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A&AH 205J - ARCH 120 - CLCIV 221
Greek Art & Archaeology
Prof. Maggidis
A survey of the archaeology of ancient Greece from ca. 4000 to 323 B.C. Particular attention is devoted to the development of Greek civilization and culture as seen through architecture, art, pottery and town planning.

A&AH 205L
Renaiss Illuminated Manuscript
Prof. Calvillo
Beginning with a general history of manuscript illumination from antiquity to the fifteenth century, this course focuses on the art of the book after the invention of the printing press. The types of manuscripts produced during this period will be considered in terms of different patterns of patronage and collecting, the development and transfer ofprivate and semi-private libraries, humanist interests, religious and liturgical reform and the changing status of the Renaissance artist and workshop.

A&AH 205M
Contemp Issues in African Art
Prof. Frohne
Part of this course will consider contemporary arts of Africa, and part of the course will engage contemporary debates concerning the discipline of African art history. Various contexts to be explored include politics, culture, aesthetics, patronage, and the impact of colonialism, post-colonialism, and globalization on African art.

A&AH 210 (see EASIA 205I)

AMOS 202B
American Mosaic Semester
Prof. Borges
The American Mosaic Semester is an intensive three course immersion in contemporary American cultural diversity that will involve classroom experience and onsite field work studying migrant farm labor Adams County, Pennsylvania and visits to the migrant home community in Michoacan, Mexico. Students will receive distribution/major credits in American Studies, Anthropology, IB&M, Sociology, Spanish, and Women's Studies, as well as the Latin American Studies certificate program. Students will be required to register for an additional 4th credit of independent study/research or an internship directed by the Mosaic faculty at the beginning of the fall semester. Students will be working with farm workers from Latin America, so knowledge of Spanish is helpful, but not required. Since the Mosaic Semester is the equivalent of an immersion program, normally students may not register for a 5th course. Hours are TBA, but students should expect 20-25 contact hours per week (including classroom work, guest speakers, field trips, internships, and field work). Not open to first semester freshmen.

AMST 200H - ANTHR 234 - SOCIO 230M
African Diaspora
Prof. Merrill
This course examines the presence and contributions of people of African descent outside the African continent. While we generalize about the Black diasporic experience across continents, we also pause to examine the ways that stories unfold in particular places and at specific historical moments. Because most representations of Africa and her descendants have left Africans on the margins of world history, in this course we pay particular attention to alternative ways of understanding Black diaspora. We draw upon case studies from the United States, the Caribbean, Brazil and Europe during different historical periods.

AMST 200P - ANTHR 245L - SOCIO 230U
Diasporic America:Rethink Div
Prof. Goldschmidt
The United States has always been a "nation of immigrants" -- populated, in large part, by people whose "roots" lie elsewhere. But how are we to understand the complex relationships between transnational migrants, their places of origin, and their adapted homes? It is often assumed that immigrant communities cut most ties to their sending countries -- and often enough they do. But increasing numbers of immigrants maintain enduring links to their places of origin, while also participating fully in American society. These diasporic peoples live in two, or more, worlds -- and thus transgress the conceptual and political boundaries of the nation-state. This course will examine the complex fabric of diasporic community life. How, we will ask, might we reimagine America as a nexus of overlapping diasporas? Students will read theoretical literatures on transnationalism and diaspora, as well as ethnographic case-studies of American immigrant communities (including Hasidic Jews, Afro-Caribbean peoples, Mexicans, and others). Along with other assignments, students may conduct original field research in a local immigrant community.

AMST 301V - ENGL 370D
Women and Difference
Prof. O'Brien
In this course we explore differences among women as well as commonalities, taking into account not only race, class, and ethnicity, but also sexualities, illness and disabilities, the body, weight, age, religion and spirituality. We focus on diverse femininities within the U.S. but take a comparative, global perspective as well. We'll particularly be concerned with the ways in which women resist oppression, become activists and gain voices. Reading will include works by Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, and Alice Walker; films will range from mass media productions like "Thelma and Louise" to feminist documentaries.

AMST 301W - ENGL 358A - HIST 311J
Witchcraft at Salem
Profs. Winston & Woodward
This course will include an examination of the social and intellectual context of New England Puritanism, Salem's place in the comparative study of witchcraft, and the episode's legacy in literature and historical writing.

ANTHR 234 (see AMST 200H or SOCIO 230M)

ANTHR 245L - AMST 200P - SOCIO 230U
Diasporic America:Rethink Div
Prof. Goldschmidt
The United States has always been a "nation of immigrants" -- populated, in large part, by people whose "roots" lie elsewhere. But how are we to understand the complex relationships between transnational migrants, their places of origin, and their adapted homes? It is often assumed that immigrant communities cut most ties to their sending countries -- and often enough they do. But increasing numbers of immigrants maintain enduring links to their places of origin, while also participating fully in American society. These diasporic peoples live in two, or more, worlds -- and thus transgress the conceptual and political boundaries of the nation-state. This course will examine the complex fabric of diasporic community life. How, we will ask, might we reimagine America as a nexus of overlapping diasporas? Students will read theoretical literatures on transnationalism and diaspora, as well as ethnographic case-studies of American immigrant communities (including Hasidic Jews, Afro-Caribbean peoples, Mexicans, and others). Along with other assignments, students may conduct original field research in a local immigrant community.

ANTHR 334 (see WOMST 300K)

ANTHR 345B
Ethnography & Globalization
Prof. Goldschmidt
In recent years, cultural anthropologists have struggled to come to terms with the globalization of contemporary social life with the increasing interconnection of diverse societies and cultures throughout the world. Classical anthropological theory posited a world of self-contained, clearly bounded "cultures," which anthropologists could explore through intensive fieldwork in "local" communities. But contemporary anthropologists face a world of cross-cutting cultural borderlands, in which local communities are inextricably bound to global social networks. This course will explore anthropological responses to globalization by examining recent developments in ethnographic practice and writing. How, we will ask, do anthropologists conduct fieldwork when the "natives" live in a "global village"? We will answer this question, in large part, through careful readings of classical and contemporary ethnographies.

