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A&AH 205N
Ancient Greek Painting
Prof. C. Maggidis
A survey of ancient Greek vase-painting (Protogeometric, Geometric, Archaeic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods, from 1050 BC to 31BC) with consideration of both mainland Greece and the Greek colonies, and study of ancient Greek (with special emphasis on recently discovered large-scale frescoes in Macedonian tombs), Etruscan, and Roman monumental painting (including selective mosaics). Materials, techniques, and principles; iconography, stylistic and technical developments; styles and regional trends; ancient Greek and Roman masters and their schools; consideration of ancient literary sources (including readings from Pausanias, Pliny the Elder, Cicero). Visits to archaeological collections and Museums. Offered every third year.

A&AH 391E
The Ancient City: Athens
Prof. C. Maggidis
This seminar focuses each time on a different ancient city, starting with Athens, Greece: Athens is the most renowned ancient city in the world, the birthplace of democracy, rhetoric, philosophy, drama and theater, classical art and architecture in the 5th century BC, and of the modern Olympic Games in AD 1896. The course aims to familiarize the students with the long history and complex archaeology of Athens, focusing mainly on classical Athens: topics include in-depth analysis of major architectural complexes and public monuments (with emphasis on the Acropolis and the Parthenon; the Athenian Agora, Areopagus and Pynx); Athenian temple architecture and famous Attic sanctuaries (brauron, Sounion, and Eleusis); public works and buildings (fortification walls and gates, Piraeus ports and shipyards, courthouses and prisons, fountains and roads, stoas and altars, theaters and music halls, stadiums and gymnasia); domestic architecture (poleodomic planning, private houses); cemeteries and funeary architecture. Athenian sculpture, ceramics, and painting will be also examined (materials and techniques, iconography and styles, Athenian masters and their schools). Reconstruction of public and private life, function of public buildings and democratic institutions, art and politics, historical contextualization of the Athenian miracle and its golden age with special consideration of ancient literary sources (including readings from translation from Pausanias, Thucydides, Aristotle, Euripides and Aristophanes). Evaluation of the legacy of Athens. Visits to archaeological collections and Museums; documentary films, videos, and 3-D digital monument reconstruction projects.

AMST 200D
American Capitalism
Prof. C. Barone
Who rules America? Economically? Politically? Culturally? Drawing on critical perspectives from Political Economy, American Studies and Sociology, this interdisciplinary course examines how power is structured in American capitalism across institutions including the social relations of production and distribution, corporations and markets. Special attention is given to the ways in which powerful economic groups and organizations are able to exert economic control, influence government, and dominate American institutions such as the media.

AMST 301AA
The Family in America
Prof. K. Rogers
Traces the history of the American family from the colonial period through the present, using an interdisciplinary approach that combines readings in demography, social history, psychology, literature, and anthropology. Topics explored include family formation and gender creation, marriage and divorce, family violence, and the social impact of changing patterns of mortality and fertility.

AMST 301U
Oral History: Am Lives & Hlth
Prof. K. Rogers
This course will expore American experiences with health care, illness, aging, and end-of life issues through life-history interviews with individuals who have had experience with various health-related issues. Students should expect to develop appropriate question lists based on their areas of research, conduct two interviews, and produce transcripts and video recordings of narrators. Students should expect to interview individuals who have ahd health issues, and different health care providers in the area.

ANTHR 245G
Ethnography of Jewish Exper
Prof. S. Staub
This course uses the lens of anthropological inquiry to explore core cultural processes as themes in Jewish experience across time and space. Patterns of cultural transmission and cultural change, cultural interaction across social boundaries, and responses to adversity and crisis are among such core cultural processes. Further, we will explore how the construct "culture" itself shapes experience of time, memory, space, place, the senses, gender, and aesthetics, among other elements of human experience.

ANTHR 245N
Postcolonial Africa
Prof. J. Ellison
This course is intended as both an introduction to the ethnography of Africa and an examination of current ethnographic problems in Africa. We will learn a great deal about the cultural, social, and economic diversity of the continent while avoiding the typological thinking that once characterized area studies. Through ethnography we will view African cultures as historically grounded and enmeshed in various fields of power, and we will consider the enduring and changing influences of pre-colonial traditions, colonialism, postcolonial states, and global economies.

ARABI 102
Elementary Arabic
Prof. L. Blosser
Prerequisite: INTDS 101 (Elementary Arabic)

ARCH 301B
Fieldwork Class Arch-Greece
Prof. C. Maggidis
Archaeological excavation and/or survey for four to six weeks in selected locations of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds, which include Mycenae in Greece (DEPAS Poject) and Scotland, Great Britain (joint Project with the University of Durham, England). The dig provides training for students in the techniques and methods of field archaeology. Admission by permission of the instructor; Archaeology 201 recommended. Offered every summer.

ARCH 390C
The Ancient City: Athens
Prof. C. Maggidis
This seminar focuses each time on a different ancient city, starting with Athens, Greece: Athens is the most renowned ancient city in the world, the birthplace of democracy, rhetoric, philosophy, drama and theater, classical art and architecture in the 5th century BC, and of the modern Olympic Games in AD 1896. The course aims to familiarize the students with the long history and complex archaeology of Athens, focusing mainly on classical Athens: topics include in-depth analysis of major architectural complexes and public monuments (with emphasis on the Acropolis and the Parthenon; the Athenian Agora, Areopagus and Pynx); Athenian temple architecture and famous Attic sanctuaries (brauron, Sounion, and Eleusis); public works and buildings (fortification walls and gates, Piraeus ports and shipyards, courthouses and prisons, fountains and roads, stoas and altars, theaters and music halls, stadiums and gymnasia); domestic architecture (poleodomic planning, private houses); cemeteries and funeary architecture. Athenian sculpture, ceramics, and painting will be also examined (materials and techniques, iconography and styles, Athenian masters and their schools). Reconstruction of public and private life, function of public buildings and democratic institutions, art and politics, historical contextualization of the Athenian miracle and its golden age with special consideration of ancient literary sources (including readings from translation from Pausanias, Thucydides, Aristotle, Euripides and Aristophanes). Evaluation of the legacy of Athens. Visits to archaeological collections and Museums; documentary films, videos, and 3-D digital monument reconstruction projects.

