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SKIDMORE COLLEGE 815 NORTH BROADWAY SARATOGA SPRINGS, NEW YORK 12866-1632 Information: 518-580-5000 Automated Operator: 518-580-7400 World Wide Web: www.skidmore.edu General College Policy ...... Jamienne S. Studley, President Academic Policy ...... John J. Berman, Dean of the Faculty Student Affairs ...... Thomas P. Oles, Dean Student Academic Affairs .... Jon Ramsey, Dean of Studies Admissions ...... Mary Lou Bates, Dean of Admissions and ...... Financial Aid Financial Aid ...... Robert Shorb, Director Financial Services ...... TBA, Director Records and Transcripts ...... Ann Henderson, Registrar Career Services ...... Michael Profita, Director Alumni Activities ...... Michael Sposili, Director College Relations ...... Robert Kimmerle, Director Opportunity Programs...... Susan B. Layden, Director

Diversity and Affirmative Action ...... Jack T. F. Ling, Director

2001-2002 CATALOG

© Skidmore College, 2001

Skidmore College endeavors to present an accurate overview of its curricular and cocurricular programs, facilities, and fees in this publication. The information contained herein is current as of April 15, 2001. As growth and change are inevitable, Skidmore College reserves the right to alter any program, facility, or fee described in this publication without notice or obligation.

Catalog Production ...... Office of College Relations

Editor...... Anne Crookall Hockenos

Publications Manager ...... Peter MacDonald Skidmore College

A coeducational liberal arts college

Catalog 2001-2002

815 North Broadway Saratoga Springs New York 12866-1632

1 Contents

College Calendar ...... 3 Government ...... 105 Welcomes ...... 4 History...... 109 History of Skidmore College ...... 6 Honors Forum ...... 112 Skidmore College Today ...... 8 Interdepartmental Majors ...... 112 Academic Environment ...... 10 Interdisciplinary ...... 115 Academic and Cocurricular Facilities ...... 19 International Affairs ...... 116 Cocurricular Environment ...... 22 Law and Society ...... 117 Admission ...... 29 Liberal Studies ...... 118 Fees and Expenses ...... 34 Mathematics ...... 126 Financial Aid ...... 38 Music ...... 128 Academic Requirements and Regulations...... 47 Philosophy ...... 131 Academic Standards and Review ...... 51 Physics ...... 133 Degree Programs ...... 57 Psychology ...... 134 Courses of Study Religious Studies ...... 137 American Studies ...... 58 Social Work ...... 138 Anthropology ...... 61 Sociology ...... 139 Art (Studio) ...... 63 Theater ...... 142 Art History ...... 67 Women’s Studies ...... 145 Asian Studies ...... 69 Self-Determined Major ...... 146 Biology ...... 71 Preparation for Professions and Affiliated Programs ...... 146 Business ...... 74 Study Abroad Programs ...... 149 Chemistry ...... 77 Higher Education Opportunity Program/ ...... Classics ...... 79 Economic Opportunity Program ...... 149 Computer Science ...... 80 Enrollment Statistics...... 150 Dance ...... 82 Board of Trustees ...... 151 Economics ...... 83 Faculty ...... 152 Education ...... 85 Administration ...... 161 English ...... 88 Alumni Association...... 161 Environmental Studies ...... 92 Map of the Campus ...... 162 Exercise Science...... 94 Directory of Offices and Academic Departments.....164 Foreign Languages and Literatures ...... 96 Statements of Policies and Procedures...... 165 Geosciences ...... 103 2 Index...... 167 College Calendar 2001-2002

SUMMER SESSIONS 2001 May 29-June 29 ...... Session I July 2-August 2 ...... Session II

FALL SEMESTER 2001 September 2 ...... Sunday...... New students arrive September 3 ...... Monday ...... Returning students arrive September 5 ...... Wednesday ...... Classes begin September 27 ...... Thursday ...... Yom Kippur (no classes) October 12-14 ...... Friday-Sunday ...... Family Weekend October 22 ...... Monday ...... Study Day November 21-25 ...... Wednesday-Sunday...... Thanksgiving Break December 13 ...... Thursday ...... Classes end December 14-17 ...... Friday-Monday ...... Study Days December 18-21 ...... Tuesday-Friday ...... Final Exams December 22 ...... Saturday...... Fall Semester ends

SPRING SEMESTER 2002 January 18 ...... Friday ...... New students arrive January 19 ...... Saturday...... Returning students arrive January 22 ...... Tuesday ...... Classes begin March 9-17 ...... Saturday-Sunday ...... Spring Vacation April 30 ...... Tuesday ...... Classes end May 1-5 ...... Wednesday-Sunday...... Study Days May 6-10 ...... Monday-Friday ...... Final Exams May 11...... Saturday...... Spring Semester ends May 11-17 ...... Saturday-Friday...... Senior Week May 19...... Sunday...... Commencement

SUMMER SESSIONS 2002 May 28-June 28 ...... Session I July 1-August 1 ...... Session II

3 Welcomes

From the President Moreover, many of the lessons and rewards of your time at Skidmore will come from your engagement in cocur- ricular activities, residential life, athletics, and volunteer work. Thanks to student imagination and energy, these You are holding an invitation to adventure. This volume organizations and projects are thriving. From student contains the raw material from which you will craft your government to the performing arts, from comedy and education to prepare for the decades and challenges singing groups to social action and athletics, Skidmore’s ahead of you. vibrant and diverse activities contribute significantly to college life and learning. This catalog reflects Skidmore College’s educational philosophy. Skidmore has a distinctive commitment to The more independence, energy, and engagement you embracing education through what our founder, Lucy bring to your educational journey, the more you will get Skidmore Scribner, called “the mind and the hand.” from your years here. At the same time, many members The dual strands of theory and practice are evident of the Skidmore community are eager to help you chart throughout both our history and this catalog. Skidmore your course. Your teachers and faculty advisors want to strives to prepare its students for creative, effective, challenge and guide you, to engage and encourage you, personal and public lives of continued exploration. To and ultimately to help you take responsibility for your achieve that goal you can find here the ingredients for a education and your future. Department chairs, student strong foundation in the liberal arts, innovative study of services staff, and peer tutors can help you use the interdisciplinary connections, and thoughtful college’s rich resources to achieve your goals. preparation for the professions. I am eager to get to know you and hear about your The changes of our era demand that both the college dreams, interests, concerns, and suggestions. I look and its students be imaginative, resilient, and well- forward to collaborating with you and the rest of the prepared. The college has adapted enthusiastically and Skidmore community to make this the most successful creatively to change. Milestones in Skidmore’s history of possible environment in which to learn, live, and work. bold choices include the 1960 decision to move from downtown Saratoga to a new campus and the 1971 decision to become coeducational. The college has also been immensely strengthened by the imaginative Liberal Studies curriculum developed in the 1980s and significant enhancements to the library, Dana Science Center, athletic facilities, and endowment in the 1990s. In 2000 we dedicated the spectacular Tang Teaching Jamienne S. Studley Museum and Art Gallery, a resource to enrich the President learning experience that Skidmore is sharing with the widest possible audience. We recently revised our core curriculum to assure that all students experience the breadth of the liberal arts, while providing students the flexibility and independence to follow their own intellectual interests and pathways. Your personal challenge is to construct an education for a lifetime of change. The course offerings in this catalog are your building blocks. Rich and exciting, they include formats that bring together students and our remarkable teachers in creative ways to take advantage of the best of technology, collaborative research opportunities, practical experience, and independent work.

4 From the Dean Together with your cocurricular life, the more formal learning environment of classroom, studio, laboratory, or rehearsal hall will present you with challenges and create confusions, will produce failures and successes alike, all Welcome to the Skidmore community of scholars. It of which constitute a full college education. Your faculty will not take you long to discover that all of us here, and advisors look forward to fostering your “productive both faculty and students, are at different levels of confusion” and uncertainty as well as to applauding your knowledge and understanding of various subjects, but we increased confidence and ultimate success. I wish you are all involved in expanding and sharing what we know. the most rewarding of experiences during your years at You will discover that learning is a process that never is Skidmore. complete. During your four years here you will be introduced to many different ways of knowing, represented by the different types of subject matter to which you will be exposed, namely, the arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and a host of John J. Berman interdisciplinary approaches. Your academic work will Vice President for Academic Affairs be supplemented by other activities such as student and Dean of the Faculty government, theater, sports, and/or the myriad clubs and organizations that exist at Skidmore. All of these will contribute to enriching the experience that a college education can be. While at Skidmore, you will find that learning can be fun. The stereotype of the dour academic is simply not the case here. On the other hand, as you undoubtedly already know, the learning process is not designed to offer instant gratification without cost to the learner. It takes commitment, engagement, and just plain hard work to secure the many advantages of an educated person. While, in the final analysis, you alone can insure the quality of the education you receive, we are all prepared to offer you both warm support and provocative challenges. You will be challenged within and outside your classrooms—not so much to rehearse old information and skills, as to learn to comprehend and evaluate the new; to understand things in their local and global contexts; and to recognize the interdependency of subject, object, and context. Beginning with Liberal Studies courses, the faculty will help provide you with a sense of those contexts and with an understanding of the varying perspectives afforded by multi- and interdisciplinary study. Liberal Studies courses are specifically aimed at fostering the cross-disciplinary habits of mind you will need in order to better appreciate your major fields of study and to create coherence among your disparate experiences in college and beyond—in other words, in order to understand the human experience in all its richness and complexity.

5 History of Skidmore College

An independent, liberal arts institution with an challenge of developing the young college both enrollment of approximately 2,200 men and women, academically and physically. His thirty-two-year Skidmore was founded by Lucy Skidmore Scribner. presidency brought Skidmore College to a position of leadership in women’s education. Under his tenure, In 1903 Mrs. Scribner, responding to what she saw as an academic programs were developed and refined, and an absence of practical educational opportunity for women excellent faculty recruited. A library, infirmary, residence in Saratoga Springs, opened the Young Women’s halls, and dining halls were built, and further property Industrial Club of Saratoga. With a few teachers and a acquisitions allowed for enrollment growth, as old handful of promising students, she initiated classes in homes became student dormitories, and carriage houses the fine and practical arts, which were designed to give became classrooms, studios, and laboratories. Even more young women the means to make a living while learning significant than his administrative and financial abilities to appreciate the more aesthetic experiences in life. was his influence on a generation of Skidmore students Mrs. Scribner, who had been widowed only four years whom he inspired to intellectual and creative achieve- after her 1875 marriage to J. Blair Scribner (the eldest ment. The young college had grown to an enrollment of son of Charles Scribner, founder of the publishing more than 1,100 by his retirement in 1957. company bearing his name), had arrived in Saratoga in Val H. Wilson, formerly of Colorado Women’s College, 1900 from New York City hoping to improve her failing became Skidmore’s third president that year, bringing health through the famous spa’s invigorating air and with him buoyant enthusiasm, boundless energy, and an medicinal waters. The treatment was apparently effec- informal style that further personalized the Skidmore tive, and she joined the city as a permanent resident. community. He concentrated on strengthening the Her inherent concern for others soon brought about the faculty and academic programs, initiated inroads in the establishment of the industrial club, which rapidly creation of interdepartmental offerings, and encouraged developed into a thriving enterprise, chartered in 1911 more and more students to enter graduate school. by the New York Board of Regents as the Skidmore Under Dr. Wilson, Skidmore’s growth strained its School of Arts. The school was named for Mrs. campus at the seams. Enrollment had risen to 1,300, Scribner’s father, Joseph Russell Skidmore, the elder son and many of the turn-of-the-century buildings were of Jeremiah Skidmore, a New York City coal merchant. growing obsolete, requiring increased maintenance and Sensing the promise of the young institution, Mrs. renovation. The adequacy of the physical plant also was Scribner sought a new president with the educational threatened by the loss of fifty acres of athletic fields to a vision and prominence to direct its development. With new superhighway as Interstate 87 worked its way the help of Columbia University President Nicholas northward. Murray Butler, she recruited Charles Henry Keyes, a It was at this critical time in Skidmore’s history that a well-known educator from Teachers College, as generous gift brought about a courageous decision by Skidmore’s first president. His vision and energy proved the Skidmore College Board of Trustees. Board member as effective as Mrs. Scribner had hoped, giving the J. Erik Jonsson and his wife, Margaret, offered an school the momentum it needed. In 1922 Dr. Keyes alternative to the difficulties of maintaining and fulfilled his avowed ambition of having the school restoring the campus. The Jonssons donated sufficient chartered as Skidmore College, a four-year degree- funds to purchase a 650-acre tract on the outskirts of the granting institution. city — a tract Mrs. Scribner had sought fifty years In addition to developing a liberal arts curriculum that earlier — and challenged the board to begin the became the basis for Skidmore’s present curriculum, Dr. construction of a completely new campus for Skidmore. Keyes pioneered the formation of a baccalaureate In a historic move many now believe was the only hope nursing program and began the more active shaping of a for the college’s continued health and survival, the board campus. By the time of his death in 1925, Dr. Keyes had voted October 28, 1961, to purchase the land and begin played a key role in acquiring several of the Victorian the construction of what is now known as the Jonsson mansions overlooking Congress Park, which began to Campus. give the college a more precise physical identity. By the time his tenure was cut short by his sudden death Henry T. Moore, Skidmore’s second president, arrived in 1964, Dr. Wilson saw construction begin on the Lucy in 1925 from the chairmanship of the Dartmouth Scribner Library and on the first residential and dining 6 College psychology department, ready to take on the complex. Joseph C. Palamountain Jr., Skidmore’s fourth Skidmore’s sixth president, Jamienne S. Studley, took president, took office in 1965. A political scientist with a office in 1999. A graduate of Barnard College and doctorate from Harvard, Dr. Palamountain came to Harvard Law School, she was associate dean of Yale Skidmore from Wesleyan University, where he was Law School for five years. She came to the college from provost. He guided Skidmore through a period of the United States Department of Education, where as dynamic growth and change. Under his leadership, the deputy and then general counsel from 1993 to 1999 development of the college’s new physical plant she was involved in elementary, secondary, and progressed rapidly. Currently, the Jonsson Campus has a postsecondary policy and legal issues (including student total of forty-nine buildings. financial aid and access to college and civil rights) and initiatives to enhance public participation and Dr. Palamountain’s twenty-two-year presidency was departmental management. characterized by impressive growth in the academic and financial areas of the college. Skidmore experienced the President Studley is leading a comprehensive strategic doubling of the student body and major increases in planning process to chart Skidmore’s future. Faculty, applications, the near doubling of the faculty, the students, staff, parents, graduates, and friends of the transition from a women’s college to a coeducational college all have a voice in generating ideas, using institution, and the creation of the first external degree roundtable discussions, surveys, and Web-based program in New York State (University Without Walls). technology. Three themes have emerged as central to During his presidency there were two innovative Skidmore’s mission: enhancing academic excellence curriculum changes and the chartering of a Phi Beta through faculty-student interaction, strengthening the Kappa chapter. The financial health of Skidmore was spirit and experience of community and diversity, and bolstered by growth in the endowment and in the closely linking students’ learning and living experiences. college’s net worth, due in part to the launching of the During fall 2001 all members of the college community $25-million Celebration Campaign in 1985. will have opportunities to shape Skidmore’s priorities. David H. Porter, the College’s fifth president, came to There has been a continuity of purpose underlying the Skidmore in 1987 from Carleton College, where he change and growth at Skidmore. The college has taught classics and music. Early in his presidency, Dr. consistently espoused the goal of liberal education as the Porter established the Commission on the ’90s to help best means of preparing for a life of continuing personal chart Skidmore’s course to the twenty-first century. The growth and of responsible and significant service to the commission recommended new institutional priorities, community. Skidmore’s programs, both those in the with an emphasis on enhancing the academic tone on traditional liberal arts and those of a professional nature, campus, ensuring long-term financial stability, and represent liberal education in their common pursuit of promoting greater diversity within the campus academic excellence and their concern with sensibilities, community and curriculum. values, and qualities that distinguish educated persons. During the Porter presidency Skidmore launched an Honors Forum and a program of scholarships in science and mathematics. The campus landscape changed dramatically, as Skidmore renovated and expanded Scribner Library, constructed an outdoor athletic complex, upgraded computer and telecommunications capabilities, built an addition to the Sports and Recreation Center, and expanded Dana Science Center. In addition, Dr. Porter helped lead the largest fundraising effort in Skidmore’s history, the Skidmore Journey: A Campaign for Our Second Century, launched in 1993. The five-year campaign raised $86.5 million, enabling the college to substantially increase its endowment and providing funds for construction of the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery.

7 Skidmore College Today

Mission The Setting The principal mission of Skidmore College is the education of A lively city combining historical charm with modern predominantly full-time undergraduates, a diverse culture and a cosmopolitan atmosphere, Saratoga population of talented students who are eager to engage Springs is a popular place among Skidmore students actively in the learning process. The college seeks to prepare year round. liberally educated graduates to continue their quest for knowledge and to make the choices required of informed, Ceded to the Dutch by the Indians in 1694, the city responsible citizens. Skidmore faculty and staff create a takes its name from the Indian “Saraghtoga” (place of challenging yet supportive environment that cultivates swift water). Its reputation as one of the world’s leading students’ intellectual and personal excellence, encouraging spas grew steadily through the nineteenth century, as it them to expand their expectations of themselves while they increasingly became known as the home of the nation’s enrich their academic understanding. oldest thoroughbred racetrack and social center for elite society. In keeping with the college’s founding principle of linking theoretical with applied learning, the Skidmore curriculum Today Saratoga is best known as a resort, cultural, balances a commitment to the liberal arts and sciences with convention, and entertainment center revolving around preparation for professions, careers, and community horse racing, outdoor recreation, classical and popular leadership. Education in the classroom, laboratory, and music, dance, and theater. The city is well known for its studio is enhanced by cocurricular and field experience restored Victorian mansions, which attract students opportunities of broad scope. of art and architecture. The Saratoga Spa State Park, with its springs and mineral waters, is of more than Underpinning the entire enterprise are faculty members’ recreational interest to biology students, and the wealth scholarly and creative interests, which inform their teaching of rock formations in the region brings geologists from and contribute, in the largest sense, to the advancement of around the world. The city’s convention facility brings learning. conferences and exhibitions from across the state and nation. The college also embraces its responsibility as an educational and cultural resource for alumni and for a host of With the growth over the past two decades of the nontraditional student populations, and for providing Saratoga Performing Arts Center, the city has greatly educational leadership in the Capital District and beyond. increased its offerings as an important cultural center. Located in the state park, SPAC is the summer home As a result of a commitment to the principles affirmed of the New York City Ballet and the Philadelphia in the Mission Statement cited above, faculty and Orchestra, as well the venue for top rock and jazz students are engaged in a variety of initiatives focused on musicians. Distinguished theater companies and collecting information about both teaching and student chamber music groups perform in SPAC’s Little learning. Student work is periodically collected and used Theater. anonymously for assessment purposes. Information gathered from reviews of student work helps faculty Saratoga Springs is also known for the variety of its members determine if their pedagogical methods are revitalized downtown area—a collection of shops, effective, if students are learning what is expected, and restaurants, galleries, and coffeehouses with an appeal to what improvements might be considered in future people of virtually all interests. In 1996 the city was classes. Data gathered are aggregated and used, honored with a “Great American Main Street Award” therefore, to improve the Skidmore experience for both by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. students and faculty. The area’s historical tradition includes the Saratoga Battlefield, scene of the pivotal 1777 clash between the Colonial and British armies that led directly to the end of the American Revolution. Dozens of landmarks celebrate the area’s role in American history. The Saratoga Historical Society and Walworth museums, housed in the Canfield Casino in Congress Park, feature exhibits and period rooms highlighting the city’s fascinating past. 8 The Campus inquiry. The abilities to think and analyze clearly, to express oneself effectively through speaking and writing, Set in what was at the turn of the century a beautiful to discern and value excellence, and to serve society are park of summer residences, Skidmore’s campus the hallmarks of a Skidmore education. encompasses more than 850 acres of wooded land at the northwest edge of Saratoga Springs. Land for the The members of the Skidmore faculty are well known campus — now named the Jonsson Campus — was for the range of education, research, and experience they given to Skidmore College by Trustee J. Erik Jonsson bring to the classroom. Though they are prolific in their and his wife, Margaret, in the early 1960s, when it writing, productive in their research, and outstanding in became apparent that Skidmore was outgrowing its their artistic endeavors, their emphasis is always on original Scribner Campus in downtown Saratoga teaching, on translating that excellence of experience Springs. Since 1964, when ground was broken for the into meaningful learning for their students. first new structure on the Jonsson Campus, forty-nine Numbering 182 full-time faculty, Skidmore’s teaching buildings have been constructed on this site. While faculty represent some of the top graduate schools in the strikingly contemporary in architectural style, the campus nation and the world. Over 93 percent of the Skidmore buildings honor human scale and reflect Skidmore’s faculty hold the Ph.D. or the highest degree in their Victorian heritage in numerous aesthetic details. field. Among the college’s more recent construction projects is Beyond their academic interests, the Skidmore faculty the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, which are known for taking a personal interest in their opened in fall 2000, and the renovation and expansion students, offering the added word of encouragement, the of Case College Center, slated for completion for fall extra time outside the classroom, or the open mind for 2001. questions — all of which contribute to the extra Carefully planned to preserve the natural beauty of the incentive a student needs. These attitudes have helped setting, the campus was designed to provide for both create a campus known for its warmth and sense of students and teachers a feeling of freedom and wide community. horizon. From the covered walkways uniting the residential, academic, and social centers on campus, the The Academic Program prevailing views are to the mountains, woods, and fields, and into the center campus “green.” Like other small, highly selective liberal arts colleges, Skidmore is firmly committed to providing men and The Jonsson Campus maintains the advantages of a women with a superior education in the humanities, small college where students and teachers meet often sciences, and social sciences. What sets Skidmore apart and informally and where academic resources are readily is its integration of the liberal arts with opportunities for at hand. intensive study in more career-specific fields such as the fine and performing arts, business, education, and social The Faculty work. This distinctive blend of the theoretical and the practical makes Skidmore uniquely responsive to both Skidmore’s size and its student-faculty ratio are two of student needs and those of the increasingly interdepen- the keys to creating an academic environment that dent world we live in. fosters close associations and the exchange of ideas among faculty and students. About 2,200 full-time Skidmore offers more than sixty degree programs, students bring an unusually wide range of academic and including majors in both traditional liberal arts disciplines cultural experiences to the campus, and a student-faculty and preprofessional areas. The curriculum’s flexibility ratio of 11:1 assures each student the chance for the allows students to major in one field and minor in another close faculty attention that enhances the liberal arts (an English major with a business minor, for example), experience. pursue an interdepartmental major combining two disciplines, or design self-determined majors. Teaching, at Skidmore, is not merely the imparting of knowledge. It is the key to helping students develop Facility with contemporary digital technologies and with their abilities, talents, and values; to enriching them as the retrieval and interpretation of information is fostered human beings; to integrating scholarship with career through a series of courses that incorporate computer goals; and to preparing them for lives of productive resources in the learning process and through special contribution to society and of continuous study and workshops. 9 The Academic Environment

The internship program complements this flexibility The Curriculum through “exploratory” and “professional” learning opportunities off campus. Students are encouraged to FOUNDATION test their skills through internships in government, As the foundation of their college experience, Skidmore industry, communications, and nonprofit organizations students strengthen their writing proficiency and at the local, state, and national levels. Many students demonstrate competence in quantitative reasoning. The intern with alumni, who are generous with their time ability to read critically, to write clearly and precisely, and support of the internship program. and to reason quantitatively lie at the heart of a liberal Beyond the Skidmore campus, students may take arts education. Skidmore students thus exercise, during advantage of courses offered at other Capital District their first years of study, the indispensable tools of colleges through the Hudson-Mohawk Association of intellectual discourse and discovery. Colleges and Universities, which includes such Expository Writing. Students are required to complete institutions as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Union successfully one designated expository writing course by College, and SUNY’s University at Albany. Cooperative the end of the sophomore year. Students placed in programs include one in engineering with the Thayer EN103, “Writing Seminar I,” must complete this pre- School at Dartmouth College; a Washington Semester requisite course by the end of the first year. Designated coordinated through American University; a semester at writing courses offered by the English Department and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole; an in various disciplines can be taken to fulfill the ecosystems semester at Biosphere 2 in Arizona; M.B.A. expository writing requirement. Skidmore’s writing programs with Clarkson University and Rensselaer program includes tutorial help at the Writing Center. Polytechnic Institute; and an M.A.T. affiliation with Union College. Quantitative Reasoning. Quantitative skills are not only promoted through a wide range of mathematics, The Office of International Programs organizes a wide computer, economics, and statistics courses, but also are range of opportunties abroad for students and faculty. reinforced by peer and professional support services The office provides administrative oversight for directed by the Department of Mathematics and Skidmore’s Paris, London, and Madrid programs and Computer Science. All students will demonstrate provides support to other Skidmore programs abroad competence in basic mathematical and computational and Skidmore affiliations in many regions of the world. principles by the end of the sophomore year. This may The college operates under a semester calendar with be demonstrated by attaining a sufficiently high score on fifteen-week fall and spring semesters. Skidmore’s the MSAT I exam (630) or any mathematics SAT II summer program includes two five-week academic exam (570) or ACT math score of 28 or higher, by sessions and other study options. passing Skidmore’s quantitative reasoning examination or by successfully completing MA100. By the end of the junior year, all students must successfully complete a designated course in mathematics, statistics, or other numerical operations in various academic disciplines, or in the use of computers for the manipulation of mathematical, social-scientific, or scientific data.

INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY A distinctive feature of intellectual activity at Skidmore is the college’s attention to interdisciplinary learning. The ability to integrate ideas from several different disciplines lends coherence to a student’s entire college education and may be applied to many areas of life. Liberal Studies courses of a unique nature constitute the interdisciplinary component of the curriculum. (See course descriptions for LS2 course options.)

10 Liberal Studies 1: The course titled “The Human humanities search for an understanding of the unique Experience” initiates all first-year students into the most value of the particulars within human contexts and significant questions we raise about ourselves: what is thereby create a climate that encourages freedom of the origin and nature of the universe, and where did thought, imagination, and inquiry. Courses in this human beings come from? what purpose do we have? category are typically, but not exclusively, offered in art what is the nature of our minds, of the social world we history, classics, dance, literature (in English and in have created, of our creative processes? In LS1, faculty other languages) music, philosophy, religion, and from the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, theater. arts, and preprofessional disciplines address these questions with first-year students through a set of Natural Sciences: Students actively engage in the common texts and lectures and through small seminar process of understanding the natural world through the discussions. use of scientific methods. Students study phenomena that are the product of natural processes and are known In addition to LS1 in the first year, students must complete through the senses rather than only through thought or by the end of the sophomore year one additional LS2 course. intuition. Through the laboratory component of courses meeting this requirement, students will design and Liberal Studies 2: These courses make explicit execute experiments (where appropriate as dictated by connections to LS1 and are interdisciplinary in nature. the discipline), collect data by observation and/or Topics vary but all courses emphasize the continued experimentation, and analyze data. Student learning development of cognitive skills. goals thus include mastery of both content and process. Courses in this category are typically, but not exclusively, BREADTH offered in biology, chemistry, exercise science, The purpose of the breadth requirements is to ensure geosciences, physics, and psychology. that students come to know and understand the central questions, content, and types of analysis that Social Sciences: Students study the organizational characterize the major knowledge domains of the liberal structure of human societies. They learn about the arts: the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social origins, functions, dynamics and relations of large-scale sciences. Students who have completed these social forces (such as institutions and cultures) and their requirements should be able to identify, understand, and intersections with the individual and small groups. In evaluate the significance of continuously developing addition, students explore the connections between knowledge in each of these domains. Courses fulfilling historical processes and contemporary social issues. the breadth requirements will ordinarily be at the Social scientific inquiry uses a combination of introductory level. conventional scientific methods and humanistic, qualitative approaches. Courses in this category are Students must successfully complete one course in each typically, but not exclusively, offered in American of the following four fields: studies, anthropology, economics, government, history, Arts: Students actively engage in the making or and sociology. performing of artworks as modes of creative invention, CULTURE-CENTERED INQUIRY interpretation, expression, and discovery. Through the critique and analysis of artworks, students develop a In culture-centered inquiry students learn that culturally context for and an understanding of their own creative based perspectives and values are not universal and in so output as well as the creations of others. The doing enhance their ability to interact with persons from fundamental student learning goals include the diverse cultural backgrounds. Students fulfill this advancement of technical proficiency and the refinement requirement by completing one course in a foreign of critical aesthetic sensibility. Courses in this category language, and one course designated as either non- are typically, but not exclusively, offered in creative Western culture or cultural diversity study. writing, dance, music, studio (visual) art, and theater. Foreign Literature and Language: Students expand Humanities: Students examine and reflect upon human their use of a foreign language or their understanding of culture as expressed in historical tradition, literature and the literature of that language by studying in its non- languages, art and music, ideas and beliefs. Students translated form. A student may choose a course from the learn about diverse heritages, customs and values that literature and language courses offered by the Depart- form patterns and analogies but not general laws. The ment of Classics or the Department of Foreign Lan- guages and Literatures, excluding courses in translation. 11 Non-Western Culture: Students investigate a way of INTERNSHIPS life and a set of cultural assumptions significantly Skidmore’s long experience in combining liberal arts different from Western perspectives. In these courses, education with career preparation has established strong students examine the social, political, literary, aesthetic connections between the life of the mind and the life of or linguistic arrangements of cultures. practicality and action. This twofold understanding of Cultural Diversity Study: Students investigate the higher education is brought to focus through internships interaction of culturally distinct peoples within a given offered for academic credit. socio-political context. These courses may focus on Internships can be particularly rewarding to students as diversity in the United States or on intercultural an application of their academic work to other life relations in other contexts. However, at least one of the situations, as an exercise of their liberal arts skills and groups examined will have non-Western origins. perspectives, and as a bridge between college and career. In recent years Skidmore students have earned valuable THE MAJOR: FOCUS AND DEPTH experience and academic credit in government agencies, The core curriculum described so far provides the retail and industrial organizations, publishing houses, foundation that students need to choose a major banks, law firms, radio and television networks, and art, appropriate to their academic and career interests. music, and theater organizations. Internship affiliations This choice usually occurs at the end of the sophomore can be arranged by students themselves or be made year, allowing time for students to explore a variety of available through alumni and friends of the college. major and minor options. Skidmore offers the bachelor of arts and bachelor of science degrees in more than The Office of the Dean of Studies organizes the sixty areas, including traditional liberal arts disciplines, internship guidelines and application criteria at paraprofessional fields, interdepartmental combina- Skidmore. An electronic library of internship tions, and interdisciplinary programs. Qualified opportunities is maintained by the Office of Career students may construct a self-determined major when Services. Once they have completed a first semester at their educational interests lie outside Skidmore’s Skidmore, qualified students may apply for internship established majors. All areas of concentration at Skid- experience, and academic credit, during any semester of more, including those most oriented toward careers and the academic year, including both summer sessions. professions, thrive within a liberal arts and humanistic The course IN100: Exploration Internship is available as environment. Students electing two majors must plan an introductory experience to qualified students in any course selections very carefully and should seek academic discipline. IN100 applications are reviewed by assistance from a faculty advisor as early as possible. the College Curriculum Committee.

HONORS FORUM CURRICULUM Many departments at Skidmore offer “professional” internships at the 299 or 399 level. These opportunities The Honors Forum offers a supportive intellectual are centered on a specific academic discipline, are offered community for all highly motivated Skidmore students, at a more advanced level than IN100, and often carry and especially encourages the academic aspirations of prerequisites. Grading may be on a satisfactory/unsatis- first-year and second-year students. The “forum,” as the factory basis. Consult the course descriptions in the name suggests, is intended as a structure for organizing departmental listings for details. and promoting the common interests of an academic community. Some students are invited to become ACADEMIC GUIDANCE official members of Honors Forum, thus constituting a leadership core for the larger student community. The Office of the Dean of Studies assigns each entering student to a member of the faculty who can advise the Designated sections of regular course offerings and student about course scheduling, about the college’s general courses developed especially for the Honors Forum academic requirements, and about the student’s particular expect a high degree of involvement from participants, field of interest. Students may seek further advice on these employ more sophisticated materials and pose more and other issues from the office. Questions about leaves of complex questions, and provide an unusually challeng- absence, academic standing, choice of major, study abroad, ing academic experience. In a typical semester, Honors internships, peer tutoring, study skills, learning disabilities, Forum courses might be offered in art history, chemis- academic integrity, honors and prizes, graduate fellowships, try, economics, geology, literature, and mathematics. and other academic opportunities and difficulties may be 12 referred to this office. Information Resources General purpose microcomputer rooms are available in several locations across campus, some of which are open SCRIBNER LIBRARY twenty-four hours a day during the semesters. All Scribner Library houses nearly 400,000 volumes and facilities are open to any interested students, faculty, and 1,500 journals and periodicals, augmented by electronic staff and include either Windows or Macintosh access to online digital collections. In addition, the computers. Student assistants are on duty in several library houses the Skidmore College archives, collections locations to assist with user problems. Most of the of rare books, sound recordings, videotapes, and art public microcomputer rooms are equipped with high reproductions and slides. Scribner Library is a United quality laser printers. Students are welcome to use these States and New York State government-documents printers, provided they refrain from printing multiple depository. copies or otherwise wasting paper. If students need materials not available in the collection, Electronic mail is a popular communication medium for they have access to collections in other libraries through students and faculty. Skidmore College is connected to Skidmore’s interlibrary loan arrangements, which allow the Internet for electronic mail and data communication us to borrow from academic and research library with colleges and universities world wide. Before using collections both regionally and throughout the world. electronic mail, a student must obtain a username and password from CITS. These are free and remain valid as The library is constantly expanding its electronic library, long as the student is enrolled at the college. which is available through computers that are connected to the campus network. While students and faculty can CITS operates a multimedia development center in use these resources on any of the seventy workstations in Palamountain Hall. This facility provides public access the library, most of the resources can also be accessed to advanced tools for both analog and digital media from dorm rooms and offices. In addition to “Lucy2,” production. Typical resources include audio- and video- the online catalogue, Scribner Library provides access to editing facilities as well as scanners, CD-ROM writers, major bibliographic databases for all subject areas and computers optimized for image editing. through its Web pages. The library also subscribes to over 1,000 online journals including Project Muse, Affiliated Off-Campus Programs JSTOR, and Academic Press’s IDEAL library. These collections significantly enhance the library’s paper and VISITING STUDENT PROGRAMS AT AMERICAN COLLEGES microform holdings. While students do the majority of their work at The librarians, who are subject specialists, teach research Skidmore, the college offers the opportunity to take a techniques and are available for consultation about an semester or full-year program at another school in the individual’s research. United States. Many colleges in the state of New York and in other states have visiting student programs, and CENTER FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES students should write to the registrar of the college in Information technology is an active part of academic life which they are interested to get information about at Skidmore. The Center for Information Technology programs and deadline dates. Prospective visiting Services (CITS) supports services that include access to students should then apply for an official academic leave the World Wide Web, electronic mail, educational of absence. Applicants should have reasonably strong software, voice and data network support, printing, academic records, though grade averages somewhat multimedia, classroom technologies, and administrative below 3.0 may be accepted by the Committee on information databases. Academic Standing. While Skidmore encourages computing across the HUDSON-MOHAWK ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND curriculum — the use of computers in academic UNIVERSITIES disciplines — CITS focuses on making information To extend and enrich their collective educational technologies accessible to all students, including those resources, the following institutions have participated in who may not be comfortable with traditional computing the Hudson-Mohawk Association of Colleges and environments. While it does not teach any credit Universities: Adirondack Community College, Albany courses, CITS employs student assistants to help College of Pharmacy, Albany Law School, Albany students, faculty, and staff utilize computers more Medical College, College of Saint Rose, Columbia- effectively; conducts workshops; and distributes user 13 guides and other training materials. Greene Community College, Empire State College, RESERVE OFFICER TRAINING CORPS Fulton-Montgomery Community College, Hartwick Skidmore students interested in participating in Reserve College, Hudson Valley Community College, Maria Officer Training Corps programs may do so through the College, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, Hudson-Mohawk consortium. With the permission of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the Sage Colleges, the Committee on Academic Standing, a limited Schenectady County Community College, Siena amount of credit (typically, six or fewer hours) may be College, Skidmore College, SUNY-Cobleskill, Union counted toward the degree for academic courses taken in College, and the University at Albany (SUNY). the ROTC program. Students may choose individual courses at any of the member institutions through a cross-registration Students pursuing an ROTC program through cross- agreement by consulting their respective registrars. registration must plan their courses and their academic major with care due to the time requirements of the WASHINGTON SEMESTER ROTC program and the commuting time (thirty to Skidmore, along with more than seventy other colleges forty minutes) involved. Because of the scheduling and universities, participates in the Washington Semes- requirements of some majors, full participation in an ter Program for juniors and seniors. This program offers ROTC program may not be possible. Accepted intensive experience through course work, seminars, candidates are advised to discuss their plans both with research projects, and internships with committees, the ROTC program of interest and the Office of the agencies, and interest groups in Washington, D.C., Registrar at Skidmore before enrolling at Skidmore. where students live at American University. Applica- All cross-registering students must provide their own tions are made through the departments of Government transportation. and American Studies. Credits earned at American For information on ROTC programs and/or scholar- University are denoted as transfer credit, and grades ships, interested students should contact the ROTC earned do not affect the Skidmore GPA. Courses at the program of interest. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 300 or 400 level qualify for maturity level credits. (Troy, N.Y. 12181) has Air Force (518-276-6236), Army, and Marine Corps programs. Siena College SEMESTER IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE (Loudonville, N.Y. 12211) has an Army ROTC office. Skidmore College is one of ten liberal arts colleges that participate in a program for undergraduates offered by Study Abroad the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass. Held for fourteen weeks each fall at MBL’s Skidmore offers academically qualified students a wide Ecosystems Center on Cape Cod, the Semester in range of opportunities to further their global education. Environmental Science program emphasizes measuring Students must have 3.0 (sometimes higher) cumulative and understanding biogeochemical cycles and processes averages, appropriate course background and class-year in terrestrial, fresh water, and marine ecosystems. standing, and the endorsement of Skidmore College in Skidmore nominates students, usually biology-chemistry order to participate in programs abroad. Resources are majors in their junior year, for this collaborative research organized by the Office of International Programs in program. Applications are made through Professor partnership with the Dean of Studies Office. David Domozych, Department of Biology. SKIDMORE PROGRAMS IN PARIS AND MADRID BIOSPHERE 2 EARTH SEMESTER Any Skidmore sophomore with at least a B average and In affiliation with Columbia University’s Biosphere 2 the required language skills is eligible to apply for the Center in Arizona, qualified Skidmore students may Skidmore programs in Paris or Madrid through the take courses and conduct reseach in the unique facilities Office of International Programs. Applications must be associated with the Biosphere. The program focuses on filed no later than March 1 for full-year or fall-semester earth sciences and our ecosystem, with the goal of programs and by October 1 for the spring-semester developing talented leaders in global stewardship. program. Admission to the program may be limited by Interested students should contact Professor David space availability. Each program has a resident director, Domozych, Department of Biology. who is concerned with housing, classes, and administering the program. 14 The total cost of the Skidmore in Paris and Skidmore in India in its varied manifestations — the richness of its Madrid programs is that of tuition, board, and room at history, philosophy, and culture; the diversity of its the apartment rate in Saratoga Springs, plus air fare to peoples and languages; the complexity of its economic, the host country. Skidmore students on financial aid social, and political processes. Skidmore students with may continue to receive their scholarship awards while strong academic records and personal qualities, and with in the program. They must apply for scholarships, loans, appropriate academic preparation, may apply to the grant aid, and work awards in advance at the Office of program. For specific information, consult the director Student Aid and Family Finance. of the Asian Studies Program.

Skidmore has two programs in Paris, one for the entire SHAKESPEARE PROGRAMME year (for advanced French students) and another for fall or spring semester for those whose knowledge of French This fall-semester program affords students the is limited. Applicants must demonstrate appropriate opportunity to study theater, literature, and Shakespeare proficiency in the language. Both programs in Paris in England, where they study with internationally begin with a required intensive preliminary session to respected British faculty members and professional enable students to become familiar with French life and theater artists. The program is affiliated with the British the French educational system. American Dramatic Academy and the Birmingham University Shakespeare Institute. The program in Madrid is a full-year or spring-semester program of academic study at the Universidad Auto- For twelve weeks, students live and study in the noma. Because all work in the program is offered in Bloomsbury section of London, where the academic Spanish, students must have demonstrated competence program includes courses in theater history, English in the language at the advanced level and some under- literature, playwriting, dramatic criticism, directing, and standing of the literature and culture prior to the acting. Master classes and weekly trips to the theater are beginning of the program, normally by the successful included in the program. The final week is spent at completion of Spanish 208, 211, and 212 or their Stratford-upon-Avon, where students attend Royal equivalent. Shakespeare Company productions, study with RSC artists, and attend classes arranged by the Shakespeare SEMESTER IN LONDON Institute and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Skidmore offers a variety of study programs in the heart of Admission to the program is highly selective. Students London each spring semester. Students may elect programs must have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 and at least 3.2 in from the following institutions: Regent’s College, their major. For additional information, consult Westminster University (a broad range of humanities, Professor Lary Opitz, Department of Theater. social science, and business courses), University College and King’s College (a broad range of disciplines). The INSTITUTE FOR THE INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION OF program is accompanied by Skidmore faculty. STUDENTS (IES) Applicants must have strong Skidmore faculty references Skidmore’s affiliation with IES provides opportunities and normally an achievement record of 3.0 for Skidmore students to participate in high quality or higher. Courses in the London program are preapproved academic programs at twenty-one sites throughout the for transfer credit. Total cost is equivalent to tuition, room, world. Students with strong academic records, and and board in Saratoga Springs and includes partial airfare appropriate academic background, may apply to to London. Skidmore students on financial aid may apply programs at the Courtauld Institute, the Slade School of their loans and scholarship awards to the program. Fine Art, the School of Oriental and African Studies, Information and application forms are available from the and to other programs centered in Beijing, Berlin, Office of International Programs. Dublin, Freiburg, La Plata, London, Milan, Nagoya, Nantes, Tokyo, Vienna, and Australia. SEMESTER IN INDIA While preparation in a foreign language is usually Through consortial arrangements with Bard, Hartwick, required for the European and Asian programs, a few of St. Lawrence, and Hobart and William Smith colleges, them are presented in English. Program standards are Skidmore offers a one-semester academic program in rigorous. Students must normally have a cumulative India every fall. The program is designed to utilize field GPA of 3.0 or higher and must obtain academic settings and important sites to introduce students to 15 endorsement from Skidmore. Information is available Note: All affiliated and nonaffiliated study-abroad programs hold to from the Office of the Dean of Studies and the Office of competitive academic standards. Skidmore approval for study abroad — approval that must precede acceptance into any study program — International Programs. requires an academic record of 3.0 or higher. THE INTERCOLLEGIATE CENTER FOR CLASSICAL STUDIES IN ROME Higher Education Opportunity Program/ Academic Opportunity Program The ICCS, a consortium of sixty-three colleges and universities, is administered through Duke University. The Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) Through affiliation with the center, qualified Skidmore recruits and admits talented and motivated students students can study ancient history and archaeology, from New York State who otherwise, owing to academic Greek and Latin literature, and ancient art for a and financial circumstances, would be unable to attend semester or year in Rome. The program is particularly Skidmore. The Academic Opportunity Program (AOP) appropriate for students majoring in classics, art, or art recruits and admits students who are HEOP-like in history. their academic and economic profiles, yet are not eligible The normal semester load is four courses, including a for support from the program because they reside in broadly integrative course on “The Ancient City” which states other than New York or have income levels counts for half the normal schedule. Remaining course slightly above the HEOP economic eligibility selections might include Latin and Greek Literature, guidelines. Holistic in its approach to student Renaissance and Baroque Art History, Elementary development, both programs provide developmental, Italian, or an independent study. Application should be tutorial, financial, and counseling services, beginning with a required, pre-freshman, on-campus summer made through Leslie Mechem, Department of Classics. session. The Summer Academic Institute strengthens ADVANCED STUDIES IN ENGLAND students’ academic and study skills and prepares them for an academically and personally successful college This humanities program is centered for twelve weeks in experience. Bath, with an additional week at University College, Oxford, and a concluding week in Stratford. The diverse offerings in British literature, history, philosophy, Community Education Program classical studies, art history, politics, and women’s Skidmore College demonstrates its accessibility to studies are taught primarily by faculty from Oxford the surrounding localities through the Community University. Additional courses are offered in a five-week Education Program. Offering a variety of noncredit summer session from June to July. For specific courses, seminars, and workshops that meet evenings information, consult the Dean of Studies Office. and weekends throughout the academic year, programs focus on topics of current concern and interest to the MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE PROGRAMS IN RUSSIA community. In addition, continuing education programs This affiliation allows qualified Skidmore students to for local corporations, small businesses, and nonprofit spend a semester or year at three university sites in organizations are individually designed in response to Russia: Moscow State, Voronezh State, and Yaroslavl a growing demand for professional and personal State University. For more information, contact the development. Certificates awarding continuing Office of International Programs. education units may be earned in the program.

OTHER STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMS Skidmore College Computer Career Institute Through a host of other formal and informal affiliations, and the leave of absence process, Skidmore students Located in White Plains, N.Y., the Computer Career study at many British and Irish institutions, as well as Institute offers programs designed to provide a solid in Australia, African countries, Germany, Italy, Greece, foundation for continuous career growth and advance- Israel, and in other locations throughout the world. A ment in the field of computer technology. Currently, library of such opportunities and informed counsel are nine noncredit certificate programs are offered: available in the Office of International Programs and in Windows 2000 with MCSE Training, Web Graphics the Office of the Dean of Studies, both located in Designer, Web Multimedia Designer, Web Developer, Web E-Commerce Developer, Microsoft Office Starbuck Center. 16 Specialist, PC Service and Support Specialist, Oracle Students’ individualized studies may focus on liberal Certified Database Administrator, and Client/Server arts areas such as English, history, psychology, and VB/ABS Developer. Programs typically run six to ten biology, preprofessional areas such as business, or weeks on a full-time basis, and four to six months for interdisciplinary combinations. Some examples of part-time, evening classes. Course materials are interdisciplinary fields are human behavior, religion continuously revised to reflect changes in the field. and culture, arts management, organizational behavior, and public administration. External Master’s Program in Liberal Studies Students earn a B.A. or B.S. degree from Skidmore College. The program is registered with the State of The Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program is an New York and, as a division of Skidmore, is accredited external, nonresidential program designed for adult by the Middle States Association of Colleges and learners. The M.A.L.S. emphasizes a broad range of Secondary Schools. disciplines, allowing students to integrate knowledge in the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social First Year Enrollment Fee ...... $3,800 sciences. Students develop individualized programs of Subsequent Annual Enrollment Fee ...... $3,200 study — a combination of courses, independent study, internships, and a final project. Near the beginning of For further information, contact: their program, students attend a one-week seminar on the Skidmore campus in which they study multi- University Without Walls disciplinary approaches, research methods, and Skidmore College computer applications. The program leads to a master of Saratoga Springs, New York 12866-1632 Phone: 518-580-5450 arts degree. Fax: 518-580-5449 E-mail address: [email protected] University Without Walls

UWW is Skidmore’s undergraduate degree program Summer Programs for adult students. Founded in 1971, UWW is a pioneer in adult education. The program currently serves over Through the Office of the Dean of Special Programs, 275 students who use UWW’s flexible framework to Skidmore’s summer programs draw thousands of people develop individually tailored undergraduate degree of different ages and backgrounds to the campus for programs. credit and noncredit courses, seminars, workshops, and other events, many of which incorporate the city’s UWW shapes undergraduate programs to fit the cultural activities into their offerings. The Skidmore learning options available to people residing throughout College Summer Term Catalogue, issued in January, the country and overseas. UWW students are able to: provides further details on all programs. • transfer past credits from accredited colleges • earn credit for prior experience SUMMER ACADEMIC SESSIONS • pass competency exams for credit There are two five-week summer sessions at Skidmore • arrange independent studies with Skidmore faculty during which students may register for up to eight • enroll in UWW courses offered at the Skidmore semester hours in each session. The first session is ideal campus for those who wish to combine study with summer work • enroll in UWW online Web-based courses or travel. Students wishing to fulfill all-college • take classes at nearby colleges and universities requirements or accelerate their college programs can • enroll in courses offered at a distance by major earn additional credits by attending either or both universities sessions. Introductory and advanced courses in the • participate in internships. humanities, the natural and social sciences, and business are offered. Skidmore also offers summer programs in From its beginning, Skidmore has sustained a dual foreign countries. commitment to the liberal arts and the professions. Working closely with advisors, students develop programs appropriate to their backgrounds and goals. 17 SUMMER SIX ART PROGRAM PRE-COLLEGE PROGRAM IN THE LIBERAL ARTS FOR The Summer SIX art program runs concurrently with HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS the two summer academic sessions. Since its beginning This program offers college-level courses for credit to in 1968, Summer SIX has been distinguished as an high school students with strong academic records. intensive learning experience that provides special Enrollment is open to those who have completed their opportunities for students to explore and further develop sophomore year in high school. Students take two their artistic talents. The two five-week sessions feature courses chosen from among those offered during the nationally known visiting artists and lecturers who second summer session in the humanities, natural provide critiques, workshops, and seminars. Course sciences, and social sciences. Students may also cross offerings include: drawing, painting, printmaking, register in courses or workshops offered through lithography, ceramics, fiber arts, jewelry, photography, AP/Art. In addition, Pre-College Program students take sculpture, two- and three-dimensional design, graphic advantage of a variety of cultural and recreational design, watercolor, and art history. activities that are unique to Skidmore College’s summer Classes are small and individualized, and students have campus and the Saratoga Springs area. round-the-clock access to large, well-lit studios. SUMMER LIFE SCIENCE INSTITUTE FOR GIRLS Graduate credit may be earned in cooperation with the Office of General Studies and Summer Sessions at the Two week-long residential programs for seventh, eighth, University at Albany, State University of New York. and ninth grade girls are offered in an effort to expose them to the fascinating world of the life sciences. In addition, noncredit workshops are offered in a variety Students study the basic concepts of modern biology and of media. These intensive workshops include: painting also actively participate in modern biotechnology and and drawing, ceramics, raku and sagger firing, fiber arts, the use of advanced equipment. Special field trips enable videography, computer imaging, and monotypes. students to explore first hand the diversiity of life in a freshwater stream and visit a veterinary hospital to SUMMER WRITERS INSTITUTE observe surgeries. The New York State Writers Institute, sponsored by Skidmore and the University at Albany, State University CAMP $TART-UP of New York, offers an annual summer program for Skidmore College has partnered with Independent writers. The four-week program features workshop Means Inc. to offer a two-week experience to teen courses in creative writing and editing taught by an women during late August. The program helps teen extraordinary staff of professional writers, including women achieve economic self-reliance by introducing winners of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book them to the fundamentals and vocabulary of business Award. Courses are offered for undergraduate and and entrepreneurship, as well as builds leadership skills graduate credit, and a small number of noncredit as the students work in small groups to construct a full students may be enrolled. business plan. The skills taught at Camp $tart-Up help empower girls to take charge of their lives, both in AP/ART (ACCELERATION PROGRAM IN ART) school and throughout their professional lives. AP/Art is a program designed for mature and skilled high-school students who have completed their fresh- INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S WRITING GUILD CONFERENCE man year. Presented in conjunction with the Summer The IWWG hosts a week-long conference at Skidmore SIX art program, AP/Art offers students an opportunity for women writers of all levels of experience. Through to work in a college art department for credit as well as dozens of workshops, women refine their skills and learn noncredit options. Students may also cross register in more about a variety of writing genres, including liberal arts courses offered through the Pre-College nonfiction, fiction, romance, mystery, poetry, film, Program for High School Students. Each student television scripts, and journals. Word processing and the enrolls in two courses during the five-week session. business aspects of writing, such as dealing with literary Scholarships may be awarded on the basis of artistic agents, are also covered. Several guild members’ works merit and need. In addition, AP/Art students take have been published as a result of the annual conference. advantage of the rich and varied cultural activities available both on campus and in the community of Saratoga Springs. 18 Academic and Cocurricular Facilities

JAZZ INSTITUTE Academic Facilities This is a two-week residential institute for jazz SCRIBNER LIBRARY musicians — including high school and college students, music educators, and professional musicians — focusing Lucy Scribner Library brings together both traditional on theory and improvisation. Master classes are taught library spaces and the infrastructure to support by top jazz artists. The program coincides with Frei- increasingly sophisticated technology. The 75,000 hofer’s Jazz Festival at the Saratoga Performing Arts square-foot building contains more than 600 seats in Center. This program may be taken for academic credit. spaces designed to take advantage of natural light, twenty-two individual study rooms, and eighteen group- CENTER FOR TALENTED YOUTH study rooms. There are over seventy computers The Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented distributed throughout the library and in a large cluster Youth offers qualified adolescents specially developed on the fourth floor. Students can also bring in laptops courses in the sciences, mathematics, and humanities on and connect to the campus network at carrels and study the Skidmore campus. A talent search is conducted by rooms located on each floor. JHU/CTY in conjunction with school systems across the Named for Lucy Skidmore Scribner, the college’s country. founder, Scribner Library houses nearly 400,000 volumes and 1,500 journals and periodicals, augmented JUDAIC STUDIES PROGRAM by electronic access to online digital collections. In Skidmore College offers a series of three one-week addition, the library houses the Skidmore College residential seminars for serious adults who wish to archives, collections of rare books, sound recordings, explore issues in Jewish history, literature, and ideas. videotapes, and art reproductions and slides. Scribner The seminars feature lectures by well-known scholars, Library is a United States and New York State challenging class discussions, many opportunities for government-documents depository. informal personal exchange among teachers and Both teaching and library faculty teach in the Schaffer students, and other experiences intended to deepen Bibliographic Instruction Room, an electronic classroom students’ understanding and knowledge of Jewish texts equipped to allow students to learn research methods and concepts. incorporating both print and online sources. SUMMER DANCE WORKSHOPS The visual resources area on the second floor is devoted Skidmore College hosts modern dance companies during to the library’s extensive art book and visual resources the summer months and offers serious dance students the collections, including more than 100,000 slides and opportunity for intensive study with academic credit. digital images. One wall is devoted to the display and Over the past years, the José Limon Company, Twyla study of art reproductions. An arts librarian is available Tharp Dance Foundation, Dan Wagoner and Dancers, to assist with questions regarding art, music, film, Trisha Brown Company, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance theater, and dance. The offices of the Art History Company, Mark Morris Dance Group, Lar Lubovitch Program faculty are also located on the second floor. Dance Company, Martha Graham Dance Company, On the third floor, students will find the Pohndorff Room, Garth Fagan Dance, and the Parsons Dance Company which serves as the reading room for special collections and have been in residence. In addition, public dance events as a reception room for lectures and readings. presented by the companies provide added cultural attractions for members of the surrounding communities. DANA SCIENCE CENTER

SUMMER THEATER WORKSHOP Charles A. Dana Science Center houses the Departments of Biology, Chemistry and Physics, and Led by Anne Bogart and company members of the Geology. The facility offers classrooms, teaching labs, Saratoga International Theater Institute (SITI), an individual research labs and preparation rooms, and intensive four-week training program is offered to actors, plant and animal tissue culture, microbiological, directors, designers, dancers, and choreographers. Train- radiation biology, and radiation chemistry units. ing in the Suzuki method of acting, Bogart’s Viewpoints, and an interdisciplinary approach to composition are the Equipment available for student use includes a JEOL features of the program. The program may be taken for 1010 transmission electron microscope, Reichert academic credit. Ultracut ultramicrotomes, Balzer’s freeze jet, Olympus 19 BX-60 light microscope, LKB ultracentrifuge, high- Schick Art Gallery is located at the main entrance to the pressure liquid chromatography equipment, and building. In addition to special and faculty exhibits, art specialty equipment for PCR and DNA sequencing. students hold an annual exhibition of their works as do Also available are a 200 MHz high-field nuclear magnetic Summer SIX students. resonance spectrometer (NMR), computer interfaced x- ray fluorescence spectrometer, Fourier transform infrared TANG TEACHING MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY spectrometer (FTIR), inductively coupled plasma Opened in fall 2000 and named in honor of Frances spectrometer (ICP), and PC-based multi-channel Young Tang ’61, the 39,000-square foot museum- analyzer with nuclear spectroscopy equipment. gallery is designed to facilitate cross-disciplinary On the top floor of the building are a greenhouse, a communication between all areas of study through the plant-cell culture lab, and an ornithology lab. visual arts. The experimental nature of the Tang’s programming integrates multiple mediums and To keep pace with the growing demand for study in the disciplines to explore common themes. sciences, Skidmore built a 30,000 square-foot addition to the science center in 1996. The new wing connects The building houses a 150-seat interdisciplinary space; Dana to nearby Harder Hall and significantly increases classrooms for lectures, receptions, events, and film lab and teaching space in the sciences. The addition’s screenings; flexible galleries accommodating several glass-fronted three-story atrium provides lounge areas temporary exhibitions at the same time; a museum shop; for students and faculty on each floor. and storage for Skidmore’s permanent collection.

BOLTON HALL BERNHARD THEATER Bolton Hall, a classroom building honoring Skidmore Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater includes a main professors Joseph and Dorothy Bolton, houses eleven auditorium seating 345 people, two rehearsal rooms, a classrooms and the Foreign Language Resource Center, design studio, a large studio theater, a scene shop, paint which offers a variety of audiovisual and electronic shop, construction and repair shop, and all other facilities resources to students and faculty of foreign languages. appropriate to a modern college theater program.