ARCH 120 (see A&AH 205J)

BIOL 418
Developmental Genomics
Prof. Guss
In this course we will utilize genomic information to investigate the genetic basis of development. Course topics include regulation of gene expression during development, comparative genomics, molecular evolution, and recombinant DNA techniques. Laboratory studies will utilize both molecular and bioinformatics approaches to investigate the roles of genes during development in several model organisms. Six hours classroom a week. Pre-requisites: two Biology courses numbered between 120 and 128, Genetics (BIOL 317), or permission of the instructor.

CHEM 490D
Organometallic Chemistry
Prof. Holden
Organometallic chemistry, the chemistry of compounds containing metal-carbon bonds, is one of the most interesting and rapidly growing areas of chemical research. In this course we will begin by focusing on the fundamentals of structure and bonding in organometallic complexes. We will then explore the reaction chemistry of these molecules and their applications in organic synthesis. Finally, we will study the uses of these compounds in homogenous catalytic processes, an application that is of tremendous importance in the chemical industry.

CLCIV 221 (see A&AH 205J)

COCIV 102A
Indian Remakes/Hollywood Film
Prof. T. S. Smith
Bombay's Film Industry delights in remaking American Films but with adaptations that make them acceptable in the local context. Studying this illuminates both cultures in interesting ways. Selections will be made from films such as: It Happened One Night, Seven Bridges for Seven Brothers, West Side Story, Arthur, Magnificent Seven, Fatal Attraction, Kramer vs. Kramer, Dead Poets Society, Mrs. Doubtfire and Sleeping with the Enemy.

COSCI 393C
Constraint Programming
Prof. Wahls
An introduction to constraint programming techniques, methods for solving constraints, and applications of constraint programming in domains such as scheduling and routing. Constraint solving methods discussed include search, finite domains and domain pruning, and methods for simplifying tree constraints. Programming techniques discussed include constraint logic and concurrent constraint programming. Prerequisite: 232 and Math 211.

EASIA 205E
Japanese Thought
Prof. Krebs
This course will be an introduction to the intellectual contributions of the Japanese from the sixth to the twenty-first century. We will look first at the historically significant thinkers who gave shape to their ideas in the context of both indigenous Japanese and imported Chinese thought up to the seventeenth century. We will then shift our attention to the roughly two hundred and fifty years of isolation of the Tokugawa period during which there was an immensely variegated revival, development, and reconstruction of these ideas. Finally we will look closely at some of the many diverse intellectual contributions of the individuals and schools that have emerged in the years between the Meiji Restoration of 1868 and the present day.

EASIA 205I
Chinese Art
Prof. Krebs
This course is an introduction to the history and aesthetic of Chinese art. The art is studied as a primary part of the larger culture. Other elements of the culture are introduced as they are relevant to seeing the civilzation as a whole. The subject matter is those arts most typical of the major dynastics, but painting is the primary overall focus.

EASIA 206A
Japanese Culture
Prof. Krebs
A general introduction to Japanese cultures from the beginnings to the present day and covering topics ranging from the social sciences through the humanities. The approach taken will be comparative and will use traditional Chinese civilization and contemporary America as the chief points of reference. Readings will be taken from both primary and secondary sources; the format will be a combination of lecture and discussions.

EASIA 206H - POLSC 290AH
Law, Politics, Society-E. Asia
Prof. Diamant
This course examines how people in East Asia use institutions to obtain justice and how these efforts help illustrate the 'overlap' between law, politics, and society in countries like China and Japan. Instead of assuming a single conception of how law works and what law means, we will focus on the wide variation found among Asian countries, social classes, and urban and rural areas as people seek to remedy what they regard as travesties of justice. Unlike the West where such remedial action is usually pursued through courts, in Asia we must also focus on the ways certain social relationships, like landlord and peasant, and certain institutions like village mediation committees and roles like mediator, serve as a framework for seeking or thwarting justice. Such considerations are crucial in determining where Asian judicial systems converge with and diverge from Western models like that of the United States.

EASIA 206I - POLSC 255
Chinese Politics
Prof. Diamant
An introduction to the contours of contemporary politics as shaped by traditional and revolutionary legacies, the institutions of state socialism, China's underdevelopment and struggles over power and policy.

ECON 351 (see IB&M 300J)

ENGL 101AD
Romantic Natural History
Prof. Nichols
What does English Romantic literature have to do with American nature writing? What does poetry have to do with careful observation of the natural world? This course will survey poetry and prose by English Romantic writers: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Percy Shelley, Keats, Clare and scientific writings of the same period. We will set literary works in dialogue with nature writers of the past two centuries: Gilbert White, Erasmus Darwin, Thoreau, Charles Darwin, Aldo Leopold, Annie Dillard. The course will be study of metaphor, of poetic and prose style, and of the link between literary and naturalistic observation. We will seek to answer a series of questions about the relationship between the natural world and the human beings who have defined and affected that world. Are we part of the natural environment? Do we see ourselves as distinct from it? Is nature beautiful and benign (sunsets, daffodils, fish) or ugly and destructive (hurricanes, AIDS, sea snakes)? Our guides will include poets, novelists, essayists, and ourselves. We will also emphasize the role played by literary works in the development of our current environmental assumptions and values. Two papers, final exam.

ENGL 101AU
Contemporary American Fiction
Prof. Gill
In this class, we will read, discuss, and write about American novels and short stories written in the last twenty years. Our focus will be on the family and the ways in which the authors represent family life in America in all its variety and complexity. Texts may include Allegra Goodman's The Family Markowitz, Michael Cunningham's The Hours, Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections, Rick Moody's Purple America, and Carolyn Chute's The Bean of Egypt, Maine.

