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Undergraduate Course Offerings 2019-2020 CALENDAR FALL 2019 Saturday, August 31 Opening Day New students arrive Monday, September 2 Returning students arrive Monday, October 21 and October Study Days Tuesday, October 22 Wednesday, November Thanksgiving break (begins after last academic 27–Sunday, December 1 appointment on Tuesday) Friday, December 20 Last day of classes Saturday, December 21 Residence halls close 10 a.m. SPRING 2020 Sunday, January 19 Students return Saturday, March 14–Sunday, Spring break March 22 Friday, May 8 Last day of classes Saturday, May 9 Residence halls close for first-years, sophomores, and juniors at 5 p.m. Friday, May 15 Commencement Residence halls close for seniors at 8 p.m. The Curriculum . 3 Latin . 85 Africana Studies . 3 Latin American and Latino/a Studies . 85 Anthropology . 4 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Architecture and Design Studies . 9 Studies . 86 Art History . 10 Literature . 89 Asian Studies . 14 Mathematics . 100 Biology . 18 Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies . 103 Chemistry . 22 Modern and Classical Languages and Chinese . 25 Literatures . 103 Classics . 26 Music . 104 Cognitive and Brain Science . 26 Philosophy . 116 Computer Science . 27 Physics . 120 Dance . 29 Political Economy . 122 Development Studies . 35 Politics . 123 Economics . 36 Practicum . 0 Environmental Studies . 39 Psychology . 128 Ethnic and Diasporic Studies . 41 Public Policy . 141 Film History . 42 Religion . 143 Filmmaking and Moving Image Arts . 46 Russian . 147 French . 57 Science and Mathematics . 148 Games, Interactive Art, and New Genres 59 Pre-Health Program Gender and Sexuality Studies . 60 Social Science . 149 Geography . 61 Sociology . 149 German . 64 Spanish . 154 Greek (Ancient) . 66 Theatre . 156 Health, Science, and Society . 67 Urban Studies . 168 History . 68 Visual and Studio Arts . 169 International Studies . 81 Writing . 178 Italian . 82 Faculty . 189 Japanese . 84 Sarah Lawrence College is accredited by the Middle Modern Language and Literature (1101) BA States Association and the New York State Music (1004) BA Education Department. Philosophy (1509) BA Politics (2207) BA The following programs are registered by the New Premedical (4901) BA York State Education Department* for the degrees Psychology (2001) BA listed (registration number in parentheses). Religion (1510) BA Enrollment in other than registered or otherwise Sociology (2208) BA approved programs may jeopardize a student’s Theatre (1007) BA eligibility for certain student-aid awards. Women’s Studies (2299) BA Writing (1507) BA Program Degree Awarded Art of Teaching (0802) MSEd Liberal Arts (4901) BA Child Development (2009) MA Anthropology (2202) BA Dance (1008) MFA Art History (1003) BA Dance Movement Therapy (1099) MS Asian Studies (0301) BA Health Advocacy (4901) MA Biology (0401) BA Human Genetics (0422) MS Chemistry (1905) BA Theatre (1007) MFA Classics (1504) BA Women’s History (2299) MA Dance (1008) BA Writing (1507) MFA Economics (2204) BA Film History and * New York State Education Department Filmmaking (1010) BA Office of Higher Education and the Professions French (1102) BA Cultural Education Center, Room SB28 History (2205) BA Albany, New York 12230 Literature (1599) BA (518) 474-5851 Mathematics (1701) BA THE CURRICULUM 3 Telling Lives: Life History Through THE CURRICULUM Anthropology (p. 7), Mary A. Porter Anthropology The Curriculum of the College as planned for The Anthropology of Images (p. 5), Robert R. 2019-2020 is described in the following pages. All Desjarlais Anthropology courses are planned as full-year courses, except as First-Year Studies: Histories and Theories of otherwise indicated. Where possible, seminar Photography (p. 10), Sarah Hamill Art History descriptions include examples of areas of study in Histories of Modern and Contemporary Art (p. 11), which a student could concentrate for the Sarah Hamill Art History conference portion of the course. In a seminar History of Economic Thought and Economic History: course, each student not only pursues the main Economic and Legal Foundations (p. 36), course material but also selects a related topic for Jamee K. Moudud Economics concentrated study, often resulting in a major paper. Introduction to Economic Theory and Policy (p. 36), In this way, each seminar becomes both a shared Jamee K. Moudud Economics and an individual experience. Legal Foundations to Business History: Corporate Governance, Democracy, and Economic Transformation (p. 38), Jamee K. Moudud Economics AFRICANA STUDIES Food, Agriculture, Environment, and Development (p. 61), Joshua Muldavin Africana studies at Sarah Lawrence College embrace Geography a number of scholarly disciplines and subjects, Introduction to Development Studies: The Political