PALAMOUNTAIN HALL FILENE MUSIC BUILDING Named in honor of Skidmore’s fourth president, A center for musical activities during the academic year, Joseph C. Palamountain Jr., this building features three the Therese W. Filene Music Building hosts groups of lecture halls, the largest of which, Gannett Auditorium, young performing artists during the summer season. seats 300. Located in the center of the building, the A distinctive feature of Filene is a fan-shaped lecture- lecture halls are ringed by smaller, hexagonally shaped recital hall seating approximately 240 people. The classrooms that reflect the building contours and building also houses faculty offices and studios, class- accommodate thirty-five students each in a seminar-like rooms, a music library, practice and listening rooms, and atmosphere. The Departments of English, Foreign an electronic studio. Languages and Literatures, Management and Business, and Education are located here. Palamountain Hall also TISCH LEARNING CENTER houses the Skidmore Early Childhood Center. Tisch Learning Center provides space for classes, Administrative offices are on the fourth floor. faculty, and programs. The building houses six seminar rooms; ten classrooms; laboratories for psychology and SAISSELIN ART BUILDING anthropology; the Departments of Psychology, History, Saisselin Art Building links the academic buildings on American Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, and Social campus with those of the fine and performing arts. Work; and thirty-four faculty and departmental offices. Constructed on three levels, Saisselin houses painting and drawing studios on its third level, all with skylights LADD HALL to allow natural light into the studios. On the second Three-story Ladd Alumni Hall, which adjoins Case floor are the photographic studios and the jewelry and Center, contains faculty offices, classrooms, and an metalsmithing studio. On the first level are studios for auditorium for lectures and film showings. The offices sculpture, ceramics, weaving, textile design, serigraphy, of Skidmore’s University Without Walls and Master of printmaking, graphic design, and computer imaging. Arts in Liberal Studies program are located on the first 20 floor of Ladd. It also houses the Departments of AIKINS AND MURRAY DINING HALLS Classics, Government, and Philosophy and Religion. Facing Case Green, these adjacent dining halls serve nineteen cafeteria-style meals a week (brunch and dinner HARDER HALL only on Saturdays and Sundays) to students living in the F. William Harder Hall contains classrooms, faculty residence halls on the Jonsson Campus. offices, the departments of Economics and Mathematics and Computer Science, and the Center for Information FALSTAFF’S Technology Services. Opened in 1986, this one-story facility contains small alcoves for eating and relaxation and a large open area Cocurricular Facilities for dancing and entertainment. A committee of students, faculty, and administrators sets policy for CASE CENTER Falstaff’s and sponsors a variety of cocurricular activities. Josephine Young Case College Center connects the academic and residential areas of the Skidmore campus. SPORTS AND RECREATION CENTER Newly renovated and expanded for fall 2001, Case The Sports and Recreation Center adjoins playing Center houses the college book store, the post office, a fields and the Dance Center. The facility accommodates a student art gallery, an intercultural lounge, and offices comprehensive program of sports and physical education. for student clubs and organizations. The building is also The center includes two gymnasiums, a competition home to the Spa snack bar, the faculty-staff club, and a swimming and diving pool, racquetball/handball courts, cyber-café, which offers computer access combined with squash courts, weight-training and conditioning rooms, study and social space in a coffeehouse setting. On the and an athletic-training room. The facility also houses south side of Case Center is Porter Plaza, an outdoor classrooms and a human-performance laboratory for the gathering space for socializing, special events, and study of human movement and sport. A recent addition performances. serves as home to an intramural gymnasium, varsity team rooms, a weight room, and an aerobic equipment area. WILSON CHAPEL An outdoor athletic complex features a lighted, artificial- Val H. Wilson Memorial Chapel honors Skidmore’s turf field; an all-weather track; and a grandstand. third president and is intended primariy for meditation, though it is at times used for various religious Other sports facilities include practice and playing fields for ceremonies and events at the college. Set in a wooded hockey, baseball, lacrosse, soccer, and other field sports; cross area, it purposely lacks religious symbolism in the country ski trails; and nine outdoor tennis courts. architecture or decor, emphasizing that it is for use by all members of the community, regardless of faith. VAN LENNEP RIDING CENTER The Van Lennep Riding Center offers excellent facilities STARBUCK CENTER for riding, a stable of horses for student use, and space Named for Kathryn Starbuck, this building houses the for students to board their own horses. In addition to a offices of the college that provide nearly all of the large heated indoor riding ring, there is an outdoor ring, administrative services for students, including the paddocks for turnouts, and an outdoor hunt course. The Offices of the Registrar, Dean of Studies, International heated stable accommodates sixty-eight stalls, ten by ten Programs, Student Aid and Family Finance, Student feet each, tack rooms, feed storage, a blacksmith shop, a Accounts, Career Services, Residential Life, and the lounge, and a classroom. Higher Education Opportunity Program. DANCE CENTER JONSSON TOWER The Dance Center adjoins the Sports and Recreation This twelve-story building houses students on its top Center. It consists of three units including two spacious seven floors. A lounge on the top floor is used for social dance studios; a large dance, sport, and recreational area; functions. Health and Counseling Services, the and the fully equipped Dance Theater with adjoining Chaplain’s Office, Campus Safety, the Skidmore News, dressing rooms. This is the center for dance activities and WSPN radio can be found on the lower floors. during the academic year. The Dance Theater hosts professional dance companies throughout the year. 21 The Cocurricular Environment

Skidmore College recognizes that students’ experiences from study abroad. The office provides administrative outside the classroom are as challenging and educational oversight for Skidmore’s Paris and Madrid programs as those within. Thus the college offers many services to and provides support to other Skidmore programs help students make the best use of their cocurricular abroad and Skidmore affiliations. time. The Office of the Dean of Student Affairs is responsible for coordinating these services, which Campus Life include student academic affairs, international programs, counseling, multicultural student affairs, health services, The Office of Campus Life promotes multicultural Higher Education Opportunity Program, residential understanding, social responsibility, and informed life, religious life, career planning, student activities, and citizenship through a comprehensive program of volunteer services. Members of the student affairs staff workshops, seminars, mentoring, volunteer, and work together to provide effective student-life programs leadership opportunities. for the Skidmore community. The campus life staff collaborates with colleagues in the Office of Student Affairs and across the college to create opportunities, curriculum, events, and programs that STUDENT SERVICES promote diversity, citizenship, and community service. Through partnerships, services, and initiatives, the Academic Advising and Programs Campus Life Office works to shape a community environment that supports learning and personal develop- The Office of the Dean of Studies, in cooperation with ment. The associate dean of student affairs and dean for the faculty and the student affairs staff, provides first-year students provides leadership of the Campus Life academic guidance to students, contributes to academic Office staff, which includes the assistant dean for policy and curricular decisions, and coordinates a wide multicultural students and director of the Intercultural range of academic programs. The Dean of Studies Center, the chaplains, the coordinator of volunteer Office assigns each first-year and entering advanced- services, and the coordinator of leadership activities. standing student to a member of the faculty who can advise the student about course scheduling, about the Intercultural Center: The Intercultural Center in the college’s general academic requirements, and about the newly renovated Case College Center provides a program student’s particular field of interest. Students may seek of cocurricular activities that welcomes, acknowledges, further advice on these and other issues from the office. and celebrates diverse traditions. The center offers a visual Questions about leaves of absence, academic standing, presence and an annual calendar of programs, seminars, choice of major, study abroad, internships, peer tutoring, workshops, and exhibits that afford students, faculty, and study skills, disabilities, academic integrity, honors and staff opportunities to meet and learn from one another. prizes, graduate fellowships, international student Recognizing the crucial role of student-faculty activities, and other academic opportunities and relationships, the center supports relationships between difficulties may be referred to this office. The Dean of academic programs and faculty whose teaching and Studies Office also publishes the yearly New Student scholarship is broadly concerned with diversity and Guide to Program Planning and the Academic Information student interest groups that share those interests. Guide, booklets that survey all academic programs and Multicultural Students: The Multicultural Students policies at Skidmore College. Office provides the support services needed to enhance the curricular and cocurricular experiences of African International Programs American, Latino, Asian American, and Native American (ALANA) students, and for coordinating the The Office of International Programs works closely with development of programs that address the needs and the Dean of Studies Office to organize a wide range of interests of a culturally diverse population. The office opportunities abroad for students and faculty. The office assigns each new ALANA student to an upperclass maintains a study-abroad library, advises students on ALANA mentor, who assists them in their first-year program choices and applications procedures, helps assignment. The office also advises the ALANA orient students to the cultural and personal challenges culture-focused student organizations and coordinates they will encounter abroad, and helps reintegrate programs such as the Educational Leadership Corps, students into the life of the college when they return Mia McCoy Mentor Project, and the ALANA 22 preorientation program. The Multicultural Students Office maintains an Volunteer Office: The Volunteer Office provides especially close working relationship with the Offices of information and support for students seeking voluntary Admissions, Affirmative Action, Alumni Affairs, experiences in community service. The volunteer Calendar, the Dean for First-year Students, the Dean of coordinator acts as an advisor to Benef-Action, the Studies, Career Services, Counseling, Health Services, community service orgainization of the Student the Higher Education Opportunity Program, Government Association, and functions as a liaison Residential Life, Student Activities, and those academic between Skidmore and community service agencies. The departments and faculty committees with special interest coordinator is available to assist students with their in interracial and cross-cultural concerns. personal goals through volunteerism and service- learning experiences. Religious Life: Skidmore College is respectful of and responsive to those in the community who practice the religion of their choice, providing, as often as possible, Residential Life options to the Skidmore community that are inclusive Skidmore provides a cocurricular environment that both in tone and content. Skidmore welcomes student enhances and enriches the academic program through religious groups whose purposes are in harmony with opportunities for personal and social growth, self- the educational goals of the college and whose activities discovery, and an appreciation of one’s responsibilities to are open to the college community. Indeed, Skidmore others. At Skidmore residential living is an integral part embraces religious pluralism in its desire to be a vitally of the student’s education. At its best, residential living diverse community, though its practices and policies are fosters a sense of community; facilitates the integration secular in nature and its imperative is to ensure that of the individual into campus activities and organiza- students can meet the academic requirements of the tions; exposes students in a direct and personal way to a New York State Department of Education. pluralistic community of people with divergent points of Throughout the academic year there are services of view, values, lifestyles, and background experiences; various denominations on campus; the Christian encourages an atmosphere of free and wide-ranging Fellowship, the Jewish Student Union, the Catholic expression of ideas; and develops in each person Newman Club, and SEEK (a multi-faith group) are capacities for self-direction and deep concern for others. vibrant and active student organizations. The Office of Residential life is not always comfortable, supportive, or the Chaplain includes chaplains for both the Newman secure. Interpersonal tensions, serious value conflicts, Club and the Jewish Student Union and a full-time and discomfort caused by living in close proximity with interfaith chaplain. All chaplains work with campus and large numbers of students are not unusual. Learning to local religious groups and offer counseling on both respond maturely, responsibly, and creatively to adversity religious and nonreligious concerns. Saratoga Springs are important elements in self-growth. Skidmore communities of faith welcome students as well. provides resources through its residence-hall staff, Faculty and administrators exercise the fullest measure Counseling Center, Chaplain’s Office, and other student of good faith to insure that students are able to fulfill affairs staff, to help students adjust to residential life. their religious obligations and practices without Ultimately, Skidmore regards its students as maturing suffering any loss of grade or programmatic access. adults and expects them to accept a large measure of Absences for religious observances will not be counted responsibility for their personal and social lives. among the number of “allowed absences” per course. Skidmore’s room-change and off-campus living policies Faculty members have the responsibility to make reflect the belief that students often learn more about available to each student who is absent from class themselves and others by working through difficult because of religious obligations the opportunity to situations rather than escaping them. make up any missed coursework, exams, or course requirements. Because Skidmore calendar policy All continuing full-time students and students returning prohibits scheduling activities during study and exam from leaves of absence are required to participate in the periods, student clubs and organizations desiring to room selection process, held each spring semester schedule religious observances during these periods may (Moore Hall is considered “on campus”). Room do so only by notifying the dean of the faculty in writing selection is a random-drawing procedure giving and by following the scheduling procedures of the Office preference to class (seniors choose first, juniors choose of Leadership Activities. second, etc.). The procedure provides students with a 23 wide range of living options including college-supervised SCRIBNER VILLAGE APARTMENTS residence apartments. All first-year students are required Intended for upperclass men and women, Scribner to live in college-supervised housing, except those living Village houses 283 students. There are fifteen houses at home with a parent or guardian at the start of their containing fifty-six units that accommodate four, five, freshman year. All students living in the residence-hall six, or seven students. Each apartment is fully furnished system sign a room and board agreement that outlines and has an appropriately equipped kitchen. Students their rights and responsibilities. living in Scribner Village may elect to join the meal plan The residence halls, central to life on campus, offer a or to prepare their own food in the apartment kitchen. diversity of programs and are supervised by a network of trained upperclass students. Hall councils, comprising OFF CAMPUS both residence hall staff members and elected student In consideration of Skidmore’s commitment to an representatives, develop a variety of events and programs educational philosophy that supports the importance of for the halls. living in campus housing and in consideration of its financial obligations, all freshman full-time students MOORE AND KEYES QUADRANGLES must live in college-supervised housing. However, for a Moore Quad consists of Kimball, Penfield, Wilmarth, limited number of upperclassmen, the option of living and McClellan residence halls. Each hall houses off campus is available through the room selection approximately 140 students on three floors in single, process. (See the Room Section Guide for specific double, or triple rooms. In addition, each of the halls has options and requirements.) Preference is first given to a large living room. There are kitchenette facilities, a seniors, and then to juniors. Exceptions to this policy study room, and a small lounge on each floor. may be made in the following situations: student living with a parent and/or guardian and commuting daily, Keyes Quad has comparable facilities. Howe, Rounds, student who turns twenty-two years old before the start and Wait residence halls accommodate 340 students, of the academic year, married students, and student with while Jonsson Tower houses another 280. The latter, a child(ren). twelve-story building, is the tallest on campus. Atop Jonsson Tower is the Penthouse, with lounge and kitchen facilities for hall use and other college activities. Health Services The Office of Health Services provides the general MOORE HALL range of health services that you would expect to receive Moore Hall is a residence hall and dining facility located from a family health care provider. This includes but is on Union Avenue in downtown Saratoga Springs, not limited to treatment of general medical problems, approximately two miles from campus. This structure injuries, sexually transmitted diseases, and provision of accommodates 160 students on five floors. There are immunizations, birth control counseling, and traditional “double-loaded corridors,” lavatory facilities, gynecologic examinations. Although health services and lounge areas on each floor. A glass-enclosed, provides a limited on-site laboratory, most blood tests, circular dining room serves the residents of the building. throat cultures, Pap smears, and STD tests are sent to an A Skidmore bus provides transportation to and from the outside laboratory. Referrals to specialists, both in the campus for residents of Moore Hall. local community and in neighboring cities, can be arranged as need arises. Health services also provides SKIDMORE HALL educational opportunities that focus on increasing health This facility, located just south of McClellan and awareness, health maintenance, and illness prevention. Penfield, accommodates 128 students on three floors of There is no charge for visits to the office, most single and double rooms. By design, the building’s medications, and some laboratory services. Students (or flexible arrangement provides opportunities for both their health insurers) are responsible for bills relating to privacy and social interaction. The seminar area on the emergency room visits, outside laboratory and X-ray first floor is designed to integrate academic and tests, visits to specialists, immunizations, and certain residential life. medications. All students are required to complete a health form and immunization record in order to register for classes. Proof of U.S.-based medical 24 insurance is mandatory, and may be purchased through database of over 30,000 internship opportunities has the college for a relatively nominal fee. All visits are been developed through internship-sharing initiatives confidential; no information is shared without a with other colleges. Links to additional job/internship student’s written or verbal permission. leads, employment databases, and graduate school links are found on the site. The health services staff includes a physician-director, nurse practitioners, college-health certified registered In addition to subscribing to numerous job listing nurses, and other clinical and administrative staff with resources, the office regularly publishes several of its own decades of experience working with college students. newsletters to keep the entire student body aware of The office is located on the first floor of Jonsson Tower. pertinent opportunities and their deadlines. Students who register with the office will also receive e-mail Counseling regarding special job/internship opportunities. Our Alumni/Parent Career Advisor Network has over The Counseling Center provides consultation, 2,500 volunteers prepared to help people explore the assessment, and short-term therapy on an individual world of work and identify appropriate job and and group basis without charge. Provisions for internship leads. Many career advisors volunteer to substance-abuse assessment, treatment, education, and sponsor students who participate in our annual Job referral can be arranged through this office. Students Shadowing Program. Students can spend up to one full requiring long-term counseling may be referred to day on the job, shadowing a sponsor with whom they private community resources when appropriate and have been matched. feasible. The office is staffed by mental health professionals from several disciplines (clinical social Networking programs in regions like New York City work, psychology, and psychiatry). All consultations and on-campus events like the “Real World” program are fully confidential. link students with alumni. These events are useful for both gathering information about potential career fields Career Services and identifying job and internship leads. Our recruiting program for seniors includes on- and off- The Office of Career Services offers a wide array of campus interview opportunities and recruiting events, services that help all interested students and alumni such as the Boston and New York City career days. clarify their career goals and pursue career or graduate Virtual Career fairs, sponsored in cooperation with school opportunities. The following services are available groups of colleges, exposes Skidmore students to to Skidmore students and alumni. opportunities with more than 200 employers during the Career counseling and career assessment are provided in past year. individual appointments during which a professional Services and programs for underclass students include career counselor facilitates exploration of personal the internship registration e-mail service, job shadowing values, interests, skills, aspirations — the building blocks program, advising regarding choice of majors/career, and of satisfying work-related decisions. Advising regarding special promotional programs to introduce students to the relationship between graduate/professional school the office. The staff are happy to talk with all students and careers is available. Trained paraprofessionals called and encourage early involvement with the office. It is career services assistants get people started and insure wise to initiate contact during a student’s first year. that they take full advantage of all appropriate resources and services. An extensive collection of printed resources such as books, directories, periodicals, and resource files are available in the career services library to support an individual’s research efforts. A World Wide Web site on the campus computer network (www.skidmore.edu/administration/career/) has been established to post internships, jobs, and recruiting opportunities for students and alumni. A 25 COCURRICULAR ACTIVITIES Student Organizations Many special or regularly scheduled events are Student Government Association conducted by organizations sponsored through SGA. Students may participate in the governance of the The Student Entertainment Company is responsible for Skidmore College through active involvement in the concerts, parties, and other all-college social activities. Student Government Association. This organization, Swing Fever provides ballroom-dance instruction, while which includes all members of the student body, is Pure Energy offers dancing to techno as an alternative. dedicated to the principles of democratic self- The Student Speakers Bureau brings to campus government and responsible citizenship. SGA operates stimulating lecturers, columnists, entertainers, artists, under authority granted by the college’s board of trustees. and authors. The four classes that comprise Interclass Council organize four major weekends throughout the The SGA Senate is made up of students elected from year: Oktoberfest, Ring Weekend, Winter Carnival, and the residential units and the student body at large. It is Spring Fling. the major legislative body for the students. The Interhall Board, also elected from the residences, reviews college In addition, many special-interest groups representative policies relevant to campus services and student life of such areas as multicultural diversity, health and issues, and deals with functions of residence hall wellness, the environment, voluntary community service, governance and cocurricular programming. The All and the visual and performing arts contribute to a rich College Council, made up of students, faculty, and variety of programs and to the college experience. administrators, and chaired by the president of Many academic departments are affiliated with a student Skidmore College, studies and acts upon academic club, which sponsors a variety of activities recommendations for policy reform that affect campus relevant to the academic discipline. In addition, SGA life and the college community at large. Academic supports a number of athletic and recreation clubs such Council is comprised of two student representatives as the Outing Club, as well as mountain biking, Kung from every academic department who serve as liaisons Fu, sailing, alpine and nordic skiing, women’s and men’s between the majors/minors and the faculty of the various ice hockey, ultimate Frisbee, dressage, and polo clubs. departments; the council initiates proposals and reviews policies related to academic life. Media Opportunities In addition to these major bodies, students serve as representatives to faculty committees, administrative Student media opportunities include the student committees, and college task forces. There are also all- newspaper, the Skidmore News, the college’s FM stereo student SGA committees concerned with traditional radio station, WSPN, and closed-circuit TV station, events, student elections, SGA budget, and public TV-3. The yearbook, Eromdiks, long regarded as the relations. seniors’ chronicle of events, is published by students. Folio, an arts and literary journal, and Politeia, a journal Disciplinary concerns are handled through the college of opinion in the social sciences and philosophy, are tripartite judicial committees: the Integrity Board and published annually. Skoop on Skidmore, a guide for new the Board of Appeal. The Student Handbook outlines students, is produced by the Orientation Committee. student and campus services, college policies, and the Skidmore Honor Code. In addition, SGA sponsors more than eighty-five student clubs and organizations representing a broad and diverse range of interests. Falstaff’s, the Skidmore social pavilion on campus, is managed and funded by the SGA. This facility, separ- ately incorporated as a not-for-profit organization, is directed by a board of students, faculty, and staff. Events such as Lively Lucy’s Coffeehouse, DJ nights, band jamborees, hall dinners, special luncheons, receptions, and leadership retreats are frequently held at Falstaff’s. 26 Performing Opportunities the two rehearsal studios. On occasion, the department hosts visiting professional productions and various MUSIC training workshops in areas that are of interest to our Skidmore’s musical organizations accommodate a variety students. of musical preferences. They are open to all interested Student-directed SGA organizations include the Ad- students, regardless of major, and faculty by audition. Liberal Artists, a group of eight to ten students, who The Skidmore Chorus performs a large repertoire of write, improvise, and perform their own comedy works from many centuries. The Vocal Chamber material, and the Cabaret Troupe, which produces Ensemble, a small, select subgroup of the chorus, musical-theater works. performs a wide variety of a cappella and accompanied DANCE music. The Skidmore Opera Workshop presents scenes and complete works from classical through modern Dance at Skidmore has a long and distinguished operatic repertoire. tradition. Offering academic as well as technical study, it encompasses a variety of interests including ballet, The Skidmore Orchestra, a seventy-member orchestra modern/contemporary dance, ethnic dance, jazz, improv- of Skidmore’s best instrumentalists supplemented by isation and choreography, history and repertory of dance, professional musicians, performs major symphonic dance production, independent study, seminars, and repertoire from the Baroque period to the present. special dance forms of both the Western and Eastern Skidmore chamber ensembles, which are comprised of worlds (such as pointe, character, dance for the child, pianists, brass, woodwind, and string players, are music for dancers, yoga, Bharata Natyam, and African). coached weekly by faculty. Each group performs at the There is also an active student dance club, Terpsichore. end of the semester. The Dance Program invites visiting artists to offer The Skidmore Jazz Ensemble, a big band, and several workshops, master classes, performances, and lectures small jazz ensembles rehearse weekly and perform throughout the year. regularly on and off campus. The Guitar Ensemble and the Flute Ensemble perform in midday and evening concerts. In addition, string and wind chamber Collegiate Athletics ensembles perform every semester. MISSION STATEMENT The West African Drum Ensemble is devoted to the The mission of the Skidmore College intercollegiate performance of the traditional music of Ghana, focusing athletic program is to offer a competitive athletic on hand-drumming techniques. Students play on drums experience as an integral part of a liberal arts education. and bells imported from Africa in a select ensemble of Maintaining equity of treatment for all intercollegiate around eighteen members. programs, Skidmore believes that an inter-collegiate Four a cappella singing groups, the Sonneteers, the athletic program is an important part of a total Accents, the Bandersnatchers, and the Dynamics are educational program and subscribes to the National student-directed SGA organizations specializing in Collegiate Athletic Association Division III philosophy barbershop, jazz, and popular songs from the 1920s to and the concept of student-athlete. Consequently, the the present. The Sonneteers and the Accents are all- athletic program is grounded in an educational women groups, the Bandersnatchers is a men’s group, philosophy that emphasizes the importance of physical and the Dynamics is a coed group. activity as a medium for individual growth and development, and the program seeks to create a THEATER challenging, yet supportive competitive environment Members of the Skidmore campus community, which cultivates intellectual, personal, and athletic including faculty, theater majors, and interested excellence. Consonant with the college’s commitment to nontheater majors have numerous opportunities to gain the process of active learning, the intercollegiate athletic experience in design, production, and acting. The program offers students the opportunity to participate Theater Department’s production activity includes fully on a wide range of athletic teams recognizing that mounted productions in the large thrust theater as well participation promotes goals that are compatible with as in the more flexible studio space of Bernhard Theater. academic pursuits and community life, including teamwork, health, fitness, camaraderie, and competition. Throughout the year many workshops are presented in 27 Based on the principle that athletics can bring pride in INTRAMURALS success, the intercollegiate program also provides a A thriving intramural program provides a wide variety valuable community experience by promoting school of coeducational sports activities at a nonvarsity level. spirit and by unifying the campus. The athletic program Among the current intramural sports are flag football, represents Skidmore across the state, region, and golf, racquetball, running, and volleyball. country, enhancing the college’s reputation and prestige in the eyes of prospective students, alumni, and the CLUBS community in general. In the end, the goals of the intercollegiate athletic program are to assist the student- Students who share similar enthusiasms also join athlete to meet challenge with determination and together to form activity clubs. Clubs in the recent past inspiration, hard work and dedication, to understand have focused on aerobics, cycling, indoor soccer, polo, that it is the quality and consistency of effort that Kung Fu, ultimate Frisbee, and women’s ice hockey. defines the outcome, and to learn that the quality of INFORMAL AND INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITIES communal life is dependent in part on individual contributions. The Sports and Recreation Center is open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. during the school year for students to pursue INTERCOLLEGIATE TEAMS informal activities such as jogging, swimming, weight training, racquetball, squash, basketball, volleyball, Skidmore College is affiliated with the NCAA, ECAC, indoor soccer, and aerobics. UCAA, and NYSWCAA. Intercollegiate athletic teams compete against Northeast area colleges in appropriately Complementing the facilities especially designed for challenging schedules, as well as encountering teams sports — the sports center, tennis courts, playing fields, from across the country on regional tours. Skidmore is a the outdoor athletic complex, and the Van Lennep member of the Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association, Riding Center — are the natural recreation grounds which provides conference play among the eight of the campus itself. Set among woods and hills and member institutions. open fields, the campus is alive at all seasons with unstructured sports activity, as hikers, joggers, and cross- In addition to coeducational riding, Skidmore fields country skiers set their courses along the trails that wind intercollegiate men’s teams in baseball, basketball, crew, through the wooded campus. Backpacking, rock golf, ice hockey, lacrosse, soccer, swimming and diving, climbing, and wilderness weekends are popular, with the and tennis; and women’s teams in basketball, crew, field Outing Club organizing trips and providing camping hockey, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, equipment. tennis, and volleyball. Consult Athletics Personnel for the names of head coaches and the athletics staff . THE SURROUNDING AREA In compliance with the Equity on Athletics Disclosure The city of Saratoga Springs offers additional opportu- Act, Skidmore College publishes an annual report that nities for golf, bowling, racquet sports, and ice skating. includes participation rates, financial support, and other Nearby areas offer a wide range of recreational activity. information on men’s and women’s intercollegiate Located in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains, athletic programs. The report is available upon request. Skidmore is only one hour from major ski resorts, while Lake George and Saratoga Lake are available for sailing Intramurals, Clubs, and Recreation and water sports. State parks with trails for cross- country skiing, biking, and hiking are readily accessible. Like intercollegiate athletics, intramural and recreational activities are an important part of the Skidmore experience. Faculty, students, and administrators have joined in a cooperative effort to provide a program that serves the needs of students of all levels of skills and abilities. On campus and beyond, recreational opportunities abound for the individual enthusiast as well as for the student seeking group activities in intramural or club sports. 28 Admission

Skidmore seeks students who demonstrate strong Required supplementary forms and instructions are academic ability, intellectual curiosity, open- included with application materials sent to candidates mindedness, and an energetic commitment to learning. from the Admissions Office. Students filing the Since students learn not only from the faculty but from Common Application must submit a recommendation each other, Skidmore also seeks diversity in its student from their guidance counselor, assessments from two body, looking for a wide geographical distribution and a academic teachers, and the Skidmore supplement to the variety of talents, interests, and backgrounds. Common Application. All supplementary forms should be returned to the Admissions Office by February 1. Because the number of qualified students applying for admission exceeds the limited size of each entering class, Skidmore College encourages applications from it is not possible to admit all candidates who could be economically and academically disadvantaged students. expected to succeed at Skidmore. The Admissions Those who are eligible New York State residents will be Committee strives to admit those students whose referred to the Higher Education Opportunity Program abilities, interests, character, and background give them (HEOP) for consideration. Those who are ineligible for the greatest promise of profiting from and contributing HEOP will be referred to the Academic Opportunity to Skidmore College. Program (AOP) for consideration. To obtain information about HEOP/AOP, contact: The committee’s primary emphasis is on the strength of a student’s academic record, as evidenced by quality of Director, HEOP/AOP secondary school courses, classroom achievement, and Skidmore College standardized test scores. Personal qualities, accomplish- 815 North Broadway ments, interests, and capacity for growth are also Saratoga Springs, New York 12866-1632 strongly considered, so careful attention is paid to recommendations, the student’s personal statement, Early Decision and, where applicable, the interview. Skidmore’s Early Decision (ED) Plans are designed for qualified high school seniors who have examined their Application Guidelines college preferences thoroughly and have decided that The admissions staff welcomes communication with Skidmore College is their first choice. Although prospective candidates, their parents, and school candidates for Early Decision at Skidmore may initiate advisors. Correspondence should be addressed to: applications to other colleges, it is understood that they Director of Admissions, Skidmore College, Saratoga will immediately withdraw them and enroll at Skidmore Springs, NY 12866-1632, or via e-mail at if accepted under an Early Decision Plan. [email protected]. Skidmore offers both Round I and Round II Early Students apply for admission by completing the Decision Plans. Applications for the Round I Early application and returning it to the Admissions Office Decision Plan may be submitted any time up to accompanied by the application fee of $50. No December 1, with notification by January 1. The Round application can be processed until this fee is received. II application deadline is January 15, with notification The fee is a service charge and is not refundable, nor is by February 15. it credited on any subsequent bill. In cases of economic Most Early Decision candidates who are not admitted hardship and on the recommendation of the high school under an ED plan will be deferred for reconsideration principal or guidance counselor, the application fee may without prejudice during the “regular” admissions be waived. Requests for a fee waiver should be sent to process. ED applicants who clearly would be inadmis- the director of admissions. sible in the spring are given a final negative decision at Skidmore College participates in the Common the time of Early Decision. Application in use by more than 200 colleges and Financial aid applicants who are applying for admission universities in the United States. Applicants may under either Early Decision Plan must file the submit the Skidmore application obtained directly from PROFILE form of the College Scholarship Service by the Admissions Office or the Common Application the appropriate Early Decision application deadline, available at most secondary schools across the country. December 1 or January 15. The Admissions Committee does not give preference to one form over the other. For further information on Early Decision, contact the Admissions Office. 29 Requirements for Admission Admissions Interviews and Campus Visits Candidates for admission are expected to complete a Although an interview is not mandatory, a personal secondary school program with a minimum of four interview allows the Admissions Committee to learn academic subjects each year, or the equivalent of sixteen more about the candidate as an individual and enables college-preparatory credits. Qualified juniors may be the candidate to learn more about Skidmore. For those considered for early admission. For further information, reasons, prospective candidates are urged to visit see Early Admission. Skidmore for an interview by February 1 of their senior year. Interviews are typically preceded or followed by a Preparation for Skidmore should include four years of tour of the campus with a student guide. Interviews and English, three or more years of mathematics, three or more tours are offered weekdays from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and years of social science, two or more years of laboratory on Saturday mornings from September through science, and three or more years of a foreign language. February 1. Summer interviews are available on The Admissions Committee, recognizing that school weekdays for rising seniors from May 1 to August 31. curricula vary, is always willing to consider the Appointments should be made well in advance by application of an able student whose preparation, while contacting the Admissions Office at 1-800-867-6007 or differing from the plan suggested, nevertheless gives 518-580-5570. If a campus visit is impossible, the evidence of continuity in the study of fundamental Admissions Office can help candidates arrange subjects and readiness for college. interviews with alumni admissions representatives in their respective areas. Candidates can also visit Applications should be submitted as early as possible in Skidmore on the World Wide Web at: the senior year but no later than January 15. High school www.skidmore.edu. transcripts and teacher recommendations should also be on file in the Admissions Office by January 15. While students and parents are welcome to visit academic departments when Skidmore is in session, they An informational brochure and instruction sheet on are asked to remember that the faculty have primary financial aid are included with the application packet. commitments to teaching, advising, and scholarship. For details in this catalog, see Financial Aid. Accordingly, if a meeting with a faculty member in a Students seriously interested in art, music, dance, particular department is desired, prospective candidates theater, or creative writing may want to submit brief are requested to make arrangements through the representations of their work or supplementary Admissions Office well in advance of their intended recommendations. While prospective studio art majors visits. are not required to submit a portfolio, they are welcome to send ten to twenty 35mm slides of their work to the Information for Students with Disabilities Admissions Office no later than January 15. Slides should be encased in 9-by-11-inch plastic slide sheets Applicants who identify themselves as having a disability and clearly labelled with name, medium, size, date, and during the admissions process are considered for “top” of work. Applicants who wish their slides, tapes, admission on the same competitive basis as other video, or writing to be returned should include a applicants. The Office of the Dean of Studies is glad to stamped, self-addressed envelope. review available services with and provide advice to students with disabilities. Although no formal program Although a decision on each application is given by the exists at the college, Skidmore does employ a disabilities Admissions Committee in late March, all offers of specialist who acts as a resource for students in need of admission are contingent upon the satisfactory modifications and accommodations on campus and in completion of the senior year at an academic and the classroom. If a student anticipates requesting services personal level comparable to that on which the from the disabilities specialist, he/she should be acceptance was based. The committee reserves the right prepared to provide the following information at the to rescind an offer of admission if subsequent evidence is time of enrollment: presented that a candidate has misrepresented himself or herself, has purposely violated application procedures, or 1. Documentation and diagnosis of a specific has failed to complete his or her senior year in a handicapping condition that is not older than three satisfactory manner. years. The evaluation should be completed by a specialist in the area of the handicapping condition (e.g., 30 educational psychologist, certified school psychologist, Skidmore, standardized test scores may also provide psychiatrist). useful measures of academic promise. Skidmore requires either the College Board Scholastic Assessment Test 2. Specific recommendations from the professional (SAT I) or the ACT examination of the American conducting the evaluation, which list reasonable Testing Service, and strongly recommends (but does not accommodations and modifications that would benefit require) three SAT II: Subject Tests, including Writing. the student on a college campus. A foreign language subject test is recommended for All enrolled students receive an application for placement purposes. If a student does not take a foreign accommodation for students with disabilities. Students language subject test, he or she will be asked to take a with a documented disability should complete the similar placement examination during first-year student application and return it with the required document- orientation. Students for whom English is not their first ation to the disabilities specialist in the Dean of Studies language should submit the results of the Test of English Office. Using the information from the application and as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) in addition to either the diagnostic materials provided, the disabilities the SAT I or ACT. All testing should be completed by specialist will assist the student in developing an December of the applicant’s final year of high school. individualized system of support that is specific to SAT I, ACT, SAT II: Subject Tests, and TOEFL the student’s needs. After their arrival at Skidmore, registration forms are available in high school guidance students will then meet with the disabilities specialist. offices. The College Entrance Examination Board and Among the most commonly requested accommodations the American College Testing Service will also send free are extended time on tests, alternate testing locations, of charge to any school or applicant a copy of its permission to use tape recorders and laptop computers bulletin, which contains all information on test fees and in class, peer tutors, and assistance with skills such as examination centers. The CEEB booklet may be time management and organization. obtained by writing to the College Board, ATP, Box 592, Princeton, New Jersey 08541. The ACT booklet is Skidmore also provides an excellent range of academic available at P.O. Box 414, Iowa City, Iowa 52243. support services for the general student population, services that may also be of help to students with For credit granted by Skidmore for Advanced Placement disabilities. These academic supports include a writing Tests, see Credit by Examination. center, a math and computer science laboratory, a The Admissions Office requests that the results of all foreign language laboratory, peer tutoring for most standardized testing be sent directly to Skidmore courses offered by the college, and a counseling center. College from the appropriate testing service. Applicants should bear in mind that all students must fulfill foreign language, expository writing, mathe- Midyear Admission matics, laboratory science, and other requirements of the Skidmore curriculum. Since the curriculum represents Skidmore welcomes applications on a space available Skidmore’s definition of a sound liberal arts education, basis for midyear admission from students who will be requirements are never waived. However, under a few beginning their college careers in the spring semester exceptional circumstances, the college may consider and from transfer students who have at least one full substituting a course or courses for a curriculum semester of transferable credit from another college. requirement. In such instances, students must submit Students interested in midyear admission should submit diagnostic documentation that confirms the presence of their applications by November 15. a specific disability that would prohibit them from achieving the goals of this requirement. Early Admission For more information, contact the disabilities specialist The Admissions Committee will consider applications in the Office of the Dean of Studies: 518-580-5720. for fall admission from candidates who wish to enter college prior to the normal completion of a secondary Standardized Testing school program of study, i.e., at the end of the junior year of high school. In such a case, the committee gives While the Admissions Committee considers a student’s special consideration to the reasons for the candidate’s classroom performance in a rigorous academic program desiring such admission, the recommendation of to be the best indicator of potential for success at secondary school guidance officials, and the candidate’s 31 maturity and potential for dealing with both the At least sixty semester hours of the 120 semester hours academic and social demands of college life. An required for graduation from Skidmore must be earned interview with a member of the admissions staff is through enrollment in Skidmore College courses. strongly recommended for all candidates seeking admission under the Early Admission Plan. Admission of International Students*

Transferring to Skidmore Applications from international students and U.S. citizens studying abroad are welcomed and receive special Each year Skidmore admits students who wish to transfer attention throughout the evaluation process. from other accredited colleges or universities. Such students should have maintained a strong record of International students must submit transcripts of all achievement in liberal arts courses taken at colleges secondary- and university-level work undertaken as well previously attended. Transfer applicants should have taken as records of all official university matriculation exami- the SAT I or the ACT, but SAT IIs are not required. nations taken in their own country. Those taking the General Certificate of Examination must successfully A candidate for admission with advanced standing complete “O” Level Examinations in at least five subject should complete and return the application, areas, including English language. (For further informa- accompanied by a fee of $50, to the Office of tion regarding transfer of credit for university-level study Admissions by November 15 for admission in January and examinations, see page 50.) They must also take or by April 1 for admission in September. either the SAT I or the ACT examination. Those for whom English is not their first language must also An official transcript (or transcripts) of all college-level submit the results of the Test of English as a Foreign work done through the most recently completed Language (TOEFL). Arrangements for these semester must be submitted. A midterm report of examinations should be made at least two months in college work currently in progress is required and a advance of the test date. transcript of such work should be sent as soon as one is available in the event that the Admissions Committee English is the language of instruction at Skidmore, and feels it is necessary to review final grades for those it is necessary that all students be proficient in reading, courses before rendering a decision. Applicants should writing, and speaking English. (Generally, a score of also submit a high school transcript, two recommend- 243 on the computer-administered, or 590 on the paper- ations from professors who have taught the applicant in administered TOEFL examination is regarded as an academic courses, and the Dean’s Report included in indicator of minimal proficiency for study at Skidmore.) the application packet. Skidmore does not offer English as a Second Language or other special courses for students who are not Transfer candidates will be notified of the Admissions proficient in English. Committee’s decision as soon after the pertinent deadline as possible. The committee expects that final Skidmore is not able to offer financial assistance records will be consistent with the record available at to students who are not United States citizens or the time an offer of admission is made. permanent residents of the United States. Certification that financial obligations can be met will be required by A limited number of financial aid packages are available Skidmore and also by the United States agency issuing a to transfer students applying to Skidmore. Students are visa. The United States Immigration Form I-20 will be required to file the Free Application for Federal Student issued after the enrollment deposit has been paid. Aid (FAFSA) and the PROFILE form of the College Scholarship Service (CSS) no later than April 1. The academic year at Skidmore is made up of two semesters, one running from the beginning of September A tentative evaluation of transfer credit will be available to late December, and the second from mid-January to upon request at the time of an acceptance; the definitive the beginning of May. Summer recess runs from May evaluation is done by the Office of the Registrar and is through August and may be utilized for travel or study; not available until after the student has enrolled at during this period, students must pay their own expenses. Skidmore. Only courses in which a student has received Housing is not available during breaks between a grade of “C” or better are transferable. (See Transfer semesters, and students taking summer courses will be of Credit.) charged additional tuition, room, and board fees. 32 *Skidmore College is authorized under federal law to enroll nonimmigrant alien students. Application Deadlines Only those accepted candidates whose financial aid applications are complete will be considered for financial APPLICATIONS aid awards. Candidates accepting awards must submit a First-year student applications should be filed by January copy of their latest IRS tax returns. To qualify for 15 for regular decision and by December 1 (Round I) or financial aid consideration, applicants must be U.S. January 15 (Round II) for early decision. Transfer citizens or hold permanent resident status in the U.S. applications should be filed by April 1. Midyear First-year students who elect to enroll at Skidmore applications should be filed by November 15. All without financial assistance from the college may applications must be accompanied by a $50 fee. apply for consideration for aid beginning the first semester of their junior year. Transfer students who SCHOOL TRANSCRIPTS enroll without grant assistance from the college are The Secondary School Report form should be submitted eligible to apply for grant assistance after two semesters to the Admissions Office by the appropriate application of matriculated enrollment at Skidmore or when they deadline and midyear grades as soon as they are become juniors, whichever comes later. available. The appropriate forms are included in the application packet. NOTIFICATION Early Decision candidates are notified in accordance TEACHER RECOMMENDATIONS with the timetable outlined under “Early Decision.” Two academic teacher evaluation forms are included with Regular decision candidates hear from Skidmore in late the application and should be submitted as early as possible, March. Notification of financial aid eligibility/awards is but no later than the appropriate application deadline. mailed simultaneously with notification of admission.

STANDARDIZED TESTING KEY DATES FOR CANDIDATES TO REMEMBER The SAT I or ACT must be taken no later than November 15 Application deadline for midyear December of the senior year. The SAT I or ACT is admission. required; three SAT II: Subject Tests, including December 1 Application deadline for Round I Writing and one in a foreign language, are strongly Early Decision Plan. recommended but not required. Students for whom English is not their first language should submit results January 1 Mailing of Round I Early Decision of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). notifications. The Admissions Committee requires that the official January 15 Application deadline for regular score reports be sent directly from the appropriate admission; deadline for financial aid testing service. Skidmore’s CEEB code is 2815, the application. ACT code is 2906. January 15 Application deadline for Round II FINANCIAL AID Early Decision Plan. A Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), February 15 Mailing of Round II Early Decision and the PROFILE form of the College Scholarship notifications. Service must be submitted no later than February 1. New applicants obtain the FAFSA and the registration Late March Mailing of admission and financial aid for the PROFILE form from their high school guidance decisions to regular decision office. Financial aid applicants who are applying for candidates. admission under either Early Decision Plan must file the April 1 Application deadline for fall transfer PROFILE form of the College Scholarship Service by admission. the appropriate early decision application deadline. Transfer applicants should file the PROFILE and May 1 Postmark deadline for enrollment FAFSA forms by April 1. Skidmore’s FAFSA code is deposits from accepted first-year 002814, the PROFILE code is 2815. candidates. (This is the uniform Candidates’ Reply Date.)

33 Fees and Expenses

Nonmatriculated Students Fees for the academic year 2001-02 are stated below. Checks for fees should be made payable to Skidmore VISITING STUDENTS College. Students from other institutions may spend a year or a Annual fees (which include health care as outlined on a semester at Skidmore College as visiting students while following page) are as follows: concurrently maintaining enrollment at their own colleges. For information write to the registrar at Tuition ...... $26,400 Skidmore College. Residence Hall Room ...... $4,170 (College Apartment...... $4,950) SPECIAL STUDENTS Board ...... $3,355 Special students are not matriculated at Skidmore but may take a partial or full load of courses each semester, Schedule of Payments up to a maximum total of ten courses. Special students register on a space-available basis through the Office of BALANCE OF PAYMENTS the Registrar and pay a fee for each semester hour of credit. An application form may be obtained from the Payments are due to Skidmore College in accord with Office of the Registrar. A $25 application fee is charged the following schedule: annually. Tuition, Room, and Board Fee* CONTINUATION STANDARDS FOR NONMATRICULATED August 1, 2001 STUDENTS Returning students who have paid a $400 returning deposit pay ...... $16,562.50 All students enrolling on a nonmatriculated basis are (Entering students who have paid expected to complete their academic work in a satis- factory manner according to the chart below. Failure to an enrollment deposit pay $16,862.50) meet these standards will result in a review by the December 15, 2001 ...... $16,962.50 Committee on Academic Standing and possible withdrawal from the institution. Tuition and Apartment Fee August 1, 2001 After course number: Cumulative GPA required: Returning students who have paid 1 ...... 1.67 a $400 returning deposit pay ...... $15,275 (Entering students who have paid an 2 ...... 1.85 enrollment deposit pay $14,895) 3 - 10 ...... 2.00 December 15, 2001 ...... $15,575 After 10...... must matriculate or withdraw Tuition Fee August 1, 2001 Returning students who have paid Students who fall below these standards may apply for a $400 returning deposit pay ...... $12,800 a one-time nonrenewable waiver in order to continue enrollment. Petitions will be reviewed by the Committee (Entering students who have paid an on Academic Standing, and the decision of the commit- enrollment deposit pay $13,100) tee will be based on academic evidence indicating the December 15, 2001 ...... $13,200 student’s potential for success. Employees taking courses but not interested in * Students residing in triple rooms will receive a reduced obtaining a degree may petition the Committee on schedule of payments as will students who choose a fourteen- Academic Standing for a waiver of the ten-course limit. meal plan. Students living in Scribner Village apartments or off campus may elect a board plan or purchase meals individually in the dining halls or the Spa (the college-operated lunch and snack facility). 34 LATE PAYMENTS Fees Fees are payable at the Bursar’s Office on the dates OVERLOADS/UNDERLOADS indicated above. Incidental charges and miscellaneous fees (i.e., extra course fees) are due upon receipt of bills. The standard course load for a full-time student is Students must pay their fees on schedule or make fifteen credit hours each semester. An overload is definite arrangements with the Bursar’s Office for late defined as any program registration over eighteen hours. payment, before being permitted to attend class or There is an additional fee assessed for programs over occupy a room in a subsequent term. Special payment eighteen semester hours. arrangements are made on a case-by-case basis and may Full-time students must be enrolled in programs with a be extended to families experiencing an unexpected minimum of twelve credit hours each semester. There is medical or financial hardship or other extenuating no refund for those students who are carrying at least circumstances. Any special arrangements must be agreed twelve but less than the standard load of fifteen hours. upon in writing between the Bursar’s Office and the student at least one week before the payment is due. Matriculated students who wish to take fewer than twelve credit hours (an underload) must request part- When an account is in arrears, registration for a time status. Part-time students pay for each credit hour subsequent semester will be denied and transcript and and an application fee. diploma will be withheld. Delinquent accounts may be assessed a late fee each month equal to 1.5 percent of the Credit hour fee ...... $880 past due balance. GENERAL DEPOSIT...... $200 MONTHLY PAYMENT PLAN Deducted from $300 nonrefundable enrollment deposit The college offers a monthly payment plan whereby paid at time of acceptance. Refund of general deposit students may pay all or part of their anticipated 2001-02 will be made to students withdrawing or following annual charges (tuition, room, board, and fees less graduation. The college will deduct from the deposit any financial aid and deposits) in up to ten equal monthly charges not previously paid. installments. Payments are due the 15th of each month, with final payment due February 15, 2002. There are no REQUIRED FEES income requirements or credit qualifications to Application for Admission...... $50 participate, and there are no finance charges. The only Payable by entering students at the time of application, cost of participation is a nonrefundable application fee nonrefundable. which ranges from $50 to $75 depending on when one joins the plan. Detailed information on the Skidmore Student Activity Fee (estimate) ...... $285 College Installment Plan (SCIP) is sent to all students Determined each spring by the Student Government in April. Association and used to cover costs for student publications, speakers, organizations, and other TUITION PREPAYMENT (TUITION STABILIZATION PLAN) activities for the following year. Payable August 1.

A student may prepay tuition charges, thus guaranteeing SPECIAL FEES against future increases for two, three, or four years of full-time academic study. The amount will be at the Off-Campus Study Fee ...... $800 prevailing tuition charge for the following semester There is a per-semester fee for study abroad and for times the number of semesters being prepaid. Details of certain other designated off-campus programs. These this plan are sent to all students in June. Please contact fees support the Office of International Programs the Bursar’s Office for more information. (consult with the Dean of Studies Office for details on fee structure and financial aid). Practicum Fee...... $100 Payable by students enrolled in student teaching and also by students in social work field practicum as contribution toward expenses for travel of supervisors and cooperating teachers or agency heads. 35 Special Art, Music, and Physical Activity Fees Other Expenses Listed under respective departments. Tuition Insurance (Optional) Room Change Fee ...... $15 A tuition insurance refund plan is offered by the college Summer School through A. W. G. Dewar Inc. to insure that up to 100 Fees available from the Office of Special Programs. percent of a semester’s tuition and room fees are returned to a student when the student has to withdraw Transcript of Academic Record from school for a medical reason. The cost of the One copy ...... $5 insurance is approximately 1 percent of tuition and room fees. Details of this plan are sent to all students in May. Students and alumni have the option of paying a flat fee Arrangements to participate in the plan should be of $75 to cover mailing of transcripts. Students who made directly with A.W.G. Dewar Inc. elect to pay this one-time fee will not be subject to the per-copy fees assessed each time a transcript is Health Insurance requested. Additional information can be obtained from Estimate ...... $500/year All students must be covered by medical insurance. The the Office of the Registrar. college offers a plan that must be subscribed to unless SPECIAL STUDENTS alternate coverage is in place. Details of this plan will be sent to all students in June. Payment is due in August. Special students are not matriculated at Skidmore, but may take a partial or full load of courses each semester Linen Rental Service (Optional) up to a maximum total of ten courses while holding Estimate ...... $85/year special student status. They pay an application fee and a This service, offered by a linen supply company, sends fee for each semester hour of credit. application forms to students in late summer. Payment is made directly to the company. The service provides, Application Fee ...... $25 each week the college is in session, two sheets, a Payable once every academic year by non-matriculated pillowcase, and three towels. Pickup and delivery made or part-time matriculated students at the time of initial to residences. registration for one or more courses taken for credit or audit. Books and Supplies (estimate)...... $650-750/year These items may be purchased with cash, VISA, or Credit Hour Fee MasterCard at the Skidmore Shop. Credit hour fee ...... $880 Payable at the time of course registration. HOUSING Audit Fee All residence hall rooms carry the same charge, except One course ...... $125 when students reside in triple accommodations. Each One course in studio art, dance, or theater...... $310 student is furnished with a bed, desk, chair, and chest of Payable at the time of course registration for courses for drawers. Bed linens, blankets, and towels must be which no credit will be received. supplied by the individual. Students are responsible for the care and cleaning of their rooms. Senior Citizen Audit Fee One course in studio art...... $265 The student rooms in the Scribner Village apartments are similarly furnished. Students have the responsibility Student Activity Fee for the care and cleaning of their rooms and the The amount equal to approximately one-half the full commonly shared areas of their apartments. student activity fee payable when registering for twelve Skidmore requires that students accept responsibility for or more credit hours per semester. damage done to college property, whether caused by individuals or by groups. Information on financial responsibility for damages may be found in the Student Handbook in the “Student Life” section. The college does not carry fire, theft, or other insurances to cover personal possessions. Such coverage may be 36 included in policies carried by parents. Room assignments for returning students are processed Withdrawal from Skidmore shall entitle any student during the spring semester. Room assignments for who is not a first-time student to a refund of tuition, entering students are based upon the date the enroll- room and/or board, and student activity fee, less the ment deposit is received. Final confirmation of one’s advance deposit for that semester and any prepayments housing preference will be made after receipt of the first already made for successive terms, according to the semester charges. Entering students are notified of following schedule: specific assignments in August. Room change requests, for which there is a $15 service fee, are honored by the Prior to the second day of classes ...... 100% refund Office of Residential Life when possible. Within second day of classes to 10% of enrollment ...... period ...... 90% refund BOARD Within 10% and 25% of enrollment period...50% refund Students living in the residence halls contract for a board Within 25% and 50% of enrollment period...25% refund plan that provides nineteen meals per week served in Over 50% of enrollment period...... No refund Skidmore’s dining halls. Enrollment period is defined as the first day of classes to The college also offers a fourteen-meal plan to residents the last day of final exams within a semester. who may wish to eat in the dining halls on a regular Any first-time student who receives Title IV (federal basis but less frequently than provided by the full board student) aid and withdraws from the college will have plan. If a student chooses this meal plan his or her the tuition, room and/or board, and student activity fee account is credited. prorated for up to 60 percent of the enrollment period Students living in Scribner Village apartments or off (ninth week of classes). campus may elect a full board plan or may purchase No reduction in the charge for board is made to students meals individually in the dining halls or the Spa, the who are absent from the college. college-operated lunch and snack facility. In addition, there is a lunch plan available that provides four meals Leaves of Absence per week. A student granted an academic or personal leave of absence will be given a refund for prepaid tuition, room, REFUNDS and board charges in accordance with the college refund policy for the semester or semesters the student will not Since faculty and staff salary commitments must be be in attendance at Skidmore. The advance returning made in advance and the costs of plant operation are deposit of $400 will be deducted from the refund to fixed, the college must follow a very limited refund reserve a place for the student’s return. policy. Refunds for a student enrolled and attending classes will be issued only after the registrar has received Medical Leave of Absence written notice of withdrawal from the student. In Students granted a medical leave of absence will be given extraordinary circumstances, notice may be accepted a refund in accordance with the college refund policy. A from a parent or guardian. The receipted date by the tuition insurance plan is offered by Skidmore to insure registrar will be considered as the withdrawal date. that up to 100 percent of a semester’s tuition and room fees are returned to a student when the student has to The Bursar’s Office will determine the billed charges for withdraw from school due to a medical reason. Please the period of attendance, while the Office of Student refer to the “Other Expenses” section for additional Aid and Family Finance will determine the refund and/ information on this plan. or repayments to the federal, state, and Skidmore aid programs when the student is receiving financial aid. The order of refunding federal aid is: Federal Stafford Loan, Federal Perkins Loan, Federal Pell Grant, and Federal SEOG. (For information concerning housing, academic requirements, and financial responsibilities, please refer to the current Information on Leaves of Absence bulletin.) The college’s refund policy is the same as the federal refund policy for all students. 37 Financial Aid

Off-Campus Programs Administered by the Office of Student Aid and Family Refund policies for all programs of study conducted at Finance, the purposes of financial aid at Skidmore sites other than Skidmore’s Saratoga campus are College are to give those students who could not governed by the refund policies of the host institution or otherwise afford it the opportunity to attend the college; program. These policies will often be more limited than to attract and retain a qualified, talented, diverse student those described in the preceding sections. At a body that can be expected to contribute substantially to minimum, funds already expended or committed by the academic and social life of the community; while Skidmore for the purposes of off-campus study will not distributing available funds in a fair and equitable way. be refunded to the student. Students and parents should Currently approximately 39 percent of Skidmore check carefully on the refund policies of such off-campus students are receiving Skidmore-administered scholar- opportunities. ships, grants, loans, and/or work awards, which are Appeals offered singly or in various combinations. In total, 49 Appeals for exceptions to the financial policies of the percent of the students at Skidmore receive some form college, because of unusual circumstances, may be made of assistance from the college or from outside sources. in writing to the director of financial services. Numerous financing plans and options are available to families not eligible for need-based financial aid. (See ADVANCE DEPOSITS FOR 2002-03 ACADEMIC YEAR Fees and Expenses for monthly payment and tuition prepayment plans.) 1. A nonrefundable enrollment deposit of $300 is required from entering students upon acceptance. $100 The largest contributor of student financial aid funds is is credited against tuition at the time of initial billing the college, although federal and state programs and and $200 is credited to the general deposit. private donors assist significantly. Skidmore participates in the following federal programs: Federal Pell Grants, 2. A deposit of $400 is required in the spring semester Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants from all returning students. The $400 deposit will be (SEOG), Federal Perkins Loans, Federal Stafford billed February 2002, payable March 15, 2002, and will Loans, and Federal Work-Study Program. be credited against tuition at the time of initial billing; $200 of this deposit will be refunded to withdrawing Federal funds are administered by Skidmore in students notifying the registrar in writing by June 15, accordance with government regulations and the 2002 after which there will be no refund. college’s general policies relating to financial aid. Students from New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont 3. A late fee of $25 will be assessed for advance deposit may be eligible for state financial aid funds that can be payments received after March 15, 2002. used at Skidmore, and they are required to apply for these funds when seeking Skidmore financial aid. For further information about financial assistance from Skidmore College, see the Financing Your Education brochure and the Skidmore Financial Aid Application instructions. These are included in the application packet, which is mailed from the Admissions Office, and are available from the Office of Student Aid and Family Finance upon request.