ENGL 101BC
The Beat Generation
Prof. Kupetz
Constantly migrating between New York, San Francisco, and further, The Beat Generation produced literature that continues to infuriate some, to inspire others, and to incite debate. By looking at the New York and San Francisco Beats as distinct communities, by placing those communities in a historic context, and by examining the religious vision(s) that wove them together, we endeavor to develop an understanding of the Beat vision. This course will examine poems, novels, essays, spoken word performances, jazz, and film to discover the "jewel-center." There will be the usual samsara of papers, projects, and exams.

ENGL 101BG
Coping in America
Prof. Winston
Come to the New World! Start over! Leave the past! Forget history! These were at least some of the "promises" which drew immigrants to the Americas. Were they true? Sex. Death. Melancholy. Religion. Madness. Gender relations. Nature. The city. What do selected works of the 19th- and 20th-century American literature tell us about "Coping in America?" Authors to be read will include: Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Chopin, Cather, Jewett, Wharton, and Cheever. Requirements will include conscientious preparation, regular attendance, active classroom participation, and three critical essays.

ENGL 101BP
Modern Realist Drama
Prof. Sams
This course explores how realism has taken dramatic shape throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries, with an emphasis on the particular cultural and social contexts of realism's most vital "moments", from Synge's Playboy of the Western World and Chekhov's Moscow Art Theater productions to the British "new wave" and the more contemporary spin given realism by Martin McDonagh and Tamasha Theater Company.

ENGL 101BQ
Intro to African Lit & Ideas
Prof. Mutia
This introductory course in African literature is intended to introduce students to the existing relationship between the ideas that have shaped the political history of sub-Saharan Africa and African literature itself. The course will attempt to establish the link between African socio-political culture and the emergence/creation of African literature. We will concentrate on the notions of pre-colonial Africa, the African colonial encounter, apartheid, independence, and the post-colonial experience in the continent. We will examine the works of Chinua Achebe (Nigeria), Ferdinand Oyono (Cameroon), Meja Mwangi (Kenya), and Alex La Guma (South Africa). Be prepared to look at so-called "reality" from a different point-of-view. Come, read, and enjoy.

ENGL 101V
19th C British Literature
Prof. Moffat
We will study British society in the Romantic and Victorian eras through literature, historical accounts, and visual materials, including paintings and film. Substantial volume of reading; two papers and a final exam.

ENGL 212E
Writing about Food and Culture
Prof. Su
Are you what you eat? Where did you get your taste for sushi, lamb korma, apple tart, and Peking duck, and what do these tastes reveal about you? In this nation of immigrants, eating habits are often telling, as each group, including the Pilgrims, has had to remake itself in a new land while trying to retain a sense of who they were. New groups are constantly arriving and undergoing similar transformations. As a result, it's nearly impossible to write about American food without having to constantly redefine American culture. The writers we will discuss are likely to include: Madison Smartt Bell, Wendell Berry, Elizabeth David, M.F.K. Fisher, Jessica Harris, Gish Jen, Mark Kurlansky, Jill McCorkle, Molly O'Neill, Ruth Reichl, and Jeffrey Steingarten. You'll write and revise four essays, one of which will be a critical review.

ENGL 212J
Writing About Sports
Prof. Gill
In this class, students will read and analyze examples of different types of writing (newspaper columns, magazine features articles, and book-length works) about a variety of amateur and professional sports. Students will write both analytical essays about the readings and their own articles about issues and figures in the contemporary world of sports. Texts may include The Best American Sports Writing 2002, A. Barlett Giamatti's A Great and Glorious Game, Lance Armstrong's It's Not About the Bike, and H. G. Bissinger's Friday Night Lights.

ENGL 212P
Writing About Theater
Prof. Sams
You will sharpen your writing and self-editing skills through assignments that demand you to take various approaches to writing about theater, from close textual analysis to theater reviews. The course will also enable you to explore dramatic form and technique more creatively, by engaging in dramaturgical and/or directorial projects (individually and collectively). The class will involve play reading as well as attendance at a minimum of one live performance.

ENGL 349J
Women in African Lit
Prof. Mutia
This course will examine female gender issues prevailing in African literature with the view of exploring and analyzing the perception and portrayal of women in African fiction, particularly in fiction that is authored by African women. The marginal position of the African woman that has limited her to the periphery of African life and her struggle to find a voice and space that will push her to the center of life in restrictive patriarchal societies will constitute the central focus in this course. We will examine the notion of African feminism as a critical ideological tool that will inform our discussions of the texts in question. We will also take into consideration that African feminism is diametrically opposed to Western feminist critical thought. The difference between these two notions of feminist critical theory will be examined in the course. Readings will include, but will not be limited to the short fiction of Zaynab Alkali, Catherine Acholonu, Ifeoma Okoye, and Makuchi. They will also comprise the works of Buchi Emecheta and Yvonne Vera.

ENGL 352A
Renaissance Poetry
Professor Johnston
In this course we will read William Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609), John Donne's Songs and Sonets (1633), and George Herbert's The Temple (1633), the three great books of lyric poetry in the English Language. Anyone passionate about literature in general and poetry in particular has a wonderful experience waiting within these works; the language is rich, surprising, and inspiring, and the subjects range from fervent religion to fervent sex, with the poets rebelling against traditional assumptions about both. Because they are so magnificent and germane, these books serve as the foundation for much of what has been written (and is being written) since: they are the Ur texts of lyric poetry in English. We will, therefore, read the texts luxuriously laughing, crying, cringing, gasping, blushing as we simultaneously study the fundamentals of reading poetry, skills that are both learnable and infinitely rewarding. Because these three poets flourished in proximity to one another, we will also explore their milieu, asking such questions as: "Why and how did such great art appear in this particular place at this particular time? Was there something in the water?" Perhaps, but we shall deepen our thinking by interrogating the culture and politics of this brief time period, attempting to see the bigger picture: "How does culture enable great art?"

ENGL 358A - AMST 301W - HIST 311J
Witchcraft at Salem
Profs. Winston & Woodward
This course will include an examination of the social and intellectual context of New England Puritanism, Salem's place in the comparative study of witchcraft, and the episode's legacy in literature and historical writing.