including anthropology, architecture, art history, Ecology of Development (p. 63), Joshua dance, economics, film, filmmaking, history, Islamic Muldavin Geography studies, law, literature, philosophy, politics, Public Stories, Private Lives: Theories and Methods psychology, religion, sociology, theatre, and writing. of Oral History (p. 78), Mary Dillard History Students examine the experience of Africans and of Standing on My Sisters’ Shoulders: Rethinking the people of African descent in the diaspora, including Black Freedom Struggle (p. 73), Komozi those from Latin America, the Caribbean, North Woodard History America, and beyond. Study includes the important Who Owns History? Reclaiming the Master Narrative cultural, economic, technological, political, and From White Supremacy (p. 69), Komozi social intellectual interplay and exchanges of these Woodard History peoples as they help make our world. Women, Culture, and Politics in US History (p. 78), Students will explore the literature of Africans Lyde Cullen Sizer History and peoples of African descent in various languages, First-Year Studies: Literature, Culture, and Politics in including Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English. US History, 1770s–1970s (p. 68), Lyde Cullen The dynamics of immigration and community Sizer History formation are vital in this field. Students will Global Queer Literature: Dystopias and Hope (p. 86), examine the art and architecture of Africa and the Shoumik Bhattacharya Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, diaspora, along with their history, societies, and and Transgender Studies cultures; their economy and politics; the impact of Conscience of the Nations: Classics of African Islam and the Middle East; the processes of slavery; Literature (p. 95), William Shullenberger the slave trade and colonialism; and postcolonial Literature literature in Africa, Latin America, and the Doing It for the Culture: Journeys Through Caribbean. The program also includes creative work Revelation, Aspiration, and Soul (p. 93), Marcus in filmmaking, theatre, and writing. Anthony Brock Literature Slavery: A Literary History (p. 97), William Courses offered in related disciplines this year are Shullenberger Literature listed below. Full descriptions of the courses may be African Politics (p. 125), Elke Zuern Politics found under the appropriate disciplines. Intervention and Justice (p. 126), Elke Zuern Politics Life, Death, and Violence in (Post)Colonial France Global Child Development (p. 136), Kim Ferguson and Algeria (p. 6), Robert R. Desjarlais (Kim Johnson) Psychology Anthropology Intersectionality Research Seminar (p. 138), On Whiteness: An Anthropological Exploration (p. 6), Linwood J. Lewis Psychology Mary A. Porter Anthropology 4 Anthropology “Sex Is Not a Natural Act”: Social Science graduate-level work, Sarah Lawrence’s anthropology Explorations of Human Sexuality (p. 130), courses take students in often unexpected and Linwood J. Lewis Psychology challenging directions. Advanced Research Seminar (p. 139), Meghan Jablonski , Elizabeth Johnston , Linwood J. Lewis First-Year Studies: Global Psychology Kinships: An Anthropological The Ideas of Photography (p. 176), Joel Sternfeld Exploration of Connectedness Visual and Studio Arts The New Narrative Photography (p. 176), Joel Mary A. Porter Sternfeld Visual and Studio Arts Open, FYS—Year Experiments With Truth: Nonfiction Writing rF om the A common feature of human societies is the Edges (p. 186), Vijay Seshadri Writing enforcement of rules that determine social relations, First-Year Studies: Writing and the Racial particularly regarding kinship: With whom may one Imaginary (p. 178), Rattawut Lapcharoensap be sexual? Whom can a person marry? Which Writing children are “legitimate”? To marry a close relative Nonfiction orkW shop: To Tell the Truth (p. 183), or someone of the same gender may be deemed Suzanne Gardinier Writing unnaturally close in some societies, but marriage Poetry: What Holds the Unsayable (p. 186), Marie across a great difference—such as age, race, nation, Howe Writing culture, or class—can also be problematic. Social rules govern the acceptance or rejection of children in particular social groups, depending on factors such as the marital status of their parents or the ANTHROPOLOGY enactment of appropriate rituals. And configurations of gender are always key to family arrangements. The study of anthropology traditionally covers four Kinship has always been plastic, but the range and fields: sociocultural anthropology, linguistic speed of transformations in gender and kinship are anthropology, biological anthropology, and accelerating due to both globalization and new archaeology. At Sarah Lawrence College, we medical and digital technologies. New medical concentrate on sociocultural and linguistic technologies