Application All first-year students who are United States citizens or permanent residents of the U.S. are eligible to apply for all forms of financial aid. Those students admitted without Skidmore grant assistance are normally first eligible to receive such aid, if need is demonstrated, in their junior year. This policy includes transfer students unless they are admitted as juniors, in which case they 38 may receive Skidmore assistance for the senior year if need is demonstrated. Need-based institutional grant Students must reapply for aid each year, and the assistance is available for up to five transfer students per amount of the award will reflect yearly changes in academic year. Skidmore costs as well as in a family’s financial circumstances. Returning students who have received Student aid recipients are selected on the basis of Skidmore grant aid, who have submitted complete aid demonstrated financial need, determined through renewal applications on time, who meet satisfactory Skidmore College’s analysis of the Free Application for academic progress conditions, and who continue to Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and the PROFILE form demonstrate need, will continue to receive financial aid. of the College Scholarship Service. Late applications by returning students may result in an The confidential financial statements known as FAFSA unmet need. and the PROFILE form must be filed each year. Skidmore aid resources are not available for summer Entering students obtain the FAFSA and the study. In some cases, students may be able to utilize the registration for the PROFILE form from their high Federal Stafford Loan to pay for summer classes. school guidance office. Current students obtain the FAFSA and the registration for the PROFILE form Freshman financial aid notifications are mailed in early from the Office of Student Aid and Family Finance. April. Transfer financial aid letters are mailed on a rolling basis usually in April and May. Returning- Skidmore requires that copies of the federal U.S. income student aid notices are usually sent in May and June. tax returns be submitted to verify the financial figures Conditions of financial aid awards information is reported on the aid application. Applicants whose provided with the notification of aid, along with a parents operate a business or farm will need to file a request for any missing items needed to credit aid Business/Farm Supplement. money. Applicants whose parents are separated, divorced, or never married will need to have their noncustodial Student Aid Programs and Financing Options parent file a Noncustodial Parent’s Statement. While the college strives to be understanding in circumstances where a divorce or separation has occurred, Skidmore’s SKIDMORE COLLEGE PROGRAMS limited financial aid resources require that all possible sources of support be considered. Accordingly, the SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS resources of a remarried parent’s spouse are also considered in every case regardless of any private family Scholarships/grants are awarded without any repayment agreements. obligation to students who have demonstrated need and are made as a part of a financial aid package that Candidates for Early Decision admission must file the normally also includes a loan and employment on PROFILE form with the College Scholarship Service campus. Scholarships/grants awarded through state and by the appropriate admission deadline. At a later date, federal programs are explained at the end of this section. the FAFSA is to be filed with the federal processor. The contributions of alumni, foundations, and friends The financial aid application deadline is January 15 of the college also provide funds for students who (prior to the academic year for which assistance is demonstrate need. Named scholarships are as follows: requested) for prospective first-year students; the financial aid application deadline is April 1 for current George I. Alden Trust Endowed Scholarship students and prospective transfer students. Prospective Marjorie Maynard Allabough ’38-Patricia Allabough ’72 candidates receive consideration for financial assistance Scholarship if all required financial information is at the college at Alumni Clubs Scholarship the time funds for aid awards are allocated. Since funds Vera Lane Andrews ’25 Scholarship may not be sufficient to meet the needs of all admitted Arkell-Hall Scholarship students who demonstrate financial need, aid is offered David M. and Barbara McIlveen Baldwin ’61 to as many well qualified applicants as possible, with preference given to those students with demonstrated Scholarship financial need whom the Admissions Committee BBL Construction Services Endowed Scholarship determines to be the strongest applicants among those Carl Bauer Scholarship admitted to Skidmore. 39 Baxter, DeWitt, Milow Scholarship Giordano Family Scholarship Harriet More Betts Endowed Scholarship Deborah Weil Goldfarb ’69 Memorial Scholarship Fund Melissa Mosher Bilodeau ’76 Endowed Scholarship Stanley Gonick Scholarship Frances VanKeuren Blish ’44 Scholarship Kenny Gordon Scholarship Edna Butler Briggs ’40 Scholarship Jonathan Lindley Harris ’76 Endowed Scholarship Lucille Hogan Burkhardt ’36 Scholarship Gladys Haupt ’31 Endowed Scholarship John A. Butler Endowed Scholarship Elizabeth Bucholz Haven ’54 Memorial Scholarship Sarah C. Campbell ’33 Endowed Scholarship Health and Human Services Scholarship Coleman B. Cheney Scholarship Nancy L. Healy ’70 Endowed Scholarship Class of 1919 Liberty Bonds Scholarship W. R. Hearst Foundation Scholarship for Underserved Class of 1926 Endowed Scholarship Students Class of 1936 Endowed Scholarship Anna L. Hobbs Endowed Scholarship Class of 1946 Memorial Endowed Scholarship Howard F. Hoffman Endowed Scholarship Margo Cleveland ’68 Endowed Scholarship Sabra J. Hook Endowed Scholarship Barbara Underhill Collyer ’52 Endowed Scholarship Jean Lawton Horka ’43 Endowed Scholarship Elizabeth Doody Cook ’67 Endowed Scholarship Lois Hollister Howk Endowed Scholarship Helene and Frank Crohn Scholarship Jefferson Huff ’88 Scholarship Helen Corbitt ’28 Scholarship Barbara Hume ’67 Scholarship Creasy Endowed Scholarship Dr. H. Dunham and Virginia Waner Hunt ’47 Scholarship Charles S. Dake Scholarship Lillia Babbitt Hyde Scholarship Richard and Marjorie Dammann Scholarship Lesley Templeton Johnson ’42 Scholarship Robert and Maryetta ’41 Davidson Scholarship Jonathon Scholarship E. Davis Scholarship John Wiley Jones Jr. Scholarship Davis Family Endowed Scholarship Kent and Bonnie McGuire Jones Scholarship Fund Patricia Landis Dehlendorf ’53 Endowed Scholarship Jacqueline Jung ’61 Endowed Scholarship Patricia Landis Dehlendorf ’53 Business Scholarship K V Scholarship John and Rose DeNadal Scholarship Dorothy Madden Kalley ’41 Scholarship Mary Shaffer Dennis Endowed Scholarship Marion Walton Kanna ’38 Music Scholarship Mary Pelton Devenback ’23 Scholarship Marjorie Keenoy ’44 Merit Scholarship in Science Dibble Scholarship Kettering Scholarship Dr. Scholl Endowed Scholarship Charles Henry Keyes Endowed Scholarship Harriet Morrison Don Scholarship Keyes-Olcott Scholarship Mae Huntley Eagleson ’28 Scholarship Paul A. Korody Jr. Memorial Scholarship Eissner Family Scholarship Theophile S. Krawiec Endowed Scholarship Fred L. Emerson Foundation Endowed Scholarship Levine Family Scholarship Fiftieth Anniversary Alumni Scholarship Linda Liebig ’62 Memorial Scholarship Margaret Fletcher Filburn ’28 Scholarship Lipinsky Family Scholarship Lincoln and Therese W. Filene Foundation Inc. Rodney and Patrica Burgett Longman ’58 Scholarship Scholarship Marguerite Bates Loranger ’34 Music Scholarship Fisher Endowed Art Scholarship Charles and Tillie Lubin Scholarship Five Boroughs Endowed Scholarship Estelle Kopp Lustberg ’46 Memorial Scholarship Charles Kennedy Freeman and Laura Bellini Music M.A.L.S. Scholarship Scholarship MLB Endowed Scholarship Frueauff Foundation Scholarship Neva Mahoney ’36 Scholarship Ilene G. Gansberg ’73 Memorial Scholarship Pauline and Ora Eggleston Mandigo Scholarship Ida Virginia Gibson ’19 Scholarship Adm. and Mrs. Gene Markey Endowed Scholarship Gilbert Family Endowed Scholarship Maslowski Scholarship 40 Maureen McCabe ’76 Endowed Scholarship Barbara Sheldon ’38 Endowed Scholarship McClare Family Scholarship Frances Simches Endowed Scholarship Irene Ward McClellan Scholarship Skidmore Employees Scholarship Mary McClellan Endowed Scholarship Skidmore Endowed Scholarship Don and Judy McCormack Jazz Scholarship Margaret Walker Sloan ’33 Scholarship Elizabeth W. and George W. McCormick Merit Sybil Small ’31 Scholarship Scholarship Irene Dwinell Smith ’17 Scholarship McDermott Scholarship Margaret Mountfort Smith ’48 Scholarship Margaret Postley Mendell ’45 Scholarship Margery W. Smith ’22 Scholarship Marguerite Lowrey Mersfelder ’37 Endowed Marion L. Smith ’30 Scholarship Scholarship Julia Sorg Scholarship Henry T. and Marie B. Moore Scholarship Alfrida Storm Scholarship Wallace B. Moore ’74 Theater Scholarship Student Government Association Scholarship Adele Whitney Morrison ’26 Scholarship Lewis Swyer Scholarship Gail Moran Morton ’60 Scholarship Mariel Macklin Talbot ’47 Memorial Scholarship Harvey H. and Catharine Allis Moses Trust Scholarship Nancy Garlick Taylor ’42 Endowed Scholarship E. Alice Moshier ’22 Art Scholarship Fred and Paula Hartsock Thomas ’53 Endowed Multicultural Scholarship Scholarship Fund Emily Richards Nasher ’34 Scholarship Jack Tinker Scholarship Frances Eggers Newhouse ’33 Endowed Scholarship Tisch Family Scholarship Margaret Walker Nilsson ’37 Scholarship Ruth Forster Traxel ’36 Endowed Scholarship Mitsi Tokioka Nishimura ’53 Endowed Scholarship Patricia B. Trbovich ’85 Memorial Scholarship Jennie and Morris Nortman Scholarship Ruth Godfrey Tucker ’29 Scholarship Miriam D. and Harold E. Oberkotter Scholarship University Without Walls Scholarship Fund Claire M. Olds Scholarship Pauline A. Vincent Scholarship Joseph C. and Anne T. Palamountain Scholarship Nathalie Potter Voorhees ’45 Scholarship Wachenheim Family Scholarship Gilberto S. and Lennetta D. Pesquera Fund of the Betty Lewis Wachenheim ’31 Scholarship Glens Falls Foundation Sheila Schmidt Warshawsky ’65 Endowed Scholarship Platt-Hartley Scholarship Louise Lockridge Watkins ’26 Scholarship Porter Presidential Scholarship in Science and Louise S. Westemeyer ’30 Scholarship Mathematics Joan Fredericks Whetstone ’49 Scholarship David and Helen Porter Scholarship Whitman Family Scholarship John Reed Scholarship C. V. Whitney Scholarship Anne Reid ’76 Scholarship Kathryn Wiecking ’53 Scholarship Dan and Ada Rice Endowed Scholarship Louise Smith Wilcox ’40 Scholarship Roberts Sisters Endowed Scholarship Ann Wildman Scholarship Richard and Hadley Sillick Robertson ’60 Scholarship Mary Williams Scholarship Saratoga Springs Rotary Club Scholarship in memory of F. Ernestine Rist Willyoung ’35 Scholarship Paul Harris Val H. Wilson Scholarship Leslie R. Rounds Scholarship Windhover (Quadracci Family) Scholarship SKW Scholarship Louise Beinetti Wise ’40 Scholarship Marjory and Charles Sadowsky Scholarship Joyce Burstein Witmondt ’59 Scholarship Catharine Boyden Saxton ’31 Scholarship Marjorie Saisselin Woodbury ’35 Scholarship Schupf University Without Walls Student Scholarship Harry and Anita Yates Scholarship Senior Gift Scholarship Zankel Family Scholarship Senior Parents Scholarship Beverly Everest Shaw ’57 Scholarship 41 MERIT AWARDS • Be a United States citizen or meet a citizenship requirement. Lincoln and Therese W. Filene Foundation Scholarship • Have no debt from a defaulted education loan for awards are granted on the basis of a special competition which a satisfactory repayment plan has not been to provide gifted young musicians the opportunity to established. further their musical studies in a liberal-arts setting. • Not owe a refund on a Federal Pell Grant or Federal The Porter Presidential Scholarship in Science and Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant. Mathematics is awarded on the basis of superior • Demonstrate compliance with applicable Selective accomplishment and exceptional promise in the sciences Service requirements. or mathematics. A faculty committee determines awardees from the applicant pool each spring. Campus-based aid: Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, Federal Work-Study, and Federal Together, the Filene and Porter scholarship programs Perkins Loans are administered by the school or college. reflect the special balance between the arts and sciences The funds are allocated by the financial aid office. that is characteristic of Skidmore’s curriculum. For more information about either of these programs, contact the Less than Half-time study: Under some circumstances, a Office of Admissions. student studying less than half time can receive aid from the Federal Pell Grant, Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant, and Federal Work- LOANS Study programs. In addition to the federal and state loan programs described at the end of this section, the college GRANTS participates in another loan program. FEDERAL PELL GRANT THE GATE UNDERGRADUATE LOAN (GATE) A student can receive up to $3,750 per year for tuition This long-term loan allows parents to borrow up to the and other educational costs, such as room and board. cost of their child’s education each academic year at Awards depend on college costs and an aid-eligibility market interest rates, subject to credit qualifications. index. This index is based on factors such as family Payment may be deferred while the student is enrolled income and assets, family size, and number of or parents may begin making payment immediately postsecondary students in the family. extending up to twenty years. The student must submit a Federal Pell Grant application by July 1 in each academic year using the CAMPUS EMPLOYMENT Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Initial work placements are in the dining halls, housekeeping, or other essential services. All work is FEDERAL SUPPLEMENTAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY scheduled to avoid conflict with the student’s academic GRANT (SEOG) program and averages nine to twelve hours a week. Jobs An undergraduate student with financial need can get from are also available in the surrounding geographic area. $200 to $4,000 yearly. Priority is given to exceptionally Work opportunities are also available to students not on needy students who are Federal Pell Grant recipients. financial aid. LOANS FEDERAL PROGRAMS To be eligible for a Federal Pell Grant, Federal FEDERAL PERKINS LOAN Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant, Federal These loans are for undergraduate students enrolled at Work-Study, or Federal Perkins Loan, the student least half time. The loan amount is determined by the must: college, within federal limits of up to $4,000 per year for a total of no more than $20,000 for undergraduate • Study at least half time in an approved program. study. There is no interest charged during school and for • Meet the educational institution’s satisfactory academic six months afterward or during military service. During progress standards (see Standards for Continuation). 42 repayment, interest is 5 percent on the unpaid balance. Repayment of the amount borrowed plus interest begins NEW YORK STATE REQUIREMENTS six months after the student is no longer at least half A Skidmore College student must be registered for a time in college. Deferment or cancellation is available to minimum of twelve semester hours of credit in the fall students who enter specified types of service. semester and a minimum of twelve semester hours of credit in the spring semester, and must meet the WORK STUDY following regulations, established by the state Board of Regents, in order to remain eligible for payments: FEDERAL WORK-STUDY PROGRAM 1) Approved Program — a student must formally This program provides jobs for undergraduate students declare a major not later than the beginning of the enrolled at least half time. Earnings must be used solely junior year. for educational purposes. 2) Program Pursuit — a student must receive a passing or failing grade in a minimum of: OTHER FEDERAL PROGRAMS Six semester hours in each semester of study in the first year in which an award is made; VETERANS ADMINISTRATION EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS Nine semester hours in each semester of study in the second year in which an award is made; This program is for veterans who were in the United Twelve semester hours in each semester of study States armed forces between 1955 and 1977. There is in each succeeding year. also aid for children, spouses, and survivors of veterans Grades of W (withdrawal) or I (incomplete) will who suffered a service-connected death or disability. not satisfy this requirement. 3) Academic Progress — students must meet the GI BILL following minimum standards: Enlistees must contribute $100 a month for the first year semester hours cumulative enlisted. The government will then contribute up to by end of semester completed grade-point average $9,600 based on length of service. The Army Reserve 1 6 1.67 offers a noncontributory program that provides up to 2 18 1.85 $5,040 for an enlisted student. 3 30 2.00 4 45 2.00 FEDERAL AID TO NATIVE AMERICANS 5 60 2.00 This program is for American Indian, Eskimo, or Aleut 6 72 2.00 tribes, bands, or groups recognized by the Bureau of 7 84 2.00 Indian Affairs. Application may be obtained from: 8 96 2.00 9 108 2.00 Bureau of Indian Affairs 10 120 2.00 Federal Building, Room 523 100 S. Clinton Street For the purpose of federal student financial assistance, Syracuse, NY 13260-0043 including the Federal Pell Grant, Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant, Federal Work-Study, Federal Perkins Loan, and Federal Stafford Loan, the NEW YORK STATE PROGRAMS minimum standards of academic progress must also be achieved. Students who receive Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) assistance from New York State for the first time must meet the requirements below for academic WAIVER OF PURSUIT OF PROGRESS AND/OR performance and progress toward the degree. Failure to SATISFACTORY ACADEMIC PROGRESS REQUIREMENTS meet these standards results in the termination of FOR RECEIPT OF STATE FINANCIAL AID financial assistance from New York State. Skidmore A Skidmore student who does not maintain either the College does not substitute its resources for funds that Program Pursuit or Satisfactory Progress standards may are withdrawn by New York State. qualify for a one-time waiver if:

43 (1) the student can document that the reason for the awards for financially dependent students and for failure to maintain standards was as a result of financially independent students who are married or extraordinary circumstances beyond the control of the who have tax dependents range from $275 (income of individual; and $80,000) to $5,000 (income of $7,000 or less) at degree- granting institutions. (2) the student receives permission for such a waiver from the Committee on Academic Standing. A waiver is The award is based on the prior year’s New York State- not automatically granted for any student and is not family, net-taxable income. Family net taxable income intended to provide an additional semester of aid to a means income (less deductions and exemptions) of the student who has used poor judgement or has been student, parents, and student’s spouse, if any. academically irresponsible. Procedures for granting There is an adjustment to income if one or more other waivers follow the institution’s established academic dependents are also full-time postsecondary students in review process. Documentation of the extenuating or out of state. For one additional dependent student, circumstances will be maintained in the Registrar’s $3,000 is subtracted from net taxable income. For each Office. Students will be expected to meet prescribed additional dependent student, another $2,000 is standards thereafter. subtracted. Net taxable income after any adjustment becomes net taxable balance. Net taxable balance is used GRANTS to calculate the award.

TUITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AND SUPPLEMENTAL If the student is financially independent of the parents, TUITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM their income is not used. The award is based on the student’s (and spouse’s) income. Financial independence The Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) is an is granted to: entitlement grant program for New York State residents attending a postsecondary institution in the state. • Students age thirty-five or older • Students age twenty-two to thirty-four who have not Undergraduate students are eligible for up to four years been claimed as a tax dependent for two years and of assistance for full-time study or up to five years in have neither lived with their parents nor received certain programs. Undergraduate students who are more than $750 yearly from their parents for three educationally disadvantaged and require remedial years, and courses may be eligible for up to one additional year of • Undergraduates under age twenty-two who meet the aid under the Supplemental Tuition Assistance Program above conditions and certain very specific additional (STAP). Graduate or professional students may also conditions. receive up to four years of TAP for a combined undergraduate-graduate total of eight years. The student must submit a Free Application for Federal To be eligible, the student must: Student Aid (FAFSA) and a Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) application for each academic year. • Study full time (twelve credits per semester) at a college or school in New York State SCHOLARSHIPS • Meet income requirements • Be a resident of New York State ROBERT C. BYRD HONORS SCHOLARSHIPS • Be either a United States citizen, permanent resident alien, refugee, or conditional entrant. A federal program, these scholarships are awarded to • Be matriculated in an approved program and be in academically talented high school seniors who plan to good academic standing attend an institution of higher education in the United • Be charged a tuition of $200 or more per year, and States. Scholarships are awarded by the state Education • Have no debt from a defaulted student loan for which Department based on SAT or ACT scores and high a satisfactory repayment plan has not been school grades. Award winners receive one payment of established. $1,500. The scholarship is nonrenewable.

Awards vary according to tuition and New York State- PAUL DOUGLAS TEACHER SCHOLARSHIPS family, net-taxable income. The award, including any Formerly designated as Congressional Teacher other state award, cannot exceed tuition. Undergraduate Scholarships, these are awarded to outstanding high 44 school graduates to pursue teaching careers at the undergraduate degree-granting institution or in an elementary or secondary level in one of the following approved vocational program in New York State. shortage fields: mathematics, science, bilingual educa- Awards are $1,000 per semester or tuition, whichever is tion, teaching English to speakers of other languages, less, for full-time study (twelve or more credits), or $500 foreign languages, occupational education, and teaching per semester or tuition, whichever is less, for part-time children with handicapping conditions. Scholarships are study (three to less than twelve credits). If a Tuition awarded by the state Education Department to students Assistance Program award is also received, the combined who graduate in the top 10 percent of their high school academic year award cannot exceed tuition. To be class. Award winners may receive up to $5,000 per year. eligible, the student must: Upon completion of study, recipients must teach at the elementary or secondary school level for two years for • Have served in the United States armed forces in each year of assistance. Recipients who teach in Indochina between January 1, 1963, and May 7, 1975 elementary or secondary schools with high concentra- • Establish eligibility by applying to New York State tions of economically disadvantaged students or handi- Higher Education Services Corporation capped children or children with limited English (NYSHESC) on or before September 1, 1990 proficiency are obligated to teach only one year for each • Have received other than a dishonorable discharge. year of assistance. Recipients who fail to complete a • Have resided in New York State on April 20, 1984, or service obligation must repay the award and any interest at the time of entry into service and resume residency penalty. Study must be at a college or school in New by September 1, 1990 York State. • Enroll in an approved undergraduate program in a degree-granting institution or in an approved vocational school in New York State, and AWARDS • Apply for Tuition Assistance Program and Federal Pell Grant awards for full-time study or apply for a AID FOR PART-TIME STUDY Federal Pell Grant award for part-time study. The Aid for Part-Time Study (APTS) program provides awards of up to $2,000 (or tuition, whichever is less) for AWARDS FOR CHILDREN OF DECEASED AND DISABLED New York State residents studying part time in an VETERANS undergraduate program at participating degree-granting schools in New York State. Recipients apply to and are These awards are for children of veterans who served in selected by the participating institution. To be eligible, the United States armed forces during specified periods the student must: of war or national emergency and, as a result of service, either died, suffered a 50 percent or more disability, • Be a resident of New York State were prisoners of war, or are classified as missing in • If claimed (or eligible to be claimed) by parents as a tax action. The award provides $450 per year for up to four dependent, have a New York State net-taxable years of full-time undergraduate study or up to five years family income lower than $50,550 in certain programs. Study must be at a college or school • If not eligible to be claimed as a tax dependent by in New York State. The specified periods of service are: parents, have a combined (student’s and, if married, spouse’s) income not in excess of $34,250 • Vietnam Era: Oct. 1, 1961, through May 7, 1975 • Not have exhausted Tuition Assistance Program • Korean Conflict: June 27, 1950, through Jan. 31, 1955 eligibility • World War II: Dec. 7, 1941, through Dec. 31, 1946 • Be matriculated in an approved undergraduate degree or certificate program at a participating institution AWARDS FOR CHILDREN OF DECEASED POLICE • Be enrolled for at least three but less than twelve OFFICERS, FIREFIGHTERS, AND CORRECTION OFFICERS credits per semester, or at least four but less than These awards are for children of police officers, eight credits per quarter or the equivalent firefighters, and correction officers who served in New • Retain good academic standing, and York State and who died as a result of injuries sustained • Have tuition of at least $100 per year. in the line of duty. The award is $450 per year for up to four years of full-time undergraduate study or up to five VIETNAM VETERANS TUITION AWARDS (VVTA) years in certain programs. Study must be at a college or Vietnam veterans who are New York State residents are school in New York State. eligible for an award to help pay the tuition at an 45 RESERVE OFFICER TRAINING CORPS (ROTC) Checks are sent directly to the school. The school will The Army, Navy, and Air Force offer financial contact students to negotiate their checks. assistance to qualified students. The Army offers up to The interest rate is variable, tied to U.S. Treasury bill $7,000 toward costs; the Navy and Air Force offer rates plus 3.1 percent, with a cap of 8.25 percent for scholarships that may cover full tuition, plus fees and first-time borrowers. There are no interest payments books. A monthly stipend may also be awarded. while in school and for six months afterward. There is an Students incur an active-duty obligation and a reserve insurance fee of up to 1 percent of the amount borrowed obligation in return for a four-year scholarship. and an origination fee of 3 percent of the amount borrowed. The fees are prorated for each installment. FEDERAL FAMILY EDUCATION LOANS They are due when the student receives the loan checks. The bank may reduce the loan checks by the amount of Federal family education loans administered by New the fees. York State Higher Education Services Corporation (NYSHESC) may be used to pay a student’s tuition and Repayment of the amount borrowed plus interest begins fees, room and board, books, travel, and personal six months after the student either leaves school or drops expenses. These loans have lower interest rates than below half-time attendance. The minimum monthly most other types of consumer loans. payment is $50. Repayment must be completed within five to ten years, depending on how much was borrowed. To be eligible for a guaranteed education loan, the student must: FEDERAL STAFFORD LOANS — UNSUBSIDIZED • Study at least half time at an approved educational This loan has the same features as the subsidized loans institution except that the federal government will not pay the • Be a New York State resident for one year if attending interest on the loan while the student is in school. school out of state Interest begins when the loan check is disbursed, but • Be either a United States citizen or an eligible payment may be deferred. The insurance and origination noncitizen fees are 4 percent of the amount borrowed. • Meet the educational institution’s satisfactory academic Independent undergraduate students may borrow an progress standards additional unsubsidized loan of up to $5,000 per year. • Demonstrate eligibility (or ineligibility) for a Pell The college financial aid administrator may authorize Grant, and additional unsubsidized loan eligibility for dependent • Demonstrate compliance with applicable Selective undergraduate students when parents have an adverse Service requirements. credit history. Any Federal Pell or Federal Stafford eligibility will be considered in determining Applications are also available from banks, savings and unsubsidized loan eligibility amount. loan associations, credit unions, or pension and welfare funds. Applications for any additional guaranteed All loans will be paid in multiple disbursements (as education loans must be made to the same (first) lender. described above for Federal Stafford Loans). The loan check is sent directly to the school. The school will FEDERAL STAFFORD LOANS — SUBSIDIZED contact students to negotiate their checks. The student may borrow up to $2,625 a year for the Annual interest will not exceed 8.25 percent and may be freshman year, up to $3,500 for the sophomore year, up less, based on the U.S. Treasury bill rate. Interest to $5,500 for junior and senior years, up to $23,000 in payments are made while in school. An insurance fee up total for undergraduate study, and up to $8,500 per year to 4 percent of the amount borrowed is due when the for graduate-professional study. student receives the loan check. The bank may reduce All students must provide a Free Application for Federal the loan check by the amount of the fee. Student Aid (FAFSA) to their school to apply for the Repayment of the amount borrowed plus interest begins Federal Stafford Loan. sixty days from the disbursement of the loan, unless the All loans will be paid in multiple installments. The first borrower qualifies for an in-school or other deferment. installment may be paid thirty days before the start of The minimum monthly payment is $50. Repayment the enrollment period. The second installment may be must be completed within five to ten years, depending 46 paid after one-third of the loan period has passed. on how much was borrowed. Academic Requirements and Regulations

FEDERAL PARENT LOANS FOR STUDENTS (PLUS) REQUIREMENTS FOR DEGREE Parents may borrow up to the cost of attendance minus It is the responsibility of the student to successfully financial aid per year for each financially dependent complete all requirements for graduation. undergraduate student if there is no adverse credit history. Annual interest will not exceed 9 percent and 1. A minimum of 120 credit hours of course work. A may be less, based on the U.S. Treasury bill rate. minimum of sixty credit hours must be completed at Skidmore College, including all work taken in the senior There is an insurance fee of up to 4 percent of the year. amount borrowed. The bank may reduce the loan check by the amount of the fee. Repayment of the amount 2. Satisfaction of the grade-point standards: a borrowed plus interest begins within sixty days after the cumulative grade-point average of 2.0 in all course loan is received. work completed at Skidmore College and a 2.0 in all course work in the major field. OTHER PROGRAMS 3. Fulfillment of the liberal arts requirement: candidates for the bachelor of arts degree must complete a HIGHER EDUCATION OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM (HEOP) minimum of ninety credit hours of course work New York State provides funds for students who are designated as liberal arts. Candidates for the bachelor of both academically and economically disadvantaged. science degree must complete a minimum of sixty credit Financial aid is combined with special counseling, hours of course work designated as liberal arts. tutoring, and remedial course work, if appropriate. 4. Fulfillment of the maturity-level requirement: Assistance is limited and is awarded at the discretion of successful completion of a minimum of twenty-four the college. Awards vary with financial need. HEOP credit hours of course work on the 300 level at Skidmore assists undergraduate students who are state residents College. Twelve credit hours of 300-level course work and who are enrolled in independent colleges and must be taken in the senior year, six of these twelve in universities in New York State. the major field. STATE AID TO NATIVE AMERICANS 5. Fulfillment of the foundation requirements: This program provides up to $1,350 per year for four quantitative reasoning and expository writing. years to enrolled members of Indian tribes in New York 6. Fulfillment of the interdisciplinary requirements: LS1 State for half- or full-time study in the state. and LS2. VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION 7. Fulfillment of the breadth component: four courses, The New York State Department of Vocational one each in arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social Rehabilitation provides assistance for college expenses to sciences. state residents with a mental or physical impairment that 8. Fulfillment of the culture-centered inquiry places limitations upon future employment. Information requirement: two courses, one course at the appropriate is available from an Office of Vocational Rehabilitation. level in a foreign language or foreign literature in its nontranslated form, and one course designated as either MAYOR’S SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM non-Western culture or cultural diversity study. This is a student financial aid program established by the mayor’s office of the City of New York and 9. Declaration and satisfaction of requirements for a sponsored by the federal agency for Housing and Urban major program. Development. The scholarships are administered by the In addition, the student is responsible for fulfillment of New York Urban League, ASPIRA of New York Inc., all financial obligations to the college. and the Admission Referral and Information Center. To be eligible, students must reside in certain designated areas of New York City and be registered for at least twelve credits per semester. The amount of each award ($100-$650) is based on financial need as indicated by the student’s Federal Pell Grant Student Aid Index and the cost of education. 47 LIBERAL ARTS REQUIREMENT intensive courses in other disciplines. The following Courses designated as “non-liberal arts” in the course courses fulfill the expository writing requirement: listings are of a professional nature and do not carry BI155; EN105, 105H; HI107, A,B; LS2 101H, 104, liberal arts credit. All B.A. degree candidates must 107, 128, 129, 144, 150, 150H, 152, 153W, 168, 170, complete a minimum of ninety credit hours of course 171, 178, 180, 181, 187, 188 203; MA111W, 113W, work designated as liberal arts. All B.S. degree MU208W candidates must complete a minimum of sixty credit hours of course work designated as liberal arts. Quantitative Reasoning: Double majors completing both B.A. and B.S. require- All students must fulfill the QR1 requirement, ments must complete ninety hours of liberal arts credit. demonstrating competence in basic mathematical and computational principles, in any one of the following five MATURITY-LEVEL REQUIREMENT ways: (1) scoring 630 or better on the MSAT I exam, (2) scoring 570 or better on any mathematics SAT II Courses designated in the catalog by numbers in the 100s exam, (3) achieving a score of 28 or higher on the ACT and 200s are intended mainly for first-year students and mathematics exam, (4) passing Skidmore’s quantitative sophomores, and those in the 300s for juniors reasoning examination before the end of the first year, or and seniors. All degree candidates must successfully (5) successfully completing MA100 before the end of complete a minimum of twenty-four credit hours of course the sophomore year. In addition, by the end of the work on the 300 level at Skidmore College. Twelve credit junior year, all students must have fulfilled the QR2 hours of 300-level course work must be taken in the senior requirement by successfully completing a designated year, at least six of these twelve in the major field. Students course in mathematics, statistics, or other numerical with double majors are expected to complete at least six operations in various academic disciplines, or in the use hours at the 300 level in each major during their senior year. of computers for the manipulation of mathematical, The minimum of twenty-four 300-level course credits social-scientific, or scientific data. All QR2 courses have must be earned in Skidmore courses, not at other colleges QR1 as a prerequisite. The following courses fulfill the and universities. The Committee on Academic Standing QR2 requirement: adheres closely to this minimum expectation, in the belief BI110, 170; CH101, 103, 105, 105H, 107, 107H, 111, that some substantial core of the student’s advanced, 112; CS102A,B, 103, 106; EC103, 104, 237; ES105; culminating academic work should be completed at the GE101; LS2 192, 200; MA101, 102A,B,C, 105, 107, institution, Skidmore, which is awarding the student’s 111, 111H,W, 113, 113H,W, 200, 204, 214; MC115; baccalaureate degree. Under a few compelling circum- MS104; MU255; PH207; PS306; PY103, 105, 106, stances (e.g., for the purpose of study abroad), the CAS 108, 109, 192, 194, 207, 221H; SO225(L), 226 may approve as many as eight credit hours of maturity- level credit for study at another institution — a maximum of four maturity credits for each semester spent at the INTERDISCIPLINARY REQUIREMENTS: LIBERAL STUDIES other institution. Students wishing to make such Liberal Studies courses provide an integrative educational application should obtain a “Request for Maturity-Level experiences for all students at the beginning of their college Credit” from the Office of the Registrar. years. LS1: Human Experience, a single, team-taught course taken by all first-year students, introduces the ways FOUNDATION REQUIREMENTS in which different academic disciplines raise questions and Expository Writing: seek answers concerning human experience. LS2 course options extend and focus the inquiries begun in LS1. Students are required to develop their proficiency as writers by successfully completing one designated writing All students are required to complete successfully LS1 course. This requirement must be fulfilled by the end of during the fall semester of the first year. Also, all the sophomore year. Those students who need to take students are required to complete sucessfully one LS2 EN103, “Writing Seminar I,” as preparation for meeting course by the end of the sophomore year. this requirement, must do so by the end of their first year. Such courses may be English Department writing courses (EN105 or 105H) or specially designated writing- 48 BREADTH REQUIREMENTS FL257, 267; GO239, 240, 344, 355, 356; HI216A-C, Students are required to complete successfully one 241, 242, 247, 343, 347, 357, 362A-D, 375G,H,K; course in the fields of arts, humanities, natural sciences, LS2 113, 119, 127, 132, 153, 153W, 155, 163, 164, and social sciences. 165; MU309, 318, 321, 345N; PH213, 214, 215; PR325, 326; RE213, 214, 220. Arts. Students must choose one course from the following: AR101, 108, 111, 115, 131, 132, 133, 134; Students from non-Western cultures may apply to the DA210/211, 212/213; DB101/102, 111-142, 211-242; Committee on Academic Standing for an appropriate DM111-142, 211-242; EN281, 282; MP181, 182, 191, substitution. 193, 195, 198, 273, 275/276, 279/280, 281/281X, 285/ Cultural Diversity Study: As of May 1, 2001, no courses 286, 287/288, 289/290, 293/294, 297/298; TH101, 104, had been given this designation. 198, 216, 228, 250. MAJOR REQUIREMENTS Humanities. Students must choose one course from the following: AH101, 101H, 102, 102H, 103, 104, 111, A major field of study selected from the Skidmore 203, 204, 207, 209, 222, 223, 241, 265; CC220, 222, College degree programs must be formally declared by 223, 224; DA227, 228, 230; EN201, 201H, 211, 211H, the beginning of the junior year. Requirements in a 213, 215, 234; FF210, 213, 214, 216, 219, 221, 224; department are stated in the departmental announce- FG215; FI210, 211, 212; FL252, 257; FS210, 211, 212; ments. Skidmore offers a wide selection of interdepart- MU100, 101, 103, 106, 151, 208W, 220, 304, 307; mental majors, designed for students whose interests lie PH103, 203, 204, 210, 230; RE103, 213, 214; TH103, in subjects overlapping departmental boundaries. 229/230. A student may propose a self-determined major, which Natural Sciences. Students must choose one course must contain a core of at least ten courses pertinent to from the following: BI110, 120, 130, 135, 140, 145, the student’s central interest. See Self-determined Major 150, 155, 160, 170, 180, 190, 237; CH103, 105, 105H, for procedures for designing such a program. 106, 107, 107(H), 110, 112; ES104, 105; EX111, 126, General major examinations or final projects may be 127; GE101, 102, 112, 115L; NS101; PS306; PY103, required in the senior year at the discretion of major 106, 107, 109, 194, 207, 208. departments. Social Sciences. Students must choose one course from the following: AM101, 102, 201, 201L, 202, 232H, MINORS 250A-D, 260A,B,E,F,G; AN100, 101N, 101H 102, A minor field of study in a department or inter- 205, 242, 242H, 243; EC103, 104; ED215; EX119; disciplinary program may be elected no later than the GO101, 103, 241; HI103, 104, 105, 106, 107A,B, 108, beginning of the senior year. See departmental 109, 201, 202, 210, 211, 221, 222, 223, 241, 242, 247, announcements for specific requirements. Inter- 261; SO101, 101H, 201, 201H, 202; SW212, 222. disciplinary minors may be elected in Asian studies, environmental studies, international affairs, law and CULTURE-CENTERED INQUIRY REQUIREMENTS society, and women’s studies. A grade-point average of Students fulfill this requirement by completing one 2.0 is required in the minor field. course in a foreign language and one course designated as either non-Western culture or cultural diversity study. Acceleration and Reclassification Foreign Literaure and Language: All students must Students are classified according to their expected date choose one course at the appropriate level in a foreign of graduation at time of admission. Permission to language or foreign literature in its non-translated form. accelerate and graduate with an earlier class may be Non-Western Culture: Students may choose from the given to students in good academic standing with the following courses: AH103, 104, 200, 203, 204, 207, approval of their major departments and the Committee 209, 210, 211, 211H, 309, 310, 311, 312, 314, 376E,F; on Academic Standing. Applications to accelerate must AN100, 101N, 101H, 205, 206, 227, 228, 242, 242H, be submitted in writing to CAS not later than one year 243, 251N, 252C, D, 260; AR121, 123; AS205; prior to the anticipated date of graduation. The Office EN229N, 231, 232, 243; FC202, 363; FF223; FJ202, 363; of the Registrar offers assistance to students contemplating acceleration. 49 Students who do not complete a full-time course load Transfer of Credit each semester may be reclassified to a later class by the Office of the Registrar in consultation with CAS. The college may grant credit toward the degree for work taken at another accredited institution for which a grade of C or better is received, to a maximum of sixty Course Loads semester hours. Transcripts from students who are The standard course load for a full-time student is transferring from a non-U.S. institution will be fifteen credit hours each semester, and students are evaluated on a case-by-case basis. All transferrable encouraged to balance their commitment to quality and courses must generally correspond to courses offered at rigor with realistic expectations of the workload involved Skidmore. Matriculated students should receive approval with specific course enrollments. An overload is defined for credit from the Office of the Registrar before as any program registration over eighteen hours. registering at another institution. Eighteen hours allows students registered in four four- credit classes to continue to participate in one- and two- Leaves of Absence credit performance classes. It is not recommended that students use eighteen semester hours to attempt to Leaves of absence may be granted for one semester or an complete six three-credit classes. entire academic year, but not for a period shorter than one semester or longer than one continuous year. Leaves There is an additional fee assessed for programs over fall into three categories: eighteen hours. The Committee on Academic Standing reviews all applications for overloads to determine Academic Leaves of Absence for full-time study academic eligibility, based on stated criteria. A elsewhere may be granted to qualified students through minimum GPA of 3.0 is required for an overload. the Office of the Dean of Studies with the approval of the Committee on Academic Standing. Students must A full-time student must be enrolled in a minimum of have a strong academic background (generally a 3.0 twelve credit hours each semester. Requests for cumulative GPA and course work appropriate to their permission to change to part-time (fewer than twelve study proposal) to be eligible for an academic leave. hours in the fall or spring semester) status must be filed, before the term begins, with the Office of the Registrar Information on leaves and program opportunities is and approved by CAS. available in the Office of the Dean of Studies. Study abroad opportunities are orchestrated by the Office of International Programs. Application should be made Credit by Examination well in advance of the anticipated leave, but no later Skidmore College will grant up to six credit hours than November 1 for spring-semester leaves and March toward graduation to those achieving a grade of 4 or 5 1 for fall-semester or full-year leaves. on an Advanced Placement Test of the College Personal Leaves of Absence without academic credit Entrance Examination Board. Such credit will count as and for personal reasons may be granted through the elective credit toward the degree. Individual depart- Office of the Dean of Studies with the approval of the ments may award credit toward the major. Inquiries Committee on Academic Standing. Application should should be directed to the chair of the department in be made in writing to the Office of the Dean of Studies question. well in advance of the anticipated leave. The college will grant six semester hours of credit for Medical Leaves of Absence may be granted through the each examination taken at the Advanced (“A”) Level of Office of the Dean of Studies with the approval of the the British General Certificate of Education on which Committee on Academic Standing, upon receipt of the the student received a grade of “C” or better. Also, six student’s application and a statement by either a semester hours of credit will be granted for each Higher personal physician or the Skidmore physician. Before Level Examination in the International Baccalaureate returning to the College, the student must submit a Program on which a student earned a score of 5, 6, or 7. statement of approval from the physician (see Refunds). A maximum of twelve semester hours of credit may be granted through subject examinations of the College Level (For information concerning housing, academic Examination Program. All such examinations presented requirements, and financial responsibilities, please refer must be taken prior to enrollment at Skidmore. to the current Information on Leaves of Absence bulletin.) 50 Academic Standards and Review

Registration The Honor Code Students are required to register officially by the The Skidmore Honor System was established at the published deadlines for each course for which they request of the student body in 1921. Each student, in expect credit. A student who does not register for accepting enrollment at Skidmore College, agrees to the courses in any semester by the end of the first week of following code: classes will be considered to have officially withdrawn from Skidmore College. I hereby accept membership in the Skidmore College community and, with full realization of the responsibilities Students are required to officially withdraw by the inherent in membership, do agree to adhere to honesty and published deadlines from any course for which they do integrity in all relationships, to be considerate of the rights of not expect or want credit, through college procedures others, and to abide by the college regulations. administered by the registrar. Failure to withdraw from a course will result in a grade of F or WF. Students All members of the Skidmore College community, matriculating in fall 1999 or after may withdraw from a including students, faculty, and staff, are parties to the maximum of two courses in their careers. honor contract and are expected to abide by its provisions. The Honor Code covers all aspects of All students registering for six or more hours must integrity, whether academic or social. The Student comply with New York State immunization laws. Handbook attends particularly to codes of social behavior Specific information may be obtained from the Health and outlines the college judicial system and procedures; Services Office. both the Student Handbook and the Academic Information Guide define academic integrity regulations. Attendance Every Skidmore student is required by the Honor Code to become thoroughly conversant with the standards of Regular class attendance and participation have a major academic and social integrity that prevail at the college. effect on the quality of student performance. Students The Integrity Board and the Board of Appeal will not are expected to meet their instructors’ attendance regard claims of ignorance, of unintentional error, and of policies, return from vacations at designated times, and academic or personal pressures as an adequate defense remain on campus for their entire examination period. for violations of the Honor Code. Students are not automatically entitled to a certain number of absences. Each instructor will make known to the class his or her policy concerning the effect of absence on Academic Integrity the student’s grade. Students who become ill remain Because Skidmore College functions as a tightly responsible for the work missed and should consult with integrated community of curricular and cocurricular course professors. Students must either complete this experiences, a strict allegiance to its standards of conduct work during the regular semester of study or apply for a is essential for every student’s well-being and intellectual course withdrawal (W or WF), an incomplete (I), or a growth. Students should make certain they understand medical leave of absence. the high value Skidmore places on honesty, cooperation, The Faculty Handbook establishes the college’s minimum and consideration, and the penalties the college imposes expectation that “any students who miss more than a for infractions in these areas. Skidmore not only third of the [class] sessions may expect to be barred from promotes intellectual honesty vigorously but severely final examination. In such cases, the course grade will be punishes such offenses as plagiarism and cheating on recorded as F.” Faculty may, and frequently do, establish exams. Any Honor Code violation may affect the student’s even more stringent attendance policies, and the student graduate school or transfer recommendations and the is obliged to adhere to the attendance policies student’s eligibility for academic prizes and awards, for announced for each course. Dean’s List or graduation honors, and for membership in Skidmore or national honor societies.

Requests for exceptions to any academic regulation must be filed with the Office of the Dean of Studies or the Office of the Registrar, and approved by the Committee on Academic Standing. 51 Social Integrity AU, Audit: Students may officially audit a course with the approval of the instructor. An AU grade does not The Basic College Regulations outlined in the Student affect the student’s grade-point average; it reflects Handbook are considered vital to community welfare, approved participation for no credit. Students may enroll student safety, and high standards of moral and social for a maximum of two audits per semester and must integrity. The list of regulations is not exhaustive. In all make the audit selection by the end of the drop/add areas of Skidmore life, members are expected to conform period. Students who do not attend will be awarded an to high standards of fair play, integrity, and honor. AW (Audit Withdrawal). Careless abuses and violations of these regulations are considered major breaches of the Skidmore Honor Code W, Withdrawal: Prior to the last three weeks of classes and may involve the withdrawal of the privilege of (exclusive of final exams) in the fall or spring semesters, membership in the Skidmore College community. In students may request withdrawal without penalty from a addition to these Basic College Regulations, the actions of course with the permission of the instructor and members of the college community are governed by and approval from the Committee on Academic Standing. subject to the laws and ordinances of the local, state, and Withdrawal, W, is not figured in the grade-point federal governments. average. No credit is earned. Beginning with students entering fall 1999, a student is limited to a maximum of Academic Standards two withdrawals (W) while completing the baccalaurate degree. In order to qualify for a degree from Skidmore College, WF, Withdrawal Failing: A student who departs from a a student must attain a cumulative grade-point average course at any time during a semester without permission of 2.0 in all course work and 2.0 in the major field. The to withdraw or who departs from a course during the student’s academic record includes: last three weeks of classes may be given a WF grade. 1. an indication of each course for which the student Students may also petition for a WF grade, which must was officially registered at the college be approved by the instructor and the Committee on 2. an indication of credit earned Academic Standing. WF is figured in the grade-point 3. the grade assigned for each course, and average as an F. No credit is earned. 4. both the semester and cumulative grade-point I, Temporary Incomplete: A grade of I may be given a averages. student who has diligently completed a substantial Grades amount of the course work but who, because of unforeseen academic, medical, or personal difficulties, Grades are assigned on the following basis: has been unable to complete the work for the course. In such cases, an I may be submitted by the instructor A+, A Distinguished work if both the instructor and the student agree that A-, B+, B Superior work exceptional circumstances warrant an extension of B-, C+, C Satisfactory work time beyond the normal deadlines of the term. (An C-, D+, D Passing, poor-quality work incomplete grade will make the student ineligible for F Failure, no credit earned Dean’s List Honors for the term if the student completes fewer than fourteen semester hours by the S/U, Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory: S/U grades do not regular grading deadline.) The student is responsible for affect the student’s grade-point average, but a student making arrangements for completing the course with the receiving an Unsatisfactory will not receive credit for the instructor and the Office of the Registrar. The extension course. The college criterion for Satisfactory is the period may not be longer than six weeks after the end of equivalent of a C or better. A student may take no more the fall or spring semesters, or more than six weeks after than one course in a semester for an S/U grade. A either of the summer terms. At the end of the extension student may take a maximum of sixteen semester hours period, the instructor may submit a grade based on the for an S/U grade, excluding internships. The S/U option work completed. is offered at the discretion of the department. The semester schedule will indicate which courses may be IF, Incomplete Failing: If the instructor does not taken for an S/U grade. Students must indicate their submit a grade by the end of the extension period, the choice of the S/U grade option at the time of I becomes a permanent grade of IF, figured in the 52 registration. No change may be made after the end grade-point average as F. of the first week of classes. Grade Change Academic Review All grades are considered final once they are submitted At the end of each semester, the Committee on to the Office of the Registrar. An instructor may request Academic Standing reviews the status of all students to a change in the student’s grade only if the instructor has determine academic standing. It determines, upon the made a computational or clerical error. No grade may be basis of achievement, who will be given Honors or changed on the basis of reexamination, reevaluation, or Highest Honors on the Dean’s List, who will be placed supplementary work. Petitions to change grades must on probation, who is eligible for continuation, and who originate with the faculty members concerned and be will be disqualified. brought before the Committee on Academic Standing for consideration. Honors The function of the Committee on Academic Freedom All academic honors and memberships are subject to and Rights (CAFR) is to receive inquiries and com- Skidmore’s Honor Code: thus eligibility for honors plaints concerning academic freedom and rights and requires a clear integrity record. to consider formal charges of violations of academic freedom and rights from any faculty member or student. DEAN’S LIST The Dean’s List is computed for the fall and spring Grade-Point Average (GPA) semesters as of the established date for submitting Each grade is assigned a point value as follows: semester grades. Grade Points Honors are awarded to each matriculated student who A+, A 4.00 satisfactorily completes at least fourteen semester hours A- 3.67 of credit by the regular grading deadline and who B+ 3.33 achieves a 3.4 to 3.66 GPA for that semester. Highest B 3.00 Honors are awarded to each student who satisfactorily B- 2.67 completes at least fourteen semester hours of credit by C+ 2.33 the regular grading deadline and who achieves a 3.67 or C 2.00 higher GPA for that semester. (A grade of Incomplete C- 1.67 which temporarily places the credits earned below D+ 1.33 fourteen makes the student ineligible for the Dean’s List, D 1.00 even if the Incomplete is resolved successfully.) F, WF, IF 0.00 GRADUATION HONORS No points are assigned for S, U, AU, W, or I. The GPA College Honors: Seniors with distinguished academic is calculated by multiplying the points assigned to each records may graduate cum laude (3.4-3.66 GPA), grade received by the number of semester hours the magna cum laude (3.67-3.79 GPA), or summa cum laude course carries, then totaling these products and dividing (3.80-4.00 GPA) upon the recommendation of the by the total number of semester hours considered. Committee on Academic Standing and with the approval of the faculty. The GPA for the semester is computed at the end of each semester. The cumulative GPA for all courses taken at Departmental Honors will be awarded to any student the college is also computed at the end of each semester. who graduates from Skidmore after no fewer than three semesters and who meets the following conditions: a As a general principle, courses for which a grade of D or GPA of 3.5 or higher for all work in the major; the higher has been earned may not be repeated for academic completion of any other academic criteria established by credit; the exceptions to this regulation are noted in the department and described in the Catalog, and a individual course descriptions. If a course for which the favorable recommendation by the department; a GPA of student received a grade of F is repeated at the college, 3.0 or higher based on all work taken at Skidmore; and both grades remain on the record and both are included approval by the faculty upon recommendation by CAS. in the GPA. With the exception of designated programs and cross registrations, credit granted by Skidmore Double majors must meet the above criteria for each of College for work taken at another institution or by the majors. (The student may earn Departmental examination is not included in the GPA. Honors in one, both, or neither major.) 53 These criteria also apply to interdepartmental and to ACADEMIC PRIZES self-determined majors. The 3.5 or higher GPA applies The recipients of academic prizes are determined by the to the interdepartmental course work considered as a faculty, and the following prizes are awarded at the whole. annual Honors Convocation and/or at Commencement. Honors Forum: Seniors will graduate as members of the American Studies Faculty Award Honors Forum if they have maintained Dean’s List O. Roger Gallagher Memorial Prize (Anthropology) status as a full-time student (with no two consecutive S. Michael Eigen ’87 Prize in Art History semesters of a GPA below 3.4); demonstrated exemplary Barbara Greene-Wild ’55 Award (Ceramics) academic and social integrity; completed a minimum of Marguerita Mergentime Award (Textile Design) three Honors Forum courses, or a total of seven Honors Dorothy Dryfoos Olsan ’41 Prize in Jewelry and Forum credits, by the end of the junior year, and a Metalsmithing senior-year capstone experience; and engaged in forum Jesse Solomon Memorial Award (Painting) events during each academic year of membership. Pamela Weidenman ’72 Memorial Prize (Lithography/ PERICLEAN Printmaking) Whitman Family Art History Prize Periclean is a Skidmore College honor society founded Dowd-Lester Award (Biology) in 1956 for the purpose of recognizing academic Donald W. Pyle Memorial Award (Biology) achievement and stimulating intellectual and creative Joseph Garrison Parker Prize activity. Its members—candidates for bachelor of arts Seymour J. Goldman ’60 Memorial Prize (Business) and bachelor of science degrees—are named each year Jefferson Huff ’88 Prize in Management and Business from the junior and senior classes on the basis of Gail Moran Morton ’60 Prize (Business) academic achievement and integrity. The society Wall Street Journal Award sponsors the Periclean Scholar Awards, recognizing Charlotte W. Fahey Prize (Chemistry) outstanding senior projects. A Periclean Alumni Scholar American Institute of Chemists Award is named each year. Jo C. Hebard ’69 Memorial Prize Helga B. Doblin Prize in Classics PHI BETA KAPPA Margaret Paulding Award in Dance Skidmore College was granted a charter by the national William E. Weiss Memorial Award in Economics honor society of Phi Beta Kappa in 1970, and the Phi Edwin Moseley Prize in English Chapter was installed in February 1971. Candidates for Frances Steloff Poetry Prize the bachelor of arts degree are eligible for election on Denise Marcil ’74 Prize for Fiction Writing the basis of academic standing and rules of eligibility Sara Bennett ’92 Prize for Fiction established by the chapter, in accordance with the Joseph C. Palamountain Jr. Prose Awards regulations of the national society. Sally Chapman Thompson ’48 Prize in Literature Margaret Paulding Award in Exercise Science Students who qualify for consideration on the basis of Alliance Française de Schenectady Award (French) grade-point average must also demonstrate breadth of Consulate General Prize in German distribution in their college program by choosing courses Sonja P. Karsen Prize in Spanish beyond the introductory level in at least two of the three Istituto Italiano di Cultura Award (Italian) academic areas (humanities, social sciences, and natural Roy T. Abbott III ’78 Memorial Prize (Geology) sciences and mathematics), while maintaining high Mente et Malleo Award (Geology) academic achievement and academic integrity. Adequate Henry C. Galant Prize (Comparative Politics) preparation in a foreign language and mathematics Susan Riley Gunderson ’64 Prize (American (though not necessarily at Skidmore), competence in Government) writing, and fulfillment of certain Skidmore residency Levine Prize in Government requirements are also necessary. Henry T. Moore Prize in Government Outstanding students are thus encouraged to pursue a Jerome Solomon Ginsberg Memorial Award in program that is not only liberal but diversified and European and International Integration Studies challenging. Alice Farwell Warren Prize (History) Lee History Prize 54 Alan M. Turing Prize in Mathematics and Computer Instructors are encouraged to notify students of their Science class standing at midsemester, but it is the responsibility Gladys Gillman Taylor ’48 Prize in Mathematics of individual students to be aware of their standing and Barbara Gruntal Allen ’35 Prize (Voice) to meet all academic obligations. Louis Edgar Johns Award (Music) Herman Joseph Muller Prize (Music) Standards for Continuation Cooper Barnett Prize in Philosophy Eleanor A. Samworth Prize in Physics A student is not in good academic standing and is not Amy Eisenberg ’72 Memorial Award (Educational making satisfactory progress toward the degree when: Psychology) Michelle Kelly ’72 Memorial Award (Psychology) a. The Committee on Academic Standing has Krawiec Psychology Prize determined that the student has not earned a sufficient Krawiec Scholar (Psychology) number of credit hours and grade-point average to Caren Lane Sass ’35 Psychology Prize continue as a matriculated student at Skidmore College Hilda Bashevkin Betten ’39 and Morris H. Betten (see chart below). Award in Social Work b. The student does not complete the all-college Everett V. Stonequist Award (Sociology) foundation, interdisciplinary, breadth, and culture- Nancy Beth Rautenberg ’83 Memorial Award centered inquiry requirements in a timely and successful (Sociology) fashion; students must complete the foundation requirements Margaret Ellen Clifford Memorial Prize in Theater (expository writing and the first level of quantitative Theater Prize reasoning) by the end of the sophomore year and the E. Beverly Field Women’s Studies Award interdisciplinary requirements (Liberal Studies 1 and 2) by the end of the sophomore year. All other requirements must be completed prior to graduation. Student progress in these NOTE: Any violation of the academic Honor Code may areas is reflected in the degree audit, which students affect a student’s eligibility for the distinctions described in receive from the Office of the Registrar. the preceding “Honors” section. c. By the end of the junior year or thereafter, the student has STUDENT OPPORTUNITY FUNDS not earned a 2.00 GPA in the major. From its own resources and through the generosity of d. The student earns a second semester of “probation” alumni and friends of the college, Skidmore offers small status. grants to help students complete special academic and cocurricular projects and to present the results of their e. The student has been granted a “waiver” of minimal research at professional conferences. Petitions for continuation standards in order to improve his or her academic funds should be submitted to the Office of the academic standing. Dean of Studies; cocurricular requests are handled by Students must meet the following minimal standards for the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs. Funds are continuation (and see additional criteria above): limited and are awarded on a competitive basis. semester hours cumulative by end of semester completed grade point average Probation 1 6 1.67 Students whose semester GPA falls below 2.00 will be 2 18 1.85 considered on academic probation. A second semester on 3 30 2.00 probation will prompt a review of the student’s record by the 4 45 2.00 Committee on Academic Standing and may lead to the 5 60 2.00 student’s disqualification. Students should consider 6 72 2.00 probation a serious warning and seek out all resources to 7 84 2.00 improve academic performance. A student on probation 8 96 2.00 should eliminate or greatly diminish cocurricular and 9 108 2.00 athletic participation in order to focus on his or her 10 120 2.00 studies. At the discretion of the Skidmore College administration, a student on probation may be denied participation in such activities. 55 Students who do not meet the minimal criteria will be Dismissal disqualified. Students receiving TAP assistance must meet New York State requirements for academic per- The college reserves the right to dismiss any student formance and progress toward the degree (see New York who does not meet its academic standards, whose State aid programs). continuation, in the opinion of college authorities, is not contributing to the best development of the student, or The first semester minimal standard for continuation whose behavior is inconsistent with the ideals and (1.67 GPA and completion of six credit hours) will be standards of Skidmore College. calculated strictly on the student’s first full-time matriculated semester at Skidmore and will not include Any student receiving notice of dismissal shall vacate the credit hour or GPA credits earned prior to that first full- college residence within forty-eight hours and return all time Skidmore semester. college-owned property. Refund of fees for tuition, room, and board will be in accordance with the policy Summer Credits and Grades for withdrawals (see Refunds). A deficiency in credit may be made up in summer school Readmission at another institution (by prior approval) or in Skidmore Summer Sessions, but a deficiency in the grade-point Students who have withdrawn from Skidmore or been average can only be improved by work taken at Skid- disqualified may apply for readmission, providing all more. A student’s status of “probation” or “waiver,” as financial obligations to the college have been met. A determined by the Committee on Academic Standing, student who has been academically disqualified must may not be altered through course work undertaken earn a full year of strong grades (generally “B” or better) during the summer at Skidmore or elsewhere but may at another institution before being considered for only be addressed through a subsequent fall or spring readmission. Readmission is never automatic and semester completed at Skidmore. In a few cases, depends on competitive academic standards and the however, CAS may stipulate a combination of summer overall enrollment priorities of Skidmore. Students and regular term courses for a student on waiver status. dismissed or disqualified from the college may not participate in any regular or affiliated Skidmore Disqualification academic program without first being officially readmitted to the college. Information regarding Students who do not meet the minimal standards for readmission procedures can be obtained from the Office continuation or the other criteria for adequate progress of the Dean of Studies. toward the degree, as determined by the Committee on Academic Standing, will be disqualified from further study at Skidmore College. In some cases, the committee may offer the student one nonrenewable waiver that allows the student to work toward an acceptable level of academic quality. The waiver decision will be based on academic evidence indicating the student’s potential for success. Withdrawal Any student who wishes to withdraw from Skidmore should notify the Registrar’s Office in writing at once (see Refunds). With faculty permission a grade of W may be assigned for courses in which the student is officially enrolled, except if the date of withdrawal is during the last three weeks of classes, in which case a grade of WF is assigned. Students who do not register for courses in any semester by the end of the first week of classes will be considered to have withdrawn officially from the college. 56 Skidmore College Degree Programs