ENGL 370D - AMST 301V
Women and Difference
Prof. O'Brien
In this course we explore differences among women as well as commonalities, taking into account not only race, class, and ethnicity, but also sexualities, illness and disabilities, the body, weight, age, religion and spirituality. We focus on diverse femininities within the U.S. but take a comparative, global perspective as well. We'll particularly be concerned with the ways in which women resist oppression, become activists and gain voices. Reading will include works by Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, and Alice Walker; films will range from mass media productions like "Thelma and Louise" to feminist documentaries.

ENGL 379E
Coming of Age: Postcol Lit
Prof. Sams
Adolescence is fraught with uncertainty under any conditions, with its overwhelming questions and insecurities about one's place in a given family, peer group, and within the world at large. This course will explore the challenges faced by adolescents within the colonial and post-imperial worlds depicted by writers Salman Rushdie, George Lamming, Jamaica Kincaid, and Chinua Achebe, among others. The course will also offer an introduction to postcolonial theories of national culture and individual/collective identity.

ENGL 403D
Sexuality and Modernism
Prof. Moffat
In her essay "Modern Fiction," Virginia Woolf argued that "the proper stuff of fiction is a little other than custom would have us believe." Modern fiction engaged the subject of sexuality with vigor and variety. We will begin by exploring the social origins of new attitudes towards women's sexuality and gay identity, reading from social history as well as literary texts. Authors may include Wilde, Woolf, Forster, Lawrence, and Hemingway. The last third of the term I'll open to students' own suggestions about where to take the themes and examples of these writers: into the work less canonical writers, gay or straight, to discussions of lesbianism and androgyny, or examinations of social history: famous sex trials in England, cross-dressing, suffrage, popular culture and sex roles in the modern period, and so on. Theoretical readings on sexuality will be at the heart of the discussion. Students will write several short (2-3 page) research papers, an annotated bibliography, and a final paper of 10-12 pages.

ENGL 403R
Jekylls & Hydes
Prof. Reed
A look at some classic narratives of human duality, beginning with Robert Louis Stevenson's famous novella but moving on to contemporary texts by writers like Conrad, James, Hardy, or Wilde. Freud, Bakhtin, and the odd Scriptural text will afford some ideological perspective on the theme, while a look at some 20th-century novels and films will explore the on-going vitality and usefulness of Stevenson's hallmark cultural myth.

ENGL 403S
Revolutionary Romanticism
Prof. Nichols
This course will explore the revolutionary aspects of English Romanticism. We will consider Romanticism not only as a literary movement but as the cultural expression of an entire age. We will read poets (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, Keats), novelists (Mary Shelley, Emily BrontÎ), and social theorists (Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft). We will also look at earth shaking images by Delacroix, J. M. W. Turner, C. D. Friedrich, and Goya. We will examine the numerous revolutions--political, social, artistic, psychological--that began in Europe in the late 18th century and which continue to influence our thinking today. Students will write a short essay and a long research paper.

FLMST 301E - ITAL 320C
Ital Cinema, Fascism-Present
Prof. Pagano
This course examines the works of several of the most influential Italian filmmakers, from Rossellini and De Sica to Fellini and beyond. Lectures and required readings are in English and all movies will have English subtitles. Students seeking credit counting toward their Italian Studies major must do some readings and write their final paper in Italian.

FRNCH 240B
Paris: The Epicenter
Prof. Beaudry
The pre-eminence of Paris as the capital of France emerges as early as the year 1000. The French monarchs restored the ancient Roman palace on the Ile de la Cite and the fortifications on the Left Bank of the Seine, and developed the Right Bank, protecting it with the construction of the Louvre. The city has been the epicenter of French intellectual, cultural and political life since the Middle Ages. The French Revolution, said to have lasted 100 years by the historian Francois Furet, was played out in its streets. It continues to retain its political hegemony over the Hexagon. The cultural prestige of the City of Lights has made it an attraction for over 6 million visitors per annum. In this course we will follow the evolution of this Parisian predominance, across the last millennium, and, most especially, during the nineteenth century, as France finally emerges as a modern democratic state.

GERMN 252B - WOMST 201B
On Women and War
Prof. Roethke
In this course, we will read and analyze a variety of texts by women from central Europe who experienced WWI, WWII, or the civil war in the former Yugoslavia. Texts will include memoirs, films, novels, and historical/theoretical readings from authors including Anna Seghers, Christa Wolf, Helke Sander, Helma Sanders-Brahms, and Barbara Frischmuth. Taught in English.

HIST 211C - WOMST 220
History of American Feminism
Prof. Farrell
This course will emphasize such topics as the 19th century women's movement, the suffrage movement, radical and liberal feminism, and African-American feminism. We will pay particular attention to the diversity of women's experiences in the United States and to women's multiple and often conflicting responses to patriarchy and other forms of oppression. Prerequisite: One course in Women's Studies or history or permission of the instructor.

HIST 211J
The American City
Prof. Krulikowski
Long before Jefferson and Hamilton articulated opposing visions of the role of the city in the new United States, the urban environment had become a significant nexus of economic, cultural, and social pursuits. By 1920, more than half of all Americans lived in cities. Despite this, American society has always harbored both Jeffersonian distrust of and Hamiltonian love for the city, an antithesis that has affected the growth of American cities, spurred on the development of suburbs, and influenced the goals of urban planners. This course will examine the complex evolution of the American city as both a human-made physical creation and a socio-cultural landscape.

HIST 215C
War & Society: Western Exper
Prof. Weddle
This course examines the evolution of warfare and the impact of war on society from the Ancient World to the nuclear age. We will explore the development and practice of modern war, with emphasis on the evolution of military organizations, theory, and strategy. Particular attention is devoted to the interaction of military institutions with society, how organizations and structures reflect their societies, and the impact of technology on warfare. We will also examine the assertion by some historians that there is a distinctive Western Way of War and, indeed, an American Way of War.

