ADDITIONAL COURSES TO BE OFFERED
Fall 2004	AMST: WMNS 336	Special Topic:Theory and politics in Black women’s writing		0.50 unit		Kaplan, Sarah
How do we define or characterize “Black women’s writing”? What is the relationship between Black feminist/womanist theory, political activism, and literature by women of African descent? This class seeks to address these and other questions by exploring a diverse set of novels, films, plays, and poetry by self-identified Black women. Using an interdisciplinary approach to form, content, and context, we will challenge ourselves to rethink “writing,” “theory,” and “politics,” as individual terms and in relation to each other. Our analysis will give particular attention to issues of writing and memory, truth versus fiction in literature, and writing and/as violence. Primary texts will include some (but not all) of the following authors: Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones, Toni Cade Bambara, Robbie McCauley, Sherley Anne Williams, Suzan Lori Parks, Julie Dash, Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, and Octavia Butler. Secondary readings may include essays by Barbara Christian, Hortense Spillers, Deborah McDowell, Claudia Tate, Hazel Carby, Patricia Hill Collins, Saidiya Hartman, and Judith Butler. Prerequisite: Permission of the department.
Fall 2004	ANTH 333.00	Old World Archaeology		0.50		HAS BEEN CANCELLED. WILL BE OFFERED SPRING 2005
Fall 2004	BIOL 391.00	ST: Genomic Data Analysis		0.50		HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Fall 2004	ENGL 103.09	Women on the Edge: The Drama of Gender		0.50 unit		Campana, Joseph
This course will explore the roles we play--consciously or not--when we announce ourselves to be men or women. With the help of the history of drama, fiction, poetry, and film, we'll explore how traditional representations of women have come to represent how we think about gender more generally. What kinds of behavior do we expect of ourselves (and of others) as men or women?  If gender is a role one plays, willingly or not, what do the roles men and women play in literary and artistic works have to say about the history of "playing" gender? Are women culturally marginal or culturally central? How is the status of women reflected in or contradicted by the roles they play?  What happens when women act out instead of acting the roles they are assigned? Can playing an assigned role perfectly be more disturbing than going off script? How do we understand the motives of male authors and artists who depict women? Do masculine and feminine roles depend on the bodies that enact them? Authors to be considered may include: Sophocles, Euripides, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Robinson Jeffers, Jane Smiley, Pedro Almodóvar.
Fall 2004	ENGL 232.00	The Invention of Love: Renaissance Erotic Verse		0.50 unit		Campana, Joseph
While Renaissance writers were far from the first to pen poems of love, the "rebirth" of classical culture brought with it an efflorescence of morous writing: from the vogue for sonnet sequences and the erotic epyllion, to bawdy solicitations, pornographic poses, and a fascination with courtship and courtesans.  How does desire manifest in a time of tumultuous change in conceptions of gender, sexuality, and marriage?  This course will trace how Renaissance English poets crafted a unique language for expressing desire, imagining beauty, describing bodies, understanding sex, and defining masculine and feminine behavior.  We begin with Ovid and Petrarch and observe their afterlives in translations by Wyatt, Surrey, and Marlowe and in two generations of sonnets sequences from Sidney and Spenser to Shakespeare and Barnfield.  These works highlight shifting boundaries between friendship and love, eroticism and pornography, pleasure and danger, adoration and misogyny in John Donne, Aphra Behn, Katherine Phillips, Lady Mary Wroth, Margaret Cavendish, and John Wilmot (Earl of Rochester).
Fall 2004	ENGL 289.00	American Novel, 1950-Present		0.50 unit		Kluge, P. F
This course involves close examination of ten American novels written after World War II. Consideration will be given to styles and methods: the authorial choices that make the novels what they are. Beyond this, however, we'll examine these novels as comments on American life. The reading list may be organized around a specific theme-politics, ethnic experience, sport, small-town life-or a combination of themes. In any case, the study of authors whose place in or out of the canon has not yet been determined should give the class an opportunity for intelligent, critical reading. The 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.
Fall 2004	ENGL 210.00	Proper Ladies & Women Writers		0.50 unit		Heidt, Sarah
"We think back through our mothers if we are women," Virginia Woolf writes in A Room of One's Own.  Taking Woolf's meditation on women and creativity as our point of departure, in this course we will examine a range of fictional, poetic, and polemical writing produced by British women from the late eighteenth century through the early twentieth century, a period that witnessed increases in the public literary and cultural opportunities available to women writers, as well as sharp challenges to those opportunities.  We will explore debates over "proper" forms of education for women; the role of culturally sanctioned "plots" (most notably, romance and marriage plots) in shaping women's lives and narratives; complex (and sometimes disastrous) negotiations between public and private experience, particularly between work and domesticity; and the aims and achievements of women's activist and political writings, including abolitionist, feminist, and anti-feminist works.  When has it been possible--or desirable--for women writers to "think back through [their] mothers"?   If a tradition of women's writing exists, what motivates and characterizes it?  How did these women writers create new plots--or abruptly terminate familiar ones--in response to difficult or deviant desires and allegiances?  How did these writers respond to the traditions they inherited from their literary predecessors, whether male or female?  Course texts will include Wollstonecraft's Vindications, Austen's Persuasion, The History of Mary Prince, Bronte's Villette, Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh, Eliot's Mill on the Floss, Nightingale's Cassandra, and Woolf's A Room of One's Own and To the Lighthouse, as well as poetry and prose by such authors as Harriet Martineau, Christina Rossetti, Frances Power Cobbe, and Michael Field.  Students will write three essays and direct one class discussion.