Skidmore College is chartered by the Regents of the Government-German 2299 Bachelor of Arts State of New York and accredited by the Middle States Government-Spanish 2299 Bachelor of Arts Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. All Government-History 2207 Bachelor of Arts degree programs are registered with the New York State Government-Philosophy 2207 Bachelor of Arts Education Department. Government-Sociology 2299 Bachelor of Arts Hegis History 2205 Bachelor of Arts Major Code Degree History of Art 1003 Bachelor of Arts History-Philosophy 2205 Bachelor of Arts American Studies 0313 Bachelor of Arts Individualized Studies 4901 Bachelor of Arts or Anthropology 2202 Bachelor of Arts (UWW) Bachelor of Science Art (Studio) 1002 Bachelor of Science Liberal Studies 4901 Master of Arts Asian Studies 0301 Bachelor of Arts Mathematics 1701 Bachelor of Arts Biology 0401 Bachelor of Arts Music 1006 Bachelor of Arts Biology-Chemistry 0414 Bachelor of Arts Philosophy 1509 Bachelor of Arts Biology-Philosophy 0499 Bachelor of Arts Physics 1902 Bachelor of Arts Biology-Psychology 0499 Bachelor of Arts Political Economy 2207 Bachelor of Arts Business 0501 Bachelor of Science Psychology 2001 Bachelor of Arts Business-Economics 0599 Bachelor of Arts Psychology-Sociology 2099 Bachelor of Arts Business-Mathematics 0599 Bachelor of Arts Religious Studies 1510 Bachelor of Arts Business-Government 0599 Bachelor of Arts Self-Determined Major 4901 Bachelor of Arts or Business-French 0599 Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of Science Business-German 0599 Bachelor of Arts Social Work 2104 Bachelor of Science Business-Spanish 0599 Bachelor of Arts Sociology 2208 Bachelor of Arts Chemistry 1905 Bachelor of Arts Sociology-Anthropology 2299 Bachelor of Arts Classics 1504 Bachelor of Arts Spanish 1105 Bachelor of Arts Computer Science 0701 Bachelor of Arts Theater 1007 Bachelor of Science Dance 1008 Bachelor of Science Women’s Studies 4903 Bachelor of Arts Dance Theater 1008 Bachelor of Science Economics 2204 Bachelor of Arts Economics-French 2299 Bachelor of Arts TRANSCRIPTS Economics-German 2299 Bachelor of Arts Official transcripts of a student’s entire academic record Economics-Spanish 2299 Bachelor of Arts at Skidmore College are issued by the Office of the Economics-Mathematics2204 Bachelor of Arts Registrar at the student’s written request. There is a fee Economics-Philosophy 2204 Bachelor of Arts of $5 for each copy. Students and alumni who elect to Economics-Sociology 2299 Bachelor of Arts pay a one-time fee of $75 are not subject to the per-copy Education Studies 0802 Bachelor of Science fees as-sessed each time a transcript is requested. Provisional Certifi- Skidmore reserves the right to withhold transcripts if an cation in Elementary outstanding balance is owed the college. Education (pre K-6) English 1501 Bachelor of Arts English-French 1599 Bachelor of Arts English-German 1599 Bachelor of Arts English-Spanish 1599 Bachelor of Arts English-Philosophy 1599.10 Bachelor of Arts Exercise Science 1299.30 Bachelor of Science French 1102 Bachelor of Arts French Area Studies 1102 Bachelor of Arts Geology 1914 Bachelor of Arts German 1103 Bachelor of Arts Government 2207 Bachelor of Arts Government-French 2299 Bachelor of Arts 57 THE AMERICAN STUDIES MINOR: The Courses of Study American Studies American studies minor consists of five courses, including: 1) AM101, 102 or 201, 202 (depending on the department’s perception of Chair of the Department of American Studies: the student’s preparation); 2) AM221, Gregory M. Pfitzer American Studies: Methods and Approaches; and two additional American studies courses, Professors: Joanna S. Zangrando, Douglas at least one of which must be at the 300 level. Family Professor of American Culture, History, An interested student should apply to the Literary and Interdisciplinary Studies; Mary C. department chair for acceptance as an Lynn American studies minor and for assignment to Course Credit Associate Professor: Gregory M. Pfitzer a faculty advisor, who will work with the Visiting Associate Professor: *Wilma B. Hall student to devise a minor program suited to his The number of semester hours of credit or her interests and needs. Students must earned by satisfactory completion of a course Lecturer: *Jerry Philogene maintain at least a 2.0 average in minor is indicated after the course title. courses and must file a declaration of minor American studies is an interdisciplinary major form with the registrar’s office before the Course Numbering that focuses upon life and culture in the United beginning of their last semester at Skidmore. States, past and present, using the resources, The level of the course is indicated as follows: techniques, and approaches of a variety of AM 101. INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN disciplines. The major examines the diversity CULTURE: PRE-CIVIL WAR 4 100 — Introductory of Americans as well as their commonly- A study of the development of American life and 200 — Intermediate shared experiences, and incorporates race, culture up to the Civil War. Topics include utopian 300 — Advanced gender, class, and ethnicity as categories for visions of the new world, religious settlements, the cultural analysis. Students majoring in creation of a national iconography, the social implica- Course Notations American studies plan, with faculty advisors, tions of slavery, racial and ethnic conflict, gender a program of study that reflects their interests roles, and the rise of American intellectual traditions. Resources include fiction, folklore, satire, sermons, Courses designated by a single number are in American society and culture: history, the one-semester courses. maps, journals, captivity narratives, trial transcripts, arts, music, literature, government, economics, autobiography, art, architecture and material culture. social structures, sociology and anthropology, (Fulfills social sciences requirement.) Double numbers separated by a comma (101, institutions, education, and philosophy and G. Pfitzer, the Department 102) are courses in which grades are given religion. Their combination of a core of separately for each semester, but in which one interdisciplinary American studies courses AM 102. INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN semester ordinarily follows the other. on specific topics, themes, eras and ways to CULTURE: POST-CIVIL WAR 4 study American culture together with American An examination of American life and culture from An “H” following a course number indicates subject courses from different disciplines the Civil War to the present. Topics include social that the course will always be taught as an provides both breadth and in-depth knowledge movements, westward expansion, immigration, honors course. of the development of American culture. With urbanization, the Horatio Alger myth, the rise of labor, the encouragement of the American studies economic growth and class differences, the role of If a course is not offered annually, the year in faculty students often include study abroad, the federal government, racial and ethnic conflict, which it will next be offered is noted where Washington semester, or internship experi- gender roles, war and peace, and criticism of Ameri- can culture. Various resources, such as popular possible. ences in their programs. culture, music, film, sermons, diaries, trial transcripts, Due to scheduling, faculty leaves of absence, literature, historical studies, art and architecture, and THE AMERICAN STUDIES MAJOR: Students various primary documents are used. (Fulfills social sabbaticals, and other factors, every course must fulfill the requirements designated in sciences requirement.) G. Pfitzer, the Department listed may not be given in any particular year. the three areas below as well as satisfy the The college reserves the right to withdraw general college requirements for the degree AM 200. ISSUES IN AMERICAN CULTURE 1 any course for which there is insufficient of bachelor of arts. To qualify for honors in A series of one-credit courses that focus on specific enrollment. American studies, students must complete the topics of relevance to American culture (either honors thesis. historical or contemporary), such as recent books of Faculty (as of April 18, 2001) for the academic significance, film genres, documentary series, or year 2001-02 are listed with their respective 1. Prerequisites: AM 101, 102; or HI 221, 222 current affairs. May or may not be associated with departments and in the rear section of this (American History). three-credit courses being offered simultaneously by catalog. Part-time faculty and adminstrators the department (see specific course descriptions). who hold a faculty line or teach a course are 2. American Studies Courses: six courses The Department indicated by an asterisk(*). above the 100 level, to be selected in AM 201. AMERICAN IDENTITIES: PRE-1870s 3 consultation with the student's advisor. These A study of the changing ways Americans have must include AM 221, American Studies: defined themselves, from colonization to the mid- Methods and Approaches, and AM 374, Senior nineteenth century. Relying heavily on primary Seminar. sources, the course examines critical issues and periods including race, ethnicity, gender, class, 3. American Subjects: two courses about the culture contact, revolution, reform, and war, as well United States taken in at least two other as men and women whose lives and work reveal the departments and above the 100 level. Courses cultural temper of their time. (Fulfills social sciences meeting this requirement must be approved by requirement.) M. Lynn the American Studies Department.

58 AM 201L. AMERICAN IDENTITIES: PRE-1870s AM 232H. NEW ENGLAND BEGINS 3 D. New England 3 WITH WORKSHOP 4 A critical examination of the evolution of culture and A study of the growth and development of regional Taken in conjunction with AM201, the workshop society in New England during the seventeenth culture in the northeastern United States from the complements AM201 class sessions. Classic texts century. After considering the origins of the Puritan eighteenth century to the present. Beginning with a and documents in American culture from 1620 to community, the course will explore the ways in which consideration of the heritage of the Puritan settlers, 1877 are examined in depth. The workshop includes that society changed over the course of the first the course proceeds to an examination of the Revolu- additional reading, journal writing, oral presentations, seventy-five years of settlement, using the resources tionary experience, the industrial revolution, the New a field trip, and assignments in the American Studies- and methods of a variety of disciplines. By a culmi- England Renaissance of the nineteenth century, and History Lab. (Fulfills social sciences requirement.)M. Lynn nating investigation of the events of the Salem the transforming impact of immigration and migration witchcraft crisis of 1692, questions will be raised as to on the region’s population. It ends with a study of the AM 202. AMERICAN IDENTITIES: POST-1870s 3 the impact of those changes and some of the ways in literature, politics, and economy of New England in A study of the changing ways Americans have which New Englanders responded to them. Finally, the twentieth century. (Fulfills social sciences require- defined themselves, from the mid-nineteenth century by studying several historical and literary treatments ment.) M. Lynn to the present. Relying heavily on primary sources, of the witch trials, we will gain a greater understand- the course examines the impact of modernization, ing of the interconnections between the past and the AM 260. THEMES IN AMERICAN CULTURE war, and depression, and considers the impact of present. (This is an Honors course; it fulfills the social Interdisciplinary examinations of critical themes in the race, gender, class and ethnicity on American culture sciences requirement.) M. Lynn development of American culture and American life. and society, emphasizing the ways in which writers, (The course may be repeated for credit with focus on critics, and reformers have responded to and shaped AM 250. REGIONAL CULTURE a different theme.) their society. (Fulfills social sciences requirement.) Exploration of the development of distinctive regional A. Civil Rights in Twentieth Century United M. Lynn, J. Zangrando cultures in the United States. Using a broadly based States 3 interdisciplinary approach, these courses focus on An examination of the interactions of individuals, AM 202L. AMERICAN IDENTITIES: POST-1870s the interaction between people and their environ- groups, institutions and agencies seeking to achieve, WITH WORKSHOP 4 ments, the way people develop attachments to their enforce, or dismiss those civil rights guarantees Taken in conjuction with AM202, the workshop own regions, and the tensions between regional and contained primarily in the 13th, 14th, and 15th complements AM202 class sessions. Classic texts national cultures. (The course may be repeated for amendments to the Constitution of the United States and documents in American culture from 1877 to the credit with a different topic.) and in subsequent twentieth century legislation. present are examined in depth. The workshop A. The Hudson River 4 Although a major focus of the course is on the includes additional reading, journal writing, oral An introduction to the history, literature, and art of the attempts of women and African-Americans to secure presentations, a field trip, and assignments in the Hudson River Valley. The Hudson River is consid- full civil rights protections, students are encouraged American Studies-History Lab. (Fulfills social sci- ered as an environmental entity, an economic and to investigate civil rights issues that range beyond ences requirement.) M. Lynn, J. Zangrando political concern, and especially as a cultural symbol. these two groups. The course uses a variety of The course considers four centuries of American materials including legislative histories, autobiogra- AM 221. AMERICAN STUDIES: METHODS experience on the Hudson, but focuses on the phies, executive orders, judicial decisions, biogra- AND APPROACHES 4 nineteenth century, when the Hudson had its greatest phies, histories of specific aspects of the civil rights An introduction to American studies scholarship, influence on regional and national culture. (Fulfills struggle, journalistic accounts, documentary films, methodologies, and approaches to the study of social sciences requirement.) works of fiction, and oral histories. (Fulfills social society and culture in the United States. Course G. Pfitzer sciences requirement.) J. Zangrando materials include “classics” in American studies as B. The West 4 well as the most recent scholarship: the “myth and B. The Machine in the Garden 3 An examination of the mythic, historical, and contem- symbol” school, the culture concept, psychoanalytic An introduction to the impact of industrialism on the porary West, western heroes and themes and what methodologies, new literary and feminist critiques, American pastoral ideal. The course focuses on the they reveal about American values and culture. Using material culture and oral history resources, mass and cultural themes of agrarian paradise, the geopolitics film, literature, social and intellectual histories and the popular culture analyses, with attention to issues of of land use, sentimental glorifications of the past, the arts, the course considers discrepancies in the race, gender, class, and ethnicity throughout. The image of the American farmer, and the transformation images and realities of western exploration and intent of the course is to offer students a variety of of the American pastoral landscape. The central settlement. After considering the colonial period, the opportunities to sharpen their analytical, research, theme of the course is the inability of nineteenth and course then explores nineteenth century conflicts and writing skills from interdisciplinary and historio- twentieth century Americans to hold onto the vision of over property, natural preservation, mineral and graphic perspectives. Required of majors and minors an American Arcadia in the face of rampant industri- water claims, and the rights of native Americans and in their sophomore or junior years. alization and unrestricted technology. (Fulfills social concludes with an examination of contemporary G. Pfitzer, J. Zangrando, the Department sciences requirement.) G. Pfitzer images and issues. (Fulfills social sciences require- ment.) W. Hall C. African-American Experience, AM 231. ETHNIC AND IMMIGRANT 1860s–1980s 3 EXPERIENCE 3 C. The South 3 A study of the African-American experience, 1860s- An introduction to the historical experiences of An exploration of the development of the distinctive 1980s. Using both primary and secondary source several American ethnic and immigrant groups, culture of the southern region of the United States. material, the course examines the critical issues and including Native Americans, African Americans, The course examines myths and legends of the Old period relevant to the African-American struggle and people from Latin America, Asia, and Europe. South including those surrounding the origins of the toward freedom and equality. Topics include slavery, Emphasizing both the larger society’s view of a plantation system, southern womanhood and the emancipation, and Reconstruction; the woman’s era; particular ethnic group and that group’s perception development of the slave and free communities of the the age of Jim Crow and the new Negro; the civil of its own experiences, the course examines the region in the antebellum period. Topics include the rights movement; and the post-reform period. processes of assimilation and acculturation, racism, myths and legends of the New South, the legacy of Sources include narratives, documents, photographs, nativism, ethnic conflict, and cultural survival mecha- the Civil War and Reconstruction, the imposition of and films. The Department nisms as found in historical monographs, films, segregation, modernization of agriculture and indus- novels, biographies and autobiographies, demo- try, and the migration of African Americans north- graphic materials and oral histories. ward. The course culminates in a study of the civil W. Hall, J. Zangrando rights movement, and recent demographic, eco- nomic, and political changes. (Fulfills social sciences requirement.) The Department

59 E. Living with the Machine: Technology and AM 360. AMERICAN CULTURAL PERIODS AM 363. WOMEN IN AMERICAN CULTURE 4 Cultural Adaption 3 Examination of specific cultural periods, each of An examination of the changing position of women in An exploration of the development of technology in which has had a particular significance for the American culture and society from the seventeenth the United States. Beginning with the adaptation of development of American culture. The course will century to the present. Topics will include the devel- Native American skills, and extending to the growth explore the major social, political, economic, intel- oping familial, economic, sexual, educational, and of the Internet, the course considers technology for lectual, and aesthetic issues of the period, using the political roles of women, as well as consideration of its usefulness but also considers the social and resources of literature, history, music, art, govern- the suffragist and feminist movements. Issues of cultural changes that occur in its wake. Topics will ment, sociology, and popular culture. (The course race, class, and ethnicity will be included, and re- include the development of mills, railroads, and may be repeated for credit with a different period.) sources from a variety of disciplines will be used, computers; in addition broader themes such as the including material culture, history, literature, politics, A. 1920s 3 possible regulation of technology will be examined. sociology, and economics. M. Lynn An intensive examination of the “roaring twenties,” (Fulfills social sciences requirement.) The Department with special attention to the impact of class, race, AM 371, 372. INDEPENDENT STUDY 3, 3 F. The Environment in American Culture 3 and gender on the development of American culture A program of individual reading, research, and writing An examination of the importance of nature and the in the period. The course focuses on a series of which qualified majors design in consultation with and environment in American culture. The course will controversies illuminating some of the conflicting under the direction of the American studies faculty. analyze the role nature has played in American life forces at work in American society, including de- An independent study allows an in-depth examination from the early human settlement in North America bates over immigration, Prohibition, evolution, of a topic not treated extensively in regular depart- to the present. Topics will include the evolution of sexuality, and the role of women in society. It will mental course offerings. Students meet with faculty environmental consciousness in the United States, examine some of the major intellectual, social, and on a regularly scheduled basis to discuss and ana- the development of national parks, the Adirondack cultural issues of the era. M. Lynn lyze readings and research in primary and secondary Park in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and B. 1950s 3 sources. The Department the impact and future role of the contemporary An interdisciplinary analysis of the decade of the AM 374. SENIOR SEMINAR 4 environmental movement. (Fulfills social sciences 1950s in America. Using a wide variety of primary Exploration of primary and secondary sources in the requirement.) The Department and secondary sources, including fiction, film, interdisciplinary examination of a particular topic in music, biography, autobiography, poetry, sociology, American culture. Students will pursue a major AM 299. PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP IN drama, and social criticism, the course explores the research project or prepare an honors thesis pro- AMERICAN STUDIES 3 distinctive culture of this decade. It focuses on the posal. Required of all senior majors. Open to majors Internship opportunity for students whose academic ways different groups of Americans experienced the only; normally taken in fall semester of senior year. and cocurricular work has prepared them for profes- period, studying conformity and consumerism, the W. Hall, M. Lynn, the Department sional work related to the major. With faculty spon- beatniks, rock and roll, and the silent generation, as sorship and department approval, students may well as the roots of the protest movements and the AM 375. HONORS THESIS 4 design internships at museums and historical societ- counterculture of the 1960s. M. Lynn Independent study and research leading to a thesis ies, newspapers, radio and television stations, examining a topic relevant to American civilization museums and historical societies, newspapers, radio C. 1960s 3 from an interdisciplinary perspective. Required of and television stations, planning and architectural A consideration of the major events of the 1960s, candidates for department honors. Participation by firms, schools, government agencies, and other including the New Frontier, the Cuban missile crisis, invitation of the department to students with strong appropriate sites. No more than three semester hours the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the war in records in the major or by petition of a student with may count toward the major. Prerequisite: two Vietnam, the civil rights movement, the sexual and special research interests. Prerequisite: AM 374. courses in American studies. Must be taken S/U. gender revolutions, the rise of rock and roll, the Open to majors only. The Department counterculture, the moon landing and other land- AM 340. WOMEN AND WORK IN AMERICA 3 marks of the decade. The course considers not only AM 376. TOPICS IN AMERICAN CULTURE Examination and analysis of the role and status of what happened during those climactic years, but why Interdisciplinary seminars exploring a substantial women in the economy, particularly the paid work such events were so important to American develop- aspect of the development of American culture. force, from the colonial era to the present. Topics ment, and how perceptions about the 1960s have These courses involve in-depth analysis using the considered are: the perceptions and the realities of changed over time. G. Pfitzer resources and techniques of several different disci- women's participation in the work force, “women’s plines and requires a major research paper. (The work,” and working women’s conscious efforts to AM 361. AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE 4 course may be repeated for credit with a different improve their economic status. A variety of sources Introduction to the material aspects of American topic.) provide insights into the myths and realities of culture and the variety of ways in which artifacts— working women’s experiences; the impact of tech- three-dimensional objects, the built environment, A. War 3 nology on women’s work; the demands of family on design and architectural styles, technological pro- An examination of the experience of war and its working women; the socialization of women’s work; cesses and production, decorative and folk arts— impact on American culture over the course of the legislation and working women’s status; the influ- serve as social and cultural documents. The course last two centuries. The course concentrates on the ence of class, race, and ethnicity on women work- centers on the cultural attitudes and values embodied American Revolution, the Civil War, Indian Wars, ers and women’s work; the job segregation of in as well as shaped by the production, utilization, World War II, and the Vietnam War, using various women; and women workers and the organized and conservation of material objects. Readings, resources including fiction, history, film, oral history, women’s movement. J. Zangrando discussions, museum and other field trips, and and autobiography to explore the changing nature of object-oriented research projects assist students in war and its effects on American society and culture. enhancing their visual literacy and in making connec- War and politics, the morality of war, military strategy tions between material culture and the larger culture. and tactics, war and gender roles, class, race and J. Zangrando ethnicity, the home front experience, and war’s impact on the larger culture are some of the issues AM 362. AMERICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY 3 considered. M. Lynn An examination of American culture through the B. City 3 lives of specific people as recorded in their autobiog- An examination of the growth and impact of urban life raphies. The course explores autobiography both as on American culture. Using fiction, film, histories, an act of self-creation and as a reflection of culture. sociological studies and material culture, the course Various autobiographies are examined for their examines the relation between the perceptions of revelations about choices, crises, values and experi- urban life and the actualities of that experience. By ences of representative people in particular periods focusing on how varying reactions to the urban of the American past. W. Hall experience result from economic, ethnic, or gender differences, the course explores such topics as: the effect of industrialization, the waves of rural migration and overseas immigration, the concentrations of wealth and poverty, the impact of architecture, and the parks and planning movements. W. Hall 60 C. America on the Couch 3 H. Vernacular Landscape: Exploring the A consideration of selected topics in the fields of American Sense of Place 3 Anthropology cultural studies and psychohistory. Through interdis- A study of the cultural meaning of the everyday ciplinary materials, students will explore the rich landscape in the United States. Cultural geography literature of psychohistorical interpretation, attempting and landscape history provide the method for inter- Chair of the Department of Sociology, to understand personal motivation, emotional charac- preting and understanding basic forms of North Anthropology, and Social Work: William Fox ter, and abnormal behavior in both prominent Ameri- American landscape, which students will then utilize Anthropology Faculty can figures and in the nation at large. Topics include in their own projects. This course will give primary conversion theory in the Salem witchcraft trials, consideration to the vernacular landscape but will Professors: Gerald M. Erchak, Jill D. Sweet infantilism and paternal authority in the age of Jack- also consider national patterns on the land. These son, sentimental regression in the Civil War era, forms will reveal cultural details, including: gender Associate Professor: Susan Bender George Custer and the schizophrenic personality, ideals, ethnic diversity, social hierarchies, economic Assistant Professor: Michael C. Ennis-McMillan neurasthenia in Victorian America, paranoia in the motives, cultural mythology, and political ideas. Nixon years, and narcissism in the “me” decade of The Department Visiting Assistant Professor: Renee B. Walker the 1970s. G. Pfitzer I. The Homefront During World War II 3 Lecturers: Adam Yuet Chau, Luce Lecturer in D. Religion 4 A study of the impact of World War II on the Ameri- Asian Studies; Joylin Namie, Lorraine An examination of the institutions of religion and the can homefront during the early 1940s. Using diverse Hawkins roles religion has played in the development of materials — letters, government documents, social American society, from the seventeenth century to histories, material culture, popular film, music, litera- The primary purpose of the anthropology the present. Beginning with a study of the Puritan ture — this course examines the interconnection program is to facilitate the crosscultural study “city on a hill,” proceeding to the Great Awakening, between images and messages of war and American of human groups and social behavior. The the Revolutionary separation of church and state and values and behavior. This assessment of the impact program's curriculum includes archaeological designation of religious toleration, the course will of WWII on American society includes such topics as explorations of past cultures, human bio- continue to explore the development of an increas- mobilization; labor and manufacturing; the experi- cultural development, and studies of diverse ingly diverse society of belief and unbelief. Using a ences of women, children, minorities; the manipula- lifeways of the world's populations. The variety of interdisciplinary sources, the course fo- tion of information by government and the press; and cuses on nineteenth century nativist attacks on the models for heroic behavior presented by film, anthropology courses, designed to serve Catholicism, the role of religion in the slave commu- theater, music, and advertising. W. Hall students with a general interest in the nity, revivalism, fundamentalism, the social gospel, discipline as well as those who plan to pursue and contemporary controversies over evolution, AM 399. PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP IN graduate training, provide a background for prayer in the public schools, and the impact of race, AMERICAN STUDIES 3 or 6 professional training in international relations, gender, and class. M. Lynn Professional experience at an advanced level for multinational corporations, environmental juniors or seniors with substantial academic and impact studies, social service, education, E. Disorderly Women 3 cocurricular experience in the major. With faculty An examination of women characterized by the larger museums, and historic preservation. sponsorship and departmental approval, students society as unruly, disruptive, radical, militant, unfemi- may extend their educational experience into such nine—just generally disorderly—and what this char- THE ANTHROPOLOGY MAJOR: The areas as historic preservation, museum administra- acterization reveals about American society. The anthropology major must successfully complete tion and education, journalism and communications, course will consider types of women as well as the at least thirty-two credits in anthropology. As a urban planning, teaching, public administration, and experience of individual, so-called disorderly, women foundation for the major, students must take other related fields. No more than three semester in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century United AN101 and 102. Courses of exploration must hours may count toward the major. Open to junior States. Questions will include: What defines women and senior majors and minors. Must be taken S/U. include AN270 and at least one geographic- as disorderly in specific times and places; how do area course (AN205, 206, 227, 228, 242, 243, women deviate from the roles and behavior expected or 260). Students must also take one methods of all women; what has motivated disorderly women, course (AN326, 327, SO226, or 227) as well as from their perspectives, to act as they have, and what AN366 as courses of application and synthesis. has been the psychic cost? The central focus is on Courses listed under sociology-anthropology "disorderly women" as actors within and upon their may be taken for either sociology or anthropol- society and on the responses of that larger society to their actions. J. Zangrando ogy credit, but not both. F. America and the Sea 3 THE SOCIOLOGY-ANTHROPOLOGY MAJOR: An exploration of the role ocean has played in Ameri- Students who major in sociology-anthropology can life. Beginning with the view of the sea as an must successfully complete forty to forty-three ecosystem, the course uses literary and historical credits including foundation courses SO101 and sources to trace the sea’s importance in the develop- either AN101 or 102; one methods course ment of American culture. After studying the cultural, social, and economic importance of the sea in Ameri- (AN326, 327, SO226, or 227); either AN366 or can life, the course returns to the biology of the sea SO375; twelve elective credits in anthropology through student research projects on current environ- and twelve elective credits in sociology. mental problems, as well as national and interna- Courses listed under sociology-anthropology tional laws and regulations, which protect the ocean may be taken for either sociology or anthropol- as a commons for the world. The Department ogy credit, but not both. G. The American Suburb: Identity, Meaning, and Place, 1850-2000 3 HONORS: Students desiring departmental An exploration of one of the most ordinary portions of honors in anthropology must meet the requisite the American landscape: the suburb. The course will grade-point average and must complete a consider the historical evolution of this form as a senior thesis under the supervision of a cultural and social construct and consider its implica- member of the anthropology faculty. Students tions for the future. Beginning with the growth of desiring departmental honors in sociology- parks and other planned areas, the suburb will be anthropology must meet the requisite grade- defined through the elite culture of the nineteenth point average and must complete a thesis century; federal support and contemporary culture under the supervision of a member of the then combine to make this form of housing the most anthropology or sociology faculty. ubiquitous in the United States after World War II. Topics will include politics, gender, plurality, planning, economics, environmental implications and regula- tion, consumer culture, and material culture studies. 61 The Department THE ANTHROPOLOGY MINOR: Students AN 206. ARCHAEOLOGY OF EASTERN AN 260. SOUTHWEST INDIANS 3 who minor in anthropology must successfully NORTH AMERICA 3 An examination of the cultures, histories, and current complete eighteen credits in anthropology Archaeological sites located throughout the eastern socioeconomic situation of Native Americans in the including foundational AN101 and 102. United States are analyzed to reveal the history of Southwest region of the United States. Groups such Students must also complete ten credits of human-land and human-human interactions over a as the Navajo, Pueblo, and Apache will be studied anthropology electives including at least one 15,000-year period. Special attention is given to within the context of Spanish and Anglo contact to course at the 300 level. The student should changes in aboriginal culture effected by the estab- better understand issues of diversity, resistance to lishment of gatherer-hunter lifeways in the East and domination, and cultural change. Prerequisite: select a minor advisor who will assist the the later transition to village horticulture. (Designated AN101, 242, or permission of instructor. (Designated student in constructing a program of study. a non-Western culture course.) S. Bender a non-Western culture course.) J. Sweet Students are encouraged to declare the anthropology minor by the end of the junior AN 227. SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN AN 270. HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL year. CULTURES 3 THOUGHT 4 A survey of the peoples and cultures of Africa south Examination of major debates in the history of anthro- AN 100. ANTHROPOLOGICAL of the Sahara in tradition and change. Special atten- pology and a look at central figures whose work PERSPECTIVES 3 tion is given to key social organizing principles and helped to fuel these debates. The careers of people A survey of anthropological problems drawing from institutions such as secret societies, lineage systems, like Boas, Mead, or Malinowski are studied within the cultural anthropology, biological anthropology, age set organizations, and despotic political struc- context of the developing discipline of anthropology. linguistics, and archaeology. This exploration course tures. Prerequisite: AN101. (Designated a non- The relationship between past and current anthropo- introduces students to humans as biocultural beings Western culture course.) G. Erchak logical ideas, fieldwork practices, and anthropological who evolve physically and culturally as they adapt to writing are considered. Prerequisite: AN101 or a wide range of natural and sociocultural environ- AN 228. MEXICAN CULTURES 3 permission of instructor. J. Sweet ments. The course is not a prerequisite for other A survey of the peoples and cultures of Mexico. The anthropology courses and is generally not counted course examines the changes in Mexican cultures in AN 303. ANALYSIS OF THE HUMAN toward the anthropology major or minor. Permission relation to European conquest and colonization, SKELETON 3 of instructor is required for students who have taken national independence, the Revolution, and relations Analysis of the human skeletal system as a record of AN101 or 102. (Designated a non-Western culture with the United States. Topics include social move- individual life history. Major topics include identifica- course; fulfills social sciences requirement.) ments of principal indigenous groups (such as tion of skeletal anatomy and manifestations of age, G. Erchak Nahuatl, Maya, and Zapotecs), contemporary re- sex, health, and nutrition. Modes of analysis of the gional politics, environmental change, and the ongo- information and meaning embedded in prehistoric AN 101. INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ing construction of Mexican identities. Prerequisite: burial contexts are also considered. Prerequisite: ANTHROPOLOGY 4 AN101 or 205 or 243 or permission of instructor. AN102 or permission of instructor. S. Bender An introduction to the basic concepts and problems (Designated a non-Western culture course.) of sociocultural anthropology. The culture concept is M. Ennis-McMillan AN 325. APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY 4 explored as a central theoretical and empirical Applying the anthropological perspectives to the concern. Students learn about cultural diversity as AN 242. NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS 3 analysis of national and international sociocultural well as recurrent patterns of cultural adaptation. A survey of indigenous peoples and cultures of North issues. Topics include cultural brokerage, advocacy, (Designated a non-Western culture course; fulfills America. The course examines the history of contact community development, evaluation, ethics, and the social sciences requirement.) The Department between Indian and non-Indian populations; the difficulties facing indigenous peoples and ethnic development of United States federal Indian policies; minorities within nation-states today. Prerequisite: AN 102. ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE and the contemporary social problems related to the AN101. J. Sweet HUMAN PAST 4 reservation system and urban migration. (Designated An introduction to the biological and cultural evolution a non-Western culture course; fulfills social sciences AN 326. FIELD METHODS IN CULTURAL of humans. In learning about evolutionary theory and requirement.) J. Sweet ANTHROPOLOGY 4 process, students come to understand concepts of An introduction to field methods employed by cultural time and space as critical factors in our ability to AN 243. LATIN AMERICAN INDIANS 3 anthropologists in their collection of primary data. reconstruct the human past. Students engage a A survey of indigenous peoples and cultures in Students will conduct field projects in local commu- variety of biological and archaeological data in Mexico, Central America, and South America. The nity settings. These projects call for pure observation, laboratory sessions to clarify how this reconstruction course examines the persistence and change of mapping, formal and informal interviewing, participant occurs. (Fulfills social sciences requirement.) indigenous cultures as they have intersected with observation, and photo elicitation. Students will gain S. Bender broader social forces since European conquest and experience in formulating research problems, devel- colonization. Topics include contemporary indigenous oping a protocol, as well as organizing and communi- AN 175. INTRODUCTION TO ARCHAEO- movements as they influence regional politics, cating findings. Central concerns include the LOGICAL FIELD INVESTIGATIONS 5 economic development, environmental change, establishment of rapport and research ethics. Prereq- An introduction to the process of locating, identifying, nationalism, and the construction of racial, ethnic, uisite: AN101 and permission of instructor. J. Sweet and excavating archaeological sites. The focus of and gender identities. (Designated a non-Western class activity is actual participation in an archaeologi- culture course; fulfills social sciences requirement.) AN 327. ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD AND cal excavation and related activities. Offered summer M. Ennis-McMillan LABORATORY TECHNIQUES 4 only. S. Bender An introduction to the processes of archaeological AN 251. THEMES IN ANTHROPOLOGY 1-4 excavation and primary data analysis. Course AN 205. MESOAMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY 3 Examination of a geographic or subject area not requirements include active participation in a local A survey of the culture history of Mesoamerica, available in existing course offerings. For example, excavation and the description and interpretation of including primarily the states of Mexico and Guate- the course may focus on post-colonial Australia, excavated materials. Prerequisite: AN102 or mala. Inquiry focuses on the origin of New World contemporary Ireland, or studies in primate behavior. permission of instructor. S. Bender agriculture as well as the development of highland The course in a different subject area may be re- Mexican and Aztec and lowland Mayan civilizations. peated for credit. Prerequisite: permission of the AN 339. PSYCHOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 4 The course considers the interpretation of the ar- instructor. The Department An exploration of the relationships among the con- chaeological remains at major Mesoamerican site cepts of culture, the self, personality, and behavior, complexes. (Designated a non-Western culture AN 252. NON-WESTERN THEMES IN examining crosscultural evidence and major theoreti- course; fulfills social sciences requirement.) ANTHROPOLOGY 1-4 cal models. Brain and mind evolution is investigated. S. Bender Examination of a non-Western geographic or subject Descriptive case studies are supplemented by recent area not available in existing course offerings. For theoretical and empirical work. Both non-Western example, the course may focus on aboriginal Austra- and Western (including United States) cultures are lia or the music of New Guinea tribal groups. The discussed. Prerequisite: Two courses from among course in a different subject area may be repeated for cultural anthropology, sociology, or psychology, or credit. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. permission of instructor. G. Erchak (Designated a non-Western culture course.) 62 The Department AN 344. ANTHROPOLOGY AND AN 351. TOPICS IN CULTURAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH 4 BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 1-4 Art (Studio) An examination of health issues related to global Examination of a theoretical or subject specialization environmental change. The course employs perspec- (with a strong theoretical component) not available in tives and theories of critical medical anthropology to existing course offerings. For example, the course Chair of the Department of Art and Art History: explore the connections among broad patterns of may focus on the behavior of macaques or the Peter Stake environmental change, local responses to those anthropology of tourism. The course, in a different Studio Art Faculty: changes, and relevant health concerns. Topics subject area, may be repeated for credit. Prerequi- include the effects of population growth, urbanization, site: Permission of instructor. The Department Professors: Regis Brodie; John Cunningham water pollution and water scarcity, epidemics, defor- Jr., Robert Davidson Professor of Art; David J. estation, and species extinction in diverse geographic AN 352. TOPICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY 1-4 Miller, Ella Van Dyke Tuthill ’32 Professor of settings. Special attention is given to how poor and Examination of a theoretical or area specialization not Studio Art; Doretta Miller powerless social groups bear a disproportionate available in existing course offerings. For example, burden of environmental health problems. Prerequi- the course may focus on zooarchaeology or lithic Associate Professors: Richard Linke, Peter site: AN101 and at least junior standing, or permis- technology. The course, in a different subject area, Stake, Janet Sorensen, Joanne Vella, David sion of instructor. M. Ennis-McMillan may be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Permission Peterson of instructor. The Department Assistant Professors: Kate Leavitt, Paul AN 345. ECOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 3 Sattler, Margo Mensing, Deborah Hall Exploration of the principles by which the environ- SA 355. LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY 4 ment shapes human culture and human culture Examination of the varied aspects of the social Visiting Assistant Professors: Patricia B. Lyell, shapes the environment. Topics include the process organization of language using techniques from John Galt of human adaptation, the analysis of human eco- sociological, anthropological, psychological, and systems, and the explanation of cultural diversity and linguistic theory. Special attention is given to regional, Senior Artist-in-Residence: John L. Moore change from an ecological perspective. Prerequisite: social, and individual variation; nonstandard dialects Visiting Assistant Professors, part time: AN101 or 102 or permission of instructor. and their social impact; the relationship of language, *Deborah Morris, *D. Leslie Ferst, *Victoria M. Ennis-McMillan thought, and culture; the role of language in socializa- Palermo, *John Hampshire, *Cyndy Barbone, tion and in the maintenance of social structures; and *Betsy Brandt, *Bradley Moody AN 346. SYMBOLIC THEORY AND the type and extent of cultural variation in language PERFORMANCE 4 use. Prerequisite: SO101 or AN101 or permission of Lecturer: *John Danison An examination of symbolic theory as a vehicle for instructor. (May be taken for either sociology or Shop Supervisor and Building Safety analyzing expressive forms found in ritual, festival, anthropology credit.) J. Devine myth, and theater. The human need to seek, con- Coordinator: Paul Davis struct, and communicate meaning particularly regard- AN 366. SENIOR SEMINAR IN ing space, time, the supernatural, the self, and the ANTHROPOLOGY 3 Skidmore is a Charter Member, National cultural other will be explored. Attention will be given Advanced readings in theoretical or applied anthro- Association of Schools of Art and Design, 1970. to dance, drama, and music as complex symbolic pology, with special focus on current developments in Accredited, 1982, 1992. systems employed by groups in their search for the discipline. The course is designed as a capstone meaning. Prerequisite: AN101. J. Sweet experience for senior anthropology majors. Prerequi- The department offers two degrees: the site: AN270 or permission of instructor. bachelor of science degree in studio art and the AN 347. WOMEN AND GENDER IN The Department bachelor of arts degree in art history. EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE 3 A critical examination of the evolutionary reconstruc- AN 371, 372. INDEPENDENT STUDY OR FIELD The studio art program offers a rich and diverse tion of human behavior from feminist perspectives. RESEARCH 3, 3 range of investigations across the disciplines of Using information from primate studies and anthro- Individual reading and/or field research in anthropol- art making and art history. Integrating extensive pological ethnography, students investigate how ogy under the guidance of a member of the depart- liberal arts offerings with a broad studio assumptions about gender have shaped traditional ment. Students must be self-motivated and have a experience, majors may choose to balance observations and interpretations of archaeological written proposal in hand. This proposal must be remains. Feminist reconstructions of human pre- approved by a member of the anthropology faculty. exploration with focus in a particular area as history are given close attention in an attempt to Students who plan on writing a senior thesis in preparation for graduate school or future work uncover a human past that incorporates women as anthropology will use AN371 as independent prepa- in an art-related field. Critical thinking, active historical agents. Prerequisites: AN101 and ration for the thesis. During this preparation period, imaginative problem solving, and self-reflective 102 or permission of instructor. S. Bender students must develop a thesis statement, construct evaluation are key components in the develop- an outline, and document a literature search. ment of the theoretical and technical aspects of AN 348. POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 3 The Department art making. Through art courses students gain The cultural, symbolic, and ritual aspects of political competency in visual language, an increasingly behavior, organization, expression, and change. A AN 373. SENIOR THESIS IN important skill in contemporary culture. Visual consideration of the political systems of bands, tribes, ANTHROPOLOGY 3 and verbal analytical and organizational skills and chiefdoms will be used to compare and highlight Required of anthropology and sociology-anthropology learned in the studio apply to thoughtful practice aspects of political life in state-governed societies majors who plan to graduate with departmental in many arenas of our complex world. and provide a comprehensive perspective on the honors (sociology-anthropology majors may substi- political behaviors of human beings. Topics will tute SO 376). Recommended for students who want The studio art major presents students with a include: culture and politics, meaning of political the challenge of writing a formal in-depth thesis on a four-course foundations program to be action, structures of agreement and antagonism particular anthropological question. Students writing a completed within the first two years. Students between political entities, and ritual construction of senior thesis in anthropology should use AN371 in then proceed through exploratory courses political realities. Prerequisite: AN101. preparation for AN373. Prerequisite: AN371 and chosen from the areas of ceramics, communi- M. Ennis-McMillan permission of instructor. The Department cation design, drawing, fibers, metals, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture. In the AN 349. MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 4 AN 399. PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIPS IN A survey of the field of medical anthropology that third and fourth years of study students ANTHROPOLOGY 3, 6, or 9 concentrate in an area of their choice. Faculty introduces students to the crosscultural study of the Professional experience at an advanced level for participate not only as teachers within their area body, health, disease, illness, suffering, and healing. juniors and seniors with substantial academic and The course examines several theoretical perspec- cocurricular experience in anthropology. With faculty of expertise but also as advisors, who help tives (ethnomedical, biocultural, interpretive, and sponsorship and department approval, students may students select and pursue the courses and political economic). Topics include birthing, maternal extend their educational experience into such areas course study best suited to the student. and child health, infectious diseases, death and as museum studies or work within appropriate state, dying, and other issues across the life cycle in federal, or human service agencies. Prerequisite: at diverse geographic settings. Prerequisite: AN101 and least three courses in anthropology. Non-liberal arts. 270 or permission of instructor. M. Ennis-McMillan 63 All studio art courses meet for six hours per The department recommends the following AR 108. LIFE MODELING: SCULPTURAL week. A cumulative grade of C or better is focus in course selection as preparation for STUDY OF THE HUMAN FORM 4 required for all work in the major. graduate study and professional practice in A study of the human figure through the medium of studio art disciplines. life modeling in clay. Slide lectures dealing with There are two areas of studio art for which contemporary as well as traditional attitudes toward Advanced Placement (AP) credit can be 1. Drawing: at least one additional course the figure will complement studio activity and offer a awarded: Studio Art: General and Studio Art: beyond foundation drawing. perspective on humankind’s fascination with its own form. Initial course meetings will deal with elementary Drawing. A score of 4 or 5 in any one area 2. Depth: Additional courses in an area of concepts in wax and clay as they relate to the figure. earns the student six college credits. It is the concentration beyond the two required Students will be instructed in armature-building as department’s policy that up to four of the six AP contribute a great deal to the development well as mould-making techniques; finished works will credits can be used toward an elective in the of a strong body of work. Students should be cast in plaster or bronze. (Fulfills arts require- student’s major or minor. The remaining credits consult regularly with their advisor to select ment.) Lab fee: $80 J. Cunningham may be treated as general elective credit courses that will build artistic development toward the Skidmore degree. An exception to and work for portfolios. AR 111. BASIC CERAMICS 4 this policy must have approval from the Basic issues of aesthetics and technique developed Department of Art and Art History chair in 3. Art history: The study of art history is through the direct manipulation of clay. A variety of consultation with appropriate faculty. essential to a studio art major. The forming techniques will be explored and demon- department encourages students to take strated, including pinching, coiling, slab constructing, THE STUDIO ART MAJOR: A minimum of additional art history courses beyond the and throwing. In addition to group and individual thirteen studio art courses and three art history three required courses. critiques, weekly lectures will provide a working courses for a total of sixteen course and at knowledge of kiln firing (both gas and electric) and The Department of Art and Art History clay and glaze formulation. (Fulfills arts requirement.) least sixty credit hours. Requirements for the reserves the privilege of keeping a part of the Lab fee: $75 R. Brodie, L. Ferst bachelor of science degree in studio art: work of any student. 1. Foundation: Four foundation courses are AR 115. INTRODUCTION TO FIBER ARTS 4 required of all studio art majors: AR131 (or STUDIO ART MINOR: Any student choosing An introduction to the fiber arts. Projects will allow 103), 132 (or 107) 133 (or 105 and 106), studio art as a minor must consult the chair students to explore off-loom woven structure, loom 134. of the Department of Art and Art History for weaving, resist-dyeing and screen-printing. Stu- program approval. It is recommended that dents will work with flat pattern and composition as 2. Exploration: A total of four courses beyond well as three-dimensional fiber construction. Histori- students begin work for the minor not later foundations, each from a different studio cal works will be studied as well as the contempo- area: ceramics, communication design, than the beginning of the second year. rary evolution of this art form. (Fulfills arts drawing, fibers, metals, painting, photogra- Students electing to minor in studio art are requirement.) Lab fee: $55 M. Mensing phy, printmaking, or sculpture. required to take any six studio art courses and any two courses in art history. AR 131. VISUAL CONCEPTS 4 3. Depth: Five courses chosen in consultation An introduction to the study of visual relationships with the student's advisor. Note: Please refer to the Academic Information on a two-dimensional plane. Through guided exer- A. Primary concentration: at least two Guide regarding double counting of courses cises using both drawing and design mediums, the courses within a single studio area, at or between majors and minors. course builds understanding of principles of design above the 200 level and composition, as well as skills in perception, STUDIO FEES: All studio courses including visual thinking, problem solving, and creativity. B. Maturity: at least three 300-level studio Drawing from observation, conceptual research, art courses Advanced Studio Problems and Independent Study carry laboratory fees (see course and manipulation of visual elements are integrated 4. Art history: three art history courses that descriptions). In addition, students must in this course. (Fulfills arts requirement.) Lab fee: $16 Studio Art Faculty must include AH101, 102, and one elective. purchase consumable materials and personal 5. It is recommended that the four foundation supplies. AR 132. FORM AND SPACE 4 courses, one exploration course, and Fundamental study of form in three dimensions. This AH101 and 102 be completed by the end of Course Availability. The department is course develops understanding of formal visual the second year. committed to having students experience a concepts as well as skills in perception, visual think- 6. Capstone: successful participation in the variety of media. However, space is limited, ing, problem solving, and creativity. Drawing as a Senior Thesis Exhibition. As preparation for and, therefore, students cannot be guaranteed means to translate ideas into three-dimensional form; the exhibit, senior majors will be required to enrollment in specific courses during any given processes using minimal tools and easily worked meet as a group six times on a biweekly semester. As soon as students are confident materials; and working methods that emphasize planning, study, and experimentation form the basis basis with department faculty in the spring about their choice of program, they should declare their major. for this course. (Fulfills arts requirement.) Lab fee: $43 semester of the senior year. Group Studio Art Faculty meetings will discuss the philosophy, AR 101. INTRODUCTION TO PAINTING 3 aesthetics, logistics, the artist statement, AR 133. DRAWING 4 and effective planning for the exhibit. An introduction to painting as a medium of visual expression. Emphasis is placed upon exploration of An expanded study of principles introduced in AR131. formal and technical concerns. Basic studies include This course builds on basic drawing experiences, drawing and will explore a variety of subject matter refining skills in observation, organization, interpreta- and media directed toward the organization of the tion, and critical analysis. Studio work introduces a two-dimensional plane. Summer only. Not open to range of traditional drawing tools and materials while Skidmore art majors. Non-liberal arts. (Fulfills arts exploring a variety of approaches to image making requirement.) Lab fee: $16 Studio Art Faculty and visual expression. Prerequisite: AR103 or 131. (Fulfills arts requirement.) Lab fee: $16 Studio Art Faculty

64 AR 134. COLOR 4 AR 223. INTERMEDIATE DRAWING 4 AR 299. PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP IN An introduction to the study of color in studio art. This An further investigation of the formal and expressive STUDIO ART 3 or 6 course develops understanding of the characteristics characteristics of drawing, with a focus on drawing as Internship opportunity for students who have com- of color through color theory, observation, organiza- visual communicative act. Structured assignments pleted their first year and whose academic and tion, and experimentation, and builds skills in percep- provide a context for focused exploration of materials cocurricular work has prepared them for professional tion, visual thinking, and creativity. Guided exercises and processes and development of individual vision. work related to the major. With faculty sponsorship explore the role of color in compositional relation- Readings and discussions will complement studio and department approval, students may design ships, the psychological and expressive effects of work. Prerequisite: AR 105 and 106 or133. Lab fee: $16 internships in studio assistance to professional color, and the physical properties of color mixing. Studio Art Faculty artists, in artist cooperatives, graphic design studios, Lab fee: $16 Studio Art Faculty advertising design studios, galleries, museums, and AR 224. FIGURE DRAWING 4 printing houses, or in other art-related projects. No AR 201. PAINTING 4 An extensive investigation of drawing from the life more than three semester hours in any internship An introduction to oil painting, focusing on traditional model. Guided exercises refine observation skills by may count toward the studio art major or minor. painting methods and materials. Using direct obser- building understanding of anatomical and spacial Prerequisites: three courses in studio art. Non-liberal vation, this course builds understanding of composi- relationships, as well as providing a context for arts. No laboratory fee. tional principles, color relationships, the physical and exploration of interpretive and expressive aspects of expressive properties of paint, and the creative figure drawing. Assignments encourage exploration AR 311. INTERMEDIATE PAINTING 4 process. Prerequisites: AR103 or131, 105 and 106 or of compositional relationships, drawing media, and A continuation of painting concepts explored in 133, 134. Lab fee: $16 Studio Art Faculty conceptual ideas. Prerequisite: AR105 and 106 AR201, designed to further acquaint students with or133. Lab fee: $15 Studio Art Faculty technical processes, formal relationships, and con- AR 209. COMMUNICATION DESIGN I 4 ceptual issues. Structured assignments employing An introduction to visual design and communication AR 227. COMMUNICATION DESIGN II 4 direct observation (including the figure) and invention theory. Emphasis is on developing a strong founda- Further development of the concepts and skills provide a context for development of a personal tion in visual perception, design principles, and introduced in Communication Design I. Emphasis is vision. Other assignments will refer to historical and typography. Students will undertake studio problems placed on integrating the symbolic and communica- contemporary movements and painting methods with aimed at developing visual awareness, analytical tive aspects of typography with visual elements. readings and discussions. Prerequisite: AR201. Lab thinking, craftsmanship, and use of hands-on media Through the application of design principles and fee: $16 Studio Art Faculty and digital techniques. Prerequisites: AR103 or 131, typography, studio projects will stress strong visual 105 and 106 or 133, 134. Lab fee: $105 D. Hall concepts while exploring hands-on media and digital AR 315. ADVANCED FIBER ARTS 4 techniques. Prerequisite: AR209. Lab fee: $105 A continued exploration and development of personal AR 215. TEXTILE STRUCTURES 4 D. Hall interpretations of traditional and nontraditional meth- Exploration of the sculptural properties of planes AR 229. BEGINNING PHOTOGRAPHY 4 ods of textile design and fiber construction. Students based on building single and multiple-element An exploration of the varied aesthetic and mechanical may elect to concentrate in the area of weaving or surfaces. Studies in fused and single-element struc- aspects of contemporary photographic process. textile design, or may develop skills in both areas ture (felting, netting, knotting, plaiting, hand and Emphasis is placed on using the camera as a tool to concurrently. Advanced weaving will include multi- machine knitting) will be followed by the focus of increase one’s visual sensitivity and personal aware- harness weave structure on jack-type, computer, and the course—loom weaving (including the use of the ness. Lab work is digital using Adobe Photoshop. dobby looms. Advanced textile design will include computer-assisted loom). Students will construct Each student must own a camera: 35mm or digital. printed resists, photo screen-printing, lacquer sten- three-dimensional structures based on individual Prerequisite: AR103 or 131. Lab fee: $80 (does not cils, gouache rendering, and computer-aided design. expression. Readings in textile history and con- include film or paper) R. Linke It is strongly recommended that students intending to temporary art issues, writing, and discussion will work in both areas complete both AR215 and 216 complement technical grounding in traditional textile AR 234. WATERCOLOR 4 prior to electing this course. Personal initiative and processes. Prerequisite: AR115 or permission of the Exploration of the materials and methods used in creative self-expression are emphasized in this instructor. Lab fee $55 M. Mensing watercolor painting. Included will be dry and wet course. Prerequisite: AR215 or 216. May be taken for paper techniques, resist processes, and experimental credit three times with permission of instructor. Lab AR 216. TEXTILE SURFACE DESIGN 4 painting. Conventional methods of illustrating the fee: $55 M. Mensing Theoretical and practical textile surface design figure and landscape will also be stressed. Pre- employing screen-printing, direct painting, and resist- requisites: AR103 or 131, 105 and 106 or 133, 134. AR 318. ADVANCED CERAMICS 4 dyeing techniques. Projects may take the form of flat Lab fee: $16 Studio Art Faculty A further intensification of the use of clay as a pattern design, wall hangings or costume. Students medium and a continuation of the development of the will be introduced to the use of computers in design- AR 251. ELEMENTARY SCULPTURE 4 forming processes of hand-building and throwing. ing selected projects. Prerequisite: AR115 or permis- Three-dimensional investigations utilizing casting, Also included will be the formulation of clay bodies sion of instructor. Lab fee: $55 M. Mensing carving, and metal processes. The student will be and the investigation of kiln firing techniques. Prereq- exposed to a variety of materials such as clay, wood, uisite: AR217. May be taken for credit three times AR 217. INTERMEDIATE CERAMICS 4 metal, stone, and wax. Prerequisite: AR107 or 132. with permission of instructor. Lab fee: $100 (includes The continued development of aesthetic concepts Lab fee: $65 J. Cunningham clay, glazes, firings). R. Brodie and techniques. Individual exploration and expres- sion will be encouraged. Through a structured ap- AR 253. CARVING PROCESSES IN WOOD 4 AR 319. METALSMITHING 4 proach with demonstrations, lectures, weekly An exploration of carving processes and concepts An advanced studio course in the jewelry and assignments, and group and individual critiques, the related to wood in sculpture. Studio activity will metalsmithing sequence. Students explore the plastic student will be exposed to hand-building and throw- concentrate on wood carving. Slides and studio potential of precious and nonprecious metals through ing, as well as raku, salt-glazing, and stoneware presentations will provide the basis for study of the the process of raising, forging, hollow-forming, and reduction techniques. Prerequisite: AR111 or permis- technical and historical development of stone carving. repoussé. Inventiveness, personal initiative, and sion of instructor. Lab fee: $100 R. Brodie. L. Ferst Students will gain practical experience with drawing creative self-expression are particularly emphasized as it relates to carving processes, conceptual think- in this course. Prerequisite: AR219. May be taken for AR 219. JEWELRY AND METALS I 4 ing, and the realization of three-dimensional form. credit three times with permission of instructor. Lab Sequence of problems employing various techniques Prerequisites: AR107 or 132 or permission of instruc- fee: $55 D. Peterson in metal. Emphasis upon structural design and tor. Lab fee: $65 J. Cunningham creative use of materials. One prerequisite: AR103, 131, 107, or 132 or permission of instructor. Lab fee: $55 D. Peterson