HIST 311G
The Cold War in America
Prof. Crane
"Cold War America" traces the American experience from the origins of the Cold War in World War II through the end of the Cold War and the election of Bill Clinton in 1992. The focus is on internal American affairs and the relation between those affairs and the Cold War. Against a backdrop of increasing Soviet-American confrontation during the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations, we will analyze the postwar economic boom, the increasing role of the federal government in the economy, McCarthyism, and the ensuing consensus/conformity in American Cold War society and politics. The Kennedy and Johnson years marked the zenith of post-WWII liberalism in America. The 1960s witnessed the potential for dramatic social and political reform, reform that might well have transformed America more than it did. The reform movement had limited results for a variety of reasons, which we will examine. We will give special attention in this block to the domestic significance of the Vietnam War, the New Left, and 1968 as a historical watershed. During the 1970s Americans realized there were limits: government could not solve all of society's ills; presidential power had to be curtailed; America could not impose its will around the world as it did immediately after World War II; energy was not inexhaustible. The course will close by examining how the United States adapted to these limits and the actions it took as the Cold War came to an end.

HIST 311J - AMST 301W - ENGL 358A
Witchcraft in Salem
Profs. Winston & Woodward
This course will include an examination of the social and intellectual context of New England Puritanism, Salem's place in the comparative study of witchcraft, and the episode's legacy in literature and historical writing.

HIST 315D
War in E Asia & Alternatives
Prof. Harrell
This course examines Japan's attempt to construct a strategic partnership with China, first, within the context of the international legal order, then through predominantly bilateral arrangements meant to bind China to Japan's regional empire. The objectives of the course are to assess the effectiveness of law and diplomacy in managing Chinese-Japanese relations and to explore Japan's ultimate decision to adopt a go-it-alone Asia policy. Special attention will be paid to such issues as the Sino-Japanese (1895) and Russo-Japanese Wars as "just" wars Japanese and League of Nations positions on Manchuria, the race-equality principle as debated at Versailles, Japan's concept of a regional order in Asia, and Japanese war crimes and the judgments of history.

HIST 315I
Modern South Asia
Prof. Jackle
This course traces the historical development of South Asia with an emphasis on India from the mid-nineteenth century to the late 1990's. The effects of imperialism, religion, politics, and economics will be discussed in a developmental framework employing a regional approach. An analysis of the regional security crisis of the early 21st century will be included in the course. Texts and a wide variety of selected readings will be employed.

HIST 404O
History of Civil Liberties
Prof. Pinsker
This seminar explores topics in the history of American civil liberties from the creation of the Bill of Rights to the current war on terrorism. Students will examine concerns such as the evolution of free speech doctrine, voting rights, religious liberty, suspensions of habeas corpus, government surveillance and a host of privacy issues.

HIST 404P
Modern War & Mass Culture
Prof. Sweeney
This senior seminar will ask what modern war in the 19th and 20th centuries meant to its participants, soldiers and civilians, men and women, as well as those from different nations. Ranging from the Napoleonic Wars to WWII, we will study how developments in mass culture, such as universal literacy, newspaper reporting, photography, radio, and film making, changed how wars were experienced and represented. The course will begin with both primary and secondary readings. Then students will develop research projects focusing on one of the major conflicts.

IB&M 300J - ECON 351
Econ & Politics of Regulation
Prof. Erfle
This course examines the political and economic underpinnings of regulation in the American economy and the economic effects of those regulations. Topics covered include the political economy of regulation, direct regulation of monopoly market, and public policy towards non-monopoly sources of allocative inefficiency. Pre-requisites: ECON 278 or IB&M 220.

IB&M 300O
Leadership & Management
Prof. Curley
The purpose of this course is to acquaint students with the principles and practices of leadership and management in business and the public sector. The emphasis will be on business. The course will consist of reading material on the subject. We'll also discuss examples in the news. Occasionally, video will be shown. There will be two major papers and one oral presentation, accompanied by a one-to-two page summary of your main points. The oral presentation will be done in groups of three. There will be one essay quiz of 40 minutes. You will be able to use your notes from class. There will be no final.

IB&M 300R
Issues in Health Care Managmt.
Prof. Sarcone
The primary focus of this course is the health service system in the United States. A brief historical overview of the evolution of the current system will be provided. We will discuss the structure of the current system including how resources are developed and deployed and how services are organized and managed. This segment of the course will also include a review of economic models associated with the delivery and payment of health care services. With this foundation established, the course will turn to today's challenging health management issues. These issues historically address matters of quality, access, and cost. Alternative solutions to these issues will be discussed which reflect relevant quality, access and cost models suggested or employed throughout the world. No prerequisites.

IB&M 300W
Market Research
Staff
The course is designed to provide you with critical insights into the marketing research process and its critical role in facilitating strategic marketing decisions. Special emphasis is placed on survey design and data analysis from a user's perspective. Students will have hands-on experience of conducting and evaluating a survey study. Specifically, you will learn the following aspects of marketing research:
-how to define and clarify the problems to be investigated,
-how to identify and use relevant information sources,
-how to design the questionnaire,
-how to collect and analyze the data,
-how to interpret and present the findings, and
-how to derive actionable marketing strategies based on the findings. Students need to have both basic statistical training and marketing background to be qualified for the enrollment in this course. Prerequisites: IB&M 220 and IB&M 240, or equivalent.

IB&M 300X
Family Owned Business
Staff
This course will explore the three major "systems" associated with family owned business: the "family system," which is concerned with family dynamics and the transfer of business from generation to generation; the "business system," which concentrates on management issues associated with startup, expansion and formalization, and maturation of the company; and the "ownership system," which involves issues surrounding majority ownership, sibling partnership, consortiums, or other arrangements. The course will combine theoretical frameworks with a good deal of case analysis. Prerequisite: IB&M 100 and either IB&M 210 or IB&M 230 or IB&M 240; or permission of the instructor.