BIOL 401C
Virology
Prof. D. Kushner
An introduction to viruses. This course will examine the life cycle of viruses in general and their relationships with their hosts, including the processes of attachment to, entry into, genomic replication within, and exit from, cells. The specific molecular and cellular biology and biochemistry of, and pathogenesis/disease caused by, several viruses will also be studied. Related topics (such as prions, RNA interference, and public health issues) may be discussed. Weekly reading and discussion of primary literature will complement the lectures. Prerequisite: Two Biology courses numbered between 120-129 or permission of the instructor; some background in cell and/or molecular biology highly recommended.

CHEM 490B
Symmetry and Spectroscopy
Prof. C. Samet
The course will be an advanced course in Physical Chemistry, designed for interest among students inclined towards organic, inorganic and/or physical chemistry. The course will deal with the relationship between Group Theory and symmetry, quantum mechanics, and Spectroscopy. There will be a special emphasis on the application of group theory to molecular orbital (MO) theory and to molecular spectroscopy. The principles learned will be applied to important organic as well as inorganic systems.

COCIV 102A
Indian Remakes /Hollywood Film
Prof. T. Scott 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, Sleeping with the Enemy, Pretty Woman, and ET the Extraterrestrial. No prerequisites, credit also for FILM STUDIES MINOR.

EASIA 205L
Self & Society in Jpnse Film
Prof. L. Winston
This course examines what happens when the individual goes against the grain sexually, ethnically, culturally, and politically. In so doing we explore the richness and diversity of Japanese cultures in the work of classic film directors such as Kurosawa Akira and Mizoguchi Kenji, as well as that of more contemporary filmmakers.

EASIA 206C
State & Ethnicity-Upland Asia
Prof. A. Hill
This course examines the borderlands shared by states in upland Southeast Asia, such as Thailand, Burma and Laos, with China. It looks at dimensions of contemporary migrations and transnationalism among populations historically marginalized, such as the Hmong, and among populations that have a strong identification with states. Linked to political economies and global markets, nationalism and other ideologies defining peoples and their cultures are explored with an eye toward understanding how ideas about race and the other take shape.

EASIA 206I
Chinese Politics
Prof. N. 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.

EASIA 206M
North Korea: Apocalypse Soon?
Prof. A. Scobell
North Korea presents the international community with one of its most perplexing challenges. Widely perceived to be a repressive and dangerous dictatorship, North Korea possesses ballistic missiles, weapons of mass destruction, and the world's fifth largest armed forces. A collapsing economy has resulted in the starvation of millions of its citizens in the last decade. This course examines the politics, history and culture of contemporary North Korea from a multidisciplinary perspective in order to provide a clearer and more informed understanding of the world's most isolated society.

EASIA 206N
Modern China-Diaspora Comm
Prof. A. Hill
This is a comparative course that examines contemporary Chinese communities in the PRC, as well as Chinese immigrant cultures located in Southeast Asia and the U.S. The focus is on both the structure of these communities and the processes of identity formation and re-imagining the "home" country or "native place" in the midst of considerable flux. The course explicitly uses comparison to deconstruct staid truths about "the Chinese" and monolithic "Chinese culture." Offered every other year.

EASIA 206P
Patriotism in Pol, Hist & Cult
Prof. N. Diamant
Patriotism has been one of the defining sentiments of the modern era, yet its meaning and the way it has been put into practice by different communities and countries has varied a great deal. Just what sort of activities "count" as patriotic (and unpatriotic)? Does it depend on what we do, say or think? How is it manifested in war and everyday life? For instance, after 9/11, President Bush called on the American people to go shopping as a form of expressing patriotic sentiment. Should buying a pair of jeans count as "patriotism"? If not, should we decide that only certain types of behavior qualify as patriotic? In this course, we will take a close look both at the idea of patriotism and the ways it has been expressed in different political communities. We will look at patriotism through a number of different lenses, ranging from controversies over military conscription (draft riots, the experience of Japanese and African Americans in the military), parades, commemorative holidays (Veterans Day), law (the G.I. Bill), film (Platoon), music (Bruce Springsteen, Merle Haggard) and literature (Wm. Shakespeare, Thomas Moore, Rudyard Kipling, Walt Whitman, George Mosse, Michael Walzer). We will also examine the role of patriotism in a number of countries, such as the United States, China, Germany and Israel.

EASIA 306A
Four Chinese Cities
Prof. D. Strand
Urban China today is helping to power and drive the country's dramatic economic "miracle." Skyscrapers, ring roads, and bullet trains promise a massive vertical and horizontal expansion of the city. Urban China is also home to political, social, and cultural changes of all kinds. With the help of texts, film, photographs, and maps, we will explore the roots of these transformations from the nineteenth century to the present through the histories of four of China's most important and distinctive cities.

ENGL 101BG
Fictions of America
Prof. R. Winston
This course will examine a variety of short stories and novels from the 19th and 20th centuries. All of these works comment, often in quite disparate ways, on American identity. We will examine these works from a variety of critical perspectives; we will concentrate on the techniques of careful, close critical reading and thoughtful critical writing. Requirements: diligent preparation, regular attendance, and thoughtful participation; two 6-page essays; in-class final examination.

ENGL 101BS
Southern Women Writers
Prof. C. Johnston
A course in prose written by women of the American South. We will begin with diaries from the Civil War written by women, both black and white, and continue with notable writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, such as Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Zora Neale Hurston, Ellen Gilchrist, and Kaye Gibbons. Some critical and theoretical texts will also be required. Writing assignments will include short explications, longer essays, and an exam. Attendance and participation in class discussion are required.

ENGL 101BV
Israeli Lit in Translation
Prof. R. Maoz
In this course we will study the Israeli culture tracing changes in Israeli texts by prominent Israeli writers in English Translation. The course focuses on Israeli voices on local and universal existential issues, such as national identity, the Arab-Jewish conflict. Holocaust and remembrance, Zionism and Diaspora, tradition and crisis, Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews, individual society and gender relations. Writers include: Moshe Shamir, S. Yizhar, Aharon Megged, Yehuda Amichai, Amos Oz, A. B. Yehoshua, David Grossman, Shulamit Hareven, Savyon Liebrecht, Orli Castel-Blum, Etgar Keret and others.

