Lafayette College Catalog

2008 - 2009 INTRODUCTION

Contents

Contents ...... 1 International Economics and Commerce...... 161 Mathematics ...... 162 Introduction...... 2 Mathematics and Economics...... 167 Mission Statement...... 2 Military Science ...... 167 Profile...... 2 Music...... 171 Vision...... 3 Neuroscience...... 176 History ...... 3 Philosophy...... 177 Lafayette Today ...... 4 Physics ...... 180 Accreditation...... 4 Policy Studies...... 184 Psychology ...... 185 Religion and Politics ...... 190 Academic Programs ...... 6 Religious Studies...... 190 Degrees ...... 6 Russian and East European Studies...... 195 Graduation Requirements...... 6 Interdisciplinary Studies...... 196 The Major...... 10 Interim Session/On Campus...... 200 The Minor ...... 11 Interim Session/Study Abroad...... 200 Five-Year, Two-Degree Programs ...... 11 Attendance and Standing...... 11 Course Registration...... 13 The Board of Trustees...... 205 Advising...... 16 Trustees Emeriti ...... 206 Academic Services...... 17 Part-Time Studies...... 18 Faculty...... 208 Honors...... 19 Faculty Emeriti...... 216 Special Academic Opportunities...... 26 Library Resources ...... 30 Officers of Administration ...... 219 Information Technology Services ...... 30 Index ...... 229 Admissions and Costs ...... 32 Admissions...... 32 Non-Discrimination Policy...... 231 Preparation ...... 32 Disclaimer ...... 231 Advanced Placement...... 32 Equity in Athletics Disclosure...... 231 Transfer Students ...... 33 International Students...... 33 Fees ...... 33

Courses of Instruction ...... 37 First-Year Seminar...... 37 Values and Science/Technology Seminar ...... 53 Africana Studies...... 63 American Studies ...... 66 Anthropology and Sociology ...... 68 Art ...... 73 Biochemistry ...... 79 Biology...... 80 Chemistry...... 85 Computer Science ...... 88 Economics and Business ...... 90 Education ...... 97 Engineering...... 97 A.B. in International Studies/B.S. Engineering98 Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering...... 99 Civil and Environmental Engineering...... 102 Electrical and Computer Engineering ...... 107 Engineering Studies ...... 111 Mechanical Engineering...... 114 English ...... 118 Foreign Languages and Literatures ...... 128 Geology and Environmental Geosciences..... 140 Government & Law and Foreign Language.. 145 Government and Law...... 145 History ...... 151 History and Government & Law...... 159 History and Religious Studies...... 160 International Affairs...... 160 1

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Introduction

The College's curriculum is distinguished by MISSION STATEMENT the rare combination, on an undergraduate campus, of degree programs in the liberal In an environment that fosters the free arts and in engineering. Students who come exchange of ideas, Lafayette College seeks to Lafayette may choose among a range of to nurture the inquiring mind and to disciplinary and interdisciplinary courses integrate intellectual, social, and personal and pursue the Bachelor of Arts degree in growth. The College strives to develop 31 fields or the Bachelor of Science degree students' skills of critical thinking, verbal in nine fields of science and four fields of communication, and quantitative reasoning engineering. Those who pursue professional and their capacity for creative endeavor; it career preparation do so within programs encourages students to examine the rooted in and enriched by the liberal arts. traditions of their own culture and those of Lafayette alumni/ae remain unusually active others, to develop systems of values that and supportive of the College and its goals. include an understanding of personal, social, and professional responsibility, and to Effective and challenging teaching is the regard education as an indispensable, life- first priority of the faculty both in the long process. classroom and in a variety of independent and collaborative learning experiences. Easton's proximity to New York City and PROFILE Philadelphia helps students extend their learning experiences, as do Lafayette's full Lafayette College was founded in 1826 by co-curricular intellectual, cultural, athletic, citizens of Easton, Pennsylvania, as an all- and social programs. Faculty research and male liberal arts institution. Throughout its scholarship are encouraged and supported in history, the College has continually shaped the belief that such professional itself in ways that best serve its educational involvement extends the individual faculty purpose, remaining supportive of the member's intellectual resources, strengthens tradition of liberal art education while being and complements teaching effectiveness, responsive to changes and challenges of facilitates student/faculty research, and society and the times. For example, in 1838, contributes to the scholarly and professional it became one of the first colleges to communities outside the College. implement a teacher-training program, thus recognizing the connections within In addition to a campus of great beauty, education at all levels. In 1854, the College Lafayette offers a well-equipped physical formed a mutually supportive association plant. Its programs are supported by a with the Presbyterian Church. In 1866, as library with more than 500,000 volumes and industrialism was changing the Western an extensive array of electronic resources; world, it established courses in engineering, modern computer facilities and laboratories chemistry, and mining. At a local level, it accessible to students; a thriving Center for acknowledged the educational needs of the the Arts; a large College Center for dining Easton area by introducing a part-time and other communal activities; an athletic evening degree program in 1953. More complex compatible with its intercollegiate recently, as the role of women in society Patriot League commitment and its underwent redefinition, in 1970 the College, extensive intramural and recreational began coeducation to prepare both men and program; two chapels serving a variety of women to lead the nation into a new religious commitments; and a diversity of century. Today, Lafayette is an independent, living situations. Lafayette's endowment per coeducational, residential, undergraduate student is in the top 2 percent of all institution with a faculty of distinction and institutions in the country.

2,400 full-time men and women students of high intellectual promise and diverse backgrounds. The student body is 50 percent men and 50 percent women. 2

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ISION nourishes students both as individuals and V as members of a community. With the In the coming decade, Lafayette expects to Farinon College Center and the Williams strengthen its position among liberal arts Center for the Arts as hubs of activity, the colleges and engineering programs of the College will foster an atmosphere first rank; through judicious commitment of characterized by a diversity of opportunities its considerable resources, it seeks to for participation, volunteer service, and advance the quality of its students, its student leadership. It will offer an faculty, and its programs. Lafayette will expanding array of living options that continue to enroll students who show encourage healthy relations between women evidence not only of academic achievement and men and provide an environment that but of intellectual curiosity, and who show encourages personal growth. It will also promise of becoming engaged citizens continue to increase opportunities for within and beyond the College community. students of color and to work to achieve It will continue to recruit and support a greater racial and ethnic diversity among faculty of teacher/scholars of high quality students, faculty, and staff. who see undergraduate teaching as their Members of the Lafayette community have primary goal and who are committed to always believed in working together to scholarship and to an active professional create a College that they and others value; life. Lafayette will continue to shape its their collective commitment for the coming academic program with the goal of assuring years is to extend and enhance the value of that a clear, consistent, and demanding the Lafayette experience and the prestige of curriculum is in place for all students, the Lafayette College degree. requiring study in the arts, the sciences, and technology, and encouraging such study beyond the introductory level. In addition, it HISTORY will continue to work toward greater integration of A.B. and B.S. programs so On Christmas Eve 1824, the Easton that all students may be the beneficiaries not Centinel carried a notice calling upon only of specialized inquiry but of connected, residents of Northampton County "friendly interdisciplinary inquiry as well. And it will to the establishment of a COLLEGE at continue to develop a curriculum that Easton" to meet three days later at White's furthers the traditional values of a liberal Hotel on Center Square. Led by James education while remaining responsive to Madison Porter, a prominent local lawyer; emerging societal needs. As part of its Joel Jones, another lawyer and graduate of commitment, Lafayette will seek ways to Yale; and Jacob Wagener, a local miller's assure that ethical studies are a regular son notable for his interest in mineralogy component of each student's course of and botany, the assembled citizens worked study. out a plan for a college "combining a course of practical Military Science with the course The College will strengthen its honors and of Literature and General Science pursued independent study programs, with the goal in the Colleges of our Country." Because of engaging more students in scholarly the country was then in a fever over the projects and involving more faculty and farewell tour of the aged Marquis de students in collaborative learning. Lafayette, whom Porter had met in Individual attention to students and faculty- Philadelphia the previous August, the student interaction outside the classroom, founders voted to name their new college always goals of the College, will be for the French hero of the Revolution as "a encouraged through an increasingly testimony of respect for (his) talents, favorable student-faculty ratio and small virtues, and signal services… the great class size. At the same time, the College, cause of freedom." understanding the value of exposure to other cultures, will continue to increase The governor of Pennsylvania signed the opportunities for students to study abroad new college's charter on March 9, 1826, but and will continue to work in other ways to getting the charter proved to be considerably internationalize the campus. easier than launching the College. In 1832, the Rev. George Junkin, a Presbyterian Because Lafayette knows the potential for minister, agreed to move the curriculum and learning and growth outside the academic student body of the Manual Labor Academy program, it will continue to nurture a of Pennsylvania from Germantown to campus environment that stimulates and 3

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Easton and to take up the Lafayette College and reached 1,000 during the 1920s. It more charter. On May 9, 1832, classes in than doubled again as returning veterans mathematics and the classics began in a swamped the College after World War II. rented farmhouse on the south bank of the As the GI tide ebbed, the enrollment Lehigh River, where the 43 students labored dropped back to about 1,500 men. in the fields and workshops to earn money in support of the educational program. The addition of women to the student population— they now make up about 50 In their original petition, the planners of the percent of the student body—raised the total College had cited mathematics as an enrollment to about 2,100. Today, Lafayette example of their educational philosophy. enrolls about 2,400 students. "Such branches will be selected and so pursued, as will not only discipline the mind, and induce habits of patient LAFAYETTE TODAY investigation, but also directly subserve the purposes of life." That sound principle Lafayette College focuses exclusively on animated much of the subsequent curricular undergraduate programs. It grants the development at Lafayette—as, indeed, it Bachelor of Arts degree in 31 established does today. major fields and the Bachelor of Science in nine fields of science and four of The founders noted in 1824 that "the engineering. Interdisciplinary majors have language most neglected in our seminaries been established in Africana Studies, of learning is the English." In 1857 American Studies, Biochemistry, Lafayette became the first American college International Affairs, A.B. International to establish a chair for the study of the Studies/B.S. Engineering, Mathematics and English language and literature, with Economics, Neuroscience, and Russian and emphasis on philology. Francis A. March, East European Studies. In addition, a its first incumbent, achieved international number of departments have joined others in fame for his work in establishing English as offering coordinate majors. Many a pivotal subject in the liberal arts departments also permit a minor in the field. curriculum. A five-year, two-degree plan is also available. Similarly, the founders complained that "civil engineering has of late become a very The Board of Trustees is the governing prominent branch of education, and what is body of the College, and it holds title to the remarkable, not a College in our country (if College's properties, manages and allocates we are correctly informed) has made it a its funds, determines the broad policies part of their course." In 1866 Lafayette under which programs are offered, and secured funds from Ario Pardee, a mining selects both its own membership and the magnate and industrialist, to establish a new President of the College, who is the chief course in science and engineering, one of executive officer. Under the Statutes of the the first in any liberal arts college. The College, the faculty determines the courses resulting union of arts, sciences, and of study, requirements for admission, and engineering remains perhaps the most other academic regulations, subject to unusual feature of the Lafayette curriculum. approval by the Board of Trustees. In 1832 the College acquired nine acres of Lafayette College is a member of the land on an eminence across Bushkill Creek Lehigh Valley Association of Independent from Easton. Formally named "Mt. Colleges (LVAIC), which also includes Lafayette," the elevation soon became more Cedar Crest College, DeSales University, familiarly known as "College Hill." On its Lehigh University, Moravian College, and summit in 1834 rose the first of the Muhlenberg College. The consortium offers College's own buildings, on a site now opportunities for cross-registration under incorporated into South College. Today the certain conditions, and promotes campus comprises about 100 acres of land cooperation in library resources, technology and more than 50 buildings, as well as initiatives, and some academic programs. various outlying properties and structures on College Hill and elsewhere. ACCREDITATION Like the physical plant, enrollment grew steadily. By the turn of the century it stood Lafayette College is accredited by the at about 300, passed the 500 mark in 1910, Commission on Higher Education of the 4

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Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, 3624 Market St., Philadelphia, PA 19104; (215) 662-5606. The Commission on Higher Education is an institutional accrediting agency recognized by the United States Secretary of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. The Chemical Engineering Program, Civil Engineering Program, Electrical and Computer Engineering Program, and Mechanical Engineering Program are accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the ABET, 111 Market Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, MD 21202- 4012; (410) 347-7700. The Bachelor of Science program in Computer Science is accredited by the Computing Accreditation Commission of the ABET, 111 Market Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, MD 21202- 4012; (410) 347-7700. The Bachelor of Science program in chemistry and, under certain conditions, the Bachelor of Arts in chemistry meet the requirements of the American Chemical Society, making graduates of those programs eligible for membership in the Society immediately upon graduation.

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Academic Programs

Academic Divisions DEGREES The College is divided into four academic Bachelor of Arts divisions with program membership as Bachelor of Science listed below. The divisional membership of Bachelor of Science in Engineering a specific program needs to be considered when selecting courses to satisfy the Lafayette College offers the Bachelor of Common Course of Study as required. Arts degrees in 31 established major fields and the Bachelor of Science in nine fields of science and four fields of engineering. Humanities Art English GRADUATION Foreign Languages and Literatures REQUIREMENTS Music Philosophy In fall 1993, the College instituted a new Religious Studies curriculum, the Common Course of Study, which is required of all students in their first Social Sciences and second years. American Studies Anthropology and Sociology Graduation Requirements for All Economics and Business Students Government and Law An overall grade-point average of at least History 2.00 is required for graduation. Considered International Affairs in determining the cumulative average are courses taken at Lafayette or at other Engineering member colleges in the Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges Engineering Studies (LVAIC) under the cross-registration Chemical Engineering (within the agreement or affiliated study abroad Department of Chemical and programs. Students must complete an Biomolecular Engineering) approved major program with an average of Civil Engineering (within the Department of at least 2.00 in courses taken in the major. Civil and Environmental Engineering) Electrical and Computer Engineering Students must complete at least 32 course Mechanical Engineering credits for the A.B./B.S. Science degree and at least 38 course credits for the B.S. Natural Sciences Engineering degree. Certain Military Science courses may not be counted toward Biology the course minimum. Chemistry Computer Science The senior year must be completed in full- Geology and Environmental Geosciences time residence at Lafayette. "Fulltime" is Mathematics defined to be a minimum of three courses Physics per semester. Psychology

Students are responsible for determining The Common Course of Study that they have satisfied all requirements for First-Year Seminar, taken in the fall graduation. To participate in the semester of the first year, is designed to commencement ceremony, students must introduce students to intellectual inquiry by have completed all degree requirements. engaging them as thinkers, speakers, and writers.

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College Writing (English 110), taken in the the social sciences part of the spring semester of the first year or the fall Humanities/Social Sciences requirement. semester of the sophomore year, provides intensive experience in writing and reading INDS 150, 151, 175, 180, 190, 200, 210, complex texts. 215, 220, 230, 245, 270, 361 may be used to satisfy the humanities part of the Values and Science/Technology (VAST) Humanities/Social Sciences requirement. Seminar, normally taken in spring semester of the second year, is a one-semester B.S. Degree Requirements interdisciplinary course addressing the value The B.S. curricula in Biochemistry, issues occasioned by developments in Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, science and technology. For B.S. Geology, Mathematics, Neuroscience, Engineering majors, the VAST requirement Physics, Psychology, and the four will be satisfied through ES 225 engineering programs—Chemical, Civil, (Engineering Professionalism and Ethics); Electrical and Computer, Mechanical—have for B.S. Computer Science majors through been established by the faculty and VAST 200 (Computers and Society). represent the departmental as well as the professional expectations of these A Humanities/Social Sciences Unit, disciplines. Requirements for the specific requiring the completion of at least three curricula may be found under the courses in the Humanities/Social Sciences appropriate departmental headings. Divisions, with at least one course in each division. B.S. majors should be guided by their major programs for the distribution and A.B. Degree Requirements timing of their Humanities/Social Sciences In addition to the Common Course of Study, courses. A.B. degree candidates must complete the Foreign Culture Requirement. This A Natural Sciences Unit, requiring the requirement may be satisfied in one of the completion of at least two courses in the following ways: (1) demonstration of Natural Sciences Division, consisting of two proficiency in a foreign language through laboratory courses in Biology, Chemistry, the intermediate level, (2) an approved Geology, Physics, or Psychology, not semester of study abroad, or (3) completion necessarily in the same science. of a cluster of three related courses dealing with another culture. The established A Mathematics Unit, requiring one clusters are: Africa/Middle East; Asia; mathematics course, Philosophy 150, or Central and Western Europe; France; Computer Science 102. Germany; Latin America; and Russia. A Writing Requirement, to be satisfied For the Foreign Culture requirement, through courses in the Common Course of students may take only one of the following Study (First-Year Seminar, English 110, and general courses as part of the cluster: VAST), plus, for A.B. majors and B.S. • Anthropology & Sociology 102: science majors, at least two additional writing courses in the junior and senior Cultural Anthropology years, normally taken one per year. • Anthropology & Sociology 103: Introduction to Sociology Exceptions: • Economics & Business 347: The following courses may not be used to Comparative Systems and Transitional satisfy requirements for any unit: all Computer Science courses except 102; Economies Economics & Business 213, 218, 219, 303, • Government & Law 102: Introduction 320, 321, 322, 323, 324, 352, 365, 367-368; to International Politics Music 140. • Government & Law 103: Introduction to Comparative Politics Computer Science 102 and Philosophy 150 may be used only to satisfy the Mathematics • History 105: Development of the requirement. Modern World • History 106: Introduction to History Religious Studies 221 and 222, and INDS • Music 103: Introduction to World 120, 125, 135, 160, 135, 165, 170, 185, 195, Music Traditions 205, 230, 250, 275, 280, 321, 322, and Women's Studies 101 may be used to satisfy • Religious Studies 101: Introduction to Religion

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Foreign Culture Clusters • Art 240: History of Japanese Art Students are advised to choose their courses • Government & Law 224: Politics in from one of the following seven clusters. Asia However, they may design an individualized • Government & Law 228: Human cluster, subject to the approval of their Rights in Asia adviser and the Foreign Culture • Government & Law 229: Politics, Law, Requirement Subcommittee. and Diplomacy in Japan • Government & Law 239: International 1. Africa and the Middle East: Politics of Asia • Africana Studies 101: African Cultural • History 242: Premodern Japan: From Institutions Neolithic to Early Modern Times • Anthropology & Sociology 209: • History 247: Traditional China Ethnography (if focus is Africa) • History 248: Modern China • Anthropology & Sociology 232: • History 249: Modern Japan Magic, Science, and Religion (if focus • History 372: Studies in Asian History is Middle East or Africa) • Interdisciplinary Studies 112: • Economics & Business 354: Introduction to East Asia Contemporary African Economics • Interdisciplinary Studies 120: Inside the • English 349: Post-Colonial Literature People's Republic of China • Government & Law 222: Political • Interdisciplinary Studies 135: Thailand Change in the Third World & Myanmar: Challenges of • Government & Law 223: Politics of Development Africa • Japanese 101, 102: Elementary • Government & Law 230: Middle East Japanese; or demonstration of Politics elementary- level proficiency • Government & Law 402: Peace Process • Japanese 142: Introduction to Japanese in the Middle East Society • Hebrew 101, 102; or demonstration of • Japanese 211, 212: Japanese elementary-level proficienc) Civilization and Culture • History 373: The Middle East and • Religious Studies 211: Hinduism North Africa • Religious Studies 212: Buddhism • History 214: African Civilization • History 375: Seminar in African 3. Central and Western Europe: History Along with French and/or German 101 and • Interdisciplinary Studies 150: Turkey: 102, included within this cluster are all The Cradle of Civilizations appropriate elementary-level language • Interdisciplinary Studies 151: Anatolia: courses that might be taken at Lehigh The Cradle of Civilizations Valley Association of Independent Colleges • Interdisciplinary Studies 170: Africa institutions or within the framework of a (Interim Session) LVAIC-sponsored summer language/culture • Interdisciplinary Studies 195: The study abroad program. History and Politics of Israel Each course places strong emphasis on • Religious Studies 207: The Quran historical and cultural contexts. However, • Religious Studies 215: Islam CL 225, 351, and 460 are acceptable only if • Religious Studies 216: Traditional the major content is appropriate to the West African Religion cluster-focused on aspects of culture within Central and Western Europe. 2. Asia: Courses dealing with the British Isles are • Art 128: Introduction to Asian Art excluded from this cluster. • Art 238: Ukiyo-e and Beyond: History • Anthropology & Sociology 204: of the Japanese Woodblock Print European Communities • Art 239. From Samurai to Cyberpunk: • Anthropology & Sociology 209: Japanese Animation (Anime) and the Ethnography (if focus is Europe) Japanese Art Tradition • Art 102: Introduction to Art History II 8

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• Art 126: History of Architecture II • Interdisciplinary Studies 250: French • Art 222: Medieval Art Commerce and Culture (Interim • Art 223: Italian Renaissance Art Session) • Art 224: Baroque and Rococo Art • Interdisciplinary Studies 270: A • Art 226: Age of Michelangelo Moveable Feast: American Writers in • Comparative Literature 101: Survey of Paris European Literature I • Interdisciplinary Studies 275: Paris: An • Comparative Literature 102: Survey of Introduction to the French Exception European Literature II • Music 102: Music in Western • Comparative Literature 142: Civilization Masterworks of German Literature and • Music 282: Mozart Film • Music 283, 284: Selective Studies of • Comparative Literature 225: Special Great Composers Topics in Comparative Literature • Religious Studies 206: Jewish • Comparative Literature 351: Special Responses to the Holocaust Topics in Literature in Translation • Religious Studies 214: Christianity • Comparative Literature 460: Reading and Research in Comparative Literature 4. France: • Government & Law 221: Politics in • Art 233: Nineteenth-Century Painting Western Europe and Sculpture • Government & Law 237: German • Comparative Literature 351: Special Foreign Policy Topics in French Literature in • History 219: Modern European Society Translation through Film • French 101, 102; demonstration of • History 221: The Medieval World elementary-level proficiency; or • History 222: Emergence of Western LVAIC summer session in France Europe • History 225: The Age of Revolution • History 227: Europe: 1850-1917 • History 374: Politics and the Arts: • History 228: Europe: World War I to France, 1919-1945 the Present • Interdisciplinary Studies 230: Paris: • History 253, 254: European Thought, Provence in the Midi: Cathedrals, Society, and Culture Kings, and Pilgrims (Interim Session) • History 352: Europe Seminar • Interdisciplinary Studies 250: French • History 374: Politics and the Arts: Commerce and Culture (Interim France, 1919-1945 Session) • Interdisciplinary Studies 165: The • Interdisciplinary Studies 270: A Open Wall and the New Europe Moveable Feast: American Writers in • Interdisciplinary Studies 175: Back to Paris Roots of Western Civilization: Greece • Interdisciplinary Studies 275: Paris: An and Italy Introduction to the French Exception • Interdisciplinary Studies 180: Fin-de- Siècle Vienna 5. Germany: • Interdisciplinary Studies 200: The Land • Comparative Literature 142: and Landscape of Ireland. Masterworks of German Literature and • Interdisciplinary Studies 205: Green Film Europe: Germany/Austria • Comparative Literature 351: Special • Interdisciplinary Studies 215: Medieval Topics in German Literature in Architecture in Northern Europe Translation • Interdisciplinary Studies 220: Florence: • German 101, 102; demonstration of Birthplace of Renaissance elementary-level proficiency; or • Interdisciplinary Studies 230: Paris: LVAIC summer session in Germany Provence in the Midi: Cathedrals, • Government & Law 237: German Kings and Pilgrims Foreign Policy

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• Interdisciplinary Studies 165: The • Government & Law 238: Russian Open Wall and the New Europe Foreign Policy (Interim Session) • History 243, 244: Traditional Russia • Interdisciplinary Studies 180: Fin-de- and the USSR Siècle Vienna • History 354: Seminar in Russo-Soviet • Interdisciplinary Studies 205: Green History Europe: Germany/Austria • Interdisciplinary Studies 280: Russia (Interim Session) 6. Latin America: • Russian 101, 102 ; or demonstration of • Anthropology & Sociology 203: Peru elementary-level proficiency

Before the Incas • Anthropology & Sociology 206: People THE MAJOR of the Andes • Anthropology & Sociology 207: The Petitions for entrance into the junior class Inca World: Empire and Imagination in and to major in a particular department, the Ancient Andes departments, or interdisciplinary program • Anthropology & Sociology 208: New are normally submitted in the second World Civilizations semester of the sophomore year at a time announced by the Dean of the College. • Anthropology & Sociology 209: Ethnography (if focus is Latin Double Majors America) Candidates for the Bachelor of Arts degree • Economics & Business 355: Economics may elect two major programs. in Latin America Requirements common to both majors will • Government & Law 227: Politics in count for both majors, with no more than Latin America and the Caribbean four courses counted toward both majors.

• History 245: Latin America and the Caribbean I Individualized Major • History 246: Latin America and the Students may find that the usual options for Caribbean II majoring or minoring do not meet their special interests or needs. Recognizing this, • History 368: Latin American Seminar the College provides a unique opportunity Interdisciplinary Studies 210: for students to develop an individualized Exploring South America: Brazil, the major within the A.B. program based upon River Plate, and the Andes (Interim their special interests, talents, experiences, Session) and life objectives. • Interdisciplinary Studies 190: West An individualized major combines courses Indian Identities in two or more departments based upon a • Interdisciplinary Studies 210: theme articulated by the student in Guatemala: Innovations in consultation with one or more faculty Development members. Examples of individualized • Music 232: Studies in World Music majors have included psychobiology, • Spanish 101, 102; demonstration of political philosophy, and scientific elementary-level proficiency; or journalism. LVAIC summer session in Spain or Once the individualized major has been Mexico designed, the student petitions the Academic Progress Committee for final approval of 7. Russia: the major no later than the end of the sophomore year. The petition must • Comparative Literature 161, 162: demonstrate a logical coherence of course Russian Literature in English selection, including a capstone experience, • Economics & Business 356: Economic and must be approved by three faculty History of Russia in the Twentieth members who represent the disciplines Century involved. Students are invited to speak with • Government & Law 225: Politics in the Dean of the College if they have Russia questions concerning this opportunity.

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Change of Curriculum or Major ATTENDANCE AND A student desiring to change from one curriculum major to another must petition STANDING the Academic Progress Committee. Petition Lafayette uses a system of course credits in forms are available in the Registrar's Office. computing progress toward the degree. Students may direct questions to the Registrar, who is Secretary of the Academic The normal course of study in a four-year Progress Committee. Students may also program requires completion of 32 courses check on their progress toward graduation over eight semesters with at least four requirements in the Registrar's Office. courses per semester. The Bachelor of Science in Engineering program requires completion of a total of 38 courses with at THE MINOR least five courses per semester after the first year. Candidates for the all A.B., B.S. Engineering, and B.S. science degrees in Lafayette will consider a student's progress Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, toward a degree acceptable if he or she has Geology, Mathematics, Physics, and earned at least the following number of Psychology may elect a minor program in course credits by the end of the second addition to their major. A minor consists of semester: a coherent sequence of courses, usually five or six in number, approved by the student's Minimum A.B./B.S. Science designated minor adviser. A minor program First Second may be departmental or interdisciplinary in Semester Semester nature. An individualized minor is not First-Year Student 3 6 available. Sophomore 10 14 Normally, a student must choose a minor Junior 18 22 program before the end of the second Senior 27 32 semester of his or her junior year. No more than three courses required (a) for the major Normal A.B./B.S. Science or (b) the Common Course of Study First Second requirements may be counted toward the Semester Semester minor. First-Year Student 4 8 Courses required for the major are defined Sophomore 12 16 as those specifically prescribed for the Junior 20 24 degree. Students electing a minor are Senior 28 32 encouraged to choose a minor in a different division from that of their major. No student Minimum B.S. Engineering may elect more than one minor. First Second

Semester Semester First-Year Student 3 6 FIVE-YEAR, TWO-DEGREE Sophomore 11 16 PROGRAMS Junior 21 26 Senior 32 38 Students may petition the Committee on Academic Progress for permission to pursue Normal B.S. Engineering a five-year, two-degree program leading to First Second the Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Semester Semester Science degrees in two fields of study. Two- First-Year Student 4 8 degree candidates are required to complete Sophomore 13 18 the prescribed course of study for the Junior 23 28 particular B.S. degree, the requirements for Senior 33 38 the major and the Common Course of Study, and other general requirements for Three courses are considered the minimum graduation. Such a program requires at least load for full-time standing. 40 courses. Grades Lafayette uses a five-letter plus/ minus grading scale to evaluate and report a 11

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS student's academic performance. The course or the Registrar the reason for the letter grade of "A" indicates excellent, "B" Incomplete and give an assessment of the indicates good, "C" indicates satisfactory, student's work to date. "D" indicates passing, and "F" indicates failure. Grades of C-, D+, D, and D-, though The student must make arrangements with passing, fall below the minimum grade the instructor as to the timing and manner point average required for graduation. The by which the Incomplete is to be satisfied. following system of grade points and letter Normally, an Incomplete is to be made up codes is used in computing grade point by the end of the second week of the averages. All courses considered in following semester. The instructor may determining the grade point average are specify a longer period of time after listed in the student's permanent record. consultation with the Dean of the College, Starting with the class of 2001, a grade but all work must be completed and a grade point average of at least 2.00 both overall assigned no later than the first day of classes and in the major is required for graduation. of the second semester of attendance A 4.0 subsequent to the Incomplete. If the A- 3.7 instructor specifies a period longer than two B+ 3.3 weeks, the reason for the longer period and B 3.0 the date established for the completion of B- 2.7 the outstanding coursework must be stated C+ 2.3 in writing to the student with copies to the C 2.0 student's adviser, to the Dean of the College, C- 1.7 and to the Registrar. D+ 1.3 D 1.0 Unless the coursework is completed and a D- 0.7 grade assigned by the instructor by the end F 0.0 of the specified period, the Registrar will automatically replace the Incomplete with INC INCOMPLETE: course an F. requirements not completed; no credit (temporary grade, given only A student with more than two pending in extenuating circumstances) Incompletes will not be permitted to begin a new academic year. P PASS: course credit received but no effect on average WD WITHDRAWAL: with permission Midterm Grades of the Academic Progress Grades of "D" and "F" are normally Committee; no credit and no effect reported to the Academic Progress on average Committee, the adviser, and student at AUD AUDIT: no credit and no effect on midterm to identify and help students average encountering academic difficulty. They are NG NO GRADE (temporary) not recorded on the student transcript. NF NO GRADE (permanent): used in Students receiving midterm grades should cases of academic dishonesty; discuss approaches for improvement with carries value of the grade of "F" their instructors, their advisers, or a dean in the Office of the Dean of the College. (zero quality points) in computing semester and cumulative averages CR CREDIT: course credit received Academic Probation NC NO CREDIT: no course credit Students who are not making satisfactory received progress may be placed on academic probation by the Academic Progress Committee. Factors such as term averages, Incompletes cumulative averages, and graduation According to faculty policy, an Incomplete progress are among the criteria used in is given only when the student has been evaluating students, but each case is unable to complete the work of the course considered individually. The Committee for some reason outside the student's control will typically review all first-year students and has been completing passing work in with a 1.80 GPA or less and all other the course up to that point. When an students with under a 2.00 GPA. When a Incomplete is given, the faculty member student is placed on probation, the should indicate to the Dean of the College probationary period is in effect from the 12

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS date of the action until the end of the Leave of Absence following semester. A student in good standing may apply to the Students on academic probation may not Dean of the College for a leave of absence take more than two unexcused cuts in any effective immediately or at the end of a course. A student on academic probation semester. Requests to return after a leave of may be required to withdraw unless during absence should be directed to the Dean of the next semester that student shows the College, who may require an interview improvement sufficient to demonstrate clear prior to reinstatement. Reinstatement to the promise of eventual graduation, although a College may depend upon the space available in the class. period of probation need not precede action requiring a student to withdraw. First-year students on academic probation may not Transferring or Resignation from hold office in student or social the College organizations, represent Lafayette College Students who wish to resign from the in any official capacity, or participate in College or transfer to another college should fraternity or sorority pledging. A student arrange to do so through the Office of the who has not completed six courses will be Dean of the College. (See College policy on regarded as a first-year student for purposes refunds.) Students who fail to report to the of probation. College and complete registration within two weeks after the beginning of any term Required Withdrawal for will be considered as resigned and must Academic Reasons request consideration for reinstatement from A student may be required to withdraw from the Dean of the College before returning to the College. the College at the end of any semester because of unsatisfactory progress. A student who is required to withdraw for Transcripts academic reasons is not eligible for The Registrar's Office issues official reinstatement for at least one semester. transcripts, upon the written request of the Reinstatement is not automatic; rather, it is student, to persons or organizations outside dependent upon the student's demonstration Lafayette College. The Registrar's Office of clear promise to eventually graduate. also releases unofficial copies of academic Reinstatement to the College may depend transcripts to major advisers and college upon the space available in the class. officers who are concerned with the student's academic standing. The transcript Students who are required to withdraw may be examined by the student at any time (RWD) are ineligible for college-funded aid in the Registrar's Office. for at least one semester upon their return to Lafayette. College-funded aid will be Academic Honesty reinstated once the student has been By College policy, the Dean of the College removed from academic probation by the and the Academic Progress Committee Academic Progress Committee and has share responsibility for hearing cases of submitted the required documents for alleged academic dishonesty and for financial aid consideration by the specified determining penalties when indicated. deadlines. Eligibility for federal/state aid Individual faculty members are not may also be affected by academic progress. empowered to take disciplinary action in the For complete information regarding absence of due process as summarized in academic progress and federal aid, go to the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities www.lafayette.edu/admissions/finaid. of Students, which appears in the Student Handbook. Disciplinary Suspension When an individual fails to abide by academic and/or social regulations, or acts COURSE REGISTRATION in a manner which brings discredit upon the Course and hour schedules and other College, the student is subject to registration materials are issued by the disciplinary action which may involve Registrar's Office just prior to the probation or suspension from the College. registration periods. Students consult with their academic advisers to preregister for classes in November for the spring term and the Interim Session Program, and in April 13

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS for the fall term. A student who fails to making travel plans. This schedule is register within the scheduled periods will be usually available by the fifth week of each subject to a late registration fee of $50 semester, and students can obtain a copy unless exception is granted by the Dean of from the Office of the Registrar. the College or the Registrar. Students who fail to register within the first two weeks of Withdrawal from Courses the semester will be regarded as resigned During the first two weeks of each semester and must apply to the Dean of the College if a student is permitted to drop a course they wish to return. without notation and replace it with another.

From the end of the two-week period until Class Attendance the end of the eleventh week of the Class attendance is expected of all students semester, students may withdraw from a because the lecture, the laboratory, and the course without penalty and with a discussion group are the formal basis of a "withdrawal" recorded on the transcript if college learning experience. Faculty approval is granted by the Academic members establish and maintain attendance Progress Committee. Ordinarily, approval requirements in their courses and must will be granted, provided that after the inform students and the Office of the Dean course deletion the student's schedule does of the College of those policies. Students are not fall below three courses. A student who responsible for meeting class and drops a course without Committee approval examination schedules. Unwillingness to will fail the course. meet attendance obligations may result in a penalty, often failure in the course. If a petition to withdraw produces a roster of courses that falls below three course credits, The following activities necessitating the student must provide the Academic absence from class are normally considered Progress Committee with a cogent excusable: College academic course educational rationale to justify the waiver of activities such as field trips and scholarship standard policy. A student must continue to activities, College varsity intercollegiate attend all classes until the petition has been athletic competitions, health-related reviewed by the Committee. absences as verified by the College physician, family emergencies, and In all cases, petitions to withdraw should extraordinary situations as determined by include an indication of the means by which any deficiency incurred will be made up. the Office of the Dean of the College. Students seeking Dean's excuses for planned absences are expected to provide professors Repeating a Course with the dates and total number of proposed When a student fails and retakes a course, class absences as soon as possible and no both grades are included in the student's later than the first day of classes in order for Lafayette College transcript and the the faculty to determine whether or not the cumulative grade point average. With the frequency of expected absences violates the exception of Math 161 and 162, only pedagogical integrity of the class. In such courses in which a student receives a failing cases, faculty may advise the student to grade may be repeated. withdraw from the class or be prepared to accept the academic penalty for such Pass/Fail Option absences. A junior or senior in good standing whose cumulative average is 2.0 or higher may, in Students on academic probation may have each semester, take one course on a pass or no more than two unexcused absences from fail basis, but in no case may a student take any course. Students on probation who do more than four pass/fail courses to be not meet their attendance obligation will be counted toward degree requirements. reported by faculty to the Office of the Dean of the College. Any student with excessive Students must obtain the permission of the or unexplained absences will also be Academic Progress Committee before reported to the Dean. enrolling in a course for pass/fail credit. Please note that the College does not They must meet all the regularly stated recognize airline schedules or other prerequisites for admission to the course and traveling plans as a legitimate reason for all the course requirements, such as rescheduling final examinations. Please attendance, assigned work, and check the final exam schedule before examinations. Passing grades received 14

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS under the plan do not affect a student's such work. No credit will be granted, but cumulative average. Failing grades received upon recommendation of the instructor, the under this plan are included in the student's fact that the individual has audited the cumulative average. course will be noted on the permanent record if the student has met attendance The course must be outside the major field regulations and other requirements set by of concentration and outside related courses the instructor. Courses which require a high as defined by the major department. The degree of participation (e.g., laboratory pass/fail option may not be used for courses courses, studio art courses, and foreign which the student intends to count for minor languages emphasizing conversation) may credit, and the pass/fail option may not be not be audited. used for courses which are to be used toward satisfaction of the requirements for A regularly enrolled full-time student may the Common Course of Study. Courses audit one and, under unusual circumstances, which are considered introductory in any two courses per semester by petition to the field or which are designed specifically as Academic Progress Committee and with the exploratory courses for non-majors may not approval of the academic adviser and the be taken for pass/fail credit. Further, courses instructor in the course or the head of the offered by departments within the same department in which the course is offered. division as the student's major department Degree-seeking students are not charged for are normally excluded. auditing privileges in any semester in which they are enrolled full time. Students taking a course on a pass/fail basis may petition to be permitted to convert to a Cross-Registration grade basis at any time before midterm. A full-time upperclass student may register Conversely, a student may change from at any of the Lehigh Valley Association of conventional grading to a pass/fail option Independent Colleges (LVAIC) member within, but not after, the first two weeks of institutions (DeSales University, Cedar classes. If a student drops a course with the Crest College, Lehigh University, Moravian pass/fail option after the term has begun, the College, and Muhlenberg College) for option may not be used for another course courses suitable to Lafayette degree during that term. programs. Courses must be ones which cannot be scheduled at Lafayette, are Students should be aware that many limited to no more than two per semester, graduate and professional schools react and may not produce an overload. Students unfavorably to pass/fail grades. may not cross-register for January term courses. A student must have the written Course Overloads approval of his/her adviser, the Lafayette Students may petition the Academic Registrar, and appropriate persons at the Progress Committee for permission to enroll host institution. for courses above the normal requirement for the degree program. Questions concerning the suitability of particular courses to Lafayette degree Auditing Courses programs should be referred to the Dean of A student must declare him or herself as an the College or the Registrar. Grades earned auditor must do so no later than the end of under the cross-registration program will be the two-week drop/ add deadline. used in computing semester and cumulative averages. It is the student's responsibility to Normally, a student who is auditing a course arrange transportation to any cross- may not change status so that credit is registered courses, although the Dean or awarded. In those instances where Registrar may be able to assist in identifying conversion seems justified, it may occur alternative sources of transportation. only upon approval of the Academic Progress Committee prior to midterm. Summer Courses A student wishing to take summer courses Auditing privileges are limited to listening at another institution, whether for and observing in the classroom. Auditors enrichment or to make up deficiencies, must need not take exams nor complete other petition the Academic Progress Committee written assignments, nor may they expect in advance for approval. Course credits are the instructor to comment on or evaluate transferrable only if the student earns a 15

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS grade of "C" or better as certified on an Fellowships, Scholarships, and official transcript. Grades earned elsewhere are not recorded on the permanent record; Postgraduate Studies transfer grades affect the cumulative The undergraduate education provided by average only in courses taken at other Lafayette opens the door to many LVAIC institutions. Students with junior or opportunities including prestigious senior status are not normally permitted to scholarships and fellowships for transfer courses from two-year institutions. undergraduate or postgraduate study/ research as well as attendance at a top tier graduate or professional school. The Office Evaluation of Faculty and Courses of the Dean of the College assists students Student evaluations at Lafayette College and recent graduates in fulfilling their provide information to (1) instructors and intellectual and professional goals by department heads for use in faculty and promoting awareness of external course development; (2) the Provost for use scholarship/fellowship and preprofessional by the faculty committee on Promotion, opportunities while providing the advice Tenure, and Review as one of several and support necessary to compete considerations in recommendations successfully. Included among the concerning appointments, promotions, and scholarships/ fellowships are postgraduate tenure; and (3) students for use in course programs, regardless of academic discipline, selection. for international destinations such as the Near the end of each semester, instructors Marshall, Rhodes, and Gates Cambridge set aside a portion of class time for this scholarships to the United Kingdom, the purpose. The standard evaluation consists of Mitchell to Ireland (Northern or Republic a questionnaire and a comment sheet. of), DAAD-sponsored programs for study in Within a few weeks of the evaluation, Germany, and Fulbright and related grants computer results and written comments are to more than 140 countries worldwide. sent to instructors and to the Provost. Scholarship/fellowship programs for Numerical results are available online to undergraduate and/or postgraduate study in students. the United States include Jack Kent Cooke, Goldwater, Truman, and National Science Foundation, among others. Students of all ADVISING disciplines who are interested in external scholarships and fellowships may contact Academic Advising the Office of the Dean of the College.

Students pursuing a B.S. program are assigned to advisers in the department or Health Professions area of their interest by the Dean of the Any of the majors in the Bachelor of Arts College. First-year and sophomore and Bachelor of Science curriculums candidates for the A.B. degree are assigned provide the necessary background for to advisers whose scope of interests entrance into the health professions, suggests that they can be helpful in including schools of medicine, dentistry, encouraging the students to develop osteopathy, and veterinary medicine. Health programs which will provide the breadth of professions students should follow their study generally associated with the A.B. own intellectual and academic interests degree and to leave them in a position by provided that the program of study includes the end of their sophomore year to have a two semesters of biology with labs, physics reasonable basis upon which to choose with labs, and writing intensive coursework, majors. Juniors and seniors are assigned as well as two years of chemistry with labs. advisers in their major departments by the Some health profession schools require or major department head. recommend one year of college mathematics, including a semester or full Students are responsible for determining year of calculus and/or statistics, and that they have satisfied all requirements for recommend courses in physical chemistry graduation. To participate in the and quantitative analysis. No course should commencement ceremony, students must be taken on a pass-fail basis. It is advisable, have completed all degree requirements. but not necessary, that students planning careers in the healing arts take more than the minimum number of science courses, which can be arranged regardless of major.

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Health professions students work with the CADEMIC ERVICES Dean of the College Office, Career Services, A S and the Health Professions Advisory Academic Resource Center Committee in preparation for admission to a The Academic Resource Center (ARC), part health professions school. First-year and of the Office of the Dean of the College, sophomore students should register to meet provides academic support services to with a Gateway adviser in Career Services. enhance student success in an educational The Dean of the College Office is available environment that can be demanding and to assist students in areas related to health challenging. Peer tutoring, study skills professions school admissions, preparation workshops, academic counseling, disability for the MCAT, VCAT, and DAT, and services, academic support for student selection of a school. The Health athletes and supplemental instruction are Professions Program sponsors a number of among the programs provided by the ARC related activities as well as informational and are available to all students. meetings to assist students. Any student interested in health professions should Peer Tutoring Program contact the Dean of the College Office, as The Academic Resource Center (ARC) is well as consult catalogs from the schools in committed to providing high quality peer which they are interested. Reference tutoring services to our students. Peer materials are available in the Dean of the tutoring is available in a wide variety of College Office, Career Services, and the courses, and students may request a tutor for reference section in Skillman Library. as many courses as they choose. The peer

tutoring program provides one hour of Legal Professions tutoring per week for the duration of the While no particular courses are required for semester with the exception of Computer admission to law school, legal professions Science courses which provide two hours of students need to develop strong reading and tutoring per week. Peer tutor assignments writing skills, as well as the ability to think begin each semester during the second week logically, analyze critically, and express oral of classes. and written ideas clearly. These skills are not obtained exclusively in any field of Study Skills/Academic Counseling study. Many majors accentuate these skills, The ARC offers free study skills assistance but for those that do not, elective courses for students with the ultimate goal of should be selected with these qualities in helping them become more efficient mind. A strong academic record is required learners and better organized students. Our for admission to law school. coordinators are available to meet individually with students or conduct small- The Legal Professions Program sponsors a group workshops. Students can be assisted number of related activities as well as in any of the following areas: Study Habits, informational meetings to assist students. Note Taking, Reading Strategies, Test They have the opportunity to participate in Preparation, Test Taking, Time debate competitions as part of the Forensics Management, etc. Society and play roles on the College's Mock Trial Team. Any student interested in Academic Support for Student Athletes legal professions should contact the Dean of Lafayette offers a range of services to the College Office. First-year and student-athletes who face the dual challenge sophomore students should meet with a of performing well in the classroom while Gateway adviser in Career Services. maintaining a commitment to varsity Members of the Legal Professions Advisory athletics. The following programs are Committee are also available for designed specifically for student athletes: consultation. The Dean of the College progress reports, peer mentoring, academic Office is available to assist students in areas enhancement workshops, structured study related to law school admissions including and laptop loan. preparation for the LSAT and selecting a school. Supplemental Instruction Supplemental Instruction (SI) is an internationally known academic support program that is targeted to aid students who are enrolled in historically difficult courses. SI sessions are peer-facilitated and focus not

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ACADEMIC PROGRAMS only on course content but also study skills Degree Candidacy and time management. The SI program is Part-time students intending to pursue a new to Lafayette for the 2008-2009 school degree program who have no prior college year. experience must have completed high school at least two years previously and Peer Counseling must meet the minimum requirements for The Peer Counseling Program, founded in admission established for all students in the 1985 and supported by the Office of the chosen program. Dean of the College, is dedicated to assisting students throughout their important The College welcomes applications from first year of college by establishing one-on- students who wish to transfer from two-year one peer-mentoring relationships between and four-year institutions. A student who first-year and upper-class students. transfers from a regionally accredited institution will be granted credit toward a Disability Services Lafayette degree for courses that are Lafayette College is committed to ensuring consistent with the goals of his or her reasonable accommodations to students who academic program at Lafayette and in which are substantially limited by a documented a grade of at least "C" (or equivalent) has disability. Lafayette students with physical, been earned. Engineering courses must be psychological and/or learning disabilities from an engineering program that is have met the same competitive requirements accredited by the Accreditation Board for for admission as all other Lafayette Engineering and Technology. students. Once admitted, students may request support services in accordance with Students who have earned credits from other Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of colleges and universities must submit 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities official transcripts and catalogs containing Act of 1992 (ADA). All accommodations course descriptions from these institutions requests can be forwarded to Dr. Erica as part of the admissions procedure. Matos in the ARC. Applicants who have successfully completed courses at these colleges will Due to the confidential nature of disability receive an evaluation of transfer credit. An issues, students must sign an authorized official copy of the student's high school release form each semester in order to record or a G.E.D. (General Equivalency provide faculty with notification of their Diploma) is also required for all applicants. disability. Students who have disclosed Transfer students are normally not admitted their disability are encouraged to discuss the with advanced standing beyond the link between their disability and the sophomore level. They are required to requested accommodations with their complete at least half of their degree professors during the first two weeks of requirements at Lafayette. classes. In order to provide faculty with ample notification to make arrangement for Non-matriculating Students an exam accommodation that might require Non-matriculating students with special proctoring, students are asked to provide interests in particular subject areas who faculty with at least seven days notice prior wish to take courses may be admitted on a to each exam. semester-to-semester basis as Special Students. Evidence of course prerequisites may be required. Courses may be taken for PART-TIME STUDIES credit or audited. The audit fee for part-time Lafayette College offers a part-time study and special students is the prevailing part- program which is designed for individuals time audit rate. All audits must have the who wish to take advantage of the academic approval of the instructor of the course. programs and courses offered by the Courses that require a high degree of College. Information on admission, participation (e.g., laboratory courses, studio registration, and academic advising for part- art courses, and foreign languages time students is provided by the Office of emphasizing conversation) normally may not be audited. Part-Time Studies, (610) 330-5075.

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ACADEMIC PROGRAMS charged at the prevailing part-time rate. ONORS When a part-time student reaches senior H standing, however, the student may take an Lafayette College encourages and additional course in two of his or her last recognizes superior academic work. four semesters at Lafayette. The student will Students who achieve a semester average of continue to be billed at the part-time rate. at least 3.60 in a term during which they Such exceptions must be approved by the have completed 3 or more courses (with no Dean of the College or the Registrar. pending Incompletes) are named to the Dean's List. Those who graduate in 2008 or The Office of Part-Time Studies coordinates before with high cumulative averages based academic advising for all degree students upon four years of work are awarded their through the appropriate department in the degrees summa cum laude (a cumulative student's major area. These advisers are average of 3.80 or higher), magna cum assigned when the student is accepted into a laude (3.65), or cum laude (3.50). Those degree program. Students who have not who graduate in 2009 or later with high been officially accepted into a major and cumulative averages based upon four years' special students who are not seeking work are awarded their degrees summa cum entrance into a degree program are advised laude (a cumulative average of 3.85 or by the Registrar. higher), magna cum laude (3.75), or cum All part-time students are expected to follow laude (3.65). the College's policy on Statute of Limitations for Students listed under Departmental Honors "Graduation Requirements." It is the Departmental honors and honors in obligation of the student to become aware of interdisciplinary major programs are the College's policies regarding the rights awarded for outstanding performance in and responsibilities of students. writing a senior thesis or in conducting senior research. Departments that have A part-time degree candidate wishing to honors programs offer a sequence of two enroll as a full-time student must petition courses titled "Thesis" or "Honors Thesis." the Academic Progress Committee to change to full-time status. Admission on a Students who hope to become candidates for full-time basis is restricted to those with departmental honors must register for the exemplary academic records and a courses in Thesis during the senior year. minimum of five courses taken at Lafayette. Discussions about pursuing honors should be held with faculty well in advance of the Lafayette is a member of the Lehigh Valley senior year. Work in these courses will be Association of Independent Colleges supervised by a faculty member and will be (LVAIC), which also includes Cedar Crest graded in the usual way. College, DeSales University, Lehigh University, Moravian College, and Candidates for honors must have and Muhlenberg College. LVAIC has extended maintain cumulative averages of 3.00 and to part-time degree candidates who have averages of 3.20 in the honors department achieved sophomore standing the and must fulfill such other requirements as opportunity to cross-register for part-time may be established by the department with day and evening courses. Both grades and the approval of the Academic Progress credits earned at one of the cooperating Committee. Students who wish to do honors colleges under this policy will transfer work in departments other than the major automatically to the student's home department must separately petition the institution. Cross-registration provides the Committee for permission to do so. Such opportunity to take courses not available at students must have taken at least six the home institution and thus eases the courses, exclusive of Thesis, in the honors scheduling difficulties sometimes department, four of which must be at or experienced by working adults. A part-time above the sophomore (200) level. student may enroll in a maximum of two courses through cross-registration for each The transcripts of students who receive year of equivalent full-time study. Fees are honors bear the legend Honors in (department or program name) with Thesis. charged according to the policy of the host institution. Honorary Societies Phi Beta Kappa: Outstanding students from all curricula are eligible for election to 19

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Phi Beta Kappa in either the junior or senior physics, and Upsilon Pi Epsilon in computer year. Membership criteria are established by science. the local chapter, not by the College. In addition to meeting the requirements of their Prizes and Awards degree programs, students should The generosity of individuals, organizations, demonstrate breadth in their coursework and and graduating classes has made possible a commitment to liberal learning. More the following prizes awarded at Lafayette: specifically, the chapter takes into account grade point average, advanced level courses George Wharton Pepper Prize: Awarded outside the student's major, and the study of to the senior who, by vote of the faculty and mathematics and foreign language. students, most nearly represents the Admission to Phi Beta Kappa is always at Lafayette ideal. the discretion of the chapter, and Africana Studies Scholastic Award: membership is gained only by election. Awarded to a student selected by Africana Sigma Xi: The Society of Sigma Xi is an studies program faculty who has international honorary organization demonstrated academic excellence and dedicated to the encouragement of pure and potential for future leadership in American applied scientific research. The society society. annually elects to associate membership Charles L. Albert '08 Trophy: Given to selected students who have demonstrated the senior student who is judged to be the marked aptitude for scientific research; outstanding athlete of the year; name election is usually based on written work. In inscribed on plaque in athletic department. addition, faculty members who have demonstrated noteworthy achievement in John H. Allen Prize: Awarded to the research may be elected to full membership. author of the best essay in public finance, as judged by a committee of the department of Tau Beta Pi: Outstanding candidates for economics. engineering degrees are elected to membership in Tau Beta Pi, the national American Chemical Society Division of honorary engineering fraternity, during their Polymer Chemistry Award: Presented to junior or senior years. the sophomore or junior chemistry major with the most outstanding performance in Alpha Sigma Lambda: This national the first two semesters of organic chemistry. honor society was founded in 1946 to recognize part-time students who American Chemical Society Prize: accomplish academic excellence while Given to the outstanding senior chemistry facing the competing interests of family, major for achievement in chemistry. community, and work. The Lafayette branch is the Iota chapter. To be eligible, students American Chemical Society must be working for their first bachelor's Undergraduate Award in Analytical degree, be current degree candidates in the Chemistry: Presented to the junior Part-Time Studies Program at Lafayette, and chemistry major with the greatest demonstrate superior scholarship. Students achievement in the study of analytical must have completed a minimum of eight chemistry. courses at Lafayette, including at least four American Defense Preparedness courses outside the major field and four Association Award (presented annually to courses in liberal arts and sciences. a senior cadet from each ROTC department Other Societies: Twelve honorary who has consistently maintained a high societies recognize personal achievement in level of academic achievement while specific fields: Delta Phi Alpha in German; participating in campus activities) Dobro Slovo in Russian; Eta Kappa Nu in American Friends of Lafayette Essay electrical engineering; Omicron Delta Contest: Awarded annually for the essay Epsilon in economics and business; Phi on the Marquis de Lafayette that best Alpha Theta in history; Phi Lambda Upsilon epitomizes those qualities that earned him in chemistry, biochemistry, and chemical the title of “Hero of Two Worlds” as a engineering; Pi Delta Phi in French; Pi Mu soldier-statesman and humanitarian. Epsilon in mathematics; Pi Sigma Alpha in political science; Psi Chi in psychology; American Institute of Chemical Sigma Delta Pi in Spanish, Sigma Iota Rho Engineers Donald F. Othmer Award: in international affairs, Sigma Pi Sigma in Given to a junior or senior student majoring 20

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS in chemical engineering who has attained project of the A.U.S.A. and the U.S. Army the highest grade point average for two Center for Military History. years. David Fowler Atkins Jr. Prize: Presented American Institute of Chemists Award: to the student who, in work during the Presented by the Philadelphia Chapter of the junior or senior year in the department of Pennsylvania Institute of Chemists to a religious studies, gives promise of future senior chemistry major in recognition of a usefulness in service to religious demonstrated record of leadership, communities. character, and scholastic achievement. Frank Kline Baker Spanish and Latin American Legion General Military American Civilization Award: Awarded Excellence Award: Presented to a cadet in to the student who attains the greatest the top 25 percent of his or her class in proficiency in the study of Spanish and academic and ROTC subjects who has Latin American Civilization. demonstrated outstanding qualities in military leadership, discipline, character, Benjamin F. Barge Mathematical Prize: and citizenship. Awarded annually to first-year student(s) or sophomores in recognition of excellence in American Legion Scholastic Excellence mathematics. Award: Presented to a cadet in the top 10 percent of his or her academic class and the Benjamin F. Barge Oratorical Prize: top 25 percent of the ROTC class who has Presented to a member of the senior class demonstrated qualities of leadership and who writes and pronounces in public actively participated in campus student competition an English oration in the best activities. manner. American Veterans of World War II, Carroll Phillips Bassett Prize: Awarded Korea, and Vietnam Award: Presented to annually to senior students deemed most cadets who have displayed a high level of outstanding by the department of civil and diligence and discharge of duty and the environmental engineering. willingness to serve both God and country. Carroll Phillips Bassett Prize for Karl J. Ammerman Prize: Awarded Juniors: Awarded annually for outstanding annually to the most deserving student in work up to and including the junior year. the mechanical engineering department, as Paul Bernon Memorial Prize in selected by the faculty of the department. Sociology: Awarded each year by the Carol G., Jr. ’67 and Deborah B. faculty in the department of anthropology Anderson P’01 Mechanical Engineering and sociology to the graduating senior most Prize: Awarded to a mechanical outstanding in sociology. engineering major on the strength of high Charles L. Best Memorial Prize in A.B. academic achievement and promise for Engineering: Awarded annually to senior excellence in his or her career. students who best exemplify the ideals AROTC General Dynamics Award: behind the Bachelor of Arts in Engineering Presented to the Military Science IV Cadet degree and who have demonstrated who has demonstrated both outstanding leadership in the Bachelor of Arts in scholastic achievement and superb Engineering program. leadership ability, and who shows great Bethlehem Honorary First Defenders potential for a distinguished military career. Award: Recognizes those cadets who are Armed Forces Communication and designated as distinguished military Electronics Association Award: graduates. Presented annually to a cadet in each ROTC H. MacKnight Black Poetry and unit who demonstrates excellence in Literature Prize: Awarded annually to the leadership and academics. student who submits the best poem or group Association of the United States Army of poems in a contest conducted by the Military History Award: Presented to a English department. cadet who has demonstrated a strong Sanfurd G. Bluestein '42 Award: interest in and acumen regarding the study Presented annually to a junior planning a of military history. The award is a joint career in medicine who, in the opinion of 21

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS the Health Professions Advisory outstanding academic record in engineering Committee, has distinguished himself or or science. herself academically and contributed to various aspects of college life, especially Burton H. Cohen Memorial Prize: through participation in athletics, student Awarded annually to a senior psychology government, or music and arts programs. major who, in the opinion of the selection committee, has demonstrated the Russell C. Brinker Prize in Civil inclination, intellectual curiosity, Engineering: Awarded to a junior in the determination, and potential to become a civil and environmental engineering dedicated, creative, and selfless teacher. department who, in the opinion of that department’s faculty, is most deserving on Lyman Coleman Prize: Awarded the basis of self-reliance, scholarship, and annually to the senior who has demonstrated student activities. broad interest and superior performance in the department of religious studies. James F. Bryant '40 Excellence Award: Awarded to a junior who meets standards of College President's Award: Awarded excellence, as did James F. Bryant, by annually to the outstanding cadets from each demonstrating high academic achievement, class in terms of overall achievement, lettering in at least one varsity sport, and measured by scholastic excellence, showing noticeable and noteworthy leadership, military performance, and evidence of community service. extracurricular involvement. George H. Catlin Prize: Awarded to the Lawrence J. Conover '24 Electrical senior with the highest average in the study Engineering Prize: Presented each year to of the classics. a senior in electrical engineering upon recommendation of the electrical and Eugene P. Chase Government Prize: computer engineering department. Awarded annually to the student who, in the judgment of the department of government Jean Corrie Poetry Prize: Awarded and law, has submitted the best written annually to first-, second-, and third-year exposition in the field of political science students who submit the best poetry in a during the academic year. contest conducted by the Academy of American Poets. Eugene P. Chase Phi Beta Kappa Prize: Awarded to a sophomore who has Professor James P. Crawford Prize in demonstrated scholarship as a first-year Mathematics: Awarded to a student who student. has made a special contribution to the mathematics community at Lafayette by Chemical Rubber Company Freshman participating in and providing leadership for Achievement Award: Presented to the the cocurricular activities of the department. outstanding first-year student in general chemistry. Daughters of the American Revolution Award: Presented to the senior cadet who Class of 1883 Prize: Awarded to a senior has displayed outstanding qualities of who, in the opinion of the department of leadership and patriotism. English faculty, has demonstrated excellence in English. Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America: Presented annually to basic Class of 1910 Prize: Awarded annually by course cadets who have excelled in the the department of history to the senior who ROTC program. has excelled in the study of history or in an allied field of the humanities and who, in Frederick Knecht Detwiller Prize: the determination of the department, Awarded to a senior art major for manifests the greatest promise for distinguished work in art and art history. responsible civic leadership and public Distinguished Military Graduate: service. Awarded to the top 20 percent of the Class of 1913 Trophy: Presented to the Military Science IV cadets who have senior who has attained the greatest demonstrated outstanding leadership, distinction as an athlete and a scholar. attained superior academic standing, and contributed to the advancement of ROTC. Murray G. Clay '30 Award: Presented to a sophomore or junior who has an 22

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Francis Shunk Downs Award: Awarded Robert F. Hunsicker Educational Prize: to the senior who, in the judgment of the Awarded to a student who has done department of religious studies and the meritorious work in the area of small- chaplain's office, has shown the best all- business studies. around growth and development in academic and extracurricular activities Willis Roberts Hunt Biology Prize: while exercising outstanding leadership and Awarded annually to the senior biology influence upon the campus. student(s) felt by the members of the department to be most deserving. James L. Dyson Geology Award: Presented to that student majoring in Institute of Internal Auditors Award for geology who, by academic achievements Excellence in Accounting-Related and character, exemplifies the ideals by Studies: Given to a student for excellence which James L. Dyson lived and worked. in accounting and business subjects. J. J. Ebers Memorial Award:Given to a Institute of Management Accountants student selected by the department of Award: Given to a student for excellence in electrical and computing engineering, based accounting. on high academic achievement and Instrument Society of America, Charles noteworthy professional interest in the field F. Homewood Scholarship: Awarded to of electrical engineering. an outstanding senior engineering student Economics and Business Award for who has demonstrated interest and aptitude Scholastic Excellence: Awarded to a in the field of instrumentation and control student for outstanding academic systems. performance in economics and business and Henry Richard Jahn Trophy: Awarded for leadership in departmental activities. annually to a member of the track team Charles Duncan Fraser Prize: Awarded who, by vote of the track team and approval to seniors who, in the judgment of the of the track coach, is determined to have department of chemical engineering, are contributed most to the track team by virtue best qualified for advanced work in of leadership and ability. materials science and engineering. Hugh H. Jones Most Valuable Player Francis J. Gafford 1931 English Prize: Award: Presented to the most valuable Awarded annually to the senior who has player in football. taken English courses for four years and I. Clinton Kline Prize: Awarded to the who has the highest average in English. senior who has demonstrated excellence in Gilbert Prize: Awarded annually to acting, directing, or technical theater. students who, in the judgment of the Paul E. Koch '28 Trophy: Presented to department of English, have demonstrated the member of the Lafayette baseball team superiority in English. who, in the opinion of the baseball coach Ralph Scott Grover Music Scholar and director of athletics, is considered to be Award: Presented to a student who has the most valuable member of the team. achieved distinction in music scholarship. Joseph Watt Kuebler Jr. Memorial Harold A. Hageman '39 Award: Prize: Presented annually to the senior Awarded each year to the outstanding student in the department of biology who pitcher on the baseball team. has the highest scholastic average and will be entering medical school. William Forris Hart '27 Chemistry Prize: Presented to a junior or senior Lafayette Alumni of the Lehigh Valley chemistry major for proficiency in organic Performing Arts Award: Awarded chemistry and potential for further annually to a senior residing in the greater achievement in chemistry. Lehigh Valley who has made a significant contribution to Lafayette's performing arts Jeffrey B. Havens Memorial Prize: program while demonstrating strong Awarded to an engineering major to provide academic achievement. a nontraditional summer learning experience. Lafayette Alumni of the Lehigh Valley Scholarship Award: Awarded annually to a senior residing in the greater Lehigh 23

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Valley who demonstrates outstanding General George C. Marshall Award: academic achievement. Awarded by the George C. Marshall Foundation in recognition of attainment as Lehigh Valley Battalion Commanders the outstanding student in military studies Award: Presented annually to outstanding and leadership in the tradition of this cadets in each class by Army ROTC Cadre country's citizen soldier as exemplified by for demonstrated acumen for leadership and the career of Gen. George C. Marshall. an aptitude for military service as an officer. J. H. Tarbell Award: Awarded to a Lehigh Valley Chapter of the American student who demonstrates an understanding Society for Metals Prize: Awarded to an of financial operations and institutions. outstanding senior in materials engineering. Dr. E. L. McMillen-K. K. Malhotra '49 Lehigh Valley Section of the American Prize: Awarded to a junior(s) who has Chemical Society Award:Given by the attained a high cumulative average in Lehigh Valley Section of the American chemical engineering and who has Chemical Society to the outstanding senior demonstrated a high level of proficiency in chemical engineering major for achievement the Unit Operations Laboratory. in chemistry. Mechanical Engineering Design Lehigh Valley Section of the American Award: Awarded to a senior mechanical Institute of Chemical Engineers Award: engineering student for an outstanding Presented to a senior in chemical senior capstone design project. engineering who has compiled an impressive academic record and who has Mechanical Engineering Faculty demonstrated outstanding accomplishments Award: Awarded by the mechanical in one or more extracurricular activities. engineering faculty to an outstanding mechanical engineering senior who has Lehigh Valley Section of the American demonstrated superior knowledge of the Society of Civil Engineers Outstanding discipline and shows promise in the practice Senior Award: Awarded to a senior of the profession. engineering student who exhibits outstanding scholastic ability as well as Merck Index Award: Given to a senior for involvement in extracurricular activities. superior academic work in chemistry and promise of future excellence. Lehigh Valley Section of the American Society of Materials Award: Awarded Military Order of the Purple Heart annually to the student who has attained the Award: Presented annually to cadets for most impressive record in the introductory military and scholastic excellence by the materials course. Lehigh Valley Chapter of the Military Order of the Purple Heart. Leopard Medal: Awarded to a first-year cadet who contributes the most to the Military Order of the World Wars advancement of Army ROTC at Lafayette Leadership Award: Presented by the College, and is academically in the top 10 Philadelphia chapter ot the cadet who best percent of the ROTC class and the top 25 exemplifies the spirit of ROTC leadership. percent of his or her academic class; made possible through the generous contributions Military Order of the World Wars of Harry M. Jones '66, Lieutenant Colonel, Ribbon: Presented annually to outstanding U.S. Army Retired. cadets who have shown the most improvement in military and scholastic Francis A. March Fellowship: Given to a studies during the school year. senior who has distinguished himself or herself in English studies and who has been Military Science Cadre Award: admitted to a graduate school approved by Presented annually to a senior army cadet the department of English. from each campus who has exhibited outstanding qualities of leadership and an Maroon Club Student Award: Presented aptitude for military service as recognized to a senior male and a senior female athlete by his/her instructors and who serves as an based equally upon academic achievement, example of the kind of officer the cadre athletic accomplishments, and endeavors to produce. campus/community service. Wesley S. Mitman Prize: Awarded to the senior most outstanding in mathematics. 24

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Moles Student Award: Given to a student James Alexander Petrie Prize in French: in engineering whose academic achievement Awarded annually to a student and enthusiastic application shows demonstrating a high degree of proficiency outstanding promise of personal in French. development leading to a career in construction engineering and management. Reverend J. W. and R. S. Porter Bible Prize: Awarded annually to students judged Arthur Montgomery Geology Award: by the department of religious studies to Awarded annually to a student of high have demonstrated high proficiency in the academic achievement with a special study of religion, based upon work done in interest in mineralogy and petrology in their first and second years. honor of Arthur Montgomery, professor of geology from 1951-75. David A. Portlock Memorial Prize: Awarded annually to an outstanding student National Guard of Pennsylvania receiving Lafayette grant aid who will Award: Presented to a graduating cadet benefit most from studying abroad. who is entering or is a member of the Pennsylvania National Guard for William C. Rappolt ’67 and Walter outstanding attitude and motivation, Oechsle ’57 Neuroscience Prize: academic achievement, leadership, and Awarded to an outstanding senior based on overall ROTC achievement. scholarship in the classroom and laboratory and service to the major, College, or National Sojourners Award: Awarded to community. a sophomore or junior Military Science cadet who encourages American ideals by John D. Raymond Music Award: deed or conduct, demonstrates outstanding Awarded annually by the department of leadership, and achieves academic music to a deserving music student. excellence. Reserve Officers Association Award: Donald U. Noblett Prize in Chemical Presented to the Military Science II, III, and Engineering: Given to a chemical IV cadets who have displayed exceptional engineering major based on high academic leadership and academic performance. achievement, with outstanding promise of Retired Officers Association Award: future excellence in his or her career. Presented to the Military Science II, III, IV Vivian B. Noblett Prize in Studio Art: cadets who have displayed exceptional Awarded to an art major with preference leadership and academic performance. given to a student with an interest in studio Rexroth Prize in German: Awarded to a art who has demonstrated proficiency in student for meritorious achievement in painting and drawing and who shows German. potential for future achievements. Herbert W. Rogers Psychology Prize: Minerva and Emil V. Novak Prize in Awarded annually to the outstanding senior Government and Law: Presented annually psychology major(s) judged by the to a student majoring in the department of department to be the most deserving. government and law, based on overall excellence in academic work and citizenship James P. Schwar Prize: Awarded in the campus community. annually in honor of James P. Schwar, professor of computer science from 1962- Louise M. Olsted Prize in Ethics: 2000, to a deserving computer science Awarded to a student who, in the judgment student. of the members of the department of philosophy, has done outstanding work in Dr. & Mrs. David Schwimmer '35 Prize theoretical ethics, applied ethics, or a related in Honor of Theodore A. Distler: field. Awarded annually to the pre-medical student who, in the opinion of the Health Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Professions Advisory Committee, best Public Accountants Award: Given to a represents the humanitarian, cultural, and graduating senior for excellence in scientific qualities required of the true accounting and for participation in college physician. and community affairs. David Bishop Skillman 1913 Library Prize: Awarded to a graduating senior 25

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS library assistant who by his/her exemplary Professor Carolynn Van Dyke Prize: performance, skill and dedication has Awarded annually to a student majoring in enhanced the library's educational role. any subject, preference for computer science, to provide funds for a Finley W. and Ethelwyne H. Smith nontraditional learning experience. Electronic Engineering Prize: Awarded annually to the electrical and computer Veterans of Foreign Wars Award: engineering senior who has earned, at the Presented to outstanding cadets who are end of the junior year, the highest actively engaged in the ROTC program and cumulative average attained by any senior who possess individual characteristics who is working for departmental honors contributing to leadership. with a project in the electronics or communications field. B. Vincent Viscomi Civil Engineering Prize: Awarded to a civil engineering Society of American Military Engineers student based on demonstrated academic NYC Post Scholarship: Awarded to achievement and leadership during his or engineering students enrolled in Military her first three years at Lafayette. Science to continue their educational studies. Wall Street Journal Student Achievement Award: Given to a student Society for Applied Spectroscopy whose academic performance in economics Prize: Awarded to a senior in the and business is considered exceptional. department of chemistry. J. Hunt Wilson '05 Prize in Analytical Society of the War of 1812 Award: Chemistry: Awarded annually to the senior Presented annually to sophomore ROTC chemistry major with the highest ranking in cadets who encourage and demonstrate the courses and research. ideals of Americanism by deed, conduct, or both. Luther F. Witmer Prize: Awarded annually to the senior with the most Sons of American Revolution Award: outstanding accomplishments in materials Emphasizes the importance of perpetuating science and engineering. the principles of government established by the colonial statesmen. It honors cadets for T. Gordon Yates '29 Award for outstanding leadership qualities, military Swimming: Awarded annually to the most bearing, and excellence. improved male and female swimmers as determined by the swimming coaches and Carl J. Staska Prize: Awarded each year the director of athletics. to a student who has demonstrated a high degree of proficiency in chemical laboratory Thomas G. Yohe Memorial Prize in skills. Studio Art: Awarded to a student who displays creativity in drawing and Superior Cadet Award: Awarded to illustration. Military Science cadets who are the top cadets in their respective ROTC classes. Class of 1884 R. B. Youngman Greek Prize: Awarded annually to a student who William G. McLean Tau Beta Pi Prize: has demonstrated a high degree of Awarded to a sophomore engineering proficiency in Greek. student based on academic performance, campus citizenship, and professional orientation. SPECIAL ACADEMIC Track Prize: Presented by the department OPPORTUNITIES of athletics to the ideal Lafayette track and field or cross-country team member in In addition to its regular academic memory of Peter Crampton. programs, Lafayette College offers a variety of optional programs ranging from student/ Paul Tully Memorial Prize: Presented to faculty research projects and intensive the student who best exemplifies the short-term courses during the January or progressive principles of social and political May interim to foreign study and work- serviceædemocratic ideals to which Paul study internships.

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Interim Session Programs The Office of International and Off-Campus The Lafayette academic calendar leaves a Education provides opportunities ranging period of about three weeks open during from interim to semester and year-long January or May. Some students use this programs. Generally, the cost for a semester period to enroll in optional special academic or year abroad is the same as that for a courses sponsored by Lafayette, either on semester or year on campus. Students pay campus or in foreign locations. Interim Lafayette's Comprehensive Fee (tuition). Session may include intensive courses, Those who select a faculty-led program also laboratory exercises, field trips, or study pay Lafayette's room and (depending on the abroad. For students in Bachelor of Science program) board; the College arranges and programs whose heavy schedule of pays for the airfare. Students who select an prescribed courses may make off-campus approved affiliated program pay Lafayette's semesters difficult to arrange, the Interim Comprehensive Fee (tuition) plus the host Session provides an especially useful institution room and board charges. (Host opportunity to participate in a period of costs are detailed in the Host Program foreign study. Estimate Cost Profile, available in the Office of International and Off-Campus Special courses offered only during Interim Education). For most affiliated programs, Sessions are described in the listings. students make their own travel Additional information about the study- arrangements. Lafayette bills the student for abroad programs may be obtained from the the applicable tuition and other fees and Office of International and Off-Campus pays the host institution directly. Students Education. Students applying to participate are responsible for incidental costs such as in the interim abroad program must be in books, passports, visas, immunizations, good standing academically and with optional travel, and personal expenses. respect to College regulations at the time of application, and when they depart for the Students enrolled in faculty-led or approved program. For information about on-campus affiliated programs have access to the same interim programs, contact the Office of the financial aid they have while studying on Dean of the College. campus at Lafayette. Financial aid is capped, however, at Lafayette's cost. A few Regular financial aid does not cover the of our approved programs are more Interim Session, but some funding is expensive than Lafayette; in those available on a competitive basis, and the situations, students selecting such programs Office of Financial Aid can advise students are responsible for any amount above and about loans and other possible forms of beyond Lafayette's cost. assistance. The deadline for application for the fall Study Abroad semester is February 15 and September 15 Lafayette College recognizes that we live in for the spring semester. At the time of an increasingly complex and interrelated application and departure for the study- global environment. Connecting the abroad program, students must have a classroom to the world outside our walls is minimum cumulative grade point average of at the core of the College's mission. Off - 2.80, be in good standing academically and campus study combines academic rigor with with respect to College regulations, and be experiential learning through immersion in making satisfactory progress toward the an international or culturally significant degree. domestic setting. Engaging in an unfamiliar Students accepted by off-campus programs cultural milieu is often a truly must seek approval in advance from the transformative experience for students. Academic Progress Committee for coures Participants are encouraged to expand their they wish to present for a grade and for comfort zones, encounter new perspectives, credit towards the Lafayette degree. A and examine their own cultural viewpoints. student may transfer no more than a normal Students return to campus with a greater semester program or not more than eight appreciation of global issues, which courses for a full academic year of foreign enriches their understanding of their own study. Normally, students are not permitted on-campus curricula while stimulating and to study abroad through a nonaffiliated deepening conversation within the College program. Should the Academic Progress community. Committee make an exception for a program in a country in which Lafayette has 27

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS no formal affiliation or arrangement, the Level III student must obtain prior approval. Without • German 250: German Language and approval, any course taken cannot be Culture Abroad III credited toward the Lafayette degree. • Spanish 250: Spanish Language and Summer Session-Language and Culture Abroad III Culture Abroad • Italian 250: Italian Language and Culture Abroad III As a member of the Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges Intensive practice in spoken and written (LVAIC), Lafayette College is involved in German, Italian, or Spanish aimed at six-week summer programs in Germany, providing the student with extensive Italy, and Spain. Each program offers a total proficiency of expression and the ability to cultural experience and the course credit discriminate linguistic usage; emphasis on earned is automatically transferred to the idiomatic expressions with an introduction participating LVAIC institution and counted to stylistics, reading, and analysis of as part of the student's cumulative grade difficult texts, supplemented by an in-depth point average. A language proficiency study of selected aspects of contemporary examination determines the level (I, II, or German, Italian, or Spanish civilization. III) at which a student is permitted to enroll. Two course credits. Students interested in the LVAIC programs should consult with the head of the Interim Abroad Program Department of Foreign Languages and Each year, Lafayette faculty offer six to nine Literatures. three-week courses abroad during the January term and in May. Each course Level I counts for one course credit. Individual German 050: German Language and Culture courses are listed under "Interim Abroad I Session/Study Abroad."