ITAL 320C - FLMST 301E
Ital Cinema, Fascism-Present
Prof. Pagano
This course examines the works of several of the most influential Italian filmmakers, from Rossellini and De Sica to Fellini and beyond. Lectures and required readings are in English and all movies will have English subtitles. Students seeking credit counting toward their Italian Studies major must do some readings and write their final paper in Italian.

MATH 301B
Chaotic Dynamical Systems
Prof. Koss
An introduction to discrete dynamical systems. Topics covered include iteration, bifurcations, symbolic dynamics, chaos, fractals, and Julia sets. Prerequisites: Math 211 and Math 261.

MUSIC 109
World Music
Prof. Rischar
This course explores the historical and contemporary music of selected world cultures. The genres and practices of art, folk and popular music are examined in diverse regional contexts that may include China, India, Japan, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas. An introductory course open to those with little or no musical background. This course satisfies the Comparative Civilizations distribution requirement.

PHILO 261P
Merleau-Ponty
Prof. Dwiggins
This course will examine Maurice Merleau-Ponty's brilliant analysis of embodied existence and its impact on our understanding of cultural phenomena such as art, literature, and science, in selections from his Phenomenology of Perception (1945) and the posthumously published "Eye and Mind" and The Visible and the Invisible. Merleau-Ponty rejected the mind-body dualism which had dominated the western tradition since Plato, especially since its influential reformation by Descartes, insisting that human consciousness is always embodied consciousness, and that the lived body is itself the perceiving, thinking subject.

PHILO 261Q
Phil of Hist: Russian Case
Prof. Grier
In this course we will use texts from the history of Russian philosophy as a means of investigating a number of issues that lie within the territory of philosophy of history. In this way we will familiarize ourselves with much of the content of Russian philosophy and simultaneously explore the idea of a philosophy of history. We will read Collingwood, The Idea of History, as well as a variety of Russian philosophical texts, both historical and contemporary.

POLSC 255 (see EASIA 206I)

POLSC 290AG
Legal Advocacy and Ethics
Prof. Guido
This course will focus on the role of the advocate in the law- and policy-making process. We will consider various types of advocacy (public debate, negotiation, litigation, public relations, etc.) as well as compare and contrast the advocate's role in different forums (legislatures, courts, administrative agencies, the press, etc.) The ethical rules governing advocacy and several in-depth studies of landmark transitions in American law and/or public policy will be included in the course.

POLSC 290AH - EASIA 206H
Law, Politics, Society-E. Asia
Prof. Diamant
This course examines how people in East Asia use institutions to obtain justice and how these efforts help illustrate the "overlap" between law, politics, and society in countries like China and Japan. Instead of assuming a single conception of how law works and what law means, we will focus on the wide variation found among Asian countries, social classes, and urban and rural areas as people seek to remedy what they regard as travesties of justice. Unlike the West where such remedial action is usually pursued through courts, in Asia we must also focus on the ways certain social relationships, like landlord and peasant, and certain institutions like village mediation committees and roles like mediator, serve as a framework for seeking or thwarting justice. Such considerations are crucial in determining where Asian judicial systems converge with and diverge from Western models like that of the United States.

POLSC 290AK
Courts & Public Policy
Prof. Sweet
This course explores the powers and limitations of courts as creators of public policy. The primary focus of the course is on the American legal experience, using: affirmative action, school desegregation, pay equity, and prison reform as examples of the impact of the court decisions. Ultimately, we will be addressing the question -- why do courts matter?

POLSC 290AL
The New Imperial Presidency
Prof. Rudalevige
In the wake of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal, many claimed that the American presidency had become too powerful, even "imperial." As a result Congress (and sometimes the judiciary) reshaped the statutory relationship between the executive and legislative branches in areas ranging from budgetary policy to foreign affairs. Campaign finance reform, intelligence- gathering and war powers oversight, the Independent Counsel Act, limits on secrecy and "executive privilege" -- all these were manifestations of post-Watergate/Vietnam politics. Some worried the presidency was not "imperial" but rather "imperiled." But by the 1990s, many of these reforms were in disarray, unenforced or abandoned -- and the events of September 11 only amplified the trend towards enhanced presidential power. This class will ask: Is there a "new imperial presidency" in the 21st century? More broadly, what is the appropriate balance of institutional power in the American democracy?

POLSC 390G
Democratization in Central Am
Prof. Ruhl
Central America has had a long authoritarian history and recently experienced extreme political violence from the late 1970s through the early 1990s. However, during the last several years, the region has become more politically stable and democratic than ever before. Elections have become institutionalized, and the power of the once dominant military institutions has declined. Nevertheless, many serious socioeconomic and political problems remain (poverty, inequality, corruption, rising crime). Some countries in the area have been much more successful than others in consolidating democracy. This seminar will explore the troubled political history of Central America, analyze its process of democratization, and seek to explain current differences among its six principal political systems (Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Panama).

POLSC 390H
Global Futures
Prof. Bova
Is the 21st century ushering in a new world order or a new world disorder? Is globalization creating a unified global culture, or will we witness a new clash of civilizations? Are democracy and markets the wave of the future, or will authoritarianism and statism reemerge as dominant forces? Is war becoming obsolete, or will it become more frequent and more deadly? Through close reading and discussion of a series of provocative books, we will address these and other debates about the future of world politics.

POLSC 390O
Politics of Subjectivity
Prof. Ransom
One of the key insights of modern thought is that individuals are "made, not born." Since individuality is constructed by various forces, it is brought into the realm of conflict and thus of politics. In this seminar we will look at some of the primary theories of the construction of subjectivity made in the past hundred years or so. Readings will include Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Simmel, Adorno, Lacan, and Foucault. They will help us ask and answer questions such as: who benefits from the creation of certain "types" of individuals? What are the unrecognized forces that determine our personalities and our preferences? Can individuals intervene in their own construction, or are we fated to be puppets?

