December 1, 2003 SUPPLEMENT TO THE 2003-04 COURSE CATALOG

AMST 391.00 200380 American Culture and the Environment, (0.50 unit), K. Britz, will be offered.

The United States was once commonly referred to as "nature's nation." Throughout its history, American culture has had a deep relationship with the environment. Should nature be used for broad economic benefit ? Or should it be appreciated for its spiritual value? This course will explore the works of writers such as John Muir and Terry Tempest Williams, along with historic case studies, and popular movies to show how Americans have feared, transformed, degraded, cherished, and preserved their environments. American Culture and the Environment will explore the evolution of attitudes toward nature among groups ranging from American Indians, Puritans, buffalo hunters, tourists, dust bowl farmers, atomic scientists, and deep ecologists and how these philosophies still continue to shape--and reshape-- our landscape. This is an interdisciplinary lecture/discussion course for advanced students in American Studies, History, or Environmental Studies. Special attention will to paid to textual and visual analysis. A final project is required. Amst 391 may be counted towards the major in American History, the concentration in Environmental Studies, and the "History and Politics" diversification requirement in American Studies.

ANTH 252.00 200410 Anthropology of Religion: Islam in Indonesia, (0.50) Zimmer will be offered.

This course examines contemporary anthropological approaches to the study of religion through a survey of literature on Islamic communities in Indonesia. Students will explore these materials with an eye to understanding how Islamic beliefs and practices are culturally situated in the world's largest majority-Muslim nation. Taking a cue from Talal Asad's characterization of Islam as a "discursive tradition," we will examine ethnographic accounts of various Muslim communities in Indonesia to determine how religious authority is socially reproduced and contested through acts of discourse. Additionally, we will consider the textual strategies of ethnographic writing itself, in an effort to analyze how such texts become authoritative renderings of Indonesian Islam for their audiences. This course counts towards the Asian Studies requirements. Prerequisite: ANTH 113 or permission of the instructor.

ANTH 292.01 200380 Contemporary Culture in Cuba and the Caribbean,
(0.50 unit), Kaifa Roland, will be offered.
This course seeks to ground students' understanding of contemporary Cuba within the Caribbean context. To attend to global processes as they affect local (Cuban) experience, we will draw on texts from anthropology, history, policy, Cuban and Cuban-American literature, film, and music. In the process, students will learn how broader Caribbean patterns regarding race, color, class, and gender relations have evolved in(to) the socialist, and now the "post-socialist," context. Prerequisite: ANTH 113 and permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to 15.

ANTH 346.00 200380 Women in Latin American Culture has been cancelled.

ANTH 392.00, 200410 ST: Anthropology of Tourism, (0.50) Roland will be offered.

This course seeks to introduce students to anthropological theories on tourism and to consider those theories in the contexts of the varied sites and forms of tourism practiced around the world today. We will ask: Why do people tour? Where do they go? And most centrally: How do the hosts to tourism feel about these outside visitors? Having been exposed to questions of globalization, development, belonging, race, gender, and desire, by the end of the course students will be asked to reflect upon and theorize their own touristic experiences.

ANTH 492.01 200410 ST: Advanced Topics in Linguistic Anthropology, (0.50) Zimmer will be offered.

This seminar will consider the theoretical underpinnings of linguistic anthropology and the salient themes that have been explored by contemporary ethnographers of communication. We begin by surveying a number of the foundational classics that have informed the development of linguistic anthropology. Topics include the structuralism of Saussure; the relativism of Boas, Sapir, and Whorf; the poetics of Jakobson; and the dialogism of Bakhtin. The course moves on to investigate culturally contingent ideologies of language structure and variation. We examine how communities structure linguistic variants "vertically" (coding hierarchies of honor and status) as well as "horizontally" (coding geopolitical projections on a linguistic landscape). The course concludes with an exploration of the intersections of language and politics. Topics include the construction of dominant discourses and the possibilities of their subversion; the linguistically mediated imagination of nationhood and the public sphere; and the authority of ritual speech and political oratory. Prerequisite: ANTH 461 or permission of instructor.

BIOL 345.00 200380 Biophysical Processes in Plants has been cancelled.

