics of Women and Work, has been cancelled.
ECON 391.00 200180 Political Economy, D. Rowe, .5 unit, will be offered.
This seminar explores two general themes. The first is the reciprocal and dynamic relationship between markets and politics. The seminar will explore both how market forces influence political behavior, as well as how actors use politics to affect market outcomes. The second theme is to use the tools and assumptions of neo-classical economics to explain social behavior in both market and non-market settings. We will cover topics such as the formation of property rights, interest group politics, and the institutional sources of economic growth and decline. Prerequisites are ECON 101 and ECON 102.
ECON 101.00 200210 Principles of Microeconomics, has been cancelled.
ECON 337.00 200210 Econ of Financial Markets, has been cancelled.
ECON 385.00 200210 Environment and Developing World, has been cancelled.
ECON 391.00 200210 ST: Game Theory Seminar, G. Rodriguez, .5 unit, will be offered.
This seminar provides an introduction to the analysis of strategic behavior in multi-personal economic settings. The basic normal and extensive form representations of a game are applied to the analysis of static and dynamic strategic interactions, under a variety of informational assumptions. Students will use these concepts to study several problems in Industrial Organization, Theory of the Firm, Bargaining and Exchange Procedures, Regulation, Economics of the Law, and so forth. Prerequisites: ECON 101 (11) and ECON 102 (12), or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited.
ENGL 214.00 200180 The Bible as Literature, G. Harp, .5 unit, will be offered.
The Bible is not a single book, but rather many books written in various genres for many (and not always clear) purposes over the course of centuries. We shall explore how these texts work and the varieties of interpretation that they support. In the course of our reading, we shall investigate how books of the Hebrew and Christian Testaments make use of genre (e.g., creation story, "history," wisdom writing, prophecy, poetry, epistle) and how they redact material for their own distinctive purposes. This focus will afford us the opportunity to explore how traditions develop, shift, die off, and remain vital. Finally, we shall also explore how later writers (e.g., Nietzsche, T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop) make use of biblical materials and voices. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Enrollment limited.
ENGL 384.00 200180 20th Century American Self-Representations, J. Smith, .5 unit, will be offered.
We will explore the autobiographical impulse of 20th-century American writers. Questions to consider include: What definitions of self inform these texts? What selves are created by these texts? How do modern and contemporary authors complicate standard notions of autobiography? What voices emerge from these choices? What is essentially American about them? We will read works by Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Wright, Momaday, Welty, McCarthy, Lorde, Hooks, and others. Permission of the instructor required. Enrollment limited.
ENGL 226.00 200210 Renaissance Poetry, G. Harp, .5 unit, will be offered.
This course in early modern poetry will examine the kinds of experimentation taken up by the poets of the period ranging from Thomas More to John Milton, including such figures as John Skelton, Thomas Wyatt, Edmund Spenser, Rachel Speght, Philip Sidney, Mary Wroth, Aemilia Lanyer, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Donne, and George Herbert. We shall consider issues of formal, including prosodic, experimentation; ways that writers used poetry to create, subvert, and experiment with meaning; relationships between poetry and other genres (e.g., the sermon, controversial pamphlet, religious meditation); and uses of and innovations in the commonplace tradition. We shall also pay attention to ways in which anxieties and excitements of the period (relating to new technologies, religious controversies, and new ways of interpreting the natural world) circulate through the poems. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Enrollment limited.
ENGL 234.00 200210 Country and City Renaissance, has been cancelled.
ENGL 320.01 200210 Shakespeare, G. Harp, .5 unit, will be offered.
This course will focus on issues of epistemology and interpretation in Shakespeare's plays. How are acts of knowing configured in the plays? What constitutes a reliable interpretation of situations, events, and texts? The early modern period saw some major shifts in what it means to know, believe, and understand, related to such ongoing events as the proliferation of printed texts, new developments in natural philosophy, the Reformation, and the Counter-Reformation. We shall read Shakespeare's plays with eyes and ears attuned to the cultural circulation of these developments and their attendant shifts in perspective. In carrying out our readings, we shall also pay attention to ideas concerning the following: relationships between cognition and sensory experience; shifting notions of the self; changes in and challenges to institutional authority; and attitudes toward the supernatural, dreams, and imagination. This course will also provide us with occasion to consider how our own experiences of cultural shift (related, for example, to the development of the internet and other electronic technologies of communication) influence how we read the plays. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Enrollment limited.
HIST 315.00 200180 US Sports History, M. Horger, .5 unit, will be offered.
This seminar examines the roles sport has played in American society and culture from the early 19th century to the present. Topics will include the development of "modern" sport from "pre-modern" athletic practices; the emergence of baseball, boxing, and intercollegiate athletics as major American cultural forces; the use of organized athletics as a means of instilling social values in American youth; the ways in which sport has been both a reflection and a constituent of American views about race and gender; the growth of commercialized, professionalized athletics as a major entertainment industry; the use of sport as a symbolic battleground for larger American social issues; and the impact of sport on the American culture of celebrity. Assigned readings will examine these themes through both primary and secondary sources; in addition, students will prepare a primary-source research project on a topic of their choice.