Spanish 050: Spanish Language and Culture Abroad I Internships Italian 050: Italian Language and Culture All students are eligible to register for one Abroad I internship course. Students earning a cumulative grade point average of 3.2 or Intensive study of the fundamentals of above may petition to take a second German, Italian, or Spanish with emphasis internship for credit. Normally, first-year on speaking, listening, and reading students and sophomores are not eligible for comprehension, as well as basic writing participation in an internship program, and skills, supplemented by an introduction to no credit may be given ex post facto for major aspects of contemporary French, internships. German, Italian, or Spanish civilization. Two course credits. Internships are offered by several academic departments and involve practical, hands-on Level II experience at jobs generally outside the College community. Academic departments • German 150: German Language and and programs that offer internship courses Culture Abroad II for credit include A.B. engineering, art, • Spanish 150: Spanish Language and economics and business, English, Culture Abroad II government and law, history, music, and • Italian 150: Italian Language and psychology. Culture Abroad II Students participating in internships will be Intensive practice of conversational graded on a credit/no credit basis. The German, Italian, or Spanish; rapid review of student's coursework must be approved in basic grammar; reading and analysis of advance and be supervised by a member of moderately difficult texts, as well as the the department, as well as by personnel at development of rudimentary writing skills, the workplace. Internships may, by supplemented by the study of selected departmental approval, be offered under aspects of contemporary German, Italian, or project or independent courses in Spanish civilization. Two course credits. engineering. At the conclusion of the internship, the student typically prepares a paper on the experience. 28

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Summer internships are available through to work closely with faculty in courses selected academic departments or the across the curriculum. Each Writing College-wide internship program (INT 200). Associate is assigned to a course affiliated INT 200 credit is recorded on the transcript, with the program and meets individually but may not be used to fulfill the minimum with the students to help them revise their course requirement for graduation. written work. The Writing Associate works under the guidance of the professor and the INT 200 – Internship College Writing Program's professional This course emphasizes learning through the staff. The Writing Associates also provide a interplay between academic work and drop-in service for the campus at large. fieldwork in a various entities during the Students selected as Writing Associates are summer months. Each internship will be themselves skilled writers and insightful supervised by a faculty member who will readers with strong listening and coaching provide a formal evaluation of its outcome skills. They are paid a stipend for their in consultation with the relevant personnel services. For more information, see in the workplace. Under the supervisor’s Christian Tatu, the coordinator of the guidance, each intern will produce a College Writing Program, 319 Pardee Hall. tangible academic project during the internship experience, such as a paper, McKelvy Scholars journal, or portfolio. Each year, 20 students of high academic ability and promise are invited to live Independent Study together at McKelvy House, a residence Students who wish to pursue special four blocks from the campus. The McKelvy academic topics or individual research Scholars program was established to programs endorsed by a faculty member recognize and encourage academic may register in most departments for a excellence and to facilitate exchange of credit-bearing course of independent study. ideas and information among students with Normally, no more than one independent different interests and in different study course may be taken in a semester. disciplines. Admission is competitive and

requires nomination by a faculty member. Lafayette EXCEL Scholars Information about the program may be obtained from the Dean of the College. Program The Lafayette EXCEL Scholars Program enables students to participate in Military Science academically meaningful experiences Military Science centers on the theory and outside the classroom. Students selected for application of leadership and management this program engage in collaborative fundamentals and also includes professional research projects with Lafayette faculty, knowledge subjects, physical training, small enhancing their academic skills as well as unit tactics, and basic military skills. The developing other skills which will be useful program sponsors the Reserve Officers' in post-graduate education and careers. Training Corps (ROTC), leading to duty as a commissioned officer in the active Army, EXCEL Scholars have the opportunity to Reserves, or National Guard. work full time for ten weeks during the summer; full time for three weeks during The program is a part of the United States the Interim Session; and eight to ten hours Army Cadet Command. Classes and per week during the academic year. activities are conducted on the Lafayette campus under the auspices of Lehigh Students selected to the EXCEL Scholars University's ROTC program, which acts as Program receive a stipend of $8 to $10 per the local headquarters for ROTC and hour and residence hall housing during the Military Science instruction. interim and summer sessions. Any student may take ROTC classes during Information concerning the EXCEL any semester. To be eligible for program may be obtained from the Director commissioning as an officer, however, a of Research Services. student must have at least two years until graduation upon entry into ROTC. Non- College Writing Program scholarship students incur no military The College Writing Program provides obligation until their junior year. Students student Writing Associates the opportunity continuing in ROTC beyond their 29

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS sophomore year may sign a contractual archivists meet with classes in all disciplines agreement leading to a commission as a and provide group instruction in library Second Lieutenant in one of more than 20 research. Reference assistance is available branches of the Army upon graduation. All to students on weekdays, most evenings, juniors and seniors receive tax-free monthly and Sundays. Students may arrange stipends of $450 and $500 respectively personalized research assistance sessions during the school year. with librarians for extended consultations about their research projects. Four-year ROTC scholarships cover full tuition and fees and also offer a stipend and Lafayette's libraries also provide space for $900 per year for books. Scholarships are students to study and collaborate with one available to those who will be entering another. Kirby Library is housed in the Lafayette College as first-year students. Beaux-Arts style Kirby Hall of Civil Rights, Two- and three-year ROTC scholarships are which was completed in 1930 and renovated available once enrolled at Lafayette College in the late 1990s. The library's classic, oak- (current participation in Army ROTC is not paneled reading room is among the most required). beautiful interior spaces on campus. All Army ROTC scholarships are awarded A renovated and expanded Skillman Library solely on merit, and recipients incur a was dedicated in 2005. The three-year military obligation. project added more than 28,000 sq. ft. to the library and created an enhanced For more information, see "Military environment for collaborative learning, Science" section under information technology, and an expanding "majors/departments." book collection. The library’s newly redesigned spaces include a formal reading room, a program room, two instruction LIBRARY RESOURCES rooms, a digital media lab, the largest public Lafayette's libraries provide students with a computing cluster on campus, and a variety of individual and group study spaces. wide range of information sources and services developed to support their educational pursuits. The David Bishop Skillman Library is the college's main INFORMATION library, with a collection of more than TECHNOLOGY SERVICES 500,000 volumes. Kirby Library has an additional 30,000 volumes related to Lafayette College's information technology government and law. The two libraries services are delivered via a 10 Gigabit subscribe to more than 1,000 magazines, network backbone that serves the entire journals, and newspapers in paper form and campus community. Devices can access the provide full text, online access to thousands network over a wired 1 Gigabit connection of additional titles. The libraries' Special or via campus wireless. The college is Collections and College Archives connected to both the Internet as well as department houses the College's rare books, other high-speed research networks manuscripts, and institutional records, including Internet2. including a premier collection on the Marquis de Lafayette. Information Technology Services (ITS) manages and supports both PC and The libraries provide access to information Macintosh computers. Multiple Novell and sources far beyond what is held within the Linux-based servers support a variety of physical confines of its two buildings. applications including email, personal file Students have borrowing privileges at five storage, course management systems, and other colleges in the Lehigh Valley and may other services. Students and faculty have use interlibrary loan services to request web access to academic and financial materials from libraries across the country. records in addition to online course Students can also use the library's registration. expanding array of electronic resources wherever they have an Internet connection. Assistance with technology is available through the help desk. Support is available A staff of librarians helps students to use the for hardware repair as well as many libraries' resources and obtain the common desktop applications including MS information they need. Librarians and Office. ITS also maintains the technology

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ACADEMIC PROGRAMS installed in most classrooms and provides instruction, equipment, and support for the creation and presentation of multimedia projects. Lafayette does not require students to purchase a computer or bring one to campus. Public computing sites, including a 24-hour public lab, are open weekdays, evenings, and weekends during the academic year. In addition, most academic departments have special-purpose computing labs available for student use. Many specialized applications are accessible from any networked computer on campus. However, most students bring their own computer to campus or choose to purchase one through special pricing arrangements with Dell and Apple. Microsoft Windows, Mac OSX, and Microsoft Office Professional are the supported operating systems. In late spring, newly accepted students are sent full details on recommended hardware and software configurations, along with procedures to prepare a system for connection to the Lafayette network.

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Admissions and Costs

The secondary school report submitted in ADMISSIONS support of the application should include an evaluation from the secondary school Admission to Lafayette College is highly counselor as well as one from a teacher who competitive. The College receives about 10 taught the candidate a major subject during applications annually for each available the junior or senior year. place in the first-year class and seeks those candidates who are best able to benefit from Details of admissions procedures are mailed and contribute to the academic and to potential applicants upon request to the extracurricular programs of the institution. Admissions Office.

Factors considered in evaluating each student's application include academic performance in secondary school, the ADVANCED PLACEMENT quality of courses taken, and class rank; the Lafayette participates in the Advanced candidate's personal qualities and Placement examination program of the extracurricular record; and the College Entrance Examination Board recommendation of the secondary school. (CEEB). Candidates interested in receiving Students admitted to Lafayette as full-time, course credit and placement in advanced degree-seeking students must have a high classes should take the AP examinations school diploma or the recognized equivalent given in May of each year. A score of either of a high school diploma at the time of their 4 or 5 on most examinations, and 3 or above matriculation. on selected others, will earn course credit and advanced placement. The Lafayette Applicants for admission must submit test faculty determine score assignments each scores from either the SAT or the ACT, spring. It is possible to receive sophomore including the optional writing section. SAT standing with sufficient scores. Subject test results are recommended but not required. Lafayette College complies Lafayette cannot grant any AP credit with federal and state legislation and does without possession of the official AP score not in any way discriminate in education report from the CEEB before the end of the programs or in employment on the basis of student's sophomore year at the College. gender, age race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, physical ability, or International Baccalaureate sexual orientation. The official results of the higher level examinations of the International Baccalaureate are considered for academic PREPARATION course credits at Lafayette. The acceptable score level is 5 or higher in all subjects. The Candidates for admission to the Bachelor of amount of credit is determined by each Arts degree program should have pursued a department. No credit is given for college preparatory curriculum in high subsidiary level examinations. school, including at least four years of English, three years of mathematics, two Students awarded the full IB diploma with years of laboratory science, two years of a results of 5 or above on all higher level and foreign language, and a minimum of five subsidiary level examinations, and results of additional units in academic subjects. C or above on both the Theory of Candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Knowledge course and the Extended Essay, Science, whether in a natural science or in may apply for sophomore standing after engineering, should have pursued a program arriving on campus. Students approved for including four years of college preparatory sophomore standing receive between six to mathematics, and a science sequence eight course credits, including up to two free incorporating both chemistry and physics. elective credits (undesignated or INDS 098). Students who receive sophomore standing may not be awarded more than eight course 32

ADMISSIONS AND COSTS credits and must complete the First-Year majority of those offered admission present Seminar (FYS) as a graduation requirement. strong records of achievement. Free electives may not be used for major or distribution requirements. Students who transfer from a regionally accredited institution may be granted credit A number of subjects in the IB program do toward a Lafayette degree for courses which not have a direct Lafayette course are consistent with the goals of the equivalent. Credit for higher level candidate's academic program at Lafayette examination results in these areas is not and in which the candidate has achieved a guaranteed. If no departmental sponsor can grade of C or higher (2.0 on a 4.0 scale). be found for the subject, results of 5 or Transfer students are expected to spend a higher in these areas may be awarded as free minimum of two academic years in elective course work (undesignated or INDS residence to be eligible for graduation. 098). Credits count toward the requirements for sophomore status as noted in the section The maximum of transfer credit that may be above. awarded to Bachelor of Arts degree candidates is 16 Lafayette semester courses. Academic Scholarships For Bachelor of Science degree candidates, the maximum transfer credits that may be Prospective students of outstanding awarded is one-half the number of semester academic achievement who show the courses in the degree program. Normally, at potential for independent and creative least one half of the courses to be applied scholarship at the undergraduate level may toward the major must be taken at Lafayette. be selected as Marquis Scholars. Marquis Scholars receive an annual minimum award of $16,000 (totaling $64,000 over four INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS years) or full grant to demonstrated need if greater than $16,000. To remain eligible for Lafayette actively seeks international the award, students must maintain full-time students, whose special experiences enrollment and a cumulative GPA of at least contribute significantly to the rich diversity 3.00. of the campus community. Currently, between five and six percent of the student In addition to the financial aid award, body is made up of international students Marquis Scholars receive other benefits who represent 56 countries. including distinctive educational experiences, most notably a College-funded, All applicants are required to submit official three-week study-abroad course during the results of the SAT or the ACT with writing. interim session between semesters. They Additionally, Lafayette recommends but also participate in cultural activities in major does not require the results of two SAT cities and on campus, and in mentoring Subject Tests. Prospective math and programs with Lafayette faculty. The science majors are encouraged to take college provides these scholarships to Subject Tests in mathematics and science. approximately 10 percent of each entering class of students. Students whose first language is not English must submit official results of the TOEFL Students admitted under either by early test unless the language of instruction decision or regular decision will be during their four years of high school has considered for this merit-based scholarship, been English. A score of at least 550 on the with final decisions rendered by late March. paper-based test or 80 on the Internet-based

test is generally required for admission. We will accept the results of hte IELTS exam in TRANSFER STUDENTS lieu of TOEFL; the expected score on this exam is at least 7.0. Lafayette welcomes applications for the fall and spring semesters from students wishing to transfer from other institutions. All FEES applicants must have a high school diploma (or GED) and be in good standing at their Fees are subject to change by action of the current institution. The College does not Board of Trustees. For 2008-09, fees are: specify a minimum grade point average for Comprehensive Fee $35,904 consideration as a transfer student, but the Student Activity Fee $186 Room $6,773 33

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Board (20-meal plan) $4,475 All first-year students must subscribe to the Flex, freshmen and $200 full 20-meal plan and $200 flex dollars. All transfers transfer students must subscribe to the 10- Flex, upper-class students $500 meal plan and $200 flex dollars. All Health Insurance (optional) $1,525 upperclass students must purchase $500 (Estimated) dollars or participate in one of the optional Tuition Refund Insurance $265-315 board plans offered. (optional) (Estimated) Payments and Penalties In addition, the College estimates an All college fees must be paid in full at an allowance of at least $850 for books and established date prior to the start of each academic supplies and approximately semester. The student will not be permitted $1,000 for miscellaneous personal expenses to register or to attend classes until the and travel. Financial aid will be pro-rated account is paid in full or until satisfactory for seniors who are approved for less than arrangements for payment are made with the full-time status. Controller's Office. Failure to comply will Students who enter Lafayette as full-time result in both the withdrawal of the student students and wish to change to part-time for the current semester and a refusal of status (enrollment in fewer than three permission to register for subsequent courses) must be in the final semester of semesters. The Registrar will not release the their senior year. For consideration, a transcript of a student whose account has petition must be filed by Aug. 1 for fall not been paid in full. International students semester and Dec. 1 for spring. Once are required to make all payments in the granted permission to enroll for less than form of an international money order or a full-time study, the student will pay the full- check that is drawn on and collectible by a time comprehensive fee pro-rated to the United States bank. Upon request, the number of courses for which the student is College will provide instructions for the allowed to register and the full student wire transfer of payment to the College. activity fee. The penalty fee for failure to register within Students are advised to check their family the scheduled period is $50 unless excused health plan to be sure coverage will apply in by the Dean of the College. Failure to case a claim is filed while they are follow the established procedures in registered on a part-time basis. changing one's schedule results in a $50 penalty. The penalty for late payment of Interim Session fees is $300. Optional special academic courses are Checks returned by the payor's bank will be offered both on campus and abroad during subject to a $25 fee. The amount of the the three-week break in the academic check, plus the $25 penalty, must be calendar in January. Some abroad courses received by the Controller's Office not later are also offered in May. Separate fees apply. than one week after notification. Regular financial aid does not apply but the Office of Financial Aid can advise about Tuition Prepayment Plan loans and other forms of assistance. Grant The College has established a plan that consideration is given to students by the permits parents to "lock in" the College's Provost's office. comprehensive fee, its tuition, for a minimum of two years or up to four years in Dining Plans advance. The rate for all years in the Lafayette offers a variety of dining sequence would be the amount charged in programs available at two student the first year of plan participation. By restaurants, a food court, and a coffee house paying the tuition up front, the parent of a (Gilbert's Cafe accepts flex dollars and cash first-year student can fix the rate of tuition only). Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are through graduation. During that time, the provided Monday through Saturday, and student's additional bills will consist brunch and dinner are served on Sunday in primarily of the student activity fee and the Drake Dining Room in Farinon College room and board charges at the rates current Center. Students may also use their meal on the billing date. If the student withdraws plan in Marquis Hall (Monday through from college before the prepaid fees have Friday, continental breakfast and lunch; been used, the balance will be refunded but Monday through Thursday, dinner). no interest will be paid on the funds for the 34

ADMISSIONS AND COSTS period they were on deposit with the federal Title IV financial aid programs must College. The plan is not available to be recalculated in these situations. students receiving Lafayette-funded financial aid. Inquiries about the plan should If a student leaves the institution prior to be directed to the Controller's Office. completing 60 percent of a payment period or term, the financial aid office recalculates Refunds eligibility for Title IV funds. Recalculation is based on the percentage of earned aid Students who withdraw because of illness using the following Federal Return of Title must submit a written statement signed by a IV funds formula: physician for approval by the College physician. In cases of illness or other Percentage of payment period or term situations which, in the judgment of the completed = the number of days completed Dean of the College, require special up to the withdrawal date divided by the consideration, the College will provide a total days in the payment period or term. partial refund of tuition and fees according (Any break of five days or more is not to the following terms: counted as part of the days in the term.) This percentage is also the percentage of earned Comprehensive, Student Activity, aid. and Room Fees Withdrawal on or before the first day of Funds are returned to the appropriate federal classes, 100 percent. No refund is provided program based on the percentage of after class day 50. The refund for unearned aid using the following formula: withdrawal within class days 2-50 is calculated on a pro-rata basis and is based Aid to be returned = (100 percent of the aid on the number of days remaining in the that could be disbursed, minus the semester divided by the total number of percentage of earned aid) multiplied by the days in the semester. For purposes of this total amount of aid that could have been calculation, weekend days are included, but disbursed during the payment period or the five-day Thanksgiving break and spring term. break are excluded. If a student earned less aid than what was A student required to withdraw for disbursed, the institution would be required disciplinary reasons is not eligible for a to return a portion of the funds and the refund of the comprehensive fee, student student would be required to return a activity fee, or the room fee. portion of the funds. Keep in mind that While a student is residing in College when Title IV funds are returned, the property, the College assumes no student borrower may owe a debit balance responsibility for loss of or damage to to the institution. personal property. Students should verify that coverage is provided under their If a student earned more aid than was families' homeowners policies or contact an disbursed to him/her, the institution would insurance agent concerning protection owe the student a post-withdrawal against such losses. disbursement. The student must be offered any post-withdrawal disbursement of loan Board Fees funds within 30 days of the date the The student may apply for a refund of the institution determined the student withdrew. board plan fee, based on the number of unused weeks for that semester. The institution must return the amount of Title IV funds for which it is responsible no Flex Dollars later than 45 days after the date the Flex dollars will be refunded to a withdrawn institution determined the student withdrew. student to the extent that those dollars have not been used. Refunds are allocated in the following No refunds will be granted except as order: described above. • Unsubsidized Federal Stafford Loans The Financial Aid Office is required by • Subsidized Federal Stafford Loans federal statute to recalculate federal • Federal Perkins Loans financial aid eligibility for students who • Federal Parent (PLUS) Loans withdraw, drop out, are dismissed, or take a • Federal Pell Grants for which a Return leave of absence prior to completing 60 of funds is required percent of a payment period or term. The • Academic Competitiveness Grant 35

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• National SMART Grant • Federal Supplemental Opportunity Grants for which a Return of funds is required • Other assistance under this Title for which a Return of funds is required (e.g., LEAP)

Tuition Refund Insurance To complement this refund policy and to help protect your educational investment, the College offers an optional Tuition Refund Insurance Plan. When combined with the College's published refund policy, reimbursement totaling 100 percent of the comprehensive fee (tuition) and those College room charges billed by the College will be made if your son/daughter is forced to withdraw from school due to a personal illness or accident. In case of withdrawal due to a mental/nervous disorder, 60 percent of the above charges is covered. A plan description and enrollment application will be mailed approximately 30 days prior to the first day of fall semester classes.

Student Health Insurance Optional student health insurance will be available for academic year 2009-10 at an estimated annual fee of $1,999. This coverage provides hospital, prescription, and medical-surgical benefits for 12 months beginning August 1, when subscribers are registered as full-time students. If the student enrolls for coverage after the beginning of the semester, the effective date of coverage is the day after the date of postmark when the premium is received. Coverage ends July 31 of the following year. Students entering initially in the second semester will be enrolled from January 1 through July 31 of the same year on a prorated basis. Coverage continues during vacation periods. A plan description and enrollment application announcing the actual fee are included with the fall semester billing. Students declining to purchase this insurance are advised to obtain health insurance through their families' health plan or an insurance agent. The College is not responsible for medical or other expenses resulting from injuries sustained by the student while enrolled, regardless of whether such injuries occur on or off campus.

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Most of the major headings in this chapter correspond to the names of academic departments or interdisciplinary majors at FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR Lafayette. Basic requirements for all The First-Year Seminar, which is required engineering programs are listed under the of all students, is designed to introduce heading “Engineering.” All departments students to intellectual inquiry through offer opportunities to take on special engaging them as thinkers, speakers, and academic challenges that foster marketable writers. Each seminar focuses intensively on skills and enhance the academic program a special topic that is articulated with related such as internships, independent study, cocurricular activities. Limited to study abroad, research with faculty, and approximately 16 students per section, the writing an honors thesis. First-Year Seminar includes significant Course Numbers: Courses are listed by reading, writing, discussion, and three-digit numbers denoting progressive presentation and is affiliated with the academic levels. College Writing Program. Students are also introduced to use of the library for research. The 100-level courses are introductory or First-Year Seminars are designed to fundamental and are normally open to first- generate collaboration among faculty from year students. various disciplines and to encourage intellectual communities among students The 200-level courses are intermediate and and faculty. While each seminar is taught are normally open to first- and second-year independently, most are grouped in topical students following the first-level sequence, clusters that may share common lectures and may have prerequisites; 200 also and readings, co-teaching, tutorials, designates sophomore engineering courses cocurricular activities, etc. Seminars not normally open to first-year students, or normally meet three hours per week; a courses open to students who have fourth hour may be scheduled at the completed one year of college work or its discretion of the faculty. First-Year equivalent in the subject. Seminars are a critical part of the Common The 300 series denotes advanced courses Course of Study, a corequisite for other that have prerequisites or internships courses taken by students in their first normally open to juniors and seniors. semester, and a prerequisite for subsequent Independent Study and Special Topics are courses. A representative listing of seminars open only by permission of the department appears at right, although the offerings head. change each year. During the summer, all entering first-year students receive, as part The 400-level courses are designed for of the registration materials, a list of the seniors or have 300-level course seminars to be given in the following fall. prerequisites. Thesis courses that are open Students are asked to indicate their first five only to honors candidates also bear 400 choices; every effort is made to place numbers. students according to their preferences.

A.B./B.S. Degree Writing Requirement: This requirement is to be satisfied by taking First Year Seminar Courses First-Year Seminar (FYS), English 110, FYS 011 International Conflict and Values and Science/Technology Seminar (VaST), and two writing courses. Courses Cooperation in the Contemporary World that may be used for this requirement are This seminar looks at international conflict designated with the letter code [W]in from a social science perspective. Its brackets at the end of the descriptions. At function is not only to transmit information the discretion of the faculty, courses may be about specific conflicts in the twentieth added to or deleted from the list. century but also to equip participants with tools to analyze any international conflict. Topics include causes of individual and collective violence, arms races and 37

FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR deterrents, and means for prevention or Niles reduction of international conflict. Peleg FYS 016 Why Poetry Matters This seminar explores the social FYS 012 America’s World War II: manifestations of poetry and people’s Historical, Literary, and Film Perspectives appetite for it in such phenomena as poetry on the “Good War” slams, subway posters, poetry of witness in This seminar focuses on some of the major extremity, videos, rap and oral performance, interpretations of the American experience as well as in more academic forms. Students in World War II. Through an examination of test definitions of poetry against their historical, literary, and film texts, the course individual reading, listening, speaking, and explores ways in which the war has been writing experiences, studying how written mythologized and de-mythologized and tries and oral expressions both complement and to uncover some of the cultural, political, contend with each other. and artistic reasons for these processes. Of Seetch particular concern is the problematic idea of a “good war.” FYS 017 An Element of Risk Martin Each day people make decisions that are based on an assessment of the costs, FYS 013 Trips, Tropes, and Travelers: benefits, and consequences associated with Journeys to the Unknown a choice of action. In this seminar, case Road trip! These magic words conjure up studies from medicine, the environment, and visions of encountering interesting people technology are used to apply relevant and exotic places and returning with great historical perspectives, statistical analysis, stories to tell. What does it mean to be a and the consideration of issues of personal tourist? The course explores the importance choice and values in the critical evaluation of travel to discovery of oneself and others. of patterns of risk-taking behavior, Through readings students go behind the assessment, and management. Husic scenes at Disneyland and other popular destinations to consider how these places shape the experiences of visitors and how, FYS 021 Masculinities: Maleness in in turn, they respond to tourists’ Contemporary American Culture expectations. What does it mean to be a man, manly, Niles masculine? Do gender and race condition the way people view masculinity? In FYS 014 Individualism in American journals, essays, and group presentations, Culture, Character, and Society students analyze a variety of texts—from The term “individualism” has long been ads, cartoons, and essays in popular used to describe one of the distinctive magazines to scholarly studies by qualities of Americans and of American sociologists and biologists. Byrd, Martin, Washington culture. Using Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America (1840) as the starting point, this colloquium FYS 023 Baseball: The One Constant systematically examines expressions of through All the Years individualism in American life, past and Why is baseball the "American pastime"? present. What is it about baseball that fascinates Schneiderman millions around the world? This seminar explores the game by examining the role of FYS 015 The Folktale in Society: From statistics on decision making, in-game Beauty and the Beast to Big Foot managerial strategy and economics as well Fairy tales are often thought of as amusing as investigating the historical significance of reading for children, but to folklorists, such baseball. Students examine baseball through stories are serious business. In this seminar, various writings, films, game attendance, students explore the importance of studying and game simulations in which they manage fairy tales in such disciplines as their own teams. Critical thinking skills are anthropology, religion, literature, and emphasized in the context of baseball. Nataro psychology. The development of fairy tales is traced from the European oral tradition to their modern expression in Disney stories, horror films, and supermarket tabloids. 38

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FYS 024 Human Aggression and Social FYS 028 Windows and Mirrors: Through Pathology the Perceptions of Artists This seminar studies general theoretical This course focuses on the visual arts, models for human aggression including music, and theater as vehicles of perception those that suggest instinctual or genetic and knowledge. Performances and gallery bases for aggression and those that propose exhibitions at the Williams Center for the learning and observation. Students analyze Arts provide much of the framework for the specific forms of human aggression— course syllabus, and visiting artists are athletics, sexual aggression, television, available for classes, workshops, and wars, and social upheavals—and suggest discussions with students. Typical solutions. The course uses original sources performances are by the Juilliard String as well as novels, short stories, essays, Quartet, the dance company Urban Bush films, news magazines, and newspapers. Women, Charlie Haden’s jazz group Childs Liberation Music Orchestra, and actors from the London stage. FYS 025 The American College Student Finger This seminar examines the nature of the college student in America, in conjunction FYS 029 Mind Benders, Ways of Knowing, with the U.S. system of higher education. It or a Course in Paradigms includes a historical overview of higher Have you ever experienced a flash of insight education in America; the impact of college when all of a sudden something that was on students; students’ psychosocial, confusing becomes blindingly clear? Some cognitive, ethical, and career development; call this the Eureka Phenomenon; some and an examination of student cultures and conversion. These flashes liberate people subcultures. Special attention is given to from previous assumptions and lead to research on college student characteristics, revolutionary discoveries. This seminar attitudes, and values. discusses how shifting paradigms— Krivoski, Worthen assumptions about how the world works—

create new concepts, views, and ideas (often FYS 026 Abortion, Morality, and the Law viewed initially as dangerous or heretical). At the core of the abortion controversy Readings focus on patterns of inquiry in reside two fundamental and related issues. science, history, literature, psychology, and The first concerns the moral and legal status gender. of the fetus—that is, whether human fetuses Donahue, Westfall are persons possessing legal and moral rights. The second concerns the relationship FYS 030 Vision: “It’s as plain as the nose between the moral and legal rights of on your face,”or Is It? pregnant women and the permissibility of This seminar investigates the way that abortion. This seminar provides a critical seeing affects every aspect of people’s lives. examination of these and related issues. Vision provides essential information and Panichas deceives. While the visual arts form the core

of the course, the use of images in science, FYS 027 Life, Liberty, and Equality: politics, computer technology, advertising Contemporary Political Controversies and business, movies, and television is Controversies surrounding political and explored. Projects and demonstrations take moral issues continue to dominate place around campus, and field trips are contemporary public debate and influence taken. the development of policy. In this seminar, Mattison students explore and evaluate the many sides of current battles over issues relating FYS 032 “Who Am I and Why Am I Here?” to life, liberty, and equality, in particular, This seminar examines the ways in which debates involving such issues as abortion, young adults have tried to answer some of euthanasia, the death penalty, pornography, life’s most challenging questions. What is drug testing, affirmative action, and sexual the meaning of life? What brings preference. fulfillment? How do you present yourselves Silverstein to the world? To what extent are you

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FYS 033 Wild Imaginings: The Creative FYS 038 Developing Countries: A Process Historical Perspective and Technological An introduction to the verbal art of Issues imaginative extremists through a close study Developing countries face formidable of literature that subverts conventions of problems in issues related to environment, logic and tests the boundaries between land use, infrastructure, and the integration fantasy and reality. Among the authors of technology. For students to gain an considered are Lewis Carroll, Manuel Puig, understanding of the magnitude and and Russell Edson. Students analyze the complexity of these problems, the course literature and, when appropriate, drafts, reviews the history of developing countries letters, and diary entries that illuminate the and then focuses on two specific cultures: writing processes of authors. the Maasi tribe of Africa and the Maya Upton Indians of Central America. Specific issues

are investigated in two case studies: Kenya FYS 035 Technology and Society: The and Honduras. Energy Problem Ruggles This seminar explores sources and uses of energy in a technical society. Issues FYS 040 Geological Disasters: Agents of regarding fossil fuels, nuclear energy, solar Chaos energy, and alternative sources of energy Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, are investigated. Conservation of energy and hurricanes, floods, and tsunamis are all part the storage of energy are discussed. Energy of the geological evolution of the earth. uses for plant and food production, Humans are increasingly exposed to the transportation, industrial output, leisure often severe consequences of the violence of activities, and the national defense are nature. This seminar examines these reviewed. Finally, the use of energy is processes from both technical and personal examined in the context of atmospheric perspectives to understand why they occur pollution, radiation, noise, and nuclear and how human activity has interfered with weapons. natural processes, perhaps making many Hornfeck parts of the planet more disaster prone.

Malinconico FYS 036 The Social System of Planet Earth History recounts a small sample of FYS 041 Medicines, Perfumes, and humanity’s story. People form an Chemicals from Nature understanding of the Earth’s social system The plant and animal kingdoms provide from knowledge of a few people, places, humankind with a startling variety of and times. Through photographs, writings, complex organic molecules. This course and visits, this seminar studies structures as examines the various medicines, dyes, records of human societies. Although flavors, and fragrances obtained from interesting in their own right, these nature. Related topics such as biodiversity, structures are studied for what they tell us chemical ecology, and herbal medicine are about the economic and political systems also discussed. that created them. Miles Heavey

FYS 042 What Happened to “Progress”?: FYS 037 The Human Animal Changing Perspectives on Science, Some believe that humans, once having Engineering, and Technology evolved culture, were freed from the Western attitudes toward science, tyranny of their biology. Others believe that engineering, and technology have evolved humans are subject, at least in part, to the over the past 200 years. The processes of same biological forces that govern animals. discovery and invention that were once The free-will vs. biological determinism novel have become routine. Society’s argument continues to rage among thinking perspective on the impact of science and people of all disciplines. This seminar technology has become more complex as examines the issue from the evolutionary knowledge has increased. Expectations for biologist’s point of view using E. O. the future have darkened as unexpected side 40

FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR effects have been discovered. This seminar FYS 047 Challenging Differences, examines the changing role of science, Discovering the Possibilities of Community engineering, and technology from the The world is increasingly fractured by nineteenth through the twentieth centuries. differences—of race and class, for Seeler example—and is characterized by

individualism. In such a world, what kind of FYS 043 Charisma community is possible? How is community Charisma, meaning "gift of grace," denotes created and sustained? How do communities a deeply personal, yet anti-institutional type deal with diversity and balance individual of authority, shared by certain cult leaders interests with those of the group? What and revolutionaries, religious visionaries benefits and responsibilities come with and political prophets, antinomians and community? Students consider community avant garde artists. There is also the through readings, class discussions, films, charisma of place and thing, from sacred and writing and library assignments. shrines and objects, to famous art works and Corequisite: Two hours a week of local national monuments. The course will community service explore the meaning of charisma, with case Miller studies in enthusiastic religion, political revolution, and antinomian avant garde art FYS 048 Biodiversity movements. The abundance of plant and animal species Schneiderman present in different environments is rapidly

declining due to the effects of human FYS 044 Technological Solutions for population increases, particularly since the Environmental Problems beginning of the industrial revolution. This This seminar addresses the impact of seminar investigates the factors causing the industrial development on the environment. loss, or extinction, of species and discusses Pollutants are reviewed, and different possible solutions. Social and economic treatment and control methods are forces that work against the maintenance of examined. The limitations of present species diversity and the “worth” to remedial technologies are explained, and humanity of these rich environments are ongoing research to alleviate such explored. shortcomings is explored. Topics include Holliday acid rain, global warming, photochemical smog, radioactive waste, landfilling, FYS 051 Toward Cultural Literacy: De- incineration, recycling, and energy mystifying the Non-Western World recovery. The course includes group This seminar engages students in an projects and class presentation, laboratory, exploration of important cultural traditions and a plant trip. outside of the European-American sphere. Tavakoli Through discussions of readings, films, and

examples from the visual and performing FYS 045 Gothic Imagination in Folklore, arts, students investigate customs and rituals Fiction, and Film in selected regions of Africa, India, China, The Gothic imagination is populated by the Japan, Korea, and Indonesia. Through unquiet, the undead, the unholy, and it feeds individual projects and presentation, on blood, dread, death. It relishes deviance, indigenous cultural data are applied to degeneracy, demoralization. Characterized contemporary issues relevant to becoming in this way, the Gothic sensibility has informed citizens of the world. traditionally been disparaged as immature, Stockton immoderate, soap-operatic. More recently, critics have found in its recesses and FYS 052 The Great Late Soviet Union excesses a unique power to elucidate and Internationally, one of the most dramatic emancipate. This seminar examines the events of the last decade was the dissolution power of the Gothic imagination as it of the Soviet Union. This seminar animates selected folk, fictional, and film familiarizes students through lectures, narratives. discussions, readings, and videotapes with Truten the history, culture, and problems of the

former Soviet Union. The seminar also analyzes the situation of today’s Russia and its relationship to its neighbors. Pribic

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FYS 053 Overcoming the Wall: German in stereotypical thinking and ask whether Unification and Its Aftermath and how it can be transcended. Unification has involved economic and Cohn social hardships for both the former East and West Germans. The people have FYS 058 Icons: Art, Magic, Ritual, and demonstrated their discontent in elections. Technology Chancellor Kohl’s CDU/CSU party lost at This seminar examines the power of images the polls. The new right-wing Republican in different historical periods and diverse party is gaining momentum. Extremist cultures. What is it about icons that make movements, such as the Neo-Nazis, people cry, pray, and believe? While the terrorize foreign workers and asylum development, meaning, and impact of icons seekers. This seminar explores such in general is the topic of lectures, students contemporary issues through texts and class have the opportunity to study a wide range discussions, group projects, and field trips. of popular images— from favorite stars, Lamb-Faffelberger such as Madonna and Elvis, and computer- designed images, to Egyptian pyramids and FYS 054 The Revolutionary Vision: Europe Greek temples. 1642-1991 Sinkevic

This seminar provides a broad overview of European revolutionary thought and its FYS 060 The Real World: The Challenge of history and of the history of European Managing Change in the Business revolutionary movements from the outbreak Environment of the English civil war in 1642 through the This seminar introduces students to the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. dramatic and constantly changing business History, literature, philosophy, art, and film environment. Topics include those that have are used to illuminate the nature of impacted, and will continue to impact, all European revolutionary ideologies and forms of business organization operating in investigate the social, political, and cultural a competitive environment such as the role circumstances that engendered them. of changing technology, impact of corporate Rosa downsizing, demographic and social trends, business ethics and social responsibility, and FYS 056 Crisis of Culture in the Making of changes in the United States business the Modern German Nation environment from manufacturing to This seminar traces political, economic, services-based and from large corporations social, cultural, and military developments to the rising importance of small businesses. in German history. Select factors are Bukics identified that have made Germany’s achievement of nationhood different from FYS 062 Essentials for Multicultural that of other major European nations. Competence Beginning with the political influence of the This seminar explores three essential French revolution, the course highlights aspects of gaining multicultural recurring conflicts affecting Germany’s competence: awareness, knowledge, and struggle to become a nation while skills. Through lectures, students have an suggesting links between German cultural opportunity to increase their knowledge forces and the role that the unified nation about biopsychosocial roots of "isms" (e.g., played in the twentieth century. racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism, and McDonald ableism). Class discussions, exercises, and cocurricular events create a variety of FYS 057 Images of the Other: Stereotypes opportunities to experience growth in and Their Consequences multicultural self-awareness and skills. This seminar identifies and analyzes some Silvestri of the group stereotypes alive in contemporary culture and traces their FYS 063 Jazz Issues origins. It explores images of “the Other” This course explores important sociological that people construct based upon gender, and musical issues in jazz. Topics include racial, ethnic, and religious differences and African social and musical infulences on examines their causes, functions, and jazz, the legacy of slavery, early combo consequences. In the process, students jazz, big bands, bebop, protest music, become more aware of their own complicity women in jazz, and racism in America and its effect on jazz. Emphasis is on reading, 42

FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR writing, developing listening skills, FYS 068 Jewish Humor discussion, and individual and group This course examines Jewish humor within presentations. Videos and live performance the context of theories of humor and the are incorporated into the course. comedic and as a window to Jewish culture. Wilkins It explores examples of Jewish humor past

and present in literature, film, television, FYS 065 The Uses and Abuses of Science skits, stand-up comics, cartoons, and jokes. in Science Fiction It considers questions such as: What makes In their novels, science fiction writers us laugh? What is distinctively Jewish about incorporate many ideas from cutting-edge Jewish humor? How does American Jewish science, some imaginative and insightful, humor differ from older European Jewish others blatantly at odds with established humor and contemporary Israeli humor? Do scientific principles. Students critically you need to be Jewish to "get" it? How is examine applications of science in the Jewish humor like and unlike other ethnic, novels of Robert L. Forward and Arthur C. religious, or minority humor? How do Clarke, among others. Readings from the stereotypes and self-deprecation figure in novels are interspersed with readings from the humorous? How did humor function as a books such as The Physics of Star Trek, by coping and survival mechanism in the Lawrence Krauss, which explain the Holocaust? relevant science in terms accessible to non- Cohn scientists. Hoffman FYS 069 Monuments This seminar examines five major FYS 066 How Is Greatness Possible? monuments of western architecture: the Alexis de Tocqueville summed up the pyramids of Giza, the Parthenon, Chartres problem of greatness in democracies as Cathedral, the Brunelleschi Dome of follows: “ambitious men in democracies are Florence Cathedral, and the Empire State less engrossed than any others with the Building. Each is examined in its historical, interests and the judgment of cultural, and technological context through posterity…they care much more for success contemporary and modern sources and, for than for fame.” What he called fame might Chartres and Brunelleschi’s Dome, well be called greatness. Starting from the computer analysis of structure. A field trip Kantian premise that greatness is possible to New York, visits to Special Collections in only because human values make it Skillman Library to examine the Egyptian possible, this course examines the various papyrus and medieval manuscript pages, social, psychological, historical, and guest speakers from the faculty, and student philosophical requisites for greatness and presentations enrich the course. failure on a grand scale in democracies as Sinkevic, Ahl well as in other forms of society. Schneiderman FYS 071 Race and Class Are race and class inseparable? Does a FYS 067 Simple Rules and Complex consideration of either term inevitably lead Behavior to a discussion of the other? How do these Scientists seek to explain the complex arguably overlapping categories determine nature of the world with simple rules that the way that people think of and define sometimes take the form of fundamental themselves? These questions are addressed principles covering a vast array of diverse in discussions of race and class in literature, phenomena. For example, simple models popular culture, current events, and daily have been used to relate the behavior of life. avalanches, weather, earthquakes, fire Washington storms, and erosion. Similar attempts have been made to understand the nature of the FYS 072 Power, Principle, and Personality evolution of biological species at all levels in American Leadership and to evaluate various strategies of This seminar explores, through biographies, survival. The course explores these the roles of political principle and public approaches and evaluates their successes, personality in the rise to power and use of failures, and lessons to be learned. power by presidents, governors, and Novaco mayors, such as Washington, Lincoln, Nixon, and others. Of special interest is the interactions of image and substance in the 43

FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR exercise of democratic power. Students FYS 079 The Cactus Throne: The Changing write a biography of a living leader through Image of Mexico and Its People personal interviews and documentary Recent events, such as the adoption of research based on insights from the bio- NAFTA and political turmoil in Chiapas, graphical readings. have refocused U.S. attention on Mexico. Kincaid This course explores the internal and

external influences that have shaped the FYS 073 Technology and the City: Chicago character of the Mexican nation and its and New York people. Topics explored include Mexico’s This course examines the role that industiral evolving global image, its alternating technology played in the rise of the two successes and failures at self-government, great American cities--Chicago and New its cultural achievements, and its York. It centers on Chicago and uses New multidimensional interactions with its giant York further to illuminate technology's northern neighbor. influence on the city building process and Shupp the role that cities played in making America a technological wonder and the FYS 080 The Economic and Social greatest industrial power on earth by 1900. Consequences of Globalization The course will be taught from an Globalization is the integration of world interdisciplinary perspective and with the economies and cultures. Over the past aim of relating history to our own day and decade, this process of integration has to our own lives. accelerated. Does increased globalization D. Miller mean greater economic efficiency and

increased material wealth or does it mean a FYS 074 Questers of Extremes growing gap between rich nations and poor After considering a tradition in classical nations and increased environmental Greek and Roman thought that extolled the damage? This course looks at the evolution value of moderation in thought and of globalization and its consequences for behavior, this seminar examines a set of economic welfare, culture, and the texts by or concerning questers of environment. extremes—figures who distinguished Gamber themselves through their pursuit of immoderate, transcendent ends. Particular FYS 081 Highs and Lows: Reading Culture questers include, but are not limited to, an Why do you know you should read ancient conqueror (Alexander the Great), a Shakespeare, but you prefer watching medieval saint (Joan of Arc), a modern Seinfeld? What is taste? What is judgment? novelist (Yukio Mishima), and a What is quality? This seminar begins by contemporary young adventurer (Chris trying to define the differences (if, indeed, McCandless). there are any) between high culture and Ziolkowski popular culture. Students look at culture as a

historical construct, examining how FYS 076 Land of Mystery: The Language different societies have determined the and Culture of Modern China value and prestige of artifacts and ideas, as Though China is the world's most populous well as examining how they, as nation, a military superpower, and an contemporary Americans, classify written increasingly dominant presence in and visual texts as “high” or “low.” international commerce, Westerners often Donahue, Westfall view the Chinese and their rich heritage as inscrutable. In this seminar, cultural FYS 082 Reason and Folly practices and values of modern China are Throughout the history of Western culture, examined through the eyes of traditional folly has been represented as a challenge to society and the "ancient Chinese proverbs." the cognitive capacities of rational thinking. As an integral part of this experience, As such, it has been the object of fear, students learn the rudiments of Chinese fascination, mockery, praise, and ultimately pronunciation and acquire a basic Chinese institutional confinement. This course vocabulary. examines the religious, moral, medical, and Yu aesthetic assumptions that underlie such

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Duhl constructs evil as the ultimate form of alienation—as sickness, as secular FYS 085 The Arts and the Environment immorality, as political opposition, and as This seminar combines poetry, music, religious perversion. architecture, the visual arts, and landscape Donahue, Tiernan and Westfall theory with environmental engineering, geology, environmental law, and public FYS 090 Life Writing policy. Core readings include classic works This seminar explores the art and craft of on environmental reflection—Thoreau, biography and autobiography. In journals, Emerson, the Romantic poets, the creative essays, and class presentations, students writings of Asia (particularly Haiku)—as contribute to the seminar’s investigation of well as contemporary writings, Wendell the reasons for examining a life, of the Berry and Wallace Stegner essays, John stories that come from the inquiry, and of McPhee’s account of the earth histories one the effects of such stories on readers. can “read” by walking through the Delaware Readings are from biographies, Water Gap, and Suzuki’s writings on zen autobiographies, journals, diaries, and and the Japanese arts. letters—which serve as models and primary Finger materials for each student’s project in life writing. FYS 086 The Economic Philosophy of Ayn Johnson Rand This seminar studies the economic FYS 093 Engineers of Dreams: Builders of philosophy of private property rights, Flying Machines, Automobiles, and Bridges focusing on some of the fiction of Ayn Rand This seminar focuses on notions of (e.g., Anthem and The Fountainhead). The invention and discovery in several primary purpose is to develop critical disciplines of engineering and examines thinking skills and improved abilities to flying, flying machines and their communicate. The course explores issues development, automobiles and their impact such as 1) economic philosophy, 2) on society and the environment, and bridges intellectual and other private property rights, as structures dreamed of and built by and 3) the importance of the individual engineers. relative to society. Ulucakli Chambers FYS 097 Latinos, Latinas, and the U.S FYS 087 Distant Mirrors, Performing This seminar focuses on diverse literary Selves expressions of the Latino/a experience in the Traditional performance has defined the U.S., especially from Mexican- and individual self as a mirror of the community Caribbean-American writers. The that creates and participates in a theater representations of Latinos/as in these event. Has the theatricalization of everyday readings is contrasted with those in popular life through television, advertising, and the cultural texts, such as TV and film, in order Internet changed this? Or is the mirror just to highlight the diversity of cultural more high-tech? Students seek answers to identities and practices among Latino/a these questions by examining the origins of communities. Students also gain a better theater in late medieval Europe and test understanding of how Latinos/as use writing assumptions by creating an actual as a means of “inventing” themselves. communal performance in which all Donnell seminar participants take part. O'Neill FYS 098 Political Humor: Solvent and Safety Valve of Civic Discourse FYS 088 Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Political humor is “serious” business. It Know: The Appeal of Evil in Western deflates the windbag, defiles the true Culture believer, and decries the unjust. Yet humor Evil has been seductive since the Serpent humanizes with its extraordinary integration “invaded” the Garden. In readings ranging of sharpness and lightness. The seminar from the Bible to gansta rap, this seminar perspective is broad—the human condition considers four paradigms of evil: in community—and interdisciplinary, theological, philosophical, psychological, including attention to humanistic and social and political. Students define their own scientific insights. Significant use is made concepts of evil and discuss how culture of primary sources of political humor from 45

FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR diverse eras, media, and genres. counterintuitive results. We explore some of Seminarians produce and not merely the infinite and the related mathematical consume political humor. developments that have been called "the Lennertz greatest achievements of purely rational human activity." FYS 099 Satan, Devils, Demons, and the Hill Other Is Barney the Dinosaur really Satan? Are FYS 105 Evolution: Cosmology, Biology, devil worshippers sacrificing young and You women? This seminar examines cases in The universe is 12 to 15 billion years old; which particular groups of people have been the Earth is 4.5 billion years old; identified as a source of evil, e.g. Jews in multicellular life has existed on Earth for medieval Europe, Satanists and New Agers 500 million years. How can we know in twentieth-century America, America as anything about times long before any the “Great Satan.” Under what written record of history? History is circumstances are certain groups likely to be entwined with scientific understanding of deemed evil? What are the dynamics and the present. This seminar examines theories consequences of attributing evil to particular of the evolution of the universe and of life groups of people? on Earth focusing on challenging and Rinehart supporting evidence. Stark FYS 102 On Cooking, Culture, and Cinema This seminar uses representations of food in FYS 107 Innovation of Warfare visual and print media as a vehicle for Advances in military technology, their exploring U.S. and world cultures, how application in weapon systems, and the different people live, and cooking and development of tactics that employ them, eating as intimate reflections of cultural are strongly influenced by military identity. Analysis of this topic involves traditions, politics. and societal values. critical oral and written reflection on a Innovation in tactical airpower in the Pacific variety of readings (recipes and cookbooks, Theater of World War II was of particular newspaper reviews, and novels) and visual importance as it became the determining representations (television cooking shows, factor there. film, and live demonstrations). Selection, Van Gulick preparation, and sampling of diverse foods are also required. FYS 108 The Art of Letter Writing Geoffrion-Vinci This course investigates letter writing in all of its manifestations, from the traditional FYS 103 The Problem of Peace in the penned letter to the formal business Modern World document, from editorial commentary to This course examines the ways that citizens email messages. Readings include epistolary and politicians worldwide have addressed fiction (letter novels) from different eras and the "problem of peace" in the modern era. It countries, as well as excerpts from authentic asks some basic questions: When is war correspondence of illustrious political or justified? Is peace best pursued through literary figures. A selection of film political institutions or moral campaigns? Is adaptations of epistolary novels are also peace simply the absence of war or featured. something more substantive? The links (and Lalande tensions) between peace movements and other movements, like those for national FYS 110. E Pluribus Unum: The European liberation, womens rights, and civil rights, Union and the Surrender of Sovereignty are also explored. After a long history of fragmentation, Sanborn conflict, and pessimism, Europe has come to embrace a new era of mutual trust, FYS 104 Encounters with Infinity optimism, and self-confidence, with Infinity and the infinite have occupied the European Union countries ceding long- thoughts and inspired the imaginations of cherished sovereignty to a supra-national artists, philosophers, scientists, and body, launching a common currency, and mathematicians for centuries, and the reaching out to integrate the new history of the study of the infinite is democracies of Eastern and Central Europe. permeated with paradoxes and Through readings, films, discussion, and 46

FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR writing, students are engaged in an FYS 118 Fear exploration of the factors that were central Fear is a pervasive aspect of society. Since to this transformation from nation-state to the events of 9/11, issues surrounding fear, "United Europe" and of the challenges the terror, and personal and national security EU faces in redefining its own borders and have become nightly news as well as the methods of governance. foundation for a new national policy. TV Schumacher shows with fear-based plot features have

proliferated. This seminar takes an FYS 113 Womens Coming-of-Age interdisciplinary approach to the Narratives: A Multicultural Exploration understanding of fear as a primary emotion Many coming-of-age narratives have been and as an influence in society. Through considered masterpieces of literature. discussion, reading, writing, presentation, However, most of these stories have been and other assignments, students examine about boys becoming men. (For example, fear critically from scientific and Catcher in the Rye, A Separate Peace, sociological perspectives. Huckleberry Finn, and Invisible Man.) Reynolds Young girls face very different challenges and expectations as they grow to become FYS 119 Great Breakthroughs women. The course examines coming-of- What are the greatest scientific or age stories by women from a variety of technological breakthroughs of human backgrounds, countries, and eras to begin to history? Students answer this question by understand the forces being exerted on girls learning and applying the scientific in order for them to become women in their principles, the ingenuity, the technological societies. Students examine the universal in and social context, and the repercussions of a womans experience of coming of age. many great breakthroughs. The theme of the McMahon course is the debate and comparison of inventions, concepts, and innovators of FYS 115 Predicting Human Behavior: The different eras, from the dawn of recorded Science and Culture of Testing history to the present, from the printing Tests are often used to predict behavior, but press to YouTube, from the ballista to the what can they really tell us? From early atomic bomb. attempts like phrenology to more current Kurtz predictive and diagnostic methods such as personality measures (e.g., the Rorschach FYS 121 Election Rhetoric inkblot test), cognitive ability tests, SATs, Access to the American political system is and employee selection tests, assessment not fully realized until citizens learn to has been a controversial subject. The course make critical inquiries into candidates' explores examples of tests used in their positions. But political rhetoric does not historical and cultural context. Students take make full access easy. This course looks to a hands-on approach to test construction, equip students with the rhetorical know-how administration, interpretation, and to analyze and critique the language of evaluation. political campaigns. By paying close Vinchur attention to how candidates phrase responses, frame issues, and define FYS 117 Fact or Fiction: Authenticity and themselves and each other, students learn the Artifact how language can be used to divide and Are “artifacts” art or facts? Why is a unite. museum display of a Neolithic village more Donahue convincing than Bedrock in the Flintstones? If both are imaginary depictions, then what FYS 123 Elvis Everywhere constitutes authenticity in our culture? After Elvis may have left the building, but he has examining many world civilizations, not left popular culture. In some form or students will design, fabricate, and write another, Elvis transcends topics ranging about objects that appear to be credible from art and film to Elvis as a religious artifacts from an ancient culture. These will icon. This tutorial examines how Elvis be exhibited as an archeological collection discourses function within popular culture in The Williams Center Gallery and (investigating topics such as race, art, and “authenticated” in a published catalogue. religion) and examines how these and other Noble aspects of Elvis culture relate to the broader context of American popular culture. 47

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Torres FYS 130 Fabulous Fictions: Fairy Tales and

the Modern World FYS 124 Meaning and Morality in Fiction The demands of mass marketing and Have you ever been captivated by a book or entertainment have tamed once socially movie? This seminar explores the complex responsible and politically aware folk and nature of enjoyment of fiction, including fairy tales. Using a historical approach, this such paradoxes as being moved by fictional seminar explores traditional and entities we do not even believe to exist and contemporary adaptations of these genres to deriving pleasure from fiction that scares or better understand the critical reflection, saddens us. Students compare their ethical interrogation and political engagement with fiction to childhood games examination elicited by fairy tale texts. of make-believe, and ask whether a work's Selections include works by the Brothers moral failings are grounds for condemning Grimm, Shakespeare, Alice Munro, Peter its aesthetic value. Cashorali, and filmmaker M. Night Gilligan Shyamalan.

I. Smith FYS 127 Invisible Hand This seminar examines the benefits and FYS 131 Order and Justice in the World costs of free market capitalism. Students Community: The Resolution of National explore the mechanics of free market Disputes capitalism (how the invisible hand works) This seminar takes a comparative approach and the cultural underpinnings of free to explore how different societies deal with market capitalism. In addition, they examine internal conflicts resulting from religious, traditional as well as recent critiques of free linguistic, racial, or other divisions. By market capitalism. Finally, they look at the identifying several prominent conflicts and success and failure of government policy analyzing ways to solve them—through aimed at addressing some of the power sharing (e.g. Belgium), federalism shortcomings of free market capitalism. (e.g. Canada), minority recognition (e.g. Gamber Spain), etc.—we explore the goals of solutions, particularly in terms of justice and FYS 128 Germany's Third Reich order. Some of the most tragic events in human Peleg history took place during the Third Reich in Germany (1933-45). This seminar takes a FYS 134 "Dont Fear the Reaper": Living closer look at the events and policies that and Dying in America caused the creation of the Hitler dictatorship. It also analyzes the Nazi The main goal of this course is to acquaint regime with special attention given to the students with the ways in which Americans Holocaust and the Second World War. view and react to the whole subject of death. Pribic Reading assignments focus on the psychosocial, theological, and aesthetic FYS 129 War Stories ways in which people deal with death and Through the analysis of firsthand other forms of loss. This course especially nonfictional or autobiographical accounts of challenges students to reflect on the ways war, students will gain a better (some surprising!) in which people process understanding of the physical, different types of loss, both personally and psychological, and emotional impact that culturally. Students should be prepared to war has on both combatants and discuss subjects relating to death openly and noncombatants. Course materials, which honestly. Colatch include letters, diaries, interviews, narratives, and novels, are drawn from a FYS 135 Entrepreneurial Environment: wide variety of wars and emphasize the experiences of individuals of different Exploring Innovation, Risk and Value nationalities, classes, religions, races, and This course explores the entrepreneurial genders. environment of business: Are entrepreneurs DeVault born or made? What cultural and economic factors support the high rate of enterprise creation? How has American history been influenced by the creation and development of business ideas? Course materials include case histories as well as readings from 48

FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR historical, cultural, philosophical, and intrusions into their possessions and homes economic perspectives. Students will learn but also from governmental interference from entrepreneurs and organizations that with personal decisions on matters such as support entrepreneurship through site visits. the gender of sexual partners and whether to Bukics terminate a pregnancy. This seminar addresses fundamental questions regarding FYS 137 Unity of the Sciences and Ethical this right including what privacy is, why Consequences privacy is valuable, and whether and to what This course studies the conceptual unity of extent privacy ought to be legally protected. the physical sciences, giving an overall Panichas sketch from the physics of atoms and molecules to biochemistry and into the more FYS 141 Social Justice through Quantitative speculative realm of the mind. Is there really Literacy any underlying unity across this wide Alexander Hamilton said, "The first duty of spectrum of knowledge? And if so, what society is justice." Today there is vociferous would be the consequences for the argument about the prevalence of justice. To humanistic aspects of knowledge involving what degree is society just? Are there our culture and ethics? This seminar will practical ways to make it more just? This compare different approaches to this course considers the importance of conceptual unity and discuss their strengths understanding data and applying and weaknesses. mathematics to ask these questions and to Haug explore meaningful answers. Using mathematics that everybody is taught, we’ll FYS 138 Politics and Performance: Theatre try to make sense out of conflicting and Social Change opinions, so as to discover the importance of For thousands of years, the theatre has both quantitative literacy for all citizens in a entertained and provided a forum in which democracy. social issues can be explored. This seminar Root will investigate, through readings and performances, how theatre provides an FYS 142 Taking It to the Streets: The immediate and strong voice to debate social Theory and Practice of Community Arts in and political problems. Students will have Urban America opportunities, through writing, discussion, What role does community arts play in and theatrical performance, to explore social helping people articulate their identity? and political issues and the ways in which Whose voices inspire artistic expression? dramatic works can inspire social change. Students investigate social movements, Lodge specifically how community arts began and

evolved in urban America. Student teams FYS 139 Race, Gender, and Social Issues in design a project for children and youth that Public Policy will be implemented through the Kids in This course explores how issues of race, Community (KIC) after-school program. No gender, and social class permeate everyday artistic experience necessary. life and how they are addressed in American Corequisite: Two hours a week of local law and public policy. Using sources from community service. many disciplines including economics, law, Winfield and sociology, students explore issues of racial and ethnic identification, the role of FYS 144 Science: A Human Endeavor race and gender in determining social class, How do scientists approach problems? Do and changes in the racial and ethnic mix of social, cultural, and political factors the U.S. population. Particular attention is influence their work? How has science given to how race, gender, and ethnicity changed the cultural norms of society? This determine social class and how public seminar explores the world of science and policy both shapes social class differences medicine through the biographies and and works to mitigate them. writings of Peter Medawar, James Watson, Averett Rosalind Franklin, Trofim Lysenko, Lewis Thomas, and others. FYS 140 The Right to Privacy Miles The Supreme Court has affirmed a fundamental right to privacy that protects citizens not only from governmental 49

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FYS 145 Quilts: Fabric that Communicates examines the legal, ethical, and financial Beginning with the history of quilting and ramifications of these questions. its impact on American folk art, this course Germanoski covers how quilts have been used as a means of expression and communication. FYS 151 In the Media The multimedia class offers hands-on Newspaper articles, movies, and television quilting education, guest speakers, and programs inform, transport, and entertain. In films. The class explores color theory and this course, nonfiction and fictional stories fabric patterns, styles of quilts, quilts in provide a starting point from which to different cultures, and quilts in lieterature. explore theoretical concepts about decision- This class will test your artistic ability while making. Documentaries often lay out simultaneously challenging your intellectual ethical, leadership, business, or government senses. controversies, but these issues arise in Piergiovanni fictional work as well, such as the movie "Seabiscuit." Students use various media FYS 146 Paradoxes products as the starting point for discussion Paradoxical statements are heard every day. ethical standards and normative claims. Some are logically unsound; others are Crain surprisingly true. How can the two be distinguished? In this seminar, students FYS 152 Problem-Solving Techniques examine some paradoxes that are important Throughout history, people have confronted rhetorical devices (yet lack significance) difficult problems, and devised —or and others that have proved formative in the stumbled upon—solutions. For example, development of certain bodies of knowledge problems in the development of the Polaris (Arrows theorem, the paradoxes of Galileo, submarine led to a widely used scheduling Simpson, and Zeno, and the cause/effect technique. Students examine a variety of paradoxes of quantum mechanics, for techniques for solving problems. The instance). Oral presentations are techniques include articulating the problem, fundamental to the student-centered class analyzing assumptions, formulating models, structure. and (where appropriate) developing Traldi algorithms. Collins

FYS 147 A War within a War: The American Bombing Campaigns against Nazi FYS 153 Nanotechnology: Less Really is Germany and Imperial Japan More What is the impact of warfare on the human Proponents of nanotechnology claim it will condition? Students engage this question ease world hunger, revolutionize health through works of history, fiction, and film care, and provide virtually unlimited clean about the massive American bomber energy. Imagine materials 100 times campaign against Germany and Japan in stronger than steel, computers one billionth World War II. They examine the military the size of a laptop, and nanomachines impact of strategic bombing, its morality, implanted into your body to modify your and the appalling costs, both mental and DNA, enhance your senses, and improve physical, inflicted on its victims—both the your ability to process complex information. non-combatants who were bombed and the In this course we review the science behind young air crews who did the bombing. nanotechnology, discuss its applications, Miller and explore the ethical and economic implications of this emerging technology. FYS 149 Living with a Serial Killer: Life on Schaffer

Planet Earth Floods, hurricanes, landslides, earthquakes, FYS 154 Nanotechnology and Modern tsunamis...the planet has a full arsenal of Society weapons with which to kill you. Worse yet, This course will develop the language and this killer doesn’t profile its victims; we’re introductory scientific basis of all potential targets. During the 20th century nanotechnology, which will provide the millions of people lost their lives to natural technological foundation for discussions of disasters. Can we do anything about these ethical and societal issues related to various hazards? Should we manipulate earth uses of nanotechnology. Such discussions systems and natural processes? Can we are necessary if we as a scoiety are to better make matters worse? This seminar address such issues that have already arisen 50

FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR and others that will no doubt arise in the revolutions in Eastern Europe, the power of future. music in the anti-apartheid movement in Ferri South Africa, as well as the personal testimonies of individuals and various FYS 155 Asian Immigration and groups pursuing nonviolent change in the Assimilation into America Lehigh Valley, this course explores the This course will explore the history and principles of nonviolence in action. issues involved in the immigration and Fabian assimilation of various Asian ethnic groups into the United States and American culture. FYS 159 In the Best Interests of the Students will read and view textual, video, Children and audio material to determine how a large Every day, parents, educators, doctors, and and diverse group of people have government officials make decisions "in the experienced American culture and beliefs best interests of the children." Competing and how they have adapted. The students views of the relative importance of "nature" will also learn how issues such as age, and "nurture" frequently influence these ethnicity, gender and religion have affected decisions. Recent advances in neuroscience, how these immigrants have perceived developmental biology, and genetics have American culture and society and vice dramatically changed this ancient debate, versa. but not its importance. In this course, we Liew will explore this issue and its place in parental decision-making and public policy FYS 156 Narratives of Mental Illness choices in child welfare. Obsessive-compulsive disorder, Tourettes Pinto syndrome, depression, eating disorders— this seminar introduces students to a wide FYS 160 Faith and Good Works range of texts (memoirs and first-person Volunteering, we are told, is honorable, be it narratives, films, painting, and medical and in a homeless shelter or tutoring philosophical treatises) that focus on the disadvantaged children. Why then, would experience of living with mental illness. volunteering when inspired by religious Particular attention is paid to the style and faith, become a hotly contested political form of textual representations of issue? This seminar will examine the history pyschological disorders, as well as to the of faith-based activism and how it has cultural and philosophical questions such fueled a national debate. Students will texts raise about the very category of conduct case studies of local organizations "mental illness." to gain a critical understanding of faith- Cefalu based humanitarian work in the U.S. and the controversies it has generated. FYS 157 Islands and Isolation Sayeed Islands are, almost by definition, unique. While being temporary homes to an FYS 161 Crime and Society increasing number of tourists, they also How do we as a society deal with crime? harbor endemic biological oddities and are What are the constitutional issues among the most fragile ecosystems on surrounding our laws and their application? Earth. This seminar examines the situation What influences policymakers? This of isolation across the fields of geology, seminar focuses on topics that currently evolutionary biology, human geography, challenge our criminal justice system to and literature. Topics include the dynamics operate in an effective, efficient, and of isolated populations, the historical constitutional manner: the torture of alleged importance of islands, and the effects of terrorists, substandard conditions at isolation on culture and the human psyche. detention facilities, race and gender issues, Sunderlin the debate over assisted suicide. Students examine cases, attend a criminal trial, and FYS 158 Nonviolence: Theory and Practice visit a prison. This course explores both the theoretical Elliott development of nonviolence and the practice of nonviolence as a means for FYS 162 Music in European Society waging and resolving conflict. Using the The course does not assume knowledge of examples of Mohandas Gandhi and India's music on the students' part; nor does it independence movement, the 1989 require that they master notation or become 51

FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR conversant with musical analysis. Rather, FYS 166 Atheism and Skepticism the course examines developments in Why have people chosen to be atheists or European history that have left their traces skeptics? What arguments have they used to in the music. It relates music to support their positions? Several recent developments in European culture and bestselling books have criticized organized explains the distinctive characteristics of the religion as a dangerous delusion, and music of a period in relation to those larger scientists are currently searching for a developments that underlie its cultural possible biological (rather than productivity. supernatural) basis for religious faith. Cummings Criticism of religion, however, has a long

and colorful history. In this course, we will FYS 163 Power and Political Cartoons study examples of atheism and skepticism in What makes a political cartoon powerful? different cultural contexts from Asia and the Through oral and written analysis of West. cartoons, we will explore the political and Rinehart cultural power of this important visual medium. As you study political cartoons FYS 167 Beyond Belief and craft your own, we will discuss the ESP, the occult, urban legends, conspiracy significance of the creative process, point of theories, and "weird" science.....Beliefs are view, cultural sensitivity and offensiveness, perhaps the most central of all cognitive and censorship. Researching a political phenomena, yet there is widespread cartoon's and cultural specificity will help disagreement concerning what exactly us interpret its message and evaluate its beliefs are or how they are to be understood. creativity and effectiveness. In this seminar we will use examples of Kelly problematic beliefs-that is, those that have

been marginalized by mainstream FYS 164 'Us' and 'Them': The Human communities-in order to shed light on our Group Imperative own beliefs and how we formed them. Will our future be one of continued Shieber divisiveness? Or are we 'progressing' towards global species consolidation and a FYS 168 Religion of Peace? Religion of decline in human diversity? In this seminar, Mass Conflict? we will examine evolutionary history to Religious orthodoxy and practice are understand the human imperative to expanding in diverse societies in North categorize people, exploring how 'race', America, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. ethnicity, nationality, and religion are used What are the relationships between religion, to define 'ingroups' and 'outgroups'. We also community, identity politics and mass will ask if such groups are natural or violence? How does one respond to artificial human constructs, acknowledging religious militancy? Can religion be a that such categorization leads to source of intercultural understanding and competition, stereotyping, discrimination peace? This course examines aspects of and war. Islamism, Hindu Nationalism and Christian Leibel Fundamentalism as well as violence

between religious communities in order to FYS 165 Writing History: Stories and comprehend complex religious conflicts and Possibilities create peace. How do we tell stories about the past? How Wendt do we find things to tell stories about? These two questions form the core of this FYS 169 The 1960s: The Causes and the seminar, which introduces students to Effects of Social Change methods of archival research as well as The Civil Rights Movement, the Antiwar practices in writing academic and creative Movement, the Space Race, and, of course, narratives based on that research. Readings Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n Roll...Through an in history and historical fiction, film examination of written and oral histories, screenings, and field trips to historical sites documentary film, and the poetry, music will be among the assignments that build and visual arts of the Sixties, students will into students' individual projects. explore the underlying causes for change Phillips during one of the nation's most tumultuous

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VALUES AND SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR influences that the 1960s have had on the of the seminars to be given in the spring present day. semester. Students are asked to indicate Newman their first five choices; every effort is made to place students according to their FYS 170 Art, Morality, and the Limits of preferences. Expression "Morally offensive...", "A danger to Values and Science/Technology society..." Contemporary artistic creations Seminar Courses sometimes elicit strong negative reactions, expecially when they provoke moral, VAST 200 Computers and Society religious, or other cultural sensibilities, or This course examines the computer’s when they are perceived as potentially cultural context: the managerial, political, influencing people's behavior in undesirable legal, ethical, psychological, and ways. In this seminar we will focus on such philosophical implications of computing. issues as freedom of expression and The laboratory focuses on the World Wide censorship, the status and role of Web. propaganda, and the interpretation and Van Dyke reception of art, examining them from philosophical, legal, and social points of VAST 202 Appropriate Technology for view. Development Giovannelli The dogma of development that planners

and policymakers worldwide have adhered to during the past 30 years emphasizes the VALUES AND importation of modernizing technologies in SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY developing countries at the expense of other concerns, including evidence dealing with SEMINAR cultural patterns and resistance to technical change. Although this process is not The Values and Science/Technology inherently good or bad, it is crucial for (VAST) Seminar, normally taken in spring policymakers in poor countries, as well as semester of the second year, is required of sponsors in rich nations, to examine the full all students and is considered a critical part range of benefits and costs that they entail. of their continued educational experience at This course explores the ongoing debate Lafayette. Like the First-Year Seminar, it over what technology is appropriate and introduces students to intellectual inquiry by how technologically poor nations can engaging them as active learners, thinkers, encourage its inflow and use. speakers, and writers. The VAST courses Ahene take advantage of Lafayette’s unique institutional character of engineering within VAST 203 Sustainability of Built Systems a liberal arts environment. Each course This interdisciplinary seminar introduces focuses intensively on issues that result students to a process for evaluating the from the application and introduction of sustainablility of built systems in both the technologies and scientific discoveries in industrialized and developing worlds. The society. These courses are limited to course addresses the historical, moral, and approximately 20 students per section and ethical foundations for the current include significant reading, writing, sustainablility movement as well as discussion, and presentation. Students make frameworks that can be used to determine extensive use of the library and each section the economic, environmental, and social- is affiliated with the College Writing equity components of sustainability across Program. While each course is taught the life-cycle of built systems. Throughout independently, instructors collaborate the course, we highlight large-scale through shared readings and lectures, examples of sustainable built systems. external speakers, and cocurricular Bernhardt activities. Although all courses meet for three hours, a common fourth hour is VAST 205 Water and Society scheduled to be used at the discretion of the The use of water has rapidly increased as faculty to facilitate joint activities. A societies have grown in scale and representative listing of seminars appears at technological sophistication. Water needs right, although the offerings change each and desires impose difficult demands upon year. Each fall, all sophomores receive a list the earth’s resources and require societies to 53

VALUES AND SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR confront “quality of life” issues related to VAST 209 Indigo: A World of Blue environmental degradation and future Dip white fabric in the muddy-colored economic growth. This course looks at a indigo dye vat and the cloth emerges green, range of historical and contemporary topics then slowly turns azure, cobalt or sapphire involving water supply and quality on a before your eyes. The chemistry behind this regional, national, and international scale. reaction will be revealed - and practiced - in Field trips to facilities in the Easton region this course. This mysterious dye has an supplement readings, videos, and intriguing history, and we will study its discussions. societal and environmental impact. We will Jackson, Lennertz learn about the equipment used in producing

indigo dye, and the three sources of indigo: VAST 206 AIDS: A Modern Pandemic synthetic, natural, and biosynthetic. The This course examines the world AIDS course will culminate with the design of a epidemic, with primary emphasis on the new indigo production facility. U.S. and secondary emphasis on Africa. Piergiovanni Scientific topics include the biology of HIV, the human immune system, HIV drugs and VAST 211 Oil, Politics, and the therapies, and the progression of an HIV Environment infection, which is also considered from a Oil plays a significant part in global humanistic perspective. Political, economic, economy, politics, and the environment. The historical, and cultural factors influencing control of the oil market has caused wars the spread of the epidemic and its control and conflicts throughout this century. While are discussed, as is the tension between it is hard to imagine life without individual liberties and the protection of petrochemicals, their increasing production public health. has adverse effects on the environment. In Prerequisite: Biology 101 or permission of addition to a brief review of the geological instructor formation, exploration, drilling, production, Yuster and conversion of oil, this course studies the

paradoxical role oil has played in shaping VAST 207 Evolution: Science and Society the economical and social structure of both An inquiry into the theory of evolution exporting and industrial countries. through natural selection and its impact on Tavakoli the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Students examine Darwin’s VAST 212 Values and Technology in writings and modern-day approaches to the Gothic Architecture study of evolution. They critically evaluate Students study Gothic architecture and the “creation science” and discuss whether it is related arts of stained glass and sculpture as indeed a legitimate science that should be expressions of medieval technology and taught in schools. The course considers the societal values. They consider the relevance of natural selection to dependence of architectural developments understanding human behavior, constructing on advances in medieval structural societal norms, and evaluating technology and the interdependence of contemporary ethical issues. societal values and technological progress. Hill Van Gulick

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VALUES AND SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR play in fostering economic growth and development including education, natural improving the health of the environment. resources, location, and population. Prerequisite: Economics 101 Technological transfer from outside the DeVault third world is addressed along with trade and international aid. The course also VAST 214 Mapping Urban Ecology focuses on culture, governments, Our planet is increasingly urban, over 50% economics, and other country-specific of the world's population living in urban topics that affect technological areas. Urban ecology is an important development. interdisciplinary approach to environmental Ruggles science and sustainabable development. People throughout the world practice urban VAST 219 Multimedia Communications ecology, motivated by a desire to create This course addresses technological, healthy human ecosystems and livable economic, and social issues related to the communities. In this course, we will study proposition of building a national some of these people, projects and places information infrastructure (the information and with GIS technology produce a Green superhighways). Technical aspects such as Map website and brochure of Easton. the concept of wide bandwidth transmission, Winfield digital communications, fiber optics, and multimedia communications are addressed. VAST 215 Technical Literacy Also, a critical evaluation of the impact of This course helps students understand the forthcoming electronic services on current role technology plays in society and social values is developed through writing prepares them to form their own opinions assignments and classroom discussions about the social, political, economic, and (focused mainly on ethics and privacy). ethical questions associated with Jouny technological advances. Issues discussed include the insatiable need for energy VAST 220 Counting and Culture (alternative energy sources and energy This course examines connections between conservation), genetic engineering, the culture and mathematics. It concentrates on environment (pollution control and the mathematics found in ancient, non- prevention), and the explosion in the literate, and non-Western cultures, microelectronics field (computers and the especially traditional African cultures and information age). pre-Columbian civilizations. Topics include Schaffer number concepts; recordkeeping, including calendars; games, geometry, and symmetry. VAST 217 The Art and Science of Flow Students look at how to recognize Visualization mathematics in other cultures; and how The flow of fluids explains how airplanes culture influences the development of fly, why a curveball curves, why mathematics. atherosclerotic plaque clogs arteries, why Meier

Jupiter's red spot is growing, and how hurricanes form. Yet it is difficult to see VAST 221 Value Meals: Technology at the fluids flowing without the techniques of Dinner Table flow visualization. We will discuss these This course explores the intersections techniques, the fluid flow phenomena they between technology and values as they seek to illustrate, and the photographic relate to what we eat. Technological methods needed to create effective images advances produce new food preservation that are successful both scientifically and methods, higher crop yields per acre and artistically. This is a class in fluid dynamics, year round variety of relatively inexpensive art history, laboratory technique, foods. Topics such as genetic modification, photography, scientific ethics, and concept- cloned meat in the food supply and the Slow based art. Food Movement will illustrate how Rossman, Skvirsky technological capabilities balance with moral and ethical issues as we make daily VAST 218 Technological Development in food choices. the Third World Diorio

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VAST 222 Patient-Practitioner Interaction: natural resource problems. Parallel readings The Role of Medical Technology in environmental science and economics are The patient-practitioner interaction is the used to study the consequences of human essence of medical practice. This course behavior on the environment and the examines the psychological and social consequences of technology and the factors that contribute, in both positive and environment on human behavior. Natural negative ways, to this dynamic relationship. resources studied include forests, wildlife, Of major concern is the role of medical water, and land. technology. Issues to be examined include Bruggink factors that will affect the decision to use technology, such as age, costs, and VAST 231 Don't Buy This Book prognosis, as well as the needs and interests This course explores the relationship of the patient, the practitioner, and, between publishing technology and our ultimately, society. ideas about intellectual property, looking at Childs both current issues and historical trends. Key topics may include the print revolution, VAST 225 New Drug Development: e-books, adaptations, plagiarism, and Benefits and Costs international copyright. Phillips This course examines the history of drug discovery, development, and production. Issues such as the ethics of drug testing, VAST 232 Intelligence Testing: Use and problems of overexposure to antibiotics, and Misuse the technological advancements necessary This course examines the history and for large-scale production are discussed. present use of IQ testing including Simple experiments demonstrate a few of implications on social policy, especially the technologies used. those raised by the book The Bell Curve by Piergiovanni Herrnstein and Murray. Students study some of the statistical tools used by researchers in VAST 228 Recordings in Jazz History social science, including population An examination of jazz music, musicians, distributions, correlation, and factor and careers. Main reference point: jazz analysis. Questions considered include recordings and how they have defined and “What do IQ tests measure?”; “Should shaped the business. Important Questions: political decision use this information for Who was recorded? When? Where? How? justification?” How did developing technology change the Gordon music? Who did and did not benefit from the recordings? Central Studies: "Kind of VAST 233 Endangered Species 101: Should Blue" (Miles Davis) and "A Love Supreme" We Save Fuzzy-Wuzzy? (John Coltrane). The answer seems obvious for cute, furry, Wilkins warm-blooded “charismatic megavertebrates.” But what about “creepy- VAST 229 Transportation and Society crawlies” like burying beetles and This course examines relationships between ambersnails? Species have come and gone transportation and society, in terms of how throughout the fossil record: extinction has transportation systems affect and are been a fact of evolutionary history and affected by societal conditions and trends. continues to be. Species rescue has The course addresses societal conditions at profound economic, legal, and political the times of emergence of various implications and fallout. This course transportation systems; factors that enabled addresses the conflict and confusion over their emergence; and the socioeconomic, endangered species and attempts to save demographic, political, technological, them. environmental, and cultural impacts of such Leibel systems. Veshosky VAST 234 Technology and the City: Chicago and New York VAST 230 Natural Forces, Human Choices: This course examines the role that industrial Sustainable Use of Natural Resources technology played in the rise of the two Neither natural science nor economics is great American cities—Chicago and New independently capable of analyzing and York. It centers on Chicago and uses New developing solutions to environmental and York further to illuminate technology’s 56

VALUES AND SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR influence on the city-building process and VAST 238 Human Reproductive the role that cities played in making Technology America a technological wonder and the The ability to control and assist greatest industrial power on earth by 1900. reproduction has raised new issues The course is taught from an concerning the creation of life and the rights interdisciplinary perspective with the aim of and responsibilities of potential parents and relating history to present time and to children, as well as medical personnel and students’ lives. policy makers. Scientific, social, ethical, D. Miller legal, and political dimensions of

reproductive technologies are examined. VAST 235 Science, Technology, and Social Development of new technologies provides Change new opportunities to explore existing moral Progress, evolution, and continuous change and legal questions (eugenics, attitudes and are Western cultural ideals, but custom, disabilities, and definitions of the family, for tradition, and habit make fixity and example) as well as raise new questions to persistence the dominant forces in human address. history. Minor shifts and adjustments aside, McGillicuddy-DeLisi real changes in social structures and values are rare. Big changes are usually linked to VAST 240 Plastics in Our World crises and revolutionary events, some of This course deals with the increasingly which are provoked by advances in science important role that plastics (polymers) play and technology. This course examines what in the modern world. After an introduction happens when scientific and technological to the structure, properties, and processing innovations meet social forces promoting of plastics, students explore new fixity and persistence. applications of plastics and examine some Schneiderman of the controversial aspects of plastics,

including environmental effects of disposal VAST 236 Energy, Environment, Society and the impact on natural resources. Students develop an ability to think Martin critically about modern energy and transportation technologies by reading, VAST 241 Engineering and Law as Learned writing, and discussing the individual and Professions social issues that attend advances in these A cross-disciplinary course going well areas. Energy plays an important role in beyond a review of professional/ethical connecting the ecosystem, the production codes of engineers and lawyers. This course system, and the economic system. The prepares students for lives within the course focuses on the effects of energy learned professions as communities of production on the environment, practitioners, called to honorable fiduciary technological, and social aspects of service on behalf of worth public purposes, transportation (ground and air) and bridges, and rooted in rich intellectual traditions. The and the history and philosophy of course will encourage collaborative technology. learning, placing emphasis on critical Ulucakli reading, discussion, process writing, and

interactive simulations. The course is team- VAST 237 Media Presentation and taught and considers the moral and ethical Government Reaction to Scientific issues raised by challenging, concrete, and Information open-ended case studies. An investigaton of how scientific Hornfeck, Lennertz information is disseminated to the public via mass media, and the subsequent reaction by VAST 242 The 3 Cs: Conception, politicians and the public. Ethical theories Contraception, and Carrying Capacity are integrated into the course topics by This course explores reproductive science examination of the professional obligations and accompanying ethical issues. Students of scientist, engineers, media, and public begin with an intensive overview of the officials. Case studies to be considered evolution, physiology, endocrinology, and include several "scares" of the past genetics of human reproduction. Topics including the Millenium Bug, DDT, include multiple births, artificial electrical power lines, and Mad Cow insemination, in vitro fertilization, Disease, among others. teratogens, genetic screening, efficacy and Hummel global distribution of contraception, and

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VALUES AND SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR determining carrying capacity. Throughout, archeological, biological, and attention is given to research and technological—this course examines the development, funding, and interpretive “construction” of the dog in distribution/accessibility issues. human history. Students consider issues of Waters domestication, evolution, scientific research (including the Genome project), the VAST 245 Unity of the Sciences and morality and technology of breeding, and Ethical Consequences the psychological comforts of This course studies the conceptual unity of anthropomorphic representation. What is the the physical sciences, giving an overall dog? “Man’s” best friend? Or “nature’s” sketch from the physics of atoms and most successful parasite? molecules to biochemistry and into the more Donahue speculative realm of the mind. Is there really any underlying unity across this wide VAST 249 What Can Be Automated? spectrum of knowledge? And if so, what Whatever damage the “Y2K bug” actually would be the consequences for the wrought, the widespread anxiety about it humanistic aspects of knowledge involving revealed society’s heavy dependence on culture and ethics? This seminar compares automated systems. This course explores the different approaches to this conceptual unity achievements and the limits of and discusses their strengths and computerized control. Students read novels weaknesses. and stories that satirize excessive Haug automation; critique current efforts to automate human functions such as medical VAST 246 Life’s Uncertainties: An care, education, and creative writing; and Introduction to Risk examine the increasingly fuzzy boundary How do individuals and society perceive between real and virtual life. and manage risk? This course explores the Van Dyke historical background of risk analysis, the assessment and quantification of risk, and VAST 250 Controversy in Science how potential benefits are weighed against Although many people think of science as the costs of controlling risk. Science, an objective, fact-driven field, there are history, probability, statistics, psychology, many examples of significant controversies and public policy are among the disciplines existing within science and between that are employed to develop an scientists and the public. This course understanding of risk. The course focuses examines three controversies chosen from on medicine, the environment, public safety, the following: intelligence testing, the age and government regulation. of the earth and the universe, plate tectonics, Fisher global warming and pollution, and controversies of mathematics. VAST 247 What Can Science Teach Us Gordon about Values? Does Darwinism show that men are meant VAST 251 Development of the Bomber to be promiscuous? That women are wired This course is an interdisciplinary to masquerade as virgins? That people are examination of the development of the genetically determined to be utterly selfish? bomber from its infancy in WWI through Does modern physics, meanwhile, the Gulf War with the major focus on demonstrate that the universe has a godless development during World War II. This is a origin, and that the noblest actions and course on how ideas influence technology deepest thoughts are unpredictable and how technology and its limits influence byproducts of random subatomic forces? If behavior. These ideas are still prevalent so, what follows? That morality and today in the discussions of military freedom are illusory? That God is dead? technology. The course also covers The goal of this course is to pursue these questions of ethics in war and the questions, and to figure out what science constraints that have been put upon the use can teach about values. of bombers in modern times. Lammers McLeod

