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Undergraduate Course Offerings 2017-2018 CALENDAR FALL 2017 Saturday, August 26 Opening day New students arrive Monday, August 28 Returning students arrive Tuesday, September 5 Convocation held in Reisinger, 1:30–3 p.m. Monday, October 16 October study days Tuesday, October 17 Wednesday, November 22 Thanksgiving recess through Sunday, November 26 Friday, December 15 Last day of classes Saturday, December 16 Residence halls close at 10 a.m. SPRING 2018 Sunday, January 14 Students return Saturday, March 10 Spring break through Sunday, March 25 Friday, May 11 Last day of classes Sunday, May 13 Residence halls close for first ears,y sophomores, and juniors at 5 p.m. Friday, May 18 Commencement Residence halls close at 8 p.m. The Curriculum . 3 Japanese . 62 Africana Studies . 3 Latin . 63 Anthropology . 3 Latin American and Latino/a Studies . 64 Architecture and Design Studies . 6 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Art History . 6 Studies . 65 Asian Studies . 10 Literature . 67 Biology . 12 Mathematics . 78 Chemistry . 15 Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies . 81 Chinese . 17 Modern and Classical Languages and Classics . 18 Literatures . 81 Cognitive and Brain Science . 19 Music . 82 Computer Science . 19 Philosophy . 93 Dance . 21 Physics . 95 Development Studies . 27 Political Economy . 97 Economics . 27 Politics . 98 Environmental Studies . 29 Psychology . 102 Ethnic and Diasporic Studies . 30 Public Policy . 114 Film History . 31 Religion . 115 Filmmaking and Moving Image Arts . 34 Russian . 118 French . 43 Science and Mathematics . 119 Games, Interactive Art, and New Genres 45 Pre-Health Program Gender and Sexuality Studies . 45 Social Science . 120 Geography . 46 Sociology . 120 German . 48 Spanish . 125 Greek (Ancient) . 49 Theatre . 126 Health, Science, and Society . 50 Urban Studies . 139 History . 51 Visual and Studio Arts . 139 International Studies . 59 Writing . 146 Italian . 61 Faculty . 157 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 Revolutionary Lives: Biographical Perspectives on THE CURRICULUM the Black Freedom Movement (p. 57), Priscilla Murolo History The Curriculum of the College as planned for Epic Vision and Tradition From the Odyssey to 2017-2018 is described in the following pages. All Walcott’s Omeros (p. 69), William Shullenberger courses are planned as full-year courses, except as Literature otherwise indicated. Where possible, seminar First-Year Studies in Literature: Texting and descriptions include examples of areas of study in Intertexting (p. 69), William Shullenberger which a student could concentrate for the Literature conference portion of the course. In a seminar African Politics (p. 100), Elke Zuern Politics course, each student not only pursues the main Amandla! Power, Prejudice, Privilege, and South course material but also selects a related topic for African Human Development Under and After concentrated study, often resulting in a major paper. Apartheid (p. 105), Kim Ferguson (Kim Johnson) In this way, each seminar becomes both a shared Psychology and an individual experience. American Muslims: History, Politics, and Culture (p. 117), Kristin Zahra Sands Religion First-Year Studies: Islam (p. 115), Kristin Zahra Sands Religion AFRICANA STUDIES Africana studies at Sarah Lawrence College embrace ANTHROPOLOGY a number of scholarly disciplines and subjects, including anthropology, architecture, art history, dance, economics, film, filmmaking, history, Islamic The study of anthropology traditionally covers four studies, law, literature, philosophy, politics, fields: sociocultural anthropology, linguistic psychology, religion, sociology, theatre, and writing. anthropology, biological anthropology, and Students examine the experience of Africans and of archaeology. At Sarah Lawrence College, we people of African descent in the diaspora, including concentrate on sociocultural and linguistic those from Latin America, the Caribbean, North anthropology. America, and beyond. Study includes the important Behind almost every aspect of our lives is a cultural, economic, technological, political, and cultural realm, a shared construction that shapes social intellectual interplay and exchanges of these assumptions and determines much of how we peoples as they help make our world. perceive and relate to the world. Sociocultural Students will explore the literature of Africans anthropology is the study of that realm—its extent and peoples of African descent in various languages, and its effects. As students learn to approach with including Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English. an anthropological eye what they formerly might The dynamics of immigration and community have taken for granted, they gain insight into how formation are vital in this field. Students will social forces govern the ways in which we relate to examine the art and architecture of Africa and the ourselves and to each other: how we use words, how diaspora, along with their history, societies, and we define ourselves and others, how we make sense cultures; their economy and politics; the impact of of our bodies, even how we feel emotions. Through Islam and the Middle East; the processes of slavery; examining the writings of anthropologists, viewing the slave trade and colonialism; and postcolonial ethnographic films, and discussing these and other literature in Africa, Latin America, and the materials in seminar and conference sessions, Caribbean. The program also includes creative work students develop a comprehensive and in filmmaking, theatre, and writing. multipatterned sense of the cultural dimensions of human lives. By studying the underpinnings of Courses offered in related disciplines this year are language, symbolic practices, race, gender, sexuality, listed below. Full descriptions of the courses may be policy and advocacy, medical systems, cities, found under the appropriate disciplines. modernity, and/or social organization across a range of Western and non-Western settings, students come African Diasporic Dance (p. 22), Efeya Ifadayo M to understand better how meaning is made. With Sampson Dance seminar dynamics and content characteristic of First-Year Studies: In the Tradition: An Introduction graduate-level work, Sarah Lawrence’s anthropology to African American History (p. 52), Komozi courses take students in often unexpected and Woodard History challenging directions. 4 Anthropology First-Year Studies in wide variety of reasons. This seminar examines the Anthropology: The Anthropology of meanings and processes, cross-culturally, of adoption—defined here as the placement of Images children to be raised permanently by others. We will Robert R. Desjarlais explore this process anthropologically in countries Open, FYS—Year and cultures across the globe, including the United A few cartoons lead to cataclysmic events in Europe; States, Australia, Hawaii, Tanzania, China, Argentina, a man’s statement that he “can’t breathe” ricochets Sweden, Chile, Nigeria, and Korea. As well as looking across North America; a photograph printed in a within particular ethno-local sites, we will pay newspaper moves a solitary reader; a snapshot considerable attention to the global movement of posted on the Internet leads to dreams of fanciful children to adoption. There is great variety in the places; memories of a past year haunt us like ghosts. circumstances of transnational adoption from What each of these occurrences has in common is Swedish people seeking adoptive daughters in Chile that they all entail the force of images in our lives, to the Kindertransports at the start of World War II be these images visual or acoustic in nature, made and to the North American Orphan Trains of the 19th by hand or machine or circulated by word of mouth, and 20th centuries. Questions we will examine or simply imagined. In this seminar, we will consider include: What is the difference between fostering the role that images play in the lives of people in and adoption? Why do people talk about “giving up” various settings throughout the world. In delving into a child for adoption? Why is adoption welcomed in terrains at once actual and virtual, we will develop some cultures and hidden in others? When and why an understanding of how people throughout the do adoptive