CHNS 305.00 200410 Philosophical Taoism in Chinese Literature, (0.50) will be offered.

This course examines a special group of early Chinese texts from antiquity to the 8th century that will not only enlighten, but also delight modern readers: ancient Taoist text written in fascinating literary style, and a variety of literary works informed with Taoist spirit. No knowledge of Chinese is required. Permission of instructor required.

ECON 101.00 200410 Principles of Microeconomics has been cancelled.

ECON 102.00 200380 Principles of Macroeconomics has been cancelled.

ECON 331.00 200410 Economics of Development has been cancelled.

ECON 334.00 200380 ST: Development has been cancelled.

ENGL 327.00 200380 Epic and Romance has been cancelled.

ENGL 315.00 200380 The Literature of War, the Language of Witness (0.50 unit), Brkic, will be offered.

A compelling and varied body of 20^th century literature examines the theme of war, from the poetry of World War I's trenches to journalists' accounts of the war in Rwanda. Writers from a range of traditions have analyzed conflict, both in relation to the general human condition and to their individual experiences. Their writing includes examples of reportage, autobiography, fiction, and poetry. Class discussions will consider selected readings in terms of perspective (combatant vs. civilian, victim vs. aggressor), content, and the function of identity and individuality in the text. Authors will include Elie Wiesel, Imre Kertesz, Anna Akhmatova, Masuji Ibuse, Paul Celan, Isaac Babel, Tim O'Brien and others. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Enrollment limited.

ENGL 385.00 200380 Conversations in American Poetry , (0.50 unit), Szybist, will be offered.

Our emphasis will be on how poets are in dialogue with one another: how poets respond to the literary traditions they have inherited and how poets respond to the literary conventions and concerns of their own historical moments. One of our key considerations will be the very different means by which poets pursue similar ambitions. Rather than attempt to be comprehensive, the course will emphasize a few major conversations. We'll begin in the nineteenth century with the radically different sensibilities of Whitman and Dickinson--two poets who didn't know each other's work or the dialogue it formed. We shall then go on to consider, among twentieth-century writers, the poetic dialogues of Eliot and Williams, Frost and Stevens, Bishop and Lowell, Ashbery and Justice, Rich and Walcott, Hejinian and Graham.

ENGL 422.00 200380 Introduction to Anglo-Saxon, (0.50 unit), Klein, will be offered.

GERM 391.00 200380 "Bildung": German Education since the 18th Century, (0.50 unit), Klebes, will be offered.

This course will investigate the notion of Bildung (Education) and its
crucial role in German literature and thought from the late 18th to the 20th
century. The term not only came to prominence in the 18th century as the
primary category of individual development in relation to society, but also
emerged in biological inquiries on the nature of the formation of organisms,
suggesting a connection between cultural and natural phenomena. Since this
time, Bildung also constitutes the essence of educational institutions. One
of our topics will therefore be the significance of the emergence of such
institutions that are, for better or worse, still with us today. Towards the
end of the 19th century and beyond, certain tenets of the ideal of Bildung
come to be challenged. We will thus examine the ideological implications of
these challenges to the established conceptions of Bildung. Texts to be
read will include both theoretical and literary works (some in excerpts) by
Kant, Goethe ("Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre"), Schiller ("Über die ästhetische
Erziehung des Menschen"), Novalis ("Die Lehrlinge zu Sais"), Humboldt,
Nietzsche, and Musil ("Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß"). Class
discussion and all readings will be in German. Prerequisite: GERM 321 or
permission of instructor.

HIST 187.00 200380 1^st Year Sem:War & Narratives in South Asian History, (0.50 unit), Sreenivasan, will be offered.

HIST 349.00 200380 Contemporary West African History through Fiction & Film, (0.50 unit), Coulibaly, will be offered.

HIST 357.00 200380 History and the Novel in South Asia, (0.50 unit), Sreenivasan, will be offered.

HIST 259.00 200410 Islam & Gender in Modern World, (0.50 unit), Sreenivasan, will be offered.

HIST 290.00 200410 Soph Sem: Film & Gender in Contemporary South Asia, (0.50 unit), Sreenivasan, will be offered.