ENGL 101BZ
Literature and Science
Prof. A. Nichols
Charles Darwin was responsible for a number of the most influential ideas of the past 150 years in a wide range of fields: biology, psychology, sociology, economics, theology, and literature. This course will look at Darwin's own ideas, and the ideas that helped to shape Darwin's thinking, as they are reflected, refracted, and distorted in imaginative literature. We will answer a series of questions about the relationship between the natural world and the human beings who have defined and affected that world. Are humans a part of the natural environment studied by scientists, or are they somehow distinct from that world? Is scientific nature beautiful and benign (sunsets, daffodils, kittens) or ugly and destructive (hurricanes, AIDS, tigers)? Our guides, in addition to Darwin himself, will include poets (Blake, Shelley, Tennyson), novelists (Hardy, Fowles, Byatt), essayists (White, Weiner), and ourselves. We will examine the current importance (as well as the controversial aspects) of evolutionary ideas, and we will emphasize the role played by literature in the development of our own environmental (and literary) assumptions and values. Two papers and a final exam.

ENGL 101CA
The Dismodern Body
Prof. J. Kupetz
Idealized and naturalized, treated metaphorically or literally, the human body has long been a favorite subject of artists. Centered in American literature and theory of the 20th Century, this course will examine the construction of "body" and its (re)presentations, specifically bodies with visible and non-visible impairments, as well as the social construction of "disability." Additionally, we will consider how contemporary thinking about the body might augur a "dismodern" sensibility that reconfigures other areas of cultural inquiry.

ENGL 101CB
All in the Family
Prof. V. Sams
Family life and its conflicts have provided playwrights provocative and rich dramatic material for centuries. From Oedipus to Christy Mahon, the patricidal "hero", for instance, figures significantly (and often provocatively) in tragedy and comedy. How have familial dramas, and their questions of inheritance and obedience and/or rebellion, related to broader social and political struggles? How might familial archetypes and their theatrical representations connect to cultural and national identity? This course will explore the twentieth-century reconstructions and transformations of the family in drama, through the work of such playwrights as George Bernard Shaw, T.S. Eliot, Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill, Sebastian Barry, and Tom Murphy, among others. Come prepared to read voraciously.

ENGL 101G
From Novel to Film
Prof. T. Reed
This course cultivates rigorous skills of literary and cinematic analysis. Looking at film "remakes" of novels will highlight the capabilities and limitations of the two media and the ways narratives reflect the specific values and concerns of their eras of creation. Possible "pairings": Silence of the Lambs; Mary Reilly; Remains of the Day; The English Patient; and Fight Club.

ENGL 101X
American Childhoods
Prof. S. Chilson
Tolstoy once said, "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Perhaps it is this sense of family unhappiness that has caused so many writers to write about the experience of being a child. Childhood is a unique experience, one that authors never tire of addressing. In this course we will read works of both fiction and non-fiction that look at the lives of children growing up in different areas of the country, in different time periods, and under very different circumstances. Childhood is influenced not only by our parents and families, though certainly those, but also by class, politics, race, religion, sexual identity, and cultural heritage. In this class we will look at the effect of these issues on families and the children who live and grow up in them.

ENGL 212D
Writing About the Movies
Prof. D. Kranz
In this course, students will learn the principles of good writing by exercising their minds, pens, and computers on the subject of film (and, perhaps, other popular media). We will read one introductory film text and see a number of movies, some chosen by me and some chosen by you. We will also peruse articles and reviews in newspapers and magazines as well as more serious academic explorations of the subject. Simultaneously, we will write previews, reviews, editorials, and longer articles on film and the media.

ENGL 212K
Writing About Music
Prof. J. Kupetz
This course will examine the craft of essay writing through the lens of rock and roll reportage, history, and other non-fiction modes. Additionally, contemporary literary theory and social criticism will be applied to "texts" in order to posit rock and roll as a node in the continuum of U.S. cultural history.

ENGL 212P
Writing About Theater
Prof. V. 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 214A
Teaching Writing
Prof. J. Gill
Instruction in rhetorical theory and the teaching of writing. Intended primarily for training student consultants in the Dickinson College Writing Program.

ENGL 214B
Writing in the Schools
Prof. S. Chilson
This class will prepare students to teach the elements of poetry to grade school children. We will first spend some time in class talking about poetry and what makes a poem. Next, we will focus on methods of teaching poetry to children. We will look at different ways to teach children the elements of poetry and will spend some time creating exercises for the classroom. Next we will spend several class periods in local schools teaching poetry in fourth and fifth grade classrooms.

ENGL 218A
Creative Writing: Fiction
Prof. D. Dolan or S. Perabo
If you have seriously contemplated writing short fiction, then this course is for you. The course will engage students in the art and craft of writing short stories. It is intended for students who have read widely among past and contemporary masters of short fiction and who are accomplished in the elements of prose composition (mechanics, syntax, and structure). Students will be expected to produce two new short stories (10 to 20 pages each) during the semester and revise them during the term. The course will lay emphasis on "workshopping" (reading, analyzing, and discussing) students' own creative work. Class sessions will be in the form of assigned readings, written exercises, and the writer's craft. This focus will inform our discussions as we read participants' creative and critical drafts, as well as contemporary works by established writers. We will also analyze essays by established fiction writers about the craft of writing and present these analyses orally and in writing.

ENGL 329D
Capitalism & the Canon
Prof. S. Stockton
In this course we will examine the English and American canon through the lens of Marxist theory and criticism. We will read a wide range of texts in this "greatest hits" course, beginning with the English Renaissance and moving through the 20th century. We will also read some Marxist theory in order to ask the following sorts of questions: which texts have been selected as our "timeless" classics? are they truly timeless? are there ways of thinking about them - and the process of their selection - that involve the material realities of economic formation and development?

ENGL 349M
African-American Literature
Prof. L. Johnson
This course will trace the development of the African-American literary tradition during the enslavement and Reconstruction periods. Throughout the semester, we will analyze the many dialogues concerning slavery, emancipation, cultural identity, integration, nationalism, and racial pride as conveyed in the various genres of African-American literary production (autobiography, novels, poetry, polemic, and short stories). Moreover, we will consider the influence of specific historical events which forced the evolution of and created new ideas about race, resistance, and uplift, the major themes around which the texts are framed. In addition to examining the African-American oral tradition, we will focus on the works of such authors as Lucy Terry, Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, David Walker, Maria Stewart, Henry Highland Garnet, Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, William W. Brown, Harriet Wilson, Frances E. W. Harper, Charles W. Chestnutt, and Sutton Griggs.