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VALUES AND SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR complex system. In recent years, much VAST 257 Nightmares of Science progress has been made in understanding This seminar examines works of science the behavior of the global climate system fiction as manifestations of collective fear and the mechanisms that govern it. Students and ethical crisis that arise when society is study global warming, its man-made and faced with technologies perceived as natural causes, and its impact on all aspects threatening to either the essential nature or of life. Students are also introduced to the continued existence of humankind. The ethical theories and their application to course focuses on ethical debates environmental issues. surrounding issues such as automation, Ulucakli genetic engineering, nuclear

power/weapons, and artificial intelligence, VAST 254 Ethical and Legal Challenges of and explores society’s changing reaction to the New Genomics these technologies as they pass from the Biological and chemical understanding of realm of fiction into reality. the human genome has advanced Jordan dramatically in the past two decades. This course explores in-depth many of the ethical VAST 258 Decadence, Frustrated Lovers, and legal challenges raised by scientific Madness, and Medical Scientists in Fin-de breakthroughs in several domains of new Siècle Vienna genomics, including: genetic testing for The course scrutinizes the culture of Vienna disease susceptibility, prenatal genetic at the turn-of-the-century when conflicting testing, gene therapy, and cloning and other social pressures created a hothouse reproductive technologies. atmosphere that spawned radical intellectual Shaw thought and new directions. The work of

writers, artists, architects, composers, and VAST 255 Plagues, Progress, and scientists is studied against the problematic Bioterrorism sociopolitical development of the Habsburg In the developed world, governmental Empire during the final millennium of its support of a public health system has existence. enhanced progress in eliminating many McDonald infectious diseases. Worldwide elimination would benefit all people, so what is the VAST 260 Creeds and Computers: The developed world’s responsibility to Interplay of Science and Religion countries without the political or economic Science and technology have changed the means to support public health? What ways religious traditions have grasped what should be done about groups who intend to they stood for and how they spread their use biological warfare? This course messages. Religion has influenced the examines human diseases and the ability to directions taken by science, as witnessed in treat and prevent them. the latest debate over stem cell research; the Caslake sciences, in turn, have helped shape the

content and the strategies of religious VAST 256 Body Politics groups, evident in such concerns as nuclear This course focuses on the political nature arms and the phenomenon of televangelism. of body ideals and the significance of the This course explores the topic as an ongoing body in scientific thought and feminist dialogue between the two ways of thinking. theory. Topics include how science, Briggs technology, social norms and values shape perceptions of sexual and racial differences, VAST 261 Dance: Physically Limited or the view of women as “bodies” (relative to Spiritually Limitless “minds”), and attempts to control the female Scientific analysis of dance movement body through appearance norms, sexual requires the acceptance of the physical norms, and reproductive codes. Students limitations of the human structure and laws debate whether and how change can be of motion. Conversely, the tradition-laden fostered through performativity, concept embraced by dancers stresses the subversions, and resistance, including the exploration of the body’s unlimited use of science and technology. movement potential and the rejection of Basow physical limitations. Dance kinesiologists stress the importance of the mind-body connection, preferring a more natural, less technically demanding, movement 59

VALUES AND SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR approach. The course examines the tension ethical, political, economic, social, and among these philosophies. environmental issues. This seminar explores Murgia the broad issues related to energy policies and also addresses technical aspects of VAST 263 The Nature of the Past: Social energy systems. Issues in the United States Constructions of Evolution are stressed within the context of global Are humans the result of evolution shaped energy considerations. by “Nature, red in tooth and claw,” or were Hornfeck we formed by the hand of God? Students consider how explanations of the human VAST 272 The Last Dance: Deliberations past reflect social values and evaluate on Death and Dying societal responses to scientific claims, going The essential question in this seminar on beyond listing “facts” to examine why thanatology—the study of death—asks how “facts” are presented as they are. They best in a technological age to ascertain, consider how beliefs about the past inform acknowledge, and apprehend the various contemporary debates, including the nature visitations of The Grim Reaper, whether of race, gender roles, and the teaching of natural, unnatural, or supernatural. evolution. Approaches to this emotionally charged and Niles intellectually challenging field of study include reading, writing, discussion, and VAST 264 Property and Theft field trips. From the fused perspectives of Some changes in ideas about property rights medical/forensic science and ethics, are catalyzed by technological psychology, religion, anthropology, art, developments. Students examine these literature, and more, students search to changes from literary, social, and ethical discover meaning in death. perspectives. Topics include the varying Truten cultural traditions of tangible property, studies in medical ethics cases that touch on VAST 274 Pathology and Pathography: property issues, and ethical discussions of Intersections of Literature and Medicine slavery, indentured servitude, and Narrative inhabits medicine in a striking reparations. The course ends with an diversity of forms and texts such as clinical examination of the evolution of intellectual histories, patient illnesses, and even the property rights, with particular focus on the course of illness itself. Equipped with impact of the Internet. narrative competence, health care Kimber professionals can identify, interpret, and

respond to the stories and predicaments they VAST 269 Reinventing the Machine encounter. This seminar brings responsible The goal of creating machines that mimic literary methods to the study of medical biology is close to being achieved through texts to help bridge the growing divide advances in the developing relationship between the art and science of medicine. between computer science and biology. In Truten this seminar, students explore research trends to determine what changes this goal VAST 275 Cancer: From Cause to Cure may have on the human body, society, and While the number of deaths from heart the larger world. Can machines be disease has decreased by half in the last 50 reinvented to mimic humans, and are we years, the number of cancer-related deaths reinventing ourselves in the process? has remained relatively unchanged. This Pfaffmann seminar covers a broad range of topics

related to cancer to shed light upon what VAST 270 Energy Resources, Uses, and makes cancer more difficult to deal with Technologies than other diseases. One example is a What are the planet's energy resources, what discussion of how social, economic, and quantities exist, and where are these political factors influence research, resources located? At what rate are these prevention, diagnosis, and treatment for resources being depleted and for what uses? patients with cancer. What technologies are applied in modern Kurt energy conversion processes, and what future technologies could be important to the global energy equation? Consideration of these questions involves practical, 60

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VAST 276 Rome: Science, Technology, and implications of the search for the fountain of Civilization youth. Science and technology shaped values in Bookwala classical and late antiquity throughout the areas in Eurasia and Africa controlled by VAST 280 The Promise and Peril of Rome. This seminar examines how Rome's Educational Technology receptiveness to the Epicurean atomic Rapid technological development is theory; its engineering, technology, and changing everything, including teaching and applied science; its vast systems of learning. This seminar examines how new transportation, communication, education, technologies, particularly computers, are and entertainment; its political, changing education at all levels. Students administrative, and legal systems; and the discuss the efficacy of educational conduit that its institutions provided for the technology and the equity of its distribution transmission of values and ideas decisively and imagine new uses and technologies that shaped the modern world. might enhance learning. Students serve as Rosa volunteers in an educational environment in the Easton community and reflect on VAST 277 Questions of Trust in Science experiences with technology in those This seminar examines three roles for the settings. notion of trust in the scientific enterprise. G. Miller

First, the seminar considers the importance of bonds of trust between scientists, in part VAST 282 Gambling: Here and Everywhere by examining mechanisms for dealing with This course introduces and analyzes the those who break that trust. Second, students mechanisms of gambling and the games that consider difficulties in fostering trust in are played. In parallel, it examines the science among non-scientists. The final benefits and costs of gambling, including notion is the way scientists today essentially those social, economic, and psychological, create "trusts" by patenting their discoveries with the goal of answering the primary and the potentially adverse effects of this motivating question: is the proliferation of development. gambling good for society? Sheiber D. Smith

VAST 278 Weapons of Mass Destruction VAST 283 Music, Audio Technology, and People once hoped that nuclear weapons Society would make war so terrible as to be This course investigates how the evolution unthinkable but it has not happened yet. of audio technology has affected the What role should these weapons play in the creation, performance, perception, and world? Topics include development and use dissemination of music from historical, of biological, chemical, and nuclear aesthetic, and sociological perspectives. weapons from scientific, political, and Through assigned readings, music listening ethical perspectives, and the role of these exercises, direct interaction with performers weapons in conducting war and in and audio technicians, and hand-on maintaining peace and the means by which laboratory sessions, students evaluate the nations have tried to control their application of technology to making music, proliferation and use. music listening habits, styles and genres of Stark music, and music's role in society. Emphasis is on learning to write about and discuss the VAST 279 Eternal Youth and Immortality application of technological data to musical Society has always yearned for immortality phenomena and related cultural and and a permanently youthful appearance. For sociological issues. many, this quest has become more urgent Stockton now that scientific and technological advancements seem to have brought these VAST 284 Natural/Social Disasters: Urban goals within reach. Topics include historical Planning and Social Death and religious perspectives, advancements in Glaveston, San Francisco, Johnstown, New science, medicine, and technology, diet and Orleans--these are places that have battled lifestyle, the anti-aging industry, the role of floods, earthquakes, and hurricanes from the media, gender and aging, cross-cultural their inception. In the wake of hurricanes perspectives, and the social and ethical Katrina and Rita, an urgent question arises: why, considering all the risks to human life, 61

VALUES AND SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR were these communities developed in the world helath and its consequences? In this first place? New Orleans, a kind of modern- course, we will be the development of day Atlantis, could be considered a feat of critical reading skills to allow students the engineering, not unlike Amsterdam and opportunity to evaluate scientific and Venice. But what is the social cost? What fictional texts and to make determinations are the ethical implications of building in about their relative reliability. areas where natural disasters predictably DeTora occur? Washington VAST 288 A History of Spirits: The Distillation of Sin and Politics VAST 285 Staging Science, Playing This review of the history of spirits and our Technology subsequent discussion of contemporary From its beginnings, one of the great problems will help illuminate our cultural paradoxes of theater has been its antipathy sentiment toward the production, towards and dependence upon science and distribution, and consumption of alcohol. technology. By examining selected plays in The goal of this course is to instill a new which science and ethics are central perspective and attitude toward alcohol that subjects, this course explores how theater, encompasses the positives as well as the which "theatricalizes" technology through negatives as evidenced throughout history. using new inventions large and small in live Morton performance, continues reinventing itself as a communal art form, remaking the VAST 289 Room at the Bottom: particulars of cultural mythology, and Nanotechnology and Modern Society shaping our response to inevitable change. Nanotechnology has become the popular O'Neill term to describe manipulation and

manufacturing where the characteristic VAST 286 Values, Ethics, and Leadership dimensions are less than about 1,000 in Business and Government nanometers, which is about 1/100 the Developments since the turn of the century thickness of a human hair. This course will have turned the attention of the nation and develop the language and introductory the world to the enduring issues of trust and scientific basis of nanotechnology and leadership. This course will analyze the provide the technological foundation for sources of tension between organizational discussions of ethical and societal issues mission and individual values by using related to its various uses. examples from the corporate and public Wiesner sectors of the economy. In the process of examining the incentives individuals have to VAST 290 Climate Change: The Facts, the stray from their value set, characteristics or Issues, and the Long-Term View aspects of an organization and its mission Members of the scientific community have that contribute to unethical behavior will be considered the potential threat of human- evaluated. For example, students will induced climate change for decades, yet consider the factors or characteristics of only recently has this issue emerged in the organizational culture that may pressure a consciousness of the broader society. This person into lying or purposely seminar considers the scientific evidence misrepresenting evidence. In addition, that has climate experts worried about the students will spend time reflecting on the future, as well as the significant and global market forces in the economy that reinforce nature of economic, societal, and political- trust, sound leadership and cooperation. issues that human induced climate change Crain raises. For valuable perspective on the

fundamental linkage between the climate VAST 287 Stories Matter: Medicine and system and life on Earth, we draw upon the Melodrama in a Global Age rich archive of information about past Medicine is currently a global phenomenon- interactions between life and climate disease in one part of the world can affect provided by Earths geologic record. people across the globe in a matter of days. Lawrence How does society seek to explain and cope with this circumstance? One method is by telling stories that transform unpleasant realities into harmless fictions. What messages do these stories deliver about 62

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VAST 291 Are We Prepared? Emergency alcohol, candy, exercise). The underlying Management, Planning, and Preparedness neurological changes associated with after 9/11 addictions will also be explored. Finally, the Why are we unable to plan and respond ethics of current drug laws, penalties and effectively and efficiently to a disaster? This treatments will be examined. Allan course explores the science, technology and psychology of these events. Through work with local municipalities and class work, it VAST 296 Ethics, Medicine, and Mental examines the organizational structure in Illness place to handle these disasters from the Obsessive-compulsive disorder, Tourette's president to local emergency management syndrome, depression, eating coordinators, the laws and how they both disorders...This seminar introduces students facilitate and impede a timely response, and to a wide range of texts (memoirs and first- the importance of adequate training, person narratives, films, paintings, and communication and a coordinated response. medical and philosophical treatises) that Elliott focus on the experience of living with mental illness. Particular attention will be VAST 293 Pharmaceuticals: Scientific paid to the style and form of textual Challenges and Ethical Dilemmas representations of psychological disorders, Pharmaceuticals provide an interface where as well as to the cultural and philosophical science, technology, economics, and ethics questions such texts raise about the very interact, affecting our lives intimately. We category of "mental illness." Cefalu will analyze complex issued surrounding drug discovery, development, testing, marketing, regulation, access, and VAST 298 Rise of Industrial America distribution. Students will gain This seminar will explore the rise of modern comprehensive understanding of guiding America through the study of its major principles from initial R&D through to post- industries. A major focus of the course will market follow-up. We will examine be the entrepreneurs who employed new challenges - public skepticism about technologies to build the first powerful research, rising budgets, diminishing industrial corporations in the country and in breakthroughs, escalating side effects, doing so changed the course of world declining affordability and access - by history. Businessmen such as Carnegie, identifying both beneficial and detrimental Armour, Rockefeller and Ford will be consequences of pharmaceutical innovation. central to the discussions. The everyday Waters lives of the consumers, workers and immigrants impacted by industrial VAST 294 From Frankenstein to Einstein: capitalism and the roles of urbanism, trade Public Perception of Scientific Research & unions and socialist political organizations will be closely examined. The course will Science begin with the transformation in This course will focus on the publics manufacturing brought about by the rise of perception of science and scientific the "American System" in Lowell, which research. How are controversies resolved in employed women almost exclusively, the scientific communities? How are continue through the age of steam and steel scientific controversies depicted in the (with emphasis the central role of the media? What techniques can partisans use to Lehigh Valley region) and conclude with influence the public debate? building of a new form of corporate Gindt capitalism as the driving force of the American economy. VAST 295 Addiction Tiernan This course will examine the critical behavior-research findings relevant to understanding how addictive behavior FRICANA TUDIES begins, is maintained and can be A S successfully resolved. In addition, the course will explore models of addictive Faculty behavior that have assisted in developing Professors Ahene (Economics and Business) treatments that actually work. The course and Opoku (Religious Studies) Co-Chairs; will also consider many addictive behaviors Professors Bauer (Anthropology and that are publically accepted (e.g., caffeine, Sociology), Blake (English), Holton (Art), 63

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McCartney (Government and Law), Requirements for the Minor Stockton (Music); Associate Professors Five approved courses including AFS 101, Smith (English), Washington (English). 211 and three upper-level electives chosen Africana Studies is the scholarly from an approved list of AFS electives. examination of the black experience universally— in Africa and its extensions in Honors: Students who meet College and the United States, the Caribbean, and major requirements may submit a written elsewhere in the world. proposal for approval during their junior year or early part of their senior year for an In this interdisciplinary major, students combine methods of the traditional honors thesis. Students pursuing honors will disciplines (history, literature and be allowed to substitute first-semester languages, music, anthropology and Africana Studies 495 for Africana Studies sociology, art history, folklore, religion, 400. economics, philosophy, political science) in analyzing the experiences, problems, and AFS electives include questions at the center of the social, cultural, All African Studies courses; Anthropology and political thought and actions of peoples and Sociology 214, 216; Art 235, 236, 341; of African heritage. They are encouraged to Economics and Business 330, 346, 354; pursue a coordinate major. English 246, 349, 352; Government and Law 207, 222, 233; History 106, 258, 367; Majors are encouraged to participate in field Music 103, Pyschology 120; and Religious work through research leading to an honors Studies 215, 216, 266 thesis, internships, course-related work in local communities, and study abroad in Africana Studies Courses Africa, the Caribbean, or Latin America. Majors are prepared for further study in AFS 101 African Cultural Institutions Africana Studies and will find programs at This course examines the social and many prestigious graduate schools including political institutions embodying patterns of Howard University, Columbia, Yale, culture that have evolved over thousands of University of California-Los Angeles, and years and represent Africa’s contribution to Wisconsin. They are prepared for careers in global civilization. Contemporary African business, international organizations, societies reflect the interplay of tradition government, teaching, medicine, and law. and change since institutions of the past Some pursue careers in diplomatic services have not simply given way to ones of the or global corporations that require experts present. African cultural institutions and able to operate in culturally diverse practices continue to give direction to the environments. internal and external changes that are taking place in Africa and in the Americas today. The course enables students to see Africa in Requirements for the A.B. major a world perspective and provides a A minimum of nine approved courses framework for scholarly research. selected from at least two academic Staff disciplines including Africana Studies 101, 211, 400; one intermediate theory course AFS 211 The Black Experience selected from an approved list including This course introduces students to the study Africana Studies 213, Anthropology and of the black experience in its global context. Sociology 214 and 216; five upper-level As such, it is most immediately focused on electives chosen from an approved list with the exposure of students to the life at least two in humanities and social science experiences of blacks from a variety of areas. perspectives so that they become familiar with a broad range of fact and opinion about Students must also complete the Common these experiences. The course reflects a Course of Study. Courses designated as strong multidisciplinary perspective in Africana Studies at Lafayette or elsewhere addressing topics and issues. must focus significantly on the contribution Fall semester and experiences of persons of African Offered: McCartney descent. Relevant study-abroad course listings appear under Interim Session in this catalog.

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AFS 230 Environmental Justice Ahene

This interdisciplinary course explores the intersection of social justice and AFS 325 Global Africa: Comparative Black environmental stewardship in an attempt to Experience understand the various dimensions of the This course combines the study of Africa environmental justice movement and how it with the study of the two diasporas. The affects modern society. Students will be Diaspora of Enslavement concerns slaves exposed to humanities, social sciences, and and descendants of slaves in both the environmental science/engineering aspects Western and Eastern Diaspora. The relevant to the topic. Cross-listed with EP Diaspora of Colonization concerns 230. demographic dispersal as a result of Prerequisite: At least one college-level colonialism. African Americans are in their mathematics course and one college-level majority part of the diaspora of social science course enslavement. Recent African immigrants Staff into France are part of the Diaspora of Colonization. Jamaicans and Trinidadians in AFS 307 Black Social and Political Thought Britain are a double diaspora—products of This course examines the complexity of both enslavement and colonialism. The ideas of black leaders in Africa, the course examines black genesis from Africa, Caribbean, and the Americas, including comparative slavery, emancipation and Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyerere, Nelson reconstruction, and comparative liberation Mandela, Marcus Garvey, George Padmore, from colonialism. W.E.B. DuBois, Martin Luther King, Prerequisite: AFS 211 Malcolm X, Elijah Mohammed, and Jesse Staff Jackson. Theories and thoughts presented both in scholarly formats and in nonformal AFS 360 Racial Identity Development fashion in everyday life are examined in a A course on the major issues in personality way that makes them not less powerful or development and socialization of African rigorous but accessible. The course reflects Americans. Students are guided through a diverse theoretical traditions such as selective review of current racial identity Afrocentric philosophy, liberal and trends (including strengths and difficulties) conservative thought, capitalist and Marxist in the African American community. social thought, sociology of knowledge, Environmental and intrapsychic factors that postmodernism, etc. contribute to these trends are identified, and Prerequisite: AFS 211 strategies for effectively addressing these Staff issues are discussed. Emphasis is given to the issues of racial and cultural identity AFS 310 Contemporary African Society: development among African Americans. Ghana Students are exposed to strategies for This course provides a critical developing a healthy racial identity. understanding of the roots of contemporary Preference given to seniors and juniors. Ghanaian culture and African traditions. It Offered: Spring semester examines the move from traditional political Richardson and economic entities that were radically modified by the sixteenth-nineteenth AFS 380 Africana Studies Internship century slave trading economy, followed by Provides opportunities for the practical 100 years of colonialism, and the emergence application of theory and real-world of contemporary Ghana. The course problem-solving techniques. A limited examines history, ethnicity, community number of students are placed in a relationships, individualism, and the impact community outreach center, business that the acquisition of a national identity has organization, or governmental agency to had on Ghanaian culture. The course carry out an organized and supervised considers the anthropological dimensions of program of study and research under a the current social and political lives of designated internship sponsor. Interactive ordinary people and allows students to learning and research projects are selected examine how contemporary culture affects to provide in-depth exposure to the creative Ghanaian attitudes towards other aspects of analytical capacities, critical thinking, and life, including work and leisure, problem-solving techniques necessary for Christianity, technology, politics, and the finding solutions to actual concerns. Ghanaian state. 65

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Prerequisite: AFS 101, 211, or permission combinations of useful analytical tools for of instructor exploring the complexity and diversity of Staff American culture past and present. American Studies encourages independence. AFS 390, 391 Independent Study Students have a unique opportunity to Independent study projects for juniors and structure their own education as they study seniors. American culture and society from an Staff interdisciplinary perspective, taking advantage of courses offered in nearly every AFS 400 Capstone Seminar in Africana department of the College. With guidance Studies from program faculty, students select Students carry out an in-depth reading and courses in a variety of subject areas that textual analysis of seminal works in focus on a particular theme. The curriculum essential areas of the black experience and provides an introductory course in its status in today’s global culture. The goal interdisciplinary study as well as seminars is for students to understand the history and on a variety of topics. All seniors take a contributions of people of African descent, collaborative and supportive research and the relationship of these to human seminar where they develop a major project development as a whole. The seminar also on a subject in their focus area. gives students opportunities to demonstrate mastery of the seminal works, acquire new Requirements for the Major knowledge, and place courses thay have American Studies majors shape their own taken toward the major in a broader degree programs in accordance with their perspective. own interests and objectives. AMS majors Prerequisite: Open to seniors or by take a minimum of nine courses to complete permission of instructor the major. Ahene, McCartney All majors take American Studies 150, 362, AFS 495, 496 Honors Thesis and 363, plus at least six other courses An independent research project on a topic (typically at the 200 or 300 level) from to be selected by the student and approved various disciplines related to their chosen or by the program coordinator. A student must individually constructed theme of undertake such a program for two semesters concentration. to graduate with honors. Staff In order to prepare for course work in multiple disciplines, students must, by the end of their sophomore year, have AMERICAN STUDIES completed AMS 150, plus introductory courses in at least three other relevant Faculty disciplines. Especially important are introductory-level courses in Anthropology Assistant Professor A. Smith & Sociology, American History, and (English/American Studies), Chair; American Literature. Professors Jackson (History), Johnson (English), Mattison (Art), D. Miller All majors select or construct a "theme of (History); Associate Professors Shulman concentration" that focuses their course of (Anthropology and Sociology), Torres study around crucial issues and questions. (Music), Washington (English), Wilkins Guidelines to help students plan a theme of (Music); Assistant Professors Belletto concentration are available via the (English), Kissane (Anthropology and American Studies website and in the office Sociology), Lee (Antrhopology and of the program chair. The guidelines Sociology/American Studies), Phillips describe in detail the following five themes (English), Skvirsky (Art/American Studies) of concentration.

American Studies offers students the chance 1. Social Justice in America. Students in this to develop valuable critical skills and concentration investigate issues of social diverse perspectives in the study of justice as connected to race, gender, class, American culture. As a unique and ethnicity in American history and interdisciplinary field of study with a long culture. Students may study these concerns intellectual tradition, American Studies generally or focus on one particular group in seeks to empower students with 66

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American society (such as women or American Studies Courses African Americans, for example). As one of the six courses within their theme of AMS 150 Introduction to American Studies concentration, students take an appropriate This course is a broad introduction to 200-level Anthropology and Sociology American Studies as a method of academic course. They also select five additional inquiry. It examines American personal and courses relating to Social Justice including: national identity through an interdisciplinary (a) at least one course in Government and examination of American culture, with Law, Economics, Anthropology, or particular emphasis on issues of race, class, Sociology, (b) at least one course in History, gender, and ethnicity. Students consider the and (c) at least one course in another field, ways in which various cultural forms-- such as Women's and Gender Studies, including novels, film, music, painting, Africana Studies, Psychology, Art, or sociological studies, laws, journalism, Literature. governmental, the built environment and the physical landscape itself--shape and are 2. Popular Culture and High Culture in shaped by the cultural contexts and America. Students in this concentration historical monoments in which they appear. study American "high" and popular culture This course must be taken in the first or as represented in literature, art, film, music, second year. Normally closed to Juniors and and new media. As one of the six courses Seniors. within their theme of concentration, students Offered: Fall and Spring semesters take an appropriate 200-level Anthropology Staff and Sociology course. Students also select five courses relating to Popular Culture and AMS 241 Work, Culture, and Society in High Culture including at least one course Industrial America: Regional Culture in the from three of the following four categories: Industrial Age (a) literature, (b) art, (c) music, film, TV, or An introduction to the study of the media studies, and (d) intellectual history or modernization process in America with political philosophy. emphasis on the Lehigh Valley-anthracite region, the seedbed of the American 3. Business, Work, and Society in America. industrial revolution. Topics include the This concentration focuses on the role of development of industrial capitalism and the business and work in American society and factory system; changing modes of work; culture. As one of the six courses within the rise of the labor movement; immigration their theme of concentration, students take and ethnicity; and literature in the industrial an appropriate 200-level Anthropology and age. Sociology course. Students also select five Staff courses relating to Business, Work, Society, including at least one course from each of AMS 350-352 Special Topics the following three categories: (a) These courses offer the study of various anthropology or sociology, (b) economics, unique topics in American Studies. Topics and (c) economic history. are announced before each semester in which the courses are offered. Recent topics 4. Place in America. Students in this have included "The Story of World War II." concentration examine the role of place--the Staff city, the natural world, a geographical region--in American history and culture AMS 362 Seminar in American Studies from an interdisciplinary perspective. As Topics for this in-depth interdisciplinary one of the six courses within their theme of seminar change by semester. Majors are concentration, students take an appropriate strongly encouraged to take more than one 200-level Anthropology and Sociology seminar during their course of study. course. Students also select at least five Multiple AMS 362 topics courses count as concentration courses relating to Place in electives in the student's course of study to America in such fields as government and complete the major, and are the best and law, economics, history, and sociology. most intensive method of preparation for the Senior capstone experience, AMS 363. 5. Independent Concentration. Students may Recent seminar topics have included shape their own programs if they prefer to "Photography and Memory in American focus on a theme of concentration other than Culture," "The American Indian in those described here. American Culture," "Designs for Living:

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Environmentalism, Counterculture, and Smith; Assistant Professors Bissell, Kissane, Utopias," "The 1920's", "Nature in Lee American Culture." "American Censored," "America, a Hydraulic Society," and "The Is human society to be viewed as an orderly, Beat Generation in American Culture." [W] integrated, cohesive system, or is it a Prerequisite: American Studies 150 battleground of conflicts between classes Offered: Fall and Spring semesters and ethnic groups, even men and women? Staff What does it mean to be human? These and similar questions are studied in the AMS 363 Senior Research Seminar Anthropology and Sociology major. They The purpose of this capstone research probe beneath the surface of human seminar is to allow students to do in-depth, relations and reach into the primary interdisciplinary work on a topic of their processes of human society. own choosing and to integrate the diverse Learning what’s behind comfortable courses they have taken for the American assumptions may be uncomfortable but the Studies degree. AMS 363 provides a knowledge gained provides vision, supportive, coordinated, workshop-based understanding, and an added dimension of structure for students' original research on a personal control. The curriculum begins major project or paper. The projects are with an introduction to the general based on original sources and must involve perspectives of anthropology and sociology a combination or integration of at least two and moves on to courses that emphasize disciplines (such as art and literature, theory, methodology, and special topics. economics and sociology, or history and law). [W] Prerequisite: American Studies 150 and Requirements for the Major 362 The major consists of at least eight courses Offered: Fall semester in the department in addition to Staff Anthropology and Sociology 102 and 103. Among these eight courses are two methods AMS 390, 391 Independent Study courses (Anthropology and Sociology 340 Qualified students may develop, in and 341), a senior capstone course consultation with a faculty member, a one- (Anthropology and Sociology 342), and five semester course directed to a particular additional courses. theme or topic in American Studies. Prerequisite: American Studies 150 and Requirements for the Minor 362 The minor in Anthropology and Sociology Offered: 390/Fall, 391/Spring consists of six courses: two chosen from Staff among 102, 103, and 342, and four

additional courses selected in consultation AMS 495, 496 Thesis with the minor adviser. Students majoring in American Studies who wish to become candidates for honors Anthropology and Sociology Courses register for the senior thesis. During the senior year, honors candidates pursue A&S 102 Cultural Anthropology independent study culminating in a thesis By offering in-depth study of selected that utilizes more than one discipline. cultures to illustrate general organizing Honors are awarded upon successful principles of society, the course provides defense of the thesis in oral examination. students with skills appropriate to the Offered: Fall and spring semesters understanding of foreign cultures and our Staff own. Included are consideration of

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ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY basic concepts, theoretical orientations, and growth of the cocaine economy in Andean methods of the sociological perspective. nations. [W] Topic areas include the socialization of Prerequisite: A&S 102 or 103, or personality, culture, urbanization, permission of instructor alienation, deviance, inequality, and the Niles rationalization of society. Staff A&S 207 The Inca World: Empire and Imagination in the Ancient Andes A&S 104 On Human Origins The course explores the empire created by The course explores the idea of human the Incas, noting the ways that the ordered nature, as a cultural construct and as the their society and reconstructed their natural focus of philosophical, scientific, and world through terracing, irrigation, and anthropological inquiry. We will consider architecture. Using archaeological evidence primate behavior, hominid evolution, and and eyewitness accounts of their society, the origin of cultural diversity through the students consider how Inca political Stone Age. Films, novels, and artifacts are organization and handiworks reflect an used to supplement class discussion. Andean orientation toward the supernatural Niles world. The course concludes with an

examination of native resistance to Spanish A&S 203 Peru Before the Incas rule. [W] The course explores the nature of Prerequisite: A&S 102 or 103, or civilization in the Andes in the millennia permission of instructor preceding the Spanish Conquest, using the Niles region as a case study for analyzing the growth of civilization. It considers Andean A&S 208 New World Civilizations systems of thought expressed in media of The course considers the rise of native importance in the region (e.g. cloth, civilizations in Mesoamerica and the Andes, architecture, geoglyphs), and in aspects of focusing on the Mayas, the Aztecs, and the its religion and social organization. [W] Incas. It considers the evidence by which we Prerequisite: A&S 102, 103, or 104, or understand these cultures—including permission of instructor glyphic inscriptions, works of art and Niles architecture—and their legacy in the

contemporary cultures of Latin America. A&S 204 European Communities [W] Although most people think of Europe in Prerequisite: A&S 102, 103, or 104, or terms of “national” cultures, it is the local permission of instructor community, whether urban or rural, that Niles teaches its members a way of acting in and seeing the world. This course considers A&S 209 Selected Studies in Ethnography some of the general cultural variations that This course focuses on ethnography as the characterize European communities and key narrative form of anthropological some possible explanations (historical, research while foregrounding critical issues ecological) for that variation, and then in a specific ethnographic area (for example, proceeds to a series of community studies of Africa, South or East Asia, the Middle a small number of cultures. [W] Easat). Descriptions of current offerings are Prerequisite: A&S 102 or 103, or available through the departmental office or permission of instructor through the Registrar's Office. A. Smith Prerequisite: A&S 102 or 103, or

permission of instructor A&S 206 People of the Andes Staff The course considers the roots of contemporary Andean culture in the Pre- A&S 210 Contemporary American Society Columbian and Iberian traditions. It This course provides a critical examines the move from rural villages to understanding and analysis of modern urban areas, and the impact that the American society, culture, and state. The acquisition of a national identity has had on approach is interpretive and thematic, these villages and on national culture. It also examining individualism, community, considers the anthropological dimensions of ethnicity, work and leisure, technology, such current social and political problems as politics, the state, etc. The course builds on the Shining Path guerrilla movement and the introductory level perspectives, applying 69

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A&S 211 Symbolic Interaction A&S 216 Class, Status, and Power This course covers sociological perspectives This course focuses on the development, on social psychological issues dealing with application and redefinition of the concept emotions, the formation of a self-concept, of social class as related to contemporary impression management and conformity. society. Power and status relations, social Particular emphasis is paid to understanding mobility, and mass society will be topics of the social influences on individual and special interest. [W] social behavior through a microsociological Prerequisite: A&S 102 or 103, or perspective. permission of instructor Prerequisite: A&S 102 or 103, or Schneiderman permission of instructor Shulman A&S 217 Poverty in America This course considers the nature, causes, A&S 212 Sex and Gender: A Cross-Cultural and consequences of poverty in America, View primarily from a sociological perspective. It Students explore the variety of ways that examines the measurement, scope, cultures assign roles on the basis of gender demographics, and dynamics of poverty in by in-depth consideration of several the U.S., as well as factors closely contemporary societies. Students also connected to poverty, such as low-wage consider the evolution of gender roles, and work, neighborhood, family structure, the way in which Western perceptions of education, violence, and crime. In this these roles may have contributed to course, the experiences of the urban poor explanatory models in the social sciences. will be of particular interest. [W] Prerequisites: A&S 102 or 103, or Prerequisite: A&S 102, 103, or 104, or permission of instructor permission of instructor Kissane

Staff A&S 218 Political Sociology A&S 214 Race and Ethnic Relations This course is devoted to an examination of This course highlights issues of race and the social causes and consequences of ethnicity in multiple contexts, with a focus various types of power distributions within on the U.S. It explores the limits of race and or between societies, and with the political ethnicity as scientific categories and their and social conflicts that lead to changes in legacy as powerful social constructions, the distribution of power. Such sociological with a special focus on the legacy of theorists of political power as Weber, Marx, slavery. As social constructions, race and Tocqueville, Michels, and Simmel are ethnicity are often elusive, shifting, and examined in detail. [W] negotiable principles. Students explore how Prerequisite: A&S 102 or 103, or such fluid principles can have such lasting permission of instructor effects and consider their sometimes hidden Schneiderman links to economic status. Prerequisite: A&S 102 or 103, or A&S 219 American Communities: Cities, permission of instructor Suburbs, and Towns Smith This course traces the development and significance of urban communities in A&S 215 Occupations and Professions America. Topics include city growth and This course focuses on the sociological industrialization, suburban sprawl, urban study of occupations and professions in villages, and post-industrial “electronic modern societies. Among topics to be cottages.” Attention is also given to how discussed are the social meaning of work; regional shifts and changes in social the concept of career; and the process of organization, environment, and technology professionalization. Special attention is have transformed America’s urban given to the study of occupational groups as landscape.

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Prerequisite: A&S 102 or 103, or Prerequisite: A&S 102 or 103, or permission of instructor permission of instructor Lee Staff

A&S 220 Who Gets What and Why A&S 225 Deviance This course uses sociological perspectives This course examines social deviancy with a to examine the nature and mechanisms of particular focus with competing theoretical social inequality in the United States and explanations of deviant behaviors such as abroad. Specific topics may include corporate crime, delinquency, sex work, distributions of income, wealth, and substance abuse and violent crime. political power; discrimination in the work Attention will be given to the normative, place; disparities in health outcomes; symbolic processes through which impacts of the media and educational individuals and acts become defined as system; extreme wealth; and global deviant. stratification. Specil attention will be paid to Prerequisite: A&S 102 or 103, or how inequality is patterned by race, class, permission of instructor and gender, including the intersections of Shulman these social groups. Prerequisite: A&S 102 or 103, or A&S 226 The Forms of Folklore permission of instructor The course will survey major genres of Kissane folklore and the methods of analysis applied to them. Examples will be taken from many A&S 222 Medical Anthropology parts of the world, and will include such This course explores, through ethnographic forms as myths, legends, folktales, proverbs, studies of other cultures and constant riddles, games, jokes, and superstitions. comparison with our own, the various ways Students will be expected to prepare an in which illness is defined, explained, and original collection of folklore materials. [W] treated. We will examine both the influence Prerequisite: A&S 102 or 103, or of culture on medical beliefs and practices, permission of instructor and the degree to which an anthropological Niles view of medicine reveals central features of any sociocultural system. A&S 227 The Family Prerequisite: A&S 102 or 103, or The family is the most universal of all permission of instructor institutionalized human groups and yet, in Staff our own society, seems fragile and unstable. A primary theme throughout the course is in A&S 223 The Anthropology of Politics the changing forms and functions of the The cultural dimensions of power will be family with emphasis on contemporary examined in a comparative framework, society. Consideration will be given to class, exploring in depth a non-Western setting ethnic and life-style variations in family such as village Mexico or Africa and form. Western settings such as the Mafia or Prerequisite: A&S 102 or 103, or college committees. The emphasis is on permission of instructor how individuals use power within their Kissane culture, be it a village or an office. Prerequisite: A&S 102 or 103, or A&S 228 Alienation permission of instructor The last century was a century of “release” Staff from the traditional bonds of community— family, place, class and religion. The A&S 224 Self, Society, and Culture paradox of that release (as yet unresolved) is What are the principal ways in which the that this new freedom from traditional social individual is shaped by the surrounding forms was accompanied by alienation—the social and cultural world? Each semester we estrangement of individuals from each will pose this question in relation to a other, from the world of objects, from the particular foreign culture in order to: (1) world of thought, and from themselves. [W] learn how anthropological models and Prerequisite: A&S 102 or 103, or theories interpret and/or explain this permission of instructor relationship and (2) find an anthropological Schneiderman route into that culture.

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A&S 230 Social Memory A&S 236 Sociology of Knowledge Shared representations of the past both The central focus of this course will be upon reflect and shape social identities. Because an examination of the social creation of societies are heterogeneous, differing views knowledge and the consequences of of the past coexist, and history itself can knowledge for social organization. become a battleground. What are the Definitions of knowledge will be drawn outcomes of clashes over the interpretation from such sociological theorists as Weber, of past events? How are distinct visions of Marx, Mannheim, Scheler, and Durkheim. the past preserved over the generations? Prerequisite: A&S 102 or 103, or Through a rigorous schedule of readings and permission of instructor writing, culminating in a final research Lee project, students consider the many ways in which the past enters everyday lives and A&S 239 Social and Cultural Change may even shape the future. [W] This history course will focus on theories of Prerequisite: A&S 102 or A&S 103 change. Consideration will be given to Smith evolutionary and diffusionist perspectives. More recent neo-evolutionary, structural- A&S 232 Magic, Science, and Religion functional and other current social and The course deals with “systems of thought,” cultural approaches to the processes of addressing such questions as: Do change will be considered. [W] forestworshipping pygmies think in ways Prerequisite: A&S 102 or 103, or that are fundamentally different from quark- permission of instructor hunting physicists? Magic, science and Schneiderman religion will be compared as competing ways of explaining reality. A&S 245 Mass Communications and Prerequisite: A&S 102 or 103, or Society permission of instructor This course is designed to give students an Staff overview of mass media theory and research

rooted in a number of ideological A&S 233 Anthropology of the City perspectives of society. Topics include the This course centers on cities as sites and rise of mass communications, the audience, subjects of anthropological inquiry. Across media effects, news ideologies, the sponsor, the globe, urbanization has increasingly mass media politics, and new defined the landscape of modern life. What communications technologies. The goal is to makes the metropolis meaningful, and how provide detailed understanding of the social, do spatial forms shape social practices? In cultural, economic, organizational, and what sense does the cultural milieu of the political forces that have shaped our city—material and symbolic, dynamic and contemporary mass media. diverse—challenge us to critically re- Prerequisite: A&S 102 or 103, or imagine anthropology? How are social permission of instructor identities shaped by the everyday Staff experience of urban communities, commodities, and cultural forms?[W] A&S 247 Organizations in Action Prerequisite: A&S 102 or 103, or This course is designed to give students a permission of instructor better understanding of today’s Bissell organizational world through the lens of

organizational theory. Topics include the A&S 235 Business and Society rise and nature of bureaucracy, the evolution This course explores the impact of business of managerial ideologies, theories of upon our culture and the role of business in leadership and decision making, modern society. Of special interest are the organizational culture, technological and growth and development of capitalism and ideological determinism, and the influence business thought, the influence of the of the environment. Theory is related to corporation, and the role of management in practice through the examination of specific society. Case materials are utilized case studies. extensively. Prerequisite: A&S 102 or 103, or Prerequisite: A&S 102 or 103, or permission of instructor permission of instructor Shulman Staff

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A&S 255 Contemporary Society and the The course serves as a capstone and is Cinema required of all majors. [W] This course examines the place of movies in Prerequisite: A&S 102 or 103, or shaping and changing popular culture in permission of instructor(s) contemporary societies. Between two and Staff four movies will be seen and discussed each week. These include American- and British- A&S 351-380 Special Topics Seminar made films, as well as films made in France, A seminar devoted to a subject to be Germany, Italy, Spain, and Japan. The selected by the instructor. Announcement of purpose of the course is to expose students the proposed subject will be made in to a variety of cultural responses to similar advance of each seminar. The course will genre, and to see how one culture influences place a responsibility upon the student for the cinematic traditions of another culture. independent study, research, and reporting. Prerequisite: A&S 102 or 103, or Prerequisite: A&S 102 or 103, or permission of instructor permission of instructor Staff Offered: Interim Session Schneiderman A&S 390, 391 Independent Reading and A&S 340 Qualitative Methods of Research Research The course focuses on anthropological Individual investigation of a topic under the methods, how "facts" are established, supervision of an adviser. methodology and technique. Techniques Prerequisite: Permission of instructor include: participant obervation, interview, Staff questionnaire construction, census and genealogy collection, photography and A&S 495, 496 Thesis video. Original research is done in Under the guidance of a staff member, the preparation for further study. Required for student writes a thesis based on an approved A&S majors and recomended to be taken project in a specialized field of the junior year.[W] anthropology or sociology. If at the first Prerequisite: A&S 102 or 103, or semester’s end the project has honors permission of instructor potential the student applies to continue Bauer toward graduation with honors. After completing the thesis the student takes an A&S 341 Quantitative Methods of Research oral examination on it and its field. [W] This course is concerned with the logic of Staff social inquiry, methodologies of empirical social research, and with data analysis and interpretation. Topics include research ART design, measurement, sampling, survey and field research, and writing research reports. Faculty Quantitative methods of data analysis are Professor Mattison, Head; Professors Ahl, emphasized. Holton, Kerns, Weiss; Associate Professor Offered: spring semester; required for Sinkevic; Assitant Professors Noble, A&S majors. [W] Skvirsky; Community-Based Teaching Prerequisite: A&S 102 or 103, or Director Toia permission of instructor; A&S 340 recommended The curriculum is a combined studio/art Lee history course sequence in which students may concentrate in the area that most A&S 342 Theories of Society interests them. Museum and gallery The Upper-level course provides an internships, independent studio projects, intensive grounding in broad range of student art exhibits, field trips, and an anthropological and sociological theory. exceptional visiting artists program The course addresses the development of contribute to the special character of the social theory since the 19th century. Over program, as does the College’s proximity to the course of the semester, students will New York and Philadelphia. Individual explore the limitations and uses of different studios in the Williams Visual Arts Building social theories, applying what they are are made available to students who qualify learning as they pursue an extended research for honors work in studio art. Professors project in consultation with the instructors. encourage individual and communal 73

ART learning and become deeply involved with Art Courses the special interests of students. ART 101 Introduction to Art History I Requirements for the Major A survey of visual culture from prehistoric The major consists of a minimum of nine through the Middle Ages. The course is courses, including two introductory courses designed as an introduction to basic in art history (101 and 102); one additional problems and terminology of art history, course in art history; Fundamentals of and to methods of analyzing and Drawing (109); one additional studio interpreting individual works of art. course; and five additional courses chosen Emphasis is placed upon historical and from offerings in art history or studio art. cultural contexts, and upon the development Students emphasizing art history must take a of major styles. Recommended for first-year 300-level seminar. For students focusing on students and sophomores who are art history, one non-Western art history considering art as a major; open to all course (128, 216, 238, 240, 242) is strongly students. recommended. Study of at least one foreign Offered: Fall semester Ahl, Sinkevic language through the intermediate level is strongly recommended for those ART 102 Introduction to Art History II contemplating graduate study in art history. Students emphasizing studio art must take This course is organized like Art 101, but one 300-level studio course. The department deals with painting, sculpture, and is committed to strong student advising and architecture from the Renaissance to the may recommend courses in other present. Recommended for first-year departments based on the programmatic students and sophomores who are needs of individual students. considering art as a major; open to all students. Offered: Spring semester Requirements for the Minor Ahl, Mattison, Sinkevic The minor in art consists of six courses, including two introductory courses in art ART 103 Principles of Studio Art history (101 and 102); Fundamentals of This course is designed to introduce art Drawing (109), and three other courses majors as well as interested non-majors to chosen from offerings in art history or the visual problem-solving process. studio art in consultation with the minor Emphasis is placed on basic design adviser or the department head. components such as line, shape, and color by the assignment of projects exploring the Additional departmental course listings principles of balance, spatial relationships, appear under Interim Session. and visual unity. Staff Independent projects and honors The department offers advanced students ART 107 The Dynamics of Sculpture the opportunity to develop their interests in A foundation for basic sculptural an intense experience of individualized techniques, materials, and creativity in the learning. In partnership with faculty, studio. Students examine sculpture from the students work for one or two semesters on past to the present as a means of developing rigorously designed projects that culminate their technical and creative skills, including with critical review by art department drawing, then implement their knowledge faculty and, in the case of honors, appraisal through studio projects using such materials by professionals from outside the as clay, plaster, wood, and found objects. department. They are also trained in the use of basic power and hand tools. At least two field Art Course Areas: trips required. Open to all students with or without prior knowledge of sculpture. --101, 102, 126, 216, 221, 222, Art History Noble 223, 224, 226, 231, 233, 234, 235, 236, 340, 392-393, 495-496. ART 109 Drawing I Studio Art--103, 107, 109, 110, 111, 114, An introduction to various approaches to 120, 190, 191, 196, 212, 215, 218, 290, 292, drawing, including the use of line, hatching, 312, 330, 337, 339, 344, 390-391, 497-498 contour, and shading. More emphasis is placed on immediacy than on finishing 74

ART technique. Human and other natural forms architecture. Buildings and urban plans will as well as inanimate objects are drawn in be studied in relationship to the cultural, both experimental and disciplined ways. social, and structural character of each Open to all students. period. Staff Offered: Spring semester Mattison ART 110 Drawing II A continuation of Drawing I with greater ART 128 Introduction to Asian Art emphasis on compositional relationships Introduction to Asian Art is an introductory and the human figure. There is further survey of Chinese and Japanese art from exploration of various media and their respective Neolithic periods through techniques. Drawings by artists of the past the 19th Century. The purpose of the course and present are studied. Problems associated is to provide an historical framework from with aesthetic quality are discussed. which an overall concept of the arts of Prerequisite: Art 103 or 109, or permission China and Japan may be derived. of department head Staff Staff ART 150 Video Art I ART 111 Beginning Printmaking A digital media course, designed for those A study of, and studio experience in, the with little or no experience in time-based basic techniques of both monotype and media art practices. Students explore how intaglio printmaking. Students are instructed conceptual art, performance art, sound, in the proper use of printmaking equipment animation, video and computer technology and tools, including metal plates, acids, can be a basis for art making. Upon inks, grounds, and print papers. completion of the course, a student can Development of visual discernment is expect to have a thorough understanding of stressed. video and sound editing, familiarity with Prerequisite: Art 103, or permission of conceptual art practices and competency instructor with digital video cameras. Holton Skvirsky

ART 114 Beginning Painting ART 155 Digital Photography I An introduction to acrylic, watercolor, and Creative expression, explorations of content oil painting, evolving from basic studies to and articulation of ideas will be emphasized. more involved problems in formal and The course comprises technical lectures, expressive relationships. The achievement laboratory demonstrations, slide lectures of of a sense of life and meaning in relatively historic and contemporary photography, and simple subject matter is emphasized. critiques of student work. Upon completion Prerequisite: Art 103, or permission of of the course, a student can expect to have a instructor thorough understanding of the basics of Offered: Fall and spring semesters digital photography—proper and consistent Kerns image exposure, basic Photoshop skills and competency with scanning and digital ART 120 Architectural Design and Theory printing. The course provides an introduction to the Staff theoretical basis and process by which architects design buildings. Course work ART 180 Art in New York includes three or four design projects This course introduces students to the wide focusing on significant architectural issues range of activities and experiences in New such as urban revitalization, sustainable York’s Arts community. Through exhibits, building, historic preservation, etc. lectures, and conversations with artists, the Architectural drafting (by hand) and course provides experiences equally presentation techniques are developed. No valuable to art students and artists. Though prior background in architecture or drafting emphasis is placed on the historical is required. development, elements, and process of Felder making art, the primary focus will be experiential. ART 126 History of Architecture Staff A survey of Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassical, Eclectic, and Modern 75

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Offered: Interim Session Minter ART 216 Byzantine Art An exploration of the art and architecture of ART 192 Experiencing the Found Object Eastern Europe, Balkan, Asian, and This course offers students an opportunity to Mediterranean countries during the period understand how to manipulate and assemble of Byzantine rule (343-1453). Works of found materials into exciting and architecture, sculpture, and painting as well convincing sculptural forms that transcend as illuminated manuscripts, icons, and their original source into poetic visions. The liturgical objects are examined in terms of Dada and Surrealists founded the Art of both their iconography and style. Their Assemblage at the beginning of the significance within the historical, social, twentieth century. Since then many artists religious, and economic context in which have assembled found objects—either they were produced is explored. [W] natural or pre-fabricated—into structures Prerequisite: Art 101 that equal any other sculptural medium. Sinkevic

Noble ART 218 Intermediate Painting ART 196 Basic Photography (Black and Intermediate study in painting methodology. White) Technical instruction in acrylic, oil, and egg This course introduces students to the tempera. Investigations into figurative and techniques of film exposure, developing, abstract modes of painting, with emphasis contact printing, and proofing. In addition, on individual preference. Critiques are the course exposes students to the aesthetics regularly scheduled. of black and white photography, Prerequisite: Art 114, or permission of presentation of work, and a brief history of instructor Kerns the subject. Students should have their own cameras. Limited to 12 students. Offered: Interim Session ART 221 Ancient Art Staff A study of the architectural and artistic achievements of the ancient civilizations ART 212 Intermediate Printmaking around the Mediterranean: Egyptian, Further study and studio experience in the Minoan, Mycenaean, Greek, and Roman. more advanced aspects of intaglio The monuments are analyzed in terms of printmaking. A strong involvement with the 76

ART style, technique, function, patronage, and Prerequisite: Art 102, or permission of influence. [W] instructor Prerequisite: Art 101 or 102, or permission Mattison of instructor Sinkevic ART 233 Nineteenth-Century Painting and Sculpture ART 222 Medieval Art A study of important developments in An analysis of major works of art and European art from the time of the French architecture from the Early Christian period Revolution through Post-Impressionism. to the Late Gothic era. Concentration is Visual culture is related to the social and extended beyond the traditional art forms of political attitudes of the period. painting, sculpture, and architecture to Prerequisite: Art 102, or permission of include those specific to the Middle Ages: instructor manuscript illumination, ivory carving, Mattison stained glass, and tapestries. [W] Prerequisite: Art 101 or 102, or permission ART 234 Modern Art of instructor A study of major trends in modern Sinkevic European and American art. Expressionism,

Cubism, abstraction, Surrealism, and more ART 223 Italian Renaissance Art recent developments are emphasized, as are A study of the art and architecture of their relation to cultural, social, and political Florence, Rome, Siena, and environs from attitudes of the period. the late thirteenth to the late fifteenth Prerequisite: Art 102, or permission of centuries. The works are analyzed in terms instructor of style, technique, function, and patronage. Mattison [W] Prerequisite: Art 101 or 102, or permission ART 235 African American Art I of instructor A study focusing on African American art Offered: Fall semester, alternate years and its aesthetic and philosophical origins, Ahl including a survey of various art forms such

as sculpture, masks, pottery, and ART 224 Baroque Art architectural structures. Discussions concern A study of seventeenth-century European the African diaspora and the resulting painting, sculpture, and architecture, distribution of Afrocentric creative elements focussing on the most important masters of throughout Europe and the Western the day: Caravaggio, Bernini, Poussin, Hemisphere— the Americas and Cuba, etc. Rembrandt, and Rubens. The works are Prerequisite: Art 101 or 102, or permission analyzed in terms of style, technique, of instructor function, and patronage. [W] Offered: Fall semester Prerequisite: Art 101 or 102, or permission Holton of instructor Ahl ART 236 African American Art II

This course is a continuation of African ART 226 Age of Michelangelo American Art I. It includes the Harlem A study of sixteenth-century painting, Renaissance and progresses through the sculpture, and architecture, focussing on the WPA program (Federal Arts Project), Black most transcendent artists of the age: artists in Europe, the protest art of the Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, 1960s, and contemporary Black art. and Titian. [W] Prerequisite: Art 101 or 102, or permission Prerequisite: Art 101 or 102, or permission of instructor of instructor Offered: Spring semester Ahl Holton

ART 231 American Art ART 238 Ukiyo-e and Beyond: History of A study of American architecture, painting, the Japanese Woodblock Print photography, and sculpture from colonial This course explores the art of Japanese times to 1900. American art is considered woodblock printing from its origins in early relative both to European developments and Buddhist texts to the present day. The focus to indigenous conditions and attitudes. is on the "Floating World" (Ukiyo-e) prints of the seventeenth through nineteenth 77

ART centuries, and includes an examination of Skvirsky their impact on nineteenth-century Western painting. Issues of class, censorship, ART 290 Graphic Design: Solving pornography, and national identity are key Communication Problems to this exploration of the tumultuous history Communicating through design is as of the Japanese print. complex as the amount of information being Staff disseminated in today’s environment of

rapid communication. This is an ART 239 From Samurai to Cyberpunk: intermediate studio course which explores Japanese Animation (Anime) and the in-depth the technologies, visual language, Japanese Art Tradition and studio skills necessary to create This course explores Japanese animation effective marketing communication. (Anime) from its roots in Western science Prerequisite: Art 191 fiction and the Japanese art historical Offered: Interim Session tradition, to its impact on modern society Minter and contemporary art around the world. Beginning with films (like Godzilla) that set ART 292 Visual Communication through the stage for the introduction of Anime in Technology the early 1960s, the course traces the This is an intermediate design course development of this world-wide intended to familiarize students with the phenomenon to the present day. Students basic visualization tools available through choose their own areas of interest for computer technology. In the course, independent research papers. students research a project, develop Staff concepts to visualize the ideas set forth by the project, and apply the skills learned to ART 240 History of Japanese Art make those ideas visible. This course is an introductory survey of Prerequisite: Art 190, 191 Japanese painting, sculpture, and Offered: Interim Session architecture from the Neolithic period Minter through the nineteenth century. The purpose of the course is to provide a historical ART 312 Advanced Printmaking framework from which an overall concept This course is for advanced study and of the arts of Japan may be derived. research in the printmaking medium. Staff Emphasis is placed on mastering all technical aspects of printmaking. The course ART 242 History of Chinese Art covers various color applications and This course is an introductory survey of surface modification techniques. Students Chinese painting, sculpture, and architecture are required to design and execute a book or from the Neolithic period through the portfolio project, and participate as a twentieth century. The purpose of the course printer’s assistant in the publishing of works is to provide a historical framework from of art by professional practicing artists. which an overall concept of the arts of Critiques are a regular requirement with at China may be derived. least two public presentations of students’ Staff work during the semester. Prerequisites required unless otherwise approved by ART 255 Digital Photography II instructor and department chair. In this intermediate course, students will Prerequisite: Art 111, 212, demonstrated refine both their aesthetic and technical proficiency, and permission of instructor digital photography skills. Studio Holton assignments are designed to develop students' individual styles, contextualize ART 330 Studio Theory and Practice photography in terms of its history, its Today artistic practice crosses many relationship to other art mediums and its boundaries and incorporates a wide plethora cultural implications. In addition to studio of mediums and approaches. A series of assignments and group critiques, there will practical projects will be undertaken both in also be slide lectures, technical the studio and on campus exploring a demonstrations, reading and writing variety of mediums and technical processes assignments. many of which have been adopted by artists Prerequisite: Art 155 or permission of the over the past century. Includes field trips, instructor 78

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development and presentation may be ART 337 The Space of Sculpture proposed. For junior and senior art majors This advanced course addresses public art and minors. Hours to be arranged. and installation art. Students are introduced Prerequisite: Permission of instructor to public art through field trips and by Staff creating temporary site-specific sculptures within a public space either on or off ART 392, 393 Independent Study in Art campus. They investigate the stages History necessary to create a public sculpture by Advanced independent study and research securing a site; developing a proposal with in art history with individually designed maquettes, budget, public opinion, research programs done in consultation with fabrication, and installation; documenting; a member of the art history faculty. For removing; and restoring the site to its junior and senior art majors and minors. original condition. This process is repeated Hours to be arranged. for the development and execution of an Offered: Spring and fall semesters environmental installation. Students develop Staff their own projects and work collaboratively. Noble ART 495, 496 Thesis in Art History Majors with a strong performance in art ART 339 Advanced Painting history are invited to become candidates for Advanced study of the types and departmental honors during second semester combinations of pictorial space through the of junior year. During the senior year, techniques of composition and modern candidates conduct research in a specialized structural concepts. Emphasis is placed on field of art history under the guidance of art the dynamic relationships of the subject to history faculty. The project culminates in a the expressive network of formal elements: written thesis and an oral defense. [W] color, rhythm, value, scale, and form. Prerequisite: Art 101, 102, or Art 125, Prerequisite: Art 103, 109, or 218 126, and three intermediate or advanced Kerns courses in art history Staff ART 340 Seminar in Art History A study of particular periods, movements, ART 497, 498 Thesis in Studio Art and artists that relates theoretical, historical, Majors with a strong performance in studio and formal approaches, such as protest art, art are invited to become candidates for abstract expressionism, Picasso studies, departmental honors during the second installation and video art and 15th-century semester of their junior year. In their senior Italian painting. Topics vary according to year, candidates conduct research in a the specialty of the professor. Open to specialized field of studio art under the juniors and seniors who have completed Art guidance of the studio art faculty. The 101 and 102 and at least two intermediate- project culminates in a body of work, a level art history courses. written thesis, and an oral defense. Offered: Spring semester Prerequisite: Art 103 or 109, 214, and 338 Staff or 339; or 103, 107, 215, and 337; or 103, 111, and 212 ART 344 Internships Staff Students majoring in art may take an approved internship at a museum, gallery, or related institution. The internship includes BIOCHEMISTRY reading assignments, art-related work experience, and a written report on selected Majors in Biochemistry take a core of activities. chemistry and biology courses including Staff molecular biology. The curriculum involves the study of the chemical characteristics and reactions of organisms or living systems. 79

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All of the chemistry and biology faculty and allows them to participate in a carry on active research programs in which fascinating academic adventure. The many students are encouraged to participate. exciting discoveries in medicine, genetics, Biochemistry majors sometimes carry out molecular biology, agriculture, and ecology projects in which they are guided by both a throughout the twentieth century are biology and a chemistry professor. Students continuing into this millennium. Lafayette’s can perform research as independent study biology curricula are designed to prepare or through the honors program. Based on students to contribute to these developments their academic record and an interview, by preparing them for careers in research, upperclass students may apply to be teaching, the health professions, and teaching assistants. industry. Biology majors enjoy small classes and may Requirements for the A.B. degree choose from a wide variety of courses. Mathematics 125/186 or 161/162 or Special opportunities include independent 161/176; Physics 111/112 or 131/133; study and collaborative research projects Chemistry 121, 122, 221, 222, 231, 311 (or: with faculty, a senior honors thesis program, (323 or 325) and (324 or 326)), 351, 352, and paid laboratory teaching assistant 452, and at least one other advanced (200- positions. Non-credit internships for level or above excluding independent study students considering careers in biology and or thesis) Chemistry course (or none if the health professions may be available Chemistry (323 or 325) and (324 or 326) are through the Office of Career Services. taken); Biology 101, 102, 261, and at least one other advanced Biology (200-level or Requirements above) course in addition to other College- wide requirements for the A.B. degree. The Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) curriculum combines a solid background in biology with increased opportunity for the student to Requirements for the B.S. degree explore other fields of study. The A.B. Mathematics 161, 162, and 263; Physics biology major consists of 10 courses 131/133; Chemistry 121, 122, 221, 222, including Biology 101, 102; one course at 231, 323 or 325, 324 or 326 (must complete the 200-level in each of the three course one of either 325 or 326), 332, 391 or 495, areas noted below; two 300-level courses, 351, 352, 452, and at least one other one in each of two of the course areas given advanced chemistry course (200 or higher below; and three 200-level or higher level, excluding independent study or electives. In addition, the A.B. major must thesis). Biology 101, 102, 261, and one complete the following courses: Chemistry additional Biology course (200 level or 121/122 (with laboratory), Mathematics 161 higher), and one additional 300- or 400- and either Mathematics 176 or Mathematics level course in either Chemistry or Biology 186, or Mathematics 125/186 and a Foreign in addition to other College-wide Culture unit. (The sequence Mathematics requirements for the B.S. degree. 161/162/186 is recommended for A.B.

majors planning careers in quantitative Biochemistry Courses fields or medicine; students who are unsure of their degree program should begin with Note: For courses see Biology and Mathematics 161. In unusual circumstances Chemistry Psychology 120 may substitute for Mathematics 186 with the approval of the department head.) BIOLOGY The Bachelor of Science (B.S.) curriculum Faculty is broader in basic sciences and allows the Professor Leibel, Head; Professor Holliday; student ample opportunity to explore Associate Professors Caslake, Kurt; advanced areas in biology. The B.S. biology Reynolds, Waters; Assistant Professors major consists of 12 courses including Dearworth, Kurt, Ospina-Giraldo; General Biology 101, 102; one course at the 200- Biology Laboratory Coordinator level in each of the three course areas noted Drummond below; two 300-level courses, one in each of two different course areas noted below; and Biology, the study of life, challenges five 200-level or higher electives. Note that students to think creatively and analytically no more than a total of four courses in 80

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Biology 401-404 and Biology 495/496 may BIOL 201 Invertebrate Zoology be taken for credit. In addition, the B.S. In this introduction to the biology of the major must complete the following courses: invertebrates students study the natural Chemistry 121/122 and 221/222 (all four history, phylogeny, anatomy, development, with laboratory), Mathematics 161 / 186. physiology, and importance to human (The sequence Mathematics 161/162/ 186 or populations of the major invertebrate phyla 165/166/186 is recommended for B.S. and a few of the minor ones. majors planning graduate work and careers Lecture/laboratory/film sessions. Offered in in quantitative fields or in medicine. In spring semester. unusual circumstances Psychology 120 may Prerequisite: Biology 101-102 substitute for Mathematics 186 with the Holliday approval of the department head), and Physics 111/112 or 131/133. Candidates for BIOL 211 Histology the B.S. degree in Biology may elect a This course explores the structural features minor program in addition to their major. of human cells, tissues, and organs. The requirements for a minor are the same Emphasis is on the morphological features as the College requirements. unique to each type of cell and tissue, the functional consequences of these structural A.B. and B.S. candidates must also specializations, and the cellular basis of complete the Common Course of Study, pathology. The laboratory portion of the which includes a First-Year Seminar, course involves examination of prepared English 110, a VAST course (sophomore microscope slides. Lecture/laboratory. year), three courses in Humanities/Social Prerequisite: Biology 101-102, or Sciences (at least one in each division) and permission of instructor two “writing-designated” courses (either Offered: Fall semester alternate years biology courses or electives), normally Staff taken in the junior or senior year. BIOL 212 Developmental Biology For information on the B.S. degree in A study of the process of development at the Neuroscience, offered jointly with the cellular molecular level as a description of psychology department, see Neuroscience. the stages through which an organism attains increasing complexity. In addition to Biology Course Areas: lecture, students become actively involved Genetics/Cellular/Molecular Biology through discussion of primary literature and (GCMB): 212, 241, 245, 256, 261, 304, laboratory. The laboratory features 310, 312, 340, 401-404, 495-496, Chem vertebrate and invertebrate examples of the 351. developmental processes discussed in class as well as a student-designed research Physiology/Organismal Biology (POB): project with an oral presentation. 201, 213, 214, 221, 225, 251, 308, 314, 345, Lecture/laboratory. 390, 401-404, 495-496, Neur 201. Prerequisite: Biology 101-102, or Ecology/Evolutionary Biology (EEB): permission of instructor 231, 234, 235, 271, 332, 336, 401-404, 495- Offered: Spring semester 496, Geol 320. Staff

BIOL 213 Comparative Vertebrate Biology Courses Anatomy This course explores the structure and BIOL 101, 102 General Biology function of vertebrate animals. Emphasis is An introduction to the scientific study of life placed on the form/function relationship, the and basic biological principles. Emphasis is evolution of anatomical specialization, and on the properties of living systems, their the comparative method. variety, their relationships in space and time Prerequisite: Biology 101-102, or to each other, evolution and the permission of instructor. environment. Lecture/ laboratory. Course Lecture/laboratory/independent laboratory. 101 is not a prerequisite for 102. Offered: Fall semester alternate years Offered: Fall/101, spring /102 Dearworth Staff

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An in-depth exploration of the vertebrate nervous system with emphasis on mammals BIOL 231 Ecology and humans. Lectures detail the structure A study of the relationships between and function of the brain and spinal cord. organisms and their environment The laboratory includes dissection, emphasizing basic ecological principles and examination of prepared slides and other methods. Laboratory and field exercises materials, and work with computer illustrate the theoretical concepts discussed resources. In the experiential portion of the in lecture and are writing-intensive. course, students use classical anatomical Lecture/discussion/laboratory. [W] and modern molecular techniques to study Prerequisite: Biology 101-102, or the brain. permission of instructor Prerequisite: Biology 101-102, and Offered: Fall or spring semester permission of instructor. Waters

Dearworth BIOL 234 Environmental Biology BIOL 215 Mycology While recognizing the interrelatedness In Biology 215 students discuss the most among different areas of environmental important groups of true fungi and science, this course focuses on how oomycetes (fungal-like organisms), their biological and ecological applications relate taxonomy, nomenclature and systematics, as to environmental issues. Emphasis is on well as their morphological and how the human population impacts physiological characteristics, and ecological ecosystem function, giving attention both to roles. These concepts are presented from population regulation mechanisms and to both organismal and molecular perspectives. disruption/conservation of ecosystem In addition, the importance of fungi as processes. Laboratory exercises focus on economic and ecological agents is classical applied ecology as well as field discussed. excursions targeting policy and management Prerequisite: Biology 101 and Biology 102 issues. Satisfies core component of Ospina-Giraldo Environmental Science minor. Lecture/laboratory. BIOL 221 Biology of Vascular Plants Offered: Fall or spring semester A survey of the major groups of vascular Waters plants emphasizing the angiosperms and relating form to function at the cell, tissue, BIOL 235 Evolutionary Biology organ, and organismal levels. The overall An introduction to the principles of organic importance of plants in ecosystem structure and molecular evolution. Topics include: and environmental interactions are genetic variation, natural selection, addressed. Laboratory includes plant tissue speciation, adaptation, diversification, culture and some field work. biogeography, molecular evolution, and the Lecture/discussion/laboratory. [W] mechanisms underlying each. Laboratory Prerequisite: Biology 101, 102 or includes experimentation, computer permission of instructor simulation, and relevant Offered: Spring semester reading/presentation of current primary Staff literature in the field. Lecture/discussion/laboratory. BIOL 225 Microbiology Prerequisite: Biology 101-102 The biology of microorganisms, Offered: Fall or spring semester emphasizing prokaryotic structure, growth Leibel and cultivation, metabolism, genetics and gene regulation. Lecture topics include BIOL 241 Genetics bacteria-to-bacteria signaling, biofilms, This course focuses on the study of the secretion, microbial diversity, and hereditary principles that govern cellular bacteriophage biology. Lectures are processes, organismal development, supplemented with readings from the biological diversity, and the evolutionary primary literature. Laboratory exercises changes in populations. The goal of the demonstrate principles covered in lecture course is to provide an in-depth and instruct students on research techniques. understanding of these principles, from both Prerequisite: Biology 101-102 classical and modern perspectives. In the Offered: Fall or spring semester laboratory component of this course, model 82

BIOLOGY organisms from the animal, fungal, and molecular biological research. plant kingdoms will be utilized to help Lecture/laboratory. [W] students become familiar with current Prerequisite: Biology 101 and Chemistry methods of genetic analysis. 121-122 Prerequisite: Biology 101 Offered: Yearly Ospina-Giraldo Caslake

BIOL 245 Immunology BIOL 271 Marine Biology This course examines the immune system at An introductory study of the natural history, the cellular and molecular level. After physiology, and ecological relationships of examining the basic architecture of the marine plants and animals. Major emphasis immune system, the course explores the is placed on plant and animal adaptations to specificity that allows your body to marine environments, factors influencing recognize and respond against a virtual primary production, food webs, fisheries, unlimited number of potential pathogens. and the effects of marine pollution. In Additionally, the course investigates the addition to the lectures, a film is presented development of vaccines and the each week. Lecture/film. inappropriate immune responses that lead to Prerequisite: Biology 101-102, or allergies and autoimmune disease. permission of instructor Lecture/laboratory. Offered: Spring semester Prerequisite: Biology 101-102, or Holliday permission of instructor Offered: Fall semester BIOL 302 Biological Electron Microscopy Kurt This course introduces students to the recent advances in transmission and scanning BIOL 251 Human Physiology electron microscopy, cryoultramicrotomy, This course uses a systems approach to freeze fracturing, autoradiography, and human physiology. The functions of the immunoelectron microscopy. In the major human organ systems and the laboratory, students learn the use of both the physiological mechanisms by which these transmission and scanning electron functions are controlled are considered. microscopes and ultramicrotomy, including Lecture/laboratory. the use of the critical point drying apparatus Prerequisite: Biology 101-102, or and sputterer-coaters. Additionally, students permission of instructor carry out two out-of-class mini-research Offered: Fall semester projects and present oral and written reports Holliday at intervals over the semester. Lecture/laboratory/discussion. [W] BIOL 256 Neurobiology Prerequisite: Biology 101-102, and This course examines the field of permission of instructor neuroscience from a cellular and molecular Offered: Fall or spring semester perspective, with the neuron and neural Staff networks as the focus of discussion and experimentation. After an intensive look at BIOL 304 Tissue Culture and Virology neuronal cell biology and signaling, the An introduction to the theories, principles, course examines the cellular basis of higher- and evaluations of the latest techniques order functions, such as sensation, behavior, employed in tissue culture and virology. and memory. Lecture/discussion/laboratory. Laboratory work stresses experimental Prerequisite: Biology 101-102, or procedures and designs used in the permission of instructor culturing, handling, and study of animal Offered: Fall semester cells. Additionally, students carry out one or Reynolds more independent research projects. Prerequisite: Biology 101-102, and BIOL 261 Molecular Biology permission of instructor. A survey of nucleic acid structure, function, Offered: Interim Session and regulation in both prokaryotic and Staff eukaryotic organisms. Material emphasizes modern techniques and their uses in BIOL 308 Comparative Animal Physiology answering questions at the molecular level. In this seminar animal species are treated as Laboratory exercises allow students to gain variables in the study of the diversity of experience with the basic techniques used in adaptations to physiological problems 83

BIOLOGY presented by the environment (e.g., salt and Prerequisite: Biology 211 or Biology 213 water balance, temperature regulation, or Biology 251 or permission of instructor circulation, respiration). After an initial Offered: Spring semester series of lectures, students present papers Dearworth from the scientific literature and lead ensuing discussions. In addition, several BIOL 332 Limnology laboratory exercises and films demonstrate Students develop advanced knowledge of basic physiological processes in freshwater ecosystems and ecological invertebrates. Practicum. [S] analysis. Laboratory and lecture are tightly Prerequisite: Biology 251 or permission of integrated. Students develop a small-scale instructor experimental model of a freshwater Offered: Fall semester ecosystem, plus do individualized field- Holliday based investigations. Both oral and written presentation of findings are required. BIOL 310 Aging and Age-Related Disease Examples of some topics include temporal In this course, we will study aging as a change in biotic communities, nutrient developmental process defined by changes cycling and biota, and predator impacts on in the anatomy, physiology, and ecosystem dynamics. Strong emphasis on biochemistry of the brain as well as age- ecological design/ analysis, identifying associated changes in behavior. We will experimental variation, and self-directed also examine the biological basis of learning. Lecture/seminar/ laboratory. [S] neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer's Prerequisite: Biology 231. Knowledge of disease, associated with the brain's aging statistics is highly recommended process. The basis of our learning will be Offered: Fall or spring semester the formation of questions, discussions and Waters review of the current literature, and field experiences with aging populations. BIOL 336 Evolutionary Genetics Prerequisite: Biol 256, Biol 212, Biol 241, This course introduces students to topics in Biol 261 or permission of instructor population genetics and molecular Offered: Interim Session evolution, with particular emphasis on the Reynolds experimental quantitation of genetic variation, molecular systematics, and the BIOL 312 Cell Biology molecular evolution of genes. The main This course covers structure, function and focus is to give students direct experience in chemistry of cells, organelles, and the critical reading, evaluation, presentation, membranes. Specific topics include cellular and discussion of primary literature in the energetics, information flow in cells, field of evolutionary genetics. cytoskeletal structure and functions, signal Prerequisite: Biology 241, 261, or 235 transduction mechanisms and cellular Offered: Fall or spring semester aspects of the immune response, and cancer. Leibel Students read selected topics of current importance in cell biology and present oral BIOL 340 Molecular Medicine and written reports. This course covers the methods used to Lecture/seminar/discussion/ computer elucidate the molecular component of simulation. [S] human disease. Readings and discussion Prerequisite: Biology 101-102, and focus on the primary literature of diseases permission of instructor inherited as defects in single genes, those Offered: Fall or spring semester most amenable to gene therapy. Disease Kurt management, therapeutic protocols, federal oversight of gene-based therapy, and BIOL 314 Anatomy of Vision personal genetic medicine are discussed. An exploration of the conceptual DNA microarray analysis of whole genome approaches and modern experimental expression and techniques to manipulate techniques used in functional morphology. genes are covered in a practicum. Through a combination of anatomy, Lecture/practicum/discussion/seminar. [S] physiology, and biomechanics, students Prerequisite: Biology 241 or 261, or explore the functional basis of locomotion permission of instructor and feeding in vertebrate animals. Offered: Fall or spring semester Lecture/seminar/laboratory. [S] Caslake

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BIOL 345 Infectious Disease and guests they may invite. Hours by Extended exposure to immunology arrangement. [one W credit only upon (following Biology 245) covering various completion of both 495 and 496] aspects of human pathogens and how the Prerequisite: Permission of faculty mentor immune system handles them. Vaccines and department head either in use, in trials, or under development Offered: Fall and spring semesters are explored for each of the pathogens. Staff

Students read primary research articles and participate in discussions. Practicum provides hands-on opportunity to explore CHEMISTRY aspects of vaccine development. Lecture/practium/discussion/seminar. [S] Faculty Prerequisite: Biology 245 Professor Miles, Head; Professor Husic; Offered: Fall or spring semester Associate Professors Gindt, Haug, Nataro, Kurt Nutaitis; Assistant Professors Huang, Mylon, Rutherford; General Chemistry BIOL 351-380 Special Topics Laboratory Coordinator Salter; Dependent upon student and staff interests, Instrumentation Specialist Chejlava. one or more specialized areas of biology are examined each year. Majors learn to interpret the physical world Prerequisite: Biology 101-102, and other through the study of the properties, courses as specified by instructor composition, and structure of matter. Offered: Fall and spring semesters Staff The Bachelor of Science is the most structured and is preferred by graduate BIOL 390 Botanical Measurements schools and employers who seek maximum Employing techniques commonly used with professional capability at the undergraduate botanical materials, this course surveys the level. The Bachelor of Arts requires fewer algae, lichens, and bryophytes in the areas chemistry courses and more study in other of anatomy, morphology, physiology, and fields; it is chosen by students who plan ecology. Laboratory includes field health service careers or others who desire a collections, specimen identification, practice broader educational experience. in aseptic techniques, physiological measurements, and assessment of Requirements for the A.B. degree morphogenic changes. Limited to 12 Mathematics 161/162 or 161/176; Physics students. 111/112 or 131/133; Chemistry 121, 122, Prerequisite: Biology 101-102 and 212 or 213, 221, 222, 231 plus either 311 permission of instructor. and three other advanced Chemistry courses Staff (not to include Chemistry 323 or 325), or

Chemistry 323/324 (or 325/326) with two BIOL 401-404 Independent Research other advanced Chemistry electives (not to A limited number of juniors and seniors include Chemistry 311). Chemistry 323 or may conduct an in-depth investigation of a 325 plus three advanced courses not particular topic in biology under the including either 324 or 326 is not an option. supervision of a faculty mentor. Hours by In addition, College-wide requirements for arrangement. the A.B. degree must be satisfied. Advanced Prerequisite: Permission of faculty mentor Chemistry electives are 300- or 400-level and department head courses, only two of which may be Offered: Fall and spring semesters Biochemistry courses. Staff

BIOL 495, 496 Thesis Requirements for an American Chemical Majors with strong academic records and Society certified B.S. degree research potential are invited to become Chemistry 121, 122, 213, 221, 222, 231, candidates for departmental honors toward 325, 326, 332, 351, 391 or 495, 431, and the end of the first semester of their junior two advanced (300- or 400-level, excluding year. The courses consist of an original independent study or thesis) Chemistry laboratory investigation and culminate in a electives (including a minimum of 500 thesis submitted at the end of the senior year hours of chemistry laboratory); Physics and defended before the department staff 131/133 or 151/152; Math 161, 162, 263, 85

CHEMISTRY and 272 ; and other College-wide laboratory students have a project on a topic requirements for the B.S. degree. of their choice. Serves as an advanced chemistry elective for Biochemistry majors. Requirements for the Minor Prerequisite: Chemistry 122 The minor in chemistry consists of six Nataro courses: Chemistry 121, 122, 221, 222, 311 (or 323, 324), and an additional course CHEM 213 Inorganic Chemistry I with selected from 212, 231, or 351. Laboratory Same as Chemistry 212 plus one three-hour For information on the A.B. and B.S. majors laboratory per week, which includes in Biochemistry, go back to the main experience in the synthesis, purification, and catalog page and select "biochemistry." characterization (infrared and electronic

spectroscopy, magnetic susceptibility, Chemistry Courses NMR, cyclic voltammetry, and x-ray powder diffraction) and properties of CHEM 102 A Chemical Perspective inorganic compounds. Designed for non-science students. After a Prerequisite: Chemistry 122 coverage of basic principles, a case study Offered: Spring semester approach is used to examine societal Nataro problems caused, influenced, or solved by chemistry. Background information and CHEM 221, 222 Organic Chemistry I and II rationale are discussed as well as the General aspects of organic chemistry chemistry in-volved. Specific topics will including nomenclature, structure, reactions, vary from year to year depending on the synthesis, and spectroscopy are surveyed. interests of students and staff. The This course is intended to prepare students laboratory emphasizes the scientific for a career in chemistry or biochemistry, as approach with experiments using consumer well as the medical and engineering products. Lecture/laboratory. Students who professions. Lecture/laboratory. have credit for Chemistry 121 or 122 may Prerequisite: Chemistry 122 or 213 for not take 102 for credit. Students who have Chemistry 221; Chemistry 221 for credit for 102 may not take 121 for credit. Chemistry 222 Offered: Fall and spring semester Offered: 221/Fall, 222/Spring Staff Miles, Nutaitis, Rutherford

CHEM 121, 122 General Chemistry I/II CHEM 231 Analytical Chemistry I Students will understand the basic principles A thorough study of the fundamental of reaction stoichiometry, atomic structure, techniques and theoretical background of chemical bonding, chemical classical volumetric and gravimetric thermodynamics and kinetics. They will analysis together with some instrumental develop strategies and skills for solving analytical methods such as colorimetry, quantitative and qualitative problems. The potentiometry, and separation techniques. laboratory work illustrates fundamental Lecture/laboratory. principles emphasizing proper laboratory Prerequisite: Chemistry 122 or 213 techniques. Offered: Fall semester Prerequisite: Chemistry 121 for Chemistry Huang 122 Offered: 121/Fall, 122/Spring CHEM 252 Environmental Chemistry Staff This course discusses the chemical

principles underlying natural processes and CHEM 212 Inorganic Chemistry I the ways in which human activity affects Introduces the theories of atomic structure those processes. Sources, sinks, and and bonding in main-group and solid-state interactions of important environmental compounds. Common techniques for compounds are investigated. characterizing inorganic compounds such as Prerequisite: Chemistry 122 NMR, IR and Mass Spectrometry are Offered: Fall semester discussed. Descriptive chemistry of main Mylon group elements is examined. Conductivity, and magnetism, superconductivity and an CHEM 311 Elementary Physical Chemistry introduction to bio-inorganic chemistry are A one-semester course designed primarily additional topics in the course. In lieu of the for A.B. majors and premedical students. A 86

CHEMISTRY study of gas properties, thermodynamics, Huang elementary quantum mechanics, kinetics, and lasers. CHEM 342 Advanced Organic Chemistry Prerequisite: Chemistry 122 or 213; This course builds upon the basic concepts Physics 112; Mathematics 125, 162, or 172 and reactions of organic chemistry. Topics Offered: Fall or spring semester to be included are the effect of structure on Mylon chemical reactivity, molecular orbital theory as applied to organic molecules, CHEM 323 Physical Chemistry I without heterocyclic chemistry, natural products Lab chemistry, and the application of computers A study of classical thermodynamics, to organic chemistry. Lecture. equilibria, ideal and real gases, and Prerequisite: Chemistry 222 solutions. Nutaitis

Prerequisite: Physics 112, 122, or 131; Mathematics 162; Chemistry 122 CHEM 351 Biochemistry Survey Offered: Fall semester This course provides an understanding of Gindt structure, function, and metabolism of biological molecules including proteins, CHEM 324 Physical Chemistry II without carbohydrates, lipids, and nucleic acids. Lab Other topics include enzyme catalysis, This course covers quantum mechanics, bioenergetics, metabolic control spectroscopy, and kinetics. mechanisms, and information transfer at the Prerequisite: Physics 112, 122, or 131; molecular level. Mathematics 162; Chemistry 122 Prerequisite: Chemistry 222 Offered: Spring semester Offered: Fall semester Haug Husic

CHEM 325 Physical Chemistry I with Lab CHEM 352 Experimental Biochemistry A study of classical thermodynamics, This course provides laboratory experience equilibria, ideal and real gases, and and a theoretical analysis of modern solutions. The laboratory focuses on the preparative, analytical, and physical thermodynamics of phase changes, solution techniques utilized for the study of proteins, formation, and chemical reactions. nucleic acids, polysaccharides, membranes, Lecture/laboratory. and organelles. Lecture/laboratory. Prerequisite: Physics 112, 122, or 131; Prerequisite: Chemistry 351 Mathematics 162; Chemistry 122 Husic

Offered: Fall semester Gindt CHEM 391-392 Independent Research An independent chemistry research project CHEM 326 Physical Chemistry II with Lab carried out under the guidance of a faculty This course covers quantum mechanics, member. These courses meet the research spectroscopy, and kinetics. The laboratory requirement of the B.S. Chemistry or utilizes techniques in IR and UV-VIS Biochemistry major, and do not count as absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy, advanced chemistry electives. to investigate concepts in quantum Offered: 391/Fall, 392/Spring mechanics, spectroscopy, and kinetics. Staff

Lecture/laboratory. Prerequisite: Physics 112, 122, or 131; CHEM 393-394 Independent Study Mathematics 162; Chemistry 122 Can either be a continuation of Chemistry Offered: Spring semester 391/392 or independent study of one or Haug more advanced topics in chemistry carried out under the guidance of a faculty member. CHEM 332 Analytical Chemistry II These courses do not meet the research A study of advanced optical, requirement of the B.S. Chemistry or electroanalytical, chromatographic, and Biochemistry major, and do not count as other instrumental methods of analysis. advanced chemistry electives. Lecture/laboratory. [W] Offered: 393/fall, 394/spring Chemistry 221, 231, and 311 Staff Prerequisite: or 325, 326 Offered: Spring semester 87

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CHEM 431 Inorganic Chemistry II CHEM 470-480 Special Topics This course uses molecular orbital theory to Dependent upon staff and student interest, explain the electronic structure and one or more special topics in chemistry are reactivity of inorganic complexes. Topics examined. include symmetry and its applications to Staff bonding and spectroscopy, electronic spectroscopy of transition-metal complexes, CHEM 495, 496 Thesis mechanisms of substitution and redox A student may register for this course after processes, organometallic and multinuclear meeting with department staff and finding a NMR. [W] faculty member who agrees to act as his or Prerequisite: Chemistry 213, 311, or 324, her research adviser. Discussion of research 325 or 325, 326. Mathematics 162 areas with the faculty and preliminary work Offered: Fall semester involving literature searching and planning Nataro should be completed before the beginning of the senior year. Research in some areas CHEM 440 Structure Determination by requires certain prerequisite courses. Physical Methods Offered: 495/Fall, 496/Spring Use of infrared, ultraviolet, nuclear Staff magnetic resonance, mass spectrometry, and computational methods in the determination of the structures of organic molecules. COMPUTER SCIENCE These methods also have application to the problems of inorganic chemistry. Faculty Lecture/laboratory. Associate Professor Liew, Head; Associate Prerequisite: Chemistry 311, or 323, 324 Professor Collins; Assistant Professors or 325, 326 Pfaffmann, Xia, Instructor Li Rutherford Computer science is the study of algorithms CHEM 452 Topics in Advanced and their implementations. This field of Biochemistry study is quite recent—almost all of the This course covers a variety of topics with computer scientists who ever lived are still emphasis on the molecular basis of human alive. Its growth has been explosive, disease, new areas of biochemical research, especially in subfields such as networks, and advances in biotechnology. Topics may artificial intelligence, and e-commerce. include immunobiochemistry, molecular mechanisms of cellular signal transduction, The main emphasis of the curriculum is advanced topics in metabolism, chemical software engineering: a systematic approach carcinogenesis, and the physical basis of to the development of medium-to-large biochemical methodology. programs. One aspect of this approach is the Prerequisite: Chemistry 351 separation of principles from technology. Offered: Spring semester Students learn underlying concepts in Husic lecture sections and learn technical details— such as programming languages and CHEM 462 Advanced Physical Chemistry operating systems—in laboratory sections. A study of one or more selected topics of Students have opportunities for team current interest in physical chemistry. projects as well as independent study and Dependent upon staff, topics may include research. advanced spectroscopy, computational Lafayette’s fiber-optic networked campus chemistry, materials chemistry, or statistical provides computing resources to support thermodynamics. course work, research, and personal Prerequisite: The topics and prerequisites projects. Many students gain additional (Chemistry 323 or 324 depending on topics, experience by working part-time for the or permission of instructor) for a given Computing Services department. semester will be announced before registration Gindt Requirements for the Bachelor of Science degree Requirements for the Bachelor of Science degree are 32 courses, distributed as follows: Computer Science 102, 103, 202, 88

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203, 205, 301, 303, 406, 470 or 496, and Prerequisite: Computer Science 102 three additional 300 or 400-level courses; Collins Mathematics 161, 162, 182, 186 (or 335 & 336), 263, 282; Philosophy 150; a Values CS 202 Analysis of Algorithms and Science/ Technology seminar from a list The design and analysis of algorithms and of courses approved by the department that their complexity. This course studies cover the social and ethical implications of techniques for measuring algorithm computing; First-Year Seminar; College complexity, fundamental algorithms and Writing; Physics 131 & 132, 131 & 133, or data structures, intractable problems, and 151 & 152 and one other laboratory course algorithm-design techniques. in the natural sciences for Prerequisite: Computer Science 103 and science/engineering majors; four additional Mathematics 182 Humanities/Social Science courses (at least Xia one of each); three free electives. At least two of the 32 courses must be enhanced CS 203 Computer Organization writing courses. A study of digital logic, computer components, internal and external memory, Requirements for the Bachelor of Arts instruction sets, interrupts, micro- and degree macroprogramming. Lecture/laboratory. Prerequisite: Computer Science 103 Requirements for the Bachelor of Arts Pfaffmann degree are 32 courses, which must include the following: Computer Science 102, 103, CS 205 Software Engineering 202, 203, 205; three additional computer The analysis, design, implementation, and science courses at the 300 or 400 level; maintenance strategies appropriate for large Mathematics 161, 182, 186; Philosophy software projects. Lecture/laboratory. 150; a coherent, pre-approved (by the Permission of department head required. department) cluster of five or six courses Prerequisite: Computer Science 103 outside of computer science (this Li requirement is waived for double majors); the Common Course of Study. CS 301 Principles of Programming Requirements for the Minor Languages Computer Science 102, 103, and four An introduction to the theory of the design courses at the 200 level or above. and implementation of contemporary programming languages. Topics in- clude Computer Science Courses the study of programming language syntax and semantics, translators, and imperative, CS 100 Introduction to Computing functional, logic and object-oriented The computer is the most versatile tool ever language paradigms. Lecture/laboratory. invented. In this course, students learn how Prerequisite: Computer Science 202, 203 to work with computers and how computers Xia affect lives. Lecture/laboratory. (This course does NOT satisfy any requirement of the CS 303 Theory of Computation Common Course of Study.) An introduction to the theoretical Staff foundations of computer science and formal models of computation. Topics will include CS 102 Principles of Computer Science I formal languages, finite automata, A rigorous introduction to object-oriented computability, and undecidability. design and implementation. Prerequisite: Computer Science 202 and Lecture/laboratory. This course requires Philosophy 150 considerable analytical ability; it is not a Xia course in computer literacy or basic computer skills. CS 305 Computer Networks Staff The implementation and use of computer networks. Topics include the ISO reference CS 103 Principles of Computer Science II model, communication protocols, local-area Continuation, from Computer Science 102, and wide-area networks, and satellite of an object-oriented approach to the design communications. Lecture/laboratory. and implementation of software systems. Prerequisite: Computer Science 203 or Lecture/laboratory. Electrical and Computer Engineering 313 89

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Corequisite: Computer Science 205 Staff Li CS 495, 496 Senior Thesis CS 320 Database Management Systems A two-semester, independent research This course examines the organization, project on a topic selected by the student design, and implementation of database and approved by the department. A student management systems. Lecture/laboratory. must undertake such a program for two Prerequisite: Computer Science 205 semesters to graduate with honors. [W] Corequisite: Computer Science 202 Staff Staff

CS 390-394 Independent Study and ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS Research Independent study projects for juniors and Faculty seniors. Hours arranged. Permission of Professor Averett, Head; Professors Ahene, department head required. Bodenhorn, Bruggink, Bukics, Chambers, Staff Crain, Gamber, Heavey, Seifried; Associate Professors DeVault, Hutchinson; Assistant CS 401 Computer Graphics Professors Handy, Kelly, Ruebeck, Smith, The creation and use of graphical Stifel information and user interfaces. Lecture/laboratory. The foundation of the department’s program Prerequisite: Computer Science 202, 205; is economics, that branch of social science Mathematics 162 that studies how societies allocate scarce Liew resources among competing ends. The core courses include mathematics and statistics, CS 406 Operating Systems economic theory, and financial accounting. An in-depth study of operating systems, Within these courses students have the covering such topics as concurrent opportunity to learn spreadsheet and processes, memory management, econometric software. input/output and file systems, and resource allocation. Lecture/laboratory. Upper-division electives allow students to Prerequisite: Computer Science 203 or further their study of business and Electrical and Computer Engineering 313 government, domestic and foreign Corequisite: Computer Science 205 economies, and current issues. The course Li offerings are well suited to concentrations in political economy, finance, applied CS 410-415 Special Topics economics, and international economics. This course considers recent advances Special opportunities include participating and/or subjects of current interest in in research with faculty members, computer science. internships, and the Lafayette Student Prerequisite: Prerequisites vary according Investment Research Fund. to the topic. Requirements for the Major Staff Economics and Business 101, 211, 212, 213, 218 and a minimum of five department CS 420 Artificial Intelligence electives excluding internships; An introduction to the study of intelligence Mathematics 141 and 186 or Mathematics as computation. Topics include problem- 161, the Mathematics Department solving techniques, heuristic searches and multivariate calculus module, and 186. knowledge representation. Lecture/laboratory. Requirements for the Minor Prerequisite: Computer Science 202, 205 Six courses within the department, with Pfaffmann prerequisites enforced.