LGLS 410.00 200410 Senior Seminar, Law & Society: Law in Action, (0.50) Garot, will be offered.

"Few questions concerning human society have been asked with such persistence and answered by serious thinkers in so many diverse, strange, and even paradoxical ways as the question, 'What is law?'" H.L.A. Hart, The Concept of Law

This seminar will provide students with the opportunity to grapple first-hand with the ways law is enacted as routine, mundane behavior by those entrusted with laws' edicts. With your instructor's assistance, you will find a local field setting in which to work as a participant observer, learn to write thick, nuanced field notes of the actions and meanings in this setting, conduct in-depth interviews with members, analyze the patterns which emerge through your notes and interviews, and finally, conduct a thorough literature review on your topic, to frame your final analysis. This course will be highly demanding of your time and effort, but will lead to the only true and abiding source of pleasure: gratification in work well done. It will also lead to completion of your Senior Comps.

Please note that you must have taken at least one other Law and Society course prior to enrolling in this seminar. My courses, People Processing Institutions, Introduction to Law and Society, the Sociology of Law, and Law and Youth would be especially helpful. This course will assume you have some substantive knowledge in the field in which you are studying, but more than that, it will require you to bracket this knowledge, and be open to discovering what you haven't (or couldn't have) yet read in books.

MATH 227.00 200380 Method of Discrete Mathematics has been cancelled.

MATH 236.00 200380 Bayesian Statistics has been cancelled.

MLL 101.00 200380 Beginning Arabic, (0.50 unit), will be offered.

MLL 102.00 200410 Beginning Arabic, (0.50 unit), will be offered.

MLL 201.00 200380 Intermediate Arabic, (0.50 unit), Ziad Nimeh, part-time instructor of modern languages, Denison University, will be offered.
This course is open to all students who have successfully completed a year of beginning Arabic (101 and 102) or the equivalent. Like beginning Arabic, it is offered by both Denison University and Kenyon through video-conferencing
technology. The course develops the four skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing using a variety of traditional and technology-based materials. If you have not taken Arabic at Kenyon but have had previous
experience with the language, contact the chair of MLL to see if this is an appropriate course for you.

PHSD 184.30 200410 ST: Wilderness First Aid , (0.13 unit), Mountain-Geiger, Humphrey, will be offered.
This course is designed to meet the need of first aid training for anyone that works, travels, or recreates in rural or wilderness areas. The student will learn to apply first aid beyond the basics covered in American Red Cross standard first aid classes, including completing a physical exam, wounds, head/neck/spinal injuries, caring for major injuries, heat and cold illness, and backcountry evacuation. The student will learn to how to signal for help when phones are not available. Upon successful completion of classroom and skill components, the student will be eligible to receive the American Red Cross Wilderness First Aid certification.

PSCI 492.00 200410 ST: The Politics of the Bible, (0.50), Baumann, will be offered.

The "theological-political problem" (i.e., the competing claims of God and the state, kings and priests, government and conscience) seems to be universal, but has its particular set of characteristics in the cultures formed by the Old and New Testaments. At the root of these characteristics is the Bible itself. The point of this course, however, is not to rehearse the history of Biblical interpretation and theological-political dispute, but to see if there is any directly accessible political teaching in the
Bible. We will read much of the Old and New Testaments, including the Pentateuch, Judges, Samuel and Kings , many of the prophets, the Gospels, and the Pauline Epistles. We will also read some contemporary writers about the politics of the Old Testament. Enrollment limited.

PSYC 425.00 200380 Research Methods: Gender, (0.50 unit), will be offered.

RELN 491.00 200380 Comparative Mysticism will be offered as RELN 482.

SOCY 111.00 200410 American Society, (0.50) Besecke will be offered.

Most academic disciplines have a way of talking about the-whole-that-is-greater-than-the-sum-of-its-parts. In astronomy, a galaxy has to be understood as a whole in itself with properties unlike the properties of the individual stars and planets. In music, listening to a song is a qualitatively different experience from listening to each individual note of the song. The song must be taken as a whole in itself with its own characteristics like rhythm and key. The particular combination of notes determines the song's key, but once the key is determined the notes must conform to it.