ENGL 349N
The Bloomsbury Group
Prof. K. Wendy Moffat
"The Bloomsbury Group" is the title literary critics have assigned a group of friends-writers, artists, and activists-who forged British modernism in a variety of genres at the turn of the 20th century. The name comes from an area in London, near the University of London, where they moved as young adults to live independently and communally; some of the members of the group repudiated the label, but not the concept of an artistic "circle" of friends. We will read fiction and non-fiction by Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, and J.M. Keynes; and look at art by Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, and Roger Fry.

ENGL 350E
Medieval Romance
Prof. T. Reed
This course will trace the evolution of the literary romance throughout the Middle Ages. Among the works we'll likely consider are Beowulf, Marie de France's Lais, Chretien de Troyes' Arthurian romances, The Quest of the Holy Grail, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and various of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. As for method, we'll aim to hit a productive balance between contextual and inter-textual approaches.

ENGL 354A
Pope, Dryden, Swift
Prof. R. Ness
We will concentrate on three major 17th- and 18th- century British satirists. John Dryden, Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope. Readings to include "MacFlecknoe," Gulliver's Travels, "The Rape of the Lock and other texts.

ENGL 359A
Historical Trans: Shax's Rome
Prof. D. Kranz
Explorations of Shakespeare's poems and plays about classical Rome (The Rape of Lucrece, Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, and Cymbeline) in comparison to sample plays from other Shakespearean subgenres (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard II, and Macbeth). Formalist, feminist, philosophical, and psychological approaches will be employed. Stage performances as well as videos of the dramas produced on screen and television will help us revivify Shakespeare's analysis of Roman history.

ENGL 360A
Romantic Women/Victorian Men
Prof. A. Nichols
This course in nineteenth century literature will use gender as a lens through which to view this revolutionary era. How did male authors talk about female subjects in these works? How did female authors invest authority in male and female voices? What current stereotypes about gender can be traced to Romantic and Victorian literature? How do these texts resist our efforts to make simple generalizations about men and women? Do lyric poems pose particular problems for gender and biographical forms of interpretation? Is the importance of the novel in the nineteenth century related to the gender of authors or readers? Our class will address questions like these; we will stress textual issues, contextual details, and gender relations in the works under study. What authors will help us? Among others, Blake will tell us that the two sexes are actually one. Percy Shelley will write beautiful love poems, and his wife Mary will tell us that the love he describes does not exist. Dickens will offer us strong women and weak men. Christina Rossetti will claim that goblin men sell a dangerous fruit that women often buy. Hardy will call an out-of- wedlock mother a "pure woman," and his society will damn him for that description. Our class will also seek to understand contemporary critical interest in and scholarly discussion of these authors and texts from a variety of critical perspectives. Study of these works will provide a basis for independent exploration of these and other Romantic and Victorian writers.

ENGL 370E
American Renaissance
Prof. R. Winston
This course will examine major figures and works of one of the most intensely creative periods in American literature, the American Renaissance. We will juxtapose selected works by important Transcendentalists (Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, and Whitman are possibilities) to works by those critical, or at least skeptical, of the movement (Hawthorne, Melville). Ultimately, we will try to determine if the last two authors to be considered in the course, Poe and Dickinson, can be considered Transcendentalists or anti- Transcendentalists. All of these authors reflect both continuity and change in American literature. They both challenged and mirrored their 19th century culture, and they remain touchstones for contemporary American literary concerns as well. While the focus of the course will be on close, careful reading and thoughtful writing students will be expected to consider -- and apply -- a variety of critical methods. Requirements: diligent preparation, regular attendance, and thoughtful participation; 6-page essays (close reading); 15-page critical research paper; 12-page take-home final examination.

FLMST 301I
Self & Society in Jpnse Film
Prof. L. Winston
This course examines what happens when the individual goes against the grain sexually, ethnically, culturally, and politically. In so doing we explore the richness and diversity of Japanese cultures in the work of classic film directors such as Kurosawa Akira and Mizoguchi Kenji, as well as that of more contemporary filmmakers.

FRNCH 240B
Paris: The Epicenter
Prof. C. 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.

FRNCH 363D
Intro to Sociolinguistics
Prof. L. Duperron
Sociolinguistics is defined as the study of language in relation to society. This course introduces students to the theories of the field and its applications to the French social context. We will review briefly the history of the French language, analyze varieties of contemporary French, and discuss issues related to gender and language use, language legislation, and sociolinguistic variation in the French-speaking world.

GERMN 252A
Wom Writers/Men, Might& Murder
Prof. G. Roethke
We will read and analyze modern novels by women writers from Central Europe and the Americas. What all of these novels have in common is their critique of women's position within the patriarchal order, taking this theme to its extremes in murder and mayhem between the sexes.

HIST 211Q
American Revolution
Prof. W. St. Jean
Why did North Americans start a Revolution? And why weren't they supported by neighboring British colonists in Canada and the Caribbean? We will examine provocative re-interpretations of the founders' and ordinary people's motives for declaring independence and establishing their own government.

HIST 211R
Women in Early America
Prof. W. St. Jean
Notable individuals and groups of women have played critical roles in American society. Covering the 17th century through the Civil War, we will pay particular attention to women's part in the formation of regional societies, the development of the modern education system, reform movements, and the abolition of slavery.

HIST 213G
The History of Film
Prof. S. Weinberger
This course will trace the development of the film industry from the late nineteenth century up to the present. We shall consider the social, political, economic, and cultural influences that helped to shape different film styles. The focus will be divided evenly between American films and those of Europe and Asia.

HIST 213L
Russian Intellectual Hist
Prof. V. Strelkov
This course will introduce the essential concepts and terms used in Russian intellectual history. It will investigate the primary intellectual currents that manifested themselves over the course of Russian history, from the 11th through the 20th centuries. The course will deal with the many stages of evolution in the Russian cultural tradition, with an emphasis on the problems of Westernization and modernization as treated in Russian philosophical and political thought. It will trace the genesis of the civilizational identity of Russia, as well as the permanent tension between tradition and innovation in Russian culture. The course will provide an outline of Russia's role in the dynamic of world history, and help to fix the cultural coordinates of Russia in the contemporary world.