CS 470 Senior Project Requirements for the Certificate in In this course, students work in teams on the Financial Policy and Analysis analysis, design, and implementation of a Nine courses including Economics 101, large-scale software project. 211, 218, and 320; Mathematics 141 or 161, Prerequisite: Senior standing and either an approved statistics course; one Category Computer Science 320 or 305 A elective (CS 102, CM 151, EP 261, 450, 90

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Math 272, PSTD 300) and two Category B ECON 211 Intermediate Microeconomics electives (Econ 303, 319, 321, 323, 324, A study of how individuals and 326, 342, Math 373). organizations deal with the problem of scarcity, the role of prices in coordinating The following Economics and Business economic activity, criteria for determining courses may not be used to satisfy the desirable allocation of resources, the mix of requirements for the Mathematics/Natural private and public institutions, and the Sciences unit or the Humanities/Social economic basis of public policies. Sciences unit of the Common Course of Prerequisite: Econ 101 and Mathematics Study: Economics and Business 213, 218, 161 319, 303, 320, 321, 322, 324, 352, 365, 367. Offered: Every semester For information on the joint major in Staff

Mathematics and Economics, refer to the Mathematics and Economics major. ECON 212 Intermediate Macroeconomics An examination of aggregate economic For information on the coordinate major in activity focusing on the forces that International Economics and Commerce, determine the behavior of real GDP, interest refer to the International Economics and rates, and the price level. Economic growth, Commerce major. fluctuations, unemployment, and inflation Additional departmental course offerings are analyzed along with alternative policies appear under Interim Session. for dealing with them. Prerequisite: Econ 101 and Mathematics 161 Economics and Business Courses Offered: Every semester Staff ECON 101 Principles of Economics An introduction to economics stressing the fundamental and central concepts in ECON 213 Fundamentals of Econometrics economics and discussing methods and This course focuses on building multiple topics that engage economists. Topics regression models useful for testing include supply and demand analysis, economic theories and making business determination of prices, output and profits, forecasts. Topics include simple and distribution of income, determination of real multiple regression, dummy variables, GDP, and fiscal and monetary policy. multicollinearity, heteroscedasticity, serial Offered every semester. correlation, and binary dependent variable Staff models. The coursework includes extensive use of statistical software packages and ECON 210 Foundations in International large data sets. Economics Prerequisite: Econ 211; Mathematics 176 This course provides nonmajors with an or 186 intermediate level microeconomic and Offered: Every semester Averett, Bruggink, Heavey macroeconomic foundation for the study of international economics. It addresses trade- related issues, such as why trade exists and ECON 218 Financial Accounting who gains and loses from trade. An introduction to the basic concepts and International financial concepts, such as standards underlying the measurement and exchange rates and the balance of payments, reporting of the financial effects of are also examined. The course is open to economic events on the business entity. nonmajors only and is designed specifically Emphasis is on the theory of asset valuation for International Affairs majors. and income determination and its International Affairs majors should take this implications for the communication function course in the fall of sophomore year. of accounting. Students are required to Students who receive credit for 210 may not attend a weekly one-hour lab in which they receive credit for 211 or 212. Similarly, learn spreadsheet techniques and students who receive credit for 211 or 212 applications to financial accounting. may not receive credit for 210. Offered: Every semester Staff Prerequisite: Econ 101. Offered every year DeVault ECON 300 Industry, Strategy, and Policy This course serially examines the major sectors of the global economy using the 91

ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS tools of economic theory. For each sector, ECON 321 Investments students analyze current market conditions An examination of the portfolio theory and and trends, financial performance, critical security analysis involved with both fixed challenges, and relevant public policies. income and equity securities. Topics include Prerequisite: ECON 211 analysis, pricing, and risk management. Staff Prerequisite: Prerequisite: Econ 320.

Chambers ECON 303 Income Tax Topics This course introduces students to the ECON 322 Financial Markets concepts and intricacies of federal income This course is an introduction to Flow of tax policies. Students learn to recognize the Funds analysis and interest rate major transactions inherent in business and determination in the money and capital financial transactions. markets, the structure of interest rates, Prerequisite: Prerequisite: Econ 319 efficient market hypothesis, and major Staff financial institutions in the United States.

Prerequisite: Prerequisites: Econ 211, 212, ECON 313 Forecasting for Business and or permission of instructor Economics Staff This course teaches the basic techniques used by business, academic, and ECON 323 Money, Financial government economists to forecast a wide Intermediation, and the Economy variety of economic variables. The emphasis A theoretical analysis of the role of money is on statistical technique. Students learn in determining the level of economic how to decompose time series data into their activity. Topics covered include the key components: seasonal, cyclical, trend, determination of interest rates and inflation, and white noise. Autoregressive and moving the institutional structure of financial average techniques as well as econometric intermediaries and the Federal Reserve, and modeling are used to model and forecast the history of monetary policy in the United economic and business data. [W] States. [W] Prerequisite: Econ 213 or Econ 365. Prerequisite: Prerequisites: Econ 211, 212, Gamber or permission of instructor3

Gamber ECON 319 Financial Theory and Analysis This course takes the principles of ECON 324 Options and Futures accounting and applies them to the world of This course examines the practices and finance. The emphasis is on the theory that principal theories of major options and underlies corporate accountability for futures markets. Special emphasis is placed financial reporting. Selected reporting and on the role of derivative securities in disclosure issues, such as financial facilitating risk management. statement presentations, earnings per share Prerequisite: Prerequisite: Econ 321. (EPS), debt, equity, and investments of Chambers, Kelly excess funds for strategic financial management, as well as cash flow analysis, ECON 325 Women and the Economy are incorporated. Excel spreadsheets are This course surveys a wide range of used extensively. economic issues relating to women’s lives Prerequisite: Econ 218 with special emphasis on family, work, and Offered: Offered every semester. income. Public policy applications are Bukics stressed. [W]

Prerequisite: ECON 101 ECON 320 Corporate Finance Staff Analysis and practical application of corporate financial data as it relates to ECON 326 Entrepreneurial Finance and managerial decision making. Particular Management emphasis is placed on the corporate This course is designed for students with an investment and financing decision, risk interest in the critical examination of small management, and the dividend decision. businesses from inception to growth phase Prerequisite: Prerequisites: Econ 211, 213 and ultimately to the mature business (may be taken concurrently), 319. model. The course focuses on key elements Offered: Every semester of new business ventures with particular Chambers, Kelly emphasis on differences that exist in the

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ECON 331 Industrial Organization ECON 335 Environmental Economics This course integrates microeconomic This course is designed to give students a theory with economic application better understanding of how the techniques in an investigation of various environment and the economy interact and market structures, strategic firm interaction, how public policy can be used to shape this antitrust issues, and economic regulation. interaction. The course begins by sketching Beginning with the standard Structure- out the flows of natural resources associated Conduct-Performance paradigm and with economic activity and how the proceeding through some of the most environmental effects produced by these recently developed theories in flows are valued. The course then proceeds noncooperative games, the course content to show how market economies affect the exposes students to an array of methods that environment. Particular emphasis is placed facilitate the analysis of market structures, on the environmental damage generated by antitrust, and regulatory issues. market economies and how public policy Prerequisite: Econ 211 or permission of can best be used to address this damage. instructor Prerequisite: Econ 211 Ruebeck DeVault

ECON 332 Economics of Labor ECON 338 Economics of Sports A general course in labor economics with a The application of theoretical economics to focus on the theoretical and actual operation the sports industry. Professional and of the labor market. The course includes collegiate sports offer opportunities for both consideration of problems, policies, and theoretical and empirical research due to the theories concerned with the labor force, amount of data that is available. Topics wages, unemployment, productivity, human include market structure and antitrust, capital, worker health and safety, poverty, managerial decisions for inputs and outputs, the economic effect of unions, and pay and performance in labor markets. alternatives to orthodox theories. [W] Students chose a topic area for presentation Prerequisite: Econ 211, 212, 213, or and write a paper on a contemporary sports permission of instructor issue. Averett Prerequisite: Econ 211, 213; 365; or permission of instructor ECON 333 Managerial Economics Bruggink

This course covers the practical application of microeconomic theory to business ECON 341 Public Sector Economics problems. Examples of these problems A study of the public sector of the economy include: price and output decisions and cost that includes the theories of public revenues and demand functions in various markets and expenditures, the tax structure of under risk and uncertainty. Case studies are American governments including analysis used to exemplify specific problems. of the rationale and consequences of major Prerequisite: Econ 211, 213 taxes, and major expenditure programs. 93

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Fiscal problems of state and local their approach to the challenges of reducing governments and intergovernmental fiscal poverty, improving health and education, relations are also examined. and increasing their productive capacity and Prerequisite: Econ 211, 212, or permission national and per capita income. The course of instructor examines the applicability of conventional Staff economic logic and analytical tools to developing economies. Competing ECON 342 Public Finance paradigms of development and the This course is a study of the role of implications of different sets of behavioral government in the economy: when should assumptions are explored. government intervene, how does it Prerequisite: Econ 210 or 211-212, or intervene, and what is the effect of permission of instructor interventions on economic outcomes? These Ahene, Beckman issues are examined using the tools of economic theory and statistics, with ECON 347 Comparative Systems and emphasis on applications and analysis of Transitional Economies policies in the U.S. and other countries. An examination of the elements of Prerequisite: Econ 211, 213. capitalism, socialism, markets and planning Offered: Every semester and of their applications worldwide. Special Crain emphasis is given 1) to economies currently

moving from socialist planned forms of ECON 343 Economic History of the United economic organization to market capitalism, States found primarily in Eastern Europe, Russia, A study of the growth and development of and in former republics of the Soviet Union, the American economy from the Jamestown and 2) to developing nations currently colony to the Cold War. The course privatizing many state-owned enterprises introduces students to the fundamental and strengthening their reliance on market debates concerning the importance of forces. various historical episodes and institutions Prerequisite: Econ 101 and 210, or 211- that forged the modern American economy. 212, or permission of instructor Underlying the historical analysis is the Beckman explicit use of economic models and theories. Wherever possible analogies ECON 349 A Business History of the between historical experience and United States contemporary issues are drawn providing Employing an economic approach, this useful and often unique insights. course explores a number of topics relevant Prerequisite: Econ 211, 212 to an understanding of the American Bodenhorn experience. It is a course about economic

growth and development. Students study a ECON 345 Political Economy number of institutions and developments Political economy examines issues that lie believed to be critical to the United States on the boundary of political science and ascendancy from a marginal country on the economics. At one level, the course uses the periphery of the Atlantic economy to the tools of modern economics to examine dominant economy in an increasingly behavior in political settings: why people globalized world. The course begins with a vote, make campaign contributions, run for discussion of what makes a firm a firm, why political office, favor specific legislative they exist, and their special advantages, then programs, and so forth. At another level, the explores the nature of entrepreneurship. course seeks a rich understanding of What makes entrepreneurs tick? What economic policymaking by considering the makes them successful? Is it a unique role of political institutions and non-market vision? Is it a capacity to organize resources incentives. and motivate people? Next, students study Prerequisite: Econ 211, 213. several specific businesses. How did they Offered: Every semester develop successful managerial structures Crain that became self-perpetuating? Finally, the

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ECON 351 International Finance Prerequisite: Econ 210 or 211-212,, or This course provides students with an permission of instructor understanding of the international monetary Ahene system. The course examines the foreign exchange market and the role that ECON 355 Economics in Latin America governments play in this market. A review This course examines economic thought and of previous and current exchange rate trends pertaining to Latin America from systems and an analysis of international structuralism to neoliberalism. It explores capital markets is provided. how state ownership, private ownership, Prerequisite: Econ 210 or 211-212, or markets, and planning have been combined permission of instructor, and junior/senior in attempts to achieve desired goals. standing Selected issues of economic importance in DeVault the region are addressed, including regional trade efforts such as NAFTA and native ECON 352 International Business peoples’ struggles over land rights. Country This course examines the mechanics of studies based on student research are used doing business abroad and thoroughly throughout. [W] explores the challenges that management Prerequisite: Econ 210, or permission of faces today within an international instructor; Econ 346 recommended environment. The greater the number of Beckman countries in which a corporation operates, the more “multinational” it is. More ECON 356 Economic History of Russia in specifically, students are introduced to the the Twentieth Century field of global strategic management and are A study of the economy of Russia from the provided with a good understanding of the beginning of the twentieth century: the fundamental importance of cultural, economy on the eve of World War I, the economic, political, and environmental Russian Revolution, Lenin’s NEP, the factors in the growth of global business and Stalinization of the Russian economy, the investment. period of stagnation under Brezhnev, the Prerequisite: Econ 210, or 211-212, 218 reforms under Gorbachev and Yeltsin, and Ahene current problems. Prerequisite: Econ 210 or 211 ECON 353 International Trade Policy Heavey This course examines the ways in which international trade in goods and services is ECON 358 An Economic History of African regulated through trade policy. This course Americans: Middle Passage to Great has several objectives: 1) to provide Society students with an understanding of how and Employing an economic approach, this why international trade is regulated, 2) to course explores the African American demonstrate to students how particular trade experience from their introduction as policies affect international trade and indentured servants in 1619-20 Jamestown international economic welfare, and 3) to to later importation as slaves. The course expose students to the economic and begins with the arrival of the first Africans political forces that shape international trade to the Virginia colony, then traces the policy. economics of the transition from servitude Prerequisite: Econ 210 or 211-212, or to slavery, from tobacco slave culture permission of instructor centered in the Chesapeake region to cotton DeVault culture in the Deep South, from slavery to

freedom, and the slow transition to even a ECON 354 Contemporary African semblance of racial equality. Topics include Economics economic consequences of the broken Analysis of the contemporary economic promise of "40 acres and a mule," environment in Africa: political segregation and Jim Crow, the Great sociocultural identity and economic Depression and the apparent abandonment structure, trends in public and private capital of African Americans by the New Deal, flows, African regional and international policy changes wrought by the Civil Rights economic institutions, trade development Movement, and affirmative action. and relations with world markets, Prerequisite: Econ 211, 212 investment concessions and risk, with case Bodenhorn illustrations from African countries. 95

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ECON 359 European Business Environment and problems encountered in its application This course examines the functional are developed in lecture and individual elements of business in Europe. Issues applied research papers. Topics include include the economic environment and serial correlation, heteroscedasticity, economic policies, the methods of business simultaneous equations, limited dependent formation, how firms raise capital, how variable models. Special attention is given cultural characteristics affect the to the matrix algebra determination of marketplace, the legal and tax environment estimators. and the labor markets. Consideration of the Prerequisite: Mathematics 272 or 275, structure of the European Union and its 336, 176, 186 or 336; Econ 211, 212 (one of impact on business are also discussed, the preceding can be taken concurrently) particularly in light of the new member Averett, Bruggink countries expecting to join in 2004. Prerequisite: Econ 211, 212 (or 210) and ECON 366 Macroeconometrics 218 The twin objectives of this course are to 1) Bukics introduce students to macroeconometric theory and techniques and 2) provide ECON 360 Marketing Science students with practice applying those What products do firms decide to introduce? techniques. The topics covered in the course How do they price and promote existing are: Solow Growth, Okun's Law, the products? Drawing from knowledge in the Phillips curve and monetary policy. areas of microeconomic theory and strategic Techniques covered include time series marketing, students use analytical modeling, decomposition, vector autoregressions and case study, and computer simulation conintegration. The course involves methods to explore techniques as well as frequent use of econometric software to ethics and economic efficiency of product provide students with experience in promotion, pricing, and differentiation in applying the techniques discussed in class. today’s diverse and evolving markets.[W] Prerequisite: Econ 365 (may be taken Prerequisite: Econ 211 or permission of concurrently), Math 272 instructor Gamber

Ruebeck ECON 367 Internship ECON 361 Marketing Research A one-semester course that emphasizes the Although the pervasive assumption in practical application of economics and microeconomics is that firms know their business management principles. A limited markets demand functions, understanding number of students are placed in either how firms actually acquire this information community business organizations or requires studying the well-established governmental agencies. Under the direction techniques embodied in the field of and supervision of a designated internship marketing research. Consumer demand sponsor, the student completes a training features studied include preferences among program and a practical work project. existing products, new product Internships do not count toward the elective development, competitive analysis, and courses required in the major. Permission of customer satisfaction. Research design, data instructor required. collection methods, sampling issues, and Averett data analysis using basic and advanced statistical techniques are covered. Students ECON 370-375 Special Topics apply econometrics to the task of A seminar study of major economic issues understanding consumers' needs. facing the United States and world Prerequisite: Economics 211 and economies. Topics to be announced in Economics 213 advance of each semester. Staff Prerequisite: As stated for each special topics course ECON 365 Econometric Analysis Staff

Econometric analysis is a blend of mathematics, statistics, and economic ECON 390, 391 Independent Study theory. It focuses on the development of An investigation and report on a subject multiple regression models useful for testing selected by the student. Open by permission economic relationships and making business of the department. Hours to be arranged. forecasts. The multiple regression model Staff

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ECON 400 Advanced Monetary Policy observations. The class requires a high A small group of selected students work degree of participation and preparation, and together with faculty mentors in competition a minimum of 10 hours of observation in a with teams from other colleges and public school. universities. Each team develops a Squarcia presentation involving U.S. monetary policy and delivers this presentation to judges from EDUC 250 Curriculum and Instruction the U.S. Federal Reserve System. Interested This course, designed for students interested students are encouraged to take Econ 323- in the field of secondary education, focuses Money, Financial Intermediation, and the on curriculum design and construction, and Economy. the conceptual and practical knowledge of Prerequisite: Economics and Business 212, teaching methods. The use of technology for Committee Recommendation instruction and accommodations for Staff students with special needs are addressed. The course includes a field experience with ECON 495, 496 Thesis 24 hours of observation and opportunities For honors candidates. One course each for practice teaching at a local high school. semester, only Econ 496 counts toward the Prerequisite: Education 150 or permission required electives in the major; Econ 495 of instructor does not. 496 [W] Offered: Interim Session Staff Squarcia

EDUC 350 Curriculum and Instruction II EDUCATION This course emphasizes the teaching of mathematics, science, English, social studies, and foreign languages. In addition Faculty to reinforcement of the research-based Instructors Squarcia and Tiernan essential elements of instruction, it includes Students interested in pursuing a teaching an extensive field experience requiring career upon graduation should contact the students to observe and engage in micro- Education Program Adviser at the earliest teaching at a local secondary school. opportunity. Although Lafayette does not Designed for those seeking secondary offer teaching certification, several teacher certification. Squarcia possibilities exist for receiving secondary teaching certification. Students who have completed the core education requirements PSYC 242 Educational Psychology at Lafayette may enroll in DeSales This course introduces students to the theory University’s ninth-semester program for and research underlying instructional teaching certification at an additional cost practice. Topics include cognitive and established by DeSales. behavioral approaches to learning, components of effective teaching, classroom Lafayette students may also receive motivation, measurement and testing issues, advanced standing toward a graduate degree and consideration of individual differences. and certification at University of Prerequisite: Psychology 110 or Pennsylvania and other universities. permission of instructor Students wishing to pursue teaching Ms. McGillicuddy-DeLisi certification need to plan their academic program in cooperation with the Education Program Adviser. ENGINEERING

Education Courses Faculty EDUC 150 Principles of Education Professor Jones, Director The course examines the historical, The Division of Engineering offers four sociological, and philosophical foundations Bachelor of Science degrees in Chemical, of education. Topics include learning, Civil, Electrical and Computer, and curriculum, current educational issues, and Mechanical Engineering, as well as a the relationship of education to society. Bachelor of Arts in Engineering, and a dual Emphasis is on current literature, primary degree: Bachelor of Arts in International source materials, interviews, and classroom Affairs/B.S. Engineering. 97

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Offered: Fall semester Candidates for a Bachelor of Science in one Staff of the engineering disciplines may elect a minor program in addition to their major. ES 230 Strength of Materials The minor requirements are the same as the Stress and strain relationships in tension, College requirements. compression, shear, and combined loading. Material properties. Theory and design of Engineering Science Courses pressure vessels, beams and columns. Analysis of torsion, bending and transverse Courses designated as Engineering Science loading. Deflections. Lecture. are basic courses for all engineering ES 226 programs. (101, 225, 226, 230, 231, 241). Prerequisite: Mathematics 264 Corequisite: Offered: Spring semester Staff Engineering Courses ES 101 Introduction to Engineering ES 231 Nature of Engineering Materials This is an introductory engineering course Nature and properties of metals, ceramics, that is designed to give the student a wide polymers, and other materials in engineering exposure to the engineering method and the applications. Interpretation of the different engineering disciplines at mechanical, physical, and chemical Lafayette College. The course emphasizes properties from the viewpoint of scientific engineering skills such as problem-solving, disciplines. Offered as an elective for design methodology, creativity, and physics and chemistry majors. communication including the fundamentals Lecture/recitation/laboratory. of Engineering Graphics and Computer- Prerequisite: Chemistry 121 or permission Aided-Design. Students participate both of instructor; Mathematics 161. independently and as members of multi- Offered: Fall and spring semesters Staff disciplinary teams to solve problems Staff ES 241 Basic Electrical Circuits for ES 225 Engineering Professionalism and Engineers Ethics This course develops a basic understanding An introduction to engineering decisions of DC and AC circuits and their analysis, using moral theories and engineering codes simple analog and digital systems, basic of ethics. A case-study approach is used to electronics and electromechanical devices. demonstrate the relationship between This course may serve to better prepare non- engineering decisions and a range of ECE majors for the electrical engineering considerations: economic, professional, component of the Fundamentals of environmental, sustainability, ethical, health Engineering exam. and safety, social, and political. The course Prerequisite: PHYS 131, MATH 162. Gum also develops student technical writing skills as a tool for engineering communication. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing A.B. IN INTERNATIONAL Offered: Fall and spring semesters STUDIES/B.S. ENGINEERING Staff

ES 226 Statics Faculty Introduction to the analytical methods of Professor Van Gulick (Mechanical engineering and engineering computation Engineering), Chair; Professor Jones through the analysis of equilibrium force (Director of Engineering), Professor systems. The fundamental principles of McDonald (Foreign Languages and mechanics are explored through extensive Lite4rature), Professor Duhl, (Foreign problem-solving exercises. Topics include Languages and Literature), Professor vector algebra, resultants of force systems; Ferri (Chemical Engineering), free body analysis, friction; first and second Professor Veshosky (Civil Engineering) moments of area, shear and bending Globalization of engineering and technology diagrams. is increasing the number of attractive job Prerequisite: Mathematics 162/166; opportunities in foreign countries for Physics 131 98

CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING engineers with proficiency in a second emphasizes general proficiency in science language and an understanding of foreign and mathematics the first two years, cultures. This two-degree program helps followed by professionally oriented work students prepare for these careers with the next two. Students may enroll in international corporations. technical electives to learn more about a variety of areas. Students who do well may Students earn a Bachelor of Science degree take on an independent research project, and in chemical, civil, electrical, or mechanical seniors may complete a thesis. engineering and a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies. Besides studying a The main laboratories are equipped for work chosen language, students take international on bench-scale and pilot scale equipment in politics, international history, and other the areas of fluid flow, heat transfer, mass humanities or social science courses related transfer, separation processes and chemical to the countries or regions where the reactor design. The department is accredited language is spoken. The capstone by the Engineering Accreditation experience, either a foreign practicum or Committee of the Accreditation Board for study abroad, involves total immersion in a Engineering and Technology. Graduates are non-English-speaking culture. eligible to become members of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. A.B. in International Studies Courses The goals of the program are to graduate ENGR 401, 402 International Studies students who: Practicum • Are able to tackle unfamiliar problems I, II. A professional experience involving and demonstrate an ability to understand, total immersion in a non-English-speaking formulate, analyze, design and provide foreign culture. Students practice solutions in the field of chemical engineering at an appropriate foreign engineering location. Students document their • Demonstrate professional responsibility, accomplishments so that they can be addressing economic, sustainability, and evaluated and graded. At least part of the environmental considerations in the solution documentation may be required to be in the of engineering problems in both local and foreign language spoken. [W] global settings Prerequisite: Advanced standing in • Work well in multi-disciplinary teams and International Studies appreciate the value of multiple perspectives Van Gulick in engineering problem solving • Explain and defend their solutions and communicate effectively using graphic, CHEMICAL AND verbal and written techniques to all audiences BIOMOLECULAR • Value mentoring, life-long learning and ENGINEERING developing the talents of others and by accomplishing these objectives become effective leaders in engineering. Faculty Professor Piergiovanni, Head; Professors J. Requirements R. Martin, Schaffer, Tavakoli; Associate Majors must complete Mathematics 161, Professors Ferri; Assistant Professors 162, 263, 264; four courses chosen from an Darcy, Morton. approved humanities and social science list plus English 110 and a First-Year Seminar; Chemical engineers discover and implement two free electives and two technical new processes and products that are useful electives, one from departmental electives and economical. The chemical engineering and another 300-level or higher course in profession has evolved in concert with the engineering, mathematics, or natural technological landmarks of the last century: sciences; Chemistry 121, 122, 221, 324 plus from petroleum refining at the beginning of two chemistry electives one of which may the last century, to the biotechnology and be a non-chemistry course with heavy biomedical developments, innovations in chemistry content; Physics 131; Engineering digital communications and Science 101, 225, and an elective microelectronics, and nanotechnology. (Engineering Science 226: Statics or Lafayette chemical engineers are well suited Engineering Science 241: Basic Electric to take on these challenges. Our curriculum Circuit Analysis); and Chemical 99

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Engineering 211, 222, 311, 312, 314, 321, engineering problem solving. Lecture/ 322, 323, 324, 411, 412, 413, 415, and 422. laboratory. Prerequisite: CHE 211 Chemical Engineering Courses Offered: Spring semester Staff CHE 211 Material and Energy Balances Mathematical analysis of steady-state flow CHE 321 Applied Fluid Mechanics and processes including those with chemical Heat Transfer reactions. Emphasis on general principles Analysis of fluid flow in complex and techniques used in problem solving. geometries and porous media; unsteady heat Material and enthalpy balances as applied to conduction, convection, and heat exchange. physical and chemical systems. Heats of Analysis and design of driving forces. reaction. Recycle and purging. Digital and Introduction to integrated fluid flow-heat graphical procedures. Lecture/recitation. transfer processes. Prerequisite: Chemistry 121, 122 Prerequisite: CHE 311 Offered: Fall semester Offered: Spring semester Staff Staff

CHE 222 Thermodynamics CHE 322 Experimental Design II Fundamental thermodynamic relationships Statistical design of laboratory experiments and their application to non-reactive which illustrate the principles of fluid flow chemical engineering systems. Equations of and heat transfer culminating in integrated state involving ideal and non-ideal behavior. separations processes in pilot-scale Estimation and use of thermodynamic equipment. Emphasis on statistical properties. Analysis of open systems. experimental design and analysis of data, Lecture/Problem-solving. instrumental analysis, technical writing, and Prerequisite: Chemistry 121, 122; oral presentations. Lecture/Laboratory. Mathematics 263 Corequisite: CHE 321 Offered: Fall semester Offered: Spring semester Staff Staff

CHE 311 Transport Phenomena CHE 323 Fluid Phase and Reaction Unified treatment of continuum descriptions Equilibria of momentum, heat, and mass transfer and Application of fundamental thermodynamic analogies among the three.Evaluation and relationships to phase and reaction use of transport coefficients. Shell balances equilibria in chemical and biological and equations of change. Molecular systems. Solution thermodynamics; solid, (laminar) transport and introduction to liquid, vapor equilibria for ideal and convective transport. Lecture/Problem nonideal systems; prediction of equilibrium Solving. data; chemical reaction equilibria for ideal Prerequisite: Chemistry 121, 122 and nonideal systems. Lecture/Problem- Corerequisite: Mathematics 264 solving Offered: Fall semester Prerequisite: CHE 222 Staff Offered: Spring semester Staff CHE 312 Experimental Design I Statistical analysis of data from laboratory CHE 324 Process Control experiments which illustrate the basic Analysis of dynamic process and control principles of thermodynamic and transport systems including controllers, measuring properties. Emphasis on laboratory safety, elements, control elements, and system statistical analysis of data, and technical components. Design of controlled systems. writing. Lecture/laboratory. [W] Analytical and experimental evaluation of Corequisite: CHE 311 process dynamics. Dynamic simulation and Offered: Fall semester stability analysis. Lecture/problem period. Staff Prerequisite: Mathematics 264 Offered: Spring semester CHE 314 Chemical Engineering Computing Staff Applications of high-level computer languages, spreadsheets, software, and computer operating systems as tools for

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CHE 331 Polymers CHE 344 Interfacial Phenomena in Formation, structure, and properties of Nanotechnology polymers. Thermoplastic and thermosetting Chemistry, physics, and engineering of polymers; stereospecific structures; polymer nanoscopic systems dominated by solutions and solvent resistance; chain interfacial behavior. Equilibrium interfacial conformation; molecular weight; thermodynamics, capillary interactions, and morphology; transitions; condensation surface forces in disperse systems. Electrical polymerization; free radical and nonradical double layer and electrokinetic phenomena. addition polymerization; copolymerization; Emerging applications including rubber elasticity; viscous flow; bionanotechnology and smart materials viscoelasticity. Lecture/laboratory. illustrated using seminars in current Prerequisite: ES 231, or permission of literature and laboratory experiences. instructor Lecture/Seminar/Laboratory Martin Prerequisite: Mathematics 161; Chemistry

121; or permission of instructor CHE 334 Chemical Processes in Staff Environmental Engineering Principal chemical processes in CHE 390/391 Independent Study and environmental engineering for wastewater Research treatment, air pollution control, and solid An opportunity for selected students to waste management. Chemical, physical, and undertake a project during the junior and/or mathematical principles used in defining, senior year. Before registering, a proposal quantifying, and measuring environmental for the work must be submitted to a faculty quality. Engineering fundamentals member who serves as the adviser and to the governing the operation and design of department head for approval. Each student pollution control devices. Lecture/Problem is required to submit and orally defend a Solving. paper embodying the results of the project. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Staff Tavakoli CHE 411 Mass Transfer, Separations, and CHE 337 Biochemical Engineering Bioseparations Introduction to prokaryotic and eukaryotic Unit operations of chemical engineering cells, cell metabolism, and genetic pertaining to mass transfer and separations engineering. Mathematical modeling of processes. Staged and continuous enzyme kinetics and its importance in equilibrium separations including multi- reactor design. Large- scale fermentation, component distillation, gas such as bioreactor design and scale-up, absorption/stripping and liquid extraction. cellular and membrane transport processes, Rate-based separations such as growth media development, sterilization chromatography and membrane systems. procedures, and protein purification. Lecture/Problem Solving. Lecture/recitation/ laboratory. Prerequisite: CHE 321 and 323 Prerequisite: CHE 311; Chemistry 221, or Offered: Fall semester permission of instructor Staff Piergiovanni

CHE 412 Integrated Chemical Engineering CHE 341 Green Engineering Principles of separation processes, mass An introduction to the concept of transfer, reaction kinetics in developed and environmentally conscious process emerging applications illustrated by multi- development and the application of green scale laboratory experiments. Emphasis on engineering principles to the chemical analysis of safe practices, hazards analysis, process industry. Students are challenged to kinetic data, computer simulation, technical rethink the classical chemical process in writing, and oral presentation. order to satisfy regulatory and policy issues, Lecture/Laboratory. balance process economics and Corequisite: CHE 411, 413 environmental performance, and develop a Offered: Fall semester refined sense of sustainability with respect Staff to the wider chemical industry. Prerequisite: Chemistry 121 and Chemistry 122 or permission of instructor Staff

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CHE 413 Reaction Kinetics and Reactor CIVIL AND Design The kinetics of reacting systems and the ENVIRONMENTAL design of chemical reactors. Analysis of rate ENGINEERING data; multistep reaction mechanisms, enzymatic reactions, catalysis and heterogeneous processes; design of single Faculty phase isothermal reactors, multiple-phase Professor Roth, Head; Associate Professors reactors, non-isothermal reactors, and Brandes (Acting Head), Jones, Ruggles, nonideal reactors. Lecture/recitation. Veshosky; Assistant Professors Kney, Kurtz, Prerequisite: CHE 323 Raich, Sanford-Bernhardt. Offered: Fall semester Civil engineers, like all engineers, are Staff problem-solvers. They find the best ways to construct, operate, and maintain bridges, CHE 415 Design Analysis buildings, dams, and highways. They design Quantitative study of current processes. water plants and waste treatment systems, Analysis and flowsheet layout of typical and look for ways to manage hazardous systems; safety, health, environmental, materials. quality control, and ethical concerns in design; economic factors in estimation, The curriculum prepares students for a design, construction, and operation of variety of situations by emphasizing process equipment. Lecture/recitation. fundamental principles of engineering, an Prerequisite: CHE 324 appreciation of the effect of human factors Corequisite: CHE 411 and 413 on technology, logical thinking, Offered: Fall semester resourcefulness, and ethical considerations Staff in applying science to human problems. In

addition to a thorough grounding in science CHE 422 Design Synthesis and technology, students select more than This capstone design course provides one-fifth of their courses in the liberal arts opportunities for the application of all prior and humanities. course work in the resolution of an industrially realistic or derived chemical Students may choose to focus on structural, process design problem in a team format. environmental, geotechnical, transportation, Teams demonstrate a practical ability to construction or hydraulic engineering. define the required technical challenge, Facilities include laboratories for structural develop relevant criteria to evaluate systems, materials, fluid mechanics, alternatives, and present the resolution of geotechnical engineering, geographical the technical challenge in both oral and information systems, and environmental written formats.[W] engineering. Design concepts and analytical Prerequisite: CHE 411, 413, and 415 techniques are integrated into the Offered: Spring semester curriculum, which includes extensive use of Staff state-of-the-art computer systems.

Juniors and seniors may undertake CHE 495, 496 Thesis independent studies and research projects in This program is designed and operated in conjunction with faculty. Seniors may also accordance with the requirements of the do honors theses. Honors program as administered by the Academic Progress- Committee. Requirements Prerequisite: Senior standing Majors are required to take Mathematics This is a Technical Elective. 161, 162, 263, and 264; Physics 131; Staff Chemistry 121; Engineering Science 101, 226, and 230; either Chemistry 122 or Engineering Science 231; Civil and Environmental Engineering 201, 251, 271, 311, 321, 331, 341, 351, 361, 372, 473 and three departmental electives; two science or mathematics electives; two technical electives (upper-level mathematics, science, or engineering courses, usually requiring one or more prerequisites); a First Year 102

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Seminar and English 110; a sustainablility indeterminate structural analysis, trusses, related VAST course or any VAST course cables, arches, influence lines, deflections of and another approved course with trusses and frames by various methods, the sustainability outcomes; five courses chosen principal of virutal work, introduction to from an approved list of humanities and force methods of indeterminate structural social science courses (including one course analysis, structural optimization, steel chosen from an approved list in the fields of tension members, bolted and welded economics and/or policy); and two free connections, steel columns, beams, and electives. beam-columns. Prerequisite: ES 230 Civil and Environmental Engineering Offered: Fall semester Kurtz Courses CE 201 Civil Engineering Computing CE 321 Introduction to Environmental This course provides students with an Engineering introduction to computer programming as a Application of engineering principles to a tool for engineering problem solving and to variety of environmental problems. Topics techniques in computer-aided design (CAD) include environmental chemistry, for civil engineering systems. hydrology, watersheds, water quality Prerequisite: MATH 162, CE 271 assessment, risk assessment, water supply Corequisite: CE 271 and pollution control, air pollution, solid Staff and hazardous waste management, and environmental management. Laboratories CE 251 Fluid Mechanics consist of field trips, computer modeling, Basic principles of fluid mechanics. Topics sample collection, and chemical analysis include fluid properties, hydrostatics, and methods. Students complete a semester fluid flow concepts including continuity, project on an environmental engineering energy, and momentum. Dimensional issue of their choosing. analysis is also covered. Applications Prerequisite: Mathematics 162; Chemistry include open channel flow, pipe systems, 122 or ES 231, or permission of instructor and fluid flow measurements. Offered: Fall semester Lecture/laboratory. Staff Prerequisite: ES 226 Offered: Spring semester Staff CE 325 Sustainable Environmental Management CE 271 Design I Sustainable environmental management is An introductory course in engineering currently one of the essential elements in design and measurement. Topics include product design and facilities management. fundamentals of surveying, statistical At the facility level, environmental analysis, project management, and technical management means everything from writing all of which are applied throughout manifesting hazardous waste, to redesigning the course in a series of design projects. a product, to installing air pollution control Laboratory work includes surveying field equipment. Key considerations include work, CAD, project management, and economics, long-term liability, and public CAD-based civil engineering applications. perception, both in the USA and globally. Lecture/laboratory. The emphasis in this course is on Prerequisite: Mathematics 161, 162; and management, policy, and technological ES 101. solutions that can promote sustainability Offered: Fall semester with a focus on manufacturing facilities.[W] Staff Prerequisite: Sophomore standing Staff

CE 311 Structural Analysis and Steel CE 331 Civil Engineering Project Design Management This course covers both classic determinate This course addresses management of civil sturctural analysis and the design of steel engineering projects, including planning and structures. Topics include loads, load paths, feasibility studies, environmental tributary areas, degree of determinacy, assessments, resource development, design, stability, approximate methods of construction, and other types of projects in 103

CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING which civil engineers are involved. Topics Staff include definition and scheduling of project tasks and resource management. The course CE 372 Design II also provides an overview of the concepts Students work in teams to complete four and analytical techniques of engineering projects in four areas of civil and economics, including present and annual environmental engineering. The projects are worth analysis, capitalized cost analysis, designed to provide design experience in rate of return analysis, cost/benefit analysis, each area. At the end of each project, each and sensitivity analysis. The course team presents their design results. Students introduces students to software packages develop skills in project design, project used in project management and economic management, engineering report preparation analysis. Lecture. and presentation, leadership, and are given Prerequisite: ES 225 an opportunity to utilize many of the skills Offered: Fall semester learned in previous courses within the CE Staff disciplines. Lecture/laboratory. Prerequisite: Civil Engineering 311, Civil CE 341 Introduction to Transportation Engineering 321, Civil Engineering 331, Systems Civil Engineering 341, Civil Engineering Technical and policy related aspects of 361, or permission of instructor. transportation systems. Topics include Corequisite: Civil Engineering 351 traffic analysis and control, traffic flow Offered: Spring semester theory, geometric design, capacity analysis Staff and level of service, transportation demand analysis, and transportation planning. CE 390, 391 Independent Study or Research Computer applications. Design projects Independent study or research projects include oral presentations and written selected based on the background and reports. Lecture/discussion. interests of the student. An outline of the Prerequisite: Mathematics 264 and junior proposed work is submitted for approval by or senior standing in engineering the department head and the faculty member Offered: Fall semester who serves as adviser. A final paper Staff presenting the results of the work is required. Hours arranged. CE 351 Water Resources Engineering Offered: 390/Fall, 391/Spring An introductory course in hydraulics, Staff hydrology, and water resources engineering. Topics include groundwater and surface CE 395, 396 Special Topics water supply, flow measurements, flow and This course considers recent advances pressure losses in pipe systems, probablility and/or subjects of current interest to concepts in design, open channel design students and faculty. The special topic(s) for including storm sewers and culverts, pump a given semester are announced prior to design, and detention basis design. Written registration. laboratory and design reports are required. Offered: 395/Fall, 396/Spring Prerequisite: CE 251 Staff

Offered: Spring semester in alternate years Staff CE 411 Advanced Mechanics of Solids This course considers advanced topics in CE 361 Geotechnical Engineering engineering mechanics. Included are: ortho- An introductory course in soil mechanics tropic elasticity, bending of nonprismatic and geotechnical engineering. Studies members, torsion of thin-walled members, include the classification, permeability, and energy methods. Introduction to consolidation, and strength of soils in nonlinear mechanics including elasto-plastic lecture and laboratory settings. Written analysis and bending of flat plates. reports for laboratory and design results are Introduction to finite element methods. required. Discussion of traditional design Symbolic programming is used as well as methods in foundation engineering is finite element programs included. Lecture/laboratory. [W] Prerequisite: CE 311 Prerequisite: ES 230 and CE 251 Offered: As needed (corequisite) or permission of instructor Staff

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CE 412 Advanced Structural Analysis CE 421 Hydrology Analysis of forces and deflections in Introduction to engineering hydrology, indeterminate beams, frames, and trusses. primarily dealing with surface waters. Topics include energy methods, slope- Topics include hydrologic cycle, frequency deflection, moment distribution, direct analysis, rainfall/runoff relationships, stiffness, and the matrix analysis method. routing, and stormwater management and Computer applications. Lecture. design. Design problems using current Prerequisite: CE 311 hydrological computer models are assigned. Offered: As needed Lecture. Staff Prerequisite: CE 251 Offered: Fall semester in alternate years CE 413 Design of Concrete Structures Staff This course focuses on the mechanics and design of components of reinforced concrete CE 422 Environmental Site Assessment structures and builds upon the knowledge Introduction to preliminary site gained in CE 311. Extensive use of the ACI investigations for environmental hazards. 318 design code is made. Topics include Topics include identification of wetlands, concrete and reinforcement properties, title searches, air photo interpretation for slender beams, deep beams, T-beams, shear, environmental hazards, visual site surveys, torsion, columns, one- and two-way slabs, operation of environment monitors, current walls, footings, and reinforcement splicing EPA regulations regarding site assessment and development lengths. Introduction to and investigation, and sampling of surface prestressed concrete structures. materials. Lecture/discussion/laboratory. Prerequisite: CE 311 Prerequisite: Chemistry 122, and Staff permission of instructor Staff CE 414 Structural Dynamics This course considers the analysis and CE 423 Water Quality design of structures subjected to time- Basic chemical principles and applications dependent loads. Included is the formulation to the analysis and understanding of of dynamic models for single and multiple aqueous environmental chemistry in natural degree of freedom systems. Deterministic waters and wastewaters. Modeling of and stochastic responses to shock and dissolved oxygen, nutrients, temperature, environmental loadings (earthquakes, and toxic substances with applications to winds, and waves) are developed. Emphasis rivers, lakes, estuaries, and coastal waters. is given to design applications using Lecture/laboratory. existing codes and commercially available Prerequisite: Chemistry 121; CE 221, 251 structural software. Offered: Spring semester, alternate years Prerequisite: CE 311 Staff Offered: As needed Staff CE 424 Groundwater Hydrology Analysis of groundwater flow and CE 415 Timber, Masonry, and Advanced contaminant transport in the subsurface. Steel Design Topics covered include geologic and This course covers the design of timber physical factors affecting the movement of structures, masonry structures, and water and contaminants, sources of advanced topics in structural steel design. pollution, mathematical formulation and Timber topics include the physical solution of groundwater flow and transport properties of wood, allowable design problems, remediation methods, and an stresses, diaphragms, shearwalls, beam introduction to computer simulation models. design, P-M interaction, and fasteners. Lecture. Masonry topics include pilasters, walls, and Prerequisite: CE 251; Mathematics 264, or lintels. Steel design topics include permission of instructor connections, plate girders, composite Offered: Spring semester in alternate years construction, plate girder bridges, and the Staff analysis and design of highway bridges. Prerequisite: CE 311 CE 425 Water Supply and Pollution Control Kurtz Application of basic principles to the design of water and wastewater systems. Process design and equipment selection for water 105

CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING and wastewater treatment facilities. laboratory and computer models are Lecture/discussion. employed. Lecture/ discussion. Prerequisite: CE 221, 251 Prerequisite: CE 251 Offered: Fall semester in alternate years Offered: Fall semester in alternate years Staff Staff

CE 431 Construction Management CE 461 Foundation Engineering This course addresses the concepts and This course focuses on the application of the techniques used in effectively managing basic principles of soil mechanics to the construction projects. Topics include work design of foundations for structures. breakdown systems, critical path Shallow footings, mat foundations, and deep scheduling, cost estimating, budgeting, foundations will be studied. Includes use of monitoring and reporting progress, change design software for foundations. Soil orders,quality management, labor relations, improvement methods are introduced. Oral and relevant legal and regulatory issues. presentations and written design reports are Students develop capabilities with software required. Lecture. packages used in cost estimating, scheduling Prerequisite: CE 361 and budgeting, reporting, and document Offered: Spring semester in alternate years management. Staff Prerequisite: CE 331 Offered: Spring semester in alternate years CE 462 Retaining Walls, Slopes, and Staff Earthen Dams

This course applies the basic principles of CE 442 Urban Transportation Planning soil mechanics to the analysis and design of Study of the transportation planning, design, structures built primarily from soil or to and impact estimation process, including retain soil. Use of traditional construction population changes affecting demand and methods as well as geotextiles and soil mobility needs, transportation demand and improvement methods are considered. supply analysis, service policy variables, Includes significant use of computers for and estimation of airpollution and energy analysis. Oral presentations and written use impacts. Computer applications. Student design reports are required. Lecture. projects include impact studies of new Prerequisite: CE 361 facilities and system analysis to meet Offered: Spring semester in alternate years specific transportation requirements. Staff Lecture/discussion. Prerequisite: CE 341, or permission of the CE 464 Environmental Geophysics instructor Introduction to the geophysical techniques Offered: Fall semester in alternate years used to study large- and small-scale features Staff and processes of the Earth. Emphasis is

placed on the fundamental principles of CE 444 Civil Infrastructure Systems gravity, magnetism, seismology, heat Management transfer, and electrical methods as they This course presents an integrated approach apply to environmental problems. Lectures, to the management of civil infrastructure laboratory, and field exercises. systems. Students examine the many aspects Staff of performance and different management approaches in the context of available tools, CE 471 Advanced Civil Engineering new technologies, institutional issues, and Analysis resource constraints. A study of the analytical and design Prerequisite: ES 225 or permission of methods used in solving certain civil instructor. engineering problems. Lecture/discussion. Sanford Bernhardt Prerequisite: Senior standing in Civil

Engineering or permission of instructor CE 451 Open Channel Hydraulics Offered: As needed Application of fluid mechanics principles to Staff flow in open channels. Uniform, gradually varied, rapidly varied, and unsteady flow CE 473 Design III conditions are analyzed and applied to a Students work in teams to develop the variety of practical problems. Both design of a comprehensive and realistic project that involves several interrelated 106

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING civil engineering disciplines. At the end of The curriculum builds on the fundamentals the project, they submit a detailed set of in the physical and engineering sciences as design drawings and related documents, as well as mathematics and computer science. well as present the results orally. More than 20 percent of the program may Participants develop skills in project design, include social sciences and humanities project management, engineering report courses. Well-planned, hands-on preparation and presentation, leadership, engineering design experiences are woven and are also given an opportunity to utilize into the curriculum. Facilities include many of the skills learned in previous computer systems, control systems, courses within the CE disciplines. microelectronics, photonics, microwaves, Lecture/discussion. VLSI and signal processing laboratories. Prerequisite: Senior standing Juniors and seniors are encouraged to Offered: Spring semester undertake independent study and research Staff projects.

CE 481 Advanced Surveying The application of current surveying The program prepares students to achieve methods in the civil engineering field. the following career and professional Topics include Global Positioning Systems accomplishments also known as Educational (GPS), Geographical Information Systems Objectives: (GIS), and advanced topics in surveying EO1-To have the ability to continually such as remote sensing, the fundamentals of educate themselves photogrammetry, and methods of precise EO2-To adapt to changing job measurements. Lecture/ laboratory. assignments/challenges Prerequisite: CE 271 EO3-To function in a team and provide Offered: Fall semester in alternate years leadership Staff EO4-To apply their engineering education to solving a broad range of problems CE 495, 496 Thesis EO5-To demonstrate involvement in This program is designed in accordance professional/public/community service with the honors program of the College. EO6-To excel in their chosen area of Enrollment is limited to seniors. professional activity Offered: 495/Fall, 496/Spring EO7-To have mature and effective Staff communication skills EO8-To have an appreciation of business enterprise, technology management, and ELECTRICAL AND social and legal issues.

COMPUTER ENGINEERING Requirements Faculty An introduction to engineering course, Professor Jouny, Head; Professors Greco, Engineering Science 101; a Values and Hornfeck; Associate Professors Jemison, Science/Technology (VAST) course, Nestor; Assistant Professors Wey, Yu; Engineering Science 225; 14 required Director of ECE labs Nadovich. courses in electrical and computer engineering and computer science in the Electrical and computer engineers, like all areas of computer hardware: ECE 211, 212, engineers, are problem-solvers. They plan 313; circuits and electronics, ECE 221, 322, and direct the design and development of 323; signals and systems, ECE 331, 332, electrical, electronic, electromechanical, and 433; and applied physics, ECE 341, 445; computing equipment. In addition, they computer software: Computer Science 102, apply computers as design tools, control 103, 205; three elective courses in electrical systems, communications systems, and and computer engineering chosen from ECE research resources. Careers in electrical and 390-399, 414, 415, 417, 425, 426, 427, 434, computer engineering are widely varied and 435, 436, 437, 438, 442, 444, 446, 450, and include electronics design, communications, 451; or two electives from this list and one computing, manufacturing, wireless approved computer science elective; a two- systems, electric power generation and course senior design laboratory sequence, distribution, consulting, and research. ECE 491, 492; six courses chosen from an approved list of humanities and social sciences, including English 110 and a First- 107

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Year Seminar; majors also take ECE 313 Computer Organization Mathematics 161, 162, 182, 263, and 264; The features of a digital computer are Physics 131 and 132 (or Physics 151 and examined at various levels. Topics include: 152); Chemistry 121 and either Chemistry CPU architecture and instruction sets 122 or Engineering Science 231; two free (machine level), the microprogramming electives. level, virtual memory (operating system level), the assembly language level. Departmental Electives—ECE 390-392, Lecture/discussion. 393-399, 414, 415, 417, 424, 425, 426, 427, Prerequisite: ECE 211 434, 435, 436, 437, 442, 444, 446, 450, 451, Offered: Spring semester 495-496. Greco, Nestor

Electrical and Computer Engineering ECE 322 Introduction to Solid State Courses Devices and Circuits The course begins with discussion of ECE 211 Digital Circuits I semiconductor devices to obtain their volt- This course introduces the analysis and ampere behavior. First order models for the design of digital circuits. Topics include: devices are developed and used to analyze combinational circuit analysis and design, both analog and digital circuits. The use of number representations and codes, addition computer-aided design programs is circuits, analysis and design of synchronous presented. Required of junior electrical circuits, programmable logic array, engineering students. programmable array logic and field- Lecture/discussion/laboratory. programmable gate array (FPGA). The Prerequisite: ECE 221 and course includes a design project using an pre/corequisite: Mathematics 264 FPGA. Lecture/discussion/laboratory.[W] Corequisite: ECE 331 Prerequisite: ES 101 Offered: Fall semester Corequisite: ES 101 Jemison, Wey Offered: Fall semester Greco, Hornfeck ECE 323 Analysis and Design of Solid State

Circuits ECE 212 Digital Circuits II The course continues to develop the topics This course covers the design of digital introduced in ECE 322 with emphasis systems using a microcontroller, and field placed on more complex circuits used in programmable gate array. Topics include: analog and digital applications. Extensive register transfers; special-purpose computer use is made of simulation programs as an architecture; microcontroller architecture, aid in the design process. Required of junior instructions, and interfacing; assembly electrical engineering students. language programming; C programming. Lecture/discussion/ laboratory. Lecture/discussion/ laboratory. Prerequisite: ECE 322 Prerequisite: ECE 211 Offered: Spring semester Offered: Spring semester Jemison, Wey Greco

ECE 331 Signals and Systems ECE 221 Basic Electric Circuit Analysis Fourier, Laplace, and Z-transforms are Introduces students to concepts, ideas, and developed and applied to the analysis of techniques that are fundamental to the electrical circuits. Transient and frequency analysis of linear electrical circuit models. characteristics of transfunctions are Circuit analysis techniques are derived from discussed. Required of junior electrical Kirchhoff’s Laws and topics covered engineering students. Lecture/ discussion. include DC circuits, AC circuits, RC/RL Prerequisite: ECE 221, and circuits, operational amplifier circuits, and Pre/corequisite: Mathematics 264 AC power calculations. Laboratory Offered: Fall semester exercises reinforce theories presented in Jouny lectures. Lecture/laboratory. Prerequisite: Mathematics 162 ECE 332 Communications Systems Offered: Spring semester This course is devoted to a study of systems Hornfeck used to transmit information. Continuous

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ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING time division multiplexing are treated. The ECE 415 Computer Arithmetic Circuits effect of noise on the various systems is This course introduces algorithms and investigated. Required of junior electrical computing circuits which are applicable to engineering students. Lecture/discussion. performing addition, subtraction, Prerequisite: ECE 331 multiplication, and division. The design Offered: Spring semester trade-offs encountered in the development Jouny of an Arithmetic Logic Unit for a digital

computer are considered. Both fixed-point ECE 341 Engineering Electromagnetics and floating-point arithmetic are covered. Maxwell’s Equations in integral and Lecture/discussion. differential forms are introduced to describe Prerequisite: ECE 212 the propagation of electromagnetic waves in Offered: Spring semester a variety of media. Necessary vector Hornfeck integration and differentiation techniques are developed. Required of junior electrical ECE 417 Digital Control Systems and computer engineering majors. Lecture. Control systems using digital Prerequisite: Mathematics 264; Physics logic/computers are studied. Analytic 132 techniques employing Z transforms and Offered: Fall semester state variables are developed. Response, Staff performance, stability, and algorithm design

are also covered. Lecture/ discussion. ECE 390-392 Independent Study or Prerequisite: ECE 212 and ECE 331 Research Offered: Spring semester An opportunity for selected students to Yu, Jouny undertake independent study or research projects during the senior year. Each student ECE 424 Analog Integrated Circuit Design is required to submit work or demonstrate a This course covers the design of electronic project embodying the results of the study integrated circuits and subsystems for use in or research. The proposal for this work is optical, wireless, and wired communication submitted to a faculty adviser and is also systems. Topics include analog-to-digital submitted to the department head for and digital-to-analog conversion, anti-alias, approval. This work may be substituted for and reconstruction filter design, clock and certain technical courses normally required. data recovery using Phase-Locked Loop Hours by arrangement. (PLL) based systems. An IC design project Offered: Each semester is an integral part of the course. Staff Prerequisite: ECE 323, ECE 332 Wey ECE 393-399 Special Topics These courses consider recent advances ECE 425 VLSI Circuit Design and/or subjects of current interest to Introduces the design of Very Large Scale students and members of the staff. The Integrated circuits, with emphasis on digital special topic for a given semester will be CMOS design. Topics include MOS announced prior to registration. transistor theory, basic IC processing, static Prerequisite: Senior standing in electrical and dynamic CMOS, VLSI system engineering organization, and CAD tools for design and Staff simulation. Students design projects to be fabricated and returned the following ECE 414 Embedded Systems semester. Lecture/ discussion/laboratory. This course covers the design of a stand- Prerequisite: ECE 322 alone digital system using an embedded Offered: Fall semester microcontroller. Both software and Nestor hardware are covered. Additional topics include: microcontroller architectures; ECE 426 VLSI System Design hardware interfacing; mixed language Topics include test and design for programming; interrupts; real-time testability, gate arrays, hardware description operating system. and languages, advanced CAD techniques, Prerequisite: ECE 313 gallium arsenide, and BiCMOS. Students Greco design, fabricate, and test projects. Lecture/laboratory. Prerequisite: ECE 425 109

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Nestor probability and queuing theory, a description of all seven OSI (Open Systems ECE 427 Sensors and Electronic Systems Interconnections) layers with protocols, Devices and interface electronics used to applications of data networks, and a brief sense quantities such as light, temperature, introduction of ISDN technology. Students and motion are discussed. A general will animate and evaluate the performance overview of sensor performance of hypothetical topologies of characterization is presented and communications networks. Lecture. Not mathematical modeling techniques are open to students having taken Computer developed, leading to interface electronics Science 403. topologies and application specific sensor Prerequisite: ECE 331 applications. Offered: Spring semester Prerequisite: ECE 322, ECE 331 Jouny Staff ECE 437 Biomedical System Modeling and ECE 433 Industrial Electronics and Control Analysis Systems This course introduces the use of Feedback control systems are studied in engineering techniques to simulate and both the frequency and time domain. Topics analyze biomedical systems and include detailed system modeling, stability applications in medicine. Major physiologic and error analysis, design to meet functions, such as nerve action potentials, specifications, and discussion of system skeletal muscle contraction, human vision integration in a manufacturing environment. system, cardiovascular system, respiratory Lecture/discussion/ laboratory. system, endocrine system, kidney, and Prerequisite: ECE 331 prosthetic devices, are modeled by electrical Offered: Fall semester circuits or differential equations and Yu simulated using computer software. Prerequisite: Math 264, Physics 131, ECE ECE 434 Digital Signal Processing 331; or permission of instructor. Not open to This course covers discrete fourier students who have taken ME 489. transforms (DFT and FFT), the sampling Yu theorem and its consequences, Z transforms theory, recursive digital systems, and digital ECE 442 Applied Optoelectronics filter design. Lab involves implementation This course develops a basic understanding of digital signal processing algorithms in of optoelectronic materials, devices, and real time using DSP hardware. systems. Topics include light sources and Lecture/laboratory. photodetectors, and the propagation of light Prerequisite: ECE 331, 212 within various media and optical elements. Offered: Fall semester Prerequisite: ECE 341 Jouny Offered: Fall semester Staff ECE 435 Speech and Image Processing Introduces interactive information systems ECE 444 Introduction to Fiber Optics utilizing sight and sound. Speech Fundamentals of fiber optic communication processing, recognition, synthesis, and and sensor systems are discussed, including coding, as well as image understanding and a mathematical description of light compression technologies, are discussed. propagation within dielectric waveguides. Acquaints students with speech production, Optical fiber fabrication, attenuation, and extraction of recognizable phonic features, dispersion mechanisms are considered, and recognition of speech templates, edge optical sources, detectors, and connectors detection, and image understanding. covered. Advanced topics include specialty Lecture. fibers, coherent communications, WDM, Prerequisite: ECE 331 solitons, optical amplifiers, and fiber optic Offered: Spring semester networks. Lecture. Jouny Prerequisite: ECE 341, 442 Offered: Spring semester ECE 436 Communications Networks Staff This course introduces computer communications and data networks. The course includes background material in 110

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ECE 445 Physics of Semiconductor Devices ECE 491 Senior Project This course presents a quantitative analysis This course uses a data network to introduce of both bipolar and field effect transistors. students to team project work. Course topics The device equations are developed from include computer networks from the fundamental physical processes such as physical layer to communication protocols. carrier densities, transport processes, and A representative network is designed and generation-recombination mechanisms. realized in the laboratory. Students work in Required of senior Electrical and Computer teams; different teams design sub-systems Engineering majors. Lecture. of the network. Lecture/laboratory. Lecture. Prerequisite: Senior standing in Electrical Prerequisite: ECE 341, 322 and Computer Engineering Jemison Greco, Nestor

ECE 446 Microwave Systems ECE 492 Electrical and Computer Analysis and design of modern microwave Engineering Design Laboratory II systems such as satellite and cellular In this course individual or team design communications and radar. Devices, projects are completed. The course includes circuits, and subsystems are presented with both laboratory and library work. Initial an emphasis on theory of operation and proposals, progress reports, and final design impact on overall performance. Application documents are required. Projects can cover of technologies to the current microwave the entire spectrum of activities within communications industry is covered. electrical engineering. Laboratory. [W] Students complete a design project using Prerequisite: ECE 491 modern microwave CAD software (Ansoft Offered: Spring semester Serenade or Agilent Advanced Design Jemison, Greco System and Sonnet) and theory presented in class. ECE 495, 496 Thesis Prerequisite: ECE 341 This program is designed in accordance Jemison with the honors program of the College.