65 AR 320. JEWELRY AND METALS II 4 AR 350. PRINTMAKING: LITHOGRAPHY 4 AR 399. PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP IN A continuation of concepts and methods explored in An investigation and development of the lithographic STUDIO ART 3, 6, or 9 AR 219 with an emphasis on casting. Weekly group process including color-printing techniques with Professional experience at an advanced level for critiques will focus upon individual aesthetic growth, emphasis placed on personal growth and vision. juniors and seniors with substantial academic and technical exploration, and both historical and con- Readings in printmaking history and criticism will cocurricular experience in the major. With faculty temporary issues to the art-metals discipline. Prereq- complement studio work. Prerequisite: AR105 and sponsorship and department approval, students may uisite: AR219. May be taken for credit three times with 106 or 133; recommended: AR223, 224. May be taken design internships in studio assistance to profes- permission of instructor. Lab fee: $55 D. Peterson for credit three times with permission of instructor. sional artists, in artist cooperatives, graphic design Lab fee: $65 K. Leavitt studios, advertising design studios, galleries, muse- AR 326. ADVANCED DRAWING 4 ums, and printing houses, or in other art-related A further investigation of drawing as a visual com- AR 352. ADVANCED SCULPTURE 4 projects. Open to junior and senior majors and mun-icative act. The development of images through A process oriented course emphasizing the develop- minors. No more than three semester hours in any individual exploration of form, structure, and space ment of individual attitudes and involvements with internship may count toward the studio art major or with emphasis being placed upon the growth of three-dimensional form. The techniques and materi- minor. Non-liberal arts. No laboratory fee. personal vision and skill. Prerequisite: AR223 or 224. als utilized will include casting, carving, metalworking, May be taken for credit three times with permission of and plastics. Prerequisite: AR251. May be taken for instructor. Lab fee: $16 Studio Art Faculty credit three times with permission of instructor. Lab ART THEORY fee: $65 J. Cunningham AR 330. ADVANCED PHOTOGRAPHY 4 AT 361. ART AND SOCIETY 3 A continuation of problems of visual expression and AR 355. COMPUTER IMAGING I 4 An examination of how the visual arts are defined, techniques encountered in beginning photography. Development of computer animation and graphic funded, displayed, and make available to the public. Students explore advanced digital image manipulation; design skills. Projects may include such diverse areas This course will explore the role of artists in contem- investigate digital portfolio presentations; as well as as video animation, photomontage, scientific visual- porary cultures and will investigate information about refine traditional print aesthetics. Prerequisite: AR229. ization or advertising design. Prerequisite: AR337 or artists' education, resources, opportunities, and the Lab fee: $80 (does not include film or paper). R. Linke permission of instructor. Open only to juniors and skills required for professional development. Open to seniors. Lab fee: $105 Studio Art Faculty juniors and seniors or by permission of instructor. AR 332. ADVANCED PAINTING 4 Doretta Miller Further investigation of formal, expressive, and AR 356. COMPUTER IMAGING II 4 technical aspects of painting. This course emphasizes Individual and group problems using computer AT 375. CURRENT ISSUES IN ART 3 individual exploration of structured assignments, imaging. Projects may include work in either fields of A lecture-discussion course open to junior and senior leading toward self-directed studio practice. Readings video animation or publishing. Prerequisite: AR355 art majors working in any media. With group critiques and discussions complement studio practice. Empha- or permission of instructor. May be taken for credit of student work as the central focus, the seminar sis is placed upon more individual exploration of three times with permission of instructor. Open only explores individual work, processes, methodology, assigned formal problems in the studio. Prerequisite: to juniors and seniors. Lab fee: $105 and other areas of individual or group interest. Slide AR311. May be taken for credit three times with Studio Art Faculty presentations, lectures, oral reports, and visits to permission of instructor. Lab fee: $16 Studio Art Faculty galleries and artists’ studios provide a context for the AR 358. ART FOR CHILDREN 4 student critiques and introduce historical, social, AR. 337. ADVANCED COMMUNICATION Introduction to the basic art materials and techniques literary, and aesthetic perspectives related to devel- DESIGN 4 used to teach concepts in elementary schools, opments in the visual arts. J. Moore A continuation and development of the formal and museums, and other educational settings as related technical aspects of designing with type and image. to children's needs, interests, and development. The Students will be introduced to recent developments in role of art in a humanities program will also be visual communication theory and practice, including considered. Lab fee: $55 Doretta Miller multimedia and interactivity. Readings in design history and criticism as well as independent research AR 365, 366. ADVANCED STUDIO will complement studio work. May be taken for credit PROBLEMS 4,4 three times with permission of instructor. Prerequi- Individual problems in a given discipline within the sites: AR103 or 131, 105 and 106 or 133, 209, 227 department: i.e., painting, sculpture, ceramics, or permission of instructor. Lab fee: $105. D. Hall jewelry, weaving, textiles, graphics, photography, etc. To qualify, the student must have completed the most AR 341. PRINTMAKING: RELIEF 4 advanced 300-level course in an area. Offered in the An investigation and development of the relief print- studio, at a time arranged by instructor, the student ing process through linocut, woodcut, letterpress, and must petition for the course in spring for fall semes- book arts with an emphasis on personal growth and ter, and in fall for spring semester. Special permis- vision. Readings in printmaking history and criticism sion forms available in the chair’s office must be will complement studio art. Prerequisite: AR105 and completed by the student, signed by advisor, instruc- 106 or 133; recommended: AR223, 224. May be tor, and chair, and returned to the Registrar's Office taken for credit three times with permission of instruc- by the dates indicated. Open to qualified junior and tor. Lab fee: $60 K. Leavitt senior art majors and other qualified juniors and seniors. Permission of instructor and department AR 342. PRINTMAKING: INTAGLIO 4 chair are required. Non-liberal arts. Lab fee: courses An investigation and development of the etching carry the fee as noted in the individual course de- process including color printing techniques, with scription. May be repeated either in a given discipline emphasis placed on personal growth and vision. or more than once. Studio Art Faculty Readings in printmaking history and criticism will complement studio work. Prerequisite: AR105 and AR 371, 372. INDEPENDENT STUDY 4,4 106 or 133; recommended: AR223, 224. May be Individual work in a given discipline, in most cases taken for credit three times with permission of instruc- following its AR366 level of sequence. Open to senior tor. Lab fee: $60 J. Sorensen art majors and other qualified seniors. Permission of instructor and department chair is required. Non- liberal arts. Lab fee: courses carry the fee as noted in the individual course description. Studio Art Faculty

66 4. Self-Assessment Portfolio All second- AH 104. ASIAN ART 4 Art History semester senior majors will be required to Survey of the arts of India, China, Korea, and Japan. compile a portfolio of their work in art These arts will be examined with an emphasis on history and write a brief assessment of their style as cultural expression, the meaning of the arts Chair of the Department of Art and Art History: progress through the major. The portfolio in a religious context, and the impact of the cross- Peter Stake consists of a list of classes taken in art cultural exchange. (Designated a non-Western history, studio art, and any related fields culture course; fulfills humanities requirement.) Director of Art History: Lisa Aronson R. Linrothe that have enriched the student's under- Professor: Penny Jolly, Kenan Professor of standing of art history; examples of the Liberal Arts AH 111. INTRODUCTION TO ART 3 student's work in art history at all levels; A focus on a variety of monuments and traditions of Associate Professors: Lisa Aronson, Robert materials that evidence any special art and architecture, with the goal of exploring issues Linrothe projects, study-abroad work, or internship concerning style, function, technique, and meaning. Assistant Professors: Katherine Hauser, experiences; and a two-page written self- Attention will be paid to topics such as creativity, the Michael Clapper, Amelia Rauser assessment addressing the ways in which artist and society, sacred and secular art, gender and the student did or did not meet the goals of art, crafts and popular art vs. the fine arts, and the Lecturers: *Ian Berry, Deborah Hutton, Leslie the art history major, including comments body in art. May not be counted toward a major in art Mechem on growth within the major. or art history. (Fulfills humanities requirement.) Summer only. Art History Faculty Because advanced research in any aspect Art history is distinctive in its direct engage- of art history requires foreign languages AH 200. HINDU ART 3 ment with art objects through visual analysis (generally French or Italian and/or German, and historical study. We use art objects to An introduction to the arts of Indian Hinduism as plus any language appropriate to your area, expressions of religious ideas and experiences. The understand history and culture, and history e.g., Chinese), we recommend language and culture to understand art objects. course emphasizes the evolution of ritual practice, study. We also recommend additional art devotional narratives, symbols and architecture of Students earning a bachelor of arts in art history courses (including independent studies, Hinduism, taking note of the religious underpinnings history explore the varied roles of artists, their museum/gallery internships, and the senior of the tradition, its popular manifestations and images art, and their patrons across diverse cultural thesis) and/or courses in related fields, such of the goddess (Devi). The interdisciplinary nature of and historical contexts. In addition, they as literature, history, philosophy, anthropology, the course will highlight the necessity to understand experience the creative process of making religion, and studio art. the religious experience behind the works of art, and art. Students gain a breadth of knowledge witness the translation into visual expressions of spanning both Western and non-Western ART HISTORY MINOR: Students electing a abstract ideas and religious emotions. (Designated a non-Western culture course.) R. Linrothe subfields of the discipline. Art history majors minor in art history are required to take a develop skills in analyzing images and texts minimum of five art history courses. Of those AH 203. NATIVE AMERICAN ART 3 that are applicable to a wide range of per- five courses, at least one must be at the 300 sonal, civic, and professional endeavors; they A study of the prehistoric, historic, and contemporary level. Students should consult the director of arts of Native American peoples of North America. may also go on to graduate work in art history the Art History Program for approval. (Please and professional work in art-related fields. This course will study the arts of mainly Southwest, note: a total of six studio art and two art history Woodlands, Great Plains, and Northwest Coast courses constitute a minor in studio art.) cultures with particular attention to their historiogra- THE ART HISTORY MAJOR: Each student phy, style, technique, symbolic meaning, and place in major is required to take a minimum of ten Note: Please refer to the Academic Information ritual. A wide range of media will be covered includ- courses according to the following guidelines. guide regarding double counting of courses ing sculpture, painting, architecture, pottery, textile between majors and minors. arts, jewelry, and body decoration. Recommended: 1. Foundation (three courses) AH103 (Designated a non-Western culture course; a. AH101 and 102 Students may receive AP (Advanced Place- fulfills humanities requirement.) L. Aronson b. One studio art course of your choice ment) credit in art history. A score of 4 or 5 earns the student six college credits. It is the AH 204. JAPANESE ART 3 (note prerequisites where necessary) A chronological survey of Japanese arts (painting, department’s policy that three of the six AP 2. Breadth (four art history courses) — prints, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, architecture, and credits can count as AH101 or AH102 gardens) from the neolithic period to the present. The Choose one course from four of the (determined following consultation with the following five areas: course emphasizes historical, religious, and aesthetic director of the Art History Program) and may contexts. Special attention will be given to the stimu- a. Ancient and Medieval Art in the West: be applied toward a major or minor in art lus of contacts with China and Korea in the evolution AH222, 223, 232, 233, 330 history. The remaining three credits may be of Japanese visual art, and to Buddhist art. (Desig- b. Renaissance and Baroque Art in the treated as general elective credit toward the nated a non-Western culture course; fulfills humani- West: AH241, 252, 264**, 342, 347, 348 Skidmore degree. An exception to this policy ties requirement.) R. Linrothe must have approval from the director of Art c. Modern and Contemporary Art in the History in consultation with appropriate faculty. AH 207. AFRICAN ART 3 West: AH217, 256, 261, 264**, 265, 321, A survey of the arts of sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing 353, 354, 364 AH 101, 102. SURVEY OF WESTERN ART 3, 3 on selected groups from the sub-Saharan region, d. Arts of Africa and the Americas: AH103, Survey of Western art from ancient times to the this course considers a wide range of media giving 203, 207, 309, 310 present. AH101 is a prerequisite for 102. (Fulfills primary attention to sculpture and masquerades but humanities requirement.) Art History Faculty also including ceramics, metallurgy, textiles, body e. Asian Art: AH104, 200, 204, 209, 210, arts and architecture. These arts will be examined in 211, 311, 312, 314. AH 103. THE ARTS OF AFRICA, OCEANIA, AND terms of their styles, symbols, technologies, histories, 3. Exploration (at least three courses) — THE AMERICAS 3 and socioreligious importance. (Designated a non- Besides the foundation and breadth A survey of the arts of Africa (south of the Sahara), Western culture course; fulfills humanities require- courses, each student must take a Oceania (the South Sea Islands), and native North, ment.) L. Aronson minimum of three additional art history Central and South America. This course examines a courses including at least one seminar but variety of styles, techniques and socioreligious not including the senior thesis. (The senior functions of the arts and architecture of these non- thesis is an option students may take Western cultural areas. (Designated a non-Western culture course; fulfills humanities requirement.) beyond the ten courses required for the art L. Aronson history major.) 67 **AH264 fulfills breadth areas “b” or “c” NOT both AH 209. ISLAMIC ART 3 AH 233. ROMANESQUE AND GOTHIC ART 3 AH 309. THE ARTS OF MESOAMERICA AND Survey of the history of visual arts in Islamic cultures. European art from the tenth through the fourteenth SOUTH AMERICA 3 The course will examine architecture, painting, centuries, with a focus on painting, manuscript Architecture, sculpture, painting, and textiles from ceramics, and textiles in Arab, North African, Turkish, illumination, sculpture, stained glass, and the decora- selected cultures in Mesoamerica and the Andean Persian and Indian contexts. Special consideration tive arts. Prerequisite: AH101 or 111 or permission of region from the thirteenth century B.C. up to the time will be given to the interaction between local visual instructor. P. Jolly of European intervention in the sixteenth century A.D. traditions and Islamic values. (Designated a non- Prerequisite: AH101 or 102 or 103 or 111 or permis- Western culture course; fulfills humanities AH 241. RENAISSANCE EUROPE 3 sion of instructor. (Designated a non-Western culture requirement.) R. Linrothe Renaissance art in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century course.) L. Aronson Italy, Flanders, and Germany. Artists include AH 210. CHINESE PAINTING 3 Masaccio, Donatello, Botticelli, Michelangelo, AH 310. THE ARTS OF NIGERIA 3 Chronological survey of Chinese painting from fourth Leonardo, and Raphael, as well as Jan van Eyck, An in-depth study of the arts of Nigeria (West Africa) century B.C. to eighteenth century A.D. Topics may Bosch, Dürer, and Brueghel. Recommended prepara- from its earliest archaeological sites through the post- include technical issues, ornament and pictorialism, tion: AH101 or 102 or 111. (Fulfills humanities re- Colonial period. The course considers the breadth figure painting, landscape, calligraphy, ink painting quirement.) P. Jolly and range of Nigeria’s artistic traditions from tradi- and its relationship with Chan (Zen), social back- tional masquerades, textiles, ceramics, and body arts grounds of artists, painting and poetry, and Chinese AH 252. BAROQUE AND ROCOCO ART 3 to contemporary urban trends in painting, print- critical writings. (Designated a non-Western culture A survey of European art of the seventeenth to mid- making, and sculpture. Prerequisite: AH103 or 207 course.) R. Linrothe eighteenth centuries. Through an examination of or permission of instructor. (Designated a non- artists such as Bernini, Velazquez, Rembrandt, and Western culture course.) L. Aronson AH 211. TIBETAN ART 3 Hogarth, the course aims to develop an understand- A survey of Tibetan Buddhist art, from its origins in ing of the historical and social conditions and stylistic AH 311. BUDDHIST ART OF EAST ASIA 3 the eighth century to the present. Attention is given to features that characterize the diverse artistic manifes- Buddhist art (sculpture, painting, architecture, callig- Indian Buddhist art which provided the foundation for tations of the period. Prerequisite: AH101 or 111 or raphy, graphic arts, and ritual implements) between Tibetan integration of formal and ritual influences permission of instructor. M. Clapper the third and fifteenth centuries in East Asia. The from a number of Asian cultures. Painting and sculp- course examines the religious and aesthetic prin- ture will be considered, both as markers of cultural AH 256. NEOCLASSICISM TO ciples underlying Buddhist art of East Asia, and and period style, and as expressions of Buddhist IMPRESSIONISM 3 analyzes works of art as expressions of Buddhist ideals. (Designated a non-Western culture course.) A survey of European art, from the mid-eighteenth values interacting with local cultures. Special atten- R. Linrothe through the nineteenth centuries. Through an exami- tion is paid to the site of Dunhuang, and to three nation of artists such as David, Delacroix, Constable, modes of Buddhist art: Esoteric, Pure Land, and Zen AH 217. AMERICAN ART 3 Courbet, Monet, and Van Gogh, this course will Buddhist. Prerequisites: AH105 or 106 or 210 or A survey of art produced in the United States from explore artistic responses to the social, political, and HI241 or permission of instructor. (Designated a non- the Colonial period to the present. Recurring themes economic changes of the period. We will discuss Western culture course.) R. Linrothe will include the roles of artists in American society, such topics as neoclassical portraiture, romantic the relationship of U.S. and European cultures, the landscape painting, art displays at world’s fairs, and AH 312. ANCIENT CHINESE ART 3 contrast and connection between popular and elite the origins of the “avant-garde.” Prerequisite: AH101 A focused study of a small number of Chinese artistic traditions, the building of an infrastructure of or 111 or permission of instructor. A. Rauser archaeological sites distributed between the Neolithic art institutions, and government involvement in art (ca. 3000 BCE) and the end of the Han dynasty (220 patronage. M. Clapper AH 261. TWENTIETH-CENTURY ART 3 CE). The sites and the works of art found in the sites A survey of European and American modern and will be placed within their aesthetic, social, and AH 222. GREEK ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3 contemporary art beginning in the late nineteenth political contexts. These sites are mainly newly An exploration of the major developments in archi- century and concluding with contemporary trends. discovered tombs, and special attention will be paid tecture, sculpture, and painting from Minoan and We will consider a range of movements including to the evolving attitudes to the afterlife in ancient Mycenaean civilizations through the Hellenistic postimpressionism, cubism, surrealism, abstract China. Prerequisites: AH106 or 210, HI241, or period. Attention is given to the influences on Greek expressionism, minimalism, and conceptual art in permission of instructor. (Designated a non-Western art from the East and to the influence of Greek art on their cultural and art historical contexts. Prerequisite: culture course.) R. Linrothe other cultures. (Fulfills humanities requirement.) AH101 or 111 or permission of instructor. K. Hauser L. Mechem AH 314. BUDDHIST ART OF SOUTH ASIA 3 AH 264. HISTORY OF PRINTMAKING 3 A study of the evolution of Buddhist art in its original AH 223. ROMAN ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3 Historical consideration of the development and use context of India. The course will survey the primary An examination of architecture, sculpture, and of various printmaking processes including woodcut, sites of Buddhist art production, with an emphasis on painting beginning with the Villanovan and Etruscan engraving, etching, aquatint, lithography, and screen sculpture within architectural settings. Issues include cultures and continuing through the Republic and printing. The course concentrates on European and aniconism, patronage, the impact of ritual practice on Empire (fourth century A.D.). Topics covered include American prints from the fifteenth century to the artistic format, pilgrimage, narrative, internationalism, wall painting, narrative sculpture, and city planning. present. Prerequisite: AH101 or 111 or a studio and the relationship between texts and images. (Fulfills humanities requirement.) L. Mechem printmaking course or permission of instructor. Prerequisites: AH105 or 106 or 210, HI241 or permis- (Fulfills either Renaissance and Baroque or Modern sion of instructor. (Designated a non-Western culture AH 232. LATE ANTIQUE, EARLY MEDIEVAL, and Contemporary breadth requirement toward an art course.) R. Linrothe AND BYZANTINE ART 3 history major.) M. Clapper An examination of the origins of Christian art in the AH 321. HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY 3 Late Antique world and its subsequent development AH 265. HISTORY OF MODERN DESIGN 3 An introduction to the history of the medium from its in the Byzantine world and early Medieval Europe. A history of modern design from 1750 to the present, “invention” in 1839 to the present. This course looks Areas studied include the Early Christian catacombs, with an emphasis on design movements in the at such forms of photography as pictorialism, straight- Ravenna mosaics, the animal style and Hiberno- twentieth century. We will focus on modern European photography, montage, documentary, and photojour- Saxon manuscripts, Carolingian Europe, and Byzan- and American design, surveying objects made from a nalism, situating them in their social, cultural, and tine mosaics, icons and decorative arts. Prerequisite: wide range of materials, including textiles, metals, art-historical contexts. A significant theme of the AH101 or 111 or permission of instructor. P. Jolly ceramics, and the print media. We will situate move- course will be how, or even whether, photographs ments such as Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, and depict reality. Prerequisite: AH 102 or 111. K. Hauser Bauhaus in their cultural and art-historical contexts. Recommended preparation: AH 101 or 102 or 111. (Fulfills humanities requirement.) K. Hauser

68 AH 330. LATE GOTHIC SCULPTURE AND AH 369. WOMEN IN THE VISUAL ARTS 3 PAINTING 3 A consideration of women as artists and as subjects Asian Studies Sculpture and painting in fourteenth century Europe, in the visual arts, mainly in the Western world but with special focus on the “Proto-Renaissance” also in non-Western cultures. Viewed from a painters in Italy and manuscript illumination and sociohistorical perspective, the course considers Director of Asian Studies Program: Mao Chen sculpture in France and Germany. Topics include the such issues as art vs. craft, art as a construction of Affiliated Faculty: revolutionary art of Giotto, the rise of late Medieval gender, female vs. male aesthetic, and why women devotional art, Art and the Black Death, and the artists have traditionally been excluded from the art Anthropology: Adam Yuet Chau Limbourg Brothers and International Gothic art. history canon. Prerequisite: AH102 or 111 or permis- Art History: Deborah Hutton, Robert Linrothe Prerequisite: AH101 or 111 or 233. P. Jolly sion of the instructor. Art History Faculty Chinese: Mao Chen, Mary Hong-Yu Chen Dance: Isabel Brown AH 342. ART OF EARLY RENAISSANCE AH 371, 372. INDEPENDENT STUDY 3, 3 English: Rajagopal Parthasarathy ITALY 3 Guided by the instructor, the student does indepen- Government: Steven Hoffmann An exploration of the origins of Italian Renaissance dent reading and research in a specific area of art History: Margaret Pearson art in the fifteenth century, from Ghiberti, Masaccio history. Permission of the instructor required. Japanese: Takahiko Hayashi and Donatello, to Botticelli and the Bellini. Prerequi- Art History Faculty Liberal Studies: Jack T. F. Ling site: AH101 or 111 or 241. P. Jolly AH 375. SEMINAR 3 Music: Veena Chandra, Gordon Thompson AH 347. NORTHERN RENAISSANCE An in-depth study of an area of the visual arts. Philosophy: Joel Smith PAINTING 3 Specific tops, varying from year to year, may be Painting in France, Flanders and Germany in the offered in one or more of the following areas. The student majoring in Asian studies examines fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with particular multiple facets of the cultures, traditions, and A. Ancient emphasis upon the art of Jan van Eyck, Rogier van contemporary realities of Asian countries and B. Medieval der Weyden, Dürer and Brueghel. Prerequisite: peoples. The Asian Studies Program (major C. Renaissance AH101 or 111 or 241. P. Jolly D. Baroque and minor) is interdisciplinary, with a significant E. Modern linguistic component, and opportunities for AH 348. SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY DUTCH F. Africa, Oceania, and/or Americas direct experience with an Asian culture. For the PAINTING 3 G. Asian major, a student may choose a concentration in A study of the images produced during the “golden H. Special Topics in Art History either East Asia (China and/or Japan) or South age” of Dutch painting and the social, economic, and Asia (India). The director of the program serves cultural conditions from which these images spring. In Prerequisite: Open to junior and senior majors or as the advisor to all majors and minors. examining the lives and works of artists such as minors in studio art or art history. All others by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Hals, and Ruisdael, the course permission of instructor. Art History Faculty seeks to understand the relationship between Dutch THE ASIAN STUDIES MAJOR painting and Dutch society. Prerequisite: AH102 or AH 381. SENIOR THESIS IN ART HISTORY 3 East Asia Concentration 111 or 252 or permission of instructor. M. Clapper An advanced research and writing project for qualified (a total of at least thirty-four credit hours) senior art history majors, on any topic of special AH 353. ART AND REVOLUTION 3 interest within the discipline of art history, supervised 1. Language. At least four semesters of Chinese A study of the visual culture of the revolutionary by a member of the art history faculty and a second or Japanese at Skidmore or approved decades 1770-1820 in Europe and America. This reader. The student will further develop and refine programs. Students are encouraged to spend course seeks to explore such themes as the meaning a substantial research project that he or she had a year in an approved program in China or and role of political art, the emerging ideals of mod- previously begun in a 300-level art history course. The Japan, and to continue their language studies ern subjectivity and the Romantic artist, the origins of final project should be a rigorous critical analysis, throughout the major. political caricature, and the differences in status and incorporating original research and/or insights. Rec- ambition between such “public” artists as Jacques- ommended for those working toward graduate study in 2. Foundation. One course in each of two of the Louis David and “private” artists such as William the field of art history. Those students interested in following categories, focusing on China or Blake. Prerequisite: AH102 or 111 or 256 or permis- pursuing a senior thesis should obtain further informa- Japan: sion of instructor. A. Rauser tion from the Art History office. Prerequisite: Approval i. one historical survey (FL258, 259, 267, of the faculty sponsor and the director of Art History. HI241, 242, 247, LS2 113); AH 354. NINETEENTH-CENTURY ART: LONDON AND PARIS 3 AH 399. PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP IN ART ii. one introduction to art or music (AH104, 204, A study of the artistic cultures of the two capitals of HISTORY 3 or 6 210, AT 205, FL 257, LS2 164, 165, MU 321); imperial power in the nineteenth century, London Professional experience at an advanced level for iii. one introduction to religion or philosophy and Paris. We will focus on artistic developments that juniors and seniors with substantial experience in art (RE214, PH215). both supported and critiqued this imperialist age, history. With faculty sponsorship and department including the art competitions at the world’s fairs of approval, students may extend their educational 3. Junior Year* 1855 and 1889, the fashion for orientalism, the experience into such areas as museums, art galleries, i. Study in China or Japan: continuing medieval nostalgia of the pre-Raphaelite brother- art auction houses, private art collections, arts admin- language instruction and practice; varying hood, and the self-conscious modernity of the Im- istration, art conservation, and architecture and culture courses and internships, for at least pressionists. Prerequisite: AH102 or 256 or 261 or historic preservation. Unless prior permission is given three 300-level courses on China or Japan. Or permission of instructor. A. Rauser by the department, only three credits will count toward a major in art history. Prerequisite: AH101, 102, plus ii. At Skidmore: At least three credits at the 300 AH 364. CONTEMPORARY ART 3 adequate preparation for the proposed internship level in Asian studies; electives will continue Recent developments in American and European art through advanced course work in the history of art. language study and develop comparative and from the 1960s to the 1990s. We will situate a range disciplinary focus. of contemporary art movements and practices, 4. Senior Year. At least six credits at the 300 including pop, earthworks, performance, video, and level, three of which are to be an independent the more traditional forms of painting, sculpture, and study during the spring semester, taken in photography, in their cultural and art historical con- texts. The course will explore such issues as the conjunction with AS375, Asian Studies status of art institutions, the connections between Seminar, where the research paper written in high art and popular culture, theoretical readings of the independent study and a range of issues art works, and the new trend toward artists’ self- will be discussed. Some students who have conscious expression of an identity politics. Pre- done prior research may submit the indepen- requisite: AH102, 111, 217, 261, or 263. K. Hauser dent study research paper as a thesis.

69 South Asian Concentration THE ASIAN STUDIES MINOR consists of JAS 376. DIRECTED FIELD STUDY IN INDIA 3 (a total of at least thirty-four credit hours) eighteen credit hours approved by the director An independent research project designed by the student to be executed in India with guidance from one or more 1. Language. Students are encouraged to of Asian studies from the designated Asian studies courses listed below, including at least Indian advisors. The project must be designed before participate in Skidmore’s Semester-in-India leaving for India in consultation with appropriate Skidmore Program or another approved program in three credits at the 300 level. Up to eight credit hours of an Asian language (Chinese or advisors, and the project design must be approved by the South Asia, and to continue their language resident faculty advisor in India. Offered each fall in India. study throughout the major. Students Japanese) may count toward the minor. choose one of the following three options: Approved courses taken at Beijing Normal AH 104. Asian Art i. eight credit hours of Hindi in Skidmore’s University, China; at universities in Tokyo and AH 200. Hindu Art AH 204. Japanese Art Semester-in-India Program, plus two Nagoya through the Institute of Asian Studies programs in Japan; all courses in the AH 209. Islamic Art courses of self-instructional Hindi at AH 210. Chinese Painting Skidmore. Semester-in-India Program, and other preapproved courses taken abroad can be AH 211. Tibetan Art ii. eight credit hours of Hindi in Skidmore’s counted toward the minor. AH 311. Buddhist Art of East Asia Semester-in-India Program, plus two AH 312. Ancient Chinese Art culture courses on India (in addition to Asian Studies Curriculum AH 376. F. Colloquia in Art History: “Asian” courses that fulfill other requirements for AN 252. C. Non-Western Themes in Anthropology “Cultures of China” the major) at Skidmore from the list of JAS 101, 102. LANGUAGE AND CULTURE IN DA 230. Introduction to Dance History, approved courses for the major. INDIA 4, 4 Literature, and Repertory Introduction to the Hindi language as a social artifact iii. two courses of self-instructional Hindi at DA 303, 304. Non-Western Dance Forms through study of basic grammar, composition, conversa- Skidmore, plus two culture courses on A. Bharata Natyam I C. Kathak tion, and readings. After a three-week period of traditional India (in addition to courses that fulfill other B. Bharata Natyam II F. T’ai Chi intensive classroom study, students will supplement requirements for the major) at Skidmore EN 231. Non-Western Literature: The Classical continuing classroom study with homestays, field trips, World from the list of approved courses for the and the use of Hindi in everyday life and travel. Offered EN 232. Non-Western Literature: The Modern major. each fall in India. World 2. Foundation. One course in each of the two FC 101, 102, 201, 202, 363, 371, 372. Chinese JAS 201. HISTORICAL, CULTURAL, AND SOCIAL following categories: Language BACKGROUND OF INDIAN FC 208. Advanced Chinese Conversation and i. one introduction to art and society DEVELOPMENT 3 Composition (AH200, AH211, GO240, MU309, LS2 127, An overview of the historical development of contempo- FJ 101, 102, 201, 202, 204, 206, 363, 371, 372. 153, MP281); rary India with emphasis on the interaction of the diverse Japanese Language strands that have formed modern India. In addition to the ii. one introduction to religion or philosophy FL 257. Modern Chinese Literature in study of the literature of various periods, the course will (RE213, 220, PH215). Translation draw on the historical and cultural resources of Jaipur and FL 258, 259. Chinese Civilization 3. Junior Year* other sites in India. Offered each fall in India. FL 267. Modern Japanese Culture and Society i. Study in India in Skidmore’s Semester-in- FX 171, 172, 271, 272. Self-Instructed Hindi JAS 202. CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN INDIAN India Program or another approved GO 240. Political Modernization: The Case of SOCIAL AND CULTURAL program; language study and practice; India DEVELOPMENT 3 varying culture courses, for at least three GO 344. Comparative Politics and Culture: Introduction to contemporary Indian society, economics, 300-level courses on South Asia.. Or India and Japan and politics by examining such issues as the relationship HI 241. Introduction to Imperial China ii. At Skidmore: At least three credits at the between rural and urban life, the role of caste, the status HI 242. Introduction to Modern China 300 level in Asian studies; electives will of women, the changing character of the family, the role HI 247. Rise of Japan continue language study and develop of science and technology, and the legacy of Gandhian HI 343. The Chinese Revolution thought and practice. Offered each fall in India. comparative and disciplinary focus. HI 347. Japan: Samurai, Weavers, Writers, and 4. Senior Year. At least six credits at the 300 Prostitutes AS 205. PHILOSOPHY, THEORY, AND PRACTICE level, three of which are to be an indepen- HI 362. A. Topics in History: Non-Western OF CHINESE BRUSH PAINTING 3 “Topics in Chinese History” dent study during the spring semester, A theory and praxis course on Chinese brush painting. HI 362. B. Topics in History: Non-Western taken in conjunction with AS375, where the The course will first survey the primary scholar-painters of “Topics in Japanese History” research paper written in the independent the literati tradition and the contemporary landscape HI 375. G. Colloquia in History: study and a range of issues will be painters of the Nanjing and Southern schools (from the “Colloquium in Chinese History” discussed. Some students who have done Tang Dynasty to the 1970s), then turn to those funda- HI 375. H. Colloquia in History: “Colloquium in prior research may submit the independent mental principles that frame traditional Chinese calligra- Japanese History” phy, poetry, and painting. Students will learn to paint with study research paper as a thesis. LS2 113. Change in Early China brush and ink on untreated, single-layer, Chinese rice/ *Recommended for both concentrations: LS2 153. The Politics of Reading Non-Western bamboo paper. (Designated a non-Western culture Completion of all-college requirements and Literature: The Example of India course.) J. Ling disciplinary prerequisites for advanced courses LS2 163. China and the West LS2 164. Factual and Fictional: History and the by the end of the sophomore year. AS 371, 372. INDEPENDENT STUDY 3,3 Novel in China Individual study under the direction of Asian studies LS2 165. Modern China and Japan in Narrative HONORS: For honors in Asian studies, a student faculty. must earn a 3.0 or better cumulative GPA in all and Film MP 281. Private Musical Instruction: Sitar and courses taken at Skidmore, a 3.5 or better in all AS 375. ASIAN STUDIES SEMINAR 1 Tabla A seminar required of all Asian studies majors in the courses taken for the Asian studies major, and a MU 309. Music in South Asia spring semester of their senior year. The course will grade of A or A- on an approved senior thesis. MU 321. Music in East Asia involve discussion of the theoretical underpinnings of With the approval of the Asian studies director and PH 215. Buddhist Philosophy Asian studies, reflection on methods, and exchange of faculty, a student may write a thesis in the senior PR 325. Japanese Religious Philosophies perspectives across disciplinary and regional concentra- year to be directed by a member of the Asian PR 326. Tibetan Buddhism tion. Specific topics and readings will vary from year to studies faculty, with one additional reader. RE 213. Religious Traditions of India year. Asian Studies Program Director. RE 214. Religions of China and Japan RE 220. Encountering the Goddess in India

70 Concentration Requirements EXPLORATION COURSES Biology General Biology The following courses are designed for students A. The general requirements. who wish to fulfill the College natural sciences Chair of the Department of Biology: Monica requirement with the study of biology. These Raveret Richter B. Six 300-level biology courses. BI375 courses are generally not counted toward the Professors: *Elaine C. Rubenstein, Roy S. (Research in Biology) or BI371 (Indepen- biology or any biology-combined major. Students Meyers, David Domozych, Bernard Possidente dent Study) can substitute for one of these who wish to major or minor in biology after requirements. Students may take additional completing one or two exploration courses Associate Professor: Monica Raveret Richter BI371 courses as electives but they do not should consult the department chair concerning the appropriate choice of courses; some explora- Assistant Professors: Corey R. Freeman- substitute for 300-level biology courses. tion courses may be substituted for requirements Gallant, Marc J. Tetel Molecular and Cell Biology in the major or minor at the discretion of the department. Senior Teaching Associates: Loretta M. A. The general requirements. Parsons, Catherine Domozych, Sue S. Van Hook B. Foundation course: BI343 NS 101. NEUROSCIENCE: MIND AND Teaching Associates: Donald Bibby, Denise C. Supportive courses: three courses selected BEHAVIOR 4 Brooks McQuade An interdisciplinary examination of the neurobiologi- from BI308, 311, 314, 323, 337, 345, 346, cal bases of behavior and mental processing. Topics Research Associates: Sheila Tuttle, Wayne 347, 348, 351M Richter, Helmut Hirsch include the structure and functioning of the nervous D. CH221 and 222 system, brain-behavior relationships, and hormonal and genetic effects on behavior and mental process- Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior The Biology Department offers instruction in ing. Laboratories develop students’ understanding of many diverse areas of modern biology. In A. The general requirements functional neuroanatomy, neural transmission, and consultation with a faculty advisor, students B. Foundation courses: two courses selected human psychophysiology. (Fulfills natural sciences design programs of study to meet individual from BI316, 317, 324. requirement). Biology and/or Psychology Faculty interests and goals. The biology major offers C. Supportive courses: two courses selected three intradepartmental concentrations: (1) BI 110. BIOLOGY OF THE MIND 4 from BI307, 308, 316 (if not An introductory level examination of the basic neuro- general biology, (2) molecular and cell biology, already taken as a foundation course), biology of the human brain and nervous system. A and (3) ecology, evolution, and behavior. The 317 (if not already taken as a foundation sufficient depth of biological perspective is developed major leads to a bachelor of arts degree. course), 324 (if not already taken as a to allow the student to consider the neurobiological foundation course), 325, 326, 327, 344, underpinnings of a wide variety of brain related topics Students who major in biology and plan to 351E, 370. including pathology (select mental and nervous attend professional schools (medical, dental, system diseases), socially significant issues (drugs, veterinary, and others) are encouraged to take D. Elective biology course: one additional alcohol), higher function (language, sleep, memory, two semesters of organic chemistry (CH221 course from the supportive courses or from consciousness), and philosophical issues (mind-body and 222) and two semesters of calculus-based any of the department’s other 300-level problem, artificial intelligence, ethical issues). Three physics (PY207 and 208). See Health Profes- offerings including BI351A,E,M. hours of lecture, two hours of lab per week. (Fulfills sions. E. MS104 or PS217 or EC237. natural sciences and QR2 requirements.) R. Meyers

THE BIOLOGY MAJOR: Students who major BI 120. THE HUMAN ORGANISM 4 INTERDEPARTMENTAL MAJORS: In in biology must meet the College requirements An introduction to the study of life processes, focused conjunction with the relevant departments, the on our species. This course will help the student for the degree, complete the general biology Biology Department offers majors in biology- acquire an understanding of basic biological prin- requirements, and complete the requirements chemistry, biology-philosophy, and biology- ciples, using humans as illustrative material. Topics for one of the intradepartmental concentra- psychology. will include genetics, reproduction, and physiology of tions. Each concentration requires fifteen humans. Three hours of lecture, two hours of lab per courses. HONORS: Departmental honors are awarded week. (Fulfills natural sciences requirement.) Majors are encouraged to gain research ex- to a senior major who has maintained the E. Rubenstein perience by taking BI371 or 375 as an elective. required College and department averages BI 130. INVESTIGATING HUMAN-MICROBE and has completed a research project in INTERACTIONS 4 General requirements for all biology majors BI375. Other factors, such as academic integ- An introductory investigation of the diverse interac- or concentrations rity, will bear on the decision to award honors. tions of humans and microbes. From the moment of our birth, we have an intimate relationship with I. Core courses: BI190, 237, 233, and 236. THE BIOLOGY MINOR: Students who want to microbes. Although death and disease caused by BI190 introduces the major and serves as a minor in biology must take five courses from microbes are reported in the news, most microbes core course in population biology. Three more among those offered in the department. These are not harmful. Most of the bacteria inhabiting our 200-level courses provide a foundation in plant must include BI 190; two courses from the bodies actually keep us healthy by helping with the biology, cell and molecular biology, and multi- following: BI233, 236, 237; and two additional digestion of food and deterring the growth of danger- cellular animal biology. These four courses biology courses at the 300 level. CH103 or 105 ous organisms. Humans exploit beneficial microbes constitute a core curriculum for the major, and is also required and should be taken prior to or to produce foods like cheese, yogurt, and sauerkraut, should be completed by the end of the sopho- at the same time as BI233. Note: BI375 and and medicines such as antibiotics, insulin, and more year. BI190 should be taken in the fall 377, 378 cannot fulfill the two additional biol- growth hormone. Students will investigate the biologi- semester of the first year, followed by BI237, in ogy course requirements. cal reasons behind the different roles microbes play the spring. In the fall semester of the sopho- in our lives and will explore how the growth of mi- more year BI233 should be taken, followed by crobes can be controlled by designing their own experiments. Three hours of lecture, two hours of lab BI236 in the spring. per week. (Fulfills natural sciences requirement.) II. Chemistry courses: CH105 and 106 (or The Department 107) (usually taken in the first year) III. Mathematics course: MA111 (usually taken in the first year) IV. Seminar courses : BI377 and 378 (taken in the senior year) 71 BI 135. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE 4 BI 170. HUMAN GENETICS 4 NS 277. INTEGRATIVE SEMINAR IN Environmental science is an interdisciplinary study An introduction to the principles of genetics and their NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH 1 of the interaction between humans and the environ- application to human biology. Topics include the A study of selected areas of neuroscience research ment chiefly in relation to ecology, resources, and history of genetics, the structure, function and inherit- and techniques. Both primary source articles and first population. The course will show how humans are a ance of genes, medical genetics, and genetic engi- person accounts by faculty in the Biology and Psy- force now posing a serious threat to the long-term neering. Three hours of lecture, two hours of lab per chology Departments are used to introduce the sustainability of natural life-support systems. Three week. (Fulfills natural sciences and QR2 require- theoretical and practical aspects of neuroscience hours of lecture, two hours of lab per week. (Fulfills ments.) B. Possidente research. Emphasis will be placed on understanding natural sciences requirement.) The Department the multiple levels (e.g., molecular to behavioral) at BI 180. ECONOMIC BOTANY 4 which research topics in neuroscience can be ad- BI 140. MARINE BIOLOGY 4 An introduction to the concepts of plant and fungal dressed and also the ways in which research tech- An examination of the intricate and delicate nature biology with special emphasis on how they are niques define the types of questions that can be of plant, animal, fungal and microbial life beneath utilized by humans. Lectures will focus on the struc- asked at a given level of analysis. Prerequisites: Earth’s oceans and on its shorelines. Lecture topics ture and role of plant and fungal systems, their NS101 and at least two of the following: BI233, 236, include ocean chemistry and biochemistry, physiol- evolution and importance in human-based applica- CH105, PS217, 304, 306, or permission of instructor. ogy of marine organisms, evolution and diversity of tions such as agriculture, medicine, and horticulture. Biology and/or Psychology Faculty the marine world, marine ecosystems and human- Labs will include field trips to sites of botanical and ocean interactions. The lab will include experimental mycological interest, hands-on horticultural exercises, BI 299. PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP IN manipulations of marine plants and animals, survey and a survey of the plant-fungal kingdoms. Three BIOLOGY 3 of various life forms, culture techniques, ecological hours of lecture and two hours of lab per week. Internship opportunity for students whose curricular sampling and mariculture. Three hours of lecture, two (Fulfills natural sciences requirement.) D. Domozych foundations and experience have prepared them for hours of lab per week. Lab fee $60. (Fulfills natural professional work related to the major field. With sciences requirement.) D. Domozych COURSES FOR THE MAJOR / JOINT MAJORS faculty sponsorship and department approval, stu- dents may extend their educational experience into BI 145. UNDERSTANDING BIOTECHNOLOGY: BI 190. POPULATION BIOLOGY 4 such areas as laboratory or field research, or clinical RECOMBINANT DNA AND ETHICAL The basic principles of ecology, behavior, and medicine. Does not count toward the major. Offered ISSUES 4 evolution will be examined as they affect individuals, Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only. Prerequisite: An investigation of the structure, function, and populations, species, communities, and ecosystems. completion of at least one related 200-level course manipulation of DNA. Recent advances in decoding This course is designed for potential majors. Three (as determined by the department). the genome of any organism and in recombining the hours of lectures, three hours of lab per week. DNA into functional units within the cell have impor- Offered fall semester. (Fulfills natural sciences BI 305. CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY 4 tant ethical, economic, environmental, political, and requirement.) C. Freeman-Gallant, M. Raveret Richter A thorough consideration of cardiovascular physiol- social implications, which will have major impacts on ogy including cellular physiology of the heart, mam- society, health care, insurance, environmental BI 233. CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 4 malian cardiovascular dynamics, aspects of regulations, business, and the economy. This course A study of living processes on a cellular and comparative cardio-physiology and human clinical will explore the science and technology of manipulat- molecular level. Cell ultrastructure and the regulation cardiology. Three hours of lecture, three hours of lab ing DNA and the potential social, ethical, and envi- of information flow and biochemical reactions in both a week. Prerequisites: BI236, CH106 or permission ronmental consequences. Three hours of lecture, eucaryotes and procaryotes will be examined. of instructor. Offered in alternate years. two hours of lab per week. (Fulfills natural sciences Prerequisite: BI237 OR NS101, and completion of or R. Meyers requirement.) The Department concurrent registration in CH105, or permission of instructor. Three hours of lecture, three hours of lab a BI 306. MAMMALIAN PHYSIOLOGY 4 BI 150. BIOLOGY: THE SCIENTIFIC week. Offered fall semester. E. Rubenstein An intensive study of selected topics in mammalian STUDY OF LIFE 4 physiology. Prerequisite: BI236 or permission of An introduction to the basic principles underlying the BI 236. COMPARATIVE VERTEBRATE instructor. Three hours of lecture, three hours of lab study of life. Topics may range from the origin and PHYSIOLOGY 4 per week. Offered in alternate years. R. Meyers evolution of life to the molecular basis of heredity and The adaptive function and structure of major systems development, to the structure and function of the in vertebrates considered principally from the per- BI 307. ORNITHOLOGY 4 global ecosystem. The lectures and labs emphasize spective of their ability to meet environmental de- Birds as model organisms for an integrative study the diversity of life, the unifying characteristics shared mands. Prerequisite: BI233 or permission of of biology. This course explores avian form and by all organisms, and an understanding of life based instructor. Three hours of lecture, three hours of lab function, the ecology, evolution, and behavior of on scientific methods of analysis. Three hours of per week. Offered spring semester. R. Meyers birds, and avian conservation. Prerequisites: BI190 lecture, two hours of lab per week. (Fulfills natural and any 200-level biology course. Three hours of sciences requirement.) The Department BI 237. PLANT BIOLOGY 4 lecture, three hours of fieldwork or lab a week. One A laboratory, field and lecture course which studies Saturday field trip. C. Freeman-Gallant BI 155. EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY 4 the following topics: anatomy, morphology, physiol- An introduction to evolution as the central organizing ogy, development, and spring flora. Three hours of BI 308. PRINCIPLES OF GENETICS 4 principle of the biological sciences. This writing- lecture, three hours of lab a week. Prerequisite: A study of the principles underlying the structure and intensive course explores the mechanisms of evolu- BI190 or permission of instructor. Offered spring function of hereditary mechanisms. Topics include tionary change and introduces the academic and semester. (Fulfills natural sciences requirement.) classical genetics, DNA structure and function, tran- applied issues that challenge modern evolutionary The Department scription, translation, regulation of gene expression, theory. Topics include: human origins, Darwinian and recombinant DNA methods. Prerequisites: medicine, adaptation, and sexual selection. Three BI 275. INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGICAL CH106, BI233, or permission of instructor. Three hours of lecture and two hours of lab per week. RESEARCH 1 hours of lecture, three hours of lab a week. (Fulfills expository writing requirement and natural An introductory exploration of research in the biologi- B. Possidente sciences requirements.) C. Freeman-Gallant cal sciences. Students plan, design, and implement a small research project from the laboratory or field in BI 311. BIOLOGICAL ELECTRON BI. 160. CONSERVATION BIOLOGY 4 coordination with a faculty member. This experience MICROSCOPY 4 The biology of species, communities, and ecosys- will allow students at various stages of their careers Practical and theoretical study of the operation and tems that are perturbed or threatened by human to sample research methodologies in particular application of electron microscopes and the prepara- activities. This course will examine the principles and subdisciplines of biology. Students may only take four tion of samples for electron microscopy. Topics tools for preserving biological diversity. Topics to be BI275 courses in their careers and no more than two include: chemical fixation, cryofixation, cytochemistry, covered include principles of ecology, geographic in any given semester. If more than one is taken in immunolabeling, ultramicrotomy, transmission elec- distribution, animal and plant classification, and one semester, each BI275 must be in a different tron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and population dynamics. Three hours of lecture, two section. Prerequisites: Completion of one 100-level electron microscopic photography. Prerequisite: hours of lab per week; one all-day field trip. (Fulfills course in biology or requirements set forth in indi- BI233 or permission of instructor. Two hours of natural sciences requirement.) The Department vidual sections plus permission of instructor. lecture and four hours of lab a week D. Domozych 72 BI 314. GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY 4 BI 327. CONSERVATION ECOLOGY 3 BI 351. TOPICS IN BIOLOGY 3 or 4 The study of metabolism, growth, and genetics of Focuses upon developing an understanding of the This course gives students an opportunity to study microorganisms in order to understand how cellular diversity of life, in an ecological and evolutionary topics that are not offered on a regular basis. The processes are involved in determining interactions context, and applying that understanding to critical specific topics will vary each time the course is between microbes and their environments. The analyses of issues and problems in conservation taught. All courses fulfill the 300-level requirements interactions of microorganisms with living hosts, biology. Prerequisites: BI190 and either BI236 or 237. for the biology major. Three-credit courses are taught such as humans, and non-living environments, such M. Raveret Richter without laboratories; four-credit course include a as toxic waste dumps will be discussed. The valu- weekly three-hour lab. May be repeated for credit. able properties of microorganisms will be contrasted BI 337. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 4 Prerequsite: permission of department. to their roles in causing disease. Prerequisite: The behavior, growth, transport processes, and BI351A fulfills the 300-level elective course requirement BI233, CH106 or permission of instructor. Three environmental response of plants. Topics include of the ecology, evolution, and behavior concentration. lectures, three hours of lab a week. The Department membrane dynamics and function, plant cell develop- ment and polarity, solute and water transport, mineral BI351E fulfills the 300-level supportive course or BI 316. ANIMAL BEHAVIOR 4 and vitamin nutrition, respiration photosynthesis, elective course requirement of the ecology, evolution, Behavior is a product of evolution and a means of hormone action, photoperiodism, taxes and stress and behavior concentration. animal adaptation. This course considers the mecha- biology. Two lectures, four hours of lab a week. BI351 M fulfills the 300-level supportive course nisms, proximate causes and ultimate origins of Prerequisites: BI237 and CH106. D. Domozych requirement of the molecular and cell biology concen- behavior. Prerequisite: BI236 Three lectures, three tration or the 300-level elective course requirement of hours of lab or fieldwork a week. One Saturday field BI 338. PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY 4 the ecology, evolution, and behavior concentration. trip. M. Raveret Richter A modern analysis of humankind’s use of plants and fungi and their derived products. Major subjects BI 370. COMPUTER MODELING OF BI 317. ECOLOGY 4 covered include: ethnobotany, plant genetic engi- BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS 3 A field, laboratory, and lecture course in which the neering, plant biochemistry, techniques of plant An introductory course in the methods, procedures, interactions among organisms and between organ- production, agricultural practices, horticulture, and uses, and implications of digital computer modeling of isms and their physical-chemical environment are medicinal botany/mycology. Three hours of lecture, biological processes from the molecular through the explored. Prerequisite: any 200-level BI course or three hours of lab a week. Prerequisite: BI237 or population level of organization, with particular focus permission of instructor. Three lectures, three hours permission of instructor. D. Domozych on the population and systems levels. Two hours of of lab or fieldwork a week. One Saturday field trip. lecture, two hours of lab per week. Prerequisite: M. Raveret Richter BI 343. MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 4 BI190 or permission of instructor. R. Meyers A study of biological function on a molecular level. BI 323. DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY 4 Several representative macromolecules will be BI 371. INDEPENDENT STUDY 3 The study of the progressive, sequential changes that explored on levels ranging from the genetic control An opportunity for students to pursue in depth spe- occur within cells, tissues, and organisms over time. of their synthesis to their functional architecture. cialized topics not available through regular course The study of development encompasses molecular, Three hours of lecture, three hours of lab per week. offerings. This is offered without a laboratory/field biochemical, cellular, morphological, and physiologi- Prerequisites: BI233, CH106 or permission of component. Prerequisite: agreement of a faculty cal organizational levels. Course topics range from instructor. The Department member to serve as tutor, a topic acceptable both to gametogenesis and embryonic development to student and tutor, and permission of the department. molecular mechanisms of gene regulation. Pre- BI 344. BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS 4 Biology majors may take either B!371 or 375 only requisite: BI 233 or permission of instructor. Three Organisms in all the major taxonomic groups have once to substitute for a 300-level biology course lectures, three hours of lab a week. E. Rubenstein internalized geophysical and other periodicities in the requirement. The Department form of endogenous biological mechanism that BI 324. EVOLUTION 4 function as clocks. Theoretical, molecular, cellular, BI 375. RESEARCH IN BIOLOGY 4 A survey of topics in evolutionary theory: the evidence physiological, behavioral, ecological, and biomedical An opportunity for students to engage in laboratory for evolution, mechanism of evolutionary change, aspects of biological clocks will be examined with an or field research under the guidance of a faculty species concepts, and speciation. Introduction to the emphasis on circadian clocks. Three hours of lecture, member. The emphasis is on the development of concepts of variability, adaptation, neutrality, and three hours of lab per week. Prerequisite: BI236 or analytical and technical expertise in biological re- phylogeny through discussion and lab work. Prerequi- permission of the instructor. B. Possidente search. Students present their results in the form of a site: BI 236 or permission of instructor. Three hours of written thesis and an oral presentation. Prerequisite: lecture, three hours of lab a week. C. Freeman-Gallant BI 346. ENDOCRINOLOGY 3 agreement by a faculty member to serve as a tutor, A study of the hormonal systems at work within completion of 200-level course requirements, and BI 325. TROPICAL ECOLOGY 3 mammals. Particular attention will be paid to the permission of the department. Biology majors may An introduction to the ecology of tropical regions, with organization and function of the human endocrine take either BI371 or 375 only once to substitute for a an emphasis on Central and South American forests. system. Topics to be covered include sexual differen- 300-level biology requirement; however, with depart- In this course, we will take an ecological approach to tiation, cellular signaling systems, reproductive mental approval, BI375 may be repeated once for investigating the patterns, processes, and organisms function, regulation of water and calcium balance, credit toward all-College requirements. The Department characterizing tropical ecosystems. We will study the and growth and development. Three hours of lecture forces that gave rise to tropical biodiversity, and per week. Prerequisites: BI233 and 236. BI 377, 378. SENIOR SEMINAR IN BIOLOGY 1, 1 discuss both the preservation and the destruction of The Department A seminar course designed to teach research skills tropical ecosystems. Prerequisites: BI190 and 237. BI 348 IMMUNOBIOLOGY 3 in the biological sciences. The course includes M. Raveret Richter A study of the ways in which the immune system presentations by students and guest speakers, recognizes and responds to cells or molecules that and instruction and practice in the use of library BI 326. BEHAVIORAL GENETICS 4 are non-self. The course will explore the basic resources, research design and execution, and An introduction to the study of genetic mechanisms biological processes that underlie the function of the writing of scientific papers. Offered on a satisfactory/ that regulate the development and expression of immune system in health and disease. Prerequisite: unsatisfactory basis only. The Department behavior and the relationships between genetic BI233. E. Rubenstein variation and variation in behavioral traits. Model BI 399. PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP IN systems examined will emphasize analysis of genetic BIOLOGY 3 or 6 components of phenotypic variation and covariation, Professional experience at an advanced level for and mapping of genes involved in regulation and juniors and seniors with substantial academic experi- expression of behavior. Three hours of lecture, three ence in the major field. With faculty sponsorship and hours of lab per week. Prerequisites BI233 and 236. department approval, students may extend their B. Possidente educational experience into such areas as laboratory or field research, or clinical medicine. Does not count toward the major. Offered satisfactory/unsatisfactory only. Prerequisite: completion of at least one related 300-level course (as determined by the department). 73 As a component of the curriculum, students COOPERATIVE M.B.A. PROGRAMS: Quali- Business have regular interaction with the business fied students have the opportunity to earn a world in part through the department's Busi- baccalaureate degree from Skidmore and a ness Advisory Council. The introductory cor- master’s degree in business administration Chair of the Department of Management and nerstone course and others involve integral through cooperative programs with Clarkson Business: Roy J. Rotheim participation by visiting business executives in University and Rensselaer Polytechnic course exercises. The department encourages Institute. In the 4 +1 M.B.A. Program with Professors: Pushkala Prasad, Zankel Profes- study abroad, internships, and involvement in Clarkson, students earn the master’s degree sor of Management for Liberal Arts Students; community projects to provide integrative in the year following Skidmore graduation. Roy J. Rotheim, Professor of Economics learning experiences. Students who wish to Associate Professors: Betty V. Balevic, Susan prepare in the area of public accounting may The 3/2 Bachelor’s M.B.A. Program with Belden, Martin J. Canavan, Paul Corr, Mary take courses toward the satisfaction of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, School of Elizabeth Correa, K. Gary McClure academic requirements for the examination. Management, is designed to facilitate the transfer of students from Skidmore to Assistant Professors: James J. Kennelly, THE BUSINESS MAJOR: All business majors Rensselaer. Qualified students receive a Elzbieta Lepkowska-White, Eric E. Lewis, must take the basic business core, plus three bachelor’s degree from Skidmore and an Christine Page, Mary Elizabeth Taber, Mark A. 300-level elective courses. BU399, Profes- M.B.A. from Rensselaer within five to five-and- Youndt sional Internship in Business, may not be one half years. See Preparation for Profes- Visiting Instructor: Timothy Harper counted as satisfying one of the three 300- sions and Affiliated Programs. Lecturers: *Christine Kopec; Jeanette Lippitt, level elective requirements of the major. Stu- *Diana Hawkins, *Brian Hanrahan dents who have taken BU205 may not take BU 107. BUSINESS ORGANIZATION AND BU306, and they must take four 300-level MANAGEMENT 4 electives to satisfy the major. A broadly based introduction to the field of business The role of the Department of Management and that can serve either as the first course in the depart- Business at Skidmore College is to provide a The basic business core is composed of the mental sequence or as an only course for a student distinctive undergraduate program in manage- desiring an overview of the business world from a ment and international business that builds on following courses: BU107, 214, 224, 234, 235, 305, 338, 349, EC103, 104, and 237. manager’s perspective. Topics include strategic and enhances the liberal arts curriculum. Our analysis and planning, marketing, financial manage- aim is to prepare students to be committed to a ment, control, organizational design, human behav- process of life-long learning and to pursue The suggested course sequence for the major ior, and communications. Students present individual rewarding careers in a technologically changing is: BU107, EC104, BU234, EC103, BU235, written analyses and engage in group oral presentations. and culturally diverse world. To this end, the EC237, BU214, BU224, BU338, BU 300-level Department of Management and Business has electives (three); BU 349 (senior year only.) BU 214. FOUNDATIONS OF MARKETING 3 created a learning environment that encourages A comprehensive assessment of marketing’s the integration of management theory, re- Students preparing to major in business are dynamic role in contemporary global society. The search, and practice within a well-balanced expected to be proficient in English composi- course emphasizes the development of marketing strategies which reflect domestic and cross-national program of study in the arts, sciences, and tion and grammar, mathematics, economics, competitive structures and diverse market place humanities. and computer applications. In addition to those courses already required for the major that are realities. Topics include consumer analyses, target market identification, positioning, e-commerce, and The department provides a foundation in core out of the discipline, these proficiencies may be strengthened by taking the following coordination of marketing mix elements. Prerequisite: functional areas, advanced courses, and a wide BU107 or permission of instructor. variety of cocurricular learning opportunities. courses: MA105, MA111, and CS106. While all courses take into account the linkages BU 224H. FOUNDATIONS OF across management disciplines, the corner- INTERDEPARTMENTAL MAJORS: In con- ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR 4 stone and capstone courses utilize an explicitly junction with other departments, the Manage- The theoretical and experiential basis for the analysis integrative approach. Permeating our educa- ment and Business Department offers of individual, group and organizational behavior in tional offerings is an emphasis on interdepartmental majors in business-econom- both domestic and international contexts. Pre- international dimensions, discernment of ethical ics, business-French, business-German, requisite: BU107 or permission of instructor. values, and development of communication business-Spanish, business-government, and M. Correa, T. Harper, P. Prasad skills. Flexibility in the program enables stu- business-mathematics. See Interdepartmental BU 234. FOUNDATIONS OF ACCOUNTING I 4 dents to concentrate within a management Majors. The department participates in the international affairs minor. An introductory course in financial accounting exam- discipline or pursue joint programs with other ining the process of accumulating accounting infor- departments to prepare for careers and mation for decision-makers outside the organization. graduate education. HONORS: To be eligible for departmental honors, a student must, in addition to fulfilling It introduces the accounting process, reviews the the college requirements for honors, attain a preparation of financial statements, examines the The program serves the larger Skidmore com- accounting for assets and liabilities, and concludes grade point average of 3.5 or higher for all munity by offering all students a conceptual with an examination of accounting for corporations. basis for managing fiscal and human resources work completed in the major, and receive at The course focuses on the interpretation and effec- in scientific, artistic, human service, and busi- least an A- on an honors thesis. tive use of financial statements and other financial ness undertakings. Both in its presentation of data. Prerequisite: BU107 or permission of instructor. foundation courses and in its upper-level THE BUSINESS MINOR: For a business P. Corr, M. Canavan, E. Lewis, J. Lippitt courses, departmental offerings provide av- minor, the student is required to complete enues for exploring the relationship between BU107, 214, 224, 234, and two additional business and society. In addition, departmental courses in business, at least one at the 300 faculty develop and contribute to a variety of level. interdisciplinary courses and programs. Thus, the Department of Management and Business serves not only its own majors but adds depth, breadth, and value to the liberal education of students concentrating in other disciplines.