HIST 305-01
Oral History: Am Lives & Hlth
Prof. K. Rogers
This course will expore American experiences with health care, illness, aging, and end-of life issues through life-history interviews with individuals who have had experience with various health-related issues. Students should expect to develop appropriate question lists based on their areas of research, conduct two interviews, and produce transcripts and video recordings of narrators. Students should expect to interview individuals who have ahd health issues, and different health care providers in the area.

HIST 305-02
Patagonia Mosaic
Profs. M. Borges, J. Osborne, & S. Rose
It focuses on the study of trans-Atlantic migrations, labor, ethnicity, and community building in the oil company towns of Patagonia in comparative perspective. This Spring course will start in early January with a cross-cultural mosaic in Patagonia, Argentina, where a student-faculty research team will conduct oral history interviews, fieldwork, and archival research. In the follow-up course at Dickinson, we will discuss topics such as immigration, labor, ethnicity, and identity formation in multi-ethnic societies; and explore the uses of oral history interviews, visual documents, and qualitative methods in historical sociological analysis.

HIST 311E
US Military History
Prof. C. Crane
This survey if US military history will examine not only the conduct of the nation's wars, but also the evolution of American military institutions and their interaction with civilian authority and society. Readings will cover topics ranging from the experience on the battlefield to the formulation of national defense policies. To become familiar with military operations and images, students will closely examine the Battle of Antietam and MacArthur's generalship. In addition, a number of film excerpts will be used to probe the complex interaction between American public perceptions and military realities.

HIST 313E
Nations, Consumers & Gender
Prof. R. Sweeney
This course will examine the historical development of nationalism and consumerism in Europe moving from the 18th century into the post- World War II era. We will look for overlaps or polarities between the two movements, and we will determine how gender interacted with both of them. Our readings will include both historians' analyses and primary sources, and we will look at all sides (promoters and critics alike).

HIST 313F
The Enlightenment
Prof. T. Lang
The Enlightenment has usually been portrayed as one of the great movements of human liberation. Thinkers as diverse as Voltaire and Rousseau, Hume and Smith, Kant and Beccaria put forward ideas that broadened the scope of freedom, affirmed the dignity of men and women, and promoted reason over superstition, toleratoin over persecution. And yet the Enlightenment has had its critics, those who claim that in the name of liberation it actually enslaved. In this course we will read some of the classic Enlightenment texts and investigate how scholars have interpreted the movement, paying particular attention to its critics.

HIST 315H
Patagonia Mosaic
Prof. M. Borges
It focuses on the study of trans-Atlantic migrations, labor, ethnicity, and community building in the oil company towns of Patagonia in comparative perspective. This Spring course will start in early January with a cross-cultural mosaic in Patagonia, Argentina, where a student-faculty research team will conduct oral history interviews, fieldwork, and archival research. In the follow-up course at Dickinson, we will discuss topics such as immigration, labor, ethnicity, and identity formation in multi- ethnic societies; and explore the uses of oral history interviews, visual documents, and qualitative methods in historical and sociological analysis. dissemination.

HIST 315K
Modern History of the Gulf
Prof. D. Commins
This course examines the history of the Gulf (United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq) from the 18th century to the present. The course includes a two-week international academic excursion to the United Arab Emirates in January before the start of the spring semester.

HIST 315L
Four Chinese Cities
Prof. D. Strand
Urban China today is helping to power and drive the country's dramatic economic "miracle." Skyscrapers, ring roads, and bullet trains promise a massive vertical and horizontal expansion of the city. Urban China is also home to political, social, and cultural changes of all kinds. With the help of texts, film, photographs, and maps, we will explore the roots of these transformations from the nineteenth century to the present through the histories of four of China's most important and distinctive cities.

HIST 404S
War & Memory in the 20th C
Prof. R. Sweeney
This seminar will ask how the European and American wars of the 20th century have been remembered and commemorated. Our readings will look at time and place (such as anniversaries and battle-field monuments), and at oral and written testimony. The first part of the course will involve intensive reading. After that, students will develop research projects which explore our core questions.

HIST 404T
International Migrations
Prof. M. Borges
This course will examine the characteristics of transatlantic and transpacific migration during the nineteenth and twentieth century in comparative perspective. The main focus will be on migration to the Americas in the general context of world migrations. We will analyze national and regional cases, such as the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, and the Caribbean, and their connections with the migration systems of Europe, Asia, and Africa. We will explore the experiences of migrants from diverse ethnic and national groups, focusing on such topics as coerced and free migrations, adaptation and assimilation, race and ethnicity, gender and family, militancy and labor, immigration policies and nationalism, etc.

IB&M 300AG
Doing Business in China
Prof. M. Fratantuono
In this course, we will first examine China's national objectives and the policies currently being implemented by China's leadership in pursuit of those objectives. We will then explore the historical, social, economic and cultural context for firms that are operating in China. Finally, we will turn to case studies of domestic and foreign firms that are currently doing business in China to understand the challenges and opportunities in that environment.

IB&M 300AH
Fixed Incomes & Bond Markets
Prof. V. Vijayraghavan
The purpose of this course is to examine the theory and practice of bond markets. We will examine in turn the following conceptual issues: Definition of bonds, yields and the term structure, the Treasury and corporate bond market, the different flavors of bonds and their uses, bond price volatility, duration and its uses, international bonds, fixed income derivatives, indexing and bond portfolio management strategies.

IB&M 300AI
Comparative Knowledge Mgmt
Prof. D. Jin
The course is a research seminar which examines the historical origin for the rise of knowledge- based organization, economy, and society. It further explores the nature and organizing principles of knowledge management and their cross-cultural differences.

IB&M 300AJ
International Trade Relations
Prof. W. Barral
An in-depth examination of the political economy of the multilateral trading system and international trade relations which examines the issues and controversies surrounding global trade institutions (e.g. the WTO) and practices. The course covers the origins and evolution of the GATT and WTO, the dynamics of trade policy, and the relationship of the international trading system and trade practices to labor, the environment, economic development, intellectual property rights, investment, agriculture, and services.