Enrollment is limited to seniors. These ECE 450 Introduction to Electrical courses may not be used for electrical and Machinery computer engineering or computer science A study of rotating electrical machinery credits. including synchronous, asynchronous Staff single, and polyphase machines. A basic approach is used in the development of a thorough understanding of the operation of a ENGINEERING STUDIES single component, and of these components as part of a system. The basic principles of Faculty energy conversion are considered. Lecture. Professor Schaffer, (Chemical Engineering) ECE 331 Prerequisite: Chair; Professor Jones (Director of the Fall semester Offered: Engineering Division); Associate Professor Yu Veshosky (Civil and Environmental ECE 451 Introduction to Electrical Power Engineering) Systems This degree provides a technical yet broad This course deals with the elements of the education that spans the physical and social transmission and distribution of electrical sciences and the humanities; it is a liberal power. Starting with transmission lines, the education for a technological age. course will develop the general representation of power systems. Load flow Students who choose this major value the studies and the economic operation of analytical skills and technical literacy that power systems are treated. Finally, the study of engineering provides. They do symmetrical components, transients and not intend to practice as design engineers, system stability are considered. but want to be able to understand and Lecture/discussion. communicate technical concepts and issues. Prerequisite: ECE 331 The curriculum provides a sound Offered: Spring semester background in mathematics and physical Jouny science; basic engineering knowledge and problem-solving skills; concepts and 111

ENGINEERING STUDIES analytical techniques relevant to specific Jones areas of engineering; sensitivity to societal concerns through courses in history, EP 261 Engineering Economics and government, economics, literature, and Management foreign cultures; and an understanding of This course addresses the concepts and human behavior through courses in analytical techniques of engineering psychology and sociology. economics and management. Topics include

present and annual worth analysis, rate of Engineering Studies Courses return analysis, benefit/cost analysis, capital budgeting, scheduling, optimization, and EP 230 Environmental Justice decision-making under uncertainty. This interdisciplinary course explores the Prerequisite: ES 225, or permission of intersection of social justice and instructor environmental stewardship in an attempt to Veshosky understand the various dimensions of the environmental justice movement and how it EP 271 Introduction to Architectural affects modern society. Students will be Engineering exposed to humanities, social sciences, and This course provides an introduction to environmental science/engineering aspects aspects of engineering and construction that relevant to the topic. Cross-listed with AFS are relevant to the practice of architecture. It 230. addresses the primary systems that must be Prerequisite: At least one colleg-level engineered, fabricated, and installed in a mathematics course and one college-level construction project. The course is intended social science course for non-engineering majors. Jones Staff

EP 251 Introduction to Engineering and EP 325 Sustainable Environmental Public Policy Management This course introduces students to the Sustainable environmental management is governance of science and engineering. currently one of the essential elements in Course topics include the overall context for product design and facilities management. science and engineering policy, the public At the facility level, environmental policy process and institutions involved in management means everything from that process, and several current science and manifesting hazardous waste to redesigning engineering public policy issues. The course a product to installing air pollution control includes a combination of role-playing equipment. Key considerations include exercises, debates, field trips, as well as economics, long-term liability, and public traditional lectures. perception, both in the USA and globally. Prerequisite: ES 101, or permission of Emphasis is on management, policy, and instructor. technological solutions that can promote Jones sustainability with a focus on manufacturing facilities.[W] EP 255 Introduction to Geographical Prerequisite: Sophomore standing Information Systems Jones This course provides students with an introduction to technologies for collecting, EP 352 Energy Technology and the Modern using, and communicating spatial World information. This introduction covers the This course examines the role of energy and scientific basis for the technologies as well energy technologies in the United States and as common applications in sectors as the world. Energy from fossil fuels, nuclear diverse as environmental sciences, urban power, and renewable resources is covered. planning, marketing, public policy, and Topics include world resources and infrastructure management. The course recovery of fossil fuels, energy conversion includes a multidisciplinary array of topics technologies and impacts, nuclear energy covering cartography (map making), and waste disposal, role of energy in global geodesy, data analysis, computer climate change, and emerging renewable applications, and information literacy. The energy technologies. Economic and policy course includes substantive GIS projects issues are integrated with a technical based on real-world applications. introduction to the energy field. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing 112

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Prerequisite: EP 251, or permission of programming, sensitivity analysis, multi- instructor objective optimization, decision analysis, Staff and system dynamics modeling. Prerequisite: EP 251, or permission of EP 370-371 Special Topics instructor This course sequence addresses subjects of Staff current interest to faculty and students. The special topic for a given semester is EP 462 Management of Technology and announced prior to registration. Innovation Prerequisite: Junior standing. This course addresses the concepts and Staff analytical techniques used in managing

technology and innovation. Topics include EP 390, 391 Independent Study management of research and development Individual investigation of a particular topic (R&D) functions, technological forecasting, in engineering and policy under the dynamics of organizational change, cost supervision of a faculty adviser. justification of technological innovations, Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing and replacement analysis, diffusion of permission of A.B. Engineering Program technology and innovation, and chair governmental policies related to technology Staff and innovation.[W]

Prerequisite: EP 261, or permission of EP 450 Engineering Management instructor This course addresses management concepts Staff and techniques as applied to engineering organizations and operations. Topics EP 480 Sustainable Solutions: Water and include organizational design, human Sanitation Systems in Developing Countries resource management, technology Sustainable solutions developed for a management, financial management, complex, real-world project by small groups strategic management, project management, of multidisciplinary students directed by a and operations management. faculty advisor, or team of faculty advisors. Prerequisite: EP 261, or permission of All projects include significant technical instructor and non technical challenges, and do not Veshosky have a well-defined solution procedure. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor EP 451 Seminar on Engineering and Society Staff This seminar focuses on how engineering impacts society as well as how society EP 482 Engineering and Policy Internship impacts the practice of engineering. A course that emphasizes the practical Students apply the knowledge they have application of engineering and public policy gained from both engineering and non- or engineering management principles. A engineering courses to evaluate these limited number of students are placed in impacts. Students play an active role in governmental agencies or business leading sessions, presenting results, organizations. Under the supervision of a organizing class participation, and faculty member, each student completes a discussing project results. This is the practical work project. capstone seminar for the Bachelor of Arts in Prerequisite: EP 450 or EP 452, or Engineering. permission of instructor Prerequisite: EP 251 and EP 261 Staff Jones

EP 495, 496 Thesis EP 452 Applied Systems Analysis for This program is designed in accordance Engineering Policy and Management with the honors program of the College. This course provides an introduction to Enrollment is limited to A.B. Engineering quantitative systems analysis methods used seniors. for engineering and economic management Staff and public policy decision making. Applied systems analysis is used to optimize engineering system and policy designs and evaluate decision alternatives. Techniques include constrained optimization, linear 113

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ECHANICAL advanced topics in their areas of interest. M Technical electives emphasize the ENGINEERING application of fundamental concepts and provide a sound basis for graduate study and Faculty professional practice in Mechanical Engineering. Associate Professor Hummel, Head; Professor Van Gulick; Associate Professors Merz, Nesbit, Seeler, Ulucakli; Assistant Mechanical Engineering Courses Professor Helm, Rossmann, Smith ME 210 Manufacturing and Design Like all engineers, mechanical engineers are This course introduces techniques in problem solvers. They design, develop, and computer-aided design (CAD) and construct internal combustion engines, manufacturing as applied to mechanical machinery, power plants, transportation components and systems. Manufacturing vehicles, and biomedical devices. They processes, their underlying physical work in manufacturing, marketing, phenomena, and their relevance to management, research, education, and mechanical design are studied. Laboratory system design and development. work includes the drawing and construction of a pre-designed me- chanical system using The department offers a comprehensive CAD, conventional fabrication techniques, program that prepares students for and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM). professional work or further study. The All course topics are applied to the design, curriculum includes a solid grounding in construction, and competition of a major mathematics, science, and technology, along group project. Lecture/laboratory. with electives in the humanities and social Corequisite: ME 240; Math 264 sciences. Design, a central component of Offered: Spring semester mechanical engineering, is integrated Staff throughout the curriculum. Students use contemporary engineering computer ME 240 Dynamics software and apply modern manufacturing Particle and rigid body kinematics and processes in creating and constructing their kinetics. Work, energy, and power. Linear design projects. Facilities include impulse and momentum, angular impulse laboratories for modern manufacturing and momentum, impact. designs, internal combustion engines, Prerequisite: ES 226; Math 263; thermo-fluids, controls, instrumentation, Offered: Spring semester precision measurement, and materials. All Staff majors do a year-long senior design project. Seniors may elect to do independent study ME 331 Instrumentation and Data or honors thesis research. Acquisition Engineering instrumentation is introduced Requirements and further examined in the laboratory. The Majors are required to take the following 38 fundamental concepts of measurement error, courses: Mathematics 161, 162, 263, and calibration, statistical and uncertainty 264; Physics 131 and 132 or 133; Chemistry analysis, signal conditioning, and computer- 121 and 122 or Engineering Science 231; based data acquisition are covered. Engineering Science 101, 225, 226, 230; Emphasis is on measurement techniques Mechanical Engineering 210, 240, 331, 350, used for quantities of particular importance 352, 353, 360, 362, 371, 470, 475, 478, 479, to the mechnical engineer, which include 497, 498; a mathematics/science elective; temperature, pressure, flow rate, two technical electives; four approved displacement, speed, force, strain, torque, Social Science/Humanities electives; a First- and power. The fundamentals of DC circuits Year Seminar; English 110; and two free and electrical instrumentation are also electives. covered. Prerequisite: ES 230 Technical Electives— Technical electives Offered: Fall semester Staff are a diverse set of courses in design, thermal systems, dynamic systems, and other relevant areas of engineering, mathematics and science. These courses give students the opportunity to study 114

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ME 336 Engineering Materials and Students are introduced to fatique analysis Manufacturing Processes and statistics as design methods. Processes used to manufacture/fabricate Prerequisite: ES 230; Math 264 products from metals and alloys, ceramics Offered: Fall semester and glasses to polymers and composites. Staff

Different types and uses of materials from each group are discussed. Also included are ME 360 Thermodynamics II properties and behavior of these materials as The application of thermodynamic they affect manufacturing methods, and principles to the study of gas and steam effects of different processes on properties power cycles, refrigeration cycles, mixtures, and performance of manufactured products. compressible flow, and combustion and Prerequisite: ES 231 or permission of chemical reactions. Introduction to instructor. advanced thermodynamic theory. Staff Prerequisite: ME 350 Offered: Spring semester ME 350 Thermodynamics I Staff

The study of the basic concepts and laws of thermodynamics applicable to all types of ME 361 Dynamics of Machines thermodynamic systems. A combination of analytical and computer Prerequisite: Chemistry 121, Physics 131, methods in the kinematic and kinetic Math 264 analysis of mechanisms and machines. The Offered: Fall semester analysis and design of cams and gear trains Staff is included. CAE applications and open- ended design projects give students the ME 351 Introduction to Thermodynamics opportunity to link course topics with real- and Heat Transfer world machines. A study of the basic laws of Prerequisite: ME 240, 353 thermodynamics and heat transfer with Offered: Spring semester Staff selected applications to engineering systems or devices. For non-mechanical engineering majors. ME 362 Fluid Mechanics Prerequisite: Chemistry 121, Physics 131, The basic laws of physics and Math 263 thermodynamics are applied to the study of Offered: Fall semester fluid phenomena. Topics include Staff conservation of mass, momentum, and energy. Basic laws are applied to ME 352 Dynamics of Physical Systems and hydrostatics, external and internal Electrical Circuits incompressible flow, and fluid machinery. Dynamic physical systems are modeled as Prerequisite: ME 350 networks of interacting energetic elements. Offered: Spring semester Staff Analogies are drawn between mechanical, fluid, electrical, and hybrid systems. Systems are represented using single ME 371 Engineering Design II ordinary differential equations, state-space, Design and analysis of mechanical systems and transfer functions. AC and DC circuits considering theories of static failure, and electromechanical systems are material selection, fatigue, finite element analyzed. analysis, impact loading, and Prerequisite: Mathematics 264; ME 331 statistics/reliability. Offered: Spring semester Prerequisite: ME 353 Staff Offered: Spring semester Staff

ME 353 Engineering Design I This course introduces students to the ME 380 Bioengineering Design Clinic design/selection of mechanical components This course provides an introduction to such as shafts, bearings, gears, fasteners, Bioengineering Design. Engineering designs springs, clutches, brakes, and joints. are developed through processes that have a Students apply closed form and finite number of stages, beginning with element methods of stress and deflection conceptual design and culminating in analysis to the determination of component detailed design. At the heart of this course is geometry and the selection of materials. the completion of a major coneptual and 115

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING embodiment design project for a specific mechanics, and heat transfer using modern client from clinical medicine or the instrumentation and data acquisition bioengineering industry. Student teams will systems. Typical experiments include steam produce a prototype of their design and power generation, refrigeration, fluid document their process with a written report viscosity, wind tunnel measurements, flow and presentation. meter performance, piping losses, boundary Rossmann layer measurements, heat transfer by conduction and convection, heat exchanger ME 390, 391 Independent Study/Research performance, and internal combustion An opportunity for selected students to engine performance. undertake independent study/research Prerequisite: ME 331, 470 projects during the junior and/or senior year. Offered: Spring semester Projects are selected based on the Staff background and interests of the student, and the availability of staff. A proposal is ME 476 Heating, Ventilating, and Air submitted to a faculty member who serves Conditioning as the adviser, and to the department head The application of thermodynamics, fluid for approval. Each student is required to mechanics, heat transfer, and other submit a final paper embodying the results engineering principles, to the design of of the study/research. interior environmental control systems. This is a Technical Elective. Consideration is given to the total energy Staff concept of environmental control in light of

present energy concerns. ME 395-397 Special Topics Prerequisite: ME 350, 362. Pre- or This course considers recent advances corequisite: ME 470 and/or subjects of current interest to This is a Technical Elective. students and members of the staff. Topic(s) Staff for a given semester are announced prior to registration. ME 477 Internal Combustion Engines This is a Technical Elective. The application of thermodynamics, fluid Staff mechanics, heat transfer, and other

engineering principles to the design, ME 470 Heat Transfer performance, and economy of internal A study of the basic phenomena of heat combustion engines and gas turbines. This transfer which includes treatment of steady course also includes the effect and control and non-steady state conduction in one and of automotive emissions. two dimensions, natural and forced Prerequisite: ME 350, 362 convection, and thermal radiation. This is a Technical Elective. Prerequisite: ME , 362 Staff Offered: Fall semester Staff ME 478 Control Systems and Mechatronics

Classical feedback control theory is ap- ME 472 Advanced Dynamics plied to dynamic systems. The effect of A study of vibrations of mechanical systems closed-loop control on the transient re- that includes the treatment of the free and sponse, error, stability, and frequency forced vibrations of lumped mass and response of systems is investigated. Control continuous systems. The physical behavior systems are designed using computer of these systems under steady state and simulation. Boolean logic and its transient vibration is investigated. Matrix implementation in ladder logic are applied methods are utilized in the treatment of to the control of mechanical systems. multi degree-of-freedom systems. Modern control theory and digital control Prerequisite: ME 240, 352, 353 theory are introduced. Offered: Spring semester Prerequisite: ME 352 This is a Technical Elective. Corequisite: ME 479 Staff Offered: Fall semester

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ME 479 Control Systems and Mechatronics This is a Technical Elective. Design and Analysis Staff

Analog controllers are designed and built to implement velocity and position control of a ME 488 Robotics rotational servomechanism. The Introduction to fundamentals of robotics and performance of controllers is evaluated and related automation technologies. Emphasis compared to design predictions. is placed on robot mechanics, work cell Programmable logic controllers are used to design, manufacturing applications, and implement ladder logic. Op-amp circuits programming and control. and power electronics are investigated. DC, Prerequisite: ME 361 AC, and stepping motors are explored. This is a Technical Elective. Staff Prerequisite: ME 352 Corequisite: ME 478 Offered: Fall semester ME 489 Introduction to Biomedical Staff Engineering Introduces fundamentals and applications of ME 483 Power Plants the transport processes— thermodynamics, The application of thermodynamics, fluid fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and mass mechanics, heat transfer, and other transfer—in the human body and in other engineering principles to the design and biomedical systems. Students study the operation of power plants. modeling of normal and abnormal human Prerequisite: ME 470 physiology and the devices for medical This is a Technical Elective. therapy. Students develop the tools Staff necessary to obtain quantitative information on biomedical problems involving transport ME 484 Applied Finite Element Method processes. Analysis Prerequisite: ME 362, or permission of Advanced finite element analysis of instructor components and systems in support of Ulucakli mechanical design. Topics may include complex three-dimensional solid modeling, ME 490 Fundamentals of Finite Element meshing and error analysis, results Theory verification, optimal design, nonlinear This course explores the underlying theory analysis, and design project applications. and computational implementation of the Effective written and oral presentation finite element method. Students will gain an results are emphasized. understanding of finite element Prerequisite: ES 230 formulations, understand how the Van Gulick formulations can be adapted to solve problems in a variety of engineering areas, ME 486 Compressible Flow develop computational tools needed to A study of the behavior of compressible apply the finite element method, and apply fluids including isentropic flow, Fanno and these tools to engineering problems. Rayleigh processes, normal and two- Student-generated, instructor-supplied, and dimensional shock waves, and application to some commercial software will be selected problems in modern high-speed employed throughout course. flows. Prerequisite: Math 264, ES 230 Prerequisite: ME 350, 362 Staff

This is a Technical Elective. Staff ME 492 Biomechanics A one-semester course involving the ME 487 Principles of Thermal Design application of solid and fluid mechanics to The study of thermal design and application biological systems. Students will learn the through synthesis of thermodynamic, fluid fundamental cell biology and physiology mechanic, and heat transfer principles. The necessary to understand these systems; course emphasizes design methodologies understand how researchers in biomechanics including modeling and simulation of address biological problems using thermal equipment and systems, engineering principles; advance their optimization, search methods, and dynamic knowledge of mechanics; and develop the programming. necessary skills to apply the concepts of Prerequisite: ME 362, 470 engineering mechanics to biological 117

ENGLISH systems. Likely topics include NGLISH musculoskeletal (bone and muscle) E mechanics, neuromuscular mechanics and control, and the physics of blood and air Faculty flow in the circulatory and respiratory Professor Westfall, Head; Professors systems. Donahue, Johnson, Upton, Van Dyke, Prerequisite: Physics 131 or 151 and Woolley; Associate Professors Byrd, Cefalu, junior/senior standing or instructor approval Falbo, O'Neill, I. Smith (Associate Head), Staff Washington; Assistant Professors Belletto, DeTora, Ohlin, Phillips, Rohman, A. Smith. ME 493 Numerical Applications in Mechanical Analysis and Design With its focus on reading and writing, In this course, various solution techniques to inquiry and insight, English is an ideal major for anyone seeking the skills essential numerically solve mechanical engineering problems are studied. Problem topics are for success in diverse fields. For the student generated from mechanical design, who loves literature, is there a more rewarding major? mechanism and thermal analysis, and special subjects such as dynamics of The curriculum reflects a strong satellites and interplanetary spacecraft. Both commitment to the major periods, authors, user generated codes and standard software and forms, from ancient myth to interactive libraries are employed. fiction. In addition, students explore various Prerequisite: Math 264 critical methods, theories, and cultural This is a Technical Elective. traditions. All of the department’s courses Staff emphasize communication, especially

writing; several courses focus on writing. ME 495, 496 Thesis This program is designed in accordance with the honors program of the College. English Major Enrollment is limited to selected seniors in The English major consists of at least nine Mechanical Engineering. Students who take English courses beyond English 110, the honors sequence in place of the senior including English 205; one course in literary design sequence (ME 497/498) must fully history, preferably English 207 (206, 207, participate in the lecture portion of ME 497 210, 211, or 212); five courses numbered and 498. 300 or above, not including independent This is a Technical Elective. study or thesis; two additional courses, Staff which may include one semester of independent study or thesis, but not ME 497, 498 Senior Design Project I, II internship Project of the student’s choice is carried In consultation with a department adviser, a through from problem formulation to student should select courses that emphasize completion. This sequence represents the various genres, literary and cultural students’ major design experience and is traditions, and theoretical approaches. The based on knowledge and skills acquired in selections should demonstrate a balance earlier courses. Design criteria and between British and American literature and objectives are formulated, and realistic between literature before and after 1800. constraints including economic, environmental, sustainability, manufacturability, ethical, health and safety, English Major with a Drama/Theater social, and political are considered. Concentration Engineering analysis and synthesis In consultation with a department adviser, a techniques are applied and iterated to obtain student chooses a program of study an optimal design solution. Students design composed of at least nine English and and conduct experiments to verify design Theater courses beyond English 110, performance. Students document their including English 205; one course in literary achievements through oral and written history (English 206, 207, 210, 211, or 212); presentations. two introductory courses in drama and Prerequisite: For ME 497: ME 210, 350, theater (chosen from English 123, 227, 240, 353 251, and Theater 215, 216, and 221); Corequisite: ME 470, 478 Staff

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ENGLISH three advanced courses in drama and theater In consultation with a department adviser, a (chosen from English 301, *303, 304, *334, student selects a minimum of five 335, 345, 346, *369, *370, *371, *390, 495, drama/theater courses beyond English 110, 496, and Theater 314, 370, 371 and 372 or including English 227 and four others 373); and one additional advanced (300-or chosen from the following: English 123, *135, 240, 260, 280, 302, *303, *304, *322, 400-level) English or Theater course 345, 346, *369, *370, *371, *390, *391, *495, *496; any Theater course except 201; The adviser will authorize courses marked Art 341; *Comparative Literature 225; with an asterisk (*) when they are offered French 318; and German 325. with a drama/theater emphasis. No more than one semester of internship may be The adviser will authorize courses marked included. with an asterisk (*) when they are offered with a drama/theater emphasis. The English Major with a Writing drama/theater minor is not open to English Concentration majors. No more than one semester of In consultation with a department adviser, a internship may be included. student chooses at least nine literature and writing-or language-focused courses beyond Minor in Writing English 110, including English 205; one In consultation with a department adviser, a course in literary history (206, 207, 210, student chooses a minimum of five English 211, or 212); any two of English 231, 250*, courses beyond English 110, including 251, 255, 272/273 (internship); any two of English 205 or 206; any two of English 231, English 320, 350*, 360, 365, 395; any two 250*, 251, 255, 272/273 (internship); any 300-or 400-level English courses except two of English 320, 350*, 360, 365 320, 360, and 365. No more than one semester of independent study or thesis may Courses marked with an asterisk (*) may be be included. repeated for credit when they address different topics. The adviser will authorize Courses marked with an asterisk (*) may be counting special topics courses toward the repeated for credit when they address minor when they are offered with a writing different topics. The adviser will authorize focus. The writing minor is not open to counting special topics courses toward the English majors. concentration when they are offered with a writing focus. Minor in Film In consultation with a department adviser, a English Major with a Film student selects a minimum of five film courses, including English 140, 240, and Concentration 340; two others chosen from the following , In consultation with a department adviser, a one of which must be taken from a student chooses a program of study department other than English: English 116, composed of at least nine courses including 123, 251; Art 150, 239; A&S 255; CL 142; English 205; a course in literary history Fren 424; Germ 431, 424; Hist 255; Mus (English 206, 207, 210, 211, or 212); 274; Phil 235; WGS 256 English 140, 240, 251, 340; and three department approved electives with at least The film minor is not open to English one course from outside the English majors. The adviser will authorize counting department. No more than one semester of special topics courses toward the minor independent study or thesis may be when they are offered with a film focus. No included. more than one semester of internship may be included. Minor in English English and Theater Courses In consultation with a department adviser, a student selects a minimum of five English courses beyond English 110, including 205 ENG 110 College Writing and at least three courses numbered 300 or Writing as an intellectual act and a recursive above. One semester of internship may process; ways of reading complex texts. The count toward the five. English Department will distribute descriptions of individual topics for each Minor in Drama/Theater sectin of College Writing before the registration period each semester. The 119

ENGLISH course is normally taken in the second or ENG 135 Literature and Human Experience third semester; it complements and extends An examination of a significant social or the writing experience of the First-Year cultural problem as reflected in literary Seminar. Required of all students except texts. Topics vary from semester to semester those exempted by the English Department and will be announced during the for reasons such as success in an advanced registration period. May be taken more than placement program. once with different content. Prerequisite: First- Year Seminar Staff Staff ENG 140 Introduction to Film ENG 116 Film and Literature An introductory course designed to help Through a comparative study of films based students develop useful analytical skills for on highly regarded plays and novels, as well the study of film. Our goals are to gain as a number of autonomous films, the familiarity with cinematic techniques and to course seeks to define both the affinities and acquire an understanding of the historical the distinctive capacities of the two art evolution of film. We will learn to employ forms. the technical vocabulary of film studies and Staff will view films representing a variety of

styles, genres, periods, and filmmakers. ENG 119 Literary Women A. Smith This course examines writings and films by women. Topics vary and have included ENG 146 Black Writers courses on women poets, women science An introduction to black American writers, fiction writers, coming of age narratives, the course exposes students to a variety of novels by contemporary Middle Eastern and genres, to diverse reading strategies, to the Asian women, and texts that explore the social and historical roots of African- connections between race, class and gender. American experience, and to the interplay Byrd between classic texts and popular media.

Washington ENG 120 Satire and the Comic Absurd An exploration of comic and satiric ENG 205 Literary Questions traditions from the earliest times to the This course provides students with an present, with some emphasis on modern and introduction to the theory and methodology contemporary texts and on authors of literary study by focusing on three influenced by the Theater of the Absurd. questions: What is a literary text? How do Woolley we read a literary text? How do we write

about a literary text? By considering the ENG 123 Plays in Performance: Stage and rhetorical, aesthetic, and ideological issues Film that determine literary value, students This course compares stage and screen examine their assumptions about literature. productions of selected plays. Students read Required of all English majors and minors. scripts and, through in- and out-of-class Staff screenings and live performances, examine different realizations of each script. This ENG 206 Literary History performance approach addresses questions How is literary history constructed? What is of interpretation and adaptation in the the canon of “great works,” and how is it context of historical circumstances and the formed? This course inquires into the artistic demands of literature, stage, and specific cultural practices that construct screen. “literature,” engaging students in an O'Neill exploration of canon formation, marginalization, intertextuality, and ENG 128 American-Jewish Literature influence. Readings are chosen from British, A course exploring American-Jewish American, and Anglophone literatures and literature’s roots in Eastern European and from various genres; texts from at least Sephardic traditions, its place in the three literary periods are studied in depth. American literary canon, and its relation to Falbo, I. Smith international Jewish writings. Staff ENG 207 Theatre History Theatre is perhaps our most ancient art, beginning with religious rituals like the 120

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ENG 210 English Literature I ENG 227 Introduction to Theater A survey of literature from Beowulf to Using analytical and hands-on approaches, Milton; major writers, movements, and this course introduces students to significant forms are viewed in their historical contexts. dramatic texts and to the principal craft Normally closed to seniors. areas in theater. Readings include plays Staff from different eras of theater history; projects involve acting, directing, and ENG 211 English Literature II design. There are lectures, discussions, A survey of literature, chiefly poetry, from visits from outside theater professionals, and the Restoration through the nineteenth writing assignments. century; major writers, movements, and Staff forms are viewed in their historical contexts. Normally closed to seniors. ENG 231 Journalistic Writing Staff An introduction to the practice of writing news and feature stories for magazines and ENG 212 American Literature I: Origins to the daily press. Attention is paid to writing, Civil War revising, evaluating, and publishing work. A study of American prose and poetry from The course also examines audience, style, the colonial period to 1870. Normally and the role of the journalist in society. [W] closed to seniors. Prerequisite: English 110 or equivalent Phillips Staff

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This course focuses on the relationship between literature and psychoanalysis and ENG 240 Film Theory and Practice on different ways of understanding that This is an intermediate course in film relationship. Readings include studies, designed to give students psychoanalytic texts and works of fiction. understanding of the complex art of Prerequisite: ENG 110 international cinema. We will screen, Cefalu, Donahue analyze, discuss and write about film, as well as read primary source documents in ENG 218 Literature for Children the theory of film. We will extend our This course looks at how children's texts knowledge of various concepts such as "socialize" their readers by confirming, or in cinematography, sound, editing, and mise- some cases, resisting and undermining en-scene by combining critical study with cultural norms and values. Course texts creative practice. Students will learn the include a range of "classic" and "popular" basics of digital film editing and produce printed books for children as well as short films. selected films and TV shows. As part of the Prerequisite: English 140 course, students write and illustrate their A. Smith own children's books. 121

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ENG 245 International Literature ENG 272, 273 Internship This course looks beyond the traditional Practical experience in fields such as British and American texts that have journalism, broadcasting, publishing, public populated English studies to challenge the relations, and advertising, in which writing once elite dominance of English as the is a central activity. Written reports are authorized language of "first-world" required of the student, as is an evaluation mastery. The concept of "literatures in of the student by the supervising agency. English" speaks, therefore, to an evolving Advance approval of the departmental international dialogue that is sensitive to the internships coordinator required. formation of personal and political identities Prerequisite: English 205, and a course in in a new global economy. Texts represent Literary History diverse national regions such as the Byrd Caribbean, Africa, India, Canada and Australia. ENG 300 Chaucer Prerequisste: ENG 110 A study of The Canterbury Tales and I. Smith Troilus and Criseyde and an introduction to the language and culture of medieval ENG 250 Writing Genres England. Writing Genres introduces students to the Prerequisite: English 205, and a course in expectations and purposes of a particular Literary History or permission of the written genre and offers them intensive instructor. practice composing texts that function Van Dyke within the conventions and boundaries of this genre. Students will compose multiple ENG 301 Shakespeare texts in drafts, participate in workshops and An introduction to Shakespeare--a study of discussions, and produce critical analyses representative plays and nondramatic works and reviews. Sample genres include: the in the light of knowledge of Elizabethan life essay, autobiography, hypertext and and thought.[W] electronic media, travel writing, and science Prerequisite: English 205, and a course in writing. The English Department will Literary History or permission of the distribute a description of the specific instructor gnere(s) under consideration before the I. Smith, Westfall registration period each semester. [W] Prerequisite: Eng 110 ENG 303 British Writers Staff A study of one, two, or three British or Irish writers in some depth (for instance, ENG 251 Screenwriting Yeats/Joyce, Keats/Shelley, This course introduces students to the basic Dickens/Woolf). [W] elements of screenwriting: developing Prerequisite: English 205, and a course in characters, writing dialogue, plotting scenes, Literary History or permission of the and structuring narrative. Writing instructor. assignments build from initial treatments to Staff individual scenes and story outlines with emphasis on drafting and revision. By ENG 304 American Writers viewing films, reading screenplays, and A study of one, two, or three American critiquing the work of peers, students learn writers in some depth (for instance, about the role of the screenwriter in the Hemingway/Faulkner, Twain/James). [W] collaborative process of filmmaking, and Prerequisite: English 205, and a course in work towards a final portfolio that will LIterary History or permission of the include a polished script of their own.[W] instructor Permission of Instructor required. Staff Prerequisite: ENG 110 Ohlin ENG 313 The Irish Literary Renaissance This course examines poems, essays, plays, ENG 255 Creative Writing fiction, and folklore produced by Irish Intensive workshops in the writing of poetry writers in the years 1880-1925. Particular and fiction. Writing exercises and allied attention is given to the ways in which the readings. Permission of instructor writings of Joyce, Yeats, O’Casey, Synge, Prerequisite: ENG 110 and Lady Gregory are informed by such Ohlin, Upton events as the Gaelic revival, the founding of

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ENG 332 Inventing America history of religious and political thought. A study of selected works in American Considerable attention given to Milton's literature before 1820. Specific texts radicalism, including both his theological depend on the thematic focus, which "heresies" and left-leaning political varies from year to year. sympathies. The course considers Milton's Prerequisite:: English 205, and a course in unique conception of the creation narrative Literary History or permission of the and the "characters" of Adam, Eve, Christ, instructor God, and his arguably most magnificent Phillips creation, Satan. Prerequisite: English 205 and a course in ENG 334 Studies in Medieval Literature Literary History or permission of the A study of selected works written between instructor. 700 and 1500, with an emphasis on those Cefalu written in England (exclusive of Chaucer). Specific texts depend on the thematic focus, ENG 338 Metaphysical Poetry which varies from year to year. [W] Metaphysical poems are witty, cerebral Prerequisite: English 205, and a course in poems that use elaborate metaphors or Literary History or permission of the "conceits" to comment on a range of elusive instructor. "big topics" including the nature of love, Westfall, Van Dyke death, evil, and God. Form, style, and imagery are considered as well as the ENG 335 Studies in Renaissance Literature historical contexts in which this poetry The Renaissance is commonly regarded as emerged in England. Students are the height of Western aesthetic introduced to a range of 17th-century poets achievement. This course looks at—and including John Donne, George Herbert, and problematizes —the “rebirth” of knowledge Richard Crashaw, as well as the work of by examining early modern English later poets influenced by 17th-century literature and culture, with attention to the poetry. effects of humanism, discovery, class, race, Prerequisite: English 205 and a course in the Reformation, a female monarch, and Literary History or permission of instructor civil war. Topics vary and are announced Cefalu, Donahue during registration. [W] Prerequisite: English 205, and a course in ENG 339 Revenge and Restoration Drama Literary History or permission of the Seventeenth-century drama reflects one of instructor. the more tumultuous eras in British history-- Donahue, I. Smith, Westfall a king beheaded, public theaters closed, a bloody civil war, and the restoration of the ENG 336 Studies in Seventeenth-Century monarchy. During this period, symmetrical Literature forms replaced mixed genres, women The seventeenth century saw unprecedented supplanted boys on stage, and comedy growth and change in England: the decline trumped tragedy. Students read Jacobean of absolute government and the rise of revenge tragedies and some Restoration liberalism and capitalism, the scientific comedies to explore how issues of class, revolution, colonial expansion, and the rise gender, and politics played themselves out of modern consciousness and subjectivity. during this era. This course explores the ways in which the Prerequisite: English 205 and a course in literature of the period reflects English Literary History or permission of instructor culture in transition and the ways in which Westfall formal literary genres change as the century unfolds. Topics vary. [W] ENG 340 Topics in Film Prerequisite: English 205, and a course in A focused investigation of film topics. This Literary History or permission of the course allows students to shape and instructor. articulate critical interpretations of the form, Staff history, style, ideology, rhetorical power, and artistry of cinema. Topics may include: ENG 337 Milton documentary film, independent film, film Course covers Paradise Lost and selections theory, national cinemas, Hollywood from Milton's prose and other poetry, genres, and race, class, and gender on film. focusing on literary themes, style, and genre, and the place of his writings in the 124

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Prerequisite: English 205, 240, and a ENG 345 Foundations of Modern Drama course in Literary History or permission of An introduction to the critical analysis of instructor. drama, using chiefly European plays 1880- A. Smith 1920, by Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Shaw,

O’Neill, and others. [W] ENG 341 The Nineteenth-Century English Prerequisite: English 205, and a course in Novel Literary History or permission of instructor A study of the main tendencies of major Staff examples in English fiction from Shelley to Hardy. [W] ENG 346 Modern and Contemporary Prerequisite: English 205, and a course in Drama Literary History or permission of instructor A study of British, American, European, Staff and other plays from approximately 1920 to

the present, with attention to both text and ENG 342 Modern British Literature performance. [W] This course investigates various literary and Prerequisite: English 205, and a course in cultural crises during the British modernist Literary History or permission of instructor period. The fragmentation of traditional Staff narrative and poetic style, a shift toward psychic interiority, and the alienation of the ENG 347 Modern and Contemporary Poetry artist are all considered hallmarks of A study of the aesthetics and ideologies of modernist literature. We wil contextualize some of the most significant modern and such changges by asking how they are contemporary poets writing in English, with connected to the social and political crises special focus on theories and practices of the age. Among our considerations will related to experimental poetries. [W] be how science and technology, Prerequisite: English 205, and a course in evolutionary theory, the New Woman, and Literary History or permission of instructor colonialism challenge traditional notions of Upton what it means to be hman at the turn of the twentieth century. We will investigate these ENG 349 Postcolonial Literature changes in texts by writers such as Joseph An introduction to selected writers from Conrad, E.M Forster, James Joyce, D.H. Africa, India, the Caribbean, and Australia Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf. and to the political and cultural issues that Prerequisite: English 205, and a course in affect writing and reading across cultures Literary History or permission of instructor and political inequalities. [W] Rohman Prerequisite: English 205,and a course in

Literary History or permission of instructor ENG 343 The American Novel to 1900 I. Smith A study of the American novel through the romantic and realistic periods, including ENG 350 Studies in Writing and Rhetoric Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Howells, Exploration of topics in writing, literacy, James, Twain, and Norris. The relationship language use, and argument from a range of of the popular novel to major American theoretical and practical perspectives. The themes is examined to provide a historical course examines how humans use written context for the genre. [W] language to communicate ideas, to argue Prerequisite: English 205, and a course in points, to create identities, to educate each Literary History or permission of instructor other, and to maintain social structures. Staff Students learn to think about such uses in

sophisticated ways and gain a better ENG 344 The Modern American Novel understanding of their own experiences with The modern novel from Dreiser to the written language. [W] present including Anderson, Dos Passos, Prerequisite: ENG 205 and a course in Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Bellow, Literary History or permission of the Barth, and others. [W] instructor Prerequisite: English 205, and a course in Donahue, Falbo Literary History or permission of instructor Belletto, Johnson ENG 351 Environmental Writing

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ENG 369 Writers in Focus The study of one, two, or three writers in ENG 352 Special Topics in Black Literature depth. Topics vary from semester to A study of a special area of literature by semester and will be announced during black writers. Among the topics considered registration period. May be taken more than are autobiography, theater, contemporary once with different content. writing, modern African novels, and such Prerequisite: English 205, and a course in major writers as Baldwin and Wright. The Literary History or permission of instructor choice of topics varies from year to year. Staff [W] Prerequisite: English 205, and a course in ENG 370, 371, 374-379 Special Topics Literary History, or permission of instructor A seminar on a topic selected by an I. Smith, Washington instructor. Prerequisite: English 205, and a course in ENG 355 Race Theory Literary History or permission of instructor This course provides an introduction to Staff theories and representations of race and racism as applied to the analysis of literature ENG 387 Nineteenth Century American and culture. The aim of the course is to trace Poetry the protean uses of race in history and to Intensive study of poems, poets, and poetic place contemporary debates on race into forms in the United States from the War of historical context. Readings focus on a 1812 to the turn of the twentieth century. broad range of literary and cultural texts in Particular focus on Whitman, Dickinson, order to trace the emergence and/or Longfellow, and Melville. transformation of race in intellectual and Prerequisite: ENG 205 and a course in social contestation. Literary History or permission of the Prerequisite: ENG 205 and a course in instructor. Literary History or permission of the Phillips instructor Washington ENG 390, 391 Independent Study A program of tutorial study, initiated by the ENG 360 Advanced Creative Writing student and pursued independently under The course extends upon the writing skills the guidance of an instructor from whom the that students developed in introductory student has gained approval and acceptance. courses in imaginative writing. Students [W] engage in regular intensive workshops in Prerequisite: English 205, and a course in which their creative writing is critiqued. The Literary History. Permission of the course requires completion of advanced Associate Department Head required. exercises in structure and style and the Staff composition of a final portfolio of imaginative writing. ENG 395 Problems and Possibilities Prerequisite: ENG 205, 250, 251, or 255, Literary research, like all research, entails Permission of instructor required both discovering answers and, more Ohlin, Upton interestingly perhaps, discovering questions- -finding uses for already-available evidence. ENG 365 Seminar in Literary Criticism We will do research in both these senses of An advanced introduction to the history of the word. This course is an opportunity to literary criticism and its dominant find out what researces exist, what they are theoretical practices. Students read good for, and how to incorporate research representative texts from various schools of into readable and lively papers. Seminar criticism—formalism, structuralism, members will provide an interested and deconstruction, Marxism, psychoanalysis, inquisitive audience for each others' gender studies, cultural studies—and apply 126

ENGLISH projects. These projects, culminating in a and vocal development. †Students will substantial research-based essay, will be on develop their imaginations and creative topics chosen from a wide range of possible processes through performance situations inquiries into literature and language. The involving improvisation, scene study and course is designed for anyone interested in monologue work. †††Second semester research and should be of particular value to seniors must have permission of the present or prospective independent study instructor to take the course. and honors students and to those Lodge contemplating graduate or professional study. THTR 216 Acting II: Scene Study Prerequisite: ENG 205 and a course in This workshop style course offers an Literary History or permission of the intermediate level†Students will study the instructor work of master teachers of acting like Woolley Constantine Stanislavski and Sanford Meisner, then apply their methodologies to ENG 495, 496 Thesis a range of performance projects with Tutorial sessions related to the student’s material drawn from Early Modernism investigation of the area chosen for his or through the present. her honors essay. Open only to candidates Prerequisite: Theater 215 or instructor for departmental honors. [W] permission. Prerequisite: English 205, and a course in Lodge Literary History. Permission of the Associate Department Head required THTR 221 Basic Stagecraft: Introduction to Staff Technical Theater

An introduction to the history, theory, and THTR 120 Theater Practicum practice of technical theater, focusing upon Available to designated cast and crew construction, painting, rigging, and members of a faculty-directed College electrical practices. Laboratory sessions in Theater production. May be repeated up to the theater shop and backstage assignments four times for credit. ensure hands-on exposure to topics Prerequisite: Permission of the Director of discussed in class. Normally closed to Theater, 0.25 credit. seniors. Staff Staff

THTR 123 Plays in Performance: Stage and THTR 227 Introduction to Theater Film Using analytical and hands-on approaches, This course compares stage and screen this course introduces students to significant productions of selected plays. Students read dramatic texts and to the principal craft scripts and, through in- and out-of-class areas in theater. Readings include plays screenings and live performances, examine from different eras of theater history; different realizations of each script. This projects involve acting, directing, and performance approach addresses questions design. Includes lectures, discussions, visits of interpretation and adaptation in the from outside theater professionals, and context of historical circumstances and the writing assignments. artistic demands of literature, stage, and Staff screen. O'Neill THTR 290, 291 Topics in Theater A detailed study in either a workshop or THTR 201 Public Speaking classroom setting of a particular aspect of A survey of the fundamentals of speech theatrical endeavor. Usually offered in with regular drill in platform speaking. conjunction with visiting artists or theater Staff residencies. Prerequisite: Theater 227 or permission of THTR 215 Acting I: Acting and instructor. Improvisation Staff

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FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES organizational procedures from script Staff analysis to performance. Discussion and practice in the principles of composition, picturization, movement, dramatic tempo, FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND and ensemble, with attention to the special ITERATURES problems in proscenium and central staging. L Students may stage scenes in laboratory or plays for public performance. Faculty Prerequisite: a 200-level THTR course or Associate Professor Lamb-Faffelberger, permission of the instructor Head; Professors Duhl, Lalande, O'Neill McDonald, Pribic, Rosa; Associate Professors Donnell, Dubischar, Geoffrion- THTR 330 Theatrical Styles Vinci (Assistant Head); Assistant This workshop style course offers advanced Professors Galarza-Sepulveda, Rojo study of acting, with special emphasis on exploring and enacting the theatrical styles As technology and business internationalize and performance conventions from a wide many aspects of our lives, mastering a range of time periods, genres and cultures.† second language becomes a necessity. Students will perform in projects drawn Lafayette offers majors and minors in from diverse pieces that may include the French, German, and Spanish, as well as a plays of the Ancient Greeks, Shakespeare minor in Russian. It also offers and Moliere. Topics change and will be interdisciplinary minors: Classical announced during registration; may be Civilizations (Greek and Latin); Russian repeated for credit when offered on different and East European Studies; Chinese and topics. Japanese support the Asian Studies minor, Prerequisite: THTR 215 or instructor and Hebrew supports the Jewish Studies permission. minor. All courses in Comparative Staff Literature are taught in English.

THTR 370, 371 Advanced Topics in The FLL curriculum is designed so that you Theater not only develop communicative skills but Advanced study in either a workshop or also learn about the people who speak the classroom setting of a particular aspect of language and their culture. The state-of-the- theatrical endeavor. May be repeated for art resource center offers audio and video credit when offered on different topics. materials, computer work stations, Prerequisite: a 200-level course in THTR international television programs via or permission of the instructor. satellite, and foreign films. Advanced Staff language and/or native speakers are there to help if needed. THTR 372, 373 Internship Practical experience in a professional Majors are encouraged to study abroad for theater or theater organization. Written at least one semester or to participate in a reports are required of the student, as is an foreign language internship designed to give evaluation of the student by the supervising students the opportunity to use linguistic agency. Although a student may take two skills in a professional or business setting. theater internships, normally in the junior and senior years, only one may be counted Requirements for Bachelor of Arts toward the drama/ theater concentration Completion of a series of courses as within the English major. Advance approval specified by each section and listed under of the Director of Theater required. each section heading. Through these O'Neill courses, students acquire an appropriate

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French Requirements Business French (225) is required of majors in International Economics and Commerce. Requirements for Bachelor of Arts Comprised of eight courses (or fewer, if French Literature, Culture and students demonstrate greater proficiency) Civilization Courses beyond Elementary French (101-102). Students are required to complete the Prerequisite for courses in this group: language sequence up to and including French 211 or the equivalent proficiency Advanced French (101-102, 111-112, and level. Students who perform exceptionally 211) or demonstrate equivalent proficiency well in French 112 may be admitted with that would allow for advanced placement. approval of the French advisor. Following completion of the language sequence, majors are required to take two German Requirements 300-level courses and three 400-level courses, one of which must be taken during the senior year. The department Language Courses recommends that students who plan to undertake graduate work in French The department strongly recommends that complete all the courses in the 421, 422, all first-year students who have studied two 423, 424 sequence and, in the senior year, or more years of German prior to entering pursue honors work. All majors are urged to college take the placement test online (or take one or more courses in Comparative the examination administered by the Literature (101, 102, 225). In some cases, department) in order to determine proper courses taken at other institutions may be placement in a course based on the used to satisfy the requirements for the major. appropriate level of achievement.

Requirements for the Minor Language courses are primarily designed to Comprised of five courses (or fewer, if help students acquire the linguistic students demonstrate greater proficiency) competence necessary to pursue literary and beyond Elementary French 101-102. cultural studies in German through work students are required to complete the with the language as well as selected texts language sequence (101-102, 111-112, and and multimedia resources. 211) or demonstrate equivalent proficiency Business German (225) is required of that would allow for advanced placement. majors in International Economics and Following completion of the language Commerce. sequence, minors are required to take two 300-level courses. German Literature, Culture and In exceptional cases, approved courses other Civilization Courses than those listed above may be used to satisfy the requirements. Prerequisite for courses in this group: German 211, German 225, or the equivalent Language Courses proficiency level. Students who perform The department strongly recommends that exceptionally well in German 112 may be all first-year students who have studied two admitted with approval of the instructor or more years of French prior to entering college take the placement examination that German Literature and Culture Survey is administered by the department to determine their level of achievement. German Seminars Language courses are primarily designed to Prerequisite for courses in this group: help students acquire the linguistic Successful completion of at least one 300- competence necessary to pursue literary and level course. cultural studies in French through work with

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Requirements for Bachelor of Arts 423, 427 or 428), and one course in Hispanic studies in consultation with a faculty advisor in Spanish. Comprised of eight courses (or fewer, if students demonstrate greater proficiency) Designed to meet the specific needs of beyond Elementary German 101-102, majors interested in studying abroad or students are required to complete the teaching, the Hispanic studies requirement language sequence up to and including may be fulfilled by choosing from FLL 380 Advanced German (101-102, 11-112, and or 381 (the teaching internship in Spanish), 211 or 225) or demonstrate equivalent or by taking any 300- or 400-level course in proficiency that would allow for advanced Spanish. By senior year, all candidates for placement. Following completion of the the major are required to take Spanish 425 language sequence, majors are required to and 435. take five courses on the 300- and/or 400- In lieu of 435 and a course in Hispanic level, one of which must be taken in studies (described above), students in their residence during senior year. The junior year may propose a research topic for department recommends that students who an honors thesis (Spanish 495, 496) to be plan to undertake graduate work in German completed during their senior year. pursue honors work in their senior year. All majors are urged to take one or more Requirements for the Minor courses in Comparative Literature. In some cases, courses taken at other institutions Comprised of four courses beyond Spanish may be used to satisfy the requirements for 111-112 (or fewer, if students demonstrate the major. greater proficiency), students are required to complete the language sequence (101-102, or 103, 111-112, and 211) or demonstrate Requirements for the Minor equivalent proficiency that would allow for Comprised of five courses (or fewer, if advanced placement. Following completion students demonstrate greater proficiency) of the language sequence, minors are beyond Elementary German 101-102, required to take three courses at the 300- or students are required to complete the 400-level with at least one focusing on language sequence (101-102, 111-112, and literature. either 211 or 225) or demonstrate equivalent proficiency that would allow for advanced Language Courses placement. Following completion of the language sequence, minors are required to Students with two or more years of high take at least one 300- or 400-level course. school Spanish are required to submit their AP or SAT II score to the FLL Department In exceptional cases, approved courses other Head or take the placement test online (or than those listed above may be used to the examination administered by the satisfy the requirements for the minor. Department). First-year students take the placement test during summer registration Spanish Requirements of First-Year Orientation. Others have to Requirements for Bachelor of Arts make an appointment with the Department (Major) Head to take the exam at any time in their college career. Comprised of eight courses beyond Spanish 111-112 (or fewer, if students demonstrate Language courses at the 100- or 200-level greater proficiency), students are required to are primarily designed to help students complete the language sequence up to and acquire the linguistic competence necessary including Advanced Spanish 211 or to pursue literary and cultural studies in demonstrate equivalent proficiency that Spanish through work with the language as would allow for advanced placement. well as selected texts and multimedia Following completion of the language resources. sequence, majors are required to take one survey of civilization (Spanish 303, 304, Business Spanish (225) is required of 313 or 314), two surveys of literature majors in International Economics and (Spanish 310, 311, 317, or 318), three Commerce. seminars (Spanish 425, 435, and either 421, 130

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Heritage speakers: Students who speak of familiarity with Chinese characters. Spanish at home may wish to enroll in Attention to developing reading and Spanish 215 that is specifically designed for conversational skills and a deeper heritage speakers. They should also work understanding of the diverse cultures of the closely with their Spanish advisor to address Chinese people. specific academic needs not met in the Prerequisite: Chinese 101, 102 or classroom. Those who have already had equivalent proficiency formal schooling in Spanish prior to starting Staff college are encouraged to begin at the 300- or 400-level. CHN 226 China and Christianity This course presents a survey of the Hispanic Literature and Civilization introduction and evolvement of Christianity Surveys in China from the 7th century to the present day. The survey will be viewed through a Prerequisite for courses in this group: many-sided prism of intellectual, Spanish 211 or the equivalent proficiency institutional, ethical, spiritual, and political level. Students who perform exceptionally life of Christianity and its integration into well in Spanish 112 may be admitted with Chinese culture. The course will put approval of the Spanish advisor. Christianity in both global and regional contexts, so that students will learn from a wide spectrum of inter-cultural exchanges in Foreign Languages and Literature history. Staff Courses CHN 101 Elementary Chinese CHN 231 Chinese Civilization The course aims to develop fundamental This course presents the fundamental listening, speaking, reading and writing features and highlights of Chinese abilities in Mandarin Chinese. Students civilization from the Neolithic age down to examine approximately 250 new words and the twentieth century. It explores the origin, more than 30 grammar patterns. Mastery of transformation, and continuity of this long- Pinyin pronunciation is an essential part and standing culture, discussing varied aspects students are trained with computer-based in philosophy, religion, political institutions, exercises, especially character typing. Class and literature and arts. Students also explore activities may also include practicing certain areas of Chinese culture that are calligraphy, singing songs in Chinese, becoming transnational interests, such as making dumplings, and film shows to Buddhist practice, geomancy, and medical enhance students´ understanding of Chinese tradition. No prior knowledge of China or language and culture. Chinese language is required. All works are Staff read in English translations. Staff

CHN 102 Elementary Chinese This course will help students continue to CL 101, 102 Survey of European Literature develop fundamental skills in listening, Study of the most significant figures and speaking, reading and writing of Mandarin their works in European literary history, Chinese, based on 101 class training or exclusive of English. The course aims to equivalents. Students will learn 200 new acquaint students with the classics in the words and more than 30 new grammar literatures of Greece, Rome, Italy, Spain, patterns. Mastery of Pinyin pronunciation is France, Germany, and Russia in English still an essential part and students are to be translation. No knowledge of foreign trained with more frequent computer-based languages required. Open to all students. exercises. Class activities also include Lecture. [W] calligraphy competition and Chinese movie Pribic show to enhance students understanding of Chinese culture. CL 103 Classical Mythology Prerequisite: Chinese 101 or equivalent Definitions, sources, and interpretations of Staff myth as a cognitive system in ancient and modern culture. Survey of major divinities, CHN 111, 112 Intermediate Chinese mortals, myths, hero-legends, and cycles of Review and expansion of basic grammar saga, chiefly Greek. Their function in and vocabulary and continued development Greco-Roman civilization, their enduring 131

FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES power in Western culture, and their theoretical readings are discussed, and a influence upon Western intellectual and final research paper is required. artistic achievement. Open to all students. Prerequisite: At least two literature courses Staff in English or a foreign language Offered: As needed CL 121 Greek Literature in English Staff A study of the Greek perfection of diverse genres of literature through close reading CL 460 Reading and Research in (usually of entire works) in Epic, Lyric, Comparative Literature Tragedy, Old Comedy, History, This course is designed to give advanced Philosophical Dialogue. Relationship of students the opportunity to investigate literature to historical and cultural forces, intensively an area of special interest. particularly in the fifth-century polis of Students are required to meet with the Athens. The notion of a “classic” in instructor periodically throughout the literature. Open to all students. semester and to submit a scholarly paper, as Staff well as to take an oral examination at the

conclusion of the course. CL 142 Masterworks of German Literature Prerequisite: Two literature courses in and Film Foreign Languages and Literatures or In this course, important themes, styles, and English cultural issues are examined within the Staff context of German literature and film. Selected readings cover the major periods of FLL 380, 381 Foreign Language Teaching literary history, and the film versions of Internship these texts represent all stages of film This internship gives well-qualified students history, with works from the 1920s and the opportunity to gain foreign language 1930s to the present. Since all readings are teaching experience under faculty available in translation and all films have supervision in local elementary, middle, and English sub-titles, knowledge of German is high schools. Internships in French, not required. German, Korean, Russian, and Spanish are McDonald available. Students meet on a weekly basis

to discuss teaching methodology, language CL 161, 162 Russian Literature in English pedagogy, and second language acquisition A study—through the best available theory. translations—of the whole course of Prerequisite: 211 or higher, or permission Russian literature, with principal emphasis of instructor on the nineteenth-century writers: Pushkin, Qualtere Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy. Open to all students. [W] FREN 101, 102 Elementary French I and II Pribic Provides students with the four basic

language skills of reading, writing, listening, CL 225 Special Topics in Comparative and speaking. Emphasis is on learning the Literature fundamentals of grammar and on the This course introduces the methodology of development of verbal skills through their comparative literature and the problems of active use. Students having had two or more translation to advanced literature students. years of high school French are ineligible to Students should have completed at least two take French 101 unless they obtain the courses in literature given by Foreign instructor’s permission. Class/laboratory. Languages and Literatures or the English Staff department. A reading knowledge of one foreign language is strongly recommended. FREN 111, 112 Intermediate French I and II Offered: As needed Review and expansion of the basic grammar Staff and vocabulary of the language. Attention to developing reading and conversational skills CL 351 Special Topics in Literature in and a deeper understanding of the culture of Translation France and other francophone countries. Study of a genre or special topic in foreign Class/laboratory. literatures in translation. Seminar content is Staff broad in scope and may span several centuries. In addition to the literature, 132

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FREN 211 Advanced French FREN 322 Reason, Wit, and Wild Grammar review with emphasis on areas of Imaginings: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- greatest difficulty. Enrichment of written Century French Literature and Civilization expression with emphasis on style and Readings from such works as Corneille’s Le vocabulary building. Examination of Cid, Racine’s Phèdre, Molière’s Le cultural and contemporary issues through Tartuffe, Mme de La Fayette’s La Princesse use of the language laboratory (films, de Clèves, Prévost’s Manon Lescaut, television broadcasts, newspaper articles, Marivaux’s Le Jeu de l’amour et du hasard, computerized programs) and discussion of Voltaire’s Candide, and Montesquieu’s cultural and literary texts. Class/laboratory. Lettres persanes. Staff Lalande

FREN 212 Bridging the Gap: Language to FREN 323 Iconoclasts: Nineteenth- and Literature Twentieth-Century French Literature This course is designed to help students Introduction to the study of such modern make the difficult transition between literary movements as romanticism, realism, advanced language study and the study of naturalism, symbolism, surrealism, French literature. French 211 (Advanced existentialism, and the absurd. Emphasis on Composition) focuses on developing writing poetry, fiction, drama, and criticism in the skills necessary for written essays, while works of such authors as Mme de Staël, this course is designed to prepare students Chateaubriand, Lamartine, Hugo, Stendhal, more adequately for reading, interpreting, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant, and discussing literary texts. Activities will Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, focus on close reading of short literary texts Jarry, Valéry, Apollinaire, Gide, Proust, or excerpts, class discussion of the material Breton, Malraux, Sartre, Camus, Beckett, read, and the writing of short literary and Ionesco. analyses Reyns-Chikuma, Rosa Prerequisite: French 211 or equivalent Lalande FREN 324 Turning the World Upside

Down: French Civilization since 1789 FREN 225 Business French French history, civilization, and culture Designed for the advanced student wishing from the Revolution of 1789 through to acquire specialized knowledge of the modern times. Emphasis on major historical French language for use in business. The figures and events, the evolution of political course examines a variety of topics such as and social institutions, economic trends, the agriculture, industry, postal services, development of religious, philosophical, and telecommunications, international trade, political beliefs, and changes in the modes customs regulations, banking activities, the of artistic expression. stock market, major enterprises, advertising, Rosa the insurance industry, the real estate market, job offers and applications, résumé FREN 421 The Sword, the Rose, and the writing, and business correspondence. Pen: Constructing Identity in French French 211 or equivalent Prerequisite: Medieval and Renaissance Literature and Lalande Culture FREN 321 High and Popular Culture in This course examines themes and Medieval and Renaissance France techniques of imitation and/or subversion of classical and Biblical sources as strategies Introduction to the study of medieval and for defining the self and the creative process Renaissance French literature and in the vernacular. Readings include such civilization. Readings from such works as genres as the epic, courtly romance, popular La Chanson de Roland, Yvain ou le theater, allegorical and lyric poetry, short chevalier au lion, Tristan et Iseult, Aucassin story, and the essay ( et Nicolette, Rabelais’s Gargantua and La Chanson de Roland, Pantagruel, the poetry of the Pléiade, and Chrétien de Troyes, Le Roman de la Rose, La Farce de Maistre Pathelin, François Montgaine’s Essais. Villon, François Rabelais, Joachim du Duhl, Lalande Bellay, Pierre de Ronsard, Louise Labé, Marguerite de Navarre, Michel de Montaigne). [W] Duhl

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FREN 422 The Age of Absolutism Prerequisite: Permission of research A study of representative classical authors instructor of the seventeenth century and their works, Staff with emphasis on the works of Corneille, Molière, Mme de La Fayette, Pascal, FREN 495, 496 Thesis in French Descartes, La Fontaine, La Rochefoucauld, Tutorial sessions related to the student’s Malherbe, Théophile, and Racine. [W] investigation of the area chosen for the Lalande honors essay. Open to majors in French who are candidates for departmental honors. FREN 423 The Artist as Outsider: French Prerequisite: Permission of research Literature of the Nineteenth Century instructor Study of the development of romanticism, Staff realism, naturalism, and symbolism, with emphasis on such writers as Chateaubriand, GERM 101, 102 Elementary German Constant, Musset, Sand, Nerval, Hugo, Fundamentals of spoken and written Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, language. Development of reading, writing, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, and speaking, and listening skills. An Villiers de l’Isle-Adam. Attention also may introduction to the culture of Germany and be given to the Parnassian school. [W] German-speaking countries. Rosa Class/laboratory. Staff

FREN 424 Literature, Ideas, and Film: Twentieth-Century French Culture GERM 101SP-102S Self-Paced German The major movements following symbolism Language Courses are studied in historical context and in the Designed for students who have a works of such authors as Gide, Proust, scheduling conflict. (Important: Not open Apollinaire, Breton, Mauriac, Co- lette, to first-year fall-semester students. Other Malraux, Sartre, Camus, Ionesco, Robbe- students wishing to enroll must receive Grillet, Queneau, Perec, Barthes, Kristeva, authorization from Professor Lamb- Ernaux, and Derrida. Topics such as Faffelberger.) surrealism, Orientalism, ludics, feminism, Students work independently in the memory of World War II, the Algerian War, language laboratory with multimedia multiculturalism, and Francophonie. [W] programs and follow a syllabus with Reyns-Chikuma guidelines that indicate when lessons should be completed and tests taken. Students are FREN 431 Contemporary France: Political, required to attend one conversation hour per Economic, and Social Institutions week and may consult the instructor as A study of French civilization since World needed. Staff War II; institutional changes under the IVth and Vth Republics; the educational system, the economy, the media, cultural life. GERM 111, 112 Intermediate German France in the contemporary world and Review of fundamental principles of francophone countries. grammar and syntax and expansion of Staff vocabulary with short literary and cultural readings. Attention to improving reading, FREN 441 Junior/Senior Seminar sharpening conversational skills, and Study of a genre or major theme in French developing a deeper understanding of the literature. Course content is broad in scope. culture of Germany and other German- [W] speaking countries. Class/laboratory. Staff Staff

FREN 460 Reading and Research in French GERM 211 Advanced German This course gives students the opportunity This course is designed for students who to investigate intensively an area of special already have a firm grasp of German interest. Students work on their projects language skills (e.g., based on at least four independently under the guidance of an years of high school instruction). The instructor. At the end of the semester, course, with its comprehensive review of students submit a research paper and/or basic principles of grammar and syntax, is make a substantial oral presentation. Hours highly recommended for students planning arranged. to study abroad. Increasing emphasis on 134

FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES idioms and correct conversational usage. Discussion of intellectual and philosophical Readings of literary and cultural texts, and movements. oral presentations. Lamb-Faffelberger, McDonald Lamb-Faffelberger, McDonald GERM 322 Age of Isms: Literature and GERM 225 Business German Culture in the German-Speaking World This course is designed for students who after 1750 already have a firm grasp of German This course chronologically traces the language skills (e.g., based on at least four development of forms of artistic expression years of high school instruction. Focus on in German literature, respectively within business culture, terminology, and each new historical, cultural, and vocabulary, and information about Germany sociopolitical framework. Representative today and other German-speaking countries readings from the Classical Era of the late and their place in both the European and the eighteenth century to the present. Emphasis world markets. Readings of business-related on characteristics and trends of major texts and oral presentations. literary movements. Introduction to notable Lamb-Faffelberger, McDonald modes of artistic expression such as

Classicism, Romanticism, Realism, GERM 311 Contemporary Society in Naturalism, Impressionism, Expressionism, German-Speaking Countries as Reflected in and Modernism. the Media Lamb-Faffelberger, McDonald This course studies texts from newspapers, magazines, and the Internet, and critically GERM 423 Liberalism's Struggle against views newsreels and video documentaries. Repression and Resignation: German Focus on contemporary issues and Literature and Culture of the Eighteenth and sociopolitical developments in Germany and Nineteenth Century German-speaking countries. Emphasis on Highlights characteristics of social everyday conversational and idiomatic perceptions as reflected in literary German. movements. Analysis and interpretation of Lamb-Faffelberger, McDonald literature as a medium for critiquing historical and social developments. Literary GERM 312 German Texts and Contexts: responses to political absolutism through the Bridging the Gap from Language to growth of liberalism and nationalism. Social Literature forces reflected in literature from the Age of This course critically examines diverse Enlightenment through Storm and Stress, readings in German poetry, prose, and Classicism, Romanticism, Realism, and drama of the previous two centuries with a Naturalism. [W] focus on critical analysis of contextual Prerequisite: Completion of at least one meaning and the structure of literary texts. 300-level course Introduction to literary terminology and Lamb-Faffelberger, McDonald techniques of interpretation. Literature as a reflection of Zeitgeist (social taste or the GERM 424 From Modernism to characteristic spirit of the times) that gave Postmodernism and Beyond: Literature and form to the cultural outlook of an epoch or Film of the German-Speaking World in the generation). Twentieth Century Lamb-Faffelberger, McDonald This course provides a comprehensive overview of poetry, prose, and drama of the GERM 321 A Journey through German twentieth century. Focus is on matters of Cultural History: Texts and Contexts before literary style, as well as major social, 1750 political, and cultural movements that This course chronologically traces the influenced and shaped literary and artistic development of forms of artistic expression expression from the turn of the century to in German literature, respectively within the present. [W] each new historical, cultural, and Prerequisite: Completion of at least one sociopolitical framework. Representative 300-level course readings from the beginnings of German Lamb-Faffelberger, McDonald literary writings in the seventh century through the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Baroque, to the Age of Enlightenment.

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GERM 431 Literature and Film as a Mirror classical Greece. Spring: A close reading of of Socio-Historical Issues in the at least one tragedy of Sophocles or of Contemporary German-Speaking World Euripides with attention to its dramatic art This course analyzes literature after 1945, and intellectual and moral content. first and foremost the short story as a Recitation. Staff reflection of the forces of social change in Germany and other German-speaking countries. Emphasis is on the relationship of HEBR 101, 102 Elementary Hebrew artistic expression and history, social issues, Fundamentals of the spoken and written political conviction, and personal modern language. Development of listening experience. Focus is on techniques for and speaking skills and of facility in reading interpretation of literature. [W] and writing standard, unvowelled texts. Prerequisite: Completion of at least one Introduction to the culture of Israel. Class/ 300-level course laboratory. Staff Lamb-Faffelberger, McDonald

GERM 441 Junior/Senior Seminar HEBR 111, 112 Intermediate Hebrew Investigation of a movement, a prominent Review and expansion of the basic author, intellectual topic, study of a genre, grammar, vocabulary, and idioms. literary masterpiece, or significant theme in Development of skills of self-expression German literature. [W] and conversation. Readings in short stories Prerequisite: Successful completion of at and in newspaper and magazine articles, and least one 300-level course monitoring of television broadcasts in the Lamb-Faffelberger, McDonald language laboratory to gain a deeper understanding of Israeli culture. Staff GERM 460 Reading and Research in German This course provides qualified students with HEBR 290, 291 Independent Study in the opportunity to investigate an area of Hebrew special interest. Students work on their These courses are intended to expand the projects independently under the guidance student's basic capabilities in the four of their mentor. Submit a research paper linguistic skills-listening, speaking, reading, and/or a substantial oral presentation. Hours and writing. Enrichment of written grammar arranged. review with emphasis on the expansion of Prerequisite: Permission of research vocabulary and stylistics. Examination of instructor cultural and contemporary issues through Lamb-Faffelberger, McDonald use of texts, films, television, music, and the internet. GERM 495, 496 Thesis in German Prerequisite: Hebrew 111, 112 or Tutorial sessions related to an investigation proficiency Staff of the specific area chosen by the student for an honors essay. Hours arranged. Prerequisite: Open to majors who are JAPN 101, 102 Elementary Japanese candidates for departmental honors. Fundamentals of spoken and written Permission of research instructor. Japanese. Development of reading, writing, Lamb-Faffelberger, McDonald speaking, and listening skills. An introduction to the culture of Japan. GRK 101, 102 Elementary Greek Class/laboratory. Staff Emphasis on achieving skills necessary for sustained reading of Attic Greek texts. Inductive system of continuous reading JAPN 111, 112 Intermediate Japanese complemented by deductive study and Review and expansion of basic grammar exercises in grammar, syntax, vocabulary, and vo-cabulary. Short literary and cultural and composition. Recitation. readings. Attention to developing reading Staff and conversational skills and a deeper understanding of the culture of Japan. Class/ GRK 111, 112 Intermediate Greek laboratory. Fall: A close reading of at least one major Prerequisite: Japanese 101, 102 or dialogue of Plato with attention to the equivalent proficiency Staff intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of 136

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JAPN 211, 212 Japanese Civilization and Staff

Culture Major aspects of civilization and culture RUSS 111, 112 Intermediate Russian from antiquity to the present, with attention Review and expansion of basic grammar to the role of geography, systems of thought and vocabulary. Short literary and cultural and belief, social, economic, and political readings. Attention to developing reading, organization, and the arts, including writing, and conversational skills and a literature. Taught in English. deeper understanding of Russian culture. Staff Class/laboratory. Staff

JAPN 290, 291 Independent Study-Japanese These courses are intended to expand the RUSS 209, 210 Survey of Russian student’s basic capability in the four Literature linguistic skills—listening, speaking, A chronological study of the major literary reading, and writing. Students learn new movements and styles from the seven- sentence structures, vocabulary, and teenth century to the present in prose, Chinese characters in addition to what they poetry, and drama. Special attention is given have learned in the intermediate course, to the ideological and historical background. using a basic language textbook, Prerequisite: Russian 112 or equivalent audio/visual media, and other Staff supplementary materials. Prerequisite: 111, 112 or equivalent RUSS 211 Advanced Russian Staff A course in advanced grammar and syntax designed to develop a high degree of aural LAT 101, 102 Elementary Latin comprehension and conversational fluency. Emphasis on achieving skills necessary for Perceptive reading and clear writing are sustained reading of classical Latin texts. stressed. Discussion of the major social, Fundamentals and exercises in grammar, ideological, and artistic trends and syntax, and development of vocabulary. movements of Russia. Some work on Latin roots for vocabulary- Staff building in English and enhancement of knowledge of European languages. RUSS 311 Russian Short Story Recitation. A study of the Russian novella and short Staff story with emphasis on nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction. Reading and LAT 111, 112 Intermediate Latin interpretation of works by writers such as Fall: Reading of short selections in prose Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and in the poetry of Catullus with attention Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Gorky, Babel, to the political, moral, and cultural climate Olesha, Solzhenitsyn, and others. of the late Roman Republic. Spring: Prerequisite: Russian 112 or equivalent Reading of at least one book of Tusculan Staff

Disputations of Cicero and of selections from the Satyricon of Petronius against the RUSS 316 Soviet Russian Literature background of the early Roman Empire. A study of developments from 1917 to the Recitation. present for their literary, social and political Staff significance. Reading and interpretation of works by writers such as Mayakovsky, LAT 211 Advanced Latin Gladkov, Fadeyev, Katayev, Simonov, Courses such as: Latin Lyric Poetry, Latin Panova, Evtushenko, Trifonov, and others. Elegy, Latin Prose of the Early Empire, Prerequisite: Russian 112 or equivalent Latin Satire, Medieval Latin, Latin Staff

Philosophy, Lucretius, and Cicero. Staff RUSS 460 Reading and Research in Russian This course gives the advanced student the RUSS 101, 102 Elementary Russian opportunity to investigate intensively an Fundamentals of the spoken and written area of special interest. The student is language. Development of reading, writing, required to meet with the instructor speaking, and listening skills. An periodically throughout the semester and at introduction to the culture of Russia. the end submit a scholarly paper and to take Class/laboratory. an oral examination. Hours arranged. 137

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Offered: As needed SPAN 211 Advanced Spanish Staff Advanced Spanish is an intensive

composition course that emphasizes the SPAN 101, 102 Elementary Spanish development of critical and analytical skills This sequence is for beginners, covering the in Spanish through the study of Spanish and fundametals of spoken and written language Latin American literature and film. through the development of reading, Designed as a bridge between language writing, speaking, and listening skills. development and upper-level civilization, Class/laboratory. literature and culture courses, this class Prerequisite: Novices only. Students focuses on process writing and is generally having had two or more years of high- taken after a student has completed the school Spanish are ineligible to take Spanish Intermediate sequence of language study. 101. These students are encoraged to enroll Prerequisites: Spanish 111-112 or either in Spanish 111 (fall semester) or, if equivalent they find the intermediate sequence too Staff challenging, in Spanish 103 (spring semester only). SPAN 225 Business Spanish Staff This course is designed to teach advanced

students how to use their language skills SPAN 103 Accelerated Elementary Spanish within the context of the Spanish-speaking An intensive program for high beginners. professional world. Students acquire The course takes a communicative approach specialized vocabulary and knowledge toward the development of reading, writing, related to topics such as banking and listening and speaking skills. Ideal for finance, telecommunications, import/export students in need of review, and those with operations, advertising, and marketing. professional, family or travel interests. Course activities include composition of Class/Laboratory. Not open to students with business letters and résumés, summaries and credit for Spanish 101-102. translation of official documents and Prerequisite: Students having two or more business correspondence, exploration and years of high school Spanish are required to analysis of commerce-related Internet sites, take a placement examination (WebCAPE, and completion and presentation of a AP or SAT II) before enrolling in their first country-specific team project. course in Spanish. First-year students may Class/laboratory. take a placement exam during summer Prerequisite: Students having two or more orientation, or, at any point in their college years of high school Spanish are required to careers, students may make an appointment take a placement examination (AP or SAT with the department to take the test. II) before enrolling in their first course in Staff Spanish. First-year students may take the

SAT II placement test during summer SPAN 111, 112 Intermediate Spanish orientation, or, at any point in their college Review and expansion of basic grammar careers, students may make an appointment and vocabulary. Short literary and cultural with the department to take the test. readings. Development of reading, writing, Spanish 211 or equivalent. listening, and conversational skills as well Geoffrion-Vinci as a deeper understanding of Hispanic cultures. Class/laboratory. SPAN 303 Spanish Civilization and Culture Prerequisite: Students having two or more An interdisciplinary exploration of the years of high school Spanish are required to Iberian Peninsula’s civilizations and take a placement examination (AP or SAT cultures as reflected in its history, literature, II) before enrolling in their first course in peoples, politics, and arts. Topics range Spanish. First-year students may take the from Spanish Unification in 1492 through SAT II placement test during summer the rise and fall of Spain as an imperial orientation, or, at any point in their college power. Class/ laboratory. careers, students may make an appointment Prerequisite: Spanish 211, equivalent, or with the department to take the test. permission of instructor Spanish 101-102, 103, or equivalent. Donnell Staff

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SPAN 304 Spanish American Civilization Jordan and Culture, 1492-1900 An interdisciplinary exploration of SPAN 317 Survey of Spanish American civilizations and cultures from the colonial Literature I period through the early 20th-century as An introduction to the literature of Spanish reflected in its history, literature, peoples, America, from the 16th to the early 20th politics, and arts. Class/laboratory. century, emphasizing the literary response Prerequisite: Spanish 211, equivalent, or to the peoples and places of the New World, permission of instructor the transformation of Spain’s literary Galarza Sepulveda legacy, the rise of national traditions after independence, and the modernistas’ answer SPAN 310 Survey of Spanish Literature I to regionalism. Class/laboratory. An introduction to the literature of Spain Prerequisite: Spanish 211, equivalent, or from the Middle Ages through the permission of instructor seventeenth century, from the story of the Galarza Sepulveda

Cid through the myth of Don Juan. Class/laboratory. SPAN 318 Survey of Spanish American Prerequisite: Spanish 211, equivalent, or Literature II permission of instructor An introduction to the literature of Spanish Donnell America, from the early twentieth century to the present day. Among the issues addressed SPAN 311 Survey of Spanish Literature II are the literature of social protest and An introduction to the literature of Spain reform, artistic experimentation in from the eighteenth century to the present, contemporary poetry and narrative fiction, from the Enlightenment through the post- and the rise of the novel in the second half civil war era. The course examines how of the twentieth century. Class/laboratory. authors such as Larra, Castro, Pardo Bazán, Prerequisite: Spanish 211, equivalent, or Galdós, and Machado responded to the permission of instructor challenges posed by the shifting realities of Jordan their times. Class/laboratory. Prerequisite: Spanish 211, equivalent, or SPAN 421 Seminar in the Literature and permission of instructor Culture of the New World Geoffrion-Vinci An in-depth study of the influence of

colonial literature in both the formation of a SPAN 313 Contemporary Spain Latin American identity and the An interdisciplinary study that examines the development of contemporary writing. evolution of Spanish society from the Texts by the explorers, missionaries, and nineteenth to the twentieth century. Topics conquistadores in the New World (including include Spain’s problematic transition from Columbus, Friar Bartolomé de las Casas, feudalism to modernity, the rise of Hernán Cortés), and the subsequent regionalism and its impact on national generations of “American-born” writers identity, and literary creativity and (such as “The Inca” Garcilaso de la Vega). censorship in a nation vaulting between May be repeated for credit when topics reactionary and democratic political forces. vary. Class/laboratory. [W] Prerequisite: Spanish 211, equivalent, or Prerequisite: Spanish 304 or 317, permission of instructor equivalent, or permission of instructor Geoffrion-Vinci Galarza Sepulveda

SPAN 314 Contemporary Spanish America SPAN 423 Seminar in Early Modern and Hispanics in the U.S. Spanish Literature and Culture An interdisciplinary study of current An in-depth study of a literary theme, cultural and political trends in Spanish author, or genre related to Spain during the America with emphasis on national and Renaissance and Baroque periods. continental identities, political responses to Emphasizing the cultural contexts, examples development, the vitality of popular culture of topics include transvestite comedy, the and the arts, and the growing importance of short prose of Cervantes, the Spanish Hispanics in the United States. Laboratory Inquisition, or Neo-Baroque themes and assignments. imagery in contemporary film and literature. Prerequisite: Spanish 211, equivalent, or May be repeated for credit when topics permission of instructor vary. Class/laboratory. [W] 139

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Prerequisite: Spanish 303 or 310, SPAN 460 Reading and Research in equivalent, or permission of instructor Spanish Donnell Individual research under the guidance of a

faculty mentor. Open only to qualified SPAN 425 Don Quixote juniors and seniors. Hours arranged. Cervantes’ masterpiece as it relates to Prerequisite: Two 300-level literature or today’s reader, its impact on contemporary culture courses, and permission of faculty culture, and the stylistic innovations that mentor make this novel a modern classic. Required Staff of all majors in Spanish. Class/laboratory. Prerequisite: One survey course in SPAN 495, 496 Thesis in Spanish Hispanic literature, equivalent, or Open only to majors in Spanish who are permission of instructor candidates for departmental honors. Tutorial Donnell sessions related to the student’s research and

essay project. Hours arranged. SPAN 427 Seminar in Contemporary Prerequisite: Permission of research Spanish Literature and Culture instructor An in-depth study of a literary theme, genre, Staff author, or cultural movement in Spain from the late nineteenth century to the present. Examples include postwar novel, film GEOLOGY AND studies, and Spanish surrealism. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. ENVIRONMENTAL Class/laboratory. [W] GEOSCIENCES Prerequisite: Spanish 303, 311 or 313, equivalent, or permission of instructor Geoffrion-Vinci Faculty Professor Germanoski, Head; Professor SPAN 428 Seminar in Modern Spanish Hovis, Associate Professor Malinconico, American Literature and Culture Assistant Professors Lawrence and An in-depth study of a literary theme, genre, Sunderlin, Laboratory Coordinator/ author, or movement in the cultural context Lecturer Wilson of Spanish America during the late Geology is the study of the earth and its nineteenth century through the present day. history. The department offers both the Topics include Short Story and the Bachelor of Science and the Bachelor of Fantastic, Fictions of History in Arts degree. The B.S. degree is designed to Contemporary Novel, and From Popular meet the needs of students who wish to Culture to Narrative Fiction. May be become practicing geologists or repeated for credit when topics vary. environmental geoscientists, or who wish to Class/laboratory. [W] pursue graduate degrees in the geosciences. Prerequisite: Spanish 304, 314 or 318, One may pursue either a geology or an equivalent, or permission of instructor environmental geosciences track in the B.S. Jordan program. The B.A., in the tradition of liberal

arts education, is designed for students who SPAN 435 Research Seminar in Hispanic wish to study geology, yet pursue other Literature and Civilization professional objectives after graduation. The Development of research skills and B.A. also is an ideal degree for students methodologies as applied to a specific topic pursuing a double major; recent graduates in Hispanic studies: a literary theme, genre, have combined geology with areas such as author, or movement, and/or a cultural, Government and Law (environmental law), historical, or political trend in Spain or International Affairs, Economics and Spanish America. Required of all majors in Business (environmental management), and Spanish during their senior year. Only open Chemistry. to nonmajors with permission of instructor. May be repeated for credit when topics The curriculum and the interests of the vary. Class/multimedia research. [W] faculty span a wide range of topics from Staff sedimentology, marine geology, and geomorphology to geophysics, geochemistry, and earth materials. Field and laboratory work are integral parts of the 140

GEOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL GEOSCIENCES curriculum and many opportunities exist for Geology and Environmental cooperative student-faculty research. Geosciences Courses Students have traveled as far as Alaska, Nevada, Mexico, Illinois and Cambridge, GEOL 100 From Fire to Ice: An England, to perform cooperative research Introduction to Geology with Lafayette faculty, and many excellent A broad introduction to the geological projects also are available locally. processes acting within the earth and on its The James L. Dyson Scholarship Prize is surface that produce volcanoes, earthquakes, given to a junior major for a summer field mountain belts, mineral deposits, and ocean experience in geology, usually a summer basins. The course considers the dramatic field camp. effects of plate tectonics, as well as the enormous periods of time over which Requirements geologic processes take place, also familiar Students in the B.S. Degree–Environmental features of the landscape formed by Geosciences track are required to take 11 landslides, rivers, groundwater, and glaciers. courses including two 100-level geology Practical aspects are learned through courses, one each from Physical Geology discovery-oriented laboratory exercises, and Earth History; Geology 200, 205 or which include several field excursions. 315, 210, 215, 300, 307, 317, 322, and one Lecture/laboratory. Preference to first- and environmental elective approved by the second-year students, geology majors, and department. environmental science minors. Hovis Students in the B.S. Degree–Geology track are required to take 11 courses including GEOL 110 Environmental Geology two 100-level geology courses, one each From human perspective on the earth’s from Physical Geology (115, 130, 160) and surface, the planet appears almost infinite. Earth History(100, 110, 120, 160); Geology From an Apollo spacecraft, however, earth 200, 205 or 315, 215, 300, 307, 317 and is simply a larger spaceship with more three technical electives approved by the resources, but nonetheless finite. The course department; with at least one geology course examines the interplay between land-use at 200-level or above. activity and geologic processes such as Both B.S. tracks also require mathematics flooding, shoreline erosion, and soil erosion. (two courses) 125 & 186, or 161 & 162, or Students explore groundwater resources, 161 & 186, Chemistry 121 & 122 (or geological constraints on waste disposal, Chemistry 121 and Geology 321), Physics and impacts of resource utilization, such as 111 or 131 or 151, and the Common Course acid rain and the greenhouse effect. of Study. Lecture/laboratory/ field excursions. Preference to first- and second-year Students in the A.B. Degree program, in students, geology majors, and addition to fulfilling requirements in the environmental science minors. Common Course of Study, are required to Germanoski take nine courses including two 100-level geology courses, one course each from GEOL 115 Earth's Climate: Past, Present, Physical Geology (100, 110, 120, 160) and and Future Earth History(115, 130, 160); Geology 200; Earth's climate has changed dramatically and six additional Geology courses at least over its history, moving between completely five of which are 200-level or above. ice-free intervals to periods of global glaciations. How and why did these major Requirements for the Minor climatic changes occur? What can history A minor in geology requires five geology teach about the future of the climate? This courses, at least three of which must be 200- course identifies the major components of level or above. the climate system and explores factors and processes that influence the system over a Additional geology courses may be found variety of timescales. Using major lessons under Interim Session. learned from Earth's history, this course Geology majors must have specific considers the climatological impact of permission of the instructor to take 100- human activity in this century and examines level geology courses during the senior current ideas about the climatic future. Lawrence year.