POLSC 390P
Dilemmas of Leadership
Profs. Schmoke & Strand
For a nation to prosper in today's world a strong military and healthy domestic institutions are both essential. Sound institutions require strong families, neighborhoods, towns, and cities. In the United States, these institutions and communities function within the governmental framework provided by federalism and the resulting, complex set of relationships among the national government, states, and localities. Making decisions on issues that range from matters of war and peace in the international realm to providing a decent quality of life in neighborhoods always involves tradeoffs and the balancing of contradictory, sometimes opposing forces and interests. Finding the "right" course of action through theses complexities is the common challenge faced by leaders at all levels of government and society. With the help of classic texts like the play "Antigone" by Sophocles, the "book of Nehemiah" in The Old Testament, and Billy Budd by Melville, and contemporary case studies of issues like racial and gender discrimination, First Amendment rights, public housing, and drug policy we will seek an appreciation of the tough problems faced by leaders and the ways individuals are inspired to get involved in the task of finding solutions. The seminar will meet every Friday from 10:00 a.m. until noon and also several Thursday evenings (TBA) for special programs and guest speakers. The class fulfills the seminar requirement for the political science major and is also open to juniors and seniors in other majors.
Kurt Schmoke is the 2003 General of the Army Omar Bradley Chair in Strategic Leadership. Professor Schmoke, currently Dean of the Howard University School of Law, is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. He has been a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, the three-term Mayor of Baltimore, and a partner with the international law firm of Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering.

PSYCH 180K
Intro to Health Psychology
Prof. Devlen
Health Psychology applies psychological research and methods to examine such issues as the identification of psychological factors contributing to the etiology of physical illness, the promotion and maintenance of health and the prevention and management of disease. In this introduction we shall explore what is known about such questions as: How is stress linked to heart disease? What factors influence condom use? And how do people adapt to illness? Suitable for all students regardless of prior background in psychology.

PSYCH 380C
Rsch Meth in Drugs & Behavior
Prof. Rauhut
Investigates biological underpinnings of basic operant and classical conditioning processes. Uses animal models to explore implications for psychopathology, addiction, etc.

PSYCH 380D
Resch Meth in Health Psych
Prof. Devlen
Health psychology applies psychological research and methods to a range of questions examining the relationship between psychological factors and physical illness. This course will include a comprehensive coverage of the variety of methods employed by health psychologists, including interviewing and observational techniques, basic questionnaire development and analysis. Students will gain experience by participating in exercises, designing and conducting a research study and writing research reports in an area relevant to health psychology. Three hours lecture and three hours lab per week. Prerequisites: 201, 202

PSYCH 480I
Ancient Madness/Amer Madness
Prof. Abrams
A comparative study of madness in ancient Greece and contemporary America, intended primarily to shed light on contemporary American views by contrasting them with a much earlier perspective. We’ll first read two ancient Greek madness tragedies (probably Ajax and Heracles) and related critical texts. We’ll then turn to two twentieth-century novels about madness (possibly The Bell Jar and Girl, Interrupted). Other possible texts include The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas Szasz, and Richard Castillo’s Culture and Mental Illness. Open to psychology majors and non-majors; Classical Studies majors and minors should note that this seminar counts as a course in classical civilization. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.

RELGN 260D
Revolutionary Religion
Prof. Donaldson
This course examines alternative understandings of "revolutionary religion" like that which the world witnessed on 9/11. Each of the figures we will study, including Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Dorothy Day, and Thich Nat Hanh, advocated non-violence as a powerful and effective way to address social injustice and each had deeply held religions convictions.

RELGN 260J - SOCIO 230X
New Amer Religious Diversity
Prof. Staub
Until relatively recently, religious diversity in the U.S. meant Protestant, Catholic and Jewish. With changing immigration patterns since the latter half of the 20th century, religious diversity in the American context has to take into account other world religious traditions, such as Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others. Furthermore, new immigrants from Asia, Africa and Latin America have brought their own distinctive Christian practices, whether joining existing American congregations or forming ethnically distinct congregations. This course will examine the experience of these emergent religious communities.

RELGN 312A
Eastern Orthodoxy
Prof. Pulcini
Even though it is the second largest denomination in world Christianity, Eastern Orthodoxy is a religious tradition virtually unknown in the West. In this course, we shall explore Eastern Orthodoxy as a historical, conceptual, and experiential system. That is, we shall trace the development of the Orthodox Church from its inception until the present decade; we shall examine a number of writings representative of its theological perspective; and we shall consider how its spirituality and liturgical life foster a distinctive type of religious experience among its adherents.

RELGN 314A
Relgion and Social Ethics
Prof. Gilchrist
Explores the relationship between religious values and ethical decision-making in the public arena. Topics will include issues of life and death (abortion, euthanasia, cloning, capital punishment), questions of economic justice (wealth and poverty), and the use of military force. Students will be encouraged to pursue their own areas of interest in greater detail.

SOCIO 230E
Compar Ethnicity: Ital & Jews
Prof. Israel
This course will help you to evaluate the popular images of Italian-Americans as portrayed in fiction, film, an on television. It will give you a deeper understanding of what in the traditions and society of the old country has given rise to the behaviors which have then been stereotyped by the mass media. You will be introduced to the theoretical controversy regarding the concept of "ethnicity" in the field of sociology and how ethnicity is related to personal identity. Where relevant or helpful, parallels and contrasts may be made to other ethnic groups. a feature film or occasionally a documentary film will be shown each week and discussed in class. These will be films as well-known as The Godfather and Moonstruck along with lesser-known films like True Love and Spike of Bensonhurst.

SOCIO 230K
Medical Sociology
Prof. Liu
In this course we will examine theories and practices which contribute to the development of a sociological understanding of medicine, health and illness. Health care access and delivery, social epidemiology, and the patient- practitioner relationship are among the issues to be developed.