Fall 2004	ENGL 359.00	Writing and Ruling: Literatures of Empire		0.50 unit		Heidt, Sarah
This course will examine the textual underpinnings of Britain's colonial and imperial expansion into far-flung regions of the globe. How did the British Empire justify itself, at home and abroad? How did literary productions (whether fictional, poetic, dramatic, or non-fictional) bolster and/or undercut imperial power? What new literary and cultural identities--desired or otherwise--did empire make possible, both for British imperialists and for the peoples and lands they sought to control? And how have literary forms and cultures enabled colonized peoples to "write back" to their rulers, in efforts to bring colonialism to an end and to explore its aftermath? Reading works by Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, Charlotte Bronte, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, Jean Rhys, J. M. Coetzee, Chinua Achebe, Brian Friel, and V. S. Naipaul (among others, including major theorists of colonial and postcolonial literature), students will produce three essays and at least one oral presentation.
Fall 2004	ENGL 487.00	'Tragic or Triumphant': The Mulatto in American Fiction		0.50		Schoenfeld, Jen’e
The mulatto balances precariously on the razor-thin edge of the color line between black and white.  In the antebellum era, the mulatto's proximity to whiteness made the mulatto an attractive object for Abolitionist sympathy.  In the Jim Crow era, that proximity made the mulatto a threat to the security of white privilege.  In our present moment, this figure has all but disappeared, though it seems to be re-emerging in a new form with Tiger Woods, Cablinasian; and Vin Diesel, "multiracial movie star. "This course will explore representations of the mulatto in American fiction and culture.  In addition to reading some great works of literature, by authors such as William Faulkner, Nella Larsen, Charles Chesnutt, and Mark Twain (to name only a few), we will use our discussions about the trope of the mulatto to consider some of the more perplexing theoretical issues concerning race in America.  We'll begin with concerns generated specifically by the mulatto, such as: passing (the "problem" of the racially ambiguous body), racial allegiance, biological determinism (nature/nurture), hybrid degeneracy, and the mulatto's "tragic" marginality.  From there, we'll move to the big questions, including, but not limited to: What is race?  What is its determining factor: physical features, ancestry, culture.?  Can it be chosen or rejected?  The course will concentrate on fiction of the Jim Crow era, a period of particularly intense struggle over the significance of race, but may also draw on other disciplines, such as science and law, and other historical moments.
Fall 2004	PSCI 432.00	The Idea of Community		0.50 unit		Spiekerman, Tim
Fall 2004	PSYC 342.00	Clinical Psychology		0.50 unit		HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Fall 2004	PSYC 350.00	Community Psychology		0.75 unit		HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Fall 2004	PSYC 426.00	Res Meth: Qualitative Approach		0.50 unit		HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Fall 2004	PSYC 345.00	Race & Ethnicity		0.50 unit		HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Fall 2004	PSYC 451.00	Psychology in Science Fiction		0.50 unit		HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Fall 2004	SPAN 391.02	Literature of the Southern Cone		0.50 unit		Sierra, Marta
The course studies in a variety of genres movements, traditions, key authors, and/or major trends in Argentine, Uruguayan, and Chilean literatures in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  Wherever possible and time permitting, historical readings, films, documentaries, and videos will supplement the literary texts.  A limited number of theoretical readings may be studied.
Fall 2004	WMNS 336.00		Special Topic:Theory and politics in Black women’s writing		0.50 unit		Kaplan, Sarah
How do we define or characterize “Black women’s writing”? What is the relationship between Black feminist/womanist theory, political activism, and literature by women of African descent? This class seeks to address these and other questions by exploring a diverse set of novels, films, plays, and poetry by self-identified Black women. Using an interdisciplinary approach to form, content, and context, we will challenge ourselves to rethink “writing,” “theory,” and “politics,” as individual terms and in relation to each other. Our analysis will give particular attention to issues of writing and memory, truth versus fiction in literature, and writing and/as violence. Primary texts will include some (but not all) of the following authors: Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones, Toni Cade Bambara, Robbie McCauley, Sherley Anne Williams, Suzan Lori Parks, Julie Dash, Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, and Octavia Butler. Secondary readings may include essays by Barbara Christian, Hortense Spillers, Deborah McDowell, Claudia Tate, Hazel Carby, Patricia Hill Collins, Saidiya Hartman, and Judith Butler. Prerequisite: Permission of the department.