74 BU 235. FOUNDATIONS OF ACCOUNTING II 3 BU 308. FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING II 3 BU 317. MARKETING RESEARCH 4 Continuation of the study of financial accounting Advanced course continuing the study of financial Focuses on fundamental issues in research design begun in BU234. The course addresses international accounting begun in BU307. Students analyze the and analysis. Topics include problem formulation, accounting issues and emphasizes the effective use problems arising in the application of accounting data collection, sample selection, data analysis and and interpretation of corporate financial statements. theory to specific business situations. The course interpretation. Special topics include issues on the Approximately two-thirds of the course focuses on explores financial reporting and disclosure topics use of the Internet for research purposes (such as the use of accounting information by managers for including intercorporate investments, equity and debt data collection) and those raised by global research. planning, control, and decision making. It introduces financing, leases, and pensions. It also addresses Prerequisites: BU214 and EC237 or its equivalent. key management accounting concepts and tech- problems in income determination and reporting, E. Lepkowska-White niques including manufacturing accounting, cost including income tax allocation and earnings per systems, budgeting, and responsibility accounting. share. Prerequisite: BU307. Non-liberal arts. BU 319. MANAGEMENT INFORMATION Prerequisite: BU234. Non-liberal arts. SYSTEMS AND E-COMMERCE 4 BU 310. ADVANCED ACCOUNTING THEORY 3 An introduction to management information systems BU 301. TAXATION OF CORPORATIONS AND Examines the financial reporting issues of multi- and e-commerce, engaging a number of the disci- PARTNERSHIPS 4 national corporations. Included are international plines that define the field of MIS. From Web-design Reviews the basic concepts of corporate and partner- accounting standards, accounting for foreign ex- and active server pages to spreadsheet driven ship taxation. The course focuses on tax research change transactions, and issues relating to the decision support systems, students will acquire a and emphasizes the importance of taxation in busi- preparation of consolidated statements with foreign working knowledge of a variety of information sys- ness decisions. Students look at the rationale behind subsidiaries. The course also focuses on not-for- tems and an understanding of the roles that the provisions of the tax laws and discuss landmark and profit accounting including governmental and other underlying technologies play in management decision current court decisions that give insight into the work- nonprofit institutions and agencies. Prerequisite: making and e-commerce. The course also focuses ings of the income tax system. Prerequisite: BU234 BU308. Non-liberal arts. E. Lewis on the enhancement of analytical skills, especially as or permission of instructor. Non-liberal arts. P. Corr applied to the solution of unstructured problems. BU 312. IDENTITY AND OPPORTUNITY 3 Prerequisites: BU 214, 224, 235. E. Lewis BU 303. COST ACCOUNTING FOR Explores issues, theories, and research findings MANAGEMENT DECISIONS 3 focusing on the implications of social identity and BU 324. AUDITING 3 A review of the various methods of cost accumulation categorization in the workplace. Topics include social A study of auditing concepts and procedures includ- for product costing and the analysis of cost data for identity and categorization, perceptual processes, ing professional ethics and legal liability methods of planning and control. The course focuses on man- stereotyping, in-group and out-group dynamics, work verification and analysis as applied to asset, liability, agement systems and emphasizes the application of group processes, and business policy. Prerequisite: equity, revenue, and expense accounts; and prepara- management accounting concepts and principles to BU224 or permission of instructor. T. Harper tion of working papers and reports. Prerequisite: decision making. Prerequisite: BU235 or permission BU308. Non-liberal arts. of the instructor. Non-liberal arts. BU 313. CONSUMER BEHAVIOR 4 Examination of the psychological, sociological, and BU 333. BUSINESS LAW I 3 BU 306. FOUNDATIONS OF BUSINESS IN THE anthropological theories related to consumer deci- A study of the origin of laws, the court system, and INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT 3 sion-making. Among the separate topics covered in legal procedures with emphasis on their impact in Analyzes the political, social, legal, economic, com- the course are motivation, memory, cognition, atti- business and economic situations, in-depth study of petitive, technological, and cultural environments of tude formation and change, persuasion, learning, and the laws of contracts, agency, corporations, partner- international business. It focuses upon the challenges value systems of cultures and subcultures, all inter- ships, employment and labor law. Examination and facing multinational corporations operating in these related with the formation of marketing strategies. briefing of existing case law in these fields. C. Kopec dynamic and often ambiguous environments. Topics Prerequisite: BU214 or permission of instructor. to be covered include: strategic issues related to C. Page and E. Lepkowska-White BU 334. BUSINESS LAW II 3 competition in global markets; issues of organiza- A study of the laws of real property, sales, wills and tional structure and control; questions of the transfer- BU 314. ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY 3 estates, trusts, security instruments, mortgaging and ability of "made in America" management theories in The development of alternative concepts, models, leaseholds, personal property, and bailments. Pre- a cross-cultural context; fundamentals of trade and theories of organizing as a basis for determining requisite: BU333. C. Kopec theory; and noneconomic impacts of multinational strategy and structure in both domestic and interna- corporations and their ethical, social, and ecological tional organizations. The course provides the applica- BU 337. ADVERTISING AND PROMOTION 4 responsibilities. Prerequisites: BU107, 214,224, 234, tion of theory to organizations in the public, private, Examines advertising and promotion principles from EC103, 104, or by permission of instructor; prerequi- and not-for-profit sectors. Prerequisite: BU224 or an integrated marketing communications perspective, sites may be waived for interdepartmental business permission of instructor. M. Correa and P. Prasad emphasizing the planning, design, and implementa- majors and international affairs minors by permission tion of advertising campaigns. Topics include con- of instructor. J. Kennelly, G. McClure SB 315. WORK, FAMILY, AND sumer and market analysis, creative strategy, media ORGANIZATIONS 3 selection, promotional budgeting, campaign evalua- BU 307. FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING I 4 The analysis of various white-collar and blue-collar tion, and agency relations. Prerequisites: BU107 and Examines the generally accepted accounting occupations and their relationship to work and family 214. Non-liberal arts. C. Page, E. Lepkowska-White principles related to the preparation of financial life. Topics include the changing nature of work; statements, with particular emphasis on balance professionalization; working within organizations; and BU 338. FOUNDATIONS OF FINANCE 4 sheet valuations and their relationship to income occupational socialization, careers, and mobility. Examines the fundamentals of business finance as determination. The course also examines the concept Prerequisite: SO101 or BU224 or permission of influenced by political, cultural, economic, and of time-value of money; the application of present instructor. C. Berheide physical environmental forces. Attention is given to value techniques to accounting valuations, and the the implications of entrepreneurial and international valuation and disclosure problems associated with BU 316. DYNAMICS OF LEADERSHIP 4 activities on financial decisions. Topics include an cash, temporary investments, receivables, invento- Integrates traditional theories of leadership with overview of the financial environment including ries, plant assets, intangible assets, and long-term contemporary approaches to group dynamics in order investments, capital markets and institutions, corpo- investments. Prerequisite: BU235. Non-liberal arts. to provide a framework for the leadership roles rate financial theory, asset pricing, financial analysis J. Lippitt encountered in modern organizations, both public and planning, corporate capital structure and costs, and private enterprises. The course provides an and corporate investment decisions. Prerequisites: intensive workshop to allow students to assess their BU235 and EC237. S. Belden, P. Corr, G. McClure personal strengths and challenges as leaders. There is also a required practicum, which provides an opportunity to apply theory and to further develop and practice leadership skill. Prerequisites: BU214, 224, and 338. Non-liberal arts. M. Correa

75 BU 339. INVESTMENTS 3 BU 349. BUSINESS STRATEGY 4 BU 364. MANUFACTURING STRATEGY An investigation of the concepts of security analysis Provides the final, integrating experience for the AND INTERNATIONAL and valuation and of the fundamentals of market student. The course covers all of the functional areas COMPETITIVENESS 3 analysis. Special attention will be paid to securities the student has studied—marketing, finance, control Analyzes the critical role that manufacturing strategy and security markets, risk-return characteristics of systems, organizational behavior—but views them plays in determining the overall competitiveness of a investment types, and investment strategies including from the integrating perspective of a general man- business and of a nation. Macro and micro economic the use of convertible securities and options. Prereq- ager operating in a global environment. Prerequisites: variables such as exchange rates and industrial uisites: BU235 and 342. S. Belden BU205, 214, 224, 235, and 342. Open only to se- financial systems will be examined along with techno- niors. M. Youndt logical and scientific policies of business and govern- BU 343. CORPORATE FINANCIAL ment. Prerequisites: BU205, 214. J. Kennelly MANAGEMENT 3 BU 350. ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND Extends the knowledge gained in BU338 to more SMALL BUSINESS 3 BU 371, 372. INDEPENDENT STUDY 3, 3 advanced corporate financial management subjects. Designed to present problems faced by entrepre- Research or special project in business. Independent Topics include multinational financial activities, corpo- neurs in developing, organizing and managing small study provides an opportunity for a student already rate dividend policy, advanced forecasting and cash businesses. The course will consider all functions well grounded in an area to pursue an interest which management, debt and equity financing including the relating to small business decisions. The case falls outside the domain of courses offered by the role of investment bankers, and corporate mergers method will be used extensively. Student projects department. The student should carefully define a and acquisitions. Prerequisite: BU338. G. McClure relating to the formation and/or management of small semester’s work that complements his or her back- business units will be required, primarily through ground, initiate a proposal with a study sponsor, and BU 344. INTERNATIONAL MARKETING 3 group analysis and presentations. These group obtain formal approval from the student’s sponsor Examines the influence of cultural, political, legal, projects will require field consultation exercises with and the department chair. Application to do such technological, socioeconomic, and physical environ- owners/managers at small businesses. Prerequisite: work in any semester should be made and approved ments on international marketing decisions. The Management and business majors/minors or permis- prior to registration for that semester. A student may course also covers the theory and practice of interna- sion of instructor. Non-liberal arts. or may not receive liberal arts credit for an indepen- tional marketing strategies. Topics include interna- dent study, at the discretion of both the department tional planning, implementation and control decisions, BU 351, 352. SPECIAL TOPICS IN BUSINESS AND chair and the registrar (and, in exceptional instances, international market research, international product MANAGEMENT 3, 3 the Curriculum Committee of the College). Prerequi- decisions, global pricing, distribution, international Advanced and special topics in business which sites: BU205,214, 224, 235, 342, and permission of advertising, and sales promotion. Special topics reflect areas of current relevance. This course allows department. include green marketing, international e-commerce, the student to study in depth an area only briefly and global marketing ethics. Prerequisite: BU214 or covered in the regular curriculum or to study an BU 373. SENIOR THESIS 3 permission of instructor. E. Lepkowska-White advanced, currently relevant topic which would not Advanced research paper in business. All completed normally be covered in the regular course offerings. theses must be defended before the Management BU 345. GLOBAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT 4 Topics will vary from semester to semester. May be and Business Department faculty. An extension of BU338 to the financial management repeated for credit with permission of department of corporations in the global environment. Topics chair. Prerequisites: Will vary each time the course is BU 376. BUSINESS ISSUES 3 include the role of multinational industrial corporations offered; there will always be some of the business Discussion, investigation, and analytical report on in world trade, an overview of international capital core required for this course. contemporary business issues. markets and institutions, international financial analy- sis and planning, international debt and equity financ- BU 355. BUSINESS, ETHICS AND SOCIETY 4 BU 399. PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP ing, international corporate investment decisions, the An interdisciplinary approach to the role of business IN BUSINESS 3 or 6 influence of foreign currency on finance decisions, and in American society including ethical obligations to Professional experience at an advanced level for the relationship between business development and employees, consumers, stockholders and others, and juniors and seniors with substantial academic the global physical environment. Prerequisite: BU 338 corporate responsibility in the community. Emphasis experience in business. With faculty sponsorship and or permission of instructor. G. McClure will be on application of ethics to actual business department approval, students may extend their situations. Although readings in philosophy, govern- educational experience into areas of business related BU 346. GLOBAL SALES AND ment, and social issues will be assigned, this is a to their academic course work. BU399 cannot be MERCHANDISING MANAGEMENT 3 case-study course. Prerequisite: BU107 or permis- counted as one of the 300-level elective courses This course examines the historical, societal, legal, sion of instructor. J. Kennelly, C. Kopec required of the management and business major. No and technological framework that affects the planning student may earn more than six semester hours of and implementation of strategies in professional BU 358. HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 4 BU399. Non-liberal arts. sales and merchandising within specific industrial, Explores the history, theory, and practice of human- institutional, and international environments. Prereq- resource management. The course focuses on uisite: BU 107 or permission of instructor. B. Balevic thinking systematically, strategically, and ethically about managing employees. It examines the impor- BU 347. COMPARATIVE MANAGEMENT 3 tance of recruitment, selection, diversity, job design, Contemporary issues in comparative management, performance appraisals, training, and compensation addressed through the paradigms of cultural anthro- to both the worker and the organization. Prerequisite: pology, organizational theory, and area studies. This BU224 or PS201 or SO101. M. Taber course focuses on two questions: the extent to which management theory is influenced by cultural and BU 359. GLOBAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS 3 regional variables, and the extent to which key Extends BU338 to the role of private and public management processes can transcend cultural financial institutions in the global environment boundaries. Open to juniors and seniors. Prerequi- including the U.S. Federal Reserve System, Interna- sites: BU224 or permission of instructor. M. Correa tional Monetary Fund, World Bank, European Union Central Bank, and Bank for International Settle- ments. The course examines the history, role, and functions of these financial institutions and the important services provided by financial institutions in the conduct of both domestic and international money and capital market activities and funds transfers. Special emphasis is placed on the role and contributions of commercial banks in the economic growth and development of nations and the world economy. Prerequisite: BU338 or permis- sion of instructor. G. McClure, R. Rotheim 76 *Students with advanced preparation in CH 105H. CHEMICAL PRINCIPLES 1 Chemistry high-school chemistry may enter the CH107, Offers highly motivated students with strong chemis- 214 sequence rather than the CH105, 106 try backgrounds the opportunity to study fundamental sequence. concepts of chemistry in greater depth and breadth. Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Students will take a general chemistry readiness Physics: Raymond J. Giguere Students planning to pursue graduate work exam the first day of class to assist the department in should also take MA202. advising them for which course, CH 105 or 105H, Chemistry Faculty: American Chemical Society certification is they are best prepared. Emphasis is placed upon Professors: Raymond J. Giguere, Vasantha available for both of the above courses of atomic and molecular structure, physical and chemi- Narasimhan cal properties related to molecular structure, orbital study.Interested students should consult the hybridization, periodic relationships, and introductory Associate Professor: Judith A. Halstead department chair concerning any additional thermodynamics. Experiments are performed that requirements. Assistant Professors: Steven T. Frey, David Weis illustrate the concepts presented in the lecture and problem sessions. Prerequisites: high school algebra Senior Teaching Associates: Janis S. Ritorto, INTERDEPARTMENTAL MAJOR: In conjunc- (two years), chemistry (one year), and QR 1. Three Anne M. Wagner tion with the Biology Department, the depart- hours of lecture-discussion and one three-hour lab ment offers a biology-chemistry major. See per week. (Fulfills QR 2 and natural sciences require- Chemistry is often characterized as “the Interdepartmental Majors. ments.) S. Frey, D. Weis central science” because of its interaction The majors lead to a bachelor of arts degree. with physics and mathematics on one hand, CH 106. CHEMICAL PRINCIPLES II 4 and with biology, medicine, environmental Both theoretical and descriptive aspects of the THE CHEMISTRY MINOR: Students minoring sciences, and business and commerce on the chemistry of electrolytic solutions will be explored. in chemistry are required to complete seven other. Modern chemistry is a vast field with The lecture material will be applied in the lab to the courses in the department including: CH105, potential for numerous professional applica- problems of inorganic synthesis, quantitative chemis- 106 (or 107 and 214*), 303 and four from tions. Training in chemistry is required for a try, and analytical separations. Prerequisite: CH105. among 221, 222, 315, 332, 333, 341 and 342. Three hours of lecture-discussion and three hours of wide variety of positions in academia, industry, The four elected courses must be approved by lab a week. and health care, ranging from research and the student’s chemistry advisor before they development to management and administra- can be counted toward the minor program. CH 107H. INTENSIVE GENERAL CHEMISTRY 4 tion. The undergraduate preparation in chem- Basic concepts of chemistry will be presented with istry at Skidmore College provides students ES 105. FIELD STUDIES IN ENVIRONMENTAL emphasis on atomic and molecular structures, with a broad framework upon which they can SCIENCE periodicity of properties, structure-property relation- build further toward graduate studies and See environmental studies minor for description. ship, basic principles and laws governing solid, liquid, specific career goals. gas phase as well as solution reactions, chemical CH 101. FUNDAMENTALS OF CHEMISTRY 3 kinetics, and equilibria. The lab experiments provide The department offers both a major and a An introductory course for students with little or no practical applications of the basic principles of minor in chemistry, and a major in chemistry background in chemistry. It will emphasize the chemistry.Three hours of lecture-discussion and with a biochemistry concentration. The require- “language of chemistry” and will develop an ability to three hours of lab a week. Prerequisites: two years of ments are listed below. The department also visualize processes on an atomic and molecular high-school chemistry and QR1. (This is an Honors offers an interdisciplinary biology-chemistry level. The problem sessions will further the students’ course. It fulfills QR2 and natural sciences require- ments.) major in collaboration with the Biology skills in solving algebraic problems. While the course Department. is primarily designed for those who wish to continue in science, it would also be appropriate for those who CH 109. CHEMISTRY OF FOODS AND wish a one-semester survey of the subject. May not FLAVORS 3 THE CHEMISTRY MAJOR: Students majoring A study of the chemical makeup of food and nutri- in chemistry are required to: be used to satisfy major or minor requirements in chemistry or biology-chemistry. Prerequisite: QR1. ents, and their biochemical functions. Different food 1. Fulfill the general College requirements. (Fulfills QR2 requirement.) processing techniques and their effects on the chemical, physical, and biological properties of food 2. Complete the following: CH 103. FUNDAMENTALS OF CHEMISTRY will be discussed. The chemical basis of flavor, a. a core curriculum consisting of CH105, WITH LAB 4 composition of some common flavor ingredients, and 106 (or 107 and 214*), 221, 222, 303, 332, This course supplements the lectures of Chemistry the role of flavor in nutrient assimilation will be 333; one course from among 371, 372, 101 with a lab experience. Experiments are per- explored. Prerequisite: QR1. V. Narasimhan 375; 377 and 378; and two 300-level formed which illustrate the concepts presented in the CH 110. CHEMISTRY OF FOODS AND electives. lecture and problem sessions. May not be used to satisfy major or minor requirements in chemistry or FLAVORS WITH LAB 4 b. MA111, 113. biology-chemistry. Prerequisite: QR1. (Fulfills QR2 A study of the chemical makeup of food and nutri- c. PY207, 208. and natural sciences requirements.) ents, and their biochemical functions. Different food processing techniques and their effects on the CH 105. CHEMICAL PRINCIPLES I 4 chemical, physical, and biological properties of food THE CHEMISTRY MAJOR WITH Fundamental concepts of chemistry are presented. will be discussed. The chemical basis of flavor, BIOCHEMISTRY CONCENTRATION: Emphasis is placed upon atomic and molecular composition of some common flavor ingredients, and Students choosing the biochemistry concentra- structure, physical and chemical properties related to the role of flavor in nutrient assimilation will be tion within the chemistry major are required to: structure, periodic relationships, mass relationships, explored. Three hours of lecture and three hours of lab per week. Prerequisite: QR1. (Fulfills natural 1. Fulfill the general College requirements. thermochemistry, and properties of solutions. The lab experiments provide applications of the principles. sciences requirement.) V. Narasimhan 2. Complete the following: Students will take a general chemistry readiness a. a core curriculum consisting of CH exam the first day of class to assist the department in 105, 106 (or 107 and 214*), 221, 222, advising them for which course, CH105 or 105H, they 330 or 332, 341, 342, 377, 378; 371 or are best prepared. Prerequisite: high-school algebra 372; and one 300-level elective. (two years), chemistry (one year) or CH101 or 103, and QR1. Three hours of lecture-discussion and one b. BI190 and two additional biology three-hour lab per week. (Fulfills QR2 and natural courses at or above the 200 level. sciences requirements.) S. Frey, D. Weis c. MA111, 113. d. PY207, 208. 77 CH 111. ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY 3 CH 299. PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP IN CH 333. MOLECULAR DYNAMICS AND A study of fundamental chemical principles as they CHEMISTRY 3 STRUCTURE WITH LAB 5 relate to environmental issues such as air pollution, Internship opportunity for students whose curricular The fundamental principles of kinetic theory, reaction acid rain, global warming, destruction of the ozone foundations and cocurricular experience have pre- kinetics, statistical thermodynamics, chemical appli- layer, the production and consumption of energy, and pared them for professional work related to the major cation of quantum mechanics, bonding, molecular water pollution. A basic understanding of chemical field. With faculty sponsorship and departmental spectroscopy and structure. Lab and computer based principles and practices is necessary to fully appreci- approval, students may extend their educational experiments provide an opportunity for quantitative ate the scope and complexity of current global experience into such areas as chemical research, experimental investigation of phenomena such as environmental issues. Specific examples of interna- environmental or material science, or chemical reaction rates, transport properties, bonding, and tional environmental problems are presented as case engineering. Prerequisite: complete CH106 or 214. spectroscopy. Three hours of lecture-discussion, four studies to reinforce the course material. Chemical hours of lab a week.Prerequisite: CH332 or permis- concepts such as atomic structure, bonding, CH 301. POLYMER CHEMISTRY 3 sion of the department. J. Halstead themodynamics, nuclear chemistry, and chemical Introduction to all types of polymers with emphasis on reactivity are introduced as they pertain to particular organic polymers. Mechanisms of polymerization CH 341. BIOCHEMISTRY: MACROMOLECULAR environmental issues. Prerequisite: QR1. (Fulfills reactions, the characterization of products, and the STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION 5 QR2 requirement.) S. Frey technological application of polymers will be dis- A study of the organic, physical, and biological cussed. Additionally, the student will be introduced chemistry of proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic CH 112. ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY systematically to the historical and current literature acids, and enzymes. The biosynthesis of nucleic WITH LAB 4 in the field. Prerequisite: CH222. V. Narasimhan acids and proteins is also discussed. The lab in- A study of fundamental chemical principles as they cludes modern techniques for the purification and relate to environmental issues such as air pollution, CH 303. MODERN ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 5 identification of biomolecules. Prerequisite: CH222. acid rain, global warming, destruction of the ozone This course describes modern analytical chemistry Three hours of lecture-discussion and four hours of layer, the production and consumption of energy, and techniques for the separation and identification of lab a week. V. Narasimhan water pollution. A basic understanding of chemical chemical entities with an emphasis on instrumental principles and practices is necessary to fully appreci- methods. Sampling techniques and statistical treat- CH 342. BIOCHEMISTRY: INTERMEDIARY ate the scope and complexity of current global ment of data are also discussed. Prerequisites: METABOLISM 3 environmental issues. Specific examples of interna- CH222 and PY208. Three hours of lecture-discussion Intermediary metabolism, bioenergetics, and the tional environmental problems are presented as case and four hours of lab a week. nature of enzyme-catalyzed reactions are discussed. studies to reinforce the course material. Chemical Prerequisite: CH341. Three hours of lecture-discus- concepts such as atomic structure, bonding, CH 315. ADVANCED INORGANIC CHEMISTRY 3 sion a week. V. Narasimhan themodynamics, nuclear chemistry, and chemical Modern theories of chemical bonding will be applied reactivity are introduced as they pertain to particular to explain the structures and properties of inorganic CH 351, 352. SPECIAL TOPICS IN CHEMISTRY 3, 3 environmental issues. Laboratory exercises that systems. Extensive discussion of current fields of Advanced topics in chemistry will be offered to either relate to the environmental issues presented in inorganic research will illustrate the theories. Pre- small groups of students or on an individual basis, lectures serve to reinforce students' understanding of requisite: CH303 and 332. Three hours of lecture a allowing the student to study in depth areas of the the underlying chemical principles. Prerequisite: week. S. Frey science which are not covered in the regular course QR1. (Fulfills QR2 and natural sciences require- offerings. Prerequisite: CH222 and permission of the ments.) S. Frey CH 324. ADVANCED ORGANIC CHEMISTRY 5 department. Advanced synthetic methodology and mechanistic CH 214. DESCRIPTIVE INORGANIC theory of organic chemistry will be studied. Pre- CH 371, 372. RESEARCH IN CHEMISTRY 3, 3 CHEMISTRY 4 requisite: CH222. Three hours of lecture and four An opportunity for qualified students to pursue A systematic study of the chemical and physical hours of lab a week. R. Giguere research in any field of chemistry under the super- properties of the elements. Emphasis will be on vision of a member of the department. Prerequisite: structural and electronic correlations as predictors. CH 330. THERMODYNAMICS 3 permission of the department. The role of metal atoms in systems of industrial and The fundamental principles and concepts of equilib- biological significance will be discussed. Three hours rium thermodynamics including entropy, energy, CH 375. LITERATURE INVESTIGATION IN of lecture-discussion per week and three hours of lab. temperature, heat, work, and chemical potential. CHEMISTRY 3 Prerequisite: CH106 or 107 or permission of the Applications include chemical reactions, phase Students prepare an in-depth written report on a instructor. S. Frey changes, environmental science, and biochemical current topic in chemistry or biochemistry. The systems. Three hours of lecture-discussion per week. chemical literature is investigated by both traditional CH 221. ORGANIC CHEMISTRY I 5 This nonlab course may be used to satisfy a require- methods and modern computer-based techniques. The structures, physical properties, reactivity, and ment for the biochemistry major but may not be used Individual and group conferences throughout the reaction mechanisms of aliphatic and aromatic to satisfy any requirements for the chemistry major. semester, as well as oral presentations are required. hydrocarbons are investigated. The lab introduces CH330 is the same as the lecture-discussion compo- Prerequisite: Permission of the department. the student to synthesis, purification, and chemical nent of CH332. Prerequisites: CH106, MA113, PY208. and spectroscopic methods of characterizing organic J. Halstead CH 377, 378. SENIOR SEMINAR IN CHEMISTRY compounds. Prerequisite: CH106 or 107. Three AND BIOCHEMISTRY 1,1 hours of lecture-discussion, and four hours of lab a CH 331. MOLECULAR DYNAMICS AND Seminar courses designed to teach communication week. R. Giguere, J. Ritorto STRUCTURE 3 skills relating to scientific research. The courses The fundamental principles of kinetic theory, reaction include presentations by guest speakers, faculty and CH 222. ORGANIC CHEMISTRY II 5 kinetics, statistical thermodynamics, chemical appli- students, as well as discussions of the current The structure, physical properties, reactivity, and cation of quantum mechanics, bonding, molecular chemical literature. These courses are offered on reaction mechanisms of important organic functional spectroscopy and structure. Three hours of lecture- a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis only and are groups are investigated. The lab work focuses on discussion a week.Prerequisite: CH332 or permission required of all senior chemistry majors. Each of these structure determination and synthesis projects. of the department. J. Halstead courses may be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: CH221. Three hours of lecture- discussion and four hours of lab a week. CH 332. THERMODYNAMICS WITH LAB 5 CH 399. PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP IN R. Giguere, J. Ritorto The fundamental principles and concepts of equilib- CHEMISTRY 3 or 6 rium thermodynamics including entropy, energy, Professional experience at an advanced level for temperature, heat, work, and chemical potential. juniors and seniors with substantial academic and Applications include chemical reactions, phase cocurricular experience in the major field. With faculty changes, environmental science, and biochemical sponsorship and department approval, students may systems. Lab experiments provide opportunities for extend their educational experience into such areas quantitative experimental investigation of thermody- as chemical research, environmental or material namic systems, including studies of heat exchange, science, or chemical engineering. Only three semes- chemical equilibrium, and phase equilibrium. Three ter hours may count toward the major. Prerequisites: hours of lecture-discussion and four hours of lab a CH303 and one additional 300-level course in 78 week. Prerequisites: CH222 or 303, MA113, PY208. chemistry. J. Halstead THE CLASSICS MAJOR: Thirty credit hours, Majors and minors are encouraged to study Classics including a minimum of the modern languages (French, German, and 1. Reading proficiency of Greek or Latin at the Italian) in which there is an abundance of scholarship available in classics. Chair of the Classics Department: Leslie 300-level demonstrated by completion of Mechem two of the following: CL310, 311, or CG310, 311. Students may enroll in 310 and 311 LATIN Associate Professor: Michael Arnush courses more than once with permission. Assistant Professor: Daniel Curley 2. Gateway course: CC200 CL 110. ELEMENTARY LATIN 4 An introductory course in the essentials of the Latin Lecturer: Leslie Mechem 3. One course from each of the following language with emphasis upon mastery of grammar, Affiliated Faculty: clusters: syntax, and vocabulary. a. Literature: CC220, 222, 223, 224 Art History: Penny Jolly CL 210. INTERMEDIATE LATIN 4 English: Kate Greenspan b. History: HI201, 202; CC226; LS2-124 A review of Latin syntax, complemented by reading French: Marc-André Wiesmann c. Art History: AH222, 223; LS2-180 selected works by such authors as Caesar, Cicero, or Government: Timothy Burns Livy. Prerequisite: CL110, or permission of the chair. History: David Baum 4. CC365 or HI361F Philosophy: Francisco Gonzalez 5. CC290. Religion: Nicola Denzey Students may count toward the major any CL 310. SEMINAR IN LATIN POETRY 3 course listed above plus CC291, GO303; LS2- Advanced reading and critical examination in Latin of the works of one of the following Latin poets or 156; PH203, 327A, 327B; and RE330. CC100 The mission of the Classics Department is to dramatists: Catullus, Horace, Juvenal, Lucretius, help shape the future of our students through does not count toward the major. Plautus, Ovid, Terence, or Vergil. This course may be the study of the past. By using interdisciplinary taken more than once. Prerequisite: CL210 or per- methodologies, students examine and expli- HONORS: To be considered for honors in mission of the chair. cate the languages, literatures, histories, classics, a student must, in addition to fulfilling religions, cultures, art, and artifacts of the College requirements for departmental honors, CL 311. SEMINAR IN LATIN PROSE peoples of the ancient Mediterranean. receive a grade of at least an A-on an honors LITERATURE 3 Students apply multi- and cross-cultural research paper in either CC365 or in an Advanced reading and critical examination in Latin of perspectives to gender, ethnic, and social advanced Greek or Latin course. Specific the works of one of the following Latin prose authors: Caesar, Cicero, Livy, Petronius, Pliny, Suetonius, or issues in order to gain insight into the cultures requirements for the paper are established by Tacitus. This course may be taken more than once. of the classical world. In reading Greek and the department. Latin prose and poetry, both in the original Prerequisite: CL210 or permission of the chair. languages and in translation, students THE CLASSICS MINOR: Twenty credit hours, contextualize works of literature in their larger including a minimum of GREEK cultural and historical settings and recognize 1. Reading proficiency of Greek or Latin at the their significance in the past and their rel- CG 110. ELEMENTARY GREEK 4 evance for the present and future. Students 200-level, demonstrated by completion of the following: CG210 or CL210 An introductory course in the essentials of the Greek conduct research by traditional and digital language, with emphasis upon mastery of grammar, methods in order to present oral and written 2. Gateway course: CC200 syntax, and vocabulary. arguments supported by primary sources, 3. Two courses from the following, each from theoretical constructs, and established schol- a different cluster: CG 210. INTERMEDIATE GREEK 4 arship. In acquiring these critical and analytical A review of Greek syntax, complemented by reading skills, classics majors prepare themselves for a. Literature: CC220, 222, 223, 224 selected works by such authors as Xenophone, life beyond college both on the personal and b. History: HI201, 202; CC226; LS2-124 Plato, or Lysias. Prerequisite: CG110 or permission of the chair. professional level. Professional opportunities c. Art History: AH222, 223; LS2-180 can include careers in education, communica- tion, arts, law and government, and library 4. One course from CG310, 311; CL310, 311; CG 310. SEMINAR IN GREEK POETRY 3 Advanced reading and critical examination in Greek sciences. CC365; GO303; HI361F; PH 327A, 327B; RE330. of the works of one of the following Greek poets or dramatists: Aeschylos, Aristophanes, Bacchylides, Both a major and a minor are available in Students may count toward the minor any Euripides, Hesiod, Homer, Pindar, Sophocles, or classics. Skidmore is a member of the Intercol- course listed above, plus CC290, CC291, LS2- Theocritos. This course may be taken more than legiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome, 156, and PH203. Minors are encouraged to once. Prerequisite: CG210 or permission of the chair. which offers juniors the opportunity to study take one 300-level seminar in either Greek or classical antiquity in Italy. Other semester and Latin (CG310, 311; CL310, 311). CC100 does CG 311. SEMINAR IN GREEK PROSE summer study programs in Italy, Greece, and not count toward the minor. LITERATURE 3 other countries may be arranged with the help Advanced reading and critical examination in Greek of the chair of classics. Students may fulfill the Suggested course clusters in Greek and Ro- of the works of one of the following Greek prose foreign language requirement by successfully man literature, art and archaeology, history, authors: Aristotle, Demosthenes, Herodotos, Lysias, completing any course in Greek or Latin. and philosophy in addition to the major/minor Plato, Thucydides, or selections from the New requirements: Testament. This course may be taken more than Literature: CC220, 222, 223, 224, 226, 365; once. Prerequisite: CG210 or permission of the chair. GO303; HI201, 202; LS2-124, 156, 180; PH203 Art and Archaeology: AH222, 223, 232, 376A; AN105, 175; CC220, 365; GE102, 309; HI201, 202; LS-124, 180 History: CC226; GO 303; HI201, 202, 361F; LS2-124, 180 Philosophy: CC222, 223,224,226; GO303; HI201; LS2-124, 156; PH203, 210, 303, 327A, 327B 79 CLASSICAL STUDIES CC 290. RESEARCH IN CLASSICS 1 Basic research methodology in 200-level civilization Computer Science CC 100. ENGLISH VOCABULARY FROM courses including the use of primary and secondary GREEK AND LATIN 1 sources as well as Web-based and library-based An exploration of the heritage of Greek and Latin in materials. This one-credit course will be taken jointly Chair of the Department of Mathematics and the English language, with particular emphasis on with a 200-level civilization course. Computer Science: Mark Hofmann technical terminology from a variety of disciplines. Mathematics and Computer Science Faculty: Students will learn how to break down English words CC 291. WRITING IN CLASSICS 1 into their Greek and Latin components, and to gener- Students will begin to learn effective writing and will Professors: *Robert DeSieno, R. Daniel ate English words from these same elements. This fulfill the all-college Expository Writing requirement. Hurwitz, Mark E. Huibregtse, Alice M. Dean, course is of interest to all students in the humanities, This one-credit course will be taken jointly with a 200- Gove W. Effinger sciences, and social sciences, who wish not only to level civilization course. expand their vocabularies but also to understand the Associate Professors: Richard Speers, Pierre ongoing evolution of English. D. Curley CC 365. TOPICS IN CLASSICAL von Kaenel, Mark Hofmann, Una Bray, David CIVILIZATION 3 C. Vella CC 200. THE CLASSICAL WORLD 3 Selected aspects of classical antiquity that embrace Lecturer: *Frank Clark An introduction to classical antiquity for students both the Greek and Roman worlds. Topics will vary from year to year based upon the instructor’s special- interested in ancient Greece and Rome, the impact of THE COMPUTER SCIENCE MAJOR: antiquity on Medieval and Renaissance Europe, and ization and interests. Courses may include such Students majoring in computer science fulfill a general background in the Western tradition. This topics as women in antiquity, sex in the ancient interdisciplinary course taught by a team of faculty world, classical poetics, and ancient historiography. the departmental requirements by completing members from several departments and programs the following: includes studies in literature (epic, dramatic, and lyric CC 371, 372. INDEPENDENT STUDY 1-4 1. Required computer science courses: poetry, rhetoric, and fiction), history and historiogra- Individual research in any aspect of classics not CS106, 206, 318, and 330 phy, art and architecture, philosophy and political available in existing course offerings, which results theory, and science and mathematics. (Fulfills LS2 in a written work. Supervised by a member of the 2. Required mathematics courses: Any one of requirement.) classics faculty. Prerequisite: Approval of the the following chosen in consultation with director. the student's advisor: MA111, 113, 200, or CC 220. CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY 3 MS104. A study of the important myths in Greek and Roman CC 390. THESIS 3 3. Required MC courses: MC115 and 306 culture, with attention to their religious, psychological, The senior student will undertake a substantial and historical origins. Comparative mythology, advanced research project in any aspect of classics 4. Electives: Three CS or MC courses at the structural analysis, modern psychological interpreta- which will result in a written thesis of approximately 200 level or above. (Currently this includes tions and the development of classical myths in fifty pages. Supervised by a member of the classics CS276, 321, 340, 371, 372, 381, 382, and Western literature and art receive attention. (Fulfills faculty. Prerequisite: Approval of the chair. MC302, 316. CS276 and 376 may be taken humanities requirement.) more than once for credit if offered with CC 399. PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP IN different topics.) For one of the three elec- CC 222. GREEK TRAGEDY 3 CLASSICS 3 or 6 tives the student may instead take, with Readings in translation of some of the tragedies of Professional experience at an advanced level for permission of the department, a course in Aeschylos, Sophocles, and Euripides in the context juniors and seniors with substantial academic and another discipline that has substantial of Athenian society in the fifth century B.C. Students cocurricular experience in the major field. With faculty sponsorship and departmental approval, students computer science content (for example, will have the opportunity to write, produce, and PY207 Workshop Physics). perform an original tragedy based on Greek myth. may extend their educational experience into such (Fulfills humanities requirement.) D. Curley areas as education, communication, the arts, librar- Courses counting toward the major may not be ies, and law and government. Does not count toward taken satisfactory/unsatisfactory. CC 223. SOCIETY ON THE STAGE: GREEK the major. Must be taken S/U. AND ROMAN COMEDY 3 HONORS: Students wishing to qualify for Readings in translation of the plays of Aristophanes, departmental honors in the computer science Menander, Plautus, and Terence. Students explore major must: 1) complete all departmental both the origins and the fate of ancient comedy within requirements for the computer science major the context of Greek and Roman society. Further- and have a grade point average of 3.5 or more, students will have the opportunity to produce higher for all course work (MA, MC, and CS) and perform one of the plays on the course reading list. (Fulfills humanities requirement.) D. Curley taken in the department, together with PY207 if taken as an elective with permission of the CC 224. THE HERO(INE)’S TALE: TRADITIONS department; 2) have a grade-point average of OF GREEK AND ROMAN EPIC 3 3.0 for all course work taken at Skidmore; Readings in translation of the great epic poets of the 3) file with the department, by the end of the Greek and Roman worlds, focusing on a comparative official add-drop period of the spring semester study of the works of Homer and Vergil. (Fulfills of the senior year, a declaration of intention to humanities requirement.) qualify for honors; and 4) submit an honors thesis or project to be read by a review com- CC 226. GREEK AND ROMAN mittee, and give an oral presentation of the HISTORIOGRAPHY 3 thesis or project to the department. The review Readings in translation of the great chroniclers of committee will evaluate the thesis or project to history from the Greek and Roman worlds: Greek, determine if it is of the exceptional quality the works of Herodotos (the father of history), which merits honors; the committee’s recom- Thucydides and Xenophon; Roman, the works of Livy, Polybius, and Tacitus. The course will focus on mendation will be submitted to the department the methodology of writing history, comparative for final adjudication. studies, and modern interpretations.

80 THE COMPUTER SCIENCE MINOR: MC 115. INTRODUCTION TO DISCRETE CS 330. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES 3 Students minoring in computer science fulfill MATHEMATICS 3 An introduction to different programming language the departmental requirements by completing An introduction to the study of discrete (as opposed paradigms: functional, logic, and object-oriented CS106, 206, MC115, and three additional CS to continuous) mathematical systems.These include programming. Students will also study language or MC courses, at most one of which may be systems that are essential in computer science as concepts such as regular expressions, syntax gram- at the 100 level, and at least one of which well as in more advanced mathematics courses. mars, and semantics. Specific topics may include must be at the 300 level. For one of the three Mathematical reasoning and algorithms are funda- Perl, egrep, Scheme, Lex & Yacc, Java, C++ and mental themes of the course. Topics include logic Prolog. Prerequisite: CS206. The Department additional courses the student may instead and sets, complexity of algorithms, computer arith- take, with permission of the department, a metic, arrays, mathematical proofs and induction, CS 340. COMPUTER MODELING OF course in another discipline that has substan- elementary combinatorics, and discrete probability, PHYSICAL SYSTEMS 3 tial computer science content (for example, graphs, and trees. Prerequisite: high school prepara- The study of physical systems and natural law PY207 Workshop Physics). tion including intermediate algebra or consent of with the aid of computers and simulation software. department. (Fulfills QR2 requirement.) Students explore the relationships between theoreti- Students interested in learning how to use The Department cal scientific expression and behavior in nature by computers to solve problems in the quantita- designing algorithms that probe experimental data, tive disciplines should consider the courses: CS 206. INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER by examining cause and effect relationships in CS102A, 103,106, MS104. SCIENCE II 4 physical systems, and by examining the conse- Continuation of CS 106: study of recursion, pointers, quences of diverse variation in simulated conditions NOTE: Courses numbered CS102 through CS382 development strategies for large software projects, for ideal and non-ideal systems. Prerequisites: and MC115, 302, 306, and 316 have as a prerequi- and introduction to data structures, analysis of PY207, 208, CS106. The Department site QR1 or permission of the department. algorithms, and program verification. Prerequisite: CS106 or permission of instructor. The Department CS 371, 372. INDEPENDENT STUDY 3, 3 CS 102. COMPUTING IN CONTEXT 3 Special study in computing outside of the regular A set of courses exploring interesting applications of CS 276. SELECTED TOPICS IN COMPUTER departmental offerings. Prerequisite: consent of computing in a variety of disciplines. These courses SCIENCE 3 department. Non-liberal arts. The Department are primarily intended for students who wish to satisfy Topics that complement the established lower level the QR requirement and enhance their abilities to course offerings in computer science will be selected. CS 376. ADVANCED TOPICS IN COMPUTER apply computing to the solution of quantitative prob- May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: permission SCIENCE 3 lems. Courses including the following are offered of instructor. The Department Advanced topics that complement the established periodically depending on faculty availability. (Fulfills course offerings in computer science will be selected. QR2 requirement.) MC 302. GRAPH THEORY 3 May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: permission An introduction to the theory and application of of instructor. The Department A. Electronic Spreadsheets in the Sciences. graphs. Topics may include graphs and digraphs, In this course, students use electronic spreadsheets connectivity, trees, Euler and Hamiltonian cycles, CS 381, 382. SENIOR THESIS 3,3 to build quantitative models of natural systems and graph embeddings. Prerequisite: MC115 or Optional for computer science majors. Recom- studied in biology, chemistry, and physics. This MA200 or permission of the instructor. Fall 2002 and mended for those working toward professional course helps students understand quantitative alternate years. The Department careers or graduate study in computer science, and description of natural phenomena, develop ability to those seeking to satisfy the criteria for departmental use computational methods for describing those MC 306. THEORY OF COMPUTATION 3 honors. phenomena, enhance their understanding of experi- A study of the major theoretical models of computa- mental design, and become aware of the limitations tion. Topics include automata, nondeterminism, CS 399. INTERNSHIP IN COMPUTER in modeling of natural systems. regular and context-free languages, Turing machines, SCIENCE 3 or 6 B. Robot Design. A hands-on introduction, unsolvability, computational complexity, and NP- Professional experience at an advanced level for using ideas from programming, artificial intelligence, completeness. Prerequisite: MC115 and CS106, or juniors and seniors with substantial academic experi- and physics, to introduce concepts of robot design. permission of instructor. The Department ence in computer science and mathematics. The course explores philosophical, programming, With faculty sponsorship and departmental approval, and engineering issues related to the design of MC 316. NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS 3 students may extend their educational experience in robots. Students will build their own robots, and then An introduction to using computation to obtain ap- computer science, software engineering, or applied program them to do a variety of physical tasks. proximate solutions to mathematical problems. A mathematics. This course may not be used to satisfy variety of algorithms are studied, as are the limita- the requirements of any major or minor in the depart- CS 103. STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING IN tions of using computational methods. Topics include ment. Prerequisites: MC115, CS206, one additional BASIC 3 algorithms for solving equations, systems, and course in mathematics or computer science at the Introduction to the use of computer programming as differential equations; approximating functions and 200 level or above, and permission of the depart- a problem-solving tool. Students learn to design and integrals; curve fitting; round-off errors, and conver- ment. Non-liberal arts. implement their own Windows software applications gence of algorithms. Prerequisites: CS106 and using the Visual BASIC language. The course MA111 or permission of instructor. Offered in 2001 stresses the logic of software design and the careful and alternate years. The Department implementation and testing of programs. Primarily for students with little or no programming experience. CS 318. INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER Not open to students who have taken or are taking ORGANIZATION 4 CS106. (Fulfills QR2 requirement.) The Department An introduction to multi-level machines, including basic components of a computer, digital circuits, CS 106. INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER microprogramming, machine and assembly lan- SCIENCE I 4 guages, and operating systems. Prerequisite: CS206 Design and testing of algorithms for the solution of and MC115. The Department problems with the aid of a computer using C++ language. The course guides students through CS 321. DATA STRUCTURES 3 syntax, semantics, design procedures, control struc- The study of advanced data structures such as trees, tures, data structures and testing of conditions with multi-linked lists, hash tables, and graphs. Additional Boolean expressions. (Fulfills QR2 requirement.) topics may include searching, sorting, and the con- The Department cepts of object-oriented programming. Prerequisite: MC115 and CS206. The Department

81 Dance History/Criticism: DA 301, 302. WESTERN DANCE FORMS II † 1,1 Dance 1. Eighteen credit hours of technique to in- The following courses are offered periodically de- pending on faculty availability: clude at least four credit hours outside the A. Pointe II Chair of the Department of Exercise Science, primary discipline. B. Character II Dance, and Athletics: Jeffrey Segrave 2. Sixteen credit hours of theory to include C. Jazz II D. Modern Special III/IV Director of Dance Program: Mary DiSanto-Rose DA230, 335, and 376. E. Ballet Special III/IV Dance Faculty: INTERDEPARTMENTAL MAJOR: In Associate Professors: Isabel H. Brown, Mary Pointe class may only be taken along with a Ballet II, conjunction with the Theater Department, DiSanto-Rose, Debra Fernandez, Denise III, or IV technique class. Non-liberal arts. the Department of Exercise Science, Dance, Warner Limoli and Athletics offers a major in dance-theater. DA 303, 304. NON-WESTERN DANCE Lecturers: *Yacub Addy, *Adriana Markovska, See Interdepartmental Majors. FORMS II † 1,1 *Tina Baird, *Lisa Hoffmaster, *Patricia The following courses are offered periodically de- Henderer, *Mary Harney THE MINOR IN DANCE: pending on faculty availability and may include: A. Bharata Natyam II (South India—Classical Dance Musicians: Patricia Hadfield, *Carol Ann 1. Required courses: DA230; and fourteen Dance) Elze, Carl Landa, credit hours to include at least one experi- ence outside the primary discipline; and an D. African Dance II Non-liberal arts. Dance Theater Technical Director: Lori Dawson additional theory or workshop/production course (totaling nineteen-twenty credit The mission of the Dance Program is to link hours). BALLET TECHNIQUE COURSES — critical thinking, analysis, craft, history, and Ballet Faculty 2. Two of the required courses in dance must creativity with the distinct movement skills be at the 300 level. derived from studio practice and stage perfor- DB 101, 102. INTRODUCTION TO BALLET mance. Students are required to work toward 3. Students should declare their minors by fall 2 or 3, 2 or 3 proficiency in the particular movement lan- semester of the junior year. Applied basic vocabulary of ballet for the beginner student. The class stresses proper body alignment, guage of Western and/or Eastern dance forms: coordination and conditioning. Non-liberal arts. classical ballet, modern-contemporary dance, GUEST ARTISTS: Each year outstanding jazz dance, and Bharata Naytam (temple artists are brought to the campus to teach, Course numbers for the following courses are dance of India). Students learn to recognize lecture, conduct workshops and set dance determined by class standing. and distinguish the many diverse sources of pieces on the dance students. dance, such as culture (both ancient and pop), DB 111/112, 121/122, 131/132, 141/142. BALLET I: mythology, society, and nature. Students ELEMENTARY 2 or 3, 2 or 3 select a specific area of study within the major: DANCE TECHNIQUE COURSES — Expanded study in basic vocabulary and technique of general dance, performance/choreography, or Dance Faculty ballet with the prerequisite of Introduction to Ballet or dance history/criticism. The major leads to a previous training. Non-liberal arts. bachelor of science degree. Breadth requirements : DA210-213, DB101/ DB 211/212, 221/222, 231/232, 241/242. BALLET II: 102, DB111-142, DB211-242, DM111-142, INTERMEDIATE 2 or 3, 2 or 3 In studying dance technique, choreography, DM211-242 may be taken to fulfill the arts production, history, biography, and criticism, Students at this level should have complete knowl- requirement. DA227, 228, or 230 may be edge of the basic ballet terminology and technique students develop a deeper understanding of taken to fulfill the humanities requirement. with the ability to properly execute barre, adagio, the relationship of body, mind, and spirit in the pirouettes, small and large allegro. Non-liberal arts. multicultural world of dance. Students acquire DA 210, 211. WESTERN DANCE FORMS I † 1,1 the critical skills necessary to make informed Studies of various Western dance forms and tech- DB 311/312, 321/322, 331/332, 341/342. BALLET III: judgments about dance as an art form. The niques. The following courses are offered periodically ADVANCED 2 or 3, 2 or 3 dance major prepares students for further depending on faculty availability: Students must have acquired full command of the study or careers in the fields of performance, A. Pointe I ballet vocabulary and technique with the capability to choreography, dance education, dance history/ B. Character I sustain increasingly difficult work. The class may criticism, and arts administration. C. Jazz I include pointe work at the discretion of the instructor. D. Modern Special I/II Non-liberal arts. E. Ballet Special I/II F. Pre-Classical Dance Forms THE MAJOR IN DANCE DB 351/352, 361/362, 381/382, 391/392. BALLET IV: G. Dance for Children ADVANCED-POINTE 2 or 3, 2 or 3 General Dance: H. Spanish Dance This class is designed to develop artistic awareness I. Tap 1. Eighteen credit hours of technique to in- of students who have already reached a high degree Pointe class may only be taken along with a Ballet II, of technical proficiency. A portion of the class will be clude at least four credit hours outside the III, or IV technique class. Non-liberal arts. primary discipline. on pointe. By permission. Non-liberal arts. 2. Sixteen credit hours of theory to include DA 212, 213. NON-WESTERN DANCE DA227, 228 and 230. FORMS I † 1,1 Studies of various non-Western dance forms and Performance/Choreography: techniques. The following courses are offered peri- odically depending on faculty availability and may 1. Sixteen credit hours of technique to include include: at least four credit hours outside the pri- A. Bharata Natyam I (South India—Classical mary discipline. Dance) 2. Twelve credit hours of theory to include B. Kathak (North India—Classical Dance) DA227, 228, and 230. C. Hawaiian Dance D. African Dance I 3. Six credit hours of workshop/production. E. T’ai Chi F. Yoga Non-liberal arts.