IB&M 300R
Issues in Health Care Managmt.
Prof. D. 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 300Y
Business to Business Mktg
Prof. W. Su
Business-to-Business Marketing focuses on the management processes and activities that a supplier firm performs in order to satisfy the needs of its organizational customers, which include other businesses, governments, or institutions. This course is designed to provide students with an in-depth understanding of marketing theories and practices in an inter-organizational transaction context. Special emphasis is placed on the creation and delivery of value to business customers, the development and maintenance of business relationships, as well as the communication and coordination issues in managing the business network. Through seminar discussion, case analysis, research project and computer simulation, this course aims at helping students develop critical analysis and problem- solving capabilities in their preparation to meet major challenges in dynamic business markets.

INTST 290A
International Trade Relations
Prof. W. Barral
An in-depth examination of the political economy of the multilateral trading system and international trade relations which examines the issues and controversies surrounding global trade institutions (e.g. the WTO) and practices. The course covers the origins and evolution of the GATT and WTO, the dynamics of trade policy, and the relationship of the international trading system and trade practices to labor, the environment, economic development, intellectual property rights, investment, agriculture, and services.

ITAL 400C
Sen Tutorial: Mito di Roma
Prof. S. Davidson
From the literary comedies of the Renaissance to the slapstick improvisation of the comici dell'arte, from the existential paradoxes of Pirandello to the political satire of Dario Fo, Italy can boast a long and rich comic tradition. This course examines Italian comedy from the 1500's to the present, tracing the genre's development against the background of a changing Italian society. Student research projects will focus on a single play, comic type, or motif, examined in its literary and historical context.

JUDST 216D
Ethnography of Jewish Exper
Prof. S. Staub
This course uses the lens of anthropological inquiry to explore core cultural processes as themes in Jewish experience across time and space. Patterns of cultural transmission and cultural change, cultural interaction across social boundaries, and responses to adversity and crisis are among such core cultural processes. Further, we will explore how the construct "culture" itself shapes experience of time, memory, space, place, the senses, gender, and aesthetics, among other elements of human experience.

JUDST 216F
Women, Gender in Judaism
Prof. S. Brautbar
In this course students will learn about the construction of women's identity within Jewish culture and religion in the modern era in Europe, the United States and Israel. We will begin by examining the gendered terrain of "shtetl" life and the rise of non-traditional movements in Eastern Europe such as the Haskalah and Zionism. The attempt of Jews to "assimilate" into American and European society in the turn of the century and beyond and the gender dimensions of that struggle will also be explored. Lastly we will examine the participation of women in the pioneer movement in Israel and the construction of new gender roles in the emerging state of Israel. The purpose of this course is to educate students about history and empower them to think critically about what it means to be a woman or a man and how that has been constructed through Judaism and Jewish cultures in different regions and times.

JUDST 216J
Israeli Lit in Translation
Prof. R. Maoz
In this course we will study the Israeli culture tracing changes in Israeli society from 1948 to the present through a wide range of modern and postmodern literary texts by prominent Israeli writers in English translation. The course focuses on Israeli voices on local and universal existential issues, such as national identity, the Arab-Jewish conflict, Holocaust and remembrance, Zionism and Diaspora, tradition and crisis, Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews, individual society and gender relations. Writers include: Moshe Shamir, S. Yizhar, Aharon Megged, Yehuda Amichai, Amos Oz, A. B. Yehoshua, David Gossman, Shulamit Hareven, Savyon Liebrecht, Orli Castel-Blum, Etgar Keret and others. "

JUDST 216K
Jewish Masculinities
Prof. E. Merwin
From Samson to Seinfeld, how has Jewish masculinity been constructed? This course surveys Biblical, rabbinic, early modern, modern and postmodern sources to examine the manifold forms that Jewish masculinity has assumed throughout history. In the latter part of the course, we will analyze representations of Jewish men in film and television, with particular attention to the influence of the feminist movement, the effects of acculturation, and the differences between American and Israeli male stereotypes.

LP 290A
Comparative Law
Prof. D. Edlin
This course explores most of the major legal traditions of the world. We will begin by considering the concepts, functions and methods of comparative legal study. We will examine the historical and institutional development of legal cultures by considering the systems of Jewish, Islamic and Hindu law. We will also consider broad and specific distinctions between the common law and civil law traditions, with special emphasis on two common law systems (the United States and the United Kingdom) and two civil law systems (France and Germany). We conclude by considering the EU legal system. Some of the questions we will try to answer are: Why did certain societies develop certain legal cultures? Are certain legal systems best suited to certain social arrangements? What is the relationship between religious law and municipal law? How do different legal traditions attempt to achieve the sometimes competing social, legal and governmental goals fo order and justice? What is the role of constitutions and courts for maintaining the rule of law?

MEMS 200B
Feudal Europe
Prof. S. Weinberger
Feudal Europe: Spanning the period from the late Roman Empire to the French Revolution, this course will analyze the rise, achievements, and eventual decline of feudalism, with particular emphasis on the feudal nobility. Literature from this period will serve as the primary readings for the course. Guest lectures by contributing MEMS faculty will also be an essential component.

PHILO 391D
Seminar: Kant, 1st Critique
Prof. S. Feldman
In the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant sets himself the task of showing how human knowledge of the world around us is possible. This seminar delves into Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, treating it both as a treasure trove of philosophical arguments of a distinctive kind, characterized as "transcendental", put forward in response to the arguments of philosophers who preceded him, as well as a rich resource for philosophical work which follows. Through close reading of the text, supplemented by secondary sources, as well as through student discussions and presentations, we will establish both the details of Kant's views as well as the larger picture of his critical philosophy.

PM 290B
Managing Death
Prof. J. Hoefler
This course will investigate policy issues associated with various ongoing debates in America with regard to the right to die. Physician assisted suicide and euthanasia, clinical and ethical issues associated with end-of-life decision making, constitutional law, and the culture of death and dying are some of the subjects we will cover as we take an interdisciplinary approach to the management of death in America today.

POLSC 290AR
Patriotism in Pol, Hist & Cult
Prof. N. Diamant
Patriotism has been one of the defining sentiments of the modern era, yet its meaning and the way it has been put into practice by different communities and countries has varied a great deal. Just what sort of activities "count" as patriotic (and unpatriotic)? Does it depend on what we do, say or think? How is it manifested in war and everyday life? For instance, after 9/11, President Bush called on the American people to go shopping as a form of expressing patriotic sentiment. Should buying a pair of jeans count as "patriotism"? If not, should we decide that only certain types of behavior qualify as patriotic? In this course, we will take a close look both at the idea of patriotism and the ways it has been expressed in different political communities. We will look at patriotism through a number of different lenses, ranging from controversies over military conscription (draft riots, the experience of Japanese and African Americans in the military), parades, commemorative holidays (Veterans Day), law (the G.I. Bill), film (Platoon), music (Bruce Springsteen, Merle Haggard) and literature (Wm. Shakespeare, Thomas Moore, Rudyard Kipling, Walt Whitman, George Mosse, Michael Walzer). We will also examine the role of patriotism in a number of countries, such as the United States, China, Germany and Israel.