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GEOL 120 Geological Disasters: Agents of development, and coastal processes. The Chaos Hawaiian Islands provide a unique Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, opportunity to study active volcanic hurricanes, floods, tsunamis, and asteroid processes building the islands in impacts are all part of the geologic conjunction with geomorphic processes that evolution of the earth. For many different alter the volcanic landscape. The Hawaiian reasons, humans are exposed to the often landscape ranges in age from 25 million severe consequences of living in areas years to minutes old. Students see volcanic vulnerable to the violence of nature. This processes creating the islands and how the course examines these processes from both soils, landscapes, and coasts have evolved scientific and personal perspectives to through time. understand why and where they occur and Germanoski, Malinconico how human activity has interfered with natural processes, perhaps making the planet GEOL 160 Geology from A (Arches) to Z more prone to disaster. Lecture/laboratory. (Zion): The Geology of National Parks in Preference to first- and second-year the Western United States students, geology majors, and Students develop an understanding of basic environmental science minors. Not open to geological processes and how they shape the students who have taken Geology 150. Earth by visiting different national parks in Malinconico Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, California, and Utah. Topics covered in an GEOL 130 Dinosaurs, Darwin, and Deep introductory geology course are learned in Time an experiential field experience instead of Human occupation of this planet has been typical lecture-lab. For example, in the confined to the amazingly brief, last sliver canyon lands (Grand, Bryce, and Zion) of geologic time. This course is an students examine the fossil record preserved introduction to the immensity of deep time in the rocks; in California, they study before our existence. The class explores geological hazards (earthquakes, landslides, how the history of gradual processes, and volcanism) by field studies of the San exceptional events, and biotic evolution has Andreas Fault, mass-wasting in Pt Reyes shaped our world and, ultimately, us. National Seashore, and volcanism at Lassen Course topics include the fundamentals of volcano. earth materials, plate tectonics, and Malinconico, Sunderlin paloebiology. Sunderlin GEOL 200 Earth and Planetary Materials Introduction to the crystallographic, GEOL 140 Coral Reefs and Caves: Geology structural, and chemical characteristics of of the Bahamas rock-forming minerals. Consideration of the This course presents an opportunity to study processes and variables that control mineral physical, chemical, and biological processes formation. Igneous, metamorphic, that operate to produce carbonate platforms hydrothermal, and sedimentary (e.g., tides, waves, and growth of corals), environments in which common minerals geomorphic processes that operate to further form. X-ray powder diffraction techniques shape carbonate platforms (e.g., used to identify earth materials and to groundwater flow, cave and soil determine unit-cell dimensions. Laboratory development), and the environmental includes discovery-oriented exercises in X- impacts of human activities on carbonate ray diffraction, mineral identification, and platforms. Field studies are based on San crystallography, as well as high-temperature Salvador Island with side trips to Eleuthera experiments in phase equilibria. and Andros Islands. Lecture/laboratory. Sunderlin, Lawrence Prerequisite: Any 100-level geology course and elementary chemistry, or permission of instructor GEOL 150 Geologic Evolution of the Hovis

Hawaiian Islands This course provides students with an GEOL 205 Oceanography understanding of how volcanic, geomorphic, Exploration of the physical, chemical, and and coastal processes have shaped, and biological systems of the oceans and human continue to shape, the Hawaiian Islands. impacts on these systems. Topics include The course focuses on volcanism, landform marine geology, seawater composition, 142

GEOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL GEOSCIENCES waves, tides, coastal and open ocean Prerequisite: Geology 100 level course or processes, marine ecosystems, and ocean permission of the instructor pollution. Weekend field trips explore Wilson barrier island environments and erosion along the New Jersey coast; oceanographic GEOL 300 Earth Surface Processes sampling techniques on Seneca Lake; and Comprehensive analysis of geological pollution of the New England coast. Priority processes that produce, maintain, and given to geology majors and first- and change the earth’s surface. Topics include second-year students. tectonics and landforms, rock weathering, Prerequisite: Any 100-level geology soil development, hillslope processes, and course or permission of instructor river and glacial erosion and deposition. Lawrence Explore where earth surface processes and landforms are viewed as interacting GEOL 210 Hydrogeology components of a complex system. The The study of groundwater occurrence, flow, operation of geomorphic systems is quality, and utilization. The characteristics examined from a process-response of the geologic environment which perspective. Laboratory includes map and determine the hydrogeologic system are aerial photo analysis as well as field work discussed. Principles of groundwater flow, and a project. Lecture/laboratory. [W] surface water and groundwater interaction, Prerequisite: Any 100-level geology aquifer response to pumping, and regional course. Geology 200 and 317 are groundwater flow are examined. The course recommended also focuses on groundwater contamination Germanoski and remediation (“clean-up”). Field projects use a well-field at Metzgar Fields and local GEOL 307 Igneous and Metamorphic remediation sites. Lecture/laboratory. Petrology Prerequisite: Any 100-level geology An examination of igneous and course metamorphic rocks as records of the crustal Germanoski evolution of the earth. The origins and

existence of these rocks are examined in GEOL 215 Modern and Ancient view of chemical phase equilibria and Depositional Environments igneous and metamorphic processes. Sedimentary deposits provide the majority Laboratory work emphasizes the of the water, energy, and mineral resources identification and classification of igneous used by humans. This course explores the and metamorphic rocks using hand samples, processes whereby sediments are formed thin section identification, X-ray powder and accumulate in modern environments, as diffraction, analytical techniques, and field well as the pathways that convert loose relationships. sediments to solid rocks. Emphasis placed Prerequisite: Geology 200 on determining environmental conditions Hovis recorded in ancient sedimentary rocks. Lecture/laboratory/ required weekend field GEOL 310 Environmental Geomorphology trips. This course explores the interactions Prerequisite: Any 100-level geology between humans and the earth’s surface and course or permission of instructor surficial processes. The course describes Sunderlin techniques for assessing geomorphic hazards such as surface instability (slope GEOL 229 Geographic Information failures and sinkholes) flooding, and debris Systems and Remote Sensing in the flows. Surface mine reclamation, drainage Geosciences basin analysis, soil erosion problems and A broad introduction to the use of channel change relating to land use activitiy, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and river restoration are also examined. This within the geosciences. The relationships course explores potential impacts of global between geography, geology, and society climate change on regional hydrology and will be pursued. Students will be exposed to rivers. both pertinent computer and analytical skills Prerequisite: Geology 300 common to GIS, including both field and Germanoski computer based projects that explore spatial data (regions, rocks), and their associated attributes (feature data). 143

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GEOL 311 River Form and Function the context of the environmental history of Examination of rivers and their effects on Earth. Lecture, weekly laboratory, and one the landscape. The course explores such weekend field trip. topics as drainage network development, Prerequisite: Any Geology or any Biology sediment yield, sediment transport, river course morphology, landscape elements produced Sunderlin by fluvial activity, and the interaction between humans and fluvial systems. The GEOL 321 Geochemistry relationships between rivers and landscape An introduction to the chemical and evolution over the long term is central, thermodynamic principles and processes capped by a discussion of the geomorphic that control geological phenomena both at evolution of the Appalachians and the the earth’s surface and deep within the concept of peneplanation. earth. Consideration of solid-earth equilibria Prerequisite: Geology 300 or permission (igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary, and of instructor weathering reactions), isotope geochemistry Germanoski oxidation-reduction, natural aqueous solutions, and solid-aqueous equilibria. GEOL 315 Paleoclimatology and Lecture/problem-solving. Paleoceanography Prerequisite: Geology 200 and elementary Understanding Earth's climate system and calculus, or permission of instructor predicting future climatic change requires Hovis both the study of the climate processes that operate within the Earth system as well as GEOL 322 Environmental Geophysics detailed studies of climate changes in the Introduction to the geophysical techniques past. Direct human observations of climate used to study large- and small-scale features have captured only a very small fraction of and processes of the Earth. Emphasis placed the potential range of Earth's climatic on the fundamental principles of gravity, variability. In contrast, the geologic record magnetism, seismology, heat transfer, and provides a rich archive of past variations in electrical methods as they apply to climate. In this course, we will explore the environmental problems through classroom processes that control Earth's climate, lectures and laboratory and field exercises. investigate and interpret the geologic record Lecture/laboratory. of past climatic changes, and examine Prerequisite: Any 100-level geology methods used to reconstruct past climates. course. Geology 317 and introductory Prerequisite: Geology 115, 130, or 205 or physics recommended Malinconico permission of the instructor Lawrence GEOL 351-360 Geological Problems GEOL 317 Structure and Tectonics of the Original research problems in the Earth geosciences: environmental studies, An examination of global tectonics and the mineralogy-geochemistry, sedimentology- response of rocks to stress at all scales, with oceanography, geomorphology- an emphasis on an understanding of the groundwater, structural geology-tectonics, relationship of structural geology to tectonic geophysics, petrology-petrogenesis, theory. This includes a systematic study of paleontology-stratigraphy, and additional folds, faults, joints, foliations, and lineations subjects of specialized interest. For from which the geometric relationships and advanced geology and geoscience students. deformational history of the earth’s crust Prerequisite: Requires departmental can be deduced. Lecture/laboratory/required permission Staff weekend field trips. [W] Prerequisite: Any 100-level geology course. Geology 215 (or concurrent) GEOL 495, 496 Thesis recommended Individual field and laboratory problems Malinconico involving the preparation of a thesis. Open to qualified students only. [W] Staff GEOL 320 Paleobiology An organismal and systems approach to the study of the marine and terrestrial fossil record. The course focuses on diversification and extinction of biotas in 144

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GOVERNMENT & LAW AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE GOVERNMENT AND LAW Government & Law and Foreign Language is a coordinate major between the Faculty departments of government and law, and Professor Silverstein, Head; Professors foreign languages and literatures. This Kincaid, J. Miller, McCartney, Murphy, major is good preparation for students who Peleg; Associate Professor Lennertz; are interested in pursuing careers or in Assistant Professor Fabian focusing on intellectual issues that relate Politics, leadership, individual rights, strongly to both political science and government, public policy—issues that international studies and to foreign dominate the daily lives of citizens around language. the world—are the focus of the Government The major provides the background needed and Law major. Students in this major for careers in diplomatic service, for work in address such questions as: What are the international organizations or foundations, most critical political issues facing the and for pursuing higher degrees in fields United States and the world? What public such as Area Studies and International policies make most sense in economics, Affairs. education, urban revitalization, and protection of the environment? Students may choose from three tracks: A coordinate major in (1) Government and The well-balanced curriculum offers an Law and French, (2) Government and Law unusually broad selection of offerings in and German, or (3) Government and Law domestic and comparative law, foreign and Spanish. political systems, international issues, federalism, state and local politics, and civil Requirements liberties. Faculty work with students to 13 courses for the French track including include special interests in their course of Government and Law 102, 103, 401-409 study and many students participate, for (one senior seminar) or 495, 496 (thesis) or academic credit, in the department’s 390, 391 (independent study), four electives internship program. from the following: 221, 227, 230, 234, 244, 322, 329, 332, 335, 336 French 111, Requirements for the Major 112, 211, three electives from 225, 323, Ten courses within the department. The 324, 424, 431, 495, 496. major must schedule at least three of the introductory courses (101, 102, 103, 104), 13 courses for the German track including be exposed to all four subfields (American Government and Law 102, 103, 401-409 Politics, International Politics, Comparative (one senior seminar) or 495, 496 (thesis) or Politics, Political Theory), and take 390, 391 (independent study), four electives course(s) beyond the introductory level in at from the following: 221, 234, 237, 329, least three of the subfields. A senior seminar 332, 335, 336, 341; German 111, 112, 211, or honors thesis is required. three electives from the following: 225, 311, 322, 424, 441, 495, 496. Coordinate majors: Government and Law 13 courses for the Spanish track including with Religion, and Foreign Languages and Government and Law 102, 103, 401-409 Literatures. (one senior seminar) or 495,496 (thesis) or 390,391 (independent study), four electives Requirements for the Minor from the following: 221, 227, 234, 322, 329, 332, 335, 336; Spanish 111, 112, 211, Six courses within the department which four electives from the following: 225, 311, may be selected to form a general minor 313, 314, 318, 427, 428, 495, 496. (three introductory courses and three mid- level courses in the respective subfields), a subfield (concentration) minor (one Government & Law and Foreign introductory course and five other courses in Language Course the same subfield), or a thematic minor. A student who wants to pursue a thematic NOTE: minor must submit a statement explaining For courses see Government & Law and the rationale and the plan behind his/her Foreign Languages & Literatures idea to the department head. 145

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Introductory Courses/Subfields the tradition of political theory. The topics Introductory Courses: 101, 102, 103, 104 and texts of the course vary, but students United States Government and Politics: can expect to confront such issues as justice, 204, 207, 211, 213, 215, 217, 250 310, 311, equality, and power, and to read both classic 313, 314, 315, 316, 320, 321, 337, 370 and contemporary authors. Comparative Government and Politics: Miller, Silverstein

221, 223, 224, 225, 227, 229, 322, 329 International Politics: 230, 234, 239, 331, GOVT 121 Political Persuasion and Debate 332, 335, 336, 377 This course helps students develop the skills Political Theory: (Prerequisite for courses of research, analysis, case construction, and in this group: G&L 104, or permission of refutation as well as the knowledge of instructor.) 241, 243, 244, 245, 246, 341 techniques and strategies of argumentation General Courses: 121, 309, 366, 367, 380, for success in debate. Students debate topics 390, 391, 401-412, 495, 496 of political, social, and philosophical interest. Training in the use of evidence, Government and Law Courses analysis of public topics, and presentation of reasoned discourse in defense of one’s GOVT 101 Introduction to United States position fosters growth in the art of Politics persuasion. An examination of the American political Staff system, its institutions and processes. Topics studied include political behavior, GOVT 204 Race and Gender in the the Constitution, the Congress, the American Legal System Presidency, the courts, and current foreign This course addresses the roles of race and and domestic issues. Recommended to gender in the American legal system. The students who have not had an adequate syllabus covers the impact of the secondary school preparation in American Constitution and legislation on various race government. and gender-based issues relating to Kincaid, Lennertz, Murphy employment, discrimination (including reverse discrimination and affirmative GOVT 102 Introduction to International action), equal pay, workplace harassment, Politics educational opportunity, reproductive rights, This course reviews the main issues and parental leave rights, and parental custody problems confronted by the international rights. system and the literature devoted to them. Muhlfelder

The course deals with phenomena such as peace and war, integration and GOVT 207 Black Politics in the United disintegration, economic and military States assistance, formulation and execution of A study of the changing situation of Blacks foreign policy. Special emphasis is placed in U.S. politics since the 1950s. Some ways on stability and change in the global system. in which Congress, the Presidency, the Fabian, Peleg Supreme Court, the bureaucracy, and local governments have affected Blacks and other GOVT 103 Introduction to Comparative minorities. Analysis of Black experiences in Politics American politics in light of constitutional A survey of governments and politics in the theory and the everyday operation of industrialized and Third World countries. political institutions and processes. Specific The course examines the question of what it problems related to racism and means to compare political systems and socioeconomic status. explores the historical setting, nature of McCartney political participation, political values, governmental structures, and political GOVT 211 State and Local Government performance of selected countries in and Politics Western Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Examines what state and local governments Africa, Latin America. do and why. Topics include state McCartney constitutions; state legislative, executive, and judicial processes and policymaking; GOVT 104 Introduction to Political Theory state and local budgets, taxes, and spending; This course introduces students to several of county, municipal, special-district, and the most important thinkers and themes in school-district governments and services; 146

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This course examines the domestic politics GOVT 213 Law and Society and international relations of China, Japan, Investigation of the dynamics of the legal and North and South Korea. Topics include process in the regulation of social conflict, the Chinese Revolution; the structure of the change, and control. Topics include Chinese government and post-Mao reforms; philosophical sources; the administration of the Nationalist government in Taiwan; criminal and civil justice; and litigation as Japanese imperialism and postwar recovery, politics. [W] Japanese relations with the United States Lennertz, Silverstein and the rest of Asia; the Korean War,

postwar relations between the north and GOVT 215 Political Parties and the south, and the continuing United States Electoral Process presence in South Korea. The role of parties and elections in a Staff democratic society. Topics include suffrage, turnout, partisanship, public opinion, the GOVT 225 Politics of Russia, the Other role of minor parties, the presidential Post-Soviet States, and Eastern Europe nominating process including conventions, After a brief examination of the politics of platforms, and campaigns. A discussion of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe the future of the American political party before World War II, the bulk of the course system and the possibility of realignment or looks more in depth at developments in this de-alignment. region during and after the cold war. The Staff final section of the course examines the

post-1989/90 transition process toward GOVT 217 Public Administration democracy and a market economy in Examination of competing theories of Russia, the other post-Soviet states, the public administration and their practical Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary and implications in a federal system. Topics touches on the issue of NATO expansion to include basic institutions of American Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. public administration, policymaking and Fabian implementation roles of administrators, and weaknesses, failures and reforms of existing GOVT 227 Politics in Latin America and institutions as illustrated in case studies. the Caribbean Staff A study of the basic political structures of

Latin American nations, with emphasis on GOVT 221 Government and Politics in the questions of mass political participation Western Europe and forms of elite governance. Topics Study and analysis of the political culture covered include peasants in politics, and government systems of contemporary political parties, military and authoritarian Western nations, with major emphasis on regimes, and economic/ political British parliamentary democracy and the relationships. continental democracies of France and McCartney Germany. McCartney GOVT 230 International Politics of the

Middle East and Persian Gulf GOVT 223 Politics of Africa The course examines topics such as the Analysis of selected sub-Saharan states with Arab-Israeli conflict, the struggle for particular attention to common institutional domination in the Arab World, the role of features such as ethnic pluralism, weak the superpowers in the region, and the political parties, dominant public politics of oil. An analysis of international bureaucracies, dependence on external political processes in some of the Middle forces, and the problems associated with Eastern countries is used to examine 147

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the state, and the development of liberal and GOVT 234 American Security Policy democratic thought are examined. A study of the formulation, implementation, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, and effects of U.S. foreign policy. The and Rousseau are usually treated. [W] course will examine and analyze U.S. Prerequisite: Govt 104, or permission of defense and foreign policy vis-à-vis Europe, instructor Asia, Latin America, and Africa; the Miller, Silverstein decision-making community, and such concepts as globalism, imperialism, nuclear GOVT 245 Early American Political and limited war, insurgency, threat Thought perception, confrontation and coexistence, This course studies the theoretical and and foreign policy ethics. political struggle to define American Peleg politics that took place among Puritans,

radical democrats, liberal individualists, and GOVT 239 International Politics of Asia liberal nationalists. Early nineteenth-century Major developments in the modern relations reactions to the liberal founding are also of east and southeast Asian nations with explored. Authors studied often include each other and with other world regions. Winthrop, Franklin, Jefferson, Paine, the Analysis of selected issues in contemporary Federalists, Emerson, and Douglass. [W] international politics of such countries as Prerequisite: Govt 104, or permission of China, Japan, Korea, The Philippines, instructor Indonesia, and Vietnam. Miller Staff

GOVT 246 Recent American Political GOVT 241 The Politics of Fashion Thought Examining the fashion system, a The themes of racial conflict, equality, the multibillion dollar worldwide industry, this rise of the state, social darwinism, course raises issues of appearance, beauty, education, and the changing role of women gender, and sexuality; power, liberation, and are explored. The course does not oppression; class distinctions and equality. emphasize the historical contexts of ideas, To develop a political theory of fashion, the but seeks to discover what is true and course studies the practice and production of relevant for the present in texts written from clothes and style, and analyzes texts from the Civil War to the present. [W] literature, sociology, history, and cultural Prerequisite: Govt 104, or permission of studies. [W] instructor Prerequisite:Govt 104, or permission of Miller instructor Miller GOVT 250 Environmental Law and Policy This course introduces students to major GOVT 243 Ancient and Medieval Political environmental laws and regulations, the Theory forces that influence both domestic and This course concentrates on Greek political foreign environmental policy, the process of thought in the forms of tragedy, history, and developing environmental regulations and philosophy. The nature of democracy, policy, and environmental ethics. Through equality, power, limits, gender, and justice case law and other reading, writing, film, are explored in texts by Aeschylus or debating, and role playing students consider Sophocles, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, and current laws, how they have evolved, and selections from the Old and New the difficulty in developing policies and Testaments. [W] laws that safeguard the economy, the Prerequisite: Govt 104, or permission of ecology, and our health. instructor Staff Miller

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GOVT 309 Scope and Methods of Political church-state relations, and freedom of the Science press. Acquaints students with social science Prerequisite: One of the following: Govt inquiry—the process by which political 101, 213, 311, 314, 315, or permission of scientists develop research questions and instructor attempt to find answers. The course Murphy, Lennertz, Silverstein explores various approaches to political inquiry, ways to structure and critique GOVT 314 Liberty in the United States: arguments, methods to conceptualize a Law and Politics research question and develop causal Many of the social conflicts that the law models, means to create a testable considers relate to claims of right grounded hypothesis, and how to evaluate various upon conceptions of liberty as a methods of data collection. The final section fundamental value of the constitutional focuses on data processing, analysis, and system of the United States. This course introductory statistics. Helps evaluate explores the concept of liberty, its place in political science material and to enables United States law and politics, and its them to undertake a social science research application to questions of constitutional project. and political rights. Topics include privacy, Prerequisite: One introductory-level and criminal justice. [W] course or permission of instructor Prerequisite: One of the following: Govt Staff 101, 213, 311, 313, 315, or permission of instructor GOVT 310 Politics, Policy, and Law in Lennertz, Murphy

American Federalism Explores American federalism as a system GOVT 315 Equality in the United States: of democratic self-rule and share rule, and Law and Politics examines how federal-state-local Many of the social conflicts that the law government relations shape law, politics, considers relate to claims of right grounded and policy in the United States. Topics upon conceptions of equality as a include: covenantal origins and fundamental value of the constitutional constitutional theory of American system of the United States. This course federalism; historical transformations; legal, explores the concept of equality, its place in political, administrative, and fiscal U.S. law and politics, and its application to dynamics of intergovernmental relations; questions of constitutional and political and the impacts of federalism on such rights. Topics include discrimination on policy issues as civil rights, business and the grounds of race, gender, etc., and remedial economy, taxation, environmental programs such as busing and affirmative protection, and foreign affairs. [W] action. [W] Kincaid Prerequisite: One of the following: Govt 101, 213, 311, 313, 314, or permission of GOVT 311 Constitutional Law and Politics instructor in the United States Murphy, Silverstein, Lennertz

Constitutional adjudication as a political process which generated and manages social GOVT 316 American Public Policy conflicts regarding the basic allocation of A study of governmental policy and process governmental authority in the American at the federal level. The course undertakes system. Topics include judicial review, an examination of the stages of policy limits on executive and legislative power, development. It explores the problems of federalism, and the court and social change. policy-making in the modern bureaucratic [W] state, and thereafter investigates some Prerequisite: Govt 101 or permission of specific policy areas including economic instructor regulation, labor, welfare, and agriculture. Lennertz, Murphy Each student undertakes an intensive individual study of a specific federal policy. GOVT 313 First Amendment in the United Prerequisite: Govt 101 Staff States: Law and Politics This course examines the development of constitutional doctrine as it relates to the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights. Topics include freedom of expression, 149

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Politics This course explores the dynamics of GOVT 331 Politics of the European Union executive politics, with primary emphasis Major changes are taking place in upon the structure and operation of the governance, decision making, and relations United States Presidency. Topics include the between the people, institutions and states organization of the Presidency and the that form the European Union. These Executive Branch, models of presidential changes are the main topics covered in this power and leadership, the process of course: the origin and history of European presidential selection, relationships with integration, common agricultural policy, other parts of the political system, and monetary integration and relations with executive politics and public policy. [W] other parts of the world. Each year, with a Prerequisite: One of the following: Govt select focus on one EU member and one 101, 211, 217, 311, 316, 321, or permission specific policy, the class will participate in of instructor the Mid-Atlantic European Union Lennertz simulation, held in Washington, DC. Prerequisite: Govt 102 or 103 GOVT 321 Congress and the Legislative Fabian

Process This course analyzes the process of GOVT 332 International Political Economy lawmaking in the United States Congress Introduces students to the basic concepts within the context of the legislative process and ideas of international political economy generally. Topics include the structural and and uses them as a framework to explore functional development of the institution, some of the most important issues of our the rules and norms which govern times. The role of the nation-state in the rise interaction, congressional elections, and functioning of modern industrial leadership and party organization, economies is examined from different relationships with other parts of the political ideological perspectives. The course covers system, and public policy. trade, finance, and the globalization of Prerequisite: One of the following: Govt world economies. 101, 211, 217, 311, 316, 320, or permission Prerequisite: One course from Govt 221- of instructor 239 or permission of instructor Staff Staff

GOVT 322 Political Change in the Third GOVT 335 International Law and World Organizations Analysis of Third World political systems A study of the rules of public international with particular emphasis on the concept and law, especially as they are related to the dilemmas of political development development of international organizations. including political change, political Attention is paid to the emergence of global participation and stability, patron-client organizations, the United Nations in relations, military governments, and particular, as well as regional ones (OAS, mobilization systems. Opportunity for OAU, NATO, Warsaw Pact, and EEC). individual work on topics or countries of Efforts to regulate and limit international personal interest. conflict, within and outside of international Prerequisite: One course from Govt 221- organization, are discussed. 239 or permission of instructor Prerequisite: One course from Govt 221- McCartney 239 or permission of instructor Staff

GOVT 329 The Politics of Social Movements GOVT 336 International Conflict A historical and theoretical examination of An examination of different forms of social movements and their political international conflict: nuclear war, ramifications. An examination of both conventional war, guerrilla war, limited nonviolent participatory movements and the reprisals, etc. Explanations for international politics of violence and revolution. Several conflicts are suggested in interdisciplinary different movements are examined in detail. terms. Some better-known historical and [W] contemporary conflicts are analyzed. The Prerequisite: One course from Govt 221- course also deals with the effectiveness of 239 or permission of instructor various solutions for the elimination or the 150

HISTORY minimization of conflict on the international Staff level. Prerequisite: Govt 102 and one course GOVT 377 Transnational Peace Movements from Govt 221-239 or permission of in an International Perspective instructor Internationalization, globalization, and civil Fabian, Peleg society are explored as possible influences

on transnational peace movements. GOVT 337 Politics of the Media Historical peace movements considered Evaluates the role of mass media in include movements during World War II, American politics. Legal/constitutional the Vietnam War, the Cold War, the first issues, the news-making process, sources of Persian Gulf War, and the military potential bias, the development and impact interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq. of investigative journalism, the role of the Attention is also be given to the related civil press during elections, the impact of mass rights movements, new social movements, media on individual behavior and opinion antinuclear movements, and anti- formation, and the politics of entertainment globalization movements. A case study of are just a few of the topics explored. In the American peace movements will be end, the class contemplates how mass media presented. has become a tool—indeed a powerful Staff weapon—in American politics. Prerequisite: Govt 101 or permission of GOVT 380 Internship instructor A combination of independent activities Staff including selected reading, satisfactory

completion of an internship or working GOVT 341 Contemporary Political Thought assignment in a public agency, and a written This course studies those nineteenth- and report covering both reading and work twentieth-century thinkers most discussed assignments. Limited in enrollment by the by political theorists today. We will attempt availability of acceptable projects. to chart both the institutional forms of, and Lennertz theoretical responses to, modern power. Hegel, Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, Weber, and GOVT 390, 391 Independent Study Foucault are often studied in this course. Subjects are chosen and arrangements are [W] made to suit the needs of each student in Prerequisite: Govt 104, or permission of consultation with the instructor. instructor Staff Miller GOVT 401-412 Senior Seminar GOVT 366, 367 Special Topics A seminar on a topic selected by the An offering on a subject selected by the instructor. Required of all majors. [W] instructor to meet student and departmental Staff needs as conditions permit. Announcement of the subject is made in advance. GOVT 495, 496 Thesis Prerequisite: Permission of instructor An independent research project on a topic Staff to be selected by the student and approved by the department. A student must GOVT 370 Political Speech in America undertake such a program for two semesters The notion that political speech deserves to graduate with honors. special protection in a democracy is rooted Staff in classic democratic theory. This course explores classic texts to evaluate the role of political speech in American democracy. HISTORY Various forms of speech are evaluated: those emanating from ordinary citizens, Faculty political candidates, and public officials. Professor Rosen, Head; Professors Fix, Mediated political speech is also considered. Jackson, Miller, Offner, Weiner; Associate Topics include: protest speech, symbolic Professors Barclay, Sanborn; Assistant speech, Internet communication, stump Professor Pite speeches, keynote addresses, political advertising, political debates, and state of The study of history is an essential feature the union addresses. of a liberal arts education. Historians 151

HISTORY examine how people living in different times and places understood their world and Requirements for the History Minor: acted within it. Students taking history Classes of 2009, 2010, and 2011 courses at Lafayette acquire knowledge about past events around the globe, develop The History minor consists of five courses. analytical skills, and are taught to think both There are three options to choose from: about historical specificities and about Option A - Concentration in United States connections across time and space. The History (Advisors: Professors Jackson, curriculum also teaches apprentice Miller, Offner and Rosen) historians how to ask important questions Option B - Concentration in European about the past, how to research answers to History (Advisors: Professors Fix, Sanborn, those questions, and then how to and Weiner) communicate findings in compelling prose Option C - Concentration in Third World and clear oral presentations. These research, History (Advisors: Professors Barclay and analytical, and expository skills are essential Pite) for the proper understanding of history, but they are also valuable in a wide range of Requirements for the History Minor: other endeavors that students pursue both Class of 2012 and beyond during their college careers and afterwards. History majors graduate with a complex The History minor consists of five History understanding of the past and with the skills courses, including History 105, History 206, necessary to both understand and help and research seminar (course numbers 350- transform the social and cultural contexts 399). they inherited. History Courses Requirements for the History Major: Classes of 2009, 2010, and 2011* HIST 105 History of the Modern World This course surveys modern world history The History major consists of nine History from 1450 to the present. It focuses on courses that must include the following: global processes and regional particularities History 106; two 300-level seminars (or one throughout the world (including the United seminar plus an honors thesis); two courses States). Each instructor will choose several focusing on a region other than the United themes for students to engage with through States or Western Europe (i.e., two courses targeted readings and class discussion in on African, Asian, Latin American, or small sections. In addition, there is a weekly Russian and Eastern European history); a "lab" in which all students enrolled in the Focus Cluster comprised of five courses at class will engage in large group activities the 200-, 300-, or 400-level that focus on a like attending outside lectures or watching particular region, time period, or theme. selected films. Offered: Fall semester *Members of the Class of 2011 may choose Staff to fulfill the new requirements for the History major rather than the old HIST 106 Introduction to History requirements. See the new requirements This seminar introduces students to the described below for the Class of 2012. ways in which scholars study and interpret history. Students learn how professional Requirements for the History Major: historians analyze primary sources and then Class of 2012 and beyond develop their own analytical skills through intensive writing assignments. Each section The History major consists of ten History of the course focuses on a discrete historical courses that must include the following: topic. Current topics include: The History 105, History 106, History 206, A Holocaust; Food Histories; Jacksonian research seminar (course numbers 350-399), Democracy; The Atomic Bomb; Slavery An additional course at the 300 or 400 level, and the Civil War; Witchcraft. [W] at least one course focused on the history of Offered: Spring semester (usually one or the United States, at least one course two sections in fall semester as well) focused on the history of Europe (including Staff

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HIST 206 The Politics and Practice of continent and in global encounters. Our History focus is on African perspectives in primary This course trains students in the skills, sources that include conventional methods, philosophies, and practices of the documentary sources as well as personal discipline of history. Students learn how the writings, novels, material culture, films, and practice of history has changed over time, oral traditions. the problems and potential of historical Staff evidence, and the role history plays in forming structures of individual and HIST 215 History of Technology collective awareness. Strong emphasis is A study of technology from the irrigation placed on learning key research and cities of the ancient world through militarily analytical skills. Potential history majors financed systems of the late twentieth should take this course in their sophomore century. The course stresses the important year. Open to majors and non-majors. role played by cultural influences in Staff determining the nature, extent, and direction of technological development. Attention HIST 210 Ancient Israel focuses on processes of invention and This course explores Israel from its remotest innovation and their impact on the growth beginnings among desert tribes of the of modern Western civilization. Open to ancient Near East and the fulfillment of its B.A. and B.S. engineering majors without national destiny as a religious prerequisites. commonwealth in Canaan, to its Jackson transfiguration into an exile people under the Romans. Emphasis is placed on cultural HIST 221 The Medieval World and religious factors that differentiated A study of European history from the fall of Israel from other Near Eastern kingdoms, the Roman Empire to the fifteenth century. especially the Temple at Jerusalem, the The course focuses upon the interplay of national religious cult, and the role of the political, economic, and ideological forces prophets. The legacy of its religious and in the development and decline of medieval moral experience to Western civilization is civilization, and attempts to assess the also discussed. relationship of the Middle Ages to the Staff Italian Renaissance. Fix

HIST 213 African Civilizations This course provides an introduction to HIST 222 Emergence of Western Europe major developments and themes in ancient Europe from the Renaissance to the early and medieval African history. Focusing on Enlightenment. The first half of the course different parts of the continent, it examines concentrates on the Renaissance, the second issues related to migration, technological half on the foundations of modern Europe. innovation, environment, political The emphasis in the second half is on the formation, gender, religion, and other interrelationship of socioeconomic change, systems of thought, economy, and Africans' the new European political order, and the interactions with peoples of other regions of intellectual revolution of the sixteenth and the world. Coverage ranges from grand seventeenth centuries. empires such as the 10th-century Ghana Fix kingdom and the 12th- to 15th-century state located at the Great Zimbabwe complex to HIST 225 The Age of Revolution smaller scale societies such as the hunter- The course centers on the French gatherer San in southern Africa and the Revolution, beginning with an examination BeTwaa of central Africa. of its 18th-century social, economic, and Staff intellectual roots, continuing with the Revolution itself, and ending with an HIST 214 Africa Since 1800 assessment of its aftermath up to 1848. An Over the last two centuries, the societies of underlying theme of the course is the modern Africa have encountered the forces connection between the Industrial of state-building, environmental change, Revolution and the political revolutions of slavery, colonialism and transition to self- 1789, 1830, and 1848. Fix rule, disease, religious transformation, and capitalism. This course explores three major themes, among others, in experiences on the 153

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HIST 227 Europe: 1850-1917 focuses on political debates of the late This course examines the operation of the colonial period, leading up to the European state system, the impact of the Declaration of Independence. Some time is industrial revolution, nationalism, and then devoted to studying the military imperialism on European politics and engagements of the Revolutionary War and culture, and the tensions and crises that assessing the wartime experiences of culminated in the breakdown of the soldiers, women, African Americans, European state system during World War I. Indians, and Loyalists. The final part [W] analyzes the problems of the Confederation Weiner period and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution. HIST 228 Europe: World War I to the Rosen

Present This course examines the development of HIST 233 Creating a Nation: U.S. History, European politics and culture since World 1789-1826 War I, with particular emphasis on the This course examines the creation of an impact of the Great War and the Russian American political system and the Revolution, the age of the dictators, the development of American identity during origins and impact of World War II, and the the first few decades of the nation’s history, rebuilding of European society since 1945 including how power was allocated among under the shadow of Soviet-American the President, Congress, the federal courts, hegemony. {W} and the states, as well as how the national Weiner economy and a system for raising revenue were established. Other topics include how HIST 230 Early American History, 1600- that generation defended the country against 1840 foreign threats and dealt with the challenges This course is an introduction to American of sectional and racial divisions. political, economic, and social history in the Rosen colonial revolutionary, and early national periods. The course examines the place of HIST 234 Slavery, Civil War, and the American colonies in the Atlantic Reconstruction World; European-Indian relations; slavery This course examines American slavery, the and the origins of racism; the causes and Civil War, and the Reconstruction era. impact of the American Revolution; the rise Staff of political parties; industrialization and commercial development; reform HIST 236 Recent America: The Great movements; and changes in social structure, Depression through the 1980s religion, ethnicity, and gender roles. American politics from the Age of Rosen Roosevelt to the Age of Reagan. Topics include the New Deal; World War II and the HIST 231 A Nation in Flux: U.S. History, home front; Truman and the Fair Deal; 1840-1940 McCarthyism; corporate culture of the In the wake of the Jacksonian Era, the 1950s; the Civil Rights movement; the United States experienced dramatic Great Society; the politics of protest; the transformations in size, socio-political quest for equality; the rise and decline of fabric, and economic structure. This course Reaganism. illuminates how social, cultural, political, Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or and economic changes initiated in the 19th higher century fostered the "modern" America of Offner the 20th century. Topics include: Western expansion, slavery and the Civil War, HIST 237 The Story of World War II immigration and industrialization, the World War II was perhaps the greatest Progressive Movement, World War I, civil story, as well as the greatest catastrophe, in rights and the Ku Klux Klan; the Great human history. This course tells the epic Depression; and the New Deal. story of the war through the words of Jackson American soldiers, sailors, and airmen, as well as nurses, war correspondents, and HIST 232 The American Revolution innocent civilians caught in the ruin and This course examines American political agony of the world's first total war, a war history from 1760 to 1789. The first part fought without mercy or letup. Primary 154

HISTORY sources include letters and diaries from the HIST 245 Latin America: The Colonial front lines, war reportage, and novels and Period films made during and after the war. [W] This course examines the colonial era of a Miller region now called Latin America. It will

begin with the period preceding the arrival HIST 242 Balkan Politics of Christopher Columbus and end with the This course addresses the ways that political early nineteenth-century wars of ideologies have helped to shape the social independence. Focusing on the interactions and cultural landscape of Eastern Europe between Native Americans, Africans, and and focuses on the Balkans as the case study Europeans, we will explore the evolution of of this interaction. We will examine the a number of multiethnic societies. We will imperial ideologies of the Habsburg and consider how colonialism survived for three Ottoman empires, nationalism in the 19th hundred years, why the system collapsed, and 20th centuries and post-WWII and what legacies it left behind. communism. The course concludes with a Pite discussion of the ways that these idealogies affected the most recent period of HIST 246 Latin America: The National turbulence in Yugoslavia. Throughout the Period course, we will be concerned with the This course examines the history of Latin relationship between ideas and behaviors America from the early nineteenth century and the way that ideology mediates that until the present by exploring the social, relationship. We will survey the basic political, cultural, ideological, and economic ideologies of rule in the Balkans in the issues that surrounded the development of modern period and see how they have modern nation states. We will not attempt shaped (and in some cases failed to shape) the impossible task of "covering" all of politics, society, and culture in the region. modern Latin American history. Instead, we (W) will focus on revealing case studies that Sanborn help us to better understand the historical trends, power dynamics, and regional HIST 243 Imperial Russia diversity of the Americas. This course surveys 1,000 years of Russian Pite history, from the founding of the first state in Kiev in the 9th century to the end of the HIST 247 East Asia from Neolithic to Great Reforms in the 19th century. Students Feudal Times read primary documents, recent scholarship, Survey of Japanese and Chinese prehistory and Russian literature in an effort to and respective myths of origin. Introduction understand Russia’s old regime. Topics to canonical texts of each tradition. Course addressed include Russia's position in Asia members analyze persistence, diffusion and and Europe, the nature of the autocracy, the change in the domains of East-Asian state- impact of serfdom, and attempts to create a craft, economic life, social organization and public sphere. Lecture/discussion. culture. Sanborn Barclay

HIST 244 20th-Century Russia HIST 248 East Asia's Last Dynasties: Japan This course surveys the massive cultural and and China, 1600-1900 political transformation in 20th-century Russia. The first unit addresses the major A comparative study of institution-building, changes in the Russian economy and society economic life, and social history in China that occurred between 1891-1914 before and Japan from 1600 to 1900. Themes moving to the years of war, revolution, and include: impact of economic growth and retreat from 1914-28. The second unit urbanization on agrarian societies; the covers the Stalinist era from 1928-53, while transition from empire to nation-state; and the third deals with the decay of the Soviet the interactions of China, Japan, and the Union, the Gorbachev Revolution, and the Western powers on the eve of dynastic Boris Yeltsin era of the 1990s. collapse. Barclay Lecture/discussion Sanborn

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HIST 249 20th Century East Asia: Offered: 253/Fall, 254/Spring Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism in China, Fix

Japan Comparisons and connections between HIST 258 U.S. Constitutional History Japan and China from the Meiji Restoration This course analyzes the history of the U.S. and Double-Ten Revolution to the present. Constitution. Sample topics of study are: Of special concern will be the often property rights and economic regulation, catastrophic interplay between Japan's civil rights and presidential powers and civil imperial and China's anti-imperial liberties in wartime. Rosen aspirations since the late 19th century. Emphasis on political, diplomatic and intellectural history. HIST 261 History of American Foreign Barclay Policy (1776-1941) Study of American foreign policy from the HIST 250 East Asian Social History: Work, Age of Revolution to World War II. Major Family and School in Japan, China topics include Enlightenment origins of Memoirs, diaries, fiction and documentary American policy; the Monroe Doctrine; are utilized to probe the history of everyday imperial expansion; the Spanish-American life in modern East Asia. Persistence and War; progressivism and power; world war change in so-called traditional patterns of and world revolution; quest for stability in economic, family and educational behavior Europe and Asia; the good neighbor in Latin in comparative perspective. The problem of America; appeasement, aggression, and the "culture" as an explanatory device for war against the Axis Alliance. behavior in each country will frame our Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or approach to the materials. higher Offner Barclay

HIST 251 The American City HIST 262 History of American Foreign A study of the growth of the city in the Policy (1941-1991) United States and its impact upon American Study of American foreign policy from history with emphasis on social and ethnic World War II to the present. Major topics developments, politics, city planning, and include the Grand Alliance and global urban decay. politics; the Cold War and containment; Miller China, Korea and anti-communism; European and Asian reconstruction; Cuban HIST 252 Transformation of the American and Berlin crises; the Vietnam quagmire; Environment nuclear arms races; the rise of a multi-polar This course examines the relationship of world; the end of the ColdWar. environment (and environmental change) to Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or American history. Topics include the higher Offner growth of urban industrial areas and the transformation of rural hinterlands, the effect of transportation technologies (e.g. HIST 265 Modern Jewish History railroads and automobiles) on land use, the A survey of the Jewish experience in conflict between “environmental protection” modern times which focuses primary and “conservation” as exemplified in the attention on developments in Europe, the progressive era battle over construction of United States, and the Middle East, and Hetch Hetchy Dam in Yosemite National analyzes such issues as the process of Park, and the environmental movement of Jewish emancipation, the rise of political the 1960-70s. anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, the Zionist Jackson movement and the emergence of the state of Israel. Readings include documents, HIST 253, 254 European Thought, Society, memoirs, short stories, and secondary and Culture sources. Weiner European culture and society from the High Middle Ages to the present. The courses offer a variety of texts from literature, HIST 280, 281 Internship in History philosophy, political theory, and economics, The department will arrange internships through a perspective provided by works on each semester for qualified juniors and social history. seniors with such agencies as Historic 156

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Easton, the Canal Museum, Main Street Barclay Program - Easton, PA, Historic Bethlehem, etc. Written reports and conferences HIST 345 Colloquium: History of Argentina required. Enrollment limited by availability This class explores the history of Argentina of acceptable projects. during the past two centuries. We will Miller analyze specific topics including: Independence, Immigration, Peronism, HIST 290, 291 Independent Study Consumption, and Political Violence. In so Qualified students may develop, in doing, we will encounter several intriguing consultation with an instructor in the historical figures, including Juan and Evita department, a single-semester course Peron. In considering their stories alongside directed to a particular theme or topic of others, we will focus on the ways in which historical inquiry, providing practice in Argentines have sought to create a sense of historical research and writing. national community deeply inflected with Staff gender, class, race, and ethnic markers. Prerequisite: History 245 or History 246 or HIST 305 History Colloquium permission of instructor Discussion of consequential historical issues Pite and major new monographs. The topic varies according to the scholarly interests of HIST 352 The Enlightenment the instructor. This is NOT a history This seminar is centered around reading and research seminar. working with primary sources from the Prerequisite: History 206 or permission of European Enlightenment. It culminates in instructor the writing of a lengthy research paper. Offered: As needed Prerequisite: History 206 and 225, or Staff permission of instructor [W] Fix HIST 310 Colloquium: Human Rights and Modern War HIST 353 Seminar: Gender and Sexuality in This is an intensive course focused on the Modern Europe ways that the language and practice of This seminar allows students with training human rights have intersected with the either in modern European history or in practices and justifications of "modern war". gender studies to engage in a semester-long Increasing transnational ties by both states research project on topics related to and non-state actors have allowed for the European gender history. We begin with an globalization both of rights talk and of the overview of core theoretical texts before tools and techniques of organized violence. developing individual projects based on the The couse will focus both on 20th century intensive study of primary sources. Students genocides and on "wars on terror" in the US will not only write an original research and Russia. paper but will also make several oral Prerequisite: Permission of instructor presentations over the course of the required in all cases semester. Sanborn Prerequisite: History 206 and one of the following: History 225, 227, 228, 243, 244, HIST 315 Colloquium: Nation-Building in 254, WGS 101 or permissions of instructor Iraq, Japan and Vietnam [W] National-building efforts in Japan, Vietnam Sanborn and Iraq will be treated as interrelated case studies. Course members will analyze and HIST 354 Seminar in Russian History discuss scholarly works and primary sources Each year, this course addresses a major directly concerning U.S. interventions in theme in the history of modern Russia. Iraq, Japan or Vietnam, as well as Students work with the latest scholarship in theoretical works that illuminate the field of Russian history and explore connections and points of comparison. primary sources before writing a substantive Writing will emphasize synthesis and research paper. The topic of the course in criticism of secondary works. 2000 was Stalinism, but future topics may Prerequisite: One of the following include: imperialism in tsarist Russia, the courses: History 105 or History 262 or Soviet experience in World War II, or Government 102 or Government 103, or Tolstoy’s Russia. [W] permission of instructor 157

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Prerequisite: History 206 and either HIST 363 Victor's Justice and War Crimes: History 243 or History 244 or permission of Japan in WWII instructor {W} Course participants will assess the violence Sanborn unleashed by Japanese forces in wars

against China (1931-45) and the United HIST 358 America in the 1920's and 1930's States (1941-45). Global imperialism, This seminar focuses on American social Japanese domestic political history, US- and cultural history in the tumultuous years Japanese diplomacy, and Sino-Japanese between World War I and II. Topics include relations will be considered as causal forces the new American Automobile culture, the and explanatory devices. rise of advertising, the evolution of radio, Prerequisite: History 206 and one of the Prohibition and organized Crime, following: History 237, 248, 249, 250 or Architecture and Urban Planning, Visions of permission of instructor [W] Cities of the Future, immigration restriction, Barclay the Klu Klux Klan, the controversy over teaching Darwin in public schools, major HIST 365 American Technological fiction and films of the period, racial tension Development and violence, and radicalism and reform The growth of American technology is during the Great Depression. Students will examined from the early years of the be introduced to these topics through Republic through the twentieth century. primary sources, including newspaper, Topics include interchangeable parts and the magazines, novels, and films. This is a implementation of mass production; the seminar. Heavy emphasis is placed on factory as system and community, the written assignments and in-class discussion. transportation revolution, regional electric [W] power systems, communication Prerequisite: History 206 or permission of technologies, the process of corporate instructor invention, and the role of the military in Miller developing "modern" technologies. Extensive readings from recent important HIST 359 Seminar in Early American books and articles in the history of History technology are the basis for class Each year this course addresses a major discussion. [W] topic in early American history. The course Prerequisite: History 206 and either may examine a particular time period in History 215 or History 252 or permission of depth or it may focus on a theme in early instructor American history. In this seminar, students Jackson will read and discuss historical literature on the chosen topic, and they will write a HIST 366 The Rise of the American West research paper based on extensive use of (1800-1980) primary sources. An examination of the development of the Prerequisites: History 206 and one of the trans-Mississippi American West from the following: History 230, 232, 233 or time of the earliest Anglo explorations permission of instructor [W] through the flourishing of major urban Rosen centers in the late twentieth century. A range of readings and films focus discussion HIST 362 Terrorism and Self-Defense: The on social, economic, and technological Boxer Rebellion factors shaping the West’s culture. [W] Course participants will examine the various Prerequisite: History 206 or permission of causes of the Boxer Rebellion in China ca. instructor 1897-1901. Were Boxer atrocities an Jackson outbreak of irrational violence (terror), or acts of local self-defense against over- HIST 368 Seminar in Latin American bearing imperialists? This seminar History emphasizes historical analysis of the Boxers This seminar provides advanced students and current debates about the nature of with an opportunity to conduct research on a documentation and historical memory. subject of their choosing related to the Prerequisite: History 206 and one of the specific theme of the course. In addition to following: History 231, 243, 246, 248, 249 reading and discussing secondary or permission of instructor [W] scholarship, students will routinely report Barclay the results for their research to the seminar 158

HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT & LAW and write a substantial seminar paper based Weiner primarily on their analysis of primary sources. Students with appropriate language HIST 375 Seminar in African History skills are particularly encouraged to work Each year this course addresses a major with sources in their original languages.[W] topic in African History. The course may Prerequisite: History 206 and either examine a particular time period in depth or History 245 or History 246 or permission of it may focus on a theme in African history. instructor In this seminar, students will read and Pite discuss historical literature on the chosen topic, and they will write a research paper HIST 370 Diplomacy and Imperialism based on extensive use of primary sources. Selected studies in European diplomatic Prerequisites: History 206 and either history since the late nineteenth century. History 213 or History 214 or permission of Readings include documents, memoirs, instructor [W] literary works, and secondary sources. Staff Knowledge of a European language is desirable, but not required. HIST 495, 496 Thesis Prerequisite: History 206 or permission of Guided by a member of the staff, the student instructor [W] writes a thesis in a specialized field. If at the Weiner end of the first semester the student’s project appears to have honors potential, the HIST 371 Seminar on American Foreign student may apply to pursue graduation with Policy honors. Upon satisfactory completion of the Readings and research on American foreign essay, the student takes an oral examination policy in the twentieth century. Discussions on the thesis and its historical field. and analyses of major historical literature; Prerequisite: Hist 206 [W] research paper based on extensive use of Staff primary as well as secondary sources. [W] Prerequisite: History 206 or permission of instructor; open to juniors an seniors only HISTORY AND Offner GOVERNMENT & LAW HIST 373 Seminar in Middle East and Program closed to new students. History North African History and Government & Law is a coordinate An analysis of the major developments in major between the departments of history the region from the late eighteenth century and government and law. Teaching and to the present, with emphasis on the impact scholarly study in these two disciplines of European imperialism, the development often overlap. For example, a study of the of nationalism and independence political, economic, and social history of a movements, the conflict between traditional nation; constitutional history and the study Islamic society and modernization, the of law or society; or the study of conflict Arab-Israeli conflict, and the changed place resolution. of the region in world affairs. [W] Prerequisite: History 206 or permission of Historians tend to focus on analysis of past instructor events, while political scientists usually Staff emphasize the present with a view to predicting the future. Historians are less HIST 374 Politics and the Arts: France, concerned with theory than with objective 1919-1945 analysis of particular developments, while An analysis of major historical and artistic political scientists tend to use theory as the developments during the late Third basis for interpreting events. Still, most Republic and World War II, with particular historians write with a theoretical eye on the emphasis on the interconnection of history, present as a means of understanding the literature, and the other arts. The course is past, and political scientists depend on an value-oriented, focusing on the individual’s extensive knowledge of history to develop capacity to resist totalitarianism, the role of theory. artists and intellectuals in society, and Students have often taken a double major in modern alienation. [W] these two areas, especially those interested Prerequisite: Hist 206 or permission of in graduate study in law, international instructor affairs, or teaching. Study in these two 159

HISTORY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES disciplines helps students to develop critical Associate Professor David Veshosky (AB thinking, analysis, and writing skills—the Eng./Civil & Environmental); qualities most sought after by employers— and opens the way to a broad range of In this major, you gain a multifaceted careers in the public and private sectors or perspective on world issues and foreign for advanced graduate/professional training policy from several fields of study while in virtually every area. preparing for a career in foreign service, international banking, insurance, law, History and Government & Law government, information and social agencies, multinational businesses, the Course military, journalism, and teaching. NOTE: Because the major requires the scholarly For courses see History and Government & insights and analytical tools of several Law disciplines, students are exposed to a variety of viewpoints in the social sciences and humanities. A required concentration in four HISTORY AND RELIGIOUS major disciplines—government, history, economics, and foreign languages— STUDIES provides a diversified and balanced view of international relations. Program closed to new students. One of the most important aspects of the study of Majors are strongly encouraged to study the history of societies and cultures is the abroad. You may also consider a semester study of the religions of people past and studying international relations in present. Throughout world history religious Washington, D.C. A variety of other experience has been a central motivating activities are available such as a three-day and formative force in the growth of European Union simulation at the State societies and states and the formation of Department and various embassies in cultural identities. The study of religion in Washington, D.C. history is one of the keys for understanding the belief structures that underlie the evolution of human civilizations. Likewise, Requirements the study of religions is deepened by a A total of 16 courses are required. historical perspective. The study of the formation and growth of religious ideas, Foreign Language requirement: Advanced practices, and institutions is critical for level language proficiency (e.g. French 211, understanding religions as they exist today. German 211, Spanish 211; or an equivalent Putting world religions in their proper Japanese or Russian language course). social, political, and cultural historical perspective creates a better understanding of Economics and Business requirement (three the wide influence of religious traditions courses): 101, 210, and one international and how they have functioned in societies economics course chosen from an approved past and present. list.

History and Religious Studies Course Government and Law requirement (three courses): 102 (or 103) and two courses at or NOTE: above the 200-level chosen from an approved list. For courses see History and Religious Studies History requirement (three courses): 105 and two courses at or above the 200-level chosen from an approved list. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Two additional courses must be taken from Faculty the list of approved IA-related courses in Professor Pribic, Chair (Foreign Economics and Business, Foreign Languages and Literatures); Professor Languages and Literatures, Government and Peleg (Government and Law); Professor Law, or History. International Affairs thesis Andy Fix (History); Professor John courses or Independent Study courses may McCartney (Governement & Law); also be used to satisfy this requirement. All majors are required to complete IA 261: 160

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Research Methods and IA 362: Seminar. IA 301, 302 Independent Study Students earning advanced placement Junior and senior International Affairs course credit must still complete a total of majors are encouraged to focus on a topic of 16 courses and so must select from a list of particular interest to them, under the approved courses: supervision of a selected faculty member. Generally, this course involves intensive Foreign Languages: Any foreign language reading and written reports, though other course (minimum 211 or above) arrangements can be made between the student and faculty member. Students must Economics and Business: Normally obtain the approval of the International completing 101, 210, and one international Affairs chair and the selected faculty economics course chosen from the member. following: 346, 351, 352, 353, 354, 355, Offered: As needed 356 Staff

Government and Law: Normally completing IA 362 Seminar 102 (or 103 ) and two courses chosen from Designed as a capstone seminar to provide the following: 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 227, an opportunity for the major to bring 228, 229, 230, 232, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, together, through research and the 239, 249, 402, 405 completion of several papers, his or her various experiences in the discipline. History: Normally completing 105 and two Normally the seminar explores a topic or courses chosen from the following: 222, topics of current international interest 225, 227, 228, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, through an interdisciplinary approach. 249, 253, 254, 255, 256, 261, 262, 265, 270, Required of all International Affairs majors; 354, 368, 370, 371, 372, 373, 374 others with permission of instructor. [W] Pribic International Affairs: 261, 362 (seminars); 495, 496 (Honors Thesis); 301, 302 IA 495, 496 Thesis (Independent Study) International Students interested in completing a thesis Experience: All international majors are for program honors are advised to consult strongly encouraged to complete a with the chair toward the end of their junior significant foreigh study program, defined year. Following selection of a topic and a as a semester or year abroad, summer school thesis director, a research design must be study, language training abroad, or an provided at the opening of the fall semester. interim session. Students intending to study The student then completes 495. If the thesis abroad consult first with the chair for director and chair conclude that sufficient approval of their programs, then submit progress has been made, the student takes their applications to the Academic Progress 496 and completes a thesis for submission Committee. for honors. Staff International Affairs Courses IA 261 Research Methods in International INTERNATIONAL Affairs The course introduces students to the ECONOMICS AND research methods utilized in the study of COMMERCE international relations. Emphasis is on the interdisciplinary nature of the discipline. International Economics and Commerce is a Quantitative and qualitative methods are coordinate major between the departments examined. The goal is to provide students of economics and business and foreign with the ability to critically read the languages and literatures. It gives students sophisticated literature of the discipline and who are interested in the language, culture, understand its methodology. Required of all and economics of a specific country a way International Affairs majors; others with to pursue that interest. They may choose permission of instructor. [W] from three tracks: French, German, or Staff Spanish. The major requires the development of advanced language skills. Students are encouraged to spend a semester

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MATHEMATICS abroad in a country where the language of for these majors, in addition to the Common their selected track is spoken. Course of Study, are listed below. Requirements Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics: Mathematics 161, 162, 263, 290, 300, 351, Economics and Business 101, 210, or 211- 356, and three elective courses in 212, 218; French, German, or Spanish 111, mathematics numbered 300 or higher 112, 211, 225; three electives in Economics (Mathematics 264 or 282 may replace one and Business chosen from 344, 346, 347, 300-level elective). Recommended courses: 351, 352, 353, 354, 355, 359, and INDS Computer Science 102, Mathematics 400 250; two electives in the language of choice from French 323, 424, 431, 495 and 496; Bachelor of Science in Mathematics: German 311, 322, 424, 431, 495, and 496; Mathematics 161, 162, 263, 290, 300, 351, Spanish 311, 313, 314, 318, 427, 428, 495 356, 400 or 496, and five elective courses in and 496; and the Common Course of Study mathematics numbered 300 or higher including the foreign culture requirement. (Mathematics 264 or 282 may replace one 300-level elective; at least one 300-level International Economics and elective must have Mathematics 351 or 356 Commerce Course as a prerequisite); Physics 131 or 151; Physics 132, 133, or 152; and Computer NOTE: Science 102 or Computational Methods 151. For courses see Economics & Business and Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Foreign Languages & Literatures Economics: See Mathematics and Economics

MATHEMATICS Requirements for the Minor Mathematics 161, 162, 263 plus three Faculty mathematics courses numbered higher than Associate Professor Salwach, Head; 263, including at least two numbered 300 or Professors Fisher, Gordon, T. Hill, higher. Normally independent study courses McMahon, Meier, Reiter, Traldi; Associate may not be used toward satisfying the Professors Berkove, Gorman, Kimber, Lu, requirements for the minor.

Root, D. Smith, Stonesifer, Yuster, Zulli, Assistant Profsessors Corvino, Teboh- Mathematics Courses Ewungkem MATH 103 Patterns and Order The mathematics programs provide a Mathematics can be viewed as a search for rigorous introduction to the central ideas of patterns and order. This course gives an algebra and analysis, complemented with overview of the approaches used in various electives of direct interest to students who branches of mathematics to recognize and intend to pursue careers in actuarial science, understand patterns. Through reading, data analysis, finance, higher education, writing, discussion, and problem solving, management, secondary education, and students explore such topics as number, many other fields in which mathematical shape, change, and position, each of which techniques are used or taught. Students who has been central in the development of have pursued less mathematics-centered modern mathematics. Not open to students careers, like law and medicine, have found who have credit for any mathematics course that the mathematician's habits of logical numbered above 120, except by permission thought and careful abstraction are valuable of instructor. there, too. Small upper-level classes, Staff seminars, and independent study and research projects give mathematics students MATH 110 Statistical Concepts the opportunity to study particularly An introduction to the concepts and interesting topics in depth. reasoning underlying the interpretation of data and chance. Emphasis is on Requirements for the Majors understanding how statistical analysis is The mathematics department administers used to gain insight into a wide variety of three majors: A.B. in Mathematics, B.S. in areas of human interest. Topics include Mathematics, and A.B. Joint Major in elements of descriptive statistics, design of Mathematics and Economics. Requirements experiments, laws of probability, and 162

MATHEMATICS inference from a sample to a population MATH 162 Calculus II (including confidence intervals and A continuation of Mathematics 161. Topics hypothesis testing). Not open to students include techniques and applications of who have credit for any mathematics course integration, introduction to differential numbered above 120, except by permission equiations, parametric curves and polar of instructor. coordinates, infinite series and Taylor Staff approximation.

Prerequisite: A grade of C- or better in MATH 125 Modeling and Differential Mathematics 161 or 165 Calculus Staff An introduction to mathematical modeling and the use of differential calculus. Topics MATH 165 Calculus I+ include: analysis and manipulation of A course which covers the same topics as elementary functions, including Mathematics 161 while using a workshop trigonometric, exponential, and logarithmic experience and collaborative learning to functions; the differential calculus of such give special emphasis to the development of functions; and optimization. An ongoing problem-solving skills. Enrollment is by emphasis will be the use of elementary invitation of the Department of functions as well as the differential calculus Mathematics. to model phenomena in the natural, social Prerequisite: High school trigonometry and life sciences. Not open to students who Staff have credit for Mathematics 141 or 161. Prerequisite: Two years of high school MATH 166 Calculus II+ algebra A course which covers the same topics as Staff Mathematics 162 while using a workshop experience and collaborative learning to MATH 141 Differential Calculus and give special emphasis to the development of Economic Modeling problem-solving skills. Enrollment is by This course in the differential calculus of invitation of the Department of one and several variables is intended for Mathematics. students who plan to major in Economics Prerequisite: A grade of C- or better in and Business. Mathematical concepts Mathematics 161 or 165 include exponentials and logarithms, limits, Staff ordinary and partial derivatives, techniques of differentiation, contours, and MATH 182 Discrete Structures optimization in both one and several An introduction to discrete structures and variables. Economic concepts and models algorithms and some mathematical tools and include supply and demand curves, market methods of reasoning that aid in their equilibrium, present and future value, development and analysis. Topics include: marginal analysis, total and average cost, sets, counting, probability, algorithms, elasticity of demand, and optimization mathematical induction, relations, graphs, subject to a budget constraint. Not open to and trees. students who have credit for Mathematics Prerequisite: Computer Science 102, 161. Mathematics 161 Prerequisite: Three years of High School Offered: Spring semester mathematics Staff

Staff MATH 186 Applied Statistics MATH 161 Calculus I An introductory course emphasizing The sequence Mathematics 161, 162, 263 standard methods and reasoning used in provides an introduction to calculus for analyzing data. Topics include exploratory students of mathematics, engineering, and data analysis, design of experiments, least the sciences. Topics include limits, squares analysis, probability, sampling derivatives, techniques of differentiation, distributions and methods of inferential definite integrals, the fundamental theorem statistics. Includes an introduction to a of calculus, and applications of derivatives statistical computing package. Not open to and integrals. students who have credit for Mathematics Prerequisite: High school trigonometry 176 or Psychology 120. Staff Prerequisite: Mathematics 125, 141 or 161, or permission of instructor 163

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Mathematics MATH 263 Calculus III An introduction to the concepts and A continuation of Mathematics 162. Topics techniques that permeate advanced include vector algebra, vector calculus, mathematics. Topics include set theory, partial derivatives, gradients and directional propositional logic, proof techniques, derivatives, tangent planes, the chain rule, relations, and functions. Special emphasis multiple integrals and line integrals. on developing students' facility for reading Prerequisite: A grade of C- or better in and writing mathematical proofs. Examples Mathematics 162 or 166 and additional topics are included from Staff various branches of mathematics, at the discretion of the instructor. MATH 264 Differential Equations with Corequisite: Mathematics 263 or Linear Algebra permission of instructor An introductory course in ordinary Staff differential equations including techniques of elementary linear algebra. Emphasis is on MATH 300 Vector Spaces first-order equations, and higher-order linear A first course in theoretical linear algebra, equations and systems of equations. Topics emphasizing the reading and writing of include qualitative analysis of differential proofs. Topics include systems of linear equations, analytical and numerical equations, matrix algebra, vector spaces and solutions, Laplace transforms, existence and linear transformations, eigenvectors and uniqueness of solutions, and elemental diagonalization, inner product spaces, and models in science and engineering. the Spectral Theorem. Not open to students Prerequisite: Mathematics 263 with credit for Mathematics 272. Staff Prerequisite: Mathematics 290 or

permission of instructor MATH 272 Linear Algebra with Offered: Spring semester Applications Staff An introductory course in linear algebra emphasizing applications to fields such as MATH 301 Case Studies in Mathematical economics, natural sciences, computer Modeling science, statistics, and engineering. The A course which engages students in the course covers solutions of systems of creation of mathematical models to answer equations, matrix algebra, vector spaces, questions about a variety of phenomena. linear transformations, determinants, Students work in small teams on a sequence eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Not open to of projects which require the formulation, students who have credit for Mathematics analysis, and critical evaluation of a 300. mathematical model and conclude with the Corequisite: Mathematics 263 or submission of a written report by each permission of instructor student. [W] Staff Prerequisite: Mathematics 272 or 300

Offered: Fall semester MATH 282 Techniques of Mathematical Staff Modeling A course that introduces students to the MATH 306 Operations Research fundamentals of mathematical modeling A study of some mathematical methods of through the formulation, analysis, and decision making. Topics include: linear testing of mathematical models in a variety programming (maximizing linear functions of areas. Modeling techniques covered subject to linear constraints), the simplex include proportionality, curve fitting, algorithm for solving linear programming elementary linear programming, and problems, networks, probability, queueing simulation. and inventory problems, and applications. Prerequisite: Mathematics 162 or 166 Prerequisite: Mathematics 272 or 300 or Offered: Spring semester permission of instructor Staff Offered: Spring semester Staff

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MATH 310 Ordinary Differential Equations application. Topics include primality, A course in the theory and applications of modular arithmetic, arithmetic functions, ordinary differential equations which quadratic residues, and diophantine emphasizes qualitative aspects of the equations. subject. Topics include analytic and Prerequisite: Mathematics 263 or numerical solution techniques for systems permission of instructor of equations, graphical analysis, stability, Offered: Spring semester of odd-numbered existence-uniqueness theorems, and years applications. Staff

Prerequisite: Mathematics 263, and 272 or 300 MATH 335 Probability Offered: Spring semester of even- A development of basic probability theory numbered years including the axioms, random variables, Staff expected value, the law of large numbers and the central limit theorem. Additional MATH 312 Partial Differential Equations topics include distribution functions and An introduction to partial differential generating functions. equations and their applications. Prerequisite: Mathematics 263 Formulation of initial and boundary value Offered: Fall semester problems for these equations and methods Staff for their solution are emphasized. Separation of variables and Fourier analysis MATH 336 Mathematical Statistics are developed. The course includes A mathematical development of interpretation of classical equations and fundamental results and techniques in their solutions in terms of applications. statistics. Topics include estimation, Prerequisite: Mathematics 263 sampling distributions, hypothesis testing, Offered: Spring semester of odd-numbered correlation and regression. years Prerequisite: Mathematics 335 Staff Offered: Spring semester Staff

MATH 323 Geometry Various geometries are considered including MATH 343 Advanced Multivariable absolute, Euclidean, and the classical non- Calculus Euclidean geometries. General properties of A continuation of multivariable calculus axiomatic systems, models, and the role of from Mathematics 263 , using concepts Euclidean geometry in the development of from linear algebra. Topics include the other branches of mathematics are derivative as a linear transformation, the discussed. Chain Rule, the Inverse and Implicit Prerequisite: Mathematics 162 or Function Theorems, the Change of permission of instructor Variables Theorem, and the integral Offered: Fall semester of even-numbered theorems of Green, Gauss and Stokes; years additional topics may include differential Staff forms and series of functions. Prerequisite: Mathematics 263, and 272 or MATH 325 Combinatorics 300 An introduction to the techniques and theory Offered: Fall semester of odd-numbered of enumeration of finite sets. Topics include years combinations, permutations, generating Staff functions, recurrence relations, the inclusion-exclusion principle, block designs, MATH 345 Complex Analysis and graph theory. An introductory course in the calculus of Prerequisite: Mathematics 263, or complex functions including the algebra and permission of instructor geometry of complex numbers, elementary Offered: Fall semester of odd-numbered mappings, complex derivatives and years integrals,Cauchy-Riemann equations, Staff harmonic functions, Cauchy’s Integral Theory, Taylor and Laurent series, residues. MATH 328 Number Theory Prerequisite: Mathematics 263 An introduction to the theory of the integers Offered: Fall semester of even-numbered and techniques for their study and years 165

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Staff Ancient Greek mathematics, the birth of calculus, and selected topics from the 19th MATH 351 Abstract Algebra I and 20th centuries.[W] An introduction to some of the fundamental Prerequisite: Mathematics 162 ideas and structures of abstract algebra. Offered: Fall semester of odd-numbered Homomorphisms and isomorphisms, years. substructures and quotient structures are Staff discussed for algebraic objects such as fields, vector spaces, rings, and groups. MATH 372 Mathematics Seminar Other topics may include factorization in This course offers a major branch of rings, and finite group theory. mathematics not covered by the regular Prerequisite: Mathematics 290 offerings of the department. Course Offered: Fall semester descriptions are available in the department Staff office. Prerequisite: Depend on subject matter. MATH 352 Abstract Algebra II Usually, completion of the calculus Topics may include extension fields, sequence constitutes a minimal prerequisite. geometric constructions, algebraic coding Offered: As needed theory, and algebraic number theory. Staff Prerequisite: Mathematics 351, and a corequisite of 300 or permission of MATH 375-389 Advanced Special Topics instructor Chosen from among a wide range of Offered: Spring semester of even- mathematical topics accessible to junior and numbered years senior mathematics majors. When offered, Staff the special topic to be studied will be listed in the Semester Course and Hour Schedule, MATH 356 Introduction to Real Analysis and course descriptions will be available in A rigorous development of the calculus of the department office. functions of one real variable including the Staff topology of the real line, limits, continuity, differentiation and integration. MATH 391-394 Independent Study Prerequisite: Mathematics 290 Study by an individual student, under the Offered: Spring semester supervision of a mathematics faculty Staff member, of a mathematical subject not covered by courses offered by the MATH 358 Topology department. The program of study must be The main topics are set theory, the drawn up by the student and the faculty separation axioms, connectedness, supervisor and approved by an ad hoc compactness, and the continuity of committee of the department. functions. Classical general topological Staff spaces are studied including regular spaces, normal spaces, first or second countable MATH 400 Senior Seminar spaces, and metrizable spaces. A course in which each student undertakes a Prerequisite: Mathematics 356 or thorough and independent study of one or permission of instructor more topics in mathematics. Students are Offered: Fall semester of even-numbered required to make oral presentations on their years. work and to prepare written reports on their Staff topics. [W] Prerequisite: Senior standing and MATH 360 History of Mathematics satisfactory completion of at least two 300- Mathematics is a living, changing subject level courses in mathematics whose truths, once identified, have Offered: Spring semester remarkable staying power. In this course Staff students analyze various episodes in the history of mathematics that illustrate how MATH 495, 496 Thesis mathematical knowledge has developed Students desiring to take Honors in over the years. Topics include: Egyptian and Mathematics should inform their department Babylonian mathematics, indigenous advisers early in the second semester of the mathematics from outside of the Western junior year. Honors work involves a guided tradition, the contributions of Euclid and program of independent study culminating 166

MATHEMATICS AND ECONOMICS in a thesis on a topic to be selected by the Instructors Master Sgt. Pino, Sgt. First student in consultation with his or her Class Boyer, and Staff Sgt. Acree. adviser and approved by the department. [496: W] Military Science is part of the United States Staff Army Cadet Command. As such, it sponsors the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) Program. Classes are taught under MATHEMATICS AND the auspices of the Lehigh Valley Steel Battalion ROTC program, which is the local ECONOMICS headquarters for ROTC and military science instruction. Depending upon enrollment, This interdisciplinary major gives classes are taught either at Lafayette College mathematically talented students with career or at Coxe Laboratory, Lehigh University. plans in economics or business a wide range of mathematical skills and significant The ROTC Program complements the experience with the fundamental ideas of educational process by adding those economics and business. It also additional skills and areas of knowledge distinguishes them from the thousands of critical to success in a position of leadership students around the country who major in in either the Army or as a leader in business economics and business. A distinctive or industry. feature of the program is the senior capstone experience, in which students integrate their The objectives of the military science study of mathematics and economics. program are to develop leadership and management ability in each student; to provide a basic understanding of the Army’s Requirements for the Major history, philosophy, organization, Mathematics 161, 162, 263, 272 (or 300), responsibilities, and role in American 282, 306, 335, 336; Economics and society; and to develop fundamental Business 101, 211, 212, 218, 365, and two professional knowledge and skills electives numbered 300 or higher; a associated with officership. These capstone experience in the form of a one- objectives are achieved through classroom sMemester course, taken during the senior instruction, leadership laboratories, field year, designed to integrate the ideas and trips, role-playing, leadership simulations, techniques students have encountered in and individual assessment and counseling. their work in mathematics and economics. (The capstone experience may consist of Army ROTC offers both a four-year Economics 313, Economics 324, 366, program and a two-year program. The four- Mathematics 301 or appropriate year program consists of the two-year basic independent study or honors work. Students course and a two-year advanced course. The interested in graduate study in economics two-year program consists of the two-year may substitute Mathematics 356 for the advanced course offered to students with capstone course.) Computer Science 102 is previous military experience and those who recommended as an elective for students in have successfully completed a five-week this major. Administration of the Joint ROTC Leadership Training Course (LTC). Major in Mathematics and Economics and Basic course students incur no obligation for advising of students in the program is done service in the Army as a result of taking by the Department of Mathematics. these courses.

Basic Course. Normally taken in the first- Mathematics and Economics Courses year and sophomore years, the course NOTE: provides training and instruction in For courses see Mathematics and leadership, public speaking, and basic Economics & Business military subjects, such as the Army’s role and organizational structure, history and philosophy of the Army, basic tactics, land MILITARY SCIENCE navigation, first aid, group dynamics, and leadership traits and characteristics. Faculty Normally taken in the Professor of Military Science Lt. Col. Advanced Course. junior and senior years, advanced Kuchinski; Assistant Professors Maj. instruction includes management, military Haldeman, Capts. Brede and Weinhofer; skills, advanced leadership and tactics,

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MILITARY SCIENCE logistics, administration military law, ethics, Corps, Ordnance Corps, Finance, and professionalism, and includes Transportation, Adjutant General, attendance at ROTCs National Advanced Quartermaster, Medical Service Corps, or Leadership Course (LDAC). Students Nursing Corps. Officers work as receive $350-$400 per month subsistence leaders/managers, specialists, or pay during the junior and senior years. To combinations of the two depending on the enroll in the advanced course, an applicant assignment. completes either the basic course or the five-week Leadership Training Course; or There are many opportunities for advanced has received basic course credit for previous military and civilian schooling beginning military experience. with nearly three months of training in the branch specialty. A person may later receive Professional Military Education. This additional training in a specialty area such education is required for a commission and as: information systems engineering, consists of two essential parts: a information operations, strategic baccalaureate degree and at least one intelligence, psychological operations, space undergraduate course in military history operations, human resource management, (History 255, 262, or 370). comptroller, public affairs, foreign area specialization, operations research/systems Uniforms and Equipment. The analysis, nuclear operations and research, department supplies all uniforms and information systems management, equipment needed by the student for simulations operations, or strategic plans military science courses. Students are and policy. charged only for those items that are not returned when they leave the program. Students selected for reserve forces duty become officers in the Army Reserve or Transfers. Qualified students transferring Army National Guard in their hometown from another institution may enter the area and essentially have a part-time ROTC program at the appropriate level and military career. Active duty officers are year provided they have received the assigned at various locations throughout the necessary credits, the recommendation of world. An officer can earn retirement their former professor of military science (if through both programs after 20 years of applicable), and the approval of the College. service. Obligation after Graduation. Upon graduation a student will receive a ROTC Scholarship Program commission as a Second Lieutenant in either This program is designed to offer financial the active Army or the Reserve Forces. If assistance to outstanding men and women offered active duty, scholarship students entering the ROTC program or those who serve four years while non-scholarship are currently enrolled. Each scholarship students serve three. If offered reserve duty, provides $23,000 annually in tuition and students normally serve six to eight years in fees, a textbook and supplies allowance of a Reserve or National Guard unit. up to $900, and pay of $250 per month for Graduate Studies. ROTC graduates may the period the scholarship is in effect. request to delay their active service to Three-year scholarships are available to pursue a full-time course of instruction outstanding cadets who are currently leading to an advanced degree. Delay does enrolled in ROTC and are completing their not lengthen the active service obligation first year of college. unless the degree is obtained at military This program is also open to all qualified expense. students who are not currently enrolled in Career Opportunities. Individuals are Army ROTC but who are willing to join in commissioned as officers in the United their sophomore year. A similar two-year States Army after completion of the ROTC scholarship is available to sophomores. program, the National Advanced Leadership Two-year scholarships are also available at Course (LDAC), and a bachelor’s degree. the Leadership Training Course. They then qualify in branches (specialties) Four-year scholarships are open to anyone such as the Corps of Engineers, Aviation, entering ROTC as a first-year student. Armor, Infantry, Field Artillery, Air Application for scholarships must be made Defense Artillery, Signal Corps, Military to Headquarters, U.S. Army Cadet Intelligence, Military Police, Chemical Command, Fort Monroe, Virginia, by Aug. 168

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15 before the senior year of high school for satisfy one of the required early selection, but no later than Dec. 1 for Humanities/Social Science electives. normal application. Application booklets are available from most high school guidance Leadership Laboratory offices, or may be obtained from Cadet For all MS courses, a Leadership Command at the address above or from the Laboratory is scheduled. The lab provides Army ROTC web site. students the opportunity to demonstrate an understanding of the leadership process and Leadership Training Course develop fundamental military skills. Lab Students who have not considered the dates and times are included in the course benefits of ROTC and a military syllabus. commission until late in their sophomore year may attend a five-week Leadership During labs, instruction on a variety of Training Course at Fort Knox, Kentucky subjects with military application provides during the summer between the sophomore the context within which students have and junior years. Upon successful opportunities to both teach and lead in a completion they are awarded “credit” for the group setting. Responsibility is expanded as Basic Course and enter the Advanced the student progresses through the military Course the beginning of their junior year. science program. In the senior year, students Special two-year scholarships are awarded assume responsibility for the planning, to outstanding performers. preparation, and conduct of the laboratory. Leadership Laboratory is mandatory for all students enrolled in military science National Advanced Leadership Course courses. Formally enrolled students in pursuit of a commission must successfully complete a Military Science Courses five-week training program normally conducted at Fort Lewis, Washington, MS 101 Introduction to Military Science between their junior and senior year. Focus This course offers an introduction to the is on evaluation of military leadership skills Army, customs and courtesies, Army over a broad spectrum of training events. values, and leadership philosophy. The Students are paid for travel and attendance. course work in MS 101 also includes the Prerequisites are completion of the basic basics of map reading, physical fitness, and military science courses or their equivalent goal setting. Students may elect to take the and MS 301 and 302. class only on a pass/fail basis, or enroll in ROTC without a military obligation. Additional Training Opportunities Enrollment in ROTC includes practical Volunteer activities include: U.S. Army leadership exercises and a field training Airborne School, U.S. Army Air Assault exercise as well as weekly physical training. School, Ranger Club (study of small unit Cadets receive one course credit with the tactical operations), orienteering, formal completion of both MS 101 and MS 102. military social affairs, rappelling, Marquis Offered: Fall semester Guard (color guard), and trips to various Staff military installations and historical Credits earned in MS 101, 102, 201, 202, battlefields. 303, and 304 are recorded on the transcript and count toward the GPA, but may not be used to fulfill the minimum course Course Credit requirement for graduation. Credits earned in MS 101, 102, 201, 202, 303, and 304 are recorded on the transcript MS 102 Leadership Assessment and Group and count toward the GPA, but may not be Dynamics used to fulfill the minimum course This course focuses on the roles of the requirement for graduation. MS 401 and individual and the leader within a group. 402 may be used to fulfill two course credits There is emphasis on leadership skills and toward the 32 course requirement for characteristics. More advanced map reading, graduation in A.B. and B.S. science land navigation, and basic maneuver programs. In the case of B.S. engineering techniques are included in the curriculum. programs, MS 304 and 401 may be used to The course work emphasizes problem fulfill two free electives and MS 402 to solving and practical applications. Students may elect to take the class only on a 169

MILITARY SCIENCE pass/fail basis, or enroll in ROTC without a Offered: Fall semester military obligation. Enrollment in ROTC Staff includes practical leadership exercises and a Credits earned in MS 101, 102, 201, 202, field training exercise as well as weekly 303, and 304 are recorded on the transcript physical training. Cadets receive one course and count toward the GPA, but may not be credit with the completion of both MS 101 used to fulfill the minimum course and MS 102. requirement for graduation. Offered: Spring semester Staff MS 304 Advanced Leadership Credits earned in MS 101, 102, 201, 202, Critical examination of leadership qualities, 303, and 304 are recorded on the transcript traits, and principles with an emphasis on and count toward the GPA, but may not be the military environment. Self, peer, and used to fulfill the minimum course instructor leadership evaluation. Advanced requirement for graduation. military skills reinforced. Advanced Camp preparation is emphasized. Includes MS 201 Leadership Theory and Leadership Laboratory and FTX. One Management course credit. Contemporary theories, traits, principles, Prerequisite: Formal enrollment in ROTC and small unit tactics development. Advanced Course Emphasizes leadership philosophies, Offered: Spring semester communications, leader-follower Staff relationships, and leadership problem- Credits earned in MS 101, 102, 201, 202, solving. Leadership simulations. Includes 303, and 304 are recorded on the transcript Leadership Laboratory and FTX. One and count toward the GPA, but may not be course credit. used to fulfill the minimum course Offered: Fall semester requirement for graduation.