SOCIO 230M - AMST 200H - ANTHR 234
African Diaspora
Prof. Merrill
This course examines the presence and contributions of people of African descent outside the African continent. While we generalize about the Black diasporic experience across continents, we also pause to examine the ways that stories unfold in particular places and at specific historical moments. Because most representations of Africa and her descendants have left Africans on the margins of world history, in this course we pay particular attention to alternative ways of understanding Black diaspora. We draw upon case studies from the United States, the Caribbean, Brazil and Europe during different historical periods.

SOCIO 230U - AMST 200P - ANTHR 245L
Diasporic America:Rethink Div
Prof. Goldschmidt
The United States has always been a "nation of immigrants" -- populated, in large part, by people whose "roots" lie elsewhere. But how are we to understand the complex relationships between transnational migrants, their places of origin, and their adapted homes? It is often assumed that immigrant communities cut most ties to their sending countries -- and often enough they do. But increasing numbers of immigrants maintain enduring links to their places of origin, while also participating fully in American society. These diasporic peoples live in two, or more, worlds -- and thus transgress the conceptual and political boundaries of the nation-state. This course will examine the complex fabric of diasporic community life. How, we will ask, might we reimagine America as a nexus of overlapping diasporas? Students will read theoretical literatures on transnationalism and diaspora, as well as ethnographic case-studies of American immigrant communities (including Hasidic Jews, Afro-Caribbean peoples, Mexicans, and others). Along with other assignments, students may conduct original field research in a local immigrant community.

SOCIO 230X - RELGN 260J
New Amer Religious Diversity
Prof. Staub
Until relatively recently, religious diversity in the U.S. meant Protestant, Catholic and Jewish. With changing immigration patterns since the latter half of the 20th century, religious diversity in the American context has to take into account other world religious traditions, such as Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others. Furthermore, new immigrants from Asia, Africa and Latin America have brought their own distinctive Christian practices, whether joining existing American congregations or forming ethnically distinct congregations. This course will examine the experience of these emergent religious communities.

SPAN 400G
Growing Up Theme in Hisp Lit
Prof. A. Rodriguez
We will study the cultural, political and social implications of growing up male or female in Hispanic societies. We will read various novels written by Spanish, Latin American and Latino authors who treat this topic with originality and depth. The course will present a comparative approach to the various experiences.

SPAN 400H
Contemp Lat Amer Wom Wr
Prof. Marquis
This class will examine how women's fictional life writing uncovers shifting perspectives of race, class and gender in contemporary Latin America. The course will look at questions of how these novels employ narrative innovations to explore women's roles in society and the production of history. The readings will include novels from Spanish America as well as Brazilian novels in translation. Taught in Spanish.

SPAN 410A
Contemporary Spanish Poetry
Prof. Aldrich
This seminar will engage in an in-depth exploration of contemporary Spanish poetry. We will read both older, well established poets and young poets whose work is just starting to receive attention. We will begin the semester with a brief overview of major 20th century movements and trends, then move on to a more detailed investigation of different generations of poets writing today. Students will undertake significant research on the work of a single poet of their choice.

WOMST 201B - GERMN 252B
On Women and War
Prof. Roethke
In this course, we will read and analyze a variety of texts by women from central Europe who experienced WWI, WWII, or the civil war in the former Yugoslavia. Texts will include memoirs, films, novels, and historical/theoretical readings from authors including Anna Seghers, Christa Wolf, Helke Sander, Helma Sanders-Brahms, and Barbara Frischmuth. Taught in English.

WOMST 220 (see HIST 211C)

WOMST 300J
Women's Health
Prof. Winterich
This course examines how the production of medical knowledge and the social construction of gender affect women’s experiences with health and illness and medical care. The concept of health, medical research and administration of medical care are socially, economically and politically influenced with significant consequences for women. This course uses a feminist and cultural analytical framework to examine the social worlds of gender, health, medicine and science. In this course we will explore the following issues: What is the relationship between scientific knowledge, medical care, and women in the United States? How does our culture’s emphasis on the individual and increasing commodification of health influence how medicine defines health and illness for women? How do women experience health and illness and how do these experiences compare by race, class and sexual orientation? What are alternatives to the biomedical system and how would women benefit from a feminist, collective approach to women’s health issues?

WOMST 300K - ANTHR 334
Gender, Race & Globalization
Prof. Merrill
This course examines some of the social and cultural effects of economic and political restructuring, otherwise known as "globalization," that have been occurring around the world since at least the 1970s and have accelerated during the past decade. We will focus on the increasing participation of women in the international division of labor, expanding migrations, growing economic and politial polarization within and between countries, the racialization of certain populations, commodification and the spread of consumerism, the relationship between the "local" and the "global," and various forms of social resistance. Our explorations will include examination of the historical and theoretical discussions of globalization, gender, and race, and ethnographic examples from various parts of the world, including but not limited to parts of Europe, Thailand, Malaysia, Mexico, the United States and parts of Africa.

WOMST 400B
Feminist Theory & the Body
Prof. Winterich
Feminists and feminist theorists acknowledge the role of the body, but disagree, both historically and currently, about the relative importance of the body. In general, feminist theorists view the body as either something to reject to gain intellectual and economic equality with men or as something to be reclaimed and celebrated as essentially female. In this course, we will focus on two key issues at the heart of feminist theory on the body: What does a theory of embodiment mean for our societal arrangements, ideas about gender, and women’s daily lives? Is there a universal female body or only multiple bodies within an array of difference, such as race, class, sexuality, age, and mobility status? As we examine these major questions, we will attend to the contexts in which female bodies are defined as different than men, and within each context we will ask: What purpose and whose interests do particular constructions about the female body serve? How do women’s experiences vary within these contexts?
Another point to consider is that if the meanings and associations of multiple female bodies are constructed, then these meanings are open to transformation. How can a feminist theory of embodiment empower women and transform meanings about the female body while attending to differences among female bodies? And, at the personal level, how do different women respond and/or resist to the meanings associated with their bodies? During this semester, we will explore and discuss these questions to evaluate the role of the body within feminist theory and for women’s daily lives.

D. Williams