POLSC 290AZ
North Korea: Apocalypse Soon?
Prof. A. Scobell
North Korea presents the international community with one of its most perplexing challenges. Widely perceived to be a repressive and dangerous dictatorship, North Korea possesses ballistic missiles, weapons of mass destruction, and the world's fifth largest armed forces. A collapsing economy has resulted in the starvation of millions of its citizens in the last decade. This course examines the politics, history and culture of contemporary North Korea from a multidisciplinary perspective in order to provide a clearer and more informed understanding of the world's most isolated society.

POLSC 290BA
Comparative Law
Prof. D. Edlin
This course explores most of the major legal traditions of the world. We will begin by considering the concepts, functions and methods of comparative legal study. We will examine the historical and institutional development of legal cultures by considering the systems of Jewish, Islamic and Hindu law. We will also consider broad and specific distinctions between the common law and civil law traditions, with special emphasis on two common law systems (the United States and the United Kingdom) and two civil law systems (France and Germany). We conclude by considering the EU legal system. Some of the questions we will try to answer are: Why did certain societies develop certain legal cultures? Are certain legal systems best suited to certain social arrangements? What is the relationship between religious law and municipal law? How do different legal traditions attempt to achieve the sometimes competing social, legal and governmental goals fo order and justice? What is the role of constitutions and courts for maintaining the rule of law?

POLSC 290BC
International Trade Relations
Prof. W. Barral
An in-depth examination of the political economy of the multilateral trading system and international trade relations which examines the issues and controversies surrounding global trade institutions (e.g. the WTO) and practices. The course covers the origins and evolution of the GATT and WTO, the dynamics of trade policy, and the relationship of the international trading system and trade practices to labor, the environment, economic development, intellectual property rights, investment, agriculture, and services.

POLSC 290V
Managing Death
Prof. J. Hoefler
This course will investigate policy issues associated with various ongoing debates in America with regard to the right to die. Physician assisted suicide and euthanasia, clinical and ethical issues associated with end-of-life decision making, constitutional law, and the culture of death and dying are some of the subjects we will cover as we take an interdisciplinary approach to the management of death in America today.

POLSC 390P
Dilemmas of Leadership
Prof. D. 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 class fulfills the seminar requirement for the political science major and is also open to juniors and seniors in other majors.

POLSC 390X
Contemporary Free Speech
Prof. S. Lichtman
This class will examine how groups and individuals in America use the media and how the media treats them in their pursuit of political influence. While attention will be paid to groups in specific historical periods who have tried to influence policy from the margins (such as the anti-war movement of the 1960's), much of our time will be spent looking at the media's treatment of racial minorities and its political consequences. Students will be asked to write and present case studies which will involve original research.

POLSC 390Y
Democracy & Internat Conflict
Prof. M. Aleprete
This class will examine how groups and individuals in America use the media and how the media treats them in their pursuit of political influence. While attention will be paid to groups in specific historical periods who have tried to influence policy from the margins (such as the anti-war movement of the 1960's), much of our time will be spent looking at the media's treatment of racial minorities and its political consequences. Students will be asked to write and present case studies which will involve original research.

PSYCH 180K
Intro to Health Psychology
Prof. J. 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 180L
Consumer Psychology
Prof. B. Ehigie
The course entails the application of psychology theories and principles in explaining consumers' behaviors. Topics include, psychographics; consumer markets, decision process, attitutdes and motivation, product design, development and management; personal selling, pricing, advertising.

PSYCH 180M
Food & Psychology of Eating
Prof. J. Devlen
This course will examine health education and nutrition, food and culture, psychological and social and influences of hunger and food preferences, taste aversions, eating disorders and their treatment, psychosocial consequences of food allergies, and the food industry. Suitable for all students regardless of prior background in psychology.

RELGN 241B
Care of the Soul
Prof. M. Donaldson
This course explores several aspects of the contemporary synthesis of religion and psychology, described metaphorically as "care of the soul." We will concentrate on the importance of myth and storytelling in the works of Thomas Moore and Joseph Campbell, then concentrate on the depth psychology of C.G.Jung. The final sections of the course examine more recent examples that take gender and other religious traditions as sources for healing and mythmaking.

RELGN 241I
Israeli Lit in Translation
Prof. R. Maoz
In this course we will study Israeli culture tracing changes in Israeli society from 1948 to the present through a wide range of modern and postmodern literary texts by prominent Israeli writers in English translation. The course focuses on Israeli voices on local and universal existential issues, such as national identity, the Arab-Jewish conflict, Holocaust and remembrance, Zionism and Diaspora, tradition and crisis, Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews, individual and society and gender relations. Writers include: Moshe Shamir, S. Yizhar, Aharon Megged, Yehuda Amichai, Amos Oz, A. B. Yehoshua, David Grossman, Shulamit Hareven, Savyon Liebrect, Orli Castel-Blum, Etger Keret and others.

RELGN 250A
Women, Gender in Judaism
Prof. S. Brautbar
In this course students will learn about the construction of women's identity within Jewish culture and religion in the modern era in Europe, the United States and Israel. We will begin by examining the gendered terrain of "shtetl" life and the rise of non-traditional movements in Eastern Europe such as the Haskalah and Zionism. The attempt of Jews to "assimilate" into American and European society in the turn of the century and beyond and the gender dimensions of that struggle will also be explored. Lastly we will examine the participation of women in the pioneer movement in Israel and the construction of new gender roles in the emerging state of Israel. The purpose of this course is to educate students about history and empower them to think critically about what it means to be a woman or a man and how that has been constructed through Judaism and Jewish cultures in different regions and times.