Staff Credits earned in MS 101, 102, 201, 202, MS 401 Military Command and Staff 303, and 304 are recorded on the transcript Role, authority, and responsibilities of and count toward the GPA, but may not be military commanders and staff in personnel, used to fulfill the minimum course logistics, and training management. requirement for graduation. Emphasis on staff procedures, problem- solving, training methods, and oral and MS 202 Topographic Analysis and Land written communication skills used in Navigation military organizations. Includes Leadership Use of maps as tools in basic terrain Laboratory and FTX. One course credit. analysis and as navigational aids. Emphasis Prerequisite: Formal enrollment in ROTC on practical application in a field Advanced Course environment. Includes Leadership Offered: Fall semester Laboratory and FTX. One course credit. Staff

Offered: Spring semester Staff MS 402 Officer Responsibilities, Ethics, Credits earned in MS 101, 102, 201, 202, and Military Professionalism 303, and 304 are recorded on the transcript Development of the profession of arms, its and count toward the GPA, but may not be fundamental values, and institutions; ethical used to fulfill the minimum course responsibilities of military professional in requirement for graduation. contemporary American society; just war theory, international law of war, and MS 303 Advanced Military Skills American military law. Also covered are Essential junior officer skills: advanced land current topics to assist cadets in making the navigation, principles of war, small unit transition to the officer corps and service on tactical planning, tactics and techniques of active duty or in the reserve forces. Includes the soldier, team-leading techniques, oral Leadership Laboratory and FTX. communications, and trainer skills. Prerequisite: Formal enrollment in ROTC Emphasizes application, field experience, Advanced Course and Advanced Camp preparation. Includes Staff

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MUSIC Music Courses MUS 102 Music in Western Civilization Faculty The focus of this course is the development Professor Stockton, Head; Professor of music in the civilizations of Europe and Cummings; Associate Professors Moyer, America, not only as an art with its own Torres, Wilkins; Assistant Professor Kelly. history, but also as a mirror of the artistic, social, political, and economic development The music department offers students from of the Western world. Students are all disciplines opportunities to develop an introduced to a basic repertoire in classical understanding and appreciation of music music. Lecture/listening. through a wide range of courses and Offered: Each semester performance activities. Students may elect Torres to pursue a major or minor in music, or to participate at whatever level their MUS 103 Introduction to World Music background and interest dictates. Faculty Traditions members are active performers and scholars An exploration of the history, styles, and who take a special interest in personalized performance practices of music of African, instruction. Asian, and Indian cultures. The study of the The curriculum includes offerings in theory, music in the context of cultural traditions composition, performance, history, and and institutions and its influence on the literature. In addition to the more music of Europe and America encourages conventional areas of music study, the students to examine music from a cross- department offers opportunities to study cultural perspective and to experience the world music traditions, jazz and popular music through performance. styles, and electronic music. The Williams Lecture/assigned listening. Center for the Arts includes rehearsal and Offered: Each semester practice facilities, an electronic music Stockton studio, a score and multimedia library, concert hall, and computer instruction MUS 104 Music Technology I facilities. Students have opportunities to This course explores the use of computers to perform in choral groups as well as jazz, compose music in a digital format through brass, string, wind, and percussion music sequencing and sampling software. ensembles. The artist-in-residence program Basics of melody, harmony, and rhythm are brings noted artists from all over the world examined as they relate to computer- to interact with students through workshops assisted music composition. Weekly and classes. assignments engage students in exploring specific techniques and features of the Requirements digital audio software. A final capstone Ten courses to include: Music 103, 121, project involves utilizing all skills 201, 222, 323, one course in Twentieth developed in the course to compose a multi- Century and contemporary music (satisfied track musical composition in a variety of by either Music 202 or 324), one elective in audio file formats. musicology at or above the 300-level, a Moyer capstone senior project/thesis (Music 491/495, four semesters of Applied Music MUS 121 Music Theory I Lessons (Music 141), four semesters of This introductory course in music theory approved ensemble participation, and begins with a review of elemental concepts demonstrated piano proficiency. including pitch and rhythm notation, intervals, scales, and triads. The primary Requirements for the Minor focus is a study of the “Common Practice Six courses to include: Music 103, 121, 201, Period,” encompassing diatonic harmonic 222, one additional music course (200-level practices since the nineteenth century, with or above), two semesters of Applied Music correlated sight singing, ear training, and Lessons (Music 141), two semesters of keyboard assignments. One-hour laboratory. Wilkins approved ensemble participation, and demonstrated piano proficiency. MUS 130 Class Piano Laboratory Additional course listing appears under This course is intended for those students Interim Session. who wish to begin study of the piano,

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MUSIC particularly those with limited or no music 32/38 course credit requirement for the reading skills. The class meets 50 minutes degree. twice a week for 12 weeks. Music reading Staff in both treble and bass clefs, as well as basic piano techniques such as scales, hand MUS 152 Chamber Wind Ensemble position, and other technical concepts are Active participation in an approved musical taught. 1/4 course. ensemble. Regular attendance at rehearsals Fisher and all performances in addition to other requirements as deemed necessary. 0.25 MUS 140 Applied Music Instruction (non- credit course. No more than eight 0.25 credit) credit courses may be counted toward the Private instruction for students who wish no 32/38 course credit requirement for the academic credit. Twelve private lessons of degree. 45 minutes each. Considered an “audited Staff course.” (Extra fee) Staff MUS 153 String Ensembles Active participation in an approved musical MUS 141 Applied Music Instruction ensemble. Regular attendance at rehearsals This is the primary course for students and all performances in addition to other interested in private instrumental or vocal requirements as deemed necessary. 0.25 instruction. Twelve lessons of 45 minutes credit course. No more than eight 0.25 each. Jury examination is required.0.25 credit courses may be counted toward the credit course. No more than eight 0.25 32/38 course credit requirement for the credit courses may be counted toward the degree. 32/38 course credit requirement for the Staff degree.(Extra fee) Staff MUS 154 Concert Band Active participation in an approved musical MUS 142 Intensive Applied Music ensemble. Regular attendance at rehearsals Instruction and all performances in addition to other This course is reserved for advanced requirements as deemed necessary. 0.25 students who have completed a minimum of credit course. No more than eight 0.25 two semesters of Music 141 with grades of credit courses may be counted toward the “A.” Both jury examination and exemplary 32/38 course credit requirement for the recital participation are required. Twelve degree. lessons of 60 minutes each. 0.25 credit Staff course. No more than eight 0.25 credit courses may be counted toward the 32/38 MUS 155 Jazz Combo course credit requirement for the degree. Active participation in an approved musical (Extra fee) ensemble. Regular attendance at rehearsals Staff and all performances in addition to other requirements as deemed necessary. 0.25 MUS 150 Choir credit course. No more than eight 0.25 Active participation in an approved musical credit courses may be counted toward the ensemble. Regular attendance at rehearsals 32/38 course credit requirement for the and all performances in addition to other degree. requirements as deemed necessary. 0.25 Staff credit course. No more than eight 0.25 credit courses may be counted toward the MUS 156 Guitar Ensemble 32/38 course credit requirement for the Active participation in an approved musical degree. ensemble. Regular attendance at rehearsals Staff and all performances in addition to other requirements as deemed necessary. 0.25 MUS 151 Jazz Ensemble credit course. No more than eight 0.25 Active participation in an approved musical credit courses may be counted toward the ensemble. Regular attendance at rehearsals 32/38 course credit requirement for the and all performances in addition to other degree. requirements as deemed necessary. 0.25 Staff credit course. No more than eight 0.25 credit courses may be counted toward the 172

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MUS 157 Brass Ensemble MUS 201 Music History and Literature: Active participation in an approved musical 1600-1915 ensemble. Regular attendance at rehearsals This course surveys the music of the and all performances in addition to other Western "cultivated" tradition from 1600- requirements as deemed necessary. 0.25 1915 (the "Baroque," "Classical," and credit course. No more than eight 0.25 "Romantic" periods). The repertoir is credit courses may be counted toward the presented through lectures, discussion, 32/38 course credit requirement for the readings, and sound recordings. Emphasis is degree. on an analysis of and engagement with Staff actual musical compositions, representative

of the principal stylistic developments MUS 158 Percussion Ensemble characteristic of each of the three major Active participation in an approved musical style periods. ensemble. Regular attendance at rehearsals Prerequisites: Music 121 or permission of and all performances in addition to other instructor requirements as deemed necessary. 0.25 Cummings, Torres credit course. No more than eight 0.25 credit courses may be counted toward the MUS 202 Music History and Literature: 32/38 course credit requirement for the 1915 to Present degree. This course examines music since 1915 Staff through extensive listening. Course content

includes a survey of Western art music as MUS 159 Pep Band well as examples of blues, jazz, musical Active participation in an approved musical theater, rock, and non-Western music. The ensemble. Regular attendance at rehearsals repertoire is presented through a study of and all performances in addition to other readings, sound recordings, films, and requirements as deemed necessary. 0.25 lectures. Students encounter the credit course. No more than eight 0.25 communities, histories, traditions, and credit courses may be counted toward the newer forms of expression of music since 32/38 course credit requirement for the the early decades of the 20th century. degree. Prerequisites: Music 121 or permission of Staff instructor Cummings, Torres MUS 160 Chamber Singers This course is a performing ensemble MUS 204 Music Technology II designed to provide qualified vocalists with This course explores music composition, an opportunity to perform advanced arranging, and digital audio editing using literature from a variety of genres and advanced computer hardware and software. styles. Attendance at all rehearsals and The class is designed to further develop performances is required. Participation is by skills and application of technology as audition. 0.25 credit course. No more than introduced in Music 104. The course is eight 0.25 credit courses may be counted project-based, using software applications toward the 32/38 course credit requirement that focus on digital music sequencing, for the degree. editing, and notation. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Prerequisite: MUS 104 Staff Staff

MUS 161-164 Ensembles MUS 222 Music Theory II Early Music, String, World Music, Latin- This course continues the study of advanced American diatonic harmonic practices, with correlated Active participation in an approved musical sight singing, ear training, and keyboard ensemble. Regular attendance at rehearsals assignments. Concepts covered include: and all performances in addition to other inverted triads in four-part harmony, requirements as deemed necessary. 0.25 harmonic cadences, dominant seventh credit course. No more than eight 0.25 chords in four-part harmony, non-harmonic credit courses may be counted toward the tones, jazz extended chords, improvisation, 32/38 course credit requirement for the and exercises in basic form and analysis. degree. One-hour laboratory. Staff Prerequisite: Music 121 or permission of instructor 173

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Theory and Analysis MUS 224 Jazz Improvisation Courses focus on an area of music theory, This course is designed for students who analysis, or composition. Possible topics have strong interests in jazz improvisation include the theoretical concepts that and performance. Students will expand their underlie an era of “school” (e.g., the New historical knowledge and listening skills, Viennese School), a theoretical/ study jazz harmony in detail, analyze song compositional discipline such as eighteenth- forms and chord structures, enhance century counterpoint, or a special aspect of keyboard skills, learn to sing improvised analysis such as form and structure in solos, transcribe and perform solos from music. Descriptions of current offerings are recordings, and perform regularly in class. available through the department office and Students will develop specialized the Registrar’s Office. Lecture/discussion/ musicianship skills with many assignments laboratory/listening. being individualized and project-bases. Prerequisite: Music 101 and others as Prerequisites: Music 222 or permission of appropriate to the topic instructor Staff Wilkins

MUS 261-269 Selected Studies in Music MUS 231-239 Selected Studies in World History and Literature Music Possible topics include the historical The goal of these courses is to explore the development and the repertoire of an era or indigenous music of selected cultures and “school” (e.g., the Baroque Era, French regions independent of Western “common Music, Music in the United States, the practice.” Through guided listening, History of Jazz). These courses typically performance activities, and cultural analysis investigate the master works and lives of the students experience both the aural landscape principal composers of the era as well as the and the larger phenomenon of how music social and musical concepts that influenced functions within culture. Possible topics the period. Classes involve student include the musical culture of a region (e.g., presentations, field trips, and live and Africa, Asia, Latin America) or a country videotaped performances as well as sound (e.g., Japan, China, India). Descriptions are recordings. Descriptions of current offerings available through the department office and are available through the department office the Registrar’s Office. and the Registrar’s Office. Assigned Prerequisite: Music 103 or permission of listening. Lecture/laboratory. instructor Prerequisite: Music 101 or 102 and other Staff courses as appropriate to the topic Staff MUS 240 Women in Music This course will examine outstanding MUS 271-279 Selected Studies in Musical musical achievements of women throughout Forms and Genres history and in contemporary society. Possible topics include the historical Women's global contribution to music will development and literature of opera, the be explored through diverse styles of symphony, chamber music, vocal and choral composition and performance, active music, music for keyboard instruments, etc. participation in education, and patronage. These courses typically investigate the Topics include music and power, gender, master works in a genre, the lives and class, challenging the "roles," and contributions of composers in several areas, performing identities. In an active classroom and the social, technological, and musical environment, students will have ample factors that have affected the development opportunity to challenge, lead, and discover of that genre. Classes involve student their own contribution to the arts through presentations, field trips, and live and valid argument. videotaped performances as well as sound Prerequisites: A music course, or a recordings. Descriptions of current offerings Women's and Gender Studies course, or are available through the department office permission of instructor and the Registrar’s Office. Kelly Lecture/laboratory. Prerequisite: Music 101 or 102 and other courses as appropriate to the topic Staff

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MUS 281-289 Selected Studies of Great primarily from the College community. Composers Additionally, students will research various Topics include Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, composers, examining a range of Verdi, Stravinsky, to name a few. These publications produced by the selected courses investigate the master works in the composers themselves. important genres, the life and musical Prerequisite: Music 324 development of the individual studied, and Wilkins the social factors that affected the time period in which he/she lived. Classes MUS 351-360 Special Topics involve student presentations, field trips, The detailed study of a composer, school, and live and videotaped performances as specific style or topic, employing more well as sound recordings. Descriptions of advanced analytical tools. Topics in past current offerings are available through the years have included African-American department office and the Registrar’s music; Mozart: The Man, the Myth, the Office. Lecture/laboratory. Music; history of jazz; the music of J. S. Prerequisite: Music 101 or 102 and other Bach. Topics for the following year are courses as appropriate to the topic announced at spring registration. Classroom Staff experiences are augmented by artist visits and field trips to suitable venues, for MUS 323 Music Theory III example, a jazz club or concert for the This course furthers the study of the course on jazz history. "Common Practice Period" with chromatic Prerequisite: Permission of instructor language since the eighteenth century, with Staff correlated sight-singing, ear training, and keyboard assignments. Concepts include MUS 371, 372 Internship diatonic 7th Chords in 4-part harmony, Students majoring in music may wish to borrowed chords and augmented 6th chords, explore career opportunities by participating chromatic and enharmonic modulation, in an approved internship with a secondary sub-dominants and passing professional performing organization, arts chords, jazz analysis and keyboard voicing, management consultant, or related music chromatic improvisation, and topics in form industry representative. Under the and analysis. Addtional one-hour lab supervision of a designated internship scheduled weekly. sponsor, the student develops and completes Prerequisite: Music 222 or permission of a work-related project. Additional activities instructor include assigned readings and a final written Wilkins report. Prerequisite: Permission of department MUS 324 Twentieth Century Harmonic head Stockton Practice This course continues the study of chromatic harmony of post-Romanticism MUS 380 Junior/Senior Seminar and begins the study of 20th century idioms. Advanced special topics studies Students will compose short works in 20th emphasizing research in greater depth of a century styles for small ensemble settings. selected musicological problem. Open only Students will also analyze important works to junior and senior music majors and by Stravinsky, Bartok, Schoenberg, minors. Copland, and others. Prerequisite: Permission of department Prerequisite: Music 222 or permission of head Staff instructor Wilkins MUS 391, 392 Independent Study MUS 325 Composition Seminar Individual projects in musicology, theory, or This course is designed for advanced and composition, with emphasis on the highly motivated music theory students bibliographical and analytical tools of music interested in writing music for ensembles or research or composition. Open to students individual instruments and voices. Students with a strong background in music. will compose works in genres largely of Prerequisite: Permission of department their own choosing and will organize and head Staff rehearse ensembles appropriate to their compositions, with musicians chosen 175

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MUS 491, 492 Senior Project Requirements Independent study of a selected problem in 17 courses in addition to the Common musicology, theory, or composition, with Course of Study including Biology 101, emphasis on the bibliographical and 256; Chemistry 121, 122, 221; analytical tools of music research, resulting Neuroscience 201, 401; Physics 111, 112 or in the completion of a project such as a 131, 133; Psychology 110, 120, 323. Five research paper or a series of original electives, at least two from each category: compositions. Open only to senior music Category A-Psychology 203, 225, 232, 234, majors. 255, 321, 322, 324, 325; Philosophy 250; Prerequisite: Permission of department Category B-Biology 212, 214, 241, 245, head 251, 261, 310, 312, 314; Chemistry 351. Staff Neuroscience 351 can count as either a category A or B elective. One semester of a MUS 495, 496 Senior Project neuroscience research course (391/392, Thesis/Honors independent study of a 491/492, 495/496) may be used as an selected problem in musicology, theory, or elective. A neuroscience research course composition, with emphasis on the does not count towards either category. bibliographical and analytical tools of music research, resulting in the completion of a For students considering graduate school in project such as a research paper or a series neuroscience or health professions school, a of original compositions. Open only to second semester of organic chemistry is senior music majors. Upon completion of recommended. Students interested in 496, the awarding of Departmental Honors pursuing graduate school in behavioral is determined by successful defense of the neuroscience are encouraged to take thesis. [496: W] Psychology 203 as one of their category A Prerequisite: Permission of department electives. head Staff Neuroscience majors may not minor in psychology and may not seek a second major (A.B. or B.S.) in either biology or NEUROSCIENCE psychology.

Faculty Neuroscience Courses Associate Professor Reynolds (Biology), NEUR 201 Introduction to Neuroscience Chair; Professors Hill (Psychology), This course introducs students to the Assistant Professors Gabel; (Psychology), interdisciplinary field of neuroscience using Dearworth (Biology) a problem-based approach. The structure Why do nerve cells die when you develop and function of the brain are explored at Alzheimer’s disease? Does your brain molecular, cellular, and systems levels. change after you become dependent on Students become familiar with approaches heroin? Answers to these questions as well used by neuroscientists as well as the as many others is the goal of neuroscience, connections between neuroscience and other one of the hottest fields of study today. This disciplinary fields. Staff interdisciplinary field explores the development, structure, and behavioral consequences of the nervous system. NEUR 351 Neurophysiology This laboratory course builds on The bachelor of science program, directed information covered in the prerequisites jointly by the psychology and biology concerning the excitability of neurons. The departments, helps students understand electrophysiology of neurons and neuronal nervous systems from a variety of scientific interactions are examined using electrical perspectives. Hands-on learning recording techniques. Laboratory exercises opportunities are emphasized through provide hands-on experience with the laboratory courses and student-directed properties of nerve function under a variety research experiences. Although not of circumstances. [W] required, students are encouraged to pursue Prerequisite: Psychology 323 or Biology independent study, advanced research, or 256 honors. Britton

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NEUR 391, 392 Independent Study language and the exercise of careful An opportunity for students to pursue a judgment and judicious evaluation in topic of choice. Each student examines the thinking. Students are encouraged to topic, using primary and secondary sources, broaden their study with special topic discusses the topic with their faculty courses. Recent courses have included the mentor, and writes a paper of distinguished aesthestics of films, death, and feminist quality. The study may be designed for one philosophy. Individualized tutorials are or two semesters. [W] available for selected students who wish to Prerequisite: Permission of program chair study a specific philosophical problem or Staff philosopher in depth.

NEUR 401 Advanced Neuroscience Majors are encouraged to consider course This capstone course builds upon work in several related disciplines to give information covered in the prerequisites. them a broad background in the humanities, Through seminar and laboratory, students the sciences, or both. explore in greater depth the development, organization, and functioning of the nervous Requirements for the Major system. Particular attention is paid to Ten courses in Philosophy including 101, discussion of current research findings and 102 or 105, 110, 112, at least three 200- to learning advanced laboratory techniques level courses and one of the following: 310, used by neuroscientists. Offered in spring 320, 322, a 300-level seminar, 390, or semester. [W] honors. Majors who plan to undertake Prerequisite: Biology 256 and Psychology graduate work in philosophy are strongly 323, or permission of instructor advised to take 150 and 320. Staff

Students wishing to major in philosophy and NEUR 491, 492 Advanced Research another subject should discuss with their An opportunity for students to conduct an advisers the possibility of courses in other in-depth research project in the an area of choice under the supervision of a faculty departments or programs counting toward mentor. The research can be designed for both majors. one or two semesters and should culminate in a paper of distinguished quality. [W] Requirements for the Minor Prerequisite: Permission of program chair At least six courses from among the Staff offerings of the department, no more than

four of which may be 100-level courses. NEUR 495, 496 Thesis The department strongly recommends that Open to qualified majors by permission of students pursuing a minor in philosophy program chair. [W] take a course in logic and a course in the Staff history of philosophy. Students with an

interest in the minor should consult with a member of the department. PHILOSOPHY Philosophy Courses Faculty Professor Panichas, Head; Associate PHIL 101 Introduction to Philosophy Professor McLeod; Assistant Professors An introduction to the methods of Shieber and Yoo. philosophy including logical analysis and traditional philosophical problems such as The study of philosophy helps students to the nature and extent of knowledge, the think critically, to understand and enjoy the dilemma of freedom and determinism, the literature of philosophy, and to make justification of the belief in god, personal reasonable decisions relevant to the identity, and the mind-body problem. problems of contemporary life. Offered: Fall and spring semesters Staff Courses include logic, philosophy of science, ethics, social and political PHIL 102 Basic Social Questions philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy An examination of conceptual and moral of art, and existentialism. All of the courses questions associated with selected emphasize the precise, logical use of contemporary social issues. Following 177

PHILOSOPHY topics are studied: the morality of abortion, PHIL 130 Philosophy of Art the justification of reverse discrimination, A historical and critical examination the permissibility of homosexuality and concerning the nature of works of art (e.g., prostitution. paintings, music, and poetry), the creation Offered: Each semester of art, and the evaluation of art. Panichas Prerequisite: No prerequisites

Panichas PHIL 105 Ethics An introductory survey of some of the PHIL 150 Logic major topics in moral philosophy, including An investigation of the properties of logical the possibility and nature of an objective systems, including completeness, morality, moral knowledge, the relationship compactness, computability, and between morality and self-interest, morality decidability. and God, and various theories of the nature Offered: Fall semester of right and wrong action. The focus is on Shieber theoretical rather than applied moral questions. Readings from classical and PHIL 204 Metaphysics contemporary sources. A detailed examination of substance, McLeod universals, mind-body, personal identity,

freedom of the will, causality, space, and PHIL 110 The First Philosophers time. Contemporary and traditional An introduction to the genesis and growth solutions are presented. of Western philosophy, the trial and death of Prerequisite: Philosophy 101 or permission Socrates, the philosophical systems of Plato of instructor and Aristotle, and the post-Aristotelian Staff schools of Epicureanism and Stoicism. Prerequisite: No prerequisites PHIL 206 Theories of Knowledge Offered: Fall semester A detailed examination of the concept of McLeod knowledge, nature of beliefs, justification of

beliefs, relationship between knowledge and PHIL 112 Modern Philosophy beliefs, truth, perception. A critical survey of European philosophy Prerequisite: Philosophy 101 or permission from 1600 to 1800, a period during which of instructor enormously influential contributions were Staff made to the philosophical study of knowledge, reality, and the nature and limits PHIL 210 Political Philosophy of philosophy itself. Philosophers to be A critical examination of the traditional studied include Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, theories of liberty, equality, justice, and the Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant. social good found in Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Prerequisite: No prerequisites and Marx. Offered: Spring semester Prerequisite: Philosophy 101, or 102, or McLeod 105, or permission of instructor

Offered: Alternate years PHIL 113 Existentialism Panichas The philosophies of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and others. PHIL 212 Philosophy of Science Prerequisite: No prerequisites The course covers theories of scientific Staff method, the nature of scientific explanation,

and the evaluation of scientific theories. PHIL 120 Business Ethics Prerequisite: Philosophy 101 or permission An introduction to the application of ethical of instructor reasoning in business, this course includes a Offered: Alternate years critical review of classical ethical theories Staff and their application to truth in advertising, product liability, affirmative action, PHIL 215 Feminist Philosophy employer and employee rights and duties, Recent developments in feminist philosophy whistle blowing, corporate responsibility, and their application to contemporary social and others. issues. Topics include motherhood, Prerequisite: No prerequisites prostitution, pornography, heterosexuality, McLeod lesbianism, and ecological feminism.

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Prerequisite: No prerequisites relationship between language and reality? Staff Theories about these issues will be applied to ethics and philosophy of mind. PHIL 217 Contemporary Philosophy Prerequisite: Philosophy 101 or An investigation of Logical Positivism, Philosophy 103 or permission of instructor Analytical Philosophy, and Pragmatism. Staff Readings in Russell, Wittgenstein, Ayer, Whitehead, Peirce, Dewey, and others. PHIL 320 Philosophical Analysis Prerequisite: Philosophy 103 or permission Advanced training in critical analytical of instructor reading and writing using current Staff philosophical writings. [W] Prerequisite: Philosophy 103 or permission PHIL 226 Philosophy of Literature of instructor An examination of fundamental Offered: Alternate years philosophical questions on literature as an Staff art form: its nature, interpretation, and evaluation. Topics may include: the PHIL 321 Advanced Logic ontological status of works of literature; the An investigation of the properties of logical role of intentionality in literary meaning; the systems and the foundations of deductive nature of metaphor; the readers&146#; logic. emotional engagement with characters; the Prerequisite: Philosophy 103 or permission role of literature in moral and emotional of instructor development; the relationships between the Offered: Alternate years sorts of values literature may have Staff (aesthetic, moral, cognitive, etc.). Prerequisite: One course in philosophy or PHIL 322 Philosophy of Law permission of instructor An examination of conceptual and Staff normative issues related to law and the legal system. The nature of law and of the legal PHIL 235 Philosophy of Film systems, liberty and the limits of law, An examination of philosophical questions causation in the law, responsibility, strict on the nature, interpretation, and evaluation liability, and punishment are studied. [W] of film. Topics may include: the distinctive Prerequisite: Philosophy 102, 105, or nature of the moving image compared to permission of instructor other forms of representation; the issue of Offered: Alternate years whether film is an art form; film authorship; Panichas the essence of film narrative; the role of the imagination in understanding and PHIL 350-362 Advanced Topics in appreciating film; identification and Philosophy emotional engagement with characters; film Seminar on a topic of interest to the and morality; film and knowledge. members of the department. Topics include: Prerequisite: One course in philosophy or history of philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, permission of instructor epistemology, political philosophy, Staff philosophy of mind, and philosophy of law.

Prerequisite: Determined at time of PHIL 250 Philosophy of Mind offering A general introduction to the philosophy of Staff mind, addressing four key philosophical issues: the nature of psychological PHIL 390 Independent Study explanation, the mind-body problem, the Individual projects with advice from a possibility of artificial intelligence, and the faculty member resulting in a paper of nature of persons. substantial substance and content. [W] Prerequisite: One course in philosophy or Prerequisite: Permission of department psychology head Staff Staff

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PHYSICS not continuing to 496 from 495 may petition Physics including (131, 132, 133) or (151, to change 495 to 390. [W] 152), 215, 216, 218, 327, 335, 338, 342, Prerequisite: Permission of department 351, and electives; and other courses needed head to meet the Common Course of Study. Staff

Astronomy concentration within the Physics PHYSICS major The A.B. Physics degree with an Astronomy Faculty concentration consists of ten Physics courses including Physics 104 & 308 or Professor Hoffman, Head; Professor Physics 108 & 304; Physics (131, 132, 133) Novaco; Associate Professors Antanaitis, or (151, 152), 215, 216, 218; Dougherty; Assistant Professors Kortyna, recommendations for the two remaining Stark electives include Physics 327, 335, 342, & Physics is the study and analysis of physical 442, but should be chosen in consultation systems with the view of uncovering the with your adviser; Mathematics 161, 162, basic principles that govern the behavior of 263, 264; two courses in Biology, these systems. This involves a method of Chemistry, or Geology from an approved analysis by which complex physical list; and the A.B. Common Course of Study. problems are broken down into sets of The B.S. Physics degree with an Astronomy relatively simple processes that are easier to concentration consists of 13 Physics courses understand. Those systems to which physics including Physics (131, 132, 133) or (151, is applied vary from the macroscopic 152), 215, 216, 218, 304, 308, 327, 335, structure of the universe to the microscopic 338, 342, 351; Mathematics 161, 162, 263, structure of matter. The same fundamental 264 & one Mathematics elective; two methodology may be used to study the courses in Biology, Chemistry, or Geology structure of crystals and the density of from an approved list; and the B.S. liquids at high pressure, create numerical Common Course of Study. simulations of clusters of galaxies, or examine the relationship between structure and function of metal-bearing proteins and In special circumstances, students who have enzymes. For this reason, physicists can be taken advanced electrical and computer found working in many different engineering or mechanical engineering professions. courses in electromagnetic theory, electronics, dynamics, or thermodynamics Courses are about equally divided between macroscopic and microscopic physics. may waive certain of these required courses Students may also develop an with approval of the head of the physics interdisciplinary program in such areas as department and the Academic Progress material science, biophysics, or geophysics. Committee. Opportunities are provided for research on campus and at national facilities such as Advanced courses from other science or Arecibo Observatory. engineering departments may be substituted for physics elective courses and up to two Requirements for the Major required physics courses with the approval The A.B. degree requires four courses in of the head of the physics department and Mathematics (161, 162, 263, 264); ten the Academic Progress Committee, when physics courses, nine with numbers greater doing so will produce a coherent program of than 110, including (131, 132, 133) or (151, physics applied to an interdisciplinary field 152), 215, 216, 218; two courses in Biology, such as material science, biophysics, Chemistry, or Geology from an approved geophysics, etc. list; and other courses needed to meet the Common Course of Study Requirements for the Minor The B.S. degree requires five courses in Six courses, including two from the set Mathematics (including 161, 162, 263, 264); Physics (131, 132, 133, 151, 152), 215, and three other courses approved by the two courses in Chemistry, Biology, or department. Geology from a selected list; 13 courses in

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Courses that meet the A.B. lab science PHYS 112 General Physics—Electricity, requirement: 104, 106, 108, 111, 112, 131, Magnetism, and Optics 132, 133, 151, 152. Electric and magnetic fields;

electromagnetic induction; electric circuits; Physics Courses geometrical and physical optics; Einstein’s special theory of relativity; foundations of PHYS 104 Astronomy: The Solar System quantum mechanics; and nuclear physics. An introduction to the study of the Sun and Physical ideas are stressed, but considerable its contingent of planets, moons, comets, emphasis is placed on problem solving. and asteroids. Up-to-date details of the Prerequisite: Physics 111, Mathematics orbits, surfaces, atmospheres, and interior 125 or 161 structures as deduced from telescopic and Offered: Spring semester spacecraft data are discussed. The Antanaitis elementary physics of gravity, orbits, and distance measurement leads to a limited PHYS 131 Physics I: Mechanics amount of problem solving. Six biweekly A rigorous introduction to the study of laboratory sessions and at least three physics for science and engineering majors; nighttime observing sessions with a foundation on which an understanding of telescopes. Requires only high school physics, physical chemistry, or engineering algebra and trigonometry. can be built. Kinematics and dynamics with Offered: Fall semester emphasis on conservation laws for linear Stark momentum, angular momentum, and energy. A calculus-based course satisfying PHYS 106 Physics of Music degree requirements in all B.S. or A.B. A study of the physics of musical sound and degree programs. Not open to students with musical instruments: wave motion and credit for Physics 151. sound, sound synthesis, room acoustics, Corequisite: Mathematics 161 woodwinds, brasses, strings, piano, Staff percussion, and the human voice. Open to all students but specifically intended for PHYS 132 Physics IIA: Electricity and those who have not previously studied Magnetism physics. Lecture/laboratory. A rigorous introduction to the study of Offered: Spring semester, odd years physics for science and engineering majors; Hoffman a foundation on which an understanding of physics, physical chemistry, or engineering PHYS 108 Astronomy: Stars, Galaxies and can be built. Electrostatics, electric currents, the Big Bang magnetostatics, induction, electromagnetic A study of the nature and evolution of stars, oscillations and waves. A calculus-based galaxies, and the universe as a whole. course satisfying degree requirements in all Confrontation of theory with observational B.S. or A.B. degree programs. Not open to data from many telescopes and spacecraft is students with credit for Physics 152. stressed throughout. Open to all but Prerequisite: Mathematics161, Physics specifically intended for those who have not 131 previously studied physics. Requires only Corequisite: Mathematics 162 high school algebra and trigonometry. One Staff or more evening telescope observing sessions. PHYS 133 Physics IIB: Thermodynamics Hoffman and Waves A rigorous introduction to the study of PHYS 111 General Physics—Mechanics physics for science and engineering majors; and Thermodynamics a foundation on which an understanding of Classical mechanics of particles and rigid physics, physical chemistry, or engineering bodies; laws of thermodynamics with can be built. Thermodynamics, oscillatory emphasis on microscopic foundation; motion, wave propagation, ray optics, oscillations and waves. Physical ideas are interference and diffraction. A calculus- stressed, but considerable emphasis is based course satisfying degree requirements placed on problem solving. in all B.S. or A.B. degree programs. Not Corequisite: Mathematics 125 or 161 open to students with credit for Physics 152. Offered: Fall semester Prerequisite: Physics 131, Mathematics Antanaitis 161 181

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Corequisite: Mathematics 162 theory of relativity to several areas of Staff contemporary physics. Topics include quantum statistics, molecular spectra, lasers, PHYS 151 Accelerated Physics I: introductory solid state physics, models of Mechanics and Thermodynamics nuclear structure, radioactivity, nuclear An accelerated calculus-based introduction reactions, elementary particles, and grand to the foundations of classical mechanics unification of the fundamental forces. and thermodynamics, intended for students Prerequisite: Physics 215 majoring in science or engineering; a Offered: Spring semester foundation on which an understanding of Hoffman physics, physical chemistry, or engineering can be built. Topics include dynamics; PHYS 218 Oscillatory and Wave conservation laws for linear momentum, Phenomena angular momentum, and energy; mechanical A continuation of the study of oscillations oscillations and waves; and and waves with emphasis on experimental thermodynamics. A course satisfying degree work and theoretical methods in physics. requirements in all B.S. or A.B. degree Phenomena studied include vibration of programs. Not open to students with credit mechanical systems, oscillations in for Physics 131. electrical circuits, the general behavior of Prerequisite: AP credit (or equivalent) for damped oscillations and resonance, normal Physics 111 or permission of instructor mode analysis, standing wave phenomena, Corequisite: Math 162 wave propagation, optics, and other such Staff physical phenomena found in nature. Students are introduced to the theoretical PHYS 152 Accelerated Physics II: techniques used to analyze these phenomena Electricity, Magnetism, and Optics as needed. Lecture/laboratory. An accelerated calculus-based introduction Prerequisite: Physics 132 or 133 or 152 to the study of physics for science and Corequisite: Mathematics 264 engineering majors; a foundation on which Offered: Spring semester an understanding of physics, physical Kortyna chemistry, or engineering can be built. Topics include electrostatics, electric PHYS 220 Medical and Biological Physics currents, magnetostatics, induction, Demonstrates how the principles, tools, and electromagnetic waves, ray optics, strategies of physicists can be applied to interference and diffraction. A course problems that have biological, medical, or satisfying degree requirements in all B.S. or ecological import. Methods taught are A.B. degree programs. Not open to students applied to a broad range of interdisciplinary with credit for Physics 132 or 133. problems from biomechanics to nerve Prerequisite: Physics 151 or permission of impulse propagation to the latest imaging instructor techniques, including three dimensional Corequisite: Math 163 ultrasonic imaging and magnetic resonance Staff imaging. The course is aimed at students nearing a decision on a career direction who PHYS 215 Introduction to Quantum Physics are curious about what areas of research are Elements of special relativity and quantum open to them, or to those who simply wish mechanics needed as foundations for to broaden their biophysical or biomedical atomic, nuclear, solid state and elementary outlook. [W] particle physics, relativistic postulates, Prerequisite: Physics 112, 132, 133 or 152 kinematics and dynamics; wave-particle Offered: Spring semester, alternate years duality, photons, Schroedinger wave Antanaitis mechanics, hydrogen atom, multielectron atoms, and the quantum approach to angular PHYS 304 Observational Astronomy momentum. A study of the methods used for making Prerequisite: Physics 132, 133, or 152 astronomical observations and analyzing the Offered: Fall semester data these observations produce. The course Dougherty examines what can be learned about stars, planets, galaxies, and the Universe through PHYS 216 Topics in Contemporary Physics these observations. Topics include radio, An application of the concepts of quantum infrared, optical, ultraviolet, X-ray, and physics introduced in Physics 215 and the gamma-ray astronomy and observations of 182

PHYSICS neutrinos, cosmic rays, and gravitational Statistical thermodynamics is used primarily waves. Students complete an independent to study the equilibrium properties of ideal observing or data analysis project. The systems and simple models. This course course parallels Physics 104 but focuses on provides the background needed to observing methods. understand materials from a microscopic Prerequisite: Physics 216. point of view. Offered: Fall semester, concurrent with Prerequisite: Physics 215; Mathematics Physics 104 263 Stark Offered: Fall semester, alternate years Antanaitis PHYS 306 Acoustics An introduction to the acoustics of musical PHYS 338 Advanced Physics Laboratory instruments for students with some Design of experiments, statistical analysis of background in physics. Spectral analysis observations, report writing, fundamental and synthesis; waves on strings, experiments in atomic, nuclear, and membranes, and bars; waves in fluid media; condensed matter physics. Also experiments acoustical coupling; sound radiation; selected from electron spin resonance, acoustics of instrumental families. The nuclear magnetic resonance, properties of course parallels Physics 106 but is more liquids at high pressures, properties of technical in scope and may be counted matter at low temperatures. Computer toward the B.S. degree requirements. interfacing with instruments for online data Prerequisite: Physics 218 collection and analysis. May involve Offered: Spring semester alternate years, independent investigation if appropriate.[W] concurrent with Physics 106 Prerequisite: Physics 216, 218 Hoffman Offered: Spring semester, alternate years Kortyna PHYS 308 Astrophysics An introduction to astronomy and PHYS 342 Electromagnetic Fields astrophysics for students with some Electric fields due to static charges, background in physics. Stellar structure and magnetic fields due to steady currents, fields evolution; galactic structure and evolution; in matter, Laws of Coulomb, Gauss, Biot- physical processes in the early universe; Savart, Ampere, Faraday; scalar and vector radioastronomy. The course parallels potentials; solutions of Laplace’s and Physics 108 but is more technical in scope Poisson’s equations. Mathematical emphasis and may be counted toward the B.S. degree is on the solutions to boundary value requirements. problems. Prerequisite: Physics 216 Prerequisite: Physics 132, 218; Offered: Spring semester alternate years, Mathematics 264 concurrent with Physics 108 Offered: Fall semester, alternate years Hoffman Antanaitis

PHYS 327 Advanced Classical Mechanics PHYS 351 Quantum Theory A rigorous development of nonrelativistic The failure of classical physics, the basic mechanics: nonlinear oscillations; central- concepts of quantum mechanics, force motion, celestial mechanics, and the Schrodinger’s equation, one dimensional N-body problem; Lagrangian and systems including barriers and the harmonic Hamiltonian formulations; rotation and rigid oscillator, Hermitian operators, angular body motion; collisions and scattering. momentum, the hydrogen atom, Prerequisite: Physics 218; Mathematics perturbation theory, and interpretations of 264 quantum mechanics. Offered: Spring semester Prerequisite: Physics 215, 218; Novaco Mathematics 264 Offered: Fall semester PHYS 335 Thermal Physics Kortyna The fundamental concepts of heat, temperature, work, internal energy, entropy, PHYS 352 Special Topics reversible and irreversible processes, Investigation of special topics under thermodynamic potentials, etc., are supervision of a faculty adviser. The most considered from a modern microscopic as recent offering was Topics in Astrophysics. well as traditional macroscopic viewpoint. Staff

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PHYS 391 Individual Study POLICY STUDIES Juniors and seniors may investigate a research topic in physics under the supervision of a faculty member. The Faculty project culminates in an extensive report. M. Crain (Economics and Business), chair, Departmental permission is required for Averett (Economics and Business), Barclay enrollment. See individual faculty members (History), Bukics (Economics and Business), about topics of interest. Recent individual N. Crain (Economics and Business), Duhl study topics include: optics, biophysics, (Foreign Languages and Literature), general relativity, astronomical image Fabian (Government and Law), Germanoski analysis, and radioastronomy. (Geology & Environmental Geosciences), Staff Jemison (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Jones (Civil and PHYS 424 Solid State Physics Environmental Engineering), Kincaid The fundamental aspects of solid state (Government and Law), Kissane phenomena and the basic quantum physics (Anthropology and Sociology ), Lammers needed to understand these phenomena. (Religious Studies), Shulman (Anthropology Topics include the basic principles of and Sociology), Silverstein (Government quantization and matter waves; Fermi and Law), Traldi (Mathematics), and statistics; crystal structures; diffraction Vinchur (Psychology). phenomena in crystals; conduction electrons in metals; the concept of conduction by The Policy Studies major gives students the holes; and the basic physics of electrons and skills and institutional knowledge necessary holes in both homogeneous and doped for understanding policy processes, and semiconductors. provides a multidisciplinary course of study in the design, management, and evaluation Prerequisite: Physics 335, 351 Offered: Spring semester, alternate years of policies and institutions. Faculty affiliates Novaco represent all divisions of the college, and the program encourages students to combine PHYS 442 Electromagnetic Waves coursework in engineering, the natural Maxwell’s equations, wave equations for sciences, humanities, and the social dielectrics and conductors. Reflection, sciences. refraction, interference, diffraction, guided An integral part of the major is faculty- waves, radiation. student collaboration on applied, real-world Prerequisite: Physics 342 problems to address the political, technical, Offered: Spring semester, alternate years and economic factors relevant to a solution. Hoffman Students work with an adviser to structure

elective courses that relate to a theme of PHYS 451 Applications of Quantum Theory concentration and to develop research Additional topics in quantum mechanics, opportunities, internships, and, for qualified depending upon student interests. Possible students, an honors thesis. Themes of topics include addition of angular momenta, concentration include: applications of perturbation theory, scattering theory, and relativistic quantum Arts and Media Policy: including not-for- mechanics. profit organizations, ethics, government’s Prerequisite: Physics 351 role in promoting and protecting culture, Offered: Spring semester, alternate years censorship, the licensing and regulation of Staff the information sector, and privacy;

Economic Policy and Homeland Security: PHYS 495, 496 Thesis including fiscal, monetary and regulatory Independent study of a topic chosen for policy, workplace safety, product liability, participation in the honors program, national defense, homeland security, natural culminating in the presentation of a disasters, emergency management, and complete written report. Students should see privacy; individual faculty members whose research interests are most closely aligned to their Science Policy: including intellectual and own. [W] physical property rights, ethics, technology Staff transfer, space, biomedical, and

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Social Policy: including health care, PSTD 300 Industry, Strategy, and Policy education, poverty, family and children, This course serially examines specific consumer protection and safety, public industries using the tools of industrial retirement and welfare programs, criminal organization, macro and microeconomics, justice, housing and urban planning, human and public policy to focus on critical aspects reproductive rights, civil rights, and human of the industrial sector. During the semester rights. students evaluate the current composition, organization, and status of selected The major is useful as preparation for industries; understand the complex issues employment in business, government involved within an industrial group; and agencies, or NGOs; as a foundation for analyze the American and international postgraduate professional schools in public environment within which the selected policy, law, and business; and as preparation industries operate. These goals are for graduate study in the social sciences. accomplished through team reports and presentations and guest commentators. Requirements Staff Majors are required to take 14 courses including Economics & Business 101, 211, PSTD 400 Policy Internship and Seminar 213; one from Government & Law 101, The internship in Policy Studies is tailored 102, or 103; History 105; Mathematics 141 to a student's theme of concentration and or 161, 186; Policy Studies 251, 300, 400; typically will take place at the sponsor's site. and four electives selected from an Under particular circumstances the approved list and relating to one of the internship might be completed on campus or following four themes: Arts and Media at another location releveant to the project, Policy, Economic Policy and Homeland such as a national capital. Following the Security, Science Policy, Social Policy; and internship, students participate in a seminar the A.B. Common Course of Study. to build on the lessons of the internship experience and to prepare a report. This A policy-oriented internship approved by seminar and written report must be the Policy Studies program chair is required. completed by the end of the semester after The internship should be tailored to a the internship to receive credit. student’s theme of concentration and Prerequisite: One of Government 101, typically will take place at the sponsor’s 102, or 103; History 105; Policy Studies site. Under particular circumstances the 251 or 300 internship might be completed on campus or Staff at another location relevant to the project, such as a national capital. Following the PSTD 495/496 Honors Thesis internship, students participate in a seminar Students desiring to take honors should (Policy Studies 400) to build on the lessons inform the program chair by the beginning of the internship experience and to prepare a of the first semester of the senior year. report. This seminar and written report must Honors work involves a guided program of be completed by the end of the semester independent reading and research after the internship to receive credit. culminating in a thesis on a topic to be selected by the student in consultation with Policy Studies Courses his or her adviser and approved by the PSTD 251 Introduction to Policy Studies program chair. All honors projects must be This course introduces students to the conducted in accordance with the governance of science and engineering. established written guidelines. Honors Course topics include the overall context for candidates enroll in 496 only upon science and engineering policy, the public successfully completing Policy Studies 400. policy process and institutions involved in Prerequisite: Policy Studies 400 and that process, and several current science and approval of Policy Studies Program Chair Staff engineering public policy issues. The course includes a combination of role-playing exercises, debates, and field trips, as well as SYCHOLOGY traditional lectures. P Staff Faculty Associate Professor Shaw, Acting Head; Professors Basow, Childs, W. Hill, 185

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McGillicuddy-DeLisi; Associate Professors Requirements for the Minor Allan, Bookwala,Vinchur; Assistant Six courses in psychology to be selected in Professors Gabel, Pinto, Talarico; Lab consultation with a psychology faculty Coordinator Buckley member. These courses must include: Psychology is the scientific study of Psychology 110, 120, and 203. behavior and of underlying mental and physiological processes. Courses are offered Seven Subdivisions in a variety of areas, such as learning, Biological (225, 323, 324, 423), Clinical perception, clinical, developmental, social, (231, 232, 337), Cognitive/Learning (236, cognitive, and industrial/organizational. 242, 255, 321, 322, 325), Developmental (233, 234, 338), Industrial/ Organizational The department’s scientific orientation can (326, 335, 336), Methods (304, 339, 340), be seen in the courses required of all majors and Social (235, 240, 248, 327). and minors and in the orientation of the required core courses. Students begin with a Psychology Courses survey of the field and of the basic research techniques used by psychologists. PSYC 110 Introduction to Psychological As students progress, they study statistical Science analyses of data and more advanced Psychology is the scientific study of research designs. Majors are encouraged to behavior and of underlying mental and develop breadth by studying a variety of physiological processes. Students are content areas and to develop depth through introduced to the goals of psychological advanced-level courses. science, the nature of scientific thinking, and the scientific methods psychologists use Requirements for the Major to study, explain, and predict animal and For the A.B. degree, 10 courses including human behavior. A variety of content areas Psychology 110, 120, and 203, plus two are discussed. Students apply their other laboratory courses from the set 304- knowledge in weekly laboratory activities 327, one course from the set 335-496, and with animals and human participants, using four other courses. All courses from 225 and various scientific methods. above are to be distributed among at least Offered: Every semester Staff four of the seven major subdivisions of psychology to achieve a broad foundation in the major. It is recommended that A.B. PSYC 120 Quantitative Methods in students consider taking Psychology 304; Psychology 391, 392; 491, 492; or 495, 496. An introduction to basic research design, measurement, and the use of descriptive and For the B.S. degree, Mathematics 125 or inferential statistics in psychological 161; five courses in natural sciences outside research. Topics include correlation, the department to be selected on the basis of regression, reliability, validity, hypothesis concentration interest (Biology, Chemistry, testing, nonparametric techniques, and Computer Science, Geology, Mathematics inferential statistics such as t-tests and 200 or above, or Physics); three courses in analysis of variance. The Statistical Package the humanities and social sciences; and 12 for the Social Sciences (SPSS) is presented courses in psychology including 110, 120, and utilized in a computer component of the and 203, plus three other laboratory courses course. from the set 304-327, one upper level course Prerequisite: Psychology 110 from the set 335-496, and five other Offered: Every semester courses. All courses from 225 and above are Staff to be distributed among at least four of the seven major subdivisions of psychology to PSYC 203 Design and Analysis I achieve a broad foundation in the major. Introduces students to methods used to The seven subdivisions are shown below. It conduct empirical research in psychology. is strongly recommended that B.S. students Students learn how to design, conduct, consider taking Psychology 304; 491, 492; analyze, and report psychological or 495, 496. experiments that comprise the laboratory component. Students read professional journal articles of psychological research, developing skills in drawing critical

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PSYC 248 Psychology of Gender experimental work will cover research An examination of gender from a design issues, data analytic techniques, and psychological perspective including written presentation of experimental research on gender similarities and findings. Behavioral interpretations of differences and gender socialization. linguistic and cognitive approaches will also Emphasis is placed on the consequences of be discussed.. Lecture/laboratory. [W] gender stereotypes and roles for the Prerequisite: Psychology 120 individual, relationships, and society as a Allan whole. Change strategies and goals are also discussed. PSYC 322 Perception Prerequisite: Psychology 110 or Perception comprises psychological and permission of instructor physiological processes underlying our Basow ability to get and use information about our environment. This course examines PSYC 255 Memory perceptual processing that transforms This course examines human memory sensation to cognition. We focus primarily processes. The human brain contains a on visual perception of color, depth, and system for classifying, storing, and motion, with attention also to audition, retrieving information that exceeds the touch, and pain. Lecture and laboratory capacity of the best computers in flexibility complement each other in the exploration of and speed. Yet the same system is often so phenomena and measurement unreliable that it cannot consistently methodologies. In laboratory work, students remember a seven-digit phone number long design and run experiments, analyze data, enough to dial it. How can memory be so and present findings of perception-based efficient in some regards and unreliable in studies. Lecture/laboratory. [W] others? This course considers psychological Prerequisite: Psychology 203 or research and theories that address this permission of instructor question. Pinto

Prerequisite: Psychology 110 or permission of instructor PSYC 323 Physiological Psychology Talarico The neural, hormonal, and physiological bases of animal and human behavior are PSYC 304 Design and Analysis II examined. Physiological aspects of such This course focuses on theory and topics as language, learning and memory, application in the areas of measurement, feeding, sexual behavior, emotions, sleep, research design, and statistical analysis and and neurological disorders are covered. In interpretation. Topics include coverage of the laboratory, students will conduct selected multivariate techniques (e.g., discovery-oriented research utilizing a multiple regression, discriminant analysis, variety of techniques employed by factor analysis), measurement theory, and physiological psychologists and meta- analytic techniques. Emphasis is on neuroscientists. Lecture/laboratory. developing the necessary skills for success Prerequisite: Psychology 110, 120 or as an independent researcher. Neuroscience 201 Lecture/laboratory. [W] Gabel

Prerequisite: Psychology 203 or permission of instructor PSYC 324 Comparative Psychology: Vinchur Animal Behavior Examines how evolution has shaped the PSYC 321 Learning behaviors of animals to be adaptive, Principles derived from learning primarily exploring the functional experiments represent one of the most significance of animal behavior. Topics powerful tools for understanding behavior. include animal communication, foraging, This course examines Pavlovian and operant antipredator strategies, sociality, mating relations involved in behavior change (in an systems, and parental care patterns. evolutionary context) and how these factors Laboratory involves naturalistic continue to be discovered in animal and observations and experimental research with human experimental work. Lectures set the a variety of animal species. stage for a series of experiments conducted Lecture/laboratory. [W] during laboratory sessions, and class Prerequisite: Psychology 120 discussions of additional readings and Staff

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PSYC 325 Cognitive Psychology decision theory, power, and organizational The study of how humans process (i.e., effectiveness, development, and theory. acquire, store, and use) information. Topics Prerequisite: Psychology 120 or include attention, perception, short- and Mathematics 176 or 186 or permission of long-term memory, mnemonics, imagery, instructor language, problem solving, reasoning, and Vinchur intelligence. Students design, conduct, and report original research studies on PSYC 337 Counseling Psychology fundamental cognitive phenomena in Examines some of the major theories of laboratory. Lecture/laboratory. [W] counseling, such as psychodynamic therapy, Prerequisite: Psychology 203 or cognitive behavior therapy, and client- permission of instructor centered therapy. Students are involved with Talarico both conceptual and practical aspects of each counseling approach. PSYC 327 Advanced Social Psychology Prerequisite: Psychology 231 or Examines how social psychologists conduct permission of instructor research. Students read and critique primary Basow sources on such topics as altruism and compliance. In the laboratory component, PSYC 339 Tests and Measurement students conduct research projects The emphasis in this course is on the illustrating various social psychological principles underlying psychological testing. methods. Lecture/ laboratory. [W] These princples are applied to tests in all Prerequisite: Psychology 203 and 235 or content areas in psychology (e.g., clinical, permission of instructor educational, neurological, industrial). Shaw, Childs Topics include the history of psychological tests, technical and methodological concerns PSYC 328 Advanced Developmental such as reliability and validity, and legal, Psychology social, and ethical issues. Prominent tests in Advanced course that focuses on either selected content areas of psychology are development during childhood, youth and/or examined. adulthood. This is a laboratory course that Prerequisite: Psychology 120 or focuses on current theoretical models, recent permission of instructor research, and assessment and anlytic Vinchur, McGillicuddy-DeLisi methods in relation to a range of course- relevant topics. Students conduct research PSYC 340 History and Systems of projects related to the topics under study in Psychology laboratory or field settings. [W] Provides a historical survey of psychology, Prerequisite: Psychology 203 and 233 or with an emphasis on the development of 234 or permission of instructor scientific psychology in the late 19th and Bookwala, McGillicuddy-DeLisi early 20th centuries. Among the topics explored are the origins of psychology in PSYC 335 Industrial Psychology philosophy and neurology, “schools” of An overview of industrial (personnel) psychology such as functionalism, Gestalt psychology. Topics include criterion psychology, and behaviorism, and the lives development, performance appraisal, and careers of psychology pioneers. [W] recruitment and selection, validation Prerequisite: Psychology 110, junior or research, selection bias, job analysis, senior standing, or permission of instructor training and development, compensation, Childs, Vinchur and personnel psychology and the law. Prerequisite: Psychology 120, or PSYC 342, 343 Advanced Applied Mathematics 176 or 186, or permission of Psychology instructor An experientially based course in which Vinchur students apply their knowledge from academic course work to a field setting and PSYC 336 Organizational Behavior explore research relevant to their field An overview of organizational psychology. activities. The internship site matches the Topics include motivation, leadership, student’s interest (e.g., human service group processes, organizational stress, job agency; personnel department, etc.). Field satisfaction, communication processes, supervision/seminar. [W]

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Prerequisite: Psychology major or minor, Students may choose from two tracks—1) junior or senior status, and permission of American Politics and Theory: emphasis on instructor religious study in the realm of American Staff politics and theory, 2) International: emphasis on religious study in the PSYC 351-360 Special Topics international arena. A seminar devoted to a subject of interest to students and faculty. Announcement of the Requirements for the Major proposed subject is made before the American Politics and Theory track: 15 registration period each semester. Open to courses including Government and Law psychology majors or by permission of 101, 104, 401-411 (one senior seminar) and instructor. four electives from the following: 207, 211, Staff 213, 215, 243, 244, 245, 310, 311, 313, 314, 320, 321, 341; Religious Studies 101, 102, PSYC 391, 392 Independent Study 222, 231, 240; one elective from the An opportunity for students to pursue a following: 201, 204, 221, 235, 236; one topic of choice with the guidance of a 300-level elective and one of the following: faculty member. Each student examines the Government and Law 495/496 or Religious topic using primary and secondary sources, Studies 495/496 or a joint thesis in and writes a paper of distinguished quality. Government and Law and Religious Studies The study may be designed for one or two or Government and Law 390 or 391 or semesters. [W] Religious Studies 390 or 391 (honors thesis Prerequisite: Psychology 203 and or independent study-capstone). permission of department head Thesis/Independent Study work must be Staff done under the direction of at least one faculty member in each department. PSYC 491, 492 Advanced Research International track: 15 courses including An opportunity for students to engage in an Government and Law 102, 103, 401-411 empirical study using advanced research (one senior seminar), and four electives techniques with the guidance of a faculty from the following: 221, 223, 224, 225, 227, member. Students undertake a research 229, 230, 234, , 239, 322, 329, 335, 336 project in an area of choice designed for one Religious Studies 101, 102, 222, 240; two or two semesters. The work should electives from the following: 206, 211, 212, culminate in a data-based paper of 213, 214, 215, 216, 221; one 300-level distinguished quality. [W] elective; and one of the following: Prerequisite: Psychology 203 and Government & Law 495/496 or Religious permission of department head Studies 495/496 or a joint thesis in Staff Government and Law and Religious Studies or Government and Law 390 or 391 or PSYC 495, 496 Thesis Religious Studies 390 or 391 (honors thesis Open to qualified majors by permission of or independent study-capstone). department head. [W] Thesis/Independent Study work must be Staff done under the direction of at least one faculty member in each department.

RELIGION AND POLITICS Religion and Politics Course Religion and Politics is a coordinate major NOTE: between the departments of government and law, and religious studies. The major For courses see individual sections on proceeds under two assumptions. First, Religious Studies and on Government and religious phenomena are a fundamental and Law often essential component of political analysis. Second, the political implications of religious beliefs, behavior, and RELIGIOUS STUDIES institutions are important to the study of religion. In brief, this major gives students Faculty greater insight into political dynamics and enhances their ability to assess the impact Associate Professor Rinehard, Head; that religious values have on politics. Professors Cohn, Lammers, Ziolkowski; Assistant Professor Sayeed 190

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Studying religion provides an understanding Coordinate Majors of the various cultures of the world and the History and Religious Studies, and Religion human condition in the twenty-first century. and Politics The major introduces students to world religions including Judaism, Christianity, Religious Studies Courses Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and traditional African religions. REL 101 Religions in World Cultures This course introduces students to the The approach in the courses is both academic study of religion through a systematic and historical, and the offerings consideration of Buddhism, touch on all key areas such as religious Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, traditions, religious ethics, sacred texts, and and traditional African religions. religion and literature. Current ideas and Different forms of religious experience contemporary manifestations of religion and belief are examined along with the appear in various courses. For example, the myths, rituals, concepts, and symbols "cult" controversy course includes that convey them. Various discussion of the Branch Davidians, and the methodologies and source materials are Islam and Hinduism courses study religious used. conflict in the Middle East and South Asia. Offered: Fall and spring semesters Staff Requirements for the Major Nine courses including Religious Studies REL 102 Contemporary Religious Issues 101, one course in Texts, one course in Questions confronting Western religious Society or American Religious Experience, traditions in the twentieth century including two courses in Traditions, Religious Studies the condition and stature of humans in the 240; one 300-level elective; and Religious world of technology, the conflict between Studies 490 (Senior Capstone). Students old and new moralities, the crisis of belief may choose to count toward the major one and disbelief, and being human in modern related course from another department society. (subject to department approval) and/or one Offered: Fall and spring semesters Independent Study (390). Lammers

Students wishing to take honors should REL 103 Religion, Myth, and Fantasy inform their advisers early in the second A study of the nature of fantasy and the fantastic and their relation to religion and semester of the junior year. They enroll in religious expression, in both West and East. Religious Studies 496, as a 10th course, Students examine various texts and tales, as after successfully completing Religious well as films, from a wide range of Studies 490/495. historical times and traditions, focusing on the modes through which they convey Requirements for the Minor different kinds of religious experience, Five courses from the Department's beliefs, and meanings. Themes include fate offerings, including 101 and at least three of the soul after death, conflict of good and courses above the 100-level. evil, and boundaries between the real and the unreal. Offered: Fall semester Religious Studies Course Areas Ziolkowski Introductory: 101, 102, 103, 104 Traditions: 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216 REL 104 Saints, Mystics, Ecstatics An introduction to the comparative and Oral and Written Texts: 201, 202, 203, historical study of religion through an 204, 205, 206, 207 examination of three often interrelated types of religious personality: saint, mystic, Society: 221, 222, 223, 224, 225 ecstatic. After considering classic and recent American Religious Experience: 231, studies of these three types from both 235, 236, 237 Western and Eastern perspectives, the course analyzes autobiographical, Theories of Religion: 240 biographical, hagiographic, iconographic, and cinematic portrayals of representative Advanced: 301 or above figures, focusing upon the expression of the 191

RELIGIOUS STUDIES figures’ defining experiences and followers’ the authors exploited to create their responses to the persons’ lives and distinctive artistry. experiences. Cohn Ziolkowski REL 206 Jewish Responses to the Holocaust REL 201 The Biblical Imagination: Torah, Investigation of reactions to the Holocaust Prophets, Writings in the context of reactions to and Introduction to the religion of ancient Israel; explanations for catastrophe in the history of examination of biblical perspectives on the Judaism. Study of Jewish literature that great questions through close reading of addresses the problem of suffering and of selected texts; appropriation and Holocaust writing that challenges traditional interpretation of the book as “scripture” by responses. Examination of modes of both Jewish and Christian communities. Holocaust memorialization and their role in Cohn contemporary Jewish life and thought. [W] Cohn REL 202 Christian Scriptures An introduction to early Christianity with REL 207 The Quran special attention to its Judaic context, the A study of the Quran that focuses on the life and teachings of Jesus, the letters of origin and compilation of the text, a Paul, the rise and expansion of the Christian sociocultural history of its interpretation, community. and its function in Muslim life. The course Lammers also examines the Quran as scripture and its major themes. REL 203 Religion and the Literary Sayeed

Imagination This course interprets the religious REL 211 Hinduism: Unities and Diversity meanings and implications of a selection of An introduction to the vast, complex twentieth-century novels. The focus is upon religious traditions of India known as the problematic relationship of the religious Hinduism, with readings from some classic protagonisst to society and God, or to some works of early Hinduism, such as the Vedas, other ultimate concern. Other themes Upanishads, and the Bhagavad Gita, and considered include the conflict of faith and Hinduism’s extensive oral and written doubt tensions between religious mythological tradition. Hindu worship and commitment and aesthetic yearnings, moral meditation are studied, as well as the and ethical responsibility in the religious foundations of the caste system. confrontation with evil, and religious Issues in contemporary Hinduism are also dilemmas arising from the encounter considered. Counts toward Asia Culture between different cultures and religions. Cluster and Asian Studies minor. Ziolkowski Rinehart

REL 204 India's Religious Texts: Sacred REL 212 Buddhism: From India to Asia and Word, Sacred Sound Beyond This course introduces the oral and written An introduction to the development of traditions of South Asian religions including Buddhism and its spread throughout Asia. Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Islam The course begins with the rise of with selections from a range of texts Buddhism in India and the development of including the Vedas; biographies of the Buddhist philosophy and religious practice. Buddha; Hindu, Sikh, and Islamic mystical It then examines Buddhism in China, Japan, and devotional poetry. The course examines Tibet, southeast Asia, and the West, the use of oral and written traditions in focusing on adaptations in Buddhist practice religious practice. and belief in different environments. Counts Rinehart toward Asia Culture Cluster and Asian Studies minor. REL 205 The Art of Biblical Narrative Rinehart

This course explores the power of biblical tales (from the Hebrew Bible [Old REL 213 Judaism: Faith, Communities, Testament]) to shape the religious Identity imagination of the West. Emphasizing close An introduction to the religion, history, and reading of selected biblical stories, the literature of the Jewish people. Among the course examines the forms and themes that areas covered are: the biblical heritage; the 192

RELIGIOUS STUDIES development of rabbinic Judaism; ritual and REL 222 Religion and Politics: Conflict and the holy life; and the reactions of Judaism to Cooperation modern developments such as political This course focuses on the interaction emancipation, the Holocaust, and the state between individuals and communities with of Israel; and contemporary Jewish religious commitments and the political problems. order within which they find themselves. Cohn Examples are drawn from different

societies; special attention is given to the REL 214 Christianity: From Jesus to the situation within the United States-its Third Millennium historical antecedents, particular history, A study of the main branches of and current problematic. Christianity—Eastern Orthodox, Roman Prerequisite: Previous course in religion Catholic, and Protestant—with reference to recommended but not required their common biblical inheritance, historical Lammers developments, characteristic doctrines, and institutional expressions. Readings are REL 223 Religious Perspectives on Modern assigned in authors representing the Medicine viewpoints studied. This course examines questions in Ziolkowski traditional medical ethics as well as modern

bioethics. The focus is on religious analyses REL 215 Islam: History, Faith, and Practice of these questions. Issues discussed include A study of the origin and growth of Islam as killing, letting die, experimentation, and the a religious, cultural, and political force in implications of the new genetics. the world. Beginning with the founding by Lammers the Prophet Muhammad in the early seventh century, the course presents a detailed REL 224 Religious Ethics explanation of the Qur’an, as well as the A study of the bases of normative claims core of beliefs and obligations. The course about behavior in various religious also explores the content and practical traditions. Materials from Christian, Jewish, application of the Sharia, Islam’s holy law; Buddhist, and other religious traditions are the differences between the Sunni and Shiite used. Topics include freedom, forms in their historical, theological, and responsibility, and destiny. sociopolitical perspectives; and Islam’s Lammers strength and influence in the contemporary world. REL 225 Women, Religion, and Society Sayeed This course examines the role of women in

the world's major religions. Topics include REL 216 Indigenous Religions of West ideas about gender from texts and oral Africa: Continuity and Change traditions, ideas regarding gender and A systematic study of the attitudes of mind spiritual capability, and the connection and belief, as well as practices, which have between religious notions of gender and evolved in the many societies of West larger social, political, and economic issues. Africa, showing the traditional religious The course also examines various feminist heritage as a profound reflection on the critiques of religion and reform movements human condition. The course examines the within religious traditions. meaning, structure, and sources of West Rinehart African traditional religion. Staff REL 226 China and Christianity

This course presents a survey of the REL 221 Religion in Society introduction and evolvement of Christianity A historical and critical study of the way in in China from the 7th century to the present which particular religions relate to other day. The survey will be viewed through a structures in their cultural environments. many-sided prism of intellectual, Examples are given from different religious institutional, ethical, spiritual, and political communities at different time periods. life of Christianity and its integration into Lammers Chinese culture. The course will put

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Staff to that community, including critique of the culture of the United States. REL 231 Religions in American History and Staff Culture A survey of the histories of religious REL 240 Theories of Religion communities, faiths, and practices in North What is religion? What is the nature of America, particularly the United States, religious belief? What roles does religion from the colonial period to the present. The play in society? How can we study and religious histories of Native Americans and understand religion? There have been many of peoples of Europe, Africa, and Asia who attempts to answer these questions from later arrived, are all considered. Emphasis is sociology, anthropology, philosophy, on issues raised by the repulsion and psychology, comparative religion, and the attraction, conflicts and blending, of belief feminist critique of religion. This course systems (including Sioux, Roman Catholic, examines representative theories of the Protestant, Jewish, Muslim, African nature and study of religion, paying close American, Mormon, and Buddhist). attention to the contexts within which these Ziolkowski theories arise, and how effective they are in understanding religious beliefs and REL 235 The "Cult" Controversy in the practices.[W] United States Offered: Every other year This course examines some of the Staff alternative movements that have arisen in the United States, from nineteenth-century REL 301 Philosophies of Religion Spiritualism to the New Age movement in An examination of central problems and the 1990s. Focus is on the contexts in which current issues in the philosophy of religion these movements arise, reasons people are as treated in classic texts of the field: attracted to them, and the effect on definitions of religion; 'proofs' of God's American religious experience overall. existence; the nature of religious experience, Movements include: Christian Science, faith, revelation, and miracle; the problem Nation of Islam, International Society for of evil; human destiny; religious naturalism; Krishna Consciousness (“Hare Krishnas”), religious language; atheism and unbelief; and David Koresh and the Branch religious pluralism; religion and gender. We Davidians. One field trip. [W] discuss these subjects from a rational, Rinehart critical, objective perspective, taking account of the historical-cultural contexts of REL 236 African Diasporic Religions in the the authors. Ziolkowski Americas This course is a study of the African religious heritage brought to the Americas REL 304 Islam in the West by African people who held a different This course examines the history of Islam in world view. Eventually, as a result of their the West, with a focus on the United States. experiences in the new environment, the Among the topics covered are Islam in Africans created a coherent faith that African-American communities; Muslim preserved and revitalized the basic aspects immigration from Africa and Asia to the of African spirituality although blended U.S.; and the political, social, and religious with Christianity. Historical developments acculturation of Muslims in the West. The as well as issues of syncretism and cultural course also surveys the history of Islam in camouflage are discussed. Europe in its post-colonial contexts. Sayeed Staff

REL 237 Contemporary Catholic Issues in REL 351-360 Special Topics the United States These courses study subjects of current An exploration of Catholicism as it has interest to students and members of the developed within the particular culture of staff. Staff the United States and the reasons for its evolution. Elements in the Catholic tradition that have adapted to American REL 390, 391 Independent Study surroundings, examination of tensions and Open to junior or senior Religion majors or debates which have accompanied those minors. Students select a specific area of adjustmens, and current matters of interest interest for reading and investigation in 194

RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES consultation with the faculty adviser and Central Asia, and the European Union. subject to the approval of the department. Undergraduates have the opportunity to read Students confer regularly with advisers on Tolstoy (both in translation and in the their work and prepare an essay on an original Russian), to study an empire that approved subject. Open to other qualified covered a sixth of the globe, to see the other juniors or seniors with permission of the side of the Cold War, and to discuss current department. issues of human rights and state practices in Staff a volatile and dynamic geopolitical space. Upon graduation, REES majors find that REL 490 Senior Capstone many institutions in the public and private Students who major in religion develop a sectors alike have a pressing need for well- capstone project under the direction of a trained college graduates with a deep faculty member in the department, knowledge of the region and a proficiency following the established, written guidelines in one or more of the area's languages. available in the department. This takes place in the first semester of the senior year. [W] The REES major is emphatically Prerequisite: Students must be Religion interdisciplinary. Students are required to majors take courses in language, literature, history, Staff and government and are encouraged to take courses on the region in other departments, REL 495, 496 Honors Thesis such as art and religious studies, as they are Students desiring to take honors should offered. Majors are strongly advised to inform their department advisers by the end participate in a study-abroad program in the of the second semester of the junior year. region. Honors work involves a guided program of independent reading and research Requirements for the Major culminating in a thesis on a topic to be Achievement of Russian proficiency on a selected by the student in consultation with second-year level (Russian 101-102, 111- his or her adviser and approved by the 112; two courses in Russian literature in department. All honors projects must be Russian or English (Russian 209, 210, 311, conducted in accordance with the 316; Comparative Literature 161, 162); established written guidelines available in History 243 or 244; Government and Law the department. Honors candidates enroll in 225, or 238; and at least three other courses 496 only upon successfully completing in Russian/East European Studies such as Religion 495. [W] Art 216; Government and Law 225, 238; Staff History 243, 244, 270, 354; Religious Studies 206, 351; Russian 209, 210, 211, USSIAN AND AST 311, 316; Comparative Literature 161, 162; R E INDS 280, REES 460, REES 495-496. In EUROPEAN STUDIES addition, all majors must fulfill a capstone requirement. It is recommended that this be Faculty met by participation in a study-abroad program in Russia or Eastern Europe (INDS Associate Professor Sanborn, (History), 280 meets this requirement); by writing an Chair; Professors Cohn (Religious Studies), honors thesis (REES 495, 496), or by Heavey (Economics and Business), Pribic completing either REES 460 or History 354. (Foreign Languages and Literatures); Associate Professor Sinkevic (Art); Assistant Professor Fabian (Government Requirements for the Minor and Law); Visiting Instructor Sajez (Foreign Russian: Seven courses chosen from the Languages and Literatures) offerings in Russian, History, and Government and Law, plus one from The Russian and East European Studies Comparative Literature, History, major prepares students to engage Interdisciplinary Studies, or Art. meaningfully with one of the most important areas in the world. Majors learn about the history, culture, and present-day circumstances of life in the Russian Federation and a wide number of other states in the Balkans, the Caucasus region, 195

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Russian and East European Studies Minor Programs: Courses Architectural Studies REES 460 Reading and Research in Requirements for the minor: Six courses: Russian/ East European Studies Art 120, 126 and four electives. Electives This course gives advanced students the are to be selected from an approved list, opportunity to investigate intensively an with at least one from each of three area of special interest. The student is perspectives: historical, design, and required to meet with the instructor engineering. periodically throughout the semester and at Coordinator: Professor Mattison (Art) the conclusion of the course to submit a scholarly paper as well as to be prepared to Asian Studies take an oral examination on his or her work. Hours arranged. Requirements for the minor: Five courses: Offered: As needed INDS 112 plus four approved courses from Staff at least two different departments. Current offerings focusing on Asia include: Art REES 495, 496 Thesis History, Chinese Language and Culture, Students interested in completing a thesis Japanese Language and Culture, History, for Program Honors are advised to consult Government and Law, Religious Studies, with the program coordinator toward the and Music. Students should consult with the end of their junior year. Following selection program coordinator regarding other of a topic and thesis director, a research approved options. design must be provided at the opening of Coordinator: Associate Professor Rinehart the fall semester. The student then (Religious Studies) completes 495. If the thesis director and program coordinator conclude that sufficient Biotechnology/Bioengineering progress has been made, the student takes Requirements for the minor: Five approved 496 and completes a thesis for submission courses. Biology 101, at least one from an for honors. approved list of science courses, and at least Staff one from an approved list of engineering

courses. No more than three courses required (a) for the major or (b) the INTERDISCIPLINARY Common Course of Study may be counted STUDIES toward the minor, and the program is not available to students who are pursuing two Lafayette encourages students to integrate majors. Students are encouraged to take at and evaluate the knowledge gained in many least three courses from departments other different courses and departments through a than their own and pursue a bio-oriented number of interdisciplinary academic independent study or honors thesis. It is the programs. responsibility of the student to fulfill any prerequisites. In some cases instructors Majors and minors: Seven major permission overrides this requirement. programs (Africana Studies, American Some courses may not be offered every Studies, Biochemistry, International Affairs, year. The Biotechnology/Bioengineering Mathematics and Economics, Neuroscience, Minor Advisory Committee must approve a and Russian and East European Studies) and program of study selected by a student. twelve minor programs focusing on broadly Students may petition the minor committee organized interdisciplinary topics are and the Academic Progress Committee for offered within the A.B. curriculum. In approval to take appropriate deviations from addition, a student may develop an the course listing. individual interdisciplinary A.B. program. Corrdinator: Professor Tavakoli (Chemical Petitions for such majors must be endorsed Engineering) by three faculty members representing the disciplines involved and must be approved by the Academic Progress Committee. Classical Civilization Requirements for the minor: Six approved courses including Comparative Literature 121, 125; History 211, 212, 213; and electives from the following list: 196

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Comparative Literature 103: Classical Courses taken at Woods Hole may be used Mythology to meet some of the Environmental Science Latin 111, 112: Intermediate Latin (and/or Minor requirements at Lafayette. Advanced Latin) Coordinator : Professor Germanoski Greek 111,112: Intermediate Greek (and/or (Geology and Environmental Geosciences) Advanced Greek) Art 221: Ancient Art Health Care and Society Philosophy 107: The First Philosophers Requirements for the minor: Five approved Religious Studies 202: Religion of the courses in an interdepartmental program Christian Scriptures drawing from the humanities, social Coordinator: Assistant Professor Shieber sciences, and natural sciences. The (Philosophy) following three courses are required: Anthropology 222 Medical Anthropology, Computational Methods Psychology 240 Health Psychology, and Requirements for the minor: Five courses: Religious Studies 223 Religion and Computer Science 102 or Computational Medicine. Methods 141 or Computational Methods Coordinator: Professor Lammers (Religious 151, Computational Methods 401 and three Studies) electives selected from an approved list. Coordinator: Professor Liew (Computer Jewish Studies Science) Requirements for the minor: At least five approved courses in both the humanities and Environmental Science social sciences from at least three Requirements for the minor: The departments. Minors are required to take Environmental Science minor is an Religious Studies 213. Not more than two interdisciplinary program designed to serve courses in Hebrew may be applied toward science and engineering majors and students the minor requirements, both of which must of other disciplines interested in be intermediate level. Courses should be environmental careers or environmental chosen in consultation with the Jewish matters. Studies coordinator from the listing and from special courses offered in cooperation The minor requires five courses apportioned with the Berman Center for Jewish Studies. in three components: a core component, a Coordinator: Professor Cohn (Religious technical elective component, and a Studies) policy/issues component. No more than three courses required (a) for the major or (b) to satisfy Common Course of Study Latin American and Caribbean Studies requirements may be counted toward the Requirements for the minor: Six approved minor. Students participating in the minor courses, one of which must be an upper- are strongly encouraged to take more than level course, independent study, internship, three courses outside of their major and to or thesis and be directed by a faculty pursue an environmentally oriented member affiliated with the minor. Students independent study or honors thesis. Please are asked to demonstrate proficiency note that some courses have prerequisites through the intermediate level in a language (indicated by *); it is the students relevant to the study of Latin America and responsibility to fulfill any prerequisites. the Caribbean. Spanish is recommended. Courses that are not offered every year are Coordinator: Associate Professor Torres indicated by †. Students electing the minor (Music) must have their program of study approved by the Environmental Science Minor Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Advisory Committee. Any course selection Studies differing from those prescribed requires Requirements for the minor: Five courses to petition to the Environmental Science Minor be selected in consultation with the advisor Advisory Committee and the Academic from one of three clusters: Medieval, Progress Committee for approval. Renaissance-Reformation, or 17th-18th Lafayette College is also a member of a Century. Students must complete an consortium of schools whose students may introductory, two intermediate and two participate in the "Semester at Woods Hole advanced courses from an approved list. Marine Biological Laboratory” program. Coordinator: Professor Fix (History) 197

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Women's and Gender Studies Prerequisite: Math 161 and one of the Requirements for the minor: Women’s and following: Math 162, Economics 101, Gender Studies 101 and four approved introductory science major elective electives, including at least one WGS Staff independent study, internship or 300-level seminar. Electives may be selected from CM 390/391 Independent Study Anthropology & Sociology 212 Sex and Independent study projects for qualified Gender, Anthropology & Sociology 227 juniors and seniors. The Family, Economics & Business 325 Staff

Women and Economics, English 119 Literary Women, English 274 Taboos: INDS 112 Introduction to Asia Literary Sexualities, Government & Law This course introduces the traditions and 204: Race and Gender in the American modern development of Asia. The approach Legal System, History 353 Gender and is interdisciplinary, covering subject areas Sexuality in Modern Europe, History 368 such as history, culture, art, literature, Ordinary and Extraordinary Women in music, religion, economics, politics, and Latin American History, Music 267 Women law. The course offers an introduction to the in Music, Philosophy 215 Feminist region and provides an important foundation Philosophy, Psychology 248 Psychology of for students interested in taking more Gender, Religious Sudies 225 Women, specialized courses. Rinehart Religion and Society, and VAST 256 Body Politics. Other relevant courses may be approved by petition to the Women's and INDS 240 From Generosity to Justice: Gender Studies Coordinator, including Addressing Social Problems through Action departmental special topics or departmental and Reflection courses that in a specific semester explore This interdisciplinary seminar centers on issues from the perspective of feminist and questions that arise when students volunteer gender theory. to work with people in the community who Coordinator: Professor Byrd (English) are poor. Specific problems—homelessness, poverty, or crime—as well as the social Interdisciplinary Studies Courses system in which they exist are studied. [W] Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or above CM 141 Introduction to Computational and one semester of volunteer work Media Corequisite: Volunteer experience is also This course introduces students to the basics required of computing and teaches them how to write Beckman, Miller small programs. The course is centered around the manipulation of images and INDS 245 Social and Ethical Aspects of media files. Students will learn how to write Health Care in the United Kingdom and the small applications to control and display United States visual and audio information. This course examines selected social and Prerequisite: Math 125 ethical aspects of the health care systems of Staff the United Kingdom and the United States.

After providing an overview of the two CM 151 Introduction to Computational systems, selected features of the systems are Science compared. Once the comparisons are made, Computational science concentrates on the the ethical implications of system effective use of computer software, differences are explored. Lecture, hardware and mathematics to solve discussion, site visits, student presentations. problems in science. The goal of this course Staff is to teach science and engineering majors how to develop tailored, flexible, and INDS 280 Russia and Poland: Past and efficient working environments built from Present small programs (scripts) written in the easy- In this course students spend three weeks to-learn, very high-level language Python. examining the history and culture of Russia Students will learn to use existing and Poland while traveling through these applications and tools for automating two countries. The course is structured simulation, data analysis, and visualization, around three themes: 1) religious life, 2) the and for steering simulations and memory of World War I, World War II, and computational experiments. the Holocaust, and 3) the dilemmas of 198

INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES postcommunism. Students are encouraged associations, and governmental agencies. to learn and absorb material that falls Some attention should be paid to an outside of these narrow categories, but understanding of the structure and dynamics readings and excursions are focused on of the organization as they relate to the these themes. ethical analysis undertaken by the students. Staff Prerequisite: Philosophy 105 Staff INDS 321, 322 Technology Clinic A small group of selected students work INDS 390, 391 Independent Studies in together with faculty mentors to solve a Ethics real-world problem proposed by an Individual investigation of an ethical issue industrial or government sponsor, of either a theoretical or applied nature with addressing the social, technological, and the approval and under the supervision of a economic factors relevant to a solution. faculty adviser. The student is required to Students work on campus as a team and at apply various ethical theories to an analysis times independently and on-site with the of an important ethical issue. Ordinarily the sponsors. [W] student is required to submit an extensive Prerequisite: Committee recommendation term paper. Bauer Prerequisite: Philosophy 105

Staff INDS 361 The Gothic Cathedral: Structural Rationalism WGS 101 Introduction to Women’s Studies Gothic cathedrals are considered as This interdisciplinary course acquaints representing the physical embodiment of the students with the content and methodology values of medieval society. The course of women’s studies. Attention is focused on explores the dependence of their how gender, together with race, class, construction on medieval developments in sexual orientation, etc., shapes people’s construction technology and the essential lives and experiences. This gender analysis interdependence of societal values and is used to examine American women in technological progress. It also considers relation to society, other people, and to how the structural rationalism of Gothic themselves. architecture, as interpreted during the Staff nineteenth century, is the foundation for much of modern architectural theory. [W] WGS 230 Women's Health Issues Van Gulick This course examines a wide range of women's health issues as well as other INDS 371 Health Care and Society factors that affect women's health such as Internship multiple oppressions, environmental factors, This course involves an internship and policy decisions. Scholarly and popular experience in a health care organization. reading, discussions, films/videos, and guest There are four components: regular speakers provide the foundation for attendance at a work site at times learning. determined by the work site supervisor and Nixon agreed to by the Lafayette faculty supervisor, a journal by the student, regular WGS 240 African/African American meetings with the faculty supervisor; and a Women writing project developed in consultation This course examines the ways in which with the faculty supervisor. race, class, and gender have influenced Staff black women's lives. Discussion topics include familial roles of indigenous African INDS 380, 381 Internship in Ethical Studies women, institutional oppression (including An off-campus experience in which students slavery), male/female relationships, health are actively involved in the study and issues, the Civil Rights Movement, women's evaluation of ethical issues. The student liberation struggles nationally and chooses from a variety of approved internationally, and coalition building with organizational settings and works closely women of non-African descent. with a faculty adviser and designated Nixon members of the organization. Examples of appropriate settings are hospitals, business corporations, engineering firms, public 199

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WGS 250 Gender and Science Session. Occasionally other courses taught This course is an interdisciplinary study of during the academic year are offered in the the relation between gender and science. Interim. Social expectations regarding women’s abilities, women’s roles, and the nature of Individual course descriptions can be found science are discussed. The effects of gender in each academic departments listing. Approved courses are listed below. on experiences with science as a field of study and with science as a profession are explored through discussion, readings, and Interim Session/On Campus Courses class assignments of activities that involve Examples of courses offered in the Interim the academic and scientific communities. on campus include: Staff A&S 255. Contemporary Society and the Cinema WGS 251-255 Special Topics ART 191. Promotion Design: The Creative An interdisciplinary topic of special interest Potential of Production Techniques to students and staff interested in Women’s ART 193. Techniques with Watercolor Studies is offered. ART 196. Basic Photography (Black and Staff White) ART 219. Visual Expression and WGS 380,381 Internship in Women’s “Controlling” the Painted Surface Studies ART 290. Graphic Design: Solving This course involves the application of Communication Problems academic knowledge to a field setting of ART 292. Visual Communication through particular relevance to women (for example, Technology a battered women’s shelter). Students work BIOL 304. Tissue Culture and Virology approximately eight hours a week in their CHEM 476. Organometallic Chemistry placement, meet biweekly with the EDUC 250. Curriculum and Instruction supervising instructor, and prepare a final ENG 260. The New York Theater project. HIST 234. Slavery, Civil War, and Prerequisite: Women’s Studies 101, two Reconstruction other Women’s Studies courses, and INDS 151. Anatolia: The Cradle of permission of instructor and the coordinator Civilizations of Women’s Studies INDS 361. Gothic Catherdrals Staff ME 482. Applied Mechanical Design MUS 193. New York Jazz Experience WGS 390,391 Independent Study PSYC 250. Behavior Analysis of Instructional Methods This course provides an opportunity for students to investigate a topic in Women’s Studies in depth. The student confers regularly with the instructor and prepares a INTERIM SESSION/STUDY research project or term paper on an ABROAD approved topic. Prerequisite: Women’s Studies 101 and Some of these courses are offered during permission of instructor and coordinator of January interim session; others are offered Women’s Studies in May. The offerings for each academic Staff year are announced in the summer prior to fall semester.