HIST 318.00 200180 Family and Gender in Latin American History, K. Morrison, .5 unit, will be offered.
This seminar will acquaint students with the intersections between Latin American history and gender studies. The concept of "family" is explored as an important site for the construction of social power in terms of gender, class, and race. These themes will be traced from the pre-colonial period through the present, as women and men from various social segments struggled over the nature of Latin American societies.
HIST 329.00 200180 Sex and Gender in the Mediterranean World 1450-1800, M. Hewlett, .5 unit, will be offered.
This upper level seminar course examines gender roles in various Mediterranean cultures. We look at how the Mediterranean itself colored politics and culture, and how this impacted on society. We will compare and contrast gender roles in both the Eastern and Western Mediterranean, looking at the cross-fertilization of customs. By looking at the Iberian peninsula, Italy & Ragusa as well as the Turkish Empire, we will look at the various challenges faced by men and women from different cultures. Students will examine primary documents and secondary sources to investigate topics from the eunuchs of the sultan's court to the castrati of Italian opera, and the seclude women of Seville and Venice to the occupants of the seraglio.
HIST 189.00 200210 Women and Family in Europe, has been cancelled.
HIST 220.00 200210 Latin America from Independence to the Present, K. Morrison, .5 unit, will be offered.
This survey course will familiarize students with the significant political and social developments of Latin American nations. It will provide a broad outline of the triumphs and struggles of Latin Americans in the quest for governance of their own lives. The themes include, but are not limited to: colonial legacies; formation of national governments; revolutionary movements; and U.S.-Latin American relations.
HIST 227.00 200210 British History, has been cancelled.
HIST 230.00 200210 Renaissance and Reformation Europe 1300-1598, M. Hewlett, .5 unit, will be offered.
This survey course covers the history of the Renaissance and Reformation from the birth of the Renaissance in Medieval Italian communes to the end of the French Wars of Religion. It discusses key political, religious and cultural issues, while giving time to important technological inventions, such as the printing press and new methods of conducting warfare. In this course we will also examine the lives of ordinary men and women--who were less often affected by the high culture of the Renaissance than they were by the wars of their rulers. Readings for the course will include primary texts in translation in order to give students a better understanding of the period.
HIST 288.00 200210 World War II in Asia, W. Skya, .5 unit, will be offered.
HIST 332.00 200210 Renaissance History through Film, M. Hewlett, .5 unit, will be offered.
This upper level seminar introduces or reintroduces students to some key topics, events, and personalities in the Renaissance by showing films made in the modern era, which we then compare with historical texts. Inevitably, various biases influence the vision of the various filmmakers. In this course we investigate how accurately screenwriters and directors portray historical characters and events, and how successfully they recreate the atmosphere of the period. Our discussions will cover issues such as sex and gender; religion and religious persecutions; class and racial tensions; political rivalry and intrigue. We will be watching films from the 1930's through 2000 -- ranging from "Prince of Foxes" with Orsen Wells and Tyrone Power to "Dangerous Beauty" about the courtesan Veronica Franco.
HIST 431.00 200210 Victorian Culture and Society, B. Kinzer, .5 unit, will be offered.
Victorian society experienced an unprecedented rate of change--social, demographic, technological--without coming unhinged. The Victorian age was a time of urbanization and industrialization, of the country house and wretched slums, of masters and servants, of great novels and a flourishing underground trade in pornography. This course will try to convey the flavor of a culture and society of rich complexity, one that had a profound impact on the modern world.
ITAL 391.00 200180 Readings in Medieval Literature, has been cancelled.
ITAL 392.00 200210 Italian Cinema and Culture, has been cancelled.
JAPN 322.00 200210 Advanced Japanese, H. Tomita, .5 unit, will be offered.
JAPN 323.00 200210 Advanced Reading and Writing, H. Tomita, .5 unit, will be offered.
MATH 101.00 200210 Topics in Contemporary Mathematics, J. Laison, .5 unit, will be offered.
This course is designed for students not intending to major in mathematics who wish to learn more about the subject. In 1983 Paul Halmos said, in reference to mathematics, "It saddens me that educated people don't even know that my subject exists." In this course we will work to correct this problem by giving an overview of some of the most exciting and imaginative areas of mathematics, as well as a little bit of the cultural history that goes along with them. Topics will include Fermat's Last Theorem, the cryptography of the internet, periodic and aperiodic tilings, the Art Gallery Theorem, knot theory, the curvature of space, Mobius strips and Klein bottles, gambling strategies, and more. No previous knowledge of mathematics is assumed.
MATH 218.00 200210 Data Structures, has been cancelled.
PHIL 225.00 200180 Existentialism, M. Lucht, .5 unit, will be offered.
PHIL 230.00 200180 Philosophy of Art, M. Lucht, .5 unit, will be offered.
PHIL 245.00 200180 Philosophy of Natural Science, M. Lucht, .5 unit, will be offered.
