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The Curriculum . 3 Literature . 63 Africana Studies . 3 Mathematics . 73 Anthropology . 3 Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies . 76 Architecture and Design Studies . 7 Modern and Classical Languages and Art History . 7 Literatures . 77 Asian Studies . 10 Music . 78 Biology . 13 Philosophy . 88 Chemistry . 16 Physics . 91 Chinese . 19 Political Economy . 93 Classics . 20 Politics . 93 Cognitive and Brain Science . 20 Psychology . 97 Computer Science . 21 Public Policy . 107 Dance . 24 Religion . 108 Development Studies . 29 Russian . 111 Economics . 30 Science and Mathematics . 112 Environmental Studies . 33 Pre-Health Program Ethnic and Diasporic Studies . 34 Social Science . 113 Film History . 35 Sociology . 113 Filmmaking, Screenwriting and Media Spanish . 116 Arts . 37 Theatre . 118 French . 38 Urban Studies . 131 Games, Interactive Art, and New Genres 40 Visual Arts . 132 Gender and Sexuality Studies . 41 Architectural Design Geography . 41 Drawing German . 42 Filmmaking Greek (Ancient) . 44 New Media Health, Science, and Society . 45 Painting History . 45 Photography International Studies . 55 Printmaking Italian . 56 Sculpture Japanese . 58 Visual Fundamentals Latin . 59 Writing . 149 Latin American and Latino/a Studies . 60 Faculty . 161 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies . 60 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 Making Race and Nation: Was It the New Deal or the THE CURRICULUM Raw Deal for Black America? (p. 52), Komozi Woodard History The Curriculum of the College as planned for Malcolm X, the Black Panthers, and the Black Arts 2016-2017 is described in the following pages. All Movement: The Grassroots Awakening in the courses are planned as full-year courses, except as American Empire (p. 47), Komozi Woodard otherwise indicated. Where possible, seminar History descriptions include examples of areas of study in African American Literature: Black Life which a student could concentrate for the Matters (p. 65), Alwin A. D. Jones Literature conference portion of the course. In a seminar The Bible as Literature (p. 65), William Shullenberger course, each student not only pursues the main Literature course material but also selects a related topic for State Terror and Terrorism (p. 95), Elke Zuern Politics concentrated study, often resulting in a major paper. First-Year Studies: Child and Adolescent In this way, each seminar becomes both a shared Development in North American and African and an individual experience. Contexts: Opportunities and Inequalities (p. 98), Kim Ferguson (Kim Johnson) Psychology Global Child Development (p. 106), Kim Ferguson AFRICANA STUDIES (Kim Johnson) Psychology The Nature of Nurture: Sustainable Child Africana studies at Sarah Lawrence College embrace Development (p. 100), Kim Ferguson (Kim a number of scholarly disciplines and subjects, Johnson) Psychology including anthropology, architecture, art history, Changing Places: The Social/Spatial Dimensions of dance, economics, film, filmmaking, history, Islamic Urbanization (p. 115), Shahnaz Rouse Sociology studies, law, literature, philosophy, politics, psychology, religion, sociology, theatre, and writing. Students examine the experience of Africans and of ANTHROPOLOGY people of African descent in the diaspora, including those from Latin America, the Caribbean, North America, and beyond. Study includes the important The study of anthropology traditionally covers four cultural, economic, technological, political, and fields: sociocultural anthropology, linguistic social intellectual interplay and exchanges of these anthropology, biological anthropology, and peoples as they help make our world. archaeology. At Sarah Lawrence College, we Students will explore the literature of Africans concentrate on sociocultural and linguistic and peoples of African descent in various languages, anthropology. including Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English. Behind almost every aspect of our lives is a The dynamics of immigration and community cultural realm, a shared construction that shapes formation are vital in this field. Students will assumptions and determines much of how we examine the art and architecture of Africa and the perceive and relate to the world. Sociocultural diaspora, along with their history, societies, and anthropology is the study of that realm—its extent cultures; their economy and politics; the impact of and its effects. As students learn to approach with Islam and the Middle East; the processes of slavery; an anthropological eye what they formerly might the slave trade and colonialism; and postcolonial have taken for granted, they gain insight into how literature in Africa, Latin America, and the social forces govern the ways in which we relate to Caribbean. The program also includes creative work ourselves and to each other: how we use words, how in filmmaking, theatre, and writing. we define ourselves and others, how we make sense of our bodies, even how we feel emotions. Through Courses offered in related disciplines this year are examining the writings of anthropologists, viewing listed below. Full descriptions of the courses may be ethnographic films, and discussing these and other found under the appropriate disciplines. materials in seminar and conference sessions, students develop a comprehensive and African Diasporic Dance (p. 27), Efeya Ifadayo M multipatterned sense of the cultural dimensions of Sampson Dance human lives. By studying the underpinnings of Workers in the Globalized Economy (p. 31), Kim language, symbolic practices, race, gender, sexuality, Christensen Economics policy and advocacy, medical systems, cities, modernity, and/or social organization across a range 4 Anthropology of Western and non-Western settings, students come Anthropology and Photography to understand better how meaning is made. With Robert R. Desjarlais seminar dynamics and content characteristic of Open, Seminar—Fall graduate-level work, Sarah Lawrence’s anthropology Walker Evans once referred to photography as courses take students in often unexpected and offering “searing little spots of realism.” This course challenging directions. attends to the cultural and experiential dimensions of photographic imagery by way of an First-Year Studies: Telling Lives: anthropological exploration of the social, political, How Anthropologies Narrate the and aesthetic dimensions of photography in a range World of settings. We will develop an understanding of how Mary A. Porter people throughout the world use, circulate, and Open, FYS—Year perceive photographs and how such uses and Anthropology is a discipline begun in a period of perceptions tie into ideas and practices of vision, 19th-century colonialism that explores the ways in time, memory, family, sociality, history, politics, and which people make sense of the world and the social personal and cultural imaginings. We will also relations in which we engage. One of the main goals consider the ways in which photography and film of 20th-century anthropology was to demonstrate can portray well (or not) the lives and concerns of that practices that seem “natural” to one culture are particular peoples. Each student in the course will understood very differently in another and so should engage with these issues through practical research, not be ranked one above another. For example, incest writing, and photographic endeavors. Through these taboos are universal, but the specifics of kinship are engagements, we will reflect on the omplicc ated not: In one place, you absolutely should marry your ethics and politics of documentary photography, the first ousin;c in another, you absolutely should not. In sense of differing cultural aesthetics informing the addition to the great variety of cultural creation and evaluation of photographs, dynamics of understandings in different populations, there has time and memory; the intricate play between image been extraordinary diversity over time and place in and phantasm, and the circulation of digital images the work of anthropologists themselves. Some have in a transnational era. Readings to be considered lived in another part of the world for years at a time; include Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida, Gregory others have studied their own cultures. Some have