INTERIM SESSION/ON Interim Session/Study Abroad CAMPUS Courses Lafayette College offers Interim semester ENG 280 The London Theatre courses that meet in January or May. England’s rich theatrical tradition is Courses are offered in a compressed time continually affirmed by the excellence of its frame and offer unique opportunities that London theatre productions. During this are not always available in the regular course, students attend a dozen plays at semester. The offerings for each academic West End and fringe theatres, the National year are announced early in the fall Theatre, and the Barbican Center, which semester. Courses listed below have been hosts the Royal Shakespeare Company. approved to be taught in the Interim Though the specific works studied depends 200

INTERIM SESSION/STUDY ABROAD on theater offerings, the course focuses on GEOL 160 Geology from A(Arches) to literary and performance aspects of Z(Zion): The Geology of National Parks in Shakespearean and modern plays. the Western United States O'Neill, Westfall The National Park System in the Western United States provides a unique opportunity ENGR 290 Engineering in a Global and to examine how geological processes shape Societal Context the Earth. Visits to parks in Colorado, This is a three-week summer course, taught Arizona, New Mexico, California, and Utah in various parts of the world, where we help students develop an understanding of examine the global and societal context of these processes. Introductory geology topics engineering including the impact of are covered in an experiential field traditions, customs, policy, and culture on experience. In the canyon lands (Grand engineering projects. The course involves Canyon, Bryce, and Zion), students examine daily field trips and plant tours, journaling, processes of sedimentation, igneous and discussions with engineers working in intrusion, and erosion. The record of life on the countries we visit. Each course offering Earth is studied in the fossil record on the is organized around a multi-disciplinary rocks. In California, geological hazards are technical theme e.g. renewable energy, learned by studying the San Andreas Fault, water resources, sustainable buildings. mass-wasting in Pt Reyes National Prerequisite: Completed sophomore year Seashore, and volcanism at Lassen volcano. with an engineering major Staff Staff

INDS 120 Inside the People’s Republic of GEOL 140 Coral Reefs and Caves: The China Geology of the Bahamas This course introduces the complex This course presents an opportunity to study interaction between traditional culture, physical, chemical, and biological processes communist thinking, and the forces of that operate to produce carbonate platforms modernization in the People’s Republic of (e.g., tides, waves, and the growth of China. The practices and characteristics of corals), geomorphic processes that operate distinct Chinese subcultures are examined to further shape carbonate platforms (e.g., by traveling to representative areas: Beijing groundwater flow, cave development, and in the north, Kunming in the southwest, and soil development), and the environmental Guangzhou on the southeast coast. Students impacts of human activities on carbonate meet with government officials and business platforms. Field studies are based on San people, attend arts performances, visit a Salvador Island with side trips to Eleuthera factory, hospital, and university, and attend and Andros Islands. supplemental lectures. Germanoski Barclay

GEOL 150 The Geologic Evolution of the INDS 127 Envision Environmental Science Hawaiian Islands This course explores the true This course provides students with an interdisciplinary nature of environmental understanding of how volcanic, geomorphic, science through observation, discussion, and and coastal processes have shaped, and readings. The course intends to demonstrate continue to shape, the Hawaiian Islands. how all areas of study at Lafayette College The course focuses on volcanism, landform (Humanities, Social Sciences, Engineering development, and coastal processes. The and Natural Sciences) when integrated Hawaiian Islands provide a unique together provides knowledge and skills to opportunity to study active volcanic truly understand and communicate issues processes building the islands in impacting our environment. conjunction with geomorphic processes Staff which alter the volcanic landscape. The Hawaiian landscape ranges in age from 25 INDS 135 Thailand and Myanmar: million years to minutes old. Students have Challenges of Development the unique opportunity to study the volcanic The southeast Asian countries of Thailand processes creating the islands and then see and Myanmar (formerly Burma) have how the soils, landscapes, and coasts have developed very differently, despite the fact evolved through time. that they share a similar climate, natural Malinconico, Germanoski resource endowment, and religion. Students

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energetic world of culture that draws on INDS 150 Turkey: The Cradle of African, European, and Asian roots and Civilizations breathtaking scenery to forge a distinct Turkey, known to Romans as Anatolia, has identity. However, South Africa also suffers seen the rise and fall of many civilizations. under the HIV/AIDS pandemic. This course This course critically examines the introduces students to South Africa and Byzantine, Ottoman Turkish, and Helenic confronts a variety of its "voices". periods from cultural and artistic Staff viewpoints. These civilizations have left clear and lasting impressions, both INDS 175 Back to the Roots of Western architecturally and artistically in Anatolia, Civilization: Greece and Italy and on the development of Western An on-site study of two great pillars of civilization. Sites of historic, architectural, civilization that form the intellectual and and artistic importance in Istanbul, Ismir, spiritual foundations of the western world: Bursa, and Iznik (Nicaea) are studied Greece, where democracy--"people power"- through visits and on-site lectures. -and a love of beauty and rational discourse Ulucakli originated; and Roman Italy, where the

genius for civilization and government INDS 165 The Open Wall and the New made of the classical heritage a great legacy. Europe of the 21st Century: Berlin, Prague, Students encounter the enduring force of and Munich these cultures. On site they learn and With the opening of the Berlin Wall, experience for themselves, the tangible Germany and the rest of Europe are facing heritage of each civilization in architecture rapid political, social, and economic and plastic arts. Grand public monuments changes. This course reexamines the events and private structures embody fundamental leading to two world wars, the division of ideas that have become part of the way Europe, and the new European reality in the Western citizens think and feel. Lectures 21st Century. Through visits to historical and discussions complement contributions sites, meetings with people in East and of local guides. West, readings, and class discussions, Cohn students obtain an understanding of the events and ideologies that made history and INDS 180 The Colorful Sunset of the todays new reality in Europe. Habsburg Empire: An Apocalyptic Waltz Pribic, Weiner World War I ended in the disintegration of the Habsburg monarchy that for centuries INDS 170 Modern Sub-Saharan Africa: had united peoples of widely differing races Kenya and Tanzania and languages. This course focuses on the This course combines a firsthand look at the cultural upheaval in the twilight years of the sociocultural environment and natural empire (c. 1870-1919) by indicating how resources that shape development and these apocalyptic years found expression in change in Kenya and Tanzania. Particular the culture, art, and intellectual work of the attention is devoted to the rich indigenous most famous luminaries of the period. history and traditions that provide social and McDonald, Shieber economic purpose for art, the foundations for democratic institutions, support for INDS 185 Guatemala: Innovations in dignity, industriousness, and Development accommodation for development. This Guatemala is a country at the crossroads. course examines the degree to which Kenya Free from the instability generated by the and Tanzania have achieved their civil war, it is a developing country. Strides development objectives by managing have been made towards an economy where cultural acculturation, natural resources, and markets prevail and citizens find modernization. opportunities for entrepreneurship. The Ahene experience includes visits to markets that

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architecture in Belgium, Germany, and the INDS 195 The History and Politics of Netherlands. The architecture is considered Israel: The Peace Process and Internal as an expression of northern medieval Cleavages European society and technology. The This course focuses on the evolving peace technical accomplishments of medieval process in the Middle East, with particular builders are emphasized; Roman attention to Israel and the West Bank/Gaza architecture, based on large-scale use of and some attention to the Golan Heights and masonry arches and vaults, is studied as the relations between Israel-Jordan. Since medieval architecture's foundation. Study of 1992, there has been an accelerated peace history from the Roman through the process. The course assesses the medieval period enables students to place implications for Israels international the architecture in a societal context. relations and domestic situation against the Van Gulick, Van Gulick background of Israels history. Course includes seminar meetings, visits to INDS 220 Florence: Birthplace of the historical sites (e.g., Massada, Western Renaissance Wall, Tel-Hai), museums (e.g., Yad This on-site course explores the brilliant VShem), and political locations (e.g., the artistic and literary culture of Florence Knesset), and sessions with political leaders, during the late Middle Ages and academic analysts, and public officials. Renaissance. Its primary text is the city and Peleg, Weiner its monuments: its buildings, from church to palace; its art, including masterpieces by INDS 200 The Land and Imaginative Giotto, Donatello, Botticelli, and Landscape of Ireland Michaelangelo; and its literature, including This course examines the many ways in such classics as Dante's Inferno, Petrarch's which the land of Ireland has figured in Irish sonnets, and Boccaccio's Decameron. Visits history and the Irish imagination. The to Pisa, Siena, Assisi, and Rome enhance history of Ireland centers on definitions of understanding of this extraordinary age. the land as an economic, political, and Ahl, Pribic symbolic—even religious—value. Using written sources culled from Irish history, INDS 230 Paris, Provence, and the Midi: ethnography, politics, and literature, along Cathedrals, Kings, and Pilgrims with some guest lectures, and an extensive This course entails on-site study of French field program in the Boyne Valley, Galway, medieval art and architecture in and around Donegal, Dublin, and Belfast, the instructors Avignon, Toulouse, and Paris. Medieval art take students on an exploration of the and architecture are considered as shifting Irish landscape. expressions of medieval society and Heavey medieval technology. Study of French history from pre-Roman Gaul through the INDS 210 Exploring South America: Brazil, nineteenth century enables students to place Argentina, and the Andes the art and architecture in an appropriate Travel to such destinations as Quito, Cuzco, societal context. Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, and São Van Gulick, Van Gulick

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INDS 245 Social and Ethical Aspects of INDS 275 Paris: An Introduction to the Health Care in the U.K. and U.S. French Exception This course examines selected social and This course provides students of all majors ethical aspects of the health care systems of with an introduction to the world of French the U.K. and the U.S. After providing an culture, particularly with respect to how its overview of the two systems, selected role is perceived by the global marketplace. features are compared. Once comparisons The course examines the economic are made, the ethical implications of system peculiarities of French culture, such as differences are explored. The course public financial aid to cinema, books, and includes lectures, discussions, guest TV programs with a critical examiniation of lectures, site visits, student presentations, their advantages/disadvantages with respect and short papers. to the consequence for French business and Childs, Lammers French culture. The peculiarities of the French management style, the work INDS 250 French Commerce and Culture in environment, and work group dynamics are the European Union: London, Paris, and presented within the context of the global Brussels work environment. An introduction to the business environment Bukics, Reyns-Chikuma of France and its role in the ever-changing economic marketplace of the European INDS 280 Russia and Poland: Past and Community. The course examines French Present culture and its impact on the financial, In this course students spend three weeks production, and marketing processes examining the history and culture of Russia through firsthand experiences in the EU and Poland while traveling through these organizations and the French marketplace. two countries. The course is structured Bukics, Lalande around three themes: religious life; the memory of World War I, World War II, and INDS 260 Scandinavia: Northern Lights the Holocaust; and the dilemmas of (Kierkegaard, Ibsen, Strindberg) postcommunism. Students are encouraged This course examines central themes in the to learn and absorb materials that fall work of Kierkegaard, Ibsen, and Strindberg outside of these narrow categories, but the in their cultural and historical context. It reading and excursions are focused on these involves reading and discussing a number of themes. their major works, visiting the cities in Sanborn, Cohn

Denmark, Norway, and Sweden that shaped them, viewing artwork and attending MUS 195 Helsinki, Talinn, Budapest theatrical works that influenced them or that This is an international concert tour by were, in turn, influenced by them, and Lafayette College Choirs, enhanced by examining the political, economic, and cultural and historical studies. The primary cultural upheavals in Europe in the 19th text is the music literature to be performed: century that shaped their thought. works for mixed, men’s, women’s, and Staff chamber choir, including styles and techniques appropriate to historical and INDS 270 A Moveable Feast: American cultural contexts. Students rehearse and Writers in Paris perform in interactive concerts with local American writers have always gone to Paris, host choirs and conductors. Guest speakers but the question is why. The answer lies address history, politics, architecture, both in the city itself and in the literature it religion, and language, as well as has inspired. Twentieth-century writers like specialized musical issues. Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, James Prerequisite: Music 150 Baldwin, and Gore Vidal are among the Gilbert literary expatriates students consider while exploring 'their Paris'. Their Paris, vividly imagined and literally experienced, still exists—if you know where to look for it and what to read. Johnson, Washington

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(Trustee elections occur in May) & Sachs, Falls Church, Va. Edward W. Ahart ’69 George M. Jenkins ’74 (Secretary, Board of Trustees), Attorney, President, Merritt Capital Inc., Radnor, Pa. Managing Partner, Schenck, Price, Smith & King, Morristown, N.J. Harold N. Kamine ’78 Chairman, Kamine Development Corp., Carl G. Anderson Jr. ’67 Bedminster, N.J. Partner, Cannondale Partners, LLC, Jefferson W. Kirby ’84 Sinking Spring, Pa. Managing Member, Broadfield Capital Management, LLC, Morristown, N.J. Margaret G. Axelrod ’74 Attorney, Muchnick Golieb & Golieb, New Nancy J. Kuenstner ’75 York, N.Y. President, Law Debenture Trust Company of New York, New York, N.Y. S. Robert Beane Jr. ’58 Director and Partner, retired, Johnson & Barbara Levy ’77 Higgins, New Castle, N.H. Retired Executive Vice President, Merchandising, Ross Stores, Inc., New Susan B. Carras ’76 York, N.Y. StonebridgeCarras, Bethesda, Md. Samuel R. Chapin ’79 Nancy Brennan Lund ’74 Vice Chairman, Merrill Lynch & Company, (Vice Chair, Board of Trustees), Senior New York, N.Y. Vice President, Marketing, Altria Client Services, Richmond, Va. Joseph T. Cox ’68 Headmaster, The Haverford School, Elisabeth H. MacDonald ’81 Haverford, Pa. Former Managing Director, Global Investment Banking, Chase Securities Inc., Jeffrey P. Feather ’65 New York, N.Y. Vice Chairman of the Board, National Penn Bruce Maggin ’65 Bancshares Inc., Principal, The H.A.M. Media Group LLC, Boyertown, Pa. Chappagua, N.Y. James R. Fisher ’77 Douglas R. Marvin ’69 Managing Member, Fisher Capital Partner, Williams & Connolly, Washington, Corporation LLC, Cranbury, N.J. D.C. Brent D. Glass ’69 Angel L. Mendez ’82 Director, National Museum of American Senior Vice President, World Wide History, Washington, D.C. Manufacturing, Cisco Systems Inc., San Alan R. Griffith ’64 Jose, Calif. (Chair, Board of Trustees), Retired Vice- Chairman, The Bank of New York, New Michael H. Moskow ’59 York, N.Y. Senior Fellow for the Global Economy, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Richard A. Grossman ’64 Chicago, Ill. President, Interstate Building Corporation, Tarrytown, N.Y. Stephen D. Pryor ’71 President, Exxon Mobil Chemical Martha A. Heinze ’86 Company, Executive Director, Treasury & Securities Houston, Tex. Services, JP Morgan Chase & Co., New York, N.Y. J.B. Reilly ’83 Managing Director, Traditions of America, Pamela Gaary Holran ’88 Bethlehem, Pa. Former Associate at Lukas, Nace, Gutierrez 205

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David M. Roth ’70 Walter E. Hanson ’49 Managing Director, WLD Enterprises, Inc., Retired, Chairman and Chief Executive, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co., Newport Beach, Calif. George F. Rubin ’64 Vice Chairman, Pennsylvania Real Estate Charles E. Hugel ’51 Investment Trust, Philadelphia, Pa. Retired Chairman and CEO, Asea Brown Boveri, Inc., Melvin Village, N.H. Alma R. Scott-Buczak ’74 Assistant Executive Director/Vice President, Robert E. Kusch ’48 Human Resources, New Jersey Transit, Attorney, Vero Beach, Fla. Newark, N.J. John W. Landis ’39 Robert E. Sell ’84 Chairman, Public Safety Standards Group, Managing Director, North America Roanoke, Va. Operating Unity, Accenture, Florham Park, N.J. William W. Lanigan ’52 Retired Attorney, Law Offices of William J. Peter Simon ’75 W. Lanigan, Somerville, N.J. Co-Chairman, William E. Simon & Sons, LLC, Morristown, N.J. Thomas F. McGrail ’55 Retired President, General Products Group, Sylvia Daniels Weaver ’75 ICI Americas, Inc., Chadds ford, Pa. Retired Vice President, Johnson and Thomas J. Neff ’59 Johnson, Raritan, N.J. Chairman, Spencer Stuart U.S., New York, N.Y. Daniel H. Weiss President, Lafayette College, Easton, Pa. E. Wayne Nordberg ’60 Chairman, Hollow Brook Associates LLC, New York, N.Y. RUSTEES MERITI T E Alan D. Pesky ’56 Lucy Wilson Benson Chairman, A. D. Pesky Co., Ketchum, Idaho Retired President, Benson & Associates, Lawrence J. Ramer ’50 Amherst, Mass. Chairman, Ramer Equities, Inc., Los Robert H. Britton ’44 Angeles, Calif. Retired Vice-Chairman, Briggs Schaedle & Joan W. Rhame Company, New York, N.Y. Vice President and Board Member, Superior William C. Cassebaum ’53 Pine Products Co., Inc., Fairfield, Conn. Retired President, Cassebaum, McFall, Arthur J. Rothkopf ’55 Layman & Jordan, P.C., Ann Arbor, Mich. President Emeritus, Lafayette College, Laneta J. Dorflinger ’75 Easton, Pa.; Senior Vice President, U.S. Vice President for Clinical Research, Chamber of Commerce, Washington, D.C. Family Health International, Research William P. Rutledge ’63 Triangle Park, N.C. Former Chairman & Chief Executive David W. Ellis Officer, Teledyne, Inc., Pacific Palisades, President Emeritus, Lafayette College, Calif. Easton, Pa..; President Emeritus, Museum Walter A. Scott ’59 of Science, Boston, Mass. Chairman, Assured Guaranty Ltd. Mitchel Flaum ’40 Hamilton, Bermuda Retired Chairman of the Board, S&S Corrugated Paper Machinery Co., Inc., Riley K. Temple ’71 Purchase, N.Y. Temple Strategies, Washington, D.C. Neil J. Gagnon Boyer L. Veitch ’53 Gagnon Securities, New York, N.Y. Retired, Lancaster, Pa. Roger B. Hansen ’65 Mark B. Weisburger ’55 Chairman, Ole Hansen & Sons, Inc., Retired, White Plains, N.Y. Cologne, N.J. 206

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Robert L. Yohe ’58 Former Vice-Chairman and Director, Olin Corporation, Bethlehem, Pa. and Bonita Springs, Fla.

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(rank as of academic year 2008-09) M.F.A., Ph.D. (Princeton) Marshall R. Metzgar Professor of Art and Head of the Department ANTHROPOLOGY AND Curlee Holton 1991 SOCIOLOGY B.F.A. (Cleveland Institute of Art), M.F.A. (Kent State) Susan A. Niles 1981 Professor B.A. (Wisconsin), M.A., Ph.D. (California- Berkeley) Daniel H. Weiss 2005 Professor B.A. (George Washington), M.A. (Johns Hopkins), M.B.A. (Yale School of Howard G. Schneiderman 1973 Management), Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins) B.A. (City College of New York), M.A., Professor and President of the College Ph.D. (Pennsylvania) Professor Ida Sinkevic 1994 B.A. (University of Belgrade), M.A. David H.P. Shulman 1997 (Southern Methodist), Ph.D. (Princeton) B.A. (Clark), M.A. (Boston), Ph.D. Associate Professor (Northwestern) Associate Professor and Head of the Alastair R. Noble 2002 Department B.A. (Hull College of Art, England), M.F.A. (Rutgers) Andrea L. Smith 1999 Assistant Professor B.A. (Wesleyan), M.A., Ph.D. (University of Arizona) Karina A. Skvirsky 2006 Associate Professor B.A. (Oberlin), M.F.A. (Indiana) Assistant Professor William C. Bissell 2002 B.A. (Columbia), M.A., Ph.D. (University of Chicago) BIOLOGY Assistant Professor Charles W. Holliday 1982 Rebecca J. Kissane 2004 B.S. (Marietta), Ph.D. (Oregon) B.A. (Villanova), M.A., Ph.D. Professor (Pennsylvania) Assistant Professor Wayne S. Leibel 1983 B.A. (Dartmouth), Ph.D. (Yale) Caroline W. Lee 2006 Gideon R., Jr. and Alice L. Kreider B.A. (Vassar), M.A., Ph.D. (California-San Professor of Biology and Head of the Diego) Department Assistant Professor

Laurie F. Caslake 1999 B.S. (Arizona State), M.S., Ph.D. ART (Pennsylvania State) Associate Professor Diane Cole Ahl 1977 B.A. (Sarah Lawrence), Ph.D. (Virginia) Robert A. Kurt 2000 Arthur J. '55 and Barbara S. Rothkopf B.S. (Bowling Green), Ph.D. (University of Professor of Art History Arizona) Associate Professor Edward J. Kerns, Jr. 1980 B.F.A. (Virginia Commonwealth), M.F.A. Elaine R. Reynolds 1997 (Maryland Institute, College of Art) B.S. (Pennsylvania State), Ph.D. (Carnegie Eugene H. Clapp II Professor of Art Mellon) Associate Professor and Chair of Robert S. Mattison 1981 Neuroscience Program B.A. (Middlebury), M.A. (Williams),

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Nancy M. Waters 1985 Professor, Head of the Department, and B.S. (St. Francis), Ph.D. (Notre Dame) Director of Research Services Associate Professor Yvonne M. Gindt 2001 James R. Dearworth, Jr. 2004 B.S. (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire), B.S. (Michigan), Ph.D. (Delaware) Ph.D. (UCLA at Berkeley) Assistant Professor Associate Professor Manuel D. Ospina-Giraldo 2006 Kenneth O. Haug 1997 B.S., M.S. (Universidad del Valle), Ph.D. B.A., Ph.D. (Minnesota) (Pennsylvania State) Associate Professor Assistant Professor Chip Nataro 2001 B.S. (Messiah College), Ph.D. (Iowa State) CHEMICAL AND Associate Professor BIOMOLECULAR Charles F. Nutaitis 1987 B.S. (King's College), Ph.D. (Dartmouth) ENGINEERING Associate Professor J. Ronald Martin 1976 Tina H. Huang 2003 B.S. (Lafayette), Ph.D. (Princeton) B.S. (Bethel College), Ph.D. (Kansas) Professor Assistant Professor James P. Schaffer 1990 Steven E. Mylon 2004 B.S.E., M.S., Ph.D. (Duke) B.A., B.S. (Tufts), Ph.D. (Dartmouth) Professor, Interim Director of Institutional Assistant Professor Research, and Chair of Engineering Studies Jennifer L. Rutherford 2007 Javad Tavakoli 1988 B.S., M.S. (Bucknell), M.S., Ph.D. (Cornell) B.S. (Shiraz), M.S. (Illinois Institute of Assistant Professor Technology), Ph.D. (New Jersey Institute of Technology) Professor, P.E. (Pennsylvania) CIVIL AND James K. Ferri 2001 ENVIRONMENTAL B.S., Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins) Associate Professor ENGINEERING Polly R. Piergiovanni 1990 Mary J.S. Roth 1991 B.A. (Kansas State), Ph.D. (Houston) B.S. (Lafayette), M.S. (Cornell), Ph.D. Associate Professor and Head of the (Maine) Department Simon Cameron Long Professor and Associate Provost for Academic Operations, Patricia A. Darcy 2005 P.E. (Maine) B.S. (Johns Hopkins), M.S. (Rutgers), Ph.D. (University of Iowa) Sharon A. Jones 2002 Assistant Professor B.S. (Columbia), M.E. (University of Florida), M.P.A. (California State Samuel A. Morton, III 2004 University at Long Beach), Ph.D. (Carnegie B.S. (Tennessee Technological University), Mellon) M.S., Ph.D. (Tennessee) Professor and Director of the Engineering Assistant Professor Division, P.E. (Oregon, California)

David Brandes 1999 CHEMISTRY B.S. (University of Maryland), M.S. (Clemson), Ph.D. (Pennsylvania State) H. David Husic 1986 Associate Professor B.S. (Pennsylvania State), Ph.D. (Michigan State) Arthur D. Kney 1999 John D. & Frances H. Larkin Professor of B.A. (St. Francis College), B.S. (University Chemistry of Massachusetts-Dartmouth), M.S., Ph.D. (Lehigh University) William H. Miles 1990 Associate Professor B.S. (Delaware), Ph.D. (Wisconsin) 209

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Roger W. Ruggles 1985 Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics B.S., M.S., Ph.D. (Clarkson) and Business Professor and Head of the Associate Professor and Head of the Department Department Rose Marie L. Bukics 1980 David A. Veshosky 1991 B.S. (Scranton), M.B.A. (Lehigh) B.C.E. (Catholic), M.A. (George Thomas Roy and Lura Forrest Jones Washington), Ph.D. (Lehigh) Professor and Chair of International Associate Professor Economics and Commerce Program, C.P.A. Pennsylvania Stephen J. Kurtz 2002 B.A., B.S., M.S., Ph.D. (Rutgers) Donald R. Chambers 1992 Assistant Professor B.S. (SUNY-Binghamton), Ph.D. (North Carolina) Anne Marie Raich 2005 Walter E. Hanson/KPMG Peat Marwick B.S. (West Virginia), M.S. (Carnegie Professor of Business and Finance Mellon), Ph.D. (Illinois) Assistant Professor W. Mark Crain 2004 B.S. (Houston), Ph.D. (Texas A&M) Kristen L. Sanford Bernhardt 2001 William E. Simon Professor of Political B.S.E. (Duke University), M.S., Ph.D. Economy and Chair of Policy Studies (Carnegie Mellon) Program Assistant Professor Rexford A. Ahene 1982 Muhannad T. Suleiman 2008 B.S. (University of Science and B.S., M.S. (Jordan University of Science Technology, Ghana), M.A. (Virginia State), and Technology), Ph.D. (Iowa State) Ph.D. (Wisconsin) Assistant Professor Professor Howard N. Bodenhorn 1993 COMPUTER SCIENCE B.S. (Virginia Polytechnic), M.A., Ph.D. (Rutgers) William J. Collins 1990 Professor B.A., M.A. (Boston College), M.S., Ph.D. (Purdue) Thomas H. Bruggink 1978 Associate Professor A.B. (Hope), M.A., Ph.D. (Illinois) Professor Chun Wai Liew 1995 B.Sc. (Cornell), Ph.D. (Rutgers) Edward N. Gamber 1992 Associate Professor and Head of the B.A. (Towson State), M.A., Ph.D. (Virginia Department Polytechnic) Professor Xiaoyan Li 2006 B.S. (Tongji), M.S. (Rutgers), Ph.D. Jerome F. Heavey 1973 (Rutgers University) B.S. (St. Joseph's), M.A., Ph.D. Assistant Professor (Pennsylvania State) Professor Jeffrey O. Pfaffmann 2003 B.A.A. (Central Michigan University), James M. DeVault 1989 Ph.D. (Wayne State University) B.A. (Rhode Island), M.A., Ph.D. Assistant Professor (Wisconsin) Associate Professor Ge Xia 2005 B.S. (Tongji), M.S. (Texas A&M), Ph.D. Gladstone A. Hutchinson 1992 (Texas A&M) B.A. (SUNY-Oneonta), M.A., Ph.D. (Clark) Assistant Professor Associate Professor

Christopher S. Ruebeck 2000 B.S.E.E. (Purdue), M.S.E. (Stanford), M.A., ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins) Associate Professor Susan L. Averett 1991 B.S. (Colorado State), M.A., Ph.D. Michael A. Kelly 2005 (Colorado) A.B. (Harvard) M.A., Ph.D. (Cornell) Assistant Professor 210

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Julie K. Smith 2005 James Woolley 1980 B.A. (Smith), M.A., Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins) B.A. (Wake Forest), M.A., Ph.D. (Chicago) Assistant Professor Frank Lee and Edna M. Smith Professor of English David C. Stifel 2003 B.A. (Colgate), M.A. (Johns Hopkins), Patricia Ann Donahue 1985 M.A., Ph.D. (Cornell) B.A. (Redlands), M.A., Ph.D. (California- Assistant Professor Irvine) Professor ELECTRICAL AND David R. Johnson 1974 B.A. (Maryland), M.A., Ph.D. COMPUTER ENGINEERING (Pennsylvania State) Professor Ismail I. Jouny 1990 B.S. (Beirut), M.S., Ph.D. (Ohio State) Suzanne R. Westfall 1986 Charles A. Dana Professor of Electrical and B.A. (Southeastern Massachusetts), M.A., Computer Engineering and Head of the Ph.D. (Toronto) Department Professor and Head of the Department John F. Greco 1977 Deborah L. Byrd 1981 B.E., M.E., Ph.D. (City College of New B.A. (Duke), M.A., Ph.D. (Emory) York) Associate Professor Professor Paul A. Cefalu 1998 William A. Hornfeck 1988 B.A. (Johns Hopkins), M.A., Ph.D. B.S. (Pennsylvania State), M.S., Ph.D. (Chicago) (Auburn) Associate Professor Professor Bianca M. Falbo 1998 William D. Jemison 1996 B.A. (Swarthmore), M.A., Ph.D. B.S. (Lafayette), M.S. (Pennsylvania State), (Pittsburgh) Ph.D. (Drexel) Associate Professor and Director of College Associate Professor Writing Program John A. Nestor 2000 Michael C. O'Neill 1992 B.E.E. (Georgia Institute of Technology), A.B. (Fordham), M.A., Ph.D. (Purdue) M.S.E.E., Ph.D. (Carnegie Mellon) Associate Professor and Director of Theater Associate Professor Ian D. Smith 1991 Yih-Choung Yu 2001 B.A. (University of the West Indies), B.S. (Chinese Culture University), M.S. Licence de Lettres, Maîtrise de Lettres (SUNY - Binghamton), Ph.D. (University of (Paris), Ph.D. (Columbia) Pittsburgh) Associate Professor and Associate Head of Associate Professor the Department Todd A. Wey 2004 Bryan R. Washington 1987 B.S.E.E. (Rose-Hulman), M.S.E.E. (Texas - B.A. (Pennsylvania), B.A.-M.A. (Oxford), Dallas), Ph.D. (Purdue) A.M., Ph.D. (Harvard) Assistant Professor Associate Professor

Steven W. Belletto 2006 ENGLISH B.A. (Sonoma State), M.A., Ph.D. (Wisconsin-Madison) Lee Upton 1988 Assistant Professor B.A. (Michigan State), M.F.A. (Massachusetts), Ph.D. (SUNY- Lisa DeTora 2006 Binghamton) B.A. (Bard), M.A., Ph.D. (Rochester) Professor and Writer-in-Residence Assistant Professor Carolynn Van Dyke 1980 Mary Jo Lodge 2006 B.A. (Grinnell), Ph.D. (Yale) B.M. (Catholic), M.A. (Villanova), Ph.D. Francis A. March Professor of English (Bowling Green) Assistant Professor

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Alix Ohlin 2004 Michelle C. Geoffrion-Vinci 1998 B.A. (Harvard), M.F.A. (Texas - Austin) B.A. (Wellesley), M.A., Ph.D. (Stanford) Assistant Professor Associate Professor and Assistant Head of the Department Christopher N. Phillips 2007 B.A. (Westmont College), M.A., Ph.D. (Stanford) Denise Galarza Sepúlveda 2002 Assistant Professor B.A. (University of Connecticut), M.A. (Purdue), Ph.D. (Emory) Carrie L. Rohman 2008 Assistant Professor B.A. (Dayton), M.A., Ph.D. (Indiana) Assistant Professor Juan J. Rojo 2008 B.A. (Clark), M.A. (Emory), Ph.D. Andrew M. Smith 2001 (Cornell) B.A. (Hamline University), M.A. Ph.D. Assistant Professor (University of New Mexico) Assistant Professor and Chair of American Studies Program GEOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND GEOSCIENCES LITERATURES Dru Germanoski 1987 Olga Anna Duhl 1992 B.S. (Pennsylvania State), M.S. (Southern M.A. (University of Clug-Napoca, Illinois), Ph.D. (Colorado State) Romania), Ph.D. (Rutgers) Dr. Ervin R. VanArtsdalen '35 Professor of Professor Geology and Head of the Department Rado Pribic 1971 Guy L. Hovis 1974 B.A. (Florida State), M.A., Ph.D. A.B. (Franklin and Marshall), M.A., Ph.D. (Vanderbilt) (Harvard) Oliver Edwin Williams Professor of John H. Markle Professor of Geology Languages and Chair of International Affairs Program Lawrence L. Malinconico, Jr. 1989 A.B., M.S., Ph.D. (Dartmouth) Roxanne E. Lalande 1982 Associate Professor B.A., M.A., Ed.S., Ph.D. (Iowa) Professor Kira T. Lawrence 2006 A.B. (Dartmouth), M.S. (California-Santa Margarete B. Lamb-Faffelberger 1992 Cruz), Ph.D. (Brown) B.S. (Pedagogische Academie, Austria), Assistant Professor M.A. (Illinois), Ph.D. (Rice) Professor and Head of the Department David Sunderlin 2006 B.A. (Colgate), Ph.D. (Chicago) Edward R. McDonald 1964 Assistant Professor

B.S. (St. Peter's), M.A., Ph.D. (Columbia) Professor GOVERNMENT AND LAW George M. Rosa 1986 B.A. (California-Los Angeles), D.Phil. John Kincaid 1994 (Oxford) B.A. (Temple), M.A. (Wisconsin- Professor Milwaukee), Ph.D. (Temple) Robert B. and Helen S. Meyner Professor of Sidney E. Donnell 1994 Government and Public Service; Director of B.A. (Texas-Austin), M.A., Ph.D. the Meyner Center for the Study of State and (Pennsylvania) Local Government Associate Professor Bruce A. Murphy 1998 Markus Dubischar 2008 B.A. (Massachusetts-Amherst), Ph.D. M.A. (Universiät Heidelberg), D. Phil. (Virginia) (Universität Greifswald) Fred Morgan Kirby Professor of Civil Associate Professor Rights

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Ilan Peleg 1974 School of Law), M.A. (New York B.A., M.A. (Tel Aviv), M.A., Ph.D. University), Ph.D. (Columbia) (Northwestern) Professor and Head of the Department Charles A. Dana Professor of Government and Law Paul D. Barclay 1999 B.S. (University of Wisconsin-Madison), John T. McCartney 1986 M.A., Ph.D. (University of Minnesota) B.A. (Drake), M.A. (Detroit), Ph.D. (Iowa) Associate Professor Professor and Chair of Africana Studies Joshua A. Sanborn 1999 Joshua I. Miller 1986 B.A. (Stanford), Ph.D. (University of B.A. (California-Santa Cruz), M.A., Ph.D. Chicago) (Princeton) Associate Professor, Assistant Head of the Professor Department, and Chair of Russian and East European Studies Program Helena Silverstein 1992 B.A. (Pennsylvania), M.A., Ph.D. Rebekah E. Pite 2007 (University of Washington) B.A. (Amherst), Ph.D. (University of Professor and Head of the Department Michigan) Assistant Professor Hannah W.Stewart-Gambino 2007 B.A. (Converse College), M.A., Ph.D. (Duke) MATHEMATICS Professor and Dean of the College Lorenzo Traldi 1980 James E. Lennertz 1975 B.A. (Queens-New York), Ph.D. (Yale) A.B. (Boston College), J.D. (Harvard), Marshall R. Metzgar Professor of Ph.D. (Pennsylvania) Mathematics Associate Professor Evan D. Fisher 1986 Katalin Fabian 2000 B.A. (Rochester), M.S. Ph.D. (Illinois) University Diploma (University of Professor Economics, Budapest), M.A. (Notre Dame), Ph.D. (Syracuse University) Gary P. Gordon 1986 Assistant Professor B.S. (Florida), Ph.D. (North Carolina) Professor HISTORY L. Thomas Hill 1979 B.S. (North Carolina State), Ph.D. Andrew C. Fix 1985 (Virginia) B.A. (Wake Forest), M.A., Ph.D. (Indiana) Professor Charles A. Dana Professor of History Elizabeth W. McMahon 1986 Donald L. Miller 1977 A.B. (Mount Holyoke), M.S. (Michigan), B.A. (St. Vincent's), M.A. (Ohio), Ph.D. Ph.D. (North Carolina) (Maryland) Professor John Henry MacCracken Professor of History John E. Meier 1992 B.A. (Virginia), M.S., Ph.D. (Cornell) Arnold A. Offner 1991 Professor B.A. (Columbia), M.A., Ph.D. (Indiana) Cornelia F. Hugel Professor of History Clifford A. Reiter 1983 B.S. (Bucknell), M.S. (Rutgers), Ph.D. Robert I. Weiner 1969 (Pennsylvania State) B.A. (Temple), M.A., Ph.D. (Rutgers) Professor Thomas Roy and Lura Forrest Jones Professor of History Ethan J. Berkove 1999 B.S. (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor), Donald C. Jackson 1989 M.A., Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin- B.S. (Swarthmore), M.A., Ph.D. Madison) (Pennsylvania) Associate Professor Professor Arthur D. Gorman 1982 Deborah A. Rosen 1990 B.S. (Illinois), M.A. (Washington A.B. (Princeton), J.D. (Boston University University), Ph.D. (Pennsylvania State) 213

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Associate Professor Scott R. Hummel 1998 B.S. (Hartford), M.S. (Stevens Institute of Chawne M. Kimber 2000 Technology), Ph.D. (Lehigh) B.S. (University of Florida), M.S. (UNC- Associate Professor and Head of the Chapel Hill), Ph.D. (University of Florida) Department Associate Professor Richard A. Merz 1981 Qin Lu 1999 B.S., M.S., Ph.D. (Rutgers) B.S. (Tsinghua University, China), Ph.D. Associate Professor, P.E. (Pennsylvania, (Ohio State) New Jersey, Ohio) Associate Professor Steven M. Nesbit 1990 Robert G. Root 1991 B.S., M.S., Ph.D. (West Virginia) A.B. (Vassar), M.A. (Johns Hopkins), Ph.D. Associate Professor, P.E. (Pennsylvania) (Delaware) Associate Professor and Associate Head of Karl A. Seeler 1989 the Department S.B.C.E., S.M.C.E., S.M.M.E., Ph.D. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Chester J. Salwach 1976 Associate Professor, P.E. (Pennsylvania) B.S. (LaSalle), M.S., Ph.D. (Lehigh) Associate Professor and Head of the M. Erol Ulucakli 1988 Department M.S. (Technical University of Istanbul), Ph.D. (Michigan) Derek Smith 1999 Associate Professor B.S. (North Carolina State), M.A., Ph.D. (Princeton) Jeffrey D. Helm 2002 Associate Professor B.S., M.S., Ph.D. (University of South Carolina) J. Randolph Stonesifer 1975 Assistant Professor A.B. (Dartmouth), Ph.D. (California Institute of Technology) Jennifer S. Rossman 2005 Associate Professor B.S., Ph.D. (UCLA – Berkeley) Assistant Professor Thomas R. Yuster 1983 B.S. (Stanford), M.A., Ph.D. (Wisconsin) Joshua H. Smith 2007 Associate Professor and Faculty Liaison, B.S. (Bucknell), M.S., Ph.D. (University of VAST Virginia) Assistant Professor Louis Zulli 1999 B.S. (SUNY-Stony Brook), M.S., Ph.D. (Cornell) MUSIC Associate Professor Anthony M. Cummings 2006 Justin J. Corvino 2004 B.A. (Williams), M.F.A., Ph.D. (Princeton) B.S. (MIT), M.S., Ph.D. (Stanford) Professor Assistant Professor J. Larry Stockton 1977 Miranda I. Teboh-Ewungkem B.S., M.M.E. (Western Carolina), D.M.A. B.S., M.S. (Buea), M.S., Ph.D. (Lehigh) (Temple) Assistant Professor Professor and Head of the Department

James A. Moyer 2004 MECHANICAL B.M.Ed. (Susquehanna), M.M., D.M.A. (Oaklahoma) ENGINEERING Associate Professor Leonard A. Van Gulick 1974-77, 1981 George Torres 2004 B.S. (Newark College of Engineering), B.F.A. (California Institute of the Arts), M.A., M.S., Ph.D. (Princeton) M.A., Ph.D. (Cornell) Matthew Baird Professor of Mechanical Associate Professor Engineering, and Chair of B.S. in Engineering/ A.B. in International Studies Walter R. Wilkins, III 2001 Program, P.E. (Pennsylvania) A.B. (College of the Holy Cross), M.M. (University of Northern Colorado) Associate Professor 214

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Jennifer Kelly 2006 and Acting Assistant Head of the B.A., M.M., D.M.A. (California-Los Department Angeles) Assistant Professor Wendy L. Hill 1989 B.A. (Douglass), Ph.D. (University of Washington) PHILOSOPHY William C. '67 and Pamela H. Rappolt Professor in Neuroscience and Provost and George E. Panichas 1980 Dean of the Faculty B.A. (Rhode Island), M.A., Ph.D. (Arizona) James Renwick Hogg Professor of Mental Ann V. McGillicuddy-De Lisi 1985 and Moral Philosophy and Head of the B.A. (Rochester), M.A., Ph.D. (Catholic) Department Marshall R. Metzgar Professor of Psychology J. Owen McLeod 1998 B.A. (King's College, London), M.A. Alan W. Childs 1980 (University of Washington), Ph.D. B.A. (Maryville), Ph.D. (Tennessee) (Massachusetts-Amherst) Professor and Faculty Liaison, FYS Associate Professor Robert W. Allan 1991 Alessandro Giovannelli 2006 B.S. (Brigham Young), Ph.D. (New York Laurea (University of Florence), M.A. University) (Yale), M.A., Ph.D. (Maryland) Associate Professor Assistant Professor Jamila Bookwala 2001 Joseph H. Shieber 2003 B.A. (University of Bombay), M.A. B.A. (Yale), A.M., Ph.D. (Brown) (CUNY), M.S., Ph.D. (University of Assistant Professor Pittsburgh) Associate Professor John S. Shaw, III 1997 PHYSICS B.A. (Vanderbilt), J.D. (Stanford Law Anthony D. Novaco 1973 School), M.A., Ph.D. (California- Los B.S., M.S., Ph.D. (Stevens Institute of Angeles) Technology) Associate Professor and Acting Head of the Marshall R. Metzgar Professor of Physics Department G. Lyle Hoffman 1983 Andrew J. Vinchur 1989 B.A. (Dartmouth), M.Sc., Ph.D. (Cornell) B.A. (Rutgers), M.S., Ph.D. (Memphis Professor and Head of the Department State) Associate Professor Bradley C. Antanaitis 1984 A.B. (Northeastern), Ph.D. (Columbia) Lisa A. Gabel 2007 Associate Professor B.S. (Allegheny College), M.A., Ph.D. (University of Connecticut) Andrew J. Dougherty 1990 Assistant Professor B.S. (St. Joseph's), Ph.D. (Pennsylvania) Associate Professor Jeannine M. Pinto 2001 B.A. (Vassar), M.A., Ph.D. (University of Andrew Kortyna 2001 Virginia) B.S. (Juniata), Ph.D. (Wesleyan) Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Jennifer M. Talarico 2006 Michael J. Stark 2001 B.A. (Michigan), M.A., Ph.D. (Duke) B.S. (Harvey Mudd), Ph.D. (University of Assistant Professor Maryland) Assistant Professor RELIGIOUS STUDIES PSYCHOLOGY Robert L. Cohn 1987 B.A. (Northwestern), A.M., Ph.D. Susan A. Basow 1977 (Stanford) B.A. (Douglass), M.A., Ph.D. (Brandeis) Professor and Philip and Muriel Berman Charles A. Dana Professor of Psychology Chair of Jewish Studies 215

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Stephen E. Lammers 1969 Digital Initiatives Librarian A.B., M.A. (Marquette), Ph.D. (Brown) Helen H.P. Manson Professor of the English Rebecca Metzger 2006 Bible B.A. (Smith), M.S. (Simmons) Reference and Instruction Librarian Eric J. Ziolkowski 1988 B.A. (Dartmouth), M.A., Ph.D. (Chicago) Diane W. Shaw 1985 Charles A. Dana Professor of Religious B.A., M.L.S. (Emory) Studies Special Collections Librarian and College Archivist Robin C. Rinehart 1991 B.A., M.A. (University of Washington), Lijuan Xu 2003 Ph.D. (Pennsylvania) B.A.L.S. (Wuhan University, China), Associate Professor and Head of the M.L.S. (Clarion) Instruction Coordinator Department Asma Sayeed 2006 B.A. (Princeton), M.A. (Binghamton), Ph.D. FACULTY EMERITI (Princeton) Assistant Professor Joseph R. Arboleda 1964-94 A.B. (New York University), M.A. (Florida), M.A., Ph.D. (Princeton) LIBRARY Associate Professor Emeritus of Foreign Languages and Literatures Neil J. McElroy 1990 B.A. (Rhodes), M.L.S. (Simmons), M.T.S. Lawrence W. Beer 1982-97 (Harvard) A.B., M.A. (Gonzaga), Ph.D. (University of Dean of Libraries and Information Washington) Technology Services Professor Emeritus of Government and Law Amy E. Abruzzi 2000 Susan L. Blake 1974-2006 B.A., M.L.S. (Rutgers), M.A. (New York A.B., A.M. (Brown), Ph.D. (Connecticut) University) Professor Emerita of English Reference Resources Coordinator Mary Jane C. Bradford 1960-85 Robert E. Duncan 1997 A.B. (Mt. Holyoke), Ph.D. (Wisconsin) B.A. (Skidmore), M.L.S. (SUNY-Albany) Associate Professor Emerita of Biology Systems Librarian Robert W. Bradford 1953-85 Helen V. Dungan 1969 A.B. (Dartmouth), A.M. (Columbia), Ph.D. B.S. (Kutztown), M.S.L.S. (Drexel) (Syracuse) Cataloging Librarian Associate Professor Emeritus of English Katherine A. Furlong 2002 J. Marshall Brown 1954-89 B.A., M.L.I.S. (University of Pittsburgh) B.S., Ph.D. (Pennsylvania State) Associate Director for Access and Professor Emeritus of Psychology Administrative Services Jean-Pierre Cap 1968-99 Michael J. Hanson 2006 B.A., M.A. (Temple), M.A. (Pennsylvania), B.A. (Utah), M.L.S. (Indiana) Ph.D. (Rutgers) Acquisitions and Serials Librarian Professor Emeritus of Foreign Languages and Literatures Terese A. Heidenwolf 1992 B.A. (Notre Dame), M.I.L.S. (Michigan) Wallace M. Catanach, Jr. 1959-92 Associate Director for Research and B.S. in Ag.E. (Pennsylvania State), M.S. in Instructional Services M.E. (Bradley), Ph.D. (Lehigh) Associate Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Ana Ramirez Luhrs 2008 Engineering B.A. (Fairleigh Dickinson), MLIS (Rutgers) Librarian, Kirby Library Robert S. Chase, Jr. 1958-96 A.B. (Haverford), M.A. (Arkansas), Ph.D. Eric S. Luhrs 2005 (Bryn Mawr) B.A. (Fairleigh Dickinson), M.A. Professor Emeritus of Biology (University of Birmingham, U.K.), M.L.I.S. (Rutgers) 216

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Dorothy L. Cieslicki 1980-90 David L. Hogenboom 1965-2000 B.S. (Bucknell), M.L.S. (Columbia), M.L.A. B.A. (Wooster), M.S., Ph.D. (Pennsylvania (Johns Hopkins) State) Librarian Emerita Professor Emeritus of Physics Jacob E. Cooke 1962-90 William C. Holstein 1959-92 A.B. (North Carolina), M.A., Ph.D. B.C.E. (Union), M.C.E. (Rensselaer (Columbia) Polytechnic Institute) Professor Emeritus of History Associate Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering David S. Crockett III 1959-96 A.B. (Colby), M.S., Ph.D. (New Laylin K. James, Jr. 1959-90 Hampshire) B.S., M.S. (Michigan), Ph.D. (Illinois) Professor Emeritus of Chemistry Professor Emeritus of Chemistry George E. Davidson 1965-90 Donald R. Jenkins 1947, 1959-87 A.B. (Lafayette), M.A. (Lehigh) B.S. in M.E. (Rutgers), M.S. in M.E. Instructor Emeritus in Physical Education (Lehigh) Associate Professor Emeritus of Mechanical William M. Dobriner 1971-88 Engineering, P.E. (Pennsylvania, New A.B. (Hofstra), M.A., Ph.D. (Columbia) Jersey, Michigan) Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Sociology William R. Jones 1963-94 B.S. (Glassboro State), M.S., Ph.D. David W. Ellis 1978-90 (Rutgers) B.A. (Haverford), Ph.D. (Massachusetts Professor Emeritus of Mathematics Institute of Technology), LL.D. (Lehigh, Lafayette), Sc.D. (Susquehanna, Ursinus) Bernard S. Katz 1967-91 President Emeritus of the College B.B.A., M.A. (Michigan), Ph.D. (Connecticut) Lester C. Erich 1947-82 Associate Professor Emeritus of Economics B.S., M.S., Ph.D. (Lehigh) and Business Associate Professor Emeritus of Physics Winfield Keck 1949-83 Richard W. Faas 1964-95 B.A. (Amherst), M.A. (Pennsylvania), Ph.D. A.B. (Lawrence), M.S., Ph.D. (Iowa State) (Brown) Professor Emeritus of Geology Professor Emeritus of Physics Patricia M. Fisher 1980-2002 Olav B. Kollevoll 1965-89 B.S. (East Stroudsburg) B.A. (Colgate), M.A. (Saint Lawrence) Instructor Emerita of Athletics Professor Emeritus of Physical Education Bernard Fried 1963-2000 and Athletics A.B. (New York University), M.S. (New Edward V. Krick 1960-88 Hampshire), Ph.D. (Connecticut) B.S. in I.E. (Lehigh), M.M.E. (Cornell) Professor Emeritus of Biology Professor Emeritus of Engineering Science Howard F. Gallup 1958-95 Martin D. Landau 1965-88 B.A. (Rutgers), M.A. Ph.D. (Pennsylvania) B.S. (Massachusetts Institute of Professor Emeritus of Psychology Technology), M.A. (Syracuse), Ph.D. Ann Gold 1982-2007 (Lehigh) B.S. (Ursinus) Associate Professor Emeritus of Instructor Emerita of Athletics Mathematics Warren J. Guy 1964-98 William L. Lawson 1965-2002 B.S. (Drexel), M.A. (Temple), Sc.D. B.S. (Springfield), M.Ed. (Westfield State) (Newark College of Engineering) Instructor Emeritus Professor Emeritus of Electrical Brenda J. Latka 1991-2005 Engineering B.S. (Maryland), M.A. (Johns Hopkins), Harold M. Hochman 1992-2003 Ph.D. (Rutgers) B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Yale) Associate Professor Emerita of Mathematics Professor Emeritus of Economics and Herman I. Liebling 1976-82 Business B.A. (Brooklyn), M.A., Ph.D. (American) 217

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Professor Emeritus of Economics and Professor Emeritus of Mathematics Business June Schlueter 1977-08 John P. Losee, Jr. 1961-2000 B.A. (Fairleigh Dickinson), M.A. (Hunter), A.B. (Colgate), M.S. (Cornell), Ph.D. Ph.D. (Columbia) (Drew) Professor Emerita of English Professor Emeritus of Philosophy James P. Schwar 1962-2000 Shyamal K. Majumdar 1969-2006 B.S. (Lafayette), M.S.E. (Princeton), Ph.D. B.Sc. (Calcutta), M.S., Ph.D. (Kentucky) (Lehigh) Professor Emeritus of Biology Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Joseph N. Mancini 1984-96 P.E. (Pennsylvania, Texas) B.S. (Rhode Island), M.Ed. (Providence) Instructor Emeritus of Physical Education Edmond J. Seifried 1978-2008 A.B. (Indiana-Pennsylvania), A.M. Joseph J. Martin 1967-2004 (Connecticut), Ph.D. (West Virginia) B.S. (Fordham), M.A. (Indiana), Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Economics and (Pennsylvania State Business Associate Professor Emeritus of English Mercedes Benitez Sharpless 1975-08 Donald McCluskey 1946-80 B.A. (Universidad de Antioquia, Columbia), A.B. (Lafayette), Ph.D. (Yale) M.A.L.S. (Michigan) Associate Professor Emeritus of English Librarian Emerita Leon J. McGeady 1949-86 Richard E. Sharpless 1970-2003 B.S., M.S., Ph.D. (Lehigh) A.B. (Elizabethtown), M.A., Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Metallurgical (Rutgers) Engineering Professor Emeritus of History Terence J. McGhee 1989-99 Joseph A. Sherma, Jr. 1958-2000 B.S. (Newark College of Engineering), M.S. B.S. (Upsala), Ph.D. (Rutgers) (Virginia Polytechnic), Ph.D. (Kansas) Professor Emeritus of Chemistry Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering, P.E. Ralph L. Slaght 1969-2003 (Nebraska) A.B. (Eastern), M.A., Ph.D. (Pennsylvania) Professor Emeritus of Philosophy William E. Melin 1973-2005 Mus.B. (Lawrence), Mus. M. (American Arthur Statum 1969-94 Conservatory of Music), Ph.D. (Ohio State) B.S., M.S. (North Carolina A&T) Professor Emeritus of Music Instructor Emeritus of Physical Education Thomas G. Miller 1957-87 Samuel Stoddard, Jr. 1946-85 A.B. (Miami), M.S., Ph.D. (Illinois) B.S. (Bates), M.S. (Lehigh) Professor Emeritus of Chemistry Associate Professor Emeritus of Mathematics Michael A. Paolino 1986-2005 B.S. (Siena), M.S., Ph.D. (Arizona) Elwyn E. Tilden 1949-78 Professor Emeritus of Mechanical A.B. (Harvard), Th.B., Th.D. (Princeton Engineering, P.E. (Virginia) Theological Seminary) Professor Emeritus of Bible Catherine R. Perricone 1988-98 B.A. (Notre Dame College), M.A. B. Vincent Viscomi 1964-2005 (Oklahoma), Ph.D. (Tulane) B.S. (Drexel), M.S. (Lehigh), Ph.D. Professor Emerita of Foreign Languages (Colorado) and Literatures Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering, P.E. Earl A. Pope 1960-90 (Pennsylvania) B.A., M.A. (Wheaton), B.D. (Yale), Ph.D. (Brown) Barbara Young 1975-2003 Professor Emeritus of Religion B.S. (Delaware), M.S. (West Chester) Instructor Emerita of Physical Education Charles W. Saalfrank 1952-86 B.S. (Pennsylvania), M.S. (Nevada), Ph.D. (Pennsylvania) 218

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PRESIDENT Simon Tonev Daniel H. Weiss B.S. (Toronto), PhD. (Duke) Assistant Director of Institutional Research B.A. (George Washington), M.A. (Johns Hopkins), M.B.A. (Yale School of Management), Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins) President LIBRARY Stevie O. Daniels Neil J. McElroy B.A. (St. Andrews), B.S. (University of B.S. (Rhodes), M.L.S. (Simmons), M.T.S. Georgia) (Harvard) Administrative Secretary to the Board of Dean of Libraries and Information Trustees, Executive Assistant to the Technology Services President Elaine McCluskey Stomber Marie L. Enea B.A. (Lafayette) Assistant to the President Associate College Archivist

PROVOST AND DEAN OF ACADEMIC TECHNOLOGY THE FACULTY AND NETWORK SERVICES John O'Keefe Wendy L. Hill B.A. (Lafayette) B.A. (Douglass), Ph.D. (University of Director of Academic Technology and Washington) Network Services Provost and Dean of the Faculty; William C. ’67 and Pamela H. Rappolt Professor in Jason Alley Neuroscience BA (Grove City College), M.Ed. (William and Mary) Mary J.S. Roth Instructional Technologist B.S. (Lafayette), M.S. (Cornell), Ph. D. (Maine) Bob Bailey Associate Provost of Academic Operations; Senior Application Developer Simon Cameron Long Professor of Civil Courtney Bentley and Environmental Engineering Instructional Technology Program Coordinator Emily A. Schneider B.A. (Rutgers) Janemarie Berry Executive Assistant to the Provost B.A. (East Stroudsburg) Systems Programmer Nancy L. Williams Assistant to the Provost Brenda Bomgardner Academic Technology Facilities Support Nancy L. Ball Specialist A.B. (Denison), M.Ed. (Indiana) Director of Sponsored Programs Edwardo D. Bonilla User Services Specialist FFICE OF NSTITUTIONAL Michael Costello O I B.S. (Bucknell) Electrical Engineering, B.A. RESEARCH (Bucknell) Physics Associate Director of Network Services and James P. Schaffer Senior Systems Programmer B.S.E.M.S.., Ph.D. (Duke) Professor and Acting Director of 219

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Patricia A. Facciponti Programmer/Analyst B.S. Ed. (Kutztown) Instructional Technologist Tina Werkheiser B.S. (DeSales) John Fulton Programmer/Analyst B.S. (Rutgers) Associate Director of Network Services and Senior Systems Programmer ENROLLMENT SERVICES Amy A. Gordon Roberto Noya B.S. (Elizabethtown) A.B. (New York University), M.Ed. Faculty Services Consultant (Harvard) Dean of Enrollment Services Peter R. Hoernle Network Engineer Edward J. Hudock ADMISSIONS Academic Technology Facilities Manager Carol A. Rowlands John Iannucelli A.B. (Lafayette), M.S. (Villanova) Hardware Consultant Director of Admissions Robert N. Jones Charles O. Bachman B.A. (Fordham) B.S., B.A. (Kings), M.A. (Connecticut) Network Administrator Senior Associate Director of Admissions Chris J. Koch Susan E. Burns A.B. (Lafayette College) B.A. (Bucknell) Manager, User Services Group Senior Associate Director of Admissions Kenneth Newquist Anne Marie Ferriere B.A. (Lockhaven) B.A. (Gettysburg) Web Applications Specialist Associate Director of Admissions Rich Santillo B.S. (The College of New Jersey), M.S. Eugene Gabay (Lehigh) B.A. (College of Wooster) User Services Specialist Associate Director of Admissions Lori Young Joan B. Lichtenwalner User Services Specialist A.B. (Lafayette) Senior Assistant Director of Admissions Dana M. Matassino ADMINISTRATIVE B.A. (Gettysburg), M.A. (Seton Hall) INFORMATION SYSTEMS Senior Assistant Director of Admissions

Paulette R. Poloni Michael Materasso B.S. (Allentown), M.B.A. (Wilkes) B.A. (Connecticut) Director of Administrative Technology Assistant Director of Admissions Services Leah S. Austin Richard J. Higgins B.S. (Tuskeegee) M.S. (Virginia Tech) B.S. (DeSales) Assistant Director of Admissions Enterprise System Support Analyst Jonathan Li Lauren M. Carballo M.S. (Ohio State) B.A. (Muhlenberg) Database Administrator Assistant Director of Admissions

Marat Litvan Jessica C. Goldblat B.S. (Ukrainian Technical ) A.B. (Lafayette) Banner Applications Support Analyst Assistant Director of Admissions Douglas R. Stewart Lynne A. Murray B.S. (Allentown College) Technology Specialist

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TUDENT INANCIAL ID B.A. (Lafayette College), M.A. (Seton S F A Hall), Ed.S, Ed.D.(Seton Hall) Arlina DeNardo Director of Academic Resource Center

B.A., M.B.A. (Tulane) Director of Student Financial Aid ENGINEERING Laurie A. Chisesi B.A. (Rider) Sharon A. Jones Associate Director of Student Financial Aid B.S. (Columbia), M.E. University of and Admissions Florida, M.P.A. (California State University at Long Beach) Ph.D. (Carnegie Mellon) Jeffrey D. Metz Director of the Engineering Division and B.S. (Fairleigh Dickinson University) Professor of Civil and Environmental Manager of Financial Aid Engineering Information Systems Rebecca L. Rosenbauer B.S. (Lafayette), M.E. (Rensselaer) REGISTRAR Director of Engineering Computer Graphics Laboratory and Lecturer in Engineering Francis A. Benginia B.S.Ed. (Mansfield), M.Ed. (Lehigh) Thomas J. DeFazio Registrar Coordinator of Chemical and David K. Thomas Environmental Engineering Laboratories B.A. (Colby) Associate Registrar Harry Folk Supervisor Engineering Machine Shop

DEAN OF THE COLLEGE Christopher Nadovich Hannah Stewart-Gambino ME.E. Rensselaer Polytechnic Lab Director B.A. (Converse College), Ph.D. (Duke) Dean of the College Beverly Bortz Coordinator Karen Clemence B.A. (DePauw), M.P.A. (Lehigh) Associate Dean of the College HUMANITIES

Ronald E. Robbins Lewis Minter A.B., M.A.T., M.A. (Indiana) BF.A. (Maryland Institute) Associate Dean of the College Visting Media Lab Director/Lecture

Julia A. Goldberg Christian Tatu B.A., M.A., (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), B.A., M.A. (Millersville); Ph.D. (ABD) M.Phil., Ph.D., (Cambridge) (Lehigh) Associate Dean of the College CWP Coordinator

Susan Herschlag James Toia B.A. (Rutgers) B.A. (Bard College); MFA (School of Project Mgr/Tech Liaison Visual Arts NYC) Director/Community Arts Program Michael Jordan B.A. (Carleton), M.A. (Northwestern), Mary Toulouse Ph.D. (Emory) B.A. (Skidmore); M.A. (New York Director of International Off Campus University); M.Ed. Technology (Lehigh) Education Director/Language Lab

Dana Filchner B.S., M.S. (Radford University) NATURAL SCIENCE Associate Director of Academic Resource Center Carolyn Buckley B.S. (SUNY College at Oswego), M.A. Erica Matos (East Stroudsburg), PhD.(Lehigh) 221

OFFICERS OF ADMINISTRATION

Lab Coordinator ESIDENCE IFE R L Michael Chejlava Annette Diorio B.S. (Harvey Mudd College), PhD. (Kansas B.S. (SUNY), M.Ed. (St. Lawrence), Ed.D. State) (University of Kansas) Instrumentation Specialist Associate Dean of Students and Director of Residence Life John Drummond B.S. (Pennsylvania State College) Laurel E. Peffer General Lab Biology/Lab Coordinator B.S. (Ball State University), M. Ed. (Bowling Green State) Gail Salter Assistant Director of Residence Life and B.S. (Mississippi College), Ph.D. Adviser to Fraternities and Sororities (Vanderbilt) General Chemistry Lab Coordinator Grace E. Reynolds B.A. (Univ. of Michigan), M.A. (William & John Wilson Mary) B.S. (University of New Hampshire), M.A. Associate Director of Residence Life (Virginia Polytechnic) Julie Ann Mulé Lab Coordinator B.S. (St. Peter's), M.Ed. (William & Mary) Assistant Director of Residence Life

SOCIAL SCIENCE Clarence Scott Jr. David Woglom B.A. (Cabrini College), M.Ed. (Salisbury B.A.(Lafayette College) M.S. (Lehigh) University) Associate Director for Public Service Assistant Director of Residence Life Coordinator of Off-Campus Housing

STUDENT AFFAIRS James F. Krivoski A.B. (James Madison), M.S. INTERCULTURAL (Shippensburg), Ed. Spec. (James Madison), DEVELOPMENT Ed.D. (Columbia) Amina M. DeBurst Vice President for Student Affairs and B.A. (Haverford), M.A. (Columbia) Assistant to the President Assistant Director of Intercultural Development Kevin D. Worthen B.S. (William & Mary), M.S. (Tennessee) Dean of Students CHAPLAIN John P. Colatch STUDENT ACTIVITIES B.A. (West Virginia Wesleyan College), M.Ed. (Duquesne), M.Div (Duke), D.Min. Pamela E. Brewer (Colgate Rochester Crozer Div. School) B.A. (North Carolina Chapel Hill), M.Ed. Director of Religious Life and College (James Madison) Chaplain Associate Dean of Students and Director of Student Life Programs Lauren Ibbotson CULTURAL PROGRAMS B.A., M.A. (Rowan) H. Ellis Finger Assistant Director of Student Life Programs A.B. (Davidson), M.A. (Duke), Ph.D. (Princeton) Jessica Manjack Director of Cultural Programs B.S. (East Stroudsburg), M.Ed. (Kutztown University) Allison Q. Blatt Assistant Operations Manager B.A. (Concord) Operations Director, Williams Center for the Arts

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Richard A. Kendrick Matthew F. Bayly B.A. (Colorado), M.A. (North Carolina) B.S. (Springfield), M.Ed. (Virginia) Technical Director of Cultural Programs Director of Sports Medicine and Head Athletic Trainer LANDIS COMMUNITY Dennis Bohn B.S. (Columbia) OUTREACH CENTER Head Men's Soccer Coach Bonnie Winfield Terri Dadio Campbell B.A., Ph.D. (Syracuse University) B.A. (Lafayette), M. Ed. (College of New Director of Landis Outreach Community Jersey) Center Head Volleyball Coach

Amber Zuber Richard A. Clagett, Jr. B.A. (Cedar Crest), M.A. (Ohio State B.A. (Utah) University) Assistant Baseball Coach Community Outreach Coordinator Michele M. Curcio B.S. (Delaware), M.Ed. (East Stroudsburg) HEALTH CENTER Assistant Men's and Women's Track & Field and Cross Country Coach Jeffrey E. Goldstein B.S. (Rutgers), M.D. (New York Medical James L. Dailey College) B.S. (SUNY-Courtland), M.Ed. (Lehigh) Director of Health Services and College Head Men's and Women's Swimming Coach Physician Joseph J. Dougherty III B.S. (Dickinson), M.E. (Rowan) COUNSELING SERVICES Assistant Football Coach

Karen J. Forbes Mickey D. Fein B.A. (Oberlin), M.S., Ph.D. (Florida) B.S. (Maine) Director of Counseling Services and Student Assistant Football Coach Life Research Alison L. Fisher Timothy J. Silvestri B.S. (Lafayette College) B.A. (Muhlenberg), Ph.D. (Lehigh) Head Women's Lacrosse Coach Assistant Director of Counseling Services Andrew Griffiths B.A. (Ryerson University) ATHLETICS Instructor, Head Field Hockey Coach Bruce E. McCutcheon Jeanine A. Gunther B.A. (William & Mary), M.A., Ph.D. (Ohio B.A. (Univ. of NC at Chapel Hill), M.Ed. State) (Penn State) Director of Athletics Head Softball Coach George L. Bright Matthew R. Hachmann B.A. (Claflin), M.Ed. (South Carolina State) B.A. (St. Thomas), M.S. (Oklahoma and Associate Director of Athletics Northern Illinois) Assistant Football Coach Kaitlyn M. Cerco B.A. (Moravian College), M.S. (East Robert Heffner Stroudsburg) B.S. (Temple) Associate Director of Athletics- Senior Associate Head Football Coach Women's Administrator Brian Herr Margeritte Abdelkodoos B.S. (Drexel University) B.E. (Steven Institute of Technology), Assistant Women's Soccer Coach M.S. (Seton Hall) Al Holcomb Assistant Athletic Trainer B.S. (West Virginia University) Assistant Football Coach 223

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Joseph A. Kinney Michael Statham B.S., M.A. (Lehigh) B.A. (Franklin Pierce College) Head Baseball Coach Head Women's Soccer Coach

Bryan Laut Frank A. Tavani, Jr. B.A. (Assumption College) B.A. (Lebanon Valley) Assistant Men's Soccer Coach Head Men's Football Coach

Joshua A. Loeffler Bryan T. Valladares B.A. (Swarthmore College) B.A. (Alfred University) Assistant Men's Basketball Coach Director of Athletic Equipment Services

John C. Loose Jeanette Wedo B.S. (Ithaca), M.S. (Albany) B.A. (San Diego), M.S. (East Stroudsburg) Assistant Football Coach Assistant Women's Basketball Coach

Terence J. Mangan B.A. (Roanoke) RECREATION SERVICES Head Men's Lacrosse Coach Jodie A. Frey Christopher Meny B.S. (West Chester), M.Ed. (Temple) B.S. (Montclair State), M.S. (California Assistant Dean of Students and Director of University of PA) Recreation Services Associate Athletic Trainer Karen A. Howell Tiffany A. Muir B.S. (Ithaca College), M.Ed. (Temple) B.A. (UNC-Chapel Hill) M.S. Assistant Director of Recreation Services (Kentucky) Assistant Athletic Trainer Carolyn C. Hill A. B. (North Carolina State) LaRonda M. Murphy Coordinator of Intramural and Club Sports B.B.A. (Saginaw Valley State), M.A. (Eastern Michigan) Assistant Women's Basketball Coach BUSINESS AFFAIRS AND Francis B. O'Hanlon FINANCE B.S. (Villanova) Mitchell L. Wein Head Men's Basketball Coach B.S. (Arizona State), M.S. (Carnegie Melon) Julio A. Piazza Vice President for Business Affairs and B.A., M.S.Ed. (Pennsylvania) Treasurer Instructor, Head Men's and Women's Track and Field and Cross Country Coach Kari A. Fazio B.A. (Georgetown), M.B.A. (Columbia) Brad Potts Director of Finance and Business B.S. (Duquesne), M.S. (IUP) Operations Head Strength and Conditioning Coach Rosemary M. Bader C. Eric Ratchford B.S. (Allentown College) B.S. (Appalachian State), M.S. (Idaho State) Associate Treasurer Head Men’s and Women’s Tennis Coach Dawn M. Schleiden B.A. (Millersville) CONTROLLER Senior Associate Athletic Trainer Paul H. Zimmerman B.S. (Trenton State), C.P.A. Peter B. Schwethelm Associate Vice President for Business B.A. (Trinity) Affairs and Controller Assistant Men's Basketball Coach Judy Reed Tammy Smith B.S. (Bloomsburg), MBA (Mason) B.S. (East Stroudsburg) Associate Controller Head Women's Basketball Coach 224

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Jill E. Snyder CHEDULING AND VENTS B.A. (Muhlenberg) S E Assistant Controller PLANNING Theresa K. Antolick Donna Yellen Manager Scheduling and Events Planning B.S. (Fort Lauderdale College) Special Funds Accountant PURCHASING AND Thomas C. Duffy B.S. (East Stroudsburg) ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES Manager Financial Information Systems Linda L. Jroski Rochelle Lam Procurement Manager B.A. (DeSales) Manager, Student Accounts Brad M. Orey Manager, Reprographic and Bulk Mailing Services

PLANT OPERATIONS Bruce S. Ferretti COLLEGE STORE B.S. (Lafayette), B.S. (New Jersey Institute of Technology) Charles J. Corsi Manager of the College Store Director of Plant Operations

Mario A. Cozzubbo Associate Director for Plant Operations and DEVELOPMENT AND Trades COLLEGE RELATIONS

James W. Dicker FACILITIES PLANNING & A.B. (Lafayette) Vice President for Development and CONSTRUCTION AND College Relations SUSTAINABILITY Gary A. Carney Mary Wilford-Hunt B.S. (Ithaca), M.S. (West Virginia) B.S. (University of Virginia) Director of Development Director of Facilities Planning and Construction Kimberly A. Spang B.S. (Kutztown) George A. Xiques Associate Director for Development B.S.M.E. (New Jersey Institute of Technology) Thomas Hampsey Manager of Sustainability and B.A. (Mount Saint Mary's); Environmental Planning M.A.(University of Scranton) Director/Development Research

PUBLIC SAFETY ALUMNI AFFAIRS Hugh W. Harris B.S (Pennsylvania State) Sherri I. Jones Director of Public Safety B.S. (Cornell) Director of Alumni Affairs James P. Meyer Assistant Director of Public Safety Mary P. Staats B.S., M.A. (Spalding) Jeffrey E. Troxell Associate Director of Alumni Affairs B.S. (Indiana-Pennsylvania) Assistant Director of Public Safety James C. Hughes A.B. (Lafayette) Diana M. Buchok Associate Director of Alumni Affairs Manager, Public Safety Operations

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Associate Director of Estate Planned Giving COLLEGE FUND Joseph E. Samaritano B.A. (Lafayette), M.Ed. (East Stroudsburg) CORPORATE AND Director of the College Fund FOUNDATION RELATIONS

Emily S. Kernan Maurice S. Luker III B.A. (Binghamton) A.B. (Duke), M.A. (Cornell) Assistant Director of the College Fund Director of Foundation and Corporate Relations Elizabeth M. Hertneck B.S. (Loyola College), M.S. (Western Maryland College) DEVELOPMENT Assistant Director of the College Fund COMMUNICATIONS Ann R. Carter PARENT RELATIONS A.B. (Randolph-Macon Women's College), Donna L. Krivoski M.A., Ph.D. (Case Western Reserve) Director of Development Communications B.S. (Shippensburg) Assistant Director of Development Services and Director of Parents Programs ADVANCEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS MAJOR GIFTS Robert T. VanBlargen Elizabeth A. Nelson A.S. (Northampton County Area B.A. (Lafayette), M.A. (Ohio State) Community College) Director of Major Gifts Manager

John E. Leone Jason M. Kalb B.A. (Hartwick), M.Ed. (Syracuse) M.I.S. (Pennsylvania State University) Associate Director of Major Gifts Information Systems Coordinator

James A. Gold B.A. (Moravian) CAREER SERVICES Associate Director of Major Gifts Linda N. Arra Janice A. Egan A.B. (Lafayette), M.Ed. (Lehigh) B.S. (Pennsylvania State University) Director of Career Services Assistant Director of Major Gifts Rachel Moeller Adam S. Stauffer B.A. (Lafayette), M.S. (University of B.S. (East Stroudsburg), M.Ed. (East Pennsylvania) Stroudsburg) Assistant Director of Career Services Assistant Director of Major Gifts Nanette Cooley Kristen P. Quirk Assistant Director for Employer Relations B.A. (Virginia Polytechnic and State University) Maureen Walz Boehmer Director of Stewardship and Special Events B.S. (Rider), M.Ed. (Kutztown) Assistant Director for Special Events Rochelle Crozie ESTATE PLANNED GIVING Recruiting Coordinator

Robert H. Nourse B.S. (U.S. Military Academy), M.A. (New Hampshire), M.A. (Central Michigan) PUBLIC INFORMATION Director of Estate Planned Giving Glenn Airgood Susan M. Bradlau B.A. (Lehigh) B.A. (College of New Rochelle) Director of Public Information

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David A. Block UMAN ESOURCES AND B.A. (Lafayette) H R Alumni Communications Editor GENERAL COUNSEL Roger B. Clow Leslie F. Muhlfelder A.B. (Pennsylvania) B.A. (Lafayette), J.D. (Georgetown Director of College Communications University Law Center) Vice President for Human Resources and Terri Deily General Counsel Customer Service Representative Lisa Rex Allison Gaul B.S. (Kutztown), M.A. (Fairleigh B.S. (Virginia Polytechnic and State Dickinson) University) Director of Human Resources- Employment Web Manager Specialist Donna Kneule Charles F. Crawford B.F.A. (Kutztown) B.S. (Widener) Art Director, Periodicals and Special Assistant Director of Human Resources- Projects Benefits Michael Litzenberger Janice E. Hoffman B.A. (Mansfield) Manager of Human Resources Information News Editor Systems Dale Mack B.S. (East Stroudsburg) Art Director, Graphic Designer Rita T. Malone-Sorensen B.A. (University of Pennsylvania), M.B.A. (Lehigh) Senior Communications Manager Toby Maynard Audio/Video Media Manager Stephanie Shelly B.F.A. (Kutztown) Director of Creative Services & Electronic Media Kristine Y. Todaro B.A. (Muhlenberg) Director of News Services

ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS Scott D. Morse B.S. (Slippery Rock) Director of Athletic Communications and Promotions/Executive Director of the Maroon Club Philip LaBella B.A. (St. Bonaventure) Sports Information Director

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Index

A Degree Programs ...... 19 Degrees ...... 7 A.B. Degree Requirements ...... 8 Departmental Honors...... 20 A.B. in International Studies/B.S. Dining Plans ...... 34 Engineering ...... 97 Disciplinary Suspension ...... 14 Academic Advising...... 17 Disclaimer...... 228 Academic Divisions...... 7 Double Majors ...... 11 Academic Honesty...... 14 Academic Policies...... 19 E Academic Probation...... 13 Economics and Business...... 89 Academic Programs...... 7 Education...... 95 Academic Scholarships...... 33 Electrical and Computer Engineering Academic Services...... 18 ...... 105 Accreditation...... 5 Engineering...... 96 Admissions...... 32 Engineering Studies...... 109 Admissions and Costs...... 32 English...... 116 Advanced Placement...... 32 Evaluation of Faculty and Courses ....16 Advising...... 17 F Africana Studies...... 63 Faculty ...... 204 American Studies...... 65 Faculty Emeriti ...... 212 Anthropology and Sociology ...... 67 Fees...... 33 Art...... 72 Fellowships, Scholarships, and Attendance and Standing ...... 12 Postgraduate Studies ...... 17 Auditing Courses ...... 16 First-Year Seminar...... 37 B Five-Year, Two-Degree Programs.....12 B.S. Degree Requirements...... 8 Foreign Culture Clusters...... 8 Biochemistry...... 78 Foreign Languages and Literatures..126 Biology ...... 79 French Requirements ...... 126 C G Change of Curriculum or Major...... 11 Geology and Environmental Chemical and Biomolecular Geosciences...... 138 Engineering ...... 97 German Requirements ...... 127 Chemistry...... 84 Government & Law and Foreign Civil and Environmental Engineering Language...... 142 ...... 100 Government and Law ...... 142 Class Attendance...... 14 Grades...... 12 College Writing Program...... 29 Graduation Requirements ...... 7 Computer Science ...... 87 Graduation Requirements for All Course Overloads...... 16 Students...... 7 Course Registration...... 14 H Courses of Instruction...... 37 Health Professions ...... 17 Cross-Registration ...... 16 History ...... 4 D History and Government & Law...... 156 Degree Candidacy...... 19 History and Religious Studies...... 157 229

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Honorary Societies...... 20 Payments and Penalties ...... 34 Honors ...... 20 Philosophy...... 173 I Physics...... 176 Policy Studies ...... 180 Incompletes...... 13 Preparation...... 32 Independent Study ...... 29 Prizes and Awards ...... 21 Individualized Major ...... 11 Profile ...... 3 Information Technology Services...... 31 Psychology ...... 182 Interdisciplinary Studies ...... 192 Interim Abroad Program...... 29 R Interim Session ...... 34 Refunds...... 35 Interim Session Programs ...... 27 Religion and Politics...... 186 Interim Session/On Campus ...... 196 Religious Studies...... 186 Interim Session/Study Abroad...... 196 Repeating a Course...... 15 International Affairs...... 157 Required Withdrawal for Academic International Baccalaureate...... 32 Reasons...... 14 International Economics and Russian and East European Studies.191 Commerce...... 158 S International Students ...... 33 Spanish Requirements ...... 128 Internships ...... 29 Special Academic Opportunities ...... 27 Introduction ...... 3 Student Health Insurance...... 36 L Study Abroad...... 27 Lafayette EXCEL Scholars Program.29 Summer Courses...... 16 Lafayette Today...... 5 Summer Session-Language and Culture Leave of Absence ...... 14 Abroad ...... 28 Legal Professions...... 17 T Library Resources...... 30 The Board of Trustees ...... 201 M The Common Course of Study ...... 7 Mathematics...... 159 The Major...... 11 Mathematics and Economics ...... 163 The Minor...... 12 McKelvy Scholars ...... 30 Transcripts...... 14 Mechanical Engineering ...... 111 Transfer Students...... 33 Midterm Grades...... 13 Transferring or Resignation from the Military Science...... 30, 164 College...... 14 Mission Statement ...... 3 Trustees Emeriti...... 202 Music ...... 167 Tuition Prepayment Plan ...... 34 N Tuition Refund Insurance ...... 36 Neuroscience ...... 172 V Non-Discrimination Policy...... 228 Values and Science/Technology Non-matriculating Students ...... 19 Seminar...... 52 O Vision ...... 4 Officers of Administration...... 215 W P Withdrawal from Courses...... 15

Part-Time Studies ...... 19 Pass/Fail Option...... 15

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NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICY

Non-Discrimination Policy

Lafayette College complies with all students, potential students, and the public, applicable federal and state legislation and upon their request. does not in any way discriminate in educational programs or in employment on the basis of gender, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical ability, or sexual orientation.

DISCLAIMER Lafayette College reserves the right in its sole judgment to amend any policy or program described herein without prior notice to persons who might thereby be affected. At its sole option, the College may suspend or eliminate courses, academic departments, or degree programs; change curricular offerings, graduation requirements, and regulations on standing of students, alter its class schedule and academic calendar; or make changes of any nature whenever in its judgment such changes are desirable for any reason. The provisions of this publication are not to be regarded as an irrevocable contract between the College and the student. Payment of tuition or attendance at any classes shall constitute acceptance by the student of the College's rights as set forth in this paragraph.

EQUITY IN ATHLETICS DISCLOSURE Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act (EADA) Statement: In response to a new federal law, the "Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act" (EADA), Lafayette has prepared an annual report covering the prior year which contains financial information, rates of participation, and other data related to women's and men's athletic programs. A copy of this report will be available for review after October 1 each year at Skillman Library, the Office of Admissions, the Office of Financial Aid, and the Department of Athletics and Physical Education. In accordance with the new law, Lafayette is informing all students and potential students of the availability of the information contained in the report, and will provide a copy of the EADA Report to

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