PHIL 270.00 200210 Seminar in Political Philosophy: The Idea of Progress, V. Burke, .5 unit, will be offered.
A survey of philosophical conceptions of progress in history, beginning with St. Augustine and the idea of progress toward eternal salvation in the kingdom of heaven. The course will include an examination of Kant's notion of perpetual peace in the reconciliation of nature and history, Hegel's conception of the "end of history" in absolute knowing, and Marx's conception of the inevitability of capitalism's progress toward the classless society. The course will conclude with a consideration of Walter Benjamin's treatment of messianism, Derrida's deconstructive recuperation of the Marxist conception of the classless society, and Maurice Blanchot's post-WWII politicized treatment of the "end of history".
PHIL 315.00 200210 Phenomenology, M. Lucht, .5 unit, will be offered.
PHIL 355.00 200210 ST: Philosophy of Feminism, V. Burke, .5 unit, will be offered.
This course will focus on literature in political and feminist theory that addresses the problem of "the other", cultural difference, multiculturalism, and the recognition of difference. Readings will include selections from Hegel, Levinas, Kristeva, Irigaray, Nussbaum, Rawls, Sartre, Derrida, and Charles Taylor on the idea of rational recognition and "the other", as well as writings from authors who address the problem of reason's other from non-western perspectives.
PHSD 175.20 200180 Therapeutic Swimming, J. Gowdy, .13 unit, will be offered.
This course is intended to provide students with stress relief and physical conditioning. It will be open to all students, but will target students with disabilities and/or physical conditions that make traditional land based fitness programs unrealistic or completely impossible. The course will include aerobic conditioning, strength training, flexibility work and relaxation in water, which is essentially a no-impact medium and therefore excellent for students with permanent or temporary disabilities as well as otherwise healthy individuals.
PHSD 180.30 200210 Special Topic: Speed and Agility Training, A. Castelein, .13 unit, will be offered.
Speed and agility are two components of fitness that are essential for safe and successful participation in recreational sports. This course is designed to aid the student in improvement of these skills. The student will do this by practice of various training drills utilizing forward, backward, and lateral movements. Plyometric drills will also be incorporated. Each week, the drills will become progressively more difficult so as to provide continuing challenge to the student.
PSCI 240.00 200180 Modern Democracies, P. Camerra-Rowe, .5 unit, will be offered.
PSCI 242.00 200180 States, Nations, Nationalism, has been cancelled.
PSCI 361.00 200210 International Political Economy, D. Rowe, .5 unit, will be offered.
PSCI 346.00 200210 ST: Comparative Asian Politics, has been cancelled.
PSCI 362.00 200210 Haves and Have Nots, has been cancelled.
PSCI 392.00 200210 ST: Sep 11: Root Causes, Consequences, and Prospects for Peace, D. Rowe, .5 unit, will be offered.
This course explores the causes and consequences of the September 11 and follow-on terrorist attacks. The first part of the course will examine the most important root causes of the conflict, including the rise of identity politics and ethnic/religious fundamentalism, the changing nature of power in the post-cold war world, and the resentments and vulnerabilities created by the spread of global capitalism. The middle segment of the course will explore terrorism as a political instrument and the nature of various countries' responses to the September 11 and follow-on attacks. We will probe both the terrorists' aims as well as the feasibility of non-violent, international legal, or war-making responses to the terrorists' actions. In the final segment of the course, we will examine the prospects for international peace and the various consequences that will emerge from these attacks and the American "war" on terrorism. Prerequisite: sophomore or higher standing.
PSYC 322.00 200210 Adult Development, L. Smolak, .5 unit, will be offered.
PSYC 348.00 200210 Special Topic: Adolescence, D. Krieg, .5 unit, will be offered.
This course will provide students with an overview of important issues in adolescent psychology, from early adolescence to young adulthood. The major physical, cognitive, social, and emotional developments that occur during this transitional period will be covered. Addition influences on adolescent development (such as family, peers, school, and work) will also be explored.
PSYC 448.00 200210 Special Topic: Hormones and Dev Transitions, L. Smolak, .5 unit, has been cancelled.
RELN 442.00 200210 Special topic: Religion and Violence, V. Schubel, .5 unit, will be offered.
The tragic events of September 11, 2001 have raised difficult and troubling questions about the relationship between religion and violence. How is it that religion, which is for most people a facilitator of human virtues like compassion, altruism and understanding, becomes for others an engine of intolerance, violence and terror? There is long history of violence associated with religion-the Crusades, the Inquisition, various jihads, Hindu-Muslim communalism in India, the numerous religious nationalisms that have erupted into armed and lethal conflict in places as far-flung as northern Ireland, Sri Lanka and the Balkans. Should we assume that such violence is an aberrant phenomena or should we see it as something inextricably tied to religious identity and allegiance? This seminar will explore the issues of religion and violence drawing on examples from multiple traditions and a variety of theoretical perspectives. Prerequisite: permission of instructor or Chair.
RELN 470.00 200210 Apocalyptic Beliefs, has been cancelled.
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