RELGN 260M
Ethnography of Jewish Exper
Prof. S. Staub
This course uses the lens of anthropological inquiry to explore core cultural processes as themes in Jewish experience across time and space. Patterns of cultural transmission and cultural change, cultural interaction across social boundaries, and responses to adversity and crisis are among such core cultural processes. Further, we will explore how the construct "culture" itself shapes experience of time, memory, space, place, the senses, gender, and aesthetics, among other elements of human experience.

RELGN 260N
Jewish Masculinities
Prof. E. Merwin
From Samson to Seinfeld, how has Jewish masculinity been constructed? This course surveys Biblical, rabbinic, early modern, modern and postmodern sources to examine the manifold forms that Jewish masculinity has assumed throughout history. In the latter part of the course, we will analyze representations of Jewish men in film and television, with particular attention to the influence of the feminist movement, the effects of acculturation, and the differences between American and Israeli male stereotypes.

RELGN 314B
Ethics: Christian/Islamic Pers
Prof. B. Perabo
A general introduction to the ethical teachings of Christianity and Islam. After an overview of both traditions and their approaches to ethics, the course will focus on contemporary discussions of two widely-debated topics: family life and war. The course will examine the similarities and differences between Christian and Islamic treatments of these issues, as well as the diversity of positions within each tradition.

RELGN 318F
Relig & Challenges of Science
Prof. J. Gilchrist
Newton, Galileo, Darwin, Marx, and Freud are just a few of the natural and social scientists whose ideas have challenged traditional religious beliefs. Today some people assume that science and religion are incompatible, that the growth of science implies the end of religion. Others see no conflict at all, maintaining a commitment to science and religion. This course will examine the challenges to religion posed by natural and social sciences, and a variety of religious responses. Students need no particular expertise in science or religion to take the course, just an interest in one of the great debates of the modern era.

RELGN 318I
Virgin, Witch and Whore
Prof. M. Donaldson
This course examines three of the ways women have been depicted in religion: as virgins, witches, and whores. We will consider the implications of these images for contemporary discussions of the roles of women in religion.

SCNCE 186
Science & Gender
Prof. W. Morgan
Science, the effort to understand our world and our universe, is an activity that is open to all, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or anything else. The view of a scientist in the United States
traditionally has not been one of a woman or an ethnic minority. However, in the last few years, the relation of women to science, and vice versa, has changed. We will see how science and scientists have been shaped and changed by this change.

SOCIO 230AB
Women's Health
Prof. J. 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 emphasis on the individual and increasing commodificatoin 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?

SOCIO 230AG
Soc Mvmts, Protest & Conflict
Prof. P. Cullen
The study of protest politics and social movements is the study of collective agency, as social movements arise when people act together to promote or resist social change. Movements represent not only grievances on a particular set of issues, but also frustration with more established political formas of making claims in societies. In this course, we will engage with some of the large theoretical debates in the study of social movements, reading both empirical treatments of particular movements and theoretical treatments of key issues. The featured case studies will include civil rights, feminism, ecology, the antinuclear movement, the New Right and the alternative globalization movement. We will be particularly concerned with the social and political context of protest, focusing on basic questions, such as: under what circumstances do social movements emerge? How do dissidents choose political tactics and strategies; and, how do movements affect social and political change?

SOCIO 230AH
Conflicts/Conflict Resolut St
Prof. S. Staub
Conflict seems to be an inescapable aspect of social life. Are we, as human beings, pre-determined to live in conflict? Yet as social beings living in mutually dependent social groups, we have developed various simple and complex strategies for managing and resolving conflicts. We will explore these mechanisms to manage or resolve conflicts of different kinds - inter-personally, in families, workplace-based, among ethnic, racial, and religious groups, and internationally. This course will examine the growing literature on conflict studies, and will draw on inter-disciplinary perspectives to examine conflict and conflict resolution processes and strategies.

SOCIO 230AL
Jewish Masculinities
Prof. E. Merwin
From Samson to Seinfeld, how has Jewish masculinity been constructed? This course surveys Biblical, rabbinic, early modern, modern and postmodern sources to examine the manifold forms that Jewish masculinity has assumed throughout history. In the latter part of the course, we will analyze representations of Jewish men in film and television, with particular attention to the influence of the feminist movement, the effects of acculturation, and the differences between American and Israeli male stereotypes.

SOCIO 230K
Medical Sociology
Prof. P. Cullen
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 400D
Sociology of Violence
Prof. S. Rose
While dealing with broad conceptualizations of violence, this course will focus on gender conflict and sexual violence in the context of domestic and international disputes. Pre-requisite: permission of instructor.

SPAN 410J
The (Mis)Fortunes of Love
Prof. A. Quintanar
This course examines the topic of love gone wrong in texts of the Middle Ages. Though the emphasis is on texts from the Iberian Peninsula, we also examine related texts from other Western European countries. We establish what was understood by love, how the understanding of the body conditioned the perception of love, and how those concepts manifest themselves in the distinct cultural contexts that produced the texts. The texts we read will be student editions for the non-native speaker, texts in contemporary Spanish, or will be translated to English.

T&D 302D
Movement & Text
Prof. K. Lordi
This course will explore the intersection of movement and text and is geared towards students intersected in both dance or theater. We will look at the history of dance and theater and in particular the intersection of these forms of dramatic expression. This studio course will include improvisations, acting and movement explorations culminating in the creation of a piece that uses both movement and text in unique and experimental ways. This is not a dance technique or acting class, rather an exploration of the creative process through movement and voice.

WOMST 201C
Women in Early America
Prof. W. St. Jean
Notable individuals and groups of women have played critical roles in American society. Covering the 17th century through the Civil War, we will pay particular attention to women's part in the formation of regional societies, the development of the modern education system, reform movements, and the abolition of slavery.

WOMST 201D
Wom Writers/Men, Might& Murder
Prof. G. Roethke
We will read and analyze modern novels by women writers from Central Europe and the Americas. What all of these novels have in common is their critique of women's position within the patriarchal order, taking this theme to its extremes in murder and mayhem between the sexes.

WOMST 300J
Women's Health
Prof. J. 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 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 300M
Nations, Consumers, & Gender
Prof. R. Sweeney
This course will examine the historical development of nationalism and consumerism in Europe moving from the 18th century into the post- World War II era. We will look for overlaps or polarities between the two movements, and we will determine how gender interacted with both of them. Our readings will include both historians' analyses and primary sources, and we will look at all sides (promoters and critics alike).

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