The same is true about people. Sociology is based upon the notion that a society is more than just a collection of individuals, just as a song is more than just a collection of notes. The relationships among a society's individuals form the structure of the society and that structure then channels individual thoughts and actions into particular patterns. A group of people--a society--has its own patterns and its own qualities and its own movement which are different from the patterns and qualities and movements of the individuals within that society.

In this course we will examine the ways that patterns of American social life influence and are influenced by individual lives. For a few examples: We will ask how individuals' sense of self is influenced by societal expectations. We will ask how our employment systems challenge individuals' ability to maintain a sense of authenticity in their emotional lives. We will ask how race and class structure individuals' economic opportunities. We will ask how systems that we design to improve human life can end up constraining individuals' freedom and humanity in unanticipated ways. You will conduct original research investigating how people's opinions on issues of the day are informed by networks of social symbols. Ultimately, you will take away a taste of what sociology, the study of social groups and their actions, is about.

SOCY 221.00 200380 Sociology of Religion, (0.50 unit), Besecke, will be offered.

SOCY 292.01 200410 ST: Cultural Sociology (0.50) ,Besecke will be offered.

This course examines the influence of shared meanings and practices on a variety of dimensions of contemporary American social life, including race, class, religion, political participation, close relationships, economics, and social commitment. We will consider the questions, "What is culture?", "How does culture operate in society?", "How does culture interact with social institutions and with individuals?", "How do we study culture sociologically?", and "How can we understand contemporary American culture?" Fundamentally, cultural sociology is a way of seeing society; the goal of the course is for you to learn to see the structured meanings and practices that order all of our lives, and the possibilities the culture provides for us to influence our society's future course.

SOCY 292.02 200410 ST: Race, Ethnicity & City, (0.50) Wherry, will be offered.

The course will examine how social networks, cultural understandings, and notions of race affect inequality in cities. The course begins with studies of entrepreneurship and labor force participation. These explorations emphasize how racial attitudes and social networks impede economic advancement for some groups but not others. The course ends by exploring how the neighborhood context affects the goals that individuals seek and the means they are most likely to employ.

SOCY 292.03 200380 Globalization from Below: The Economic Sociology of International Development, (0.50 unit), Besecke, will be offered.
When most people think of globalization, they envision large multinational corporations such as McDonalds and Nike straddling the globe. Forgotten are the communities and the individuals who respond to the global market from below. For example, most people know that there are structural adjustment programs providing millions of dollars to national governments. Less well known are the financial adjustments from below: Migrants send billions of dollars to their home communities. In 1993 international migrants sent $993 million to their home communities in Algeria and nearly $5 billion to their home communities in Egypt (world Bank 1995). Similarly, much attention has been paid to information technology in the global economy. Less attention has been paid to how these computers are produced. Unregulated, informal workers make many of the circuit boards used in personal computers. Micro- and small scale businesses also account for most of the available jobs in many developing countries. To understand how ordinary people have fared in the global economy, we must leave the realm aggregate national income and enter the underworld of production. In this underworld the seminar will dwell. Prerequisites: introductory foundation course or permission of instructor.

SOCY 492.00 200410 ST: Meaning in Modern Society, (0.50) Besecke, will be offered.

Sociologists consider modern societies to be faced with a "crisis of meaning." Meanwhile, all over American society, people seem to be responding to this crisis of meaning, using words like "spirituality" and "soul" to talk about a dimension of life that they feel is neglected in modern society. This dimension has something to do with religion, and yet it's different from what many people think of when they think about religiosity. Often, when people talk about spirituality, they are describing an interest in meaningfulness and a deeper experience of life.

Americans' interest in spirituality can be studied sociologically, and many of our greatest classical and contemporary sociologists have addressed this topic of ultimate meanings in modern society. This course is an introduction to the sociological conversation about contemporary spirituality and the search for ultimate meanings in modern society. We will consider the following questions: 1. What is meaning, and what makes a society comparatively meaningful or meaningless? 2. What about modern society makes meaning a problem, and what resources does modern society offer for renewed meaningfulness? 3. What are modern people doing to bring a sense of meaningfulness into life, and how can we understand their efforts sociologically; that is, how do contemporary spiritualities engage with different aspects of modern American society?