82 † May be repeated for credit MODERN DANCE TECHNIQUE COURSES— DA 230. INTRODUCTION TO DANCE HISTORY, Modern Dance Faculty LITERATURE, AND REPERTORY 3 Economics Introduction to dance history of the Eastern and Course numbers for the following courses are Western traditions. Using film, slides, videos, demon- determined by class standing. strations, and discussion, the course introduces Chair of the Department of Economics: Sandy students to the literature and repertory of the great Baum classical and modern dance forms. (Fulfills humani- DM 111/112, 121/122, 131/132, 141/142. MODERN I: Professors: Roy J. Rotheim, Sandy Baum BEGINNER 2 or 3, 2 or 3 ties requirement.) I. Brown, M. DiSanto-Rose Study of technique stressing unique quality of mod- Associate Professors: Robert J. Jones, Tim ern dance, beginning level. Non-liberal arts. DA 274. SPECIAL STUDIES IN DANCE THEORY Koechlin, Mehmet Odekon AND APPRECIATION 2 DM 211/212, 221/222, 231/232, 241/242. MODERN II: Liberal arts studies in dance theory and appreciation Assistant Professors: Ngina S. Chiteji, Lynda LOW INTERMEDIATE 2 or 3, 2 or 3 designed to broaden student awareness and under- D. Vargha Theory and style — continuation of technical study, standing of dance and its related disciplines. By Lecturer: Daniel Flores-Guri low intermediate and intermediate level. Non-liberal permission of instructor. Dance Faculty arts. Students majoring in economics learn analytical DA 327. IMPROVISATION II 2 skills and methods of the field, including deduc- DM 311/312, 321/322, 331/332, 341/342. MODERN III: Advanced study in the spontaneous use of tive reasoning, decision-making techniques, HIGH INTERMEDIATE 2 or 3, 2 or 3 movement in structures derived from movement quantitative analysis, and modeling principles, Continued theory and style, high intermediate techni- concepts, imagery, props, and media sources. and apply these skills in analysis of the ways in cal study. Non-liberal arts. Designed to help students further discover and which economic forces affect national and develop their own movement potential and apply it international policies and issues. In keeping DM 351/352, 361/362, 381/382, 391/392. MODERN IV: in dance performance. Prerequisite: DA227 or with the liberal arts tradition and goals of the ADVANCED 2 or 3, 2 or 3 permission of instructor. Non-liberal Arts. College, the economics major supports the M. DiSanto-Rose Advanced theory and style, technical study. By students' growth in critical thinking, problem permission. Non-liberal arts. DA 328. CHOREOGRAPHY II 3 solving, global understanding and appreciation, Note: Placement in the appropriate level dance class Advanced study of the solo and group choreographic and communication skills. In core courses, is at the discretion of the dance faculty. techniques and related musical and production students learn analytical and quantitative skills. resources. Prerequisite: DA228 or permission of In upper-level courses, students apply these instructor. Non-liberal arts. D. Fernandez analytical, quantitative, and writing skills and WORKSHOP/PRODUCTION focus on a variety of domestic and international DA 335. MAJOR PERIODS IN DANCE policy-oriented issues and engage in indepen- DB 393, 394. BALLET WORKSHOP † 2, 2 HISTORY 3 dent research. Students apply their technique to rehearsal and The study of major periods in dance history with performance of choreographic material created by particular emphasis on the societies out of which the THE ECONOMICS MAJOR: Requirements for faculty members and qualified students, with an dance developed. I. Brown a major in economics are: EC103, 104, 235, emphasis on learning basic production elements. By 236, 237, and at least fifteen additional credit permission and/or audition. Non-liberal arts. DA 371, 372. INDEPENDENT STUDY 3, 3 hours in economics. D. Fernandez, D. Limoli Advanced research or technical study under the guidance of a faculty member. A student may or may HONORS: To be considered for honors in not receive liberal arts credit at the discretion of both DM 393, 394. MODERN DANCE WORKSHOP † 2, 2 economics, students must meet the college Style, repertory, production, advanced choreography. the director of the Dance Program and the registrar (and, in exceptional instances, the Curriculum Com- requirements of a grade point average of 3.0 The emphasis of the workshop may vary according overall and 3.5 in the major. They must receive to the style and experience of the teacher. Extra mittee of the College). Dance Faculty rehearsals to be arranged as needed. By permission a grade of at least A-on an independent-study and/or audition. Non-liberal arts. M. DiSanto-Rose DA 376. SEMINAR 4 paper, which they must defend orally before A study of the style and technique of the main the department. schools of classical dancing (Russian, French, Italian, DANCE THEORY Danish). The impact of these schools on the develop- INTERDEPARTMENTAL MAJORS: In ment of classical dancing in England and America will conjunction with relevant departments, the DA 227. IMPROVISATION I 2 provide a topic for discussion and debate. The course Economics Department offers majors in Experiences in the spontaneous use of movement also will examine the style and technique of the main business-economics, political economy, in structures derived from movement concepts, schools of American and European modern dance economics-French, economics-German, imagery, props, and media sources. Designed to help and their respective impacts on the development of economics-Spanish, economics-mathematics, students discover and develop their own movement theatrical dance in the twentieth century. economics-philosophy, and economics- potential and apply it in dance performance. Non- Dance Faculty sociology. See Interdepartmental Majors. liberal arts. (Fulfills humanities requirement.) The department participates in the Interna- M. DiSanto-Rose tional Affairs, Environmental Studies, Law and Society, Women's Studies, and Asian Studies DA 228. CHOREOGRAPHY I 3 Programs. Deals with solo and group choreographic techniques and related musical and production resources. Non- THE ECONOMICS MINOR: The department liberal arts. (Fulfills humanities requirement.) D. Fernandez, M. DiSanto-Rose offers a minor in economics that consists of the following: EC103, 104, 235 or 236 and at least six additional credit hours at the 300 level.

† May be repeated for credit 83 OMICRON DELTA EPSILON, ALPHA ZETA EC 237. STATISTICAL METHODS 4 EC 320. LAW AND ECONOMICS 3 CHAPTER: Omicron Delta Epsilon is an eco- An introduction to summarizing and interpreting Students will analyze the law from an economic nomics honor society that was initially formed quantitative information: central tendency and disper- perspective and will examine the effects of various in 1915 and became an international honor sion, probability, significance tests, regression and aspects of law on the economy. Topics of discussion society in 1969. Omicron honors academic correlation, time series analysis, and the use of index may include economic analysis of criminal behavior; achievement in economics and encourages numbers. An introduction to the use of the computer determining optimal punishments; the costs and devotion and advancement in the field. The as a tool for handling large amounts of data. Pre- benefits of alternative law enforcement strategies; the requisites: QR1, EC103, 104 or permission of the pros and cons of legalizing drugs and prostitution; eligibility requirements include: (1) a strong instructor; prerequisites may be waived for interde- labor law; immigration law; utility regulation; and rent interest in economics, (2) completion of at partmental business majors by permission of the control laws. Prerequisite: EC104, or permission of least four economics courses and a 3.40 or instructor. (Fulfills QR2 requirement.) instructor. S. Baum higher average in economics, and (3) a GPA S. Baum, R. Jones, T. Koechlin of 3.40 or higher in all college courses taken. EC 321. LABOR ECONOMICS 3 EC 261. INTERMEDIATE TOPICS IN Analysis of labor as a human activity and an economic EC 100. INEQUALITY, RACE, AND GENDER 3 ECONOMICS 3 resource. Critical examination of the structure and Designed for nonmajors, this course uses political- This course will give students an opportunity to study functioning of the American labor market. Topics economic principles to analyze social issues. Using a one or a few related current topics in economics at an include determinants of labor force participation, the variety of theoretical perspectives, the course ad- intermediate level. While the topic(s), instructor, and level and structure of wages, and the allocation and dresses the gender, race, and class inequalities that specific prerequisites will vary each time the course is utilization of workers; the roles of labor unions and characterize the United States economy. Other topics offered, there will be at least one 100-level course collective bargaining; and the changing situations of may include the economics of the environment, the required. May be repeated once with permission of women and minorities in the labor market. Pre- implications of increasing economic interdependence, department chair. Prerequisite: EC103 and/or 104. requisites: EC 236, 237. The Department the relationship between capitalism and democracy. The Department Does not count toward the major. T. Koechlin EC 334. INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL EC 314. INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS 3 ECONOMY 3 EC 103. INTRODUCTION TO An analysis of international economic relations with an An examination of the interplay of international MACROECONOMICS 4 emphasis on policy issues. Topics include: commodity economics and politics. The course contrasts main- An introduction to national income analysis, money composition and direction of trade, tariffs, U.S. stream theories of international trade and investment and banking, and balance of payments. The course commercial policy, international and regional trade with theories highlighting class relations, power, and deals with theory and policies of a mixed economy— agreements, and international financial relations. market imperfections. Among the subjects to be using the United States as a prime example. Empha- Prerequisites: EC103 and 104. The Department addressed are: multinational corporations, capital sis is placed upon the determination of public policies flight, theories of imperialism, and the prospects for to solve the problems of unemployment, inflation, and EC 315. OPEN ECONOMY national economic policy. Prerequisites: EC235 or stable economic growth. Prerequisite: QR1. (Fulfills MACROECONOMICS 3 permission of instructor. T. Koechlin QR2 and social sciences requirements.) Integration of closed economy macroeconomics The Department with foreign trade and payments balances. Topics EC 335. ADVANCED MACROECONOMIC include: exchange rate systems, asset markets, price THEORY AND POLICY 3 EC 104. INTRODUCTION TO and income effects, and monetary and fiscal policies Domestic monetary and fiscal policies of advanced MICROECONOMICS 4 for internal and external balance. Prerequisite: EC235 capitalist economies with emphasis on the United An introduction to the study of markets. The course or permission of instructor. M. Odekon States’ historical experience. Topics include: busi- develops the basic economic model of supply and ness cycle theories; Neoclassical, Keynesian, and demand to illustrate how choices regarding the EC 316. ECONOMICS OF DEVELOPMENT 3 post-Keynesian theories of money and the state; production and distribution of goods and services are The theory and practice of economic development in industrial policy, monetary and fiscal intervention made by firms and households in a market economy. the third world. Topics include: analysis of world considered theoretically and historically. Prerequisite: The course also examines the possibility of market income distribution and causes of world income EC235. R. Rotheim failure and the appropriate government response. inequalities; the contribution of social change, politics, Policy topics may include poverty and homelessness, economics and economic planning to the process of EC 336. INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION AND health care, the environment, antitrust, discrimination, development; means of improving the quantity and PERFORMANCE OF ECONOMY 3 international trade, unions, and minimum wage laws. quality of domestic and international economic re- A study of changing market structures in the United Prerequisite: QR1. (Fulfills QR2 and social sciences sources; methods for improving sectoral output and States economy and their impact on its performance. requirements.) The Department productivity; policies for redistribution and basic needs The specific topics covered in this course include the and for combating the equity-efficiency trade-off in determinants of market structure and oligopolistic EC 235. MACROECONOMIC THEORY 4 development strategies. Prerequisites: EC 103 and behaviors of large corporations in such areas as A study of the forces determining the levels of na- 104, or permission of instructor. M. Odekon pricing, profits, and technological innovations. Also tional income and employment, with emphasis upon considered are public policies concerning monopolis- public policy to attain basic economic goals such as EC 319. ECONOMICS OF INCOME tic and oligopolistic business enterprises. Prerequi- economic growth, stable prices, and full employment. DISTRIBUTION AND POVERTY 3 site: EC236. The Department The course also addresses issues concerning inter- The definition and measurement of economic national macroeconomic relations Prerequisites: inequality and poverty and the investigation of eco- EC 339. APPLIED ECONOMETRICS 3 EC103 and 104. The Department nomic factors determining the distribution of income Theory and practice of econometrics applied to and wealth. On the macro level, the course examines economic models. Topics include: econometric EC 236. MICROECONOMIC THEORY 4 the dynamics of input markets, including productivity techniques for analyzing economic relationships, Develops the basic models of behavior that econo- and technological change. The micro level focuses on methods for handling economic data, empirical mists use to study market relations. Discussion of the personal distribution of income and poverty in the testing of theoretical models, and techniques for how consumer choices determine demand and how United States. Alternative theories are examined. developing testable models. Prerequisites: EC235 or profit-maximizing firms, operating in different market Other topics include the role of the government 236; 237. R. Jones structures, determine supply. Within this framework, through policies such as taxes, transfers, and public the course considers a variety of real-world problems, education. Prerequisites: EC103 and 104 or permis- EC 343. ENVIRONMENTAL AND RESOURCE which may include job market discrimination, busi- sion of instructor. S. Baum, M. Odekon ECONOMICS 3 ness pricing policy, minimum wages, taxation, anti- Analysis of contemporary environmental and re- trust policy, international trade, and environmental source problems (e.g., air, water, noise and aesthetic and safety regulation. Prerequisites: EC103 and 104. pollution, extinction of animal and plant species) The Department through the use of economic theories and techniques of evaluation. Environmental policies dealing with these problems will also be considered. Prerequisite: EC 104 or consent of instructor. The Department 84 EC 344. PUBLIC FINANCE 3 EC 376. SENIOR THESIS 3 Study of government expenditures and taxation Advanced research paper in economics. Open to all Education policies from both institutional and theoretical per- seniors with departmental approval. All completed spectives. The course will focus on the economic theses must be defended before the economics roles of federal, state, and local governments in faculty. The Department Chair of the Department of Education: Susan implementing decisions about defense spending, S. Lehr social programs, income, sales, property, and Social EC 399. INTERNSHIP IN ECONOMICS 3 Security taxes. Prerequisite: EC236. S. Baum Professional experience at an advanced level for Professor: Susan S. Lehr juniors and seniors with substantial academic experi- EC 345. MONETARY THEORY AND POLICY 3 ence in economics. With faculty sponsorship and Associate Professor: Ruth Andrea Levinson Foundations of money, financial markets, and central department approval, students may extend their Assistant Professor: Paul Michalec, Director of banking within a capitalist framework. Theoretical educational experience into areas such as economic Student Teaching emphasis will be placed on monetarist and post research and consulting, forecasting, regulation, and Keynesian explanations for money, interest, employ- policy analysis. Work will be supplemented by appro- Visiting Assistant Professor: Abbey Block Cash ment, and prices. Policy discussions will focus on the priate written assignments. Only three semester-hour Visiting Instructor: Lenora de la Luna relationship between money market instruments and credits may count toward the requirements for the central bank policies in the context of the above major, and none toward the minor. Prerequisites: two Lecturers: *Karen Brackett, Joyce Rubin, theoretical frameworks. A major term paper, which of the following: EC235, 236, 237, and at least two *Richard Lyman, *Donna Brent compares the recent monetary policies of the Federal 300-level economics courses. Reserve System with those of another central bank, Director of Skidmore Early Childhood Center: is expected of all students. Prerequisites: EC 103 and Karen Brackett 104. Open only to juniors and seniors. R. Rotheim The Education Department's content core and EC 351. WOMEN IN THE ECONOMY 3 pedagogy build upon the knowledge base and This course examines the ways in which the eco- core abilities gained from studies in the liberal nomic experiences of women in the United States arts and sciences. Education studies majors differ from those of men. Topics include labor and early childhood minors are prepared to markets and wages, discrimination, poverty, the economics of the household, and the economics enter careers in education and/or to continue of reproduction. The particular situations of various on to graduate studies. The department's ethnic groups and occupational groups are dis- mission is to develop competent, knowledge- cussed. The economic experiences of women are able, and reflective educators, who are analyzed in their social, political, and historical context. capable of meeting the diverse learning and Prerequisite: EC104. S. Baum developmental needs of students within varied learning contexts. Education studies graduates EC 355. HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT 3 will be able to teach the New York State The development of Western economic thinking Learning Standards, to think through complex from Adam Smith to the present, stressing in its educational situations, to make effective teach- historical context the conflict between the mainstream ing decisions, and to communicate ideas to of economic thought and important alternatives such students, colleagues, parents, and concerned as the Marxist, institutional, and anarchist traditions. citizens. Emphasis is on the works of a few major writers. Prerequisites: EC 235 and 236, or permission of instructor. R. Rotheim A constructivist philosophy informs and directly affects the teaching of the Education Depart- EC 361. ADVANCED TOPICS IN ECONOMICS 3 ment faculty. Students are challenged to This course will give students an opportunity to study construct, to participate in, and to take respon- one or a few related current topics in economics at an sibility for their own learning and continued advanced level. While the topic(s), instructor, and professional development. Students integrate specific prerequisites will vary each time the course theory into practice at increasing levels of is offered, there will be at least one 200-level course responsibility and sophistication during field required. May be repeated with permission of depart- placement experiences. ment chair. The Department The education studies curriculum is designed EC 371, 372. INDEPENDENT STUDY 3, 3 to foster the following core knowledge, abili- An opportunity for qualified students to engage in ties, and commitments: delivering the content in-depth reading and research in any field of econom- knowledge of childhood education programs; ics. Project should be based on work in a 300-level course the student has taken. Each student works utilizing a constructivist model in instruction; closely with a faculty advisor and participates in a applying critical thinking and problem solving weekly independent study seminar. Prerequisite: skills; practicing communication and social permission of the department required. interaction skills; integrating assessment and The Department evaluation into reflective teaching practice; promoting cross cultural perspectives; facilitat- EC. 375 SENIOR SEMINAR 3 ing social justice and equity for all students; A capstone experience for senior economics majors, and contributing as professional leaders. this course builds on the theoretical framework developed in other economics courses to analyze The successful completion of a major in current economic-policy issues. Specific topics differ education studies prepares students as candi- from year to year. Representative topics include dates for an initial New York State certification inequality in the U.S., the Social Security debate, in childhood education (grades 1-6). Students unemployment and public policy, the economics of may also choose to minor in early childhood higher education, and economic and political reforms in Mexico. The Department education.

85 POLICIES AND PROCEDURES: The education studies major supports the New ED 100. EXPLORATION OF EARLY CHILD- Admission: Students must apply for admis- York State Education Department guidelines, HOOD CLASSROOM TEACHING 1 sion to the major during their sophomore year and it is approved by the New York State Edu- Observation and participation in the teaching and are selected on the basis of demon- cation Department. Prospective majors should programs of the Skidmore Early Childhood Center. strated competence in academic subjects and consult with Skidmore’s Department of Educa- Students are required to participate a minimum of two communication skills, and demonstrated tion during the spring of their first year to dis- hours per week in one of the assigned classrooms suitability for teaching. Students planning to cuss the major and plan a course program. under the supervision of the classroom teacher and meet one hour a week with other participants and a go abroad should talk to the department chair Formal application for acceptance to the pro- faculty member to discuss observation, experiences, in their first year. gram is made in the sophomore year. Students and issues. Non-liberal arts. J. Rubin Students who successfully complete the going abroad should explore the possibility of teacher education program, the Drug Educa- going abroad during the sophomore year or in ED 103. INTRODUCTION TO TEACHING 3 tion Workshop, and are recommended by the the summer in order to take ED233 and the Consideration of the role of the teacher, the nature of College will, upon graduation, be eligible for junior block on schedule. the learner, conceptions of teaching, factors affecting New York State certification. The New York All candidates for student teaching placements instructional decisions, philosophies of education that guide the practice of teaching, curriculum innovations State Certification Teacher Examinations must earn a C or better in each of the junior and trends, and the school as an institution. Includes (liberal arts and sciences, written assessment block courses, including the recommendation observation and field work in local schools, K-12. of teaching skills, and content speciality test) of the department. (Not open to students who have completed ED203.) are also required by the New York State Edu- Students must demonstrate proficiency during J. Rubin cation Department to be eligible for the New the student teaching experience in knowledge York Initial Certificate. (The initial certificate and performance skills with a grade of C or ED 104. HUMAN INTELLIGENCE(S) AND will be in childhood education, grades 1-6.) better in each placement in order to be recom- LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS 3 The initial certificate is valid for three years. An The investigation, analysis, and evaluation of re- mended for certification. extension of one year may be granted if the search, theory, and history concerning human certificate holder is completing a master's The nature of the program requires that the intelligence(s) and giftedness. Students will learn that degree or a higher degree program that is department reserve the right to limit the num- how and why we measure intelligence is related to required for the professional certificate. ber of students accepted. If interested in the the needs of a changing society. They will become major, students are urged to obtain material familiar with procedures for measuring intelligence Program enrollment for fall 1999 was sixty- from the Education Department office provid- and educational practices that respond to intellectual diversity. They will also develop an appreciation for eight students. Education students typically ing information concerning application proce- dures, acceptance criteria, and a detailed what it is like to possess exceptional or unusual spend sixteen weeks student teaching for thirty potential and better understand the unique character- program description. hours per week. In 1999-2000, twenty-two istics, needs, and concomitant problems of gifted students completed their student teaching and learners. Students will examine qualities of learning twenty-five undergraduate students completed HONORS: To be eligible for departmental environments that are responsive to these needs and the program, then titled Liberal Studies with honors, a student must (1) complete all de- abilities. Readings and audiovisual materials will be Provisional Certification in Elementary Educa- partmental requirements for the education used to demonstrate how theory informs practice. tion. Of those twenty-five, twenty-four individu- major and have a grade-point average of 3.5 J. Rubin als took the Assessment of Teaching Skills– or higher for all course work taken in the Written test for the New York State Certifica- department; (2) complete ED350 with a grade ED 200. CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND tion for Teachers Examination (NYSCTE). of A- or better; (3) complete ED351 with a LEARNING 3 Skidmore's pass rate was 100 percent. grade of A for the research paper or project, Development of the child to age twelve with a focus which must also be presented to the faculty; on learning, factors affecting learning potential, and Note: Changes in regulations enacted by the and (4) have a grade-point average of 3.0 or recent research on cognitive development. Students engage in systematic observations of children New York State Board of Regents and the higher for all course work taken at Skidmore. attending the Greenberg Child Care Center on the State Legislature modify and take precedence Skidmore campus. Required of majors. Must be EARLY CHILDHOOD MINOR: Students wishing over the above certification procedures. completed before the second semester of the junior to pursue this minor should consult with the year. R. A. Levinson THE EDUCATION STUDIES MAJOR Education Department. Required courses The education studies major must success- include ED200 or PS207, ED213, 222, 231A, ED 213. THE EXCEPTIONAL CHILD IN THE fully complete the following courses: 322, and one of the following: PS305, AR358, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 3 ED371, SB315, or ED314. A comprehensive survey of the field of special (Classes of 2002 and 2003) education with special emphasis on individual differ- EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: The center is ences and the strategies for adapting programs to 1. ED 200, 215, 231A or B, 233, 335, 336, a lab school affiliated with the Education educationally handicapped and gifted children. 342, 344, 350 Department. As a lab school, its mission in- Topics will include the impact of PL 94-142 and cludes service to children and their families, Section 504 on the elementary school program. Fall 2. A concentration or a major in one of the semester. D. Brent liberal arts or sciences. the education of college students, and re- search. The faculty and staff have expertise in the supervision of college students’ lab experi- ED 215. SCHOOL AND SOCIETY 3 (Class of 2004 and beyond) An introduction to the social, historical, and philo- ences and in the design and implementation of 1. ED 200, 215, 231A or B, 233, 335, 336, sophical foundations of the issues involved in educat- learning experiences for young children. ing young people in the United States. The social 337, 344, 350 Skidmore students, who may participate context of education in the U.S. is explored, including 2. A minor in a liberal arts and sciences disci- through academic programs, the Work Study the influence of the courts, politics, multiculturalism, pline. Program, or volunteerism, have the opportu- and recurring controversy over issues of race, class, nity to observe academic theory applied and and gender. In addition, this course will help students 3. Additional liberal arts and sciences courses; tested in the real world. The center operates a develop the skills necessary for interpreting and at least one course from each of the following prekindergarten class and classes for three- resolving new issues as they arise, including a three categories: American history, mathemat- and four-year-old children. critical, reflective perspective toward the public ics and sciences, and social sciences and debate of educational issues. (Fulfills social sciences humanities. A list of recommended courses to SECONDARY EDUCATION: Skidmore’s requirement.) P. Michalec fulfill this requirement is available in the Edu- affiliated program with Union College leads to cation Department office. a master of arts in teaching. See Preparation for Professions and Affiliated Programs. 86 ED 216. HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN THE ED 299. PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP IN ED 337. CHILD DEVELOPMENT II: THEORY UNITED STATES 3 EDUCATION 3 INTO PRACTICE 4 An examination, from a historical perspective, of the Internship opportunity for students whose curricular An advanced course that increases specialized child role of formal and informal education in the United foundations and cocurricular experiences have development knowledge and skills. Students will use States with particular attention to the origins and prepared them for professional work related to the course content and assignments in classroom situa- evolution of the common school, the changing status major field. With faculty sponsorship and departmen- tions to develop teaching practices that promote of children, and related social issues. Prerequisite: tal approval, students may extend their educational inclusive classroom learning environments. Topics one course in United States history or American experience into specialized educational programs include: general knowledge of the most common studies, or permission of instructor. Not open to such as preschool, gifted and talented, special needs special needs and learning disabilities among el- students who have taken ED315. (Fulfills LS2 students, or educational administration. Does not ementary school students; introduction to models of requirement.) P. Michalec count toward the major. Non-liberal arts. inclusion classrooms; perspectives and approaches The Department to behavior and classroom management; teaching ED 217. ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION IN THE and learning processes that foster academic achieve- UNITED STATES: POLITICAL AND ED 314. EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT AND ment and positive classroom communities; design SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES 3 THE EXCEPTIONAL CHILD 3 and implementation of individualized interventions; Alternative education models have historically been a The study of educational assessment procedures and and theories and strategies for social-skills building. vital component of the educational environment of the instruments and their interpretation and application in Prerequisite: ED200 and open only to juniors admit- United States. Students will investigate a variety of preparing educational environments for children who ted to the professional sequence. R. A. Levinson alternative education models from at least three are disabled and nondisabled. Students will develop perspectives: historical, political, and social. Students comprehensive evaluation plans, design criterion ED 344. PRACTICUM IN INTEGRATED in this course will study the origins and motivations to referenced tests and observational systems, and CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION 4 create alternative education models and the effects assess individual children. Prerequisite: ED213. Prepares students to make informed decisions that implementation of these models may have on the Spring semester. Non-liberal arts. D. Brent related to curriculum and instruction in elementary learning and policy decisions related to education at education. Topics include lesson planning, choosing the local, state, and national levels. (Fulfills LS2 ED 322. LEARNING IN EARLY CHILDHOOD resources to support student learning, applying requirement.) The Department SETTINGS 4 various instructional strategies including the use of The application of developmental curricula to technology, using assessment data to strengthen the ED 222. THE YOUNG CHILD AND THE learning settings for young children. Students will teaching/learning process, and learning to use self- EDUCATIONAL PROCESS 3 participate two half-days each week in a classroom evaluation and reflection. The social studies curricu- The study of child development and educational setting within the Skidmore Early Childhood Center or lum will be the focus for modeling integrated practice as it pertains to young children from birth to in an early-childhood program within the community teaching. Throughout the semester students will have eight years. The course includes a history of early at the N-3 level. The course will focus on planning supervised observations as they practice their skills childhood programs and a consideration of different strategies, teaching styles and techniques, manage- in elementary school classrooms. Taken concurrently program models. Students will engage in extensive ment, relevant legislation, issues and trends in the with ED335, 336, and 337. Open only to juniors observation at the Skidmore Early Childhood Center, fields of education, as well as observation and admitted to the professional sequence or permission as well as selected off-campus environments, to assessment. Prerequisite: ED222. Spring semester. of instructor. Non-liberal arts. J. Rubin strengthen understanding of models of early educa- Non-liberal arts. K. Brackett tion. Prerequisite: ED200 or PS207. Fall semester. ED 350. ELEMENTARY EDUCATION K. Brackett ED 323. ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT 3 STUDENT TEACHING 16 Examination of the adolescent period to determine Student teaching integrated with methods and ED 231. CHILDREN’S LITERATURE 3 what characteristics distinguish this stage of life from materials of teaching in the elementary school using A survey of children’s literature. Students will be that of childhood and adulthood. Readings from a full-time semester block plan. Seniors who have introduced to a variety of genres, authors, and anthropological, historical, sociological, biological, satisfactorily completed the junior year program and illustrators with an emphasis on selection criteria and psychological, and literary perspectives are used to have demonstrated professional attitudes and prac- implementation of literature-based programs in the investigate the adolescent experience and to deter- tices included in the program description are eligible. elementary classroom. A consideration of trends and mine whether it is universal or particular. Not open to Fall semester only. Non-liberal arts. issues in children’s literature. Exploration of topics students who have taken ED202. Prerequisites: The Department related to censorship, gender roles, violence, and ED200, PS201 or PS207 or permission of instructor. political and social themes. A. Literature for the D. Brent ED 351. ISSUES IN EDUCATION 3 young child, or B. Literature for the older child. Both A colloquium in which students research and discuss sections are not open to first-year students. S. Lehr ED 335. TEACHING READING IN THE current issues in education. A major paper reporting ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 4 the results of library or empirical research is required. ED 233. EMERGENT LITERACY 4 An advanced reading course which includes the While students are encouraged to pursue topics A general introduction to children’s emergent literacy effective teaching of reading in the content areas, which integrate work in the major or concentration using a sociopsycholinguistic framework. Topics constructing and administering informal reading and educational issues, other topics may be consid- include children’s language acquisition; the nature of inventories, exploring current models of remediation ered, especially for those students with a double language; language variations and implications for and implementing thematic webbing in the elemen- major. Meets the department requirement that senior teaching the history of the English language as a tary classroom. Taken concurrently with ED336, 337, majors complete a major paper and culminating basis for exploring the history of reading instruction in and 344. Prerequisite: ED233. Open only to juniors experience. Required of senior majors. Note: Begin- the United States; basic linguistic concepts and their admitted to the professional sequence or permission ning with the Class of 2001, required only of those relation to controversial phonics instruction in the of instructor. Non-liberal arts. S. Lehr senior majors seeking departmental honors. United States; models of reading and an understand- The Department ing of the reading process; writing development in ED 336. TEACHING ELEMENTARY young children; the writing process and spelling MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE 4 ED 361. ADVANCED TOPICS IN development; the use of literature as the basis of the A course designed to introduce students to current EDUCATION 3 reading program. Prerequisite: Open only to juniors principles and methods for teaching mathematics and Advanced study of selected topics in education. admitted to the professional sequence or permission science in the elementary school. Topics and content Such topics may differ from year to year and might of instructor. Fall semester. S. Lehr will be addressed using active-learning and coopera- include: “The Classical Roots of Western Education,” tive-learning strategies, manipulative materials, “From Orbis Pictus to Alice in Wonderland: The ED 261. THEMES IN EDUCATION 3 active-assessment and technology-based-assess- History of Children’s Books,” and “A History of Introductory exploration of selected topics in educa- ment techniques, and current research of interest and Women in Education.” This course may be repeated tion. Such topics may differ from year to year and relevance to educators. Taken concurrently with with a different topic. The Department might include: “Technology and Education,” “The ED335, 337, and 344. Open only to juniors admitted Image of the Child in Literature,” “The Art of Picture to the professional sequence or permission of instruc- Book Illustration,” and “Comparative Studies in tor. Non-liberal arts. The Department Education.” This course may be repeated with a different topic. The Department 87 ED 371, 372. INDEPENDENT STUDY IN THE C. Three addditional courses from the FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION 3, 3 English categories “Advanced Courses in British An opportunity for study in depth of an educational and American Literature” or “Senior Tuto- problem. The topic is chosen by the student. One or rial Studies.” more investigative approaches may be utilized, such Chair of the Department of English: Terence as selected readings, field projects, and case studies. Diggory D. One additional 300-level English course. Students should consult the chair of the department Associate Chair: Kate Greenspan to plan their study. These units are or are not credited *EN363, 364, 377, and 378 are generic de- scriptions; individual offerings with those as units in liberal arts, at the discretion of both the Professors: Robert Boyers, Tisch Professor of numbers may or may not fit into the period department chair and the registrar (and, in excep- Arts and Letters; Thomas S. W. Lewis, designated by the requirement. Consequently, tional instances, the Curriculum Committee of the Quadracci Professor of Social Responsibility; the department must approve requirements College). The Department Murray J. Levith; Phyllis A. Roth; Barry fulfilled by EN363, 363, 377, or 378. Goldensohn; Regina M. Janes; Terence AR 358. ART FOR CHILDREN 4 Diggory, Courtney and Steven Ross Profes- Note: Before enrolling in any 300-level course, Introduction to the basic materials, methods, and techniques used in the classroom as related to sor of Interdisciplinary Studies; Steven majors must complete EN201, 202 in se- elementary school curriculum, children’s needs, Millhauser; Susan Kress, Class of 1948 Pro- quence, and EN211, or 213, or 215. interests, and development. The role of art in a fessor for Excellence in Teaching; Sarah The ability to write is fundamental to the humanities program will also be considered. Non- Webster Goodwin; Kathryn Davis; Victor L. English major. The department strongly liberal arts. Doretta Miller Cahn; Catherine Golden; Steve Stern recommends that all majors complete at least Associate Professors: James Kiehl, *Jon R. one writing course from: EN205, 206, or 303. Ramsey, Joanne Devine, Rajagopal Partha- sarathy, Philip Boshoff, Michael S. Marx, Kate INTERDEPARTMENTAL MAJORS: In Greenspan, Barbara Black, Linda Simon conjunction with the relevant departments, the English Department offers majors in English- Visiting Associate Professors: Alan Wheelock, philosophy, English-French, English-German, Carol Batker, Janet G. Casey and English-Spanish. Students wishing to Assistant Professor: Mason Stokes declare an interdepartmental major should Visiting Assistant Professors: Francois consult with the chairs for specific program Bonneville, Michele Morano planning. See Interdepartmental Majors. Writer-in-Residence: Greg Hrbek HONORS: Departmental honors are awarded Lecturers: *Marc Woodworth, Steven Pearlman to a senior major who has maintained the required college and department grade aver- ages and who, by the end of the first semester The English Department offers various of the senior year, has filed with the depart- perspectives on the study of language and ment a Declaration of Intention to Qualify for literature. In consultation with a faculty advisor, Honors or who has enrolled in Senior Thesis. students design their programs to meet indi- In addition to the necessary grade averages, vidual interests and goals. While the introduc- qualification requires work of exceptional merit tory requirement gives students an under- in a Senior Thesis, Senior Project, Senior standing of genres, a foundation in literary Research Seminar, or Senior Honors Plan, history, and training in close reading, the specified in the student’s Declaration, that will advanced requirement allows students a represent a culmination of the student’s work chance to pursue individual interests. in the major.

THE ENGLISH MAJOR: In addition to fulfilling THE ENGLISH MINOR: Students wishing to all-college requirements for the B.A. degree, declare a minor in English should consult with the English major requires a minimum of thirty- the chair for specific program planning. The two credit hours and a total of at least ten minor normally includes six courses in one of courses (four at the 200 level and six at the three areas of concentration: 300 level), as follows: I. Introductory requirement: four courses the Literature: Six courses, including two chosen from 200 level the category Advanced Courses in British and American Literature (other than EN371 and 372), A. Evolving Canon requirement: EN201, and three from the categories Genre Courses, 202, Evolving Canon I and II, in that order General Courses, and Literature in Translation. B. Genre requirement: one course from Creative Writing: Six courses, including EN281 or among EN211, 213, 215 282; 211 or 213; at least two from the category C. Topics requirement: one course from Advanced Courses in British and American Litera- among EN205, 206, 207, 208, 217, 223, ture (other than EN371 and 372); and one of the 225, 227, 229, 230, 231, 232, 234, 243 following combinations: (a) 379 and 380; (b) two II. Advanced requirement: six courses at the semesters of either 379 or 380; (c) 380 and either 300 level 381 or an Independent Study in writing; (d) 379 and either 381 or an Independent Study in writing. A. Early Period requirement: one course from among EN341, 342, 343, 344, 345, Expository Writing: Six courses, including EN205 346, 347, 348, 350, 363A *, or when indi- or 206; 207; 303 or an advanced writing project cated in department prospectus copy, 377*, developed within the guidelines of EN373, 374, or 378* 399; and two courses from the categories Genre B. Later Period requirement: one course Courses, General Courses, Literature in Transla- from among EN315, 316, 351, 352, 356, tion, and Advanced Courses in British and Ameri- 363B*, or when indicated in department can Literature (other than EN371 and 372). 88 prospectus copy, 377*, 378* Students wishing to complete a minor in EN 105. WRITING SEMINAR II 4 EN 206. WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE 3 English should file a Declaration of Minor with This seminar immerses students in the process of Writing and revising short critical essays on literary the Registrar before the last semester of the producing finished analytical essays informed by topics in various genres: drama, verse, prose fiction. senior year at Skidmore and maintain at least critical reading and careful reasoning. Special atten- Instruction in ordering ideas and in focusing a topic a 2.0 grade average in their concentration for tion is given to developing ideas, writing from by assessing purpose and audience and by making the minor. Courses at the 100 level may not be sources, organizing material, and revising drafts. an acute thesis and choosing a voice for effect. Also credited toward the minor. Additional emphasis is on grammar, style, and formal instruction in supporting the thesis and managing conventions of writing. Students respond to one secondary sources: qualities of evidence and reason- Note: 200-level courses in English are open to another's work in workshops or peer critique ses- ing; methods of persuasive demonstration and first-year students unless prerequisites or sions. Weekly informal writing complements assign- explanation; manners of citation. Primarily for sopho- restrictions are stated in the description. ments of longer finished papers. This course fulfills more and junior English majors, this course assists the all-College requirement in expository writing. students already competent at writing explanatory ENHANCED COURSES The Department essays to develop the more specialized skills Selected English courses that ordinarily carry demanded for writing about literature. Prerequisite: three credit hours may carry four credit hours EN 105H. WRITING SEMINAR II 4 EN105 or 105H and either 211, 213, or 215; or when designated as enhanced courses, devel- The honors sections of EN105 offer highly motivated permission of instructor. The Department oping particular student skills and offering a students with strong verbal skills the opportunity to distinctive approach to learning. Enhanced refine their ability to analyze sophisticated ideas, to EN 303H. PEER TUTORING PROJECT IN courses are so designated in the master sched- hone their rhetorical strategies, and to develop EXPOSITORY WRITING 4 ule and follow one of the following models: cogent arguments. Toward these goals, students Examination of rhetoric, grammar, and composition write and revise essays drawing upon a variety of theory essential to writing, collaborative learning, and Research in Language and Literary Studies challenging readings and critique each other's work peer tutoring. Students practice analytical writing and (designated xxxR): students develop re- with an eye to depth and complexity of thought, logic critique expository essays. Weekly writing assign- search questions, establish bibliography, of supporting evidence, and subtleties of style. The ments and a term project explore composition theory review relevant literature, assess sources, English Department places some students in and tutoring practices and analyze EN 103 assign- and present research findings in written EN105H and encourages other students to consult ments. Participation in a weekly supervised peer reports and/or oral presentations. with their advisors, the director of the Honors Forum, tutoring practicum with EN 103 students. Prerequi- or the director of the Expository Writing Program to site: EN 201 and 202 (in sequence); and EN 211, or Collaborative Learning in Language and Liter- determine if this level of Writing Seminar is appropri- 213, or 215; and upperclass standing; and permis- ary Studies (xxxCL): students work collec- ate. Each section of EN105H focuses on a topic that sion of instructor. (This is an Honors course.) tively or independently to contribute to group is listed in the master schedule and described in the P. Boshoff, C. Golden, M. Marx, or L. Simon products, make group presentations, and/or English Department's prospectus and on its Web present collaborative papers. page. This course fulfills the all-College requirement Writing in Language and Literary Studies in expository writing. The Department COURSES IN LANGUAGE (xxxW): students spend additional time drafting, revising, and critiquing to hone their EN 205. NONFICTION WRITING 4 EN 207. THE NATURE OF LANGUAGE 3 strategies of argumentation and analysis, to Intensive practice in writing nonfiction prose, with A general introduction to language with special emphasis on expanding the writer’s options, finding emphasis on the nature and structure of linguistic assess their writing in the context of profes- a distinctive voice, and using strategies of inquiry, systems, the representation of meaning in language, sional literary criticism, and to attend not description, exposition, argumentation, and persua- and social and biological aspects of human language. only to content but also to style and voice in sion. Prerequisite: completion of College expository Topics include study of the origins and defining their critical papers. writing requirement. (This course may be repeated characteristics of language; the relationship between Critical Perspectives in Literary Studies for credit with a different topic.) The Department language and culture; the causes and impact of language variation; children’s acquisition of language; (xxxCP): students study critical and/or A. Argumentation. Instruction in classical and and the manipulation of language, especially in the theoretical perspectives and apply them to contemporary argumentative writing. Practice in media and in advertising. J. Devine particular literary works. taking a stand and building a case. Analysis of arguments from the perspective of logic, rhetorical EN 208. LANGUAGE AND GENDER 3 appeals, and audience. COURSES IN COMPOSITION Investigates the interaction of language and gender B. Personal Experience and the Critical Voice. by raising questions about society and culture in Intensive practice in the writing of polished essays EN A. WRITING CLINIC relation to language use. Systematic examination of that begin with the writer’s experiences and move on For those students in the College who are having the following topics: the historical roots of both to explore the relationship of the self to the larger difficulty writing essays and term papers. The student beliefs and practices related to gendered-language world. Emphasis will be placed on finding a personal attends private tutorial sessions with an English differences in speech and writing; differing structural voice, exploring a variety of contemporary issues, instructor. No credit. The Department and functional characteristics of the language used developing one’s ideas, and effectively revising one’s by women and men; the development of these work. Readings include personal essays by both EN 100. ENGLISH LANGUAGE SKILLS 3 differences in early childhood and their personal and classic and contemporary writers such as Montaigne, Basic skills of the English language for special social purposes; and the language behavior of men Lamb, Didion, and Gates. interest students requiring such a course. Non-liberal and women in cross-cultural contexts. J. Devine arts. The Department C. The Arts Review. Intensive practice in writing arts reviews on topics such as art exhibits, music EN 103. WRITING SEMINAR I 4 performances, dance, films, public lectures, and GENRE COURSES Introduction to expository writing with weekly current literature. Writing assignments focus on forms writing assignments emphasizing skills in developing such as the short review, the essay review, and the EN 211. FICTION 3 ideas, organizing material, and creating thesis profile. Reading of selected reviews by accomplished Designed to enhance the student’s capacity to read statements. Assignments provide practice in descrip- writers and critics, and analysis of writing from the novels and short stories. Explores fundamental tion, definition, comparison and contrast, and argu- popular press, scholarly journals, and arts maga- techniques of fiction, such as symbol and myth, irony, mentation. Additional focus on grammar, syntax, and zines. Requirements for the course include atten- parody, and stream-of-consciousness, within both usage. Students and instructor meet in seminar three dance at arts events on the Skidmore campus and conventional and experimental forms. Recommended hours a week; students are also required to meet throughout the Capital District. preparation for advanced courses in fiction. (Fulfills regularly with a Writing Center tutor. This course D. Special Topics in Nonfiction Writing. humanities requirement.) The Department does not fulfill the all-College requirement in exposi- Intensive practice in a particular form of expository tory writing. The Department writing or intensive exploration of a subject with special attention to style and the development of the writer’s voice. Topics may include, for example, biog- raphy, technical writing, or writing and the Internet.

89 EN 213. POETRY 3 EN 225. INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE 3 EN 335. THE CONTINENTAL NOVEL: Designed to bring the general student into a familiar Selected comedies, histories, and tragedies. Prima- NINETEENTH CENTURY 3 relationship with the language and structure of rily for nonmajors. M. Levith, V. Cahn, or The continental novel as an expression of nineteenth- poetry. General readings from the whole range of K. Greenspan century social, intellectual, and artistic problems; not English and American poetry—from early ballads to an historical survey. Goethe, Stendhal, Flaubert, contemporary free forms—introduce students to EN 227. INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN- Gogol, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Zola. Pre- representative poets and forms. Recommended AMERICAN LITERATURE 3 requisite: EN201 and 202 (in sequence); and EN211, preparation for all advanced courses in poetry. A chronological exploration of literature by African- or 213, or 215; or permission of the instructor. (Fulfills humanities requirement.) The Department Americans from the early 1700s to the present, R. Boyers or S. Goodwin focusing on changes in the content and style and the EN 215. DRAMA 3 reasons for those changes, as well as on specific EN 336. THE CONTINENTAL NOVEL: The study of drama as literature. Reading of plays writers. M. Stokes TWENTIETH CENTURY 3 from different historic periods, focusing on modes of The continental novel as an expression of twentieth- comedy, tragedy, romance, tragicomedy, and melo- EN 229. SPECIAL STUDIES IN LITERATURE 3 century social, intellectual, and artistic problems; not drama. Introduction to the varied possibilities of form, Introduction to a selected topic in literature and/or an historical survey. Readings include Proust, Gide, such as expressionism, naturalism, and the absurd. language. May be repeated with a different topic. Mann, and other major novelists. Prerequisite: EN201 Recommended preparation for advanced courses in The Department and 202 (in sequence); and EN211, or 213, or 215; or drama. (Fulfills humanities requirement.) permission of the instructor. R. Boyers or S. Goodwin The Department EN 243. NON-WESTERN ENGLISH LITERATURE 3 EN 339. MODERN EUROPEAN DRAMA 3 EN 217. FILM 3 A study of the literatures in English from the Third Modern writers and principal modes (realism, expres- Study of selected films that demonstrate the develop- World (India, Africa, and the Caribbean) since the sionism, absurdism) of the European drama since the ment of various rhetorical or expressive techniques in end of colonialism. Major writers studied include late nineteenth century. Readings in such figures as the history of the movies. The course offers practical Narayan, Rao, Anand, Achebe, Ngugi, Aidoo, Head, Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Pirandello, Brecht, approaches to film as a medium of communication Naipaul, Walcott, and Rhys. Students read the texts Ionesco, Genet, Beckett. Prerequisite: EN201 and and as an art by examining a historical and interna- in an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural context. The 202 (in sequence); and EN211, or 213, or 215; or tional array of films — both English language and course examines the implications of the emergence permission of the instructor. T. Diggory or V. Cahn subtitled — by such masters as: Griffith, Eisenstein, of English as a global lingua franca, the conditions of Chaplin, Stroheim, Lubitsch, Murnau, Pabst, Lang, societies caught up between the opposing pressures COURSES IN CREATIVE WRITING Clair, Sternberg, Renoir, Carne, Hitchcock, Wells, of tradition and modernity, and the displacement of Ford, DeSica, Rossellini, Ozu, Bergman, Antonioni, the oral by the written tradition. (Designated a non- Ray, Truffaut, Resnais, Tanner, and others. Lab fee: Western culture course.) R. Parthasarathy EN 281. INTRODUCTION TO FICTION $25. R. Boyers, J. Kiehl, or A. Wheelock WRITING 3 An introduction to the writing of short stories. Writing LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION and reading assignments are geared to the beginning GENERAL COURSES writer of fiction. Workshop format with the majority of EN 230. THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE 3 class time devoted to discussions of student writing. Acquaints students with the contents of the Bible, Prerequisite: EN211. (Fulfills arts requirement.) EN 201. EVOLVING CANON I 4 introduces them to its history (dates of composition, K. Davis, S. Millhauser, S. Stern, or G. Hrbek The first of a coordinated pair of courses offering establishment of canon, history of translations , instruction in key writers, important texts, and the especially in English), and provides practice in EN 282. INTRODUCTION TO POETRY historical sequence of literary movements from identifying and interpreting Biblical allusion in literary WRITING 3 classical, continental, British, and American literature. works. Some attention will also be given to doctrines An introduction to the writing of poetry. Writing and Evolving Canon I extends chronologically through and theological controversy. R. Janes reading assignments are geared to the beginning the first half of the seventeenth century. Intended as poet. Workshop format with the majority of class time a foundation for the English major, this course EN 231. NON-WESTERN LITERATURE: devoted to discussions of student writing. Prerequi- establishes a shared experience of texts and con- THE CLASSICAL WORLD 3 site: EN213. (Fulfills arts requirement.) cepts. Required of all majors as preparation for 300- Hebrew, Sanskrit, Chinese, and Japanese literatures B. Goldensohn or R. Parthasarathy level courses. EN 201 is a prerequisite for EN 202. in translation; readings may include books from the (Fulfills humanities requirement.) The Department Hebrew Bible; selections from the Mahabharata, the EN 379. POETRY WORKSHOP 3 EN 202. EVOLVING CANON II 4 works of Kalidasa, Somadeva, Li Po, Tu Fu, Po Intensive practice in the writing of poetry. May be The second of a coordinated pair of courses offering Chu-i, Wu Ch’eng-en, and Murasaki Shikibu. repeated once for credit . Workshop format with most instruction in key writers, important texts, and the Students read the texts in an interdisciplinary and class time devoted to discussion of student writing. historical sequence of literary movements from cross-cultural context. (Designated a non-Western Reading and weekly writing assignments aimed at classical, continental, British, and American literature. culture course.) R. Parthasarathy increasing the poet’s range and technical sophistica- Evolving Canon II extends chronologically from the tion. Prerequisite: EN201 and 202 (in sequence); and second half of the seventeenth century through the EN 232. NON-WESTERN LITERATURE: EN282; or permission of instructor. B. Goldensohn early twentieth century. Intended as a foundation for THE MODERN WORLD 3 the English major, this course establishes a shared Hebrew, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Chinese, and Japa- EN 380. FICTION WORKSHOP 3 experience of texts and concepts. Required of all nese literatures in translation; readings may include Intensive practice in the writing of fiction. May be majors as preparation for 300-level courses. Prereq- selections from the works of Agnon, Amichai, Oz, repeated once for credit. Workshop format with most uisite: Evolving Canon I. The Department Megged, Yizhar, Premchand, Manto, Tagore, Lu Xun, class time devoted to discussion of student writing. Zhang Jie, Kawabata, Mishima, Enchi Fumiko, and Readings and weekly writing assignments aimed at EN 223. WOMEN AND LITERATURE 3 Hayashi Fumiko. Students read the texts in an increasing the fiction writer’s range and technical An introduction to the study of women and literature, interdisciplinary and cross-cultural context. (Desig- sophistication. Prerequisite: EN201 and 202 (in with particular attention to the various ways literary nated a non-Western culture course.) sequence); and EN281; or permission of instructor. works have helped construct and also question R. Parthasarathy K. Davis, S. Millhauser, S. Stern, or G. Hrbek differences between femininity and masculinity. Matters considered include defining basic terms EN 234. WESTERN LITERATURE: EN 381. ADVANCED PROJECTS IN WRITING 3 (character, plot, genre, author, sex, gender) and THE MODERN WORLD 3 Workshop format concentrating on discussion of exploring the relations among those terms. Books of the New Testament; selections from projects. The instructor determines whether the The Department the works of St. Augustine, Apuleius, Dante, course will be offered in fiction or in poetry. Prepara- Rabelais, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Cervantes, tion of manuscript to be considered for departmental Swift, Nietzsche, and Dostoyevsky. (Fulfills humani- honors, in support of application for graduate writing ties requirement.) The Department programs, and/or for publication. Prerequisite: Two sections in the workshop of the appropriate genre (EN379 for Advanced Projects in Poetry, EN380 for Advanced Projects in Fiction); or permission of 90 instructor. The Department ADVANCED COURSES IN BRITISH AND EN 342. CHAUCER 3 EN 350. RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH- AMERICAN LITERATURE Chaucer’s dream visions and The Canterbury Tales CENTURY LITERATURE 3 (ca. 1370-1400). The social, economic, religious, and Literature in the ages of Dryden, Congreve, Swift, EN 310. THE AMERICAN NOVEL 3 literary background of the High Middle Ages will Addison, Pope, Johnson, and Sheridan. Plays, Critical approaches to the American novel. Readings clarify the satiric aspects of individual tales. essays, and the tradition of derivative-epic poems, may vary from one year to the next, but usually Chaucer’s innovative handling of the conventions of studied with regard to major social and intellectual include works by Hawthorne, Melville, James, Twain, frame and link-between-tales leads to speculation dispositions of culture: humanism, the new science, Dreiser, Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, Bellow, and about the structure of the fragment as a competitive individualism, psychology, mercantilism, urbanization, Morrison. Prerequisite: EN201 and 202 (in sequence); sequence and about the formal correlatives to a and sentimentality. The study appreciates the vigor- and EN211, or 213, or 215; or permission of the justice if not judicial at least poetic. Prerequisite: ously renewed dramatic tradition from the reopening instructor. S. Kress, A. Wheelock, or M. Stokes EN201 and 202 (in sequence); and EN211, or 213, or of the theaters in 1660. It also recognizes the shift 215; or permission of the instructor. K. Greenspan from patrician verse toward bourgeois prose manner EN 311. RECENT FICTION 3 in literature. Prerequisite: EN201 and 202 (in se- Studies of selected works of fiction published since EN 343. ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN quence); and EN211, or 213, or 215; or permission of the 1960s, with particular reference to the expanding DRAMA 3 the instructor. J. Kiehl or R. Janes possibilities of the genre. The readings feature Study of the drama of the late sixteenth and early authors such as Donald Barthelme, Heinrich Boll, seventeenth centuries, exclusive of Shakespeare, but EN 351. ENGLISH ROMANTICISM 3 Jorge Luis Borges, Margaret Drabble, John Fowles, including such writers as Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, Studies in English romanticism, its philosophic and John Gardner, William Gass, Gabriel Garciá Beaumont and Fletcher. Prerequisite: EN201 and psychological departures from neoclassic poetry, Márquez, and Joyce Carol Oates. Prerequisite: 202 (in sequence); and EN211, or 213, or 215; or and its consequences for modern literature. Empha- EN201 and 202 (in sequence); and EN211, or 213, or permission of the instructor. Offered alternate years. sis on the major works of Blake, Coleridge, Words- 215; or permission of instructor. The Department M. Levith or R. Janes worth, Byron, Keats, and Shelley. Prerequisite: EN201 and 202 (in sequence); and EN211, or 213, or EN 312. MODERN ENGLISH NOVEL 3 EN 344. SPECIAL STUDIES IN SIXTEENTH- 215; or permission of the instructor. Study of generic, thematic, and cultural relationships CENTURY, NON-DRAMATIC S. Goodwin, J. Ramsey, or B. Black among selected novels of early twentieth-century LITERATURE 3 writers such as Conrad, Ford, Joyce, Lawrence, Topics, genres, traditions and authors selected from EN 352. VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND Forster, Woolf, and Huxley. Prerequisite: EN201 and the wide range of sixteenth-century non-dramatic CULTURE 3 202 (in sequence); and EN211, or 213, or 215; or literature, poetry and/or prose. Topics studied may A study of nineteenth-century English literature and permission of the instructor. draw on such authors as More, Sidney, Spenser, thought, featuring such principal prose writers as T. Lewis, J. Kiehl, or P. Boshoff Shakespeare, and Queen Elizabeth. Selections will John Stuart Mill, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, vary depending upon the area of interest emphasized Thomas Carlyle, Walter Pater, and William Morris, EN 313. MODERNIST POETRY: 1890-1940 3 in a given semester. Prerequisite: EN201 and 202 and such poets as Alfred Tennyson, Robert Brown- A study of major British, Irish, and American poets as (in sequence); and EN211, or 213, or 215; or permis- ing, and Christina Rossetti. Emphasis is given to a exponents of modernity—Yeats, Lawrence, Moore, sion of the instructor. Offered alternate years. wide range of topics including political reform, Frost, Eliot, Pound, and Stevens. Prerequisite: M. Levith or R. Janes evolution, the rise of liberalism, the hero in history, EN201 and 202 (in sequence); and EN211, or 213, or the meaning of literary ideas, and conceptions of 215; or permission of the instructor. R. Boyers, EN 345. SHAKESPEARE: COMEDIES, beauty. Prerequisite: EN201 and 202 (in sequence); T. Diggory, B. Goldensohn, or R. Parthasarathy HISTORIES AND ROMANCES 3 and EN211, or 213, or 215; or permission of instructor. A study of selected comedies, histories, and ro- R. Boyers or B. Black EN 314. CONTEMPORARY POETRY 3 mances. Prerequisite: EN201 and 202 (in sequence); A study of British, Irish, and American poets since the and EN211, or 213, or 215; or permission of the EN 356. AMERICAN ROMANTICISM 3 1930s—Auden, Thomas, Larkin, Heaney, Lowell, instructor. M. Levith or V. Cahn Studies in American literature in the first half of the Berryman, Plath, and Rich. Prerequisite: EN201 and nineteenth century, with particular attention to the New 202 (in sequence); and EN211, or 213, or 215; or EN 346. SHAKESPEARE: THE TRAGEDIES 3 England Transcendentalist movement. Readings may permission of the instructor. R. Boyers, T. Diggory, A study of ten tragedies. Prerequisite: EN201 and vary from one year to the next, but usually include B. Goldensohn or R. Parthasarathy 202 (in sequence); and EN211, or 213, or 215; or works by Irving, Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Emerson, permission of the instructor. M. Levith or V. Cahn Thoreau, Fuller, Melville, Stowe, Douglass, and EN 315. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NOVEL 3 Whitman. Prerequisite: EN201 and 202 (in sequence); A generic, thematic, and cultural consideration of EN 347. SPECIAL STUDIES IN and EN211, or 213, or 215; or permission of instructor. selected romances and novels by Behn, Defoe, Swift, SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY, S. Kress, T. Lewis, or M. Stokes Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Goldsmith, Burney, and NONDRAMATIC LITERATURE 3 Austen. The study begins with the formulae of fic- Topics, genres, traditions and authors selected from EN 357. THE RISE OF MODERN AMERICAN tional romance and examines the development of the the non-dramatic literature of the seventeenth cen- LITERATURE 3 more sophisticated, psychological novel as it rises to tury, poetry and/or prose. Selections will vary de- Studies in American literature extending from the eminence in English literature. Prerequisite: EN201 pending upon the area of interest emphasized in a Civil War to World War I and remarking the disinte- and 202 (in sequence); and EN211, or 213, or 215; or given semester. Topics studied may draw on such gration of Romanticism. Readings may vary from one permission of the instructor. J. Kiehl or R. Janes authors as Donne, Jonson, Bacon, Burton, Locke, year to the next, but usually include works by Twain, Newton, and others. Prerequisite: EN201 and 202 Howells, Dickinson, James, Chopin, Crane, Dreiser, EN 316. NINETEENTH-CENTURY NOVEL 3 (in sequence); and EN211, or 213, or 215; or permis- Wharton, Frost, and Robinson. Prerequisite: EN201 A generic, thematic and cultural consideration of sion of the instructor. EN213, 230, 234. Offered and 202 (in sequence); and EN211, or 213, or 215; or selected novels by Austen, the Brontes, Thackeray, alternate years. M. Levith or B. Goldensohn permission of instructor. S. Kress, Dickens, Eliot, Trollope, and others. Prerequisite: A. Wheelock, or M. Stokes EN201 and 202 (in sequence); and EN211, or 213, or EN 348. MILTON 3 215; or permission of the instructor. Milton’s English poetry, the vision it expresses, and its EN 358. TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN C. Golden or B. Black stylistic range. The course focuses on a measured, LITERATURE 3 close examination of Paradise Lost—especially Studies in literature extending from World War I EN 341. SPECIAL STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL noticing its heritage, its structural genius, and its through the 1960s, with particular attention to the LITERATURE 3 psychologizing—and indicates the ways in which this distinctive forms and movements of twentieth-century Investigation of a special topic in medieval English epic anticipates the succeeding ages of great English writing in America. Readings may vary from one year literature with special attention to medieval literary fiction. Prerequisite: EN201 and 202 (in sequence); to the next, but usually include works by Cather, conventions and to the cultural context in which they and EN211, or 213, or 215; or permission of instruc- Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Porter, Eliot, Stevens, developed. Topics studied may draw on the works of tor. Offered alternate years. M. Levith or J. Kiehl Faulkner, Hurston, O’Connor, Bellow, and Ellison. the Gawain-poet, Langland, Malory, and others, and Prerequisite: EN201 and 202 (in sequence); and may focus on a genre, a theme, or a period. Pre- EN211, or 213, or 215; or permission of instructor. requisite: EN201 and 202 (in sequence); and EN211, S. Kress or M. Stokes or 213, or 215; or permission of the instructor. With permission of the department, the course may be 91 repeated once for credit. K. Greenspan EN 359. MODERN BRITISH AND AMERICAN SENIOR TUTORIAL STUDIES DRAMA 3 Environmental Studies Major English, Irish, and American dramatists since EN 373, 374. SENIOR PROJECTS 3, 3 the late nineteenth century, selected with attention to This offering allows a senior the opportunity to opposing trends in the theater of the time (realism vs. develop a particular facet of English study that he or Director of the Environmental Studies expressionism, verse drama vs. prose drama, com- she is interested in and has already explored to some Program: Judith Halstead edy of manners vs. folk comedy). Readings in such extent. It could include such projects as teaching, Lecturer: *Karen Kellogg figures as Wilde, Shaw, Yeats, Synge, O’Casey, creative writing, journalism, and film production as O’Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Osborne, Pinter. well as specialized reading and writing on literary Prerequisite: EN201 and 202 (in sequence); and topics. Outstanding work may qualify the senior for Affiliated Faculty: EN211, or 213, or 215; or permission of instructor. departmental honors. All requirements for a regular American Studies: Gregory Pfitzer, Wilma Hall T. Diggory or V. Cahn independent study apply. Prerequisites: EN201 and Anthropology: *Michael Ennis-McMillan 202 (in sequence); and EN211, or 213, or 215; and Biology: *David Domozych, Corey Freeman- EN 360. WOMEN WRITERS 3 permission of department. The Department Gallant, Roy Meyers, Monica Raveret Advanced studies in selected women writers. Richter, Sue Van Hook Students will read a group of women writers in the EN 377, 378. RESEARCH SEMINAR 4, 4 Business: James Kennelly, Gary McClure context of recent literary criticism and feminist theory. A seminar in which students explore a topic, author, Chemistry: Steven Frey, *Judith Halstead, Issues addressed may include the relations among or text while progressing through the stages of writing Vasantha Narasimhan gender and style, psychological constructs, genre, a research paper. Common discussion of individual Computer Science: Robert DeSieno literary history, audience, and social context. Prereq- projects and reading of published scholarship Education: *Paul Michalec uisite: EN201 and 202 (in sequence); and EN211, or emphasize research as a process of shared inquiry. English: Sarah Goodwin, Linda Simon 213, or 215; or permission of instructor. The Department Students practice research methods, present work in Geosciences: Katharine Cartwright, Kenneth progress, and complete a substantial paper. Out- Johnson, Richard Lindemann, Kimberly EN 361. THEORIES OF LITERARY CRITICISM 3 standing work may qualify the senior for departmental An examination of modern literary methodologies, honors. May substitute for EN389. Recommended for Marsalla, *John Thomas, including new criticism, structuralism, archetypal seniors and advanced juniors. Prerequisite: EN201 Government: Roy Ginsberg, Katherine criticism, and psychoanalytic criticism. The course and 202 (in sequence); and EN211, or 213, or 215; Graney, Aldo Vacs, Christopher Whann explores both the theories and their practical applica- and permission of instructor. The Department History: *Tadahisa Kuroda tion, with a concentration on a particular literary problem Library: *Barbara Norelli of significance, such as the question of meaning, the EN 389. PREPARATION FOR THE SENIOR Mathematics: Una Bray nature of the text, or the contribution of reader re- THESIS 3 Physics: William Standish sponse. Prerequisite: EN201 and 202 (in sequence); Required of all second-semester junior or first- Sociology: Catherine Berheide, David Karp and EN211, or 213, or 215; or permission of instructor. semester senior English majors who intend to write The English Department will accept PH330E as the a thesis (EN390). Under the direction of a thesis *Environmental Studies Steering Committee equivalent of EN361. T. Diggory or S. Goodwin advisor, the student reads extensively in primary and secondary sources related to the proposed thesis The Skidmore College Environmental Studies EN 363. SPECIAL STUDIES IN LITERARY topic, develops his or her research skills, and brings Program builds upon and enhances the mis- HISTORY 3 the thesis topic to focus by writing an outline and sion of the College. First, the program helps Studies in one or two authors of the British and series of brief papers which will contribute to the students become environmentally literate American traditions, or in a specific literary topic, thesis. Offered only with approval in advance by the citizens. Such citizens as consumers, parents, genre, or question in literary history or theory. Pre- department. Prerequisite: EN201 and 202 (in se- voters, and community leaders will serve requisite: EN201 and 202 (in sequence); and two quence); and EN211, or 213, or 215; or permission of society by acting responsibly as we face the additional courses at the 200-level; or permission of instructor. The Department environmentally related challenges of the instructor. Meets specific major requirements as twenty-first century. Secondly, the program designated: EN 390. SENIOR THESIS 3 provides an understanding of the connections A. Meets Early Period literature requirement. Intensive writing and revising of a senior thesis under between academic fields and an interdiscipli- B. Meets Later Period literature requirement. the close guidance of the student’s thesis committee. C. Meets other 300-level literature requirement. The thesis provides an opportunity for English majors nary perspective in the preparation of students The Department to develop sophisticated research and writing skills, interested in environmentally oriented career read extensively on a topic of special interest, and paths in a wide diversity of disciplines. All EN. 364. ADVANCED SPECIAL STUDIES IN produce a major critical paper of 40 to 80 pages. Not Skidmore College students may enroll in the LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE 3 required for the English major but strongly recom- Environmental Studies Program. Advanced study of a selected topic in literature and/ mended as a valuable conclusion to the major and or language. May be repeated with a different topic. as preparation for graduate study. Prerequisite: Students and faculty in the Environmental The Department Either EN377, or 378, or 389; and approval in ad- Studies Program investigate the interrelation- vance of the thesis proposal by the department. ships among cultural traditions, social change, EN 371, 372. INDEPENDENT STUDY 3, 3 The Department and institutions, and the physical and biologi- Research in English or American literature and cal environment in which we live. Because of special projects in creative writing. Independent study EN 399. PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP IN their increasing complexity, emerging environ- provides an opportunity for any student already well ENGLISH 3 or 6 mental issues require knowledge, methods, grounded in a special area to pursue a literary or Professional experience at an advanced level for and responses that flow from many disciplines. creative writing interest that falls outside the domain juniors and seniors with substantial academic and of courses regularly offered by the department. The cocurricular experience in the major field. With faculty Hence the program depends heavily on a student should carefully define a term’s work which sponsorship and department approval, students may balanced understanding of many perspectives complements her or his background, initiate the extend their educational experience into such areas drawn from the natural and social sciences, proposal with a study-sponsor, and obtain formal as journalism, publishing, editing, and broadcasting. humanities, arts, and preprofessional pro- approval from the student’s advisor and the depart- Work will be supplemented by appropriate academic grams. The program culminates with an indi- ment chair. Application to do such work in any assignments and jointly supervised by a representa- vidually structured capstone project that semester should be made and approved prior to tive of the employer and a faculty member of the merges theory into practice by employing the preregistration for that semester or, at the very latest, department. Only three semester hours credit may student's environmental skills and knowledge before the first day of classes for the term. English count toward the 300-level requirement of the major. in the examination and presentation of an majors may take only one Independent Study to meet Prerequisite: EN201 and 202 (in sequence); and environmental issue. requirements in Advanced Courses in British and EN211, or 213, or 215; or permission of instructor. American Literature. Prerequisite: EN201 and 202 Must be taken S/U. (in sequence); and EN 211, or 213, or 215; or permis- sion of the instructor. The Department 92 THE ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES MINOR ES 105. FIELD STUDIES IN ENVIRONMENTAL ES 377, 378 SENIOR SEMINAR IN The minor requires completion of twenty-two to SCIENCE 4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES 1 twenty-seven credit hours including: An interdisciplinary approach to the study of environ- A seminar required of all environmental studies mental issues. The primary focus of this course is the minors during the semester that they present oral and 1. Foundation course: ES100, Environmental drinking water supply for Saratoga Springs, Lough- written summaries of their senior capstone project to Concerns in Perspective. berry Lake. The source of the lake's water, chemical the Environmental Studies Committee. This course is 2. Cluster A courses: Culture, Society, and the characteristics of the lake, and the nature of the land designed to enhance students’ research, written, and Environment (six to eight credits) surrounding the lake are considered from a geologic oral communication skills relating to environmental and chemical perspective. The course involves field studies, and to strengthen their awareness of envi- 3. Cluster B courses: Exploring the Natural work and emphasizes the scientific method, tech- ronmentally related issues and professional opportu- World 9 (six to eight credits) niques, and theories used to measure and analyze nities. The course includes presentations and 4. Cluster C courses: Interface of the Natural changes in the environment. The course also ex- discussions by students and guest lecturers, instruc- and Social Worlds (three to four credits) plores energy use and conservation and the effects tion on library research, writing and oral presentation of an individual's lifestyle on the environment. Three skills, field trips, and a community service project. 5. Senior seminar course: ES377 or 378 hours of lecture, three hours of lab a week. Prerequi- The course culminates in the presentation of senior 6. Capstone project: The capstone experience site: QR1. (Fulfills QR2 and natural sciences require- capstone projects to environmental studies faculty, is a three-credit (minimum) environmentally ment.) J. Thomas, J. Halstead, S. Frey students, and the community. Offered S/U only. focused research experience or internship Environmental Studies Faculty course approved by the Environmental ES 221. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 3 Studies Steering Committee and, upon Examination of the tension between the need for ES 399. PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP IN completion, presented to the committee economic development by less developed countries ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES 3, 6 both orally and in writing in ES377 or 378. and the necessity to protect and preserve global Interdisciplinary professional experience at an ad- environment. We will explore both domestic issues vanced level for juniors or seniors with substantial Environmental Studies minors are informed facing developing countries as they struggle to academic experience in environmental studies. With of the capstone approval process. As is address their economic and environmental problems, faculty sponsorship and Environmental Studies currently the practice, the steering commit- and how their relationship with the rest of the interna- Steering Committee approval, students may extend tee approves proposed capstone projects tional community influences their decisions. We will their educational experience in environmentally after submission of the capstone project use various case studies (e.g., international fisheries) related interdisciplinary areas, such as environmental proposal form to the director of the Environ- to explore the interplay between the environment, consulting, environmental advocacy, environmental mental Studies Program. The capstone society, and economics on both local and global law, and environmental outreach. Offered S/U only. requirement is generally satisfied by a levels. K. Kellogg research course, senior thesis, or intern- Cluster Courses ship in the student's major (courses num- ES 231. A WORLD OF VIEWS: CRITICAL bered 371, 372, 375, 376, or 399 in the THINKING AND THE ENVIRONMENT 3 For the class of 2005 and those from the classes respective department or ED351) but may An interdisciplinary approach to the knowledge and of 2002, 2003, and 2004, who choose this option. also be satisfied by ES 371, 372, or 399. analysis of environmental issues from an ethical, social, aesthetic, political, and ecological perspective (For those from 2002, 2003, and 2004 following the for the purpose of developing well-reasoned re- old requirements, Cluster A and C courses count as No more than two courses, including the sponses to these issues. Students will examine Policy Cluster courses and Cluster B courses count capstone, taken in a discipline may be counted topics including environmental justice, ecofeminism, at Sciences Cluster courses. Please refer to the for the environmental studies minor. activism, religion and the environment, biodiversity, 2000-01 catalgoue for the old requirements.) globalization, deep ecology, animal rights, sense of Environmental Studies Curriculum place, and politics and the environment. Where Cluster A appropriate, global, national, and state perspectives AM 250A Regional Culture: "The Hudson River" ES 100. ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS IN will be used to describe and understand contempo- rary environmental issues. P. Michalec AM 250B Regional Culture: "The West" PERSPECTIVE 3 AM 260B Themes in American Culture: “The An interdisciplinary, multiple-perspective approach to ES 281. DISEASE AND THE ENVIRONMENT 3 Machine in the Garden” the study of environmental concerns. In this course, AN 344 Anthropology and Environmental Health students study the interaction of human beings and An introduction to the study of the relationship be- tween disease and the environment. We will study AN 345 Ecological Anthropology their social, political, and economic institutions with EC 343 Environmental and Resource Economics the natural environment. Issues such as air pollution, the epidemic of cholera in industrial Britain, the evidence linking smoking to lung disease, the rela- EN 363B Literature and the Environment water pollution, and land management are discussed EN 378 Romanticism and Environmentalism in from the perspectives of both the natural sciences tionship between exposure to lead and developmen- tal problems in children, and other important cases in Britain and the social sciences. Local, regional, national, GO 338 International Diplomatic Negotiations international, and historical perspectives on these the history of epidemiology that yielded a link to environmental disease. Students will be encouraged GO 339 International Political Economy and the issues are also discussed. Prerequisite: QR1. Environment (Fulfills LS2 requirement.) J. Halstead to learn problem-solving and technical skills as they work together to prepare their own group case. GO 355 African Politics U. Bray HI 107B United States Environmental History ES 104. ECOLOGICAL STUDIES IN IA 101 Introduction to International Affairs ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE 4 ES 371, 372. INDEPENDENT STUDY 3, 3 SO 201 Social Issues This course provides an introduction to basic ecologi- SO 331 Women in the Global Economy cal concepts using the North Woods as a laboratory An opportunity for qualified students to pursue to explore these concepts. Topics range from natural independent study or research in environmental community structure and function to ecosystem studies under the supervision of an appropriate interactions. The course will also include an examina- faculty member. The written study proposal must be tion of historical and present-day land-use patterns approved by the Environmental Studies Steering as a means of synthesizing ecological concepts and Committee. demonstrating the interplay of society, economics, and the environment. Three hours of lecture, three hours of lab per week. (Fulfills natural sciences requirement.) K. Kellogg

93 Cluster B The nine courses in exercise science must BI 140 Marine Biology Exercise Science include EX111, 119, 126, 127, 241, 311, 355, BI 180 Introductory Botany 361, and 374 or 375. The two physical activity BI 190 Populations and Adaptations courses must include one semester hour in Chair of the Department of Exercise Science, weight training,* and one semester hour in an BI 317 Ecology Dance, and Athletics Jeffrey Segrave BI 325 Tropical Ecology aerobic fitness activity.** BI 327 Conservation Ecology (without lab) BI 370 Computer Modeling of Biological Systems Exercise Science Faculty: Students interested in professional courses of CH 111 Environmental Chemistry (without lab) Professors: P. Timothy Brown, Jeffrey Segrave study at the graduate level should consult with CH 112 Environmental Chemistry (with lab) the chair of the department so that the neces- Associate Professors: Denise Smith, Patricia CH 106 Chemical Principles II sary biology, chemistry, physics, psychology, Fehling, Paul Arciero ES 104 Ecological Studies in Environmental and other prerequisites become part of the Science Teaching Associates in Athletics: Michael four-year curriculum plan. ES 105 Field Studies in Environmental Science Garcia, Ron McEachen, Christine Peppiatt, Ron GE 113H Dangerous Earth Plourde, John Quattrocchi, James P. Tucci HONORS: To be considered for honors in GE 115 Climatology GE 207 Environmental Geology exercise science students must meet the The Department of Exercise Science, Dance, College grade-point average requirement of Cluster C and Athletics provides a range of curricular 3.0 overall and 3.5 in the major. Students must and cocurricular programs for students, includ- also receive a grade of at least A- in EX374 or ES 221 Sustainable Development ing: 375, Senior Research, a capstone experience ES 231 A World of Views: Critical Thinking and 1. Opportunities to major or minor in exercise required of all majors. the Environment science or dance, or pursue an interdepart- ES 281 Disease in the Environment mental major in dance-theater; THE MINOR IN EXERCISE SCIENCE LS2 103 Science, Technology, and National Security 2. Experiences through which majors and The minor consists of five courses to include LS2 137 Business and the Natural Environment nonmajors can develop an appreciation for EX111, 119, 126, 127, 311; one physical LS2 146 Environmental Issues and an understanding of human activity course in weight training,* and one LS2 160 A Green World: Human/Plant Coevolution movement, performance, and the art of physical activity course in an aerobic fitness LS2 166 Human Interaction with the Land dance; activity.** 3. Opportunities to develop competence in health-related physical fitness activities and * chosen from beginning weight training, inter- various sports; and mediate weight training, bodybuilding, or power lifting 4. A variety of intercollegiate, intramural, and club opportunities. ** chosen from swim for fitness, advanced swim for fitness, marathon training or self- THE MAJOR IN EXERCISE SCIENCE: paced fitness Exercise science comprises the study and expansion of knowledge concerning the rela- PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND SPORT FOR ALL: tionship between physical activity and human Instructional classes focus on increasing the health. Course work and research emphasize level of skill in an activity, understanding the an understanding of the effects of acute and basic principles of movement involved, and chronic exercise on human function and applying them in a particular situation. Courses health, and the physiological and biochemical are sectioned according to ability level. mechanisms that underlie the response and adaptations to exercise. Underlying the cur- Classes meet for two hours a week. Seasonal riculum is a commitment to physical fitness, sports are limited to a six-week period. health promotion, and disease prevention. Riding activity courses carry an instructional The bachelor of science degree in exercise fee. Contact Cindy Ford, director of the Riding science is designed to prepare students for Program, for current fees. graduate study and careers in exercise science and allied health fields. The exercise The Department of Exercise Science, Dance, science major serves as the academic founda- and Athletics and the Athletic Council work tion for advanced studies in several sub- closely together to provide a well balanced disciplines of the field, including: exercise program of recreational and interest group physiology, bioenergetics, nutrition, sports activities. The Athletic Council provides oppor- medicine, biomechanics, and kinesiology. tunities for all students to engage in competi- The major can also serve as the academic tive and recreational sport activities within the foundation for advanced study and careers in College community. allied health fields, including physical therapy, athletic training, cardiac rehabilitation, and GUEST LECTURERS: Outstanding special- occupational therapy. ists are brought to the campus each year to lecture and conduct clinics or workshops in an Students who major in exercise science must area of exercise science. (1) fulfill the general College requirements; (2) complete nine courses in exercise science as listed below; (3) complete two physical activity courses as listed below; (4) complete CH103, 105, 107H, or 110 (preferably in the first year); and (5) have CPR certification by the end of the second year. 94 ACTIVITY COURSES PA204R Combined Training I EX 212. INTRODUCTION TO SPORTS PA205R Combined Training II MEDICINE AND ATHLETIC TRAINING 3 Courses are designated 100 level (beginning), 200 PA206R Introduction to Dressage An introduction to the field of sports medicine in level (intermediate), 300 level (advanced). The PA207R Schooling general and athletic training in particular. Through department expects students to enroll for the appro- PA 106R is prerequisite for PA201R and PA201R is lectures and labs students will learn basic evaluation, priate level based on their previous experiences and prerequisite for 202R, or permission of instructor for management, and prevention of athletic injuries as skills levels; the department reserves the right to both. PA203R-207R require permission of instructor. well as current methods of sports conditioning. make adjustments as needed. Physical activity Prerequisite: EX126, 127, or permission of instructor. courses may not be repeated for credit but may be PHYSICAL ACTIVITY III Non-liberal arts. M. Garcia repeated as audits. Students are allowed one credit A. Aquatics EX 241. EXERCISE TESTING AND per level per activity toward graduation. Riding PA302A Advanced Swim for Fitness PRESCRIPTION 4 courses carry prerequisites. Courses may be added PA304A Lifeguard Training Exploration of the theoretical and applied aspects of or deleted as appropriate. Course series are half- PA305A Water Safety Instructor exercise testing and exercise prescription. Students credit offerings. Non-liberal arts. B. Sports will study the role of exercise testing in predicting PA301/302B Advanced Tennis disease, assessing fitness level, and prescribing PHYSICAL ACTIVITY I PA303/304B Advanced Golf exercise programs. Attention will be given to the PA320B Advanced Racquetball A. Aquatics development of appropriate exercise prescriptions to PA321B Advanced Squash PA101A Beginning Swimming various populations. Prerequisites: EX111 and CPR PA322B Advanced Handball B. Sports certification. Non-liberal arts. P. Arciero or P. Fehling PA101/102B Beginning Tennis C. Conditioning (includes Martial Arts) PA308C Power Lifting PA103/104B Beginning Golf EX 299. PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP IN PA309C Body Building PA107/108B Indoor Soccer EXERCISE SCIENCE 3 R. Riding PA109/110B Softball An internship opportunity for students whose curricular PA301R Applied Schooling PA111/112B Lacrosse foundations and cocurricular experience have pre- PA302R Applied Dressage PA113/114B Flag Football pared them for professional work related to the major PA303R Stable Management PA115/116B Fly Fishing field. With faculty sponsorship and department ap- Independent Study: PA120B Beginning Racquetball proval, students may extend their educational experi- PA304R Introduction to Teaching PA121B Beginning Squash ence into such areas as sports medicine, physical PA305R Intermediate Teaching PA 122B Beginning Handball therapy, and related fields. Prerequisite: CPR certifi- PA306R Advanced Teaching PA123B Volleyball cation may be required depending upon the nature of The 300-level riding courses require permission of PA124B Badminton the internship. Non-liberal arts. Must be taken S/U. PA125B Small-sided Soccer instructor; PA304R-306R are taught one-on-one. PA126B Basketball EX 311. PHYSIOLOGY OF EXERCISE 4 PA127B Group Games Exploration of the physiological changes in the human C. Conditioning (includes Martial Arts) THEORY body that occur during physical activity as well as the PA101/102C Jogging structural and physiological adaptations that occur as PA110C Aerobic Dance EX 111. INTRODUCTION TO EXERCISE a result of a training program. Students will be active PA111C Self-paced Fitness SCIENCE 4 participants in laboratories that investigate the physi- PA112C Beginning Weight Training An introduction to the scientific basis of physical ological mechanisms responsible for the exercise PA113C Beginning Rowing activity. Emphasis is placed upon the study of the response and training adaptations. Prerequisites: PA114C Judo physiological change and adaptations that occur as a EX111, 126, 127, 241 and CPR certification. Three PA115C Karate result of the stress of exercise. Students will be active hours of lecture, three hours of lab. D. Smith PA116 C Self Defense participants in laboratory experiments that examine R. Riding the body's response to exercise. Three hours of EX 355. RESEARCH DESIGN 3 PA101R Introduction to Riding I lecture, two hours of laboratory per week. (Fulfills An examination of the fundamental concepts of PA102R Introduction to Riding II natural sciences requirement.) research design in the field of exercise science. Students PA103R Position and Control I P. Fehling or P. Arciero will develop the skills necessary to systematically investi- PA104R Position and Control II gate, describe, and interpret events required for a thesis PA105R Novice Equitation I EX 119. SPORT AND SOCIAL ISSUES 3 research proposal. Primary emphasis will be on the PA106R Novice Equitation II An introduction to the academic study of sport and design, execution and writing of original research. This Each of these riding courses has the course before it the use of sociological, psychological, historical, and course prepares students for EX374 and 375. Prerequi- as a prerequisite or permission of instructor. philosophical tools for the study of critical issues sites: two EX theory courses. The Department surrounding the cultural phenomenon of sport. PHYSICAL ACTIVITY II (Fulfills social sciences requirement.) J. Segrave EX 361. TOPICS IN EXERCISE SCIENCE 3 A. Aquatics Advanced study in special topics or current issues. EX 126. HUMAN ANATOMY AND The specific topic will vary each time the course is PA201A Intermediate Swimming PHYSIOLOGY I 4 PA202A Swim for Fitness offered. May be repeated for credit with a different Students will actively study the structure and function topic. B. Sports of the human body. Students will acquire an under- PA201/202B Intermediate Tennis standing of fundamental principles of biochemistry, A. Nutrition and Bioenergetics. An investigation of PA203/204B Intermediate Golf cell biology, and histology, as well as the integumen- the many specific aspects of nutrition in health and PA220B Intermediate Racquetball tary, skeletal, muscular, and nervous systems. Stu- exercise. Students will acquire an understanding of PA221B Intermediate Squash dents will explore the interdependence of structure the biochemical and physiological adaptations PA222B Intermediate Handball and function at both the cellular and system level. following nutritional manipulation and supplementa- C. Conditioning (Includes Martial Arts) Three hours of lecture, two hours of laboratory a tion. Primary focus will be on recent research exam- PA201/202C Intermediate Jogging week. (Fulfills natural sciences requirement.) D. Smith ining nutrient metabolism in exercise and disease PA210C Intermediate Aerobic Dance prevention. Prerequisites: CH103, EX111, 126, 127. PA211C Intermediate Self-paced Fitness EX. 127. HUMAN ANATOMY AND P. Arciero PA212C Intermediate Weight Training PHYSIOLOGY II 4 B. Cardiorespiratory Aspects of Human Perfor- PA213C Intermediate Rowing A continuation of the study of the structure and func- PA214C Marathon Training mance. Advanced study of the cardiovascular, tion of the human body. Students will study the circula- respiratory, and metabolic aspects of human physical F. First Aid tory, respiratory, digestive, urinary, endocrine,immune, PA201F First Aid and CPR (cardiopulmonary performance and fitness. Students will acquire an and reproductive systems. Emphasis is placed on understanding of both the acute and chronic adapta- resuscitation) understanding the interrelationships among the body R. Riding tions of the cardiorespiratory system to exercise systems and their role in maintaining homeostasis. stress and will explore the neural control mechanisms PA201R Intermediate Equitation I Three hours of lecture, two hours of lab a week. PA202R Intermediate Equitation II Prerequisites: EX126. (Fulfills natural sciences PA203R Advance Equitation requirement.) D. Smith 95 responsible for regulating the cardiorespiratory composition or conversation course. response to static and dynamic exercise. Prerequi- Foreign Languages and Students can take the Web-based placement sites: EX111, 126, 127, and CPR certifications. exam at any time. Entering students will re- D. Smith Literatures ceive information on accessing the exam in a C. Applied Anatomy and Kinesiology. Advanced summer mailing and can also contact the study of the anatomical and mechanical principles of Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages department for information. For placement into human movement. Emphasis will be placed on the and Literatures: Giuseppe Faustini languages other than French, German, and analysis of health-related movements, i.e., sitting, Professors: Lynne Gelber, John Anzalone, Spanish, contact the appropriate faculty in the standing, and transitional postures, walking and Juan-Carlos Lértora, Giuseppe Faustini, Departments of Foreign Languages and Litera- running gaits and low-back problems. Students will tures or Classics. learn to apply these kinesiological principles to Patricia Rubio special populations including children, aged, and Associate Professors: Grace Burton, Hédi A. WebCAPE Placement Exams for French, injured. Prerequisites: EX126,127. P. Fehling Jaouad, Mary-Elizabeth O’Brien, Shirley Smith, German, and Spanish: D. Advanced Sports Medicine and Athletic Mao Chen, Marc-André Wiesmann, Michael 0 –339: French and Spanish 103, German 102 Training. Exploration of the current issues and Mudrovic, Adrienne Zuerner or 103 research in sports medicine and the application of Visiting Associate Professor: Reinhard Mayer 340–390:French and Spanish 203, German this research to athletic training. Students will study a 201 variety of topics, which may include rehabilitation, Assistant Professor: Viviana Rangil preventative measures, the effects of ingesta, and 391 and above: French, German, and Spanish Visiting Assistant Professors: Richard controversial training practices. Prerequisites: EX212 courses above the 203 level and CPR certification. M. Garcia Bonanno, Patricia Han SAT II Foreign Language Exams: E. Neuromuscular Aspects of Human Perfor- Lecturers: Charlene Grant, Cynthia Evans, mance. Advanced exploration of the neural, muscu- Diana Barnes, Regina Schroeder, Takahiko 0–490: French and Spanish 103, German and lar, and skeletal aspects of human physical Hayashi Italian 102 or 103 performance and fitness. Students will acquire an Study-Abroad Lecturers: Angel Berenguer, 500–560: French and Spanish 203, German understanding of both the exercise response and Joan Berenguer, Alain Matthey de l’Etang and Italian 201 training adaptations of the neuromuscular systems to exercise stress, and will explore ways of enhancing Foreign Language Resource Center Director: 570 and above: French, Spanish, German, performance via structured resistance training and Cynthia Evans Italian, Chinese, Japanese courses above the usefulness of various nutritional supplements. the 203 level Prerequisites: EX111, 126, 127. D. Smith Self-Instructional Languages Coordinator: Adrienne Zuerner Students with scores on an A.P.test of 4 or 5 F. Body Composition. Advanced study of the may receive general elective credit toward human body composition. Students will study the Self-Instructional Language Assistants: *Manoel graduation. various constituents of the body, as well as the Cartagenes, *Veena Chandra, *Regina Hartmann, assumptions and violations of those assumptions *Yong Soo Jang, *Polina Shvartsman The department supports academic and extra- associated with various methodologies of determining curricular programs both on the campus and body composition. Additionally students will analyze The principal aims of the Department of Foreign abroad in order to enhance understanding of the changes that occur in body composition with Languages and Literatures are to develop in the foreign languages and cultures. Department aging weight-reduction or weight-gaining programs, student an ability to understand, speak, and faculty are key advisors in such self-determined and certain disease states. Prerequisites: EX111, write the languages of his or her choice, and to majors as Italian, and they are committed to 126, 127. P. Fehling read with appreciation literary and cultural texts participating in such college interdisciplinary in the foreign languages. The study of a foreign programs as Liberal Studies, Asian Studies, EX 371, 372. INDEPENDENT STUDY 3, 3 language enables students to understand a Advanced research under guidance of a faculty International Affairs, Classics, and Women’s foreign culture and to broaden perspectives on member. A student may receive liberal arts credit at Studies. The department is committed to offer- the discretion of both the department chair and the their own culture. ing less commonly taught languages through registrar. Prerequisite: Permission of the department; the self-instructional language program. CPR certification may be required depending upon The department is the primary resource for the Since the department offers a rotation of ad- the nature of the research. The Department college’s language requirement. Any course vanced courses in French, German, and Span- taken at the appropriate level in a foreign ish, students desiring a major in one of these EX 374, 375. SENIOR RESEARCH 3, 3 language, i.e., not in translation, fulfills the languages should begin as sophomores to plan A capstone experience required of all exercise foreign literature and language requirement. their programs for their junior and senior years. science majors. Study involves research in the discipline of exercise science. Students work on a Advanced literature courses provide students Students majoring in the department are ex- specialized topic chosen during the fall semester in with the skills needed to interpret texts linguisti- pected to acquire fluency and accuracy in one consultation with a member of the department faculty cally, stylistically, and historically and enable or more of the modern languages; a general who agrees to serve as advisor. This course will them to gain knowledge of major periods, knowledge of the civilization and culture that the include a written and oral presentation of the com- authors, and genres of literature. Courses in language expresses; an ability to interpret texts pleted thesis to a research committee. Prerequisite: culture and civilization explore major achieve- linguistically, stylistically, and historically; and EX355 and CPR certification. Non-liberal arts. an intensive knowledge of certain, defined The Department ments in art, history, politics, economics, media, and intellectual history as well as issues of periods of literature. EX 376. SEMINAR 3 gender and race. Advanced language courses provide practical skills for specific purposes THE FRENCH MAJOR: Students majoring in This course provides an exploration of a variety of French fulfill the departmental requirements by perspectives and issues in exercise science. such as translation, business, and other profes- The Department sional applications. completing a minimum of nine courses totaling not less than thirty credit hours, including FF208 Students should refer to the guidelines below and 210; one course covering material prior to for placement into language courses according 1800 from among FF213, 214, 216, 224; one to the Web-based placement exam and the course covering material after 1800 from SAT II language exams. Students with a mini- FF219, 221, 223; FF376; two additional French mum of one year of prior language study are courses above FF205; and two additional excluded from taking a 101 course. Students French courses at the 300 level. with a score of 3 on an A.P. test should enroll in courses above the 203 level, usually a 96 THE GERMAN MAJOR: Students majoring in THE GERMAN MINOR: The minor program PARIS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EXAMI- German fulfill the departmental requirements by consists of a minimum of five courses totaling NATIONS: The department encourages quali- completing a minimum of nine courses totaling not less than eighteen credit hours, including fied students of economics and business to not less than thirty credit hours, including FG208 and 215; three other courses beyond take the Certificat Pratique de Français Com- FG208 and 215; FG376; six additional courses FG201 in German language, literature, or mercial et Economique or the Diplôme above FG202 (one course may be designated civilization (one course may be designated FL Supérieur de Français des Affaires offered by FL or LS). or LS). At least three of the courses must be the Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de taken at Skidmore. Paris. Both the Certificat and the Diplôme THE SPANISH MAJOR: Students majoring in attest to students’ knowledge of business Spanish fulfill the departmental requirements by THE ITALIAN MINOR: The minor program French and to their ability to express them- completing a minimum of nine courses totaling consists of a minimum of five courses totaling selves orally and in writing. The department not less than thirty credit hours, none in transla- not less than eighteen credit hours, including gives these Paris Chamber of Commerce tion, including FS208, 211, and 212; at least FI208 and FI310; a minimum of eleven more examinations annually. one course from among FS313, 314, 317, 334; credit hours beyond FI201 in Italian language, at least one course from among FS319, 320, literature, or civilization (one course may be GERMAN FOR BUSINESS CERTIFICATION: 321, 330; FS376; and three additional courses designated FL or LS). At least three of the The department encourages qualified students above FS203. courses must be taken at Skidmore. of economics and business to take the Zertifi- kat Deutsch für den Beruf (ZDfB). This exami- FRENCH AREA STUDIES PROGRAM: THE SPANISH MINOR: The minor program nation, jointly developed by the Goethe Institute Students may elect a program designed to consists of a minimum of five courses above and the Deutscher Volkshochschul-verband, incorporate several aspects of French culture in FS203 totaling not less than eighteen credit attests to students' knowledge of business order to develop in-depth knowledge of the hours, none in translation, including FS208, German and their ability to express themselves country and civilization. Each student will work 211, and 212. At least three of the courses orally and in writing. The department adminis- out an individual nine-course program totaling must be taken at Skidmore. ters the ZDfB examination annually. not less than thirty credit hours, as approved by the department, that includes three courses CLASSICAL LANGUAGES: Instruction in PROGRAMS ABROAD: The department from among FF213, 214, 216, 219, 221, 223, classical Greek and Latin is offered through the encourages qualified students to participate in 224; three courses on French topics from other advanced level. For the course listings and Skidmore’s programs in Paris or Madrid and to departments; and three 300-level courses requirements for the classics major and minor, take advantage of accredited programs in including FF374 or 376. Students in this pro- see Classics. Germany, Italy, and Spanish America. gram may elect a concentration in a particular period or a particular topic, for example: France SELF-INSTRUCTIONAL LANGUAGES: In- Courses offered in English are designated FL. in the nineteenth century, the status of women, struction in Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Korean, the role of money, or the tradition of revolution Portuguese, and Russian is offered on an CHINESE in France. independent study basis. The student works with textbooks and tapes and meets with a FC 101. ELEMENTARY CHINESE I 4 INTERDEPARTMENTAL MAJORS: In native tutor for two hours a week of oral prac- An introduction of modern Mandarin. Basic grammar, conjunction with the relevant departments, tice. A final examination is given by an outside conversation, reading, and writing. Four hours of the Department of Foreign Languages and examiner approved by the National Association class, one hour of lab per week. M. Chen Literatures offers majors in business-French, of Self-Instructional Language Programs from a business-German, business-Spanish; econom- neighboring university. Students interested in FC 102. ELEMENTARY CHINESE II 4 ics-French, economics-German, economics- pursuing these courses should consult with Continuing study of basic grammar and conversation Spanish; English-French, English-German, Professor Zuerner in the Department of Foreign with an increased emphasis on reading and writing. English-Spanish; government-French, govern- Languages and Literatures before spring regis- Four hours of class, one hour of lab per week. M. Chen ment-German, and government-Spanish. tration for the following academic year. See Interdepartmental Majors. FC 201. INTERMEDIATE CHINESE I 4 FOREIGN LANGUAGE RESOURCE CENTER: Review of grammar, practice in conversation and HONORS: To be eligible for departmental The FLRC accommodates a twenty-station Mac translation, preparing the student to read vernacular style Chinese (baihuawen) and to write simple essays. honors, a student must write a thesis in the lab-classroom network providing access to Four hours of class, one hour of lab per week.M. Chen foreign language and pass an oral defense of multimedia materials developed by Skidmore the thesis, complete courses 374 in German faculty, commercially produced language FC 202. INTERMEDIATE CHINESE II 4 and Spanish and 373 and 374 in French with a software, foreign-language word processing Continuing review of grammar, practice in conversa- grade of A- or better, and have at least a 3.5 programs, as well as access to the Internet and tion, writing and translation, readings of selected texts average in the major. Outstanding students are World Wide Web. An additional videodisc concerning Chinese history and culture. Discussion in also eligible for nomination to Sigma Delta Pi, station supports the use of multimedia pro- Chinese on assigned materials. Four hours of class, the national Spanish honor society. grams. A scanning workstation enables users one hour of lab per week. (Designated a non-Western to digitize materials for multimedia lessons and culture course.) M. Chen THE FRENCH MINOR: The minor program Web pages. Audio equipment provides support consists of a minimum of five courses totaling for cassette-tape programs in all languages. FC 208. ADVANCED CHINESE not less than eighteen credit hours, including The center receives and tapes foreign satellite CONVERSATION AND FF208 and 210; one course covering material broadcasts and maintains a permanent video COMPOSITION 3 prior to 1800 from among FF213, 214, 216, or collection. Intensive practice in daily use of Chinese in a cultural context. Review of grammar, idioms, vocabulary, and 224; one course covering material from after writing skills. Prerequisite: FC202 or permission of 1800 from FF219, 221, or 223; and one course PROGRAMS ABROAD: The department the instructor. M. Chen at the 300 level in French language, literature, encourages qualified students to participate in or civilization. At least three of the courses must Skidmore’s programs in Paris or Madrid and to be taken at Skidmore. take advantage of accredited programs in Germany, Italy, and Spanish America.

97 FC 363. SPECIAL STUDIES IN CHINESE 4 FF 210. INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY FF 216. FRENCH LITERATURE OF THE Advanced literary or critical study in an author, a ANALYSIS 4 EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 4 genre, a period, or a topic. Texts may include litera- Reading and discussion of literary texts in the major Study of the social, intellectual and artistic develop- ture, newspaper articles, television dramas, films, genres—poetry, theater, and prose—through close ment of the Enlightenment in the works of such poetry, painting, and music. Prerequisite: permission textual analysis. This course emphasizes the devel- authors as Montesquieu, Mme. de Graffigny, Voltaire, of instructor. (Designated a non-Western culture opment of the analytical skills involved in doing a Rousseau, Diderot, Lesage, Marivaux, Beau- course.) Course must enroll at least five students to be close reading and the critical skill needed for writing marchais, Mme. Roland, and Olympe de Gouges. offered. M. Chen explications de texte. Regular papers required. Spring semester. Prerequisite: FF210 or permission Prerequisite: FF202, 203 or permission of the instruc- of instructor. (Fulfills humanities requirement.) FC 371, 372. INDEPENDENT STUDY 3 tor. This course is required for the major in French. M. Wiesmann or A. Zuerner Individual study projects under the guidance of the (Fulfills humanities requirement.) The Department department. M. Chen FF 219. LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF FF 301. BUSINESS FRENCH 3 THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 4 Study of communication and cultural understanding Introduction to the social, intellectual, and artistic FRENCH in commercial transactions of everyday French life. developments of the nineteenth century through The course covers such topics as real estate, man- study of the literary masterpieces of such poets, Courses in Language agement, advertising, marketing, insurance, person- playwrights, and novelists as Chateaubriand, Mme. nel relations, banking, imports and exports, and doing de Staël, Lamartine, Hugo, Vigny, Balzac, Sand, FF 101. ELEMENTARY FRENCH I 4 business in France. These topics will be considered Baudelaire, Flaubert, Zola, Rimbaud, and Mallarmé. Basic grammar, composition, conversation, and in the context of the geography of France, its Fall semester. Prerequisite: FF210 or permission of readings. Four hours of class, one hour of lab. agriculture and industrial production, its trade, instructor. (Fulfills humanities requirement.) Presupposes no previous study of French. transportation and taxation systems. Students will be J. Anzalone or L. Gelber The Department encouraged to take the Paris Chamber of Commerce exam at the end of the semester. Required for FF 221. TWENTIETH-CENTURY LITERATURE 4 FF 102. ELEMENTARY FRENCH II 4 business-French major. Prerequisite: FF 208 or Introduction to the poetry, novels and plays of France Continuation of FF 101. Basic grammar, composition, permission of instructor. M. Wiesmann through study of the works of such writers as Gide, conversation and readings. Four hours of class, one Apollinaire, Proust, Cocteau, Mauriac, de Beauvoir, hour of lab. Prerequisite: FF101. The Department FF 304. ADVANCED CONVERSATION AND Sartre, Beckett, Aragon, Duras, Sarraute, and PRONUNCIATION 3 Robbe-Grillet. The course will also focus on contem- FF 103. INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY FRENCH 4 Development of oral skills to increase active vocabu- porary artistic, social, and intellectual trends since Intensive review of introductory reading, speaking, lary, fluency, and use of authentic French structures 1890. Spring semester. Prerequisite: FF210 or oral comprehension, writing, and grammatical struc- and intonation through reading and discussion of permission of instructor. (Fulfills humanities require- tures of the language for those with some experience issues in contemporary French society such as ment.) L. Gelber in the fundamentals but who still need to acquire the immigration, unemployment, gender distinctions, competency expected at the completion of the changing family patterns, education, and political FF 223. INTRODUCTION TO ISSUES IN THE equivalent of 102. Four hours of class, one hour of parties in the "hexagon," and the influence of the FRANCOPHONE WORLD 4 lab. The Department European community on French life. L. Gelber Study of aspects of the Francophone world (Carib- bean, Africa, Canada) with particular emphasis on FF 201. INTERMEDIATE FRENCH I 3 FF 306. TRANSLATION AND STYLISTICS 3 historical, political, and social problems. Reading and Review of grammar, reading of selected texts, A translation course for the study of the structure of discussion of texts and documents from a variety of practice in conversation and writing. Three hours of the French language through comparative examina- sources. Practice in writing critical and literary class, one hour of lab. Prerequisite: FF102 or 103 or tion of vocabulary, grammar, and cultural influences. essays. Prerequisite: FF210 or permission of instruc- permission of instructor based on placement test. The course provides extensive practice of the tradi- tor. (Designated a non-Western culture course.) The Department tional exercise of thème et version (translations back H. Jaouad and forth of texts from a variety of disciplines) to FF 202. INTERMEDIATE FRENCH II 3 develop an awareness of the idiomatic distinctions of FF 224. FRENCH CIVILIZATION FROM Continuation of FF201. Review of grammar, reading French and English, the variety of written styles and GAUL TO 1815 4 of selected texts, practice in conversation and writing. what constitutes one’s own prose expression. French culture and civilization from the Gallo-Roman Three hours of class, one hour of lab. Prerequisite: Prerequisite: FF208 or consent of instructor. period to the 1789 revolution and its immediate FF201 or permission of instructor based on place- J. Anzalone aftermath. This course will trace the succession of ment test. The Department broad political and societal phenomena defined by Courses in Literature and Civilization traditional historians, employing a spectrum of FF 203. INTENSIVE INTERMEDIATE FRENCH 4 documents representative of social, gender and Continuing intensive study of the structures of the FF 213. MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE religious diversity. These documents will draw equally French language. Extensive practice in conversation FRENCH LITERATURE 4 from music, painting, science, philosophy, and and writing. Vocabulary building through the reading A survey of medieval and Renaissance French literature. Through a series of films we will question of appropriate texts in the literature and culture. Four literature focusing on the origins and development of the interplay between “history” and its representa- hours of class and one hour of lab. The Department epic and lyric poetry, theater, and prose, including the tions. (Fulfills humanities requirement.) essai. Readings will include such works and authors M.Wiesmann FF 205. INTERMEDIATE CONVERSATIONAL as La Chanson de Roland, Chrétien de Troyes, Marie FRENCH 3 de France, Christine de Pisan, Villon, La Farce de FF 316. FRENCH POETRY 3 Development of nonliterary, informal spoken vocabu- Maître Pathelin, Le Roman de la Rose, Marguerite de Study of fundamentals and development of the lary, and expressions used in everyday situations. Navarre, Ronsard, Du Bellay, Louise Labé, Rabelais, French poetic form through close textual analysis of Extensive practice in conversational idioms and work and Montaigne. Prerequisite: FF210 or permission of representative poets and major movements. Pre- on accent and intonation. Prerequisite: two years of the instructor. Offered in alternate years. (Fulfills requisite: FF214 or 216, 219 or 221 or consent of high-school French or equivalent or permission of humanities requirement.) M. Wiesmann instructor. Offered in alternate years. J. Anzalone instructor. The Department FF 214. FRENCH LITERATURE OF THE FF 317. FRENCH NARRATIVE PROSE 3 The following courses satisfy major requirements. SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 4 Exploration of major themes and techniques of Introduction to the concepts of classic and baroque, narrative fiction as it has developed in French- FF 208. ADVANCED GRAMMAR AND including social, artistic, and intellectual develop- speaking cultures. Prerequisite: FF214 or 216, 219 or COMPOSITION 4 ments in the seventeenth century through study of 221 or consent of instructor. Offered in alternate Review of grammar, idioms, and vocabulary. Inten- the masterpieces of such authors as Corneille, years. M. Wiesmann sive practice in writing short essays. Prerequisite: Racine, Moliere, Pascal, Descartes, Mme. de FF202, 203, or 205 or permission of instructor. This Sévigné, La Fontaine, La Rochefoucauld, and Mme. course is required for the major. The Department de Lafayette. Prerequisite: FF210 or permission of instructor. (Fulfills humanities requirement.) 98 A. Zuerner FF 318. FRENCH DRAMATIC LITERATURE 3 FG 103. INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY GERMAN 4 FG 343. THE GERMAN NOVEL 3 Study of dramatic techniques and themes through Intensive review of introductory reading, speaking, An exploration of great German novels from Goethe careful examination of representative texts and oral comprehension, and grammatical structures of to the present. Students will encounter a variety of attention to the role of the theater in French culture. the language for those with some experience in the critical approaches for the study of major texts from Prerequisite: FF214 or 216, 219 or 221 or consent of fundamentals but who still need to acquire the authors such as Goethe, Kafka, Mann, Döblin, Boll, instructor. Offered alternate years. The Department competency expected at the completion of FG102. and Grass. M. O’Brien Four hours of class, one hour of lab. Prerequisite: FF 332. SURREALISM 3 one year of high-school German or permission of FG 356. THEATER IN THE GERMAN- Study of surrealism as an historical and ontological department. The Department SPEAKING WORLD 3 movement through analysis of poetry, novel, cinema, Theater and its cultural impact in the nineteenth and theater, and painting. The course examines the FG 201, 202. INTERMEDIATE GERMAN 3, 3 twentieth centuries. Topics include social drama, impact of surrealism on current literary, critical, and Review of grammar, extensive practice in conversa- operatic spectacles, epic theater, cabaret, post-war artistic expressions. Prerequisite: FF210 or permis- tion, writing, and reading of selected texts. Three and contemporary experimental theater and perfor- sion of the instructor. H. Jaouad hours of class, one hour of lab. Prerequisite: FG101, mance art. Works from such dramatists as Buchner, 102, or two years of high school German. Wagner, Brecht, Weiss, Handke, and Müller will be FF 363. SPECIAL STUDIES IN FRENCH 3 The Department examined. R. Mayer Advanced literary or cultural study in an author, a FG 208. GERMAN CONVERSATION AND genre, a period, or a topic. Prerequisite: permission COMPOSITION 4 FG 357. GERMAN LITERATURE OF THE of instructor. The Department Intensive practice in daily use of German in a TWENTIETH CENTURY 4 cultural context. Review of idioms, vocabulary, and A critical study of German poetry, drama, and prose FF 371, 372. INDEPENDENT STUDY 3, 3 writing skills. Prerequisite: FG202 or permission of in the twentieth century with emphasis on major Individual study projects under the guidance of the instructor. R. Mayer artistic and sociopolitical movements. Readings vary department. The Department from year to year but usually include works by Mann, FG 301. BUSINESS GERMAN 3 Brecht, Sachs, Hesse, Boll, Grass, Bachmann, and FF 373. PREPARATION FOR SENIOR THESIS 3 An introduction to business institutions in Germany. Wolf. Prerequisite: FG215 or permission of instructor. Required for all second-semester junior or first- The course focuses on economic geography, M. O’Brien semester senior French majors who intend to write a correspondence, and government requirements for thesis (FF374). Under the direction of a thesis advi- business, as well as vocabulary used in banking, FG 363. SPECIAL STUDIES IN GERMAN 3 sor, the student reads extensively in primary and advertising, stock market, insurance, communica- Advanced literary or cultural study in an author, a secondary sources related to the proposed thesis tions, and export and import. Primarily for students genre, a period, or a topic. Prerequisite: permission topic, develops research skills, and brings the thesis majoring in German and business. R. Mayer of instructor. The Department topic into focus by writing an outline and a series of brief papers that contribute to the thesis. Prerequi- FG 371, 372. INDEPENDENT STUDY 3, 3 sites: FF208, FF210, and second-semester junior or FG 304. ADVANCED GERMAN COMPOSITION Individual study projects under the guidance of the first-semester senior status. The Department AND CONVERSATION 4 department. The Department Intensive practice of oral and written German to FF 374. THESIS 3 increase active vocabulary and fluency in German FG 374. THESIS 3 An extended research project culminating in a paper and to develop further and refine writing skills. Three An extended research project culminating in a paper based on readings and extensive individual confer- hours of class. Prerequisite FG208 or permission of based on readings and extensive individual confer- ences. Required of all majors who wish to be consid- instructor. M. O’Brien ences. Required of all majors who wish to be consid- ered for departmental honors. Prerequisite: FF376, ered for departmental honors. Prerequisite: FG376, senior standing, permission of instructor, and 3.5 Courses in Literature and Civilization senior standing, permission of instructor, and 3.5 grade-point average in the major. The Department grade-point average in the major. The Department FG 215. INTRODUCTION TO GERMAN FF 376. SEMINAR 3 LITERATURE 4 FG 376. SEMINAR 4 A detailed study of an author, a period, or theme An introduction to the development of German The study of an author, a period, or topic prominent prominent in France, Africa, Canada, or the French literature from the Age of Enlightenment to the in the literature of Germany, Austria, or Switzerland. speaking countries of the Caribbean. Frequent oral present focusing on major authors (Lessing, Goethe, Close attention to the development, organization, and reports. Close attention to development, organization, Schiller, Hoffmann, Kafka, Brecht, Wolf) and literary writing of an extensive paper. Prerequisite: Senior and writing of an extensive paper. Prerequisite: movements. Prerequisite: FG 202 or permission of status. M.E. O’Brien Senior status. The Department instructor. This course is required for the major in German. Offered in alternate years. (Fulfills humani- ties requirement.) M. O'Brien GREEK GERMAN FG 216. CONTEMPORARY GERMAN For complete course listings, see Classics. Courses in Language CULTURE 4 An exploration of life, art, and politics in Germany FG 101. ELEMENTARY GERMAN I 4 since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Topics Basic grammar, composition, conversation, and include German reunification, political parties and readings. Four hours of class, one hour of lab. current debates, the problematic relationship be- Presupposes no previous study of German. tween Ossis and Wessis, multiculturalism, the Berlin The Department art scene, film, visual arts, and music. M. O’Brien

FG 102. ELEMENTARY GERMAN II 4 FG 341. THE AGE OF GOETHE 4 Systematic studies of the structure of the language, Major works of Goethe, Schiller, and Lessing will be exercises in composition and conversation, reading studied to show how they reflect major intellectual of selected literary texts. Four hours of class, one ideas of their time. Particular attention will be given to hour of lab. Prerequisite: FG101 or permission of the the transition from the so-called Classical to the department. The Department Romantic period: the critique of the Classical by Romantic authors, the elevation of music as the highest form of artistic expression, the origins of psychology and "modernism" in the subjective irratio- nalism of the Romantics. An examination of the artistic, intellectual, and cultural trends of the period 1749-1832 through the study of the works of Goethe, Schiller, and their contemporaries. Prerequisite: FG215 or permission of instructor. R. Mayer 99 ITALIAN FI 212. MASTERPIECES OF ITALIAN FJ 201. INTERMEDIATE JAPANESE I 4 LITERATURE II 3 Continuation of systematic study of low-intermediate Courses in Language Study of the most important literary movements from Japanese linguistic structures. Practice in conversa- the precursors of the Italian Renaissance to the end tion and writing. Reading of selected texts. Four FI 101. ELEMENTARY ITALIAN I 4 of the seventeenth century with particular emphasis hours of class, one hour of lab. Prerequisite: FJ102 Basic grammar, composition, conversation, and on the writings of Dante, Boccaccio, the Humanists, or permission of instructor. T. Hayashi readings. Four hours of class, one hour of lab. Lorenzo de Medici, Michelangelo, and Machiavelli. R. Bonanno, S. Smith Prerequisite: FI202 or permission of instructor. FJ 202. INTERMEDIATE JAPANESE II 4 Offered in alternate years. (Fulfills humanities re- Review of grammar. Further development of oral, FI 102. ELEMENTARY ITALIAN II 4 quirement.) G. Faustini reading, and writing skills. Reading of selected texts. Continuing study of basic grammar, composition, Four hours of class, one hour of lab. Prerequisite: conversation, and readings. Four hours of class, one FI 301. BUSINESS ITALIAN 3 FJ201 or permission of instructor. (Designated a non- hour of lab. Prerequisite: FI101 or permission of Study of commercial transactions in the context of Western culture course.) T. Hayashi department. R. Bonanno, S. Smith social and economic life in Italy today. The course focuses on management, advertising, marketing, FJ 204. ADVANCED INTERMEDIATE FI 103. INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY ITALIAN 4 agricultural and industrial relations, banking, imports JAPANESE I 3 Intensive review of introductory reading, speaking, and exports, and the stock market in Italy. These Systematic study of advanced intermediate Japanese oral comprehension, and grammatical structures of topics will be considered in both the private and linguistic structures. Reading of selected texts con- the language for those with some experience in the public sectors, focusing on vocabulary and forms of cerning Japanese culture/society. Discussion in fundamentals but who still need to acquire the correspondence, employment applications, business Japanese based on the reading. Intensive practice competency expected at the completion of the procedures, and government agencies. S. Smith in writing short essays. Prerequisite: FJ202 or per- equivalent of FI102. Four hours of class, one hour of mission of instructor. T. Hayashi lab. R. Bonanno, S. Smith FI 303. STUDIES IN MODERN ITALIAN LITERATURE 3 FJ 206. ADVANCED INTERMEDIATE FI 201. INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN I 3 Selected readings from the Italian Unity to the JAPANESE II 3 Review of grammar, extensive practice in conversa- present. A study of modern Italian novels, plays, and Continuation of FJ204. Further study of grammar, tion, writing, and reading of selected texts. Three short stories from the historical period to the neo- idioms, and vocabulary. Reading of authentic materi- hours of class, one hour of lab. Prerequisite: FI102 or realistic period: from Manzoni to Moravia. Prerequi- als such as newspapers/magazine articles. Aural-oral permission of department. R. Bonanno, S. Smith site: FI202 or permission of instructor. G. Faustini exercises and intensive practice in writing short essays. Prerequisite: FJ204 or permission of instruc- FI 202. INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN II 3 FI 310. IL RINASCIMENTO ITALIANO 3 tor. T. Hayashi Continuing review of grammar, extensive practice in Investigates Italian literature and culture from the conversation, writing, and reading of selected texts. Duecento to the late Cinquecento. We will examine in FJ 363. SPECIAL STUDIES IN JAPANESE 3 Three hours of class, one hour of lab. Prerequisite: particular the development of the vernacular through Advanced literary or cultural study in an author, a FI201 or permission of department. G. Faustini a systematic study of the most representative literary genre, a period, or a topic. Prerequisite: permission works of the Italian literary tradition, which gave rise of instructor. (Designated a non-Western culture FI 208. ITALIAN CONVERSATION AND to the innovative literary, artistic, and philosophical course.) Course must enroll at least five students to COMPOSITION 4 ideas of the Italian Renaissance. Although the be offered. T. Hayashi Intensive practice in daily use of Italian in a cultural primary focus for this course is the study of literature, context. Review of idioms, vocabulary, and writing we will also examine the culture of the Renaissance FJ 371, 372. INDEPENDENT STUDY 3 skills. Prerequisite: FI202 or permission of instructor. as presented not only in the literary works but also in Individual study projects under the guidance of the G. Faustini, S. Smith the major works of painting, sculpture, architecture, department. T. Hayashi and music of the epoch. Readings will include selec- FI 304. ADVANCED CONVERSATION AND tions from Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio, the Human- COMPOSITION 3 ists, Pico della Mirandola, Castiglione, Ariosto, LATIN Intensive practice of oral and written Italian to in- Michelangelo, Lorenzo de' Medici, Veronica Franco, crease active vocabulary and fluency in spoken Machiavelli, and others. Prerequisite: FI208 or For complete course listings, see Classics. Italian and to develop and refine writing skills. Three permission of instructor. G. Faustini, R. Bonanno hours of class, one hour of discussion. G. Faustini, S. Smith FI 363. SPECIAL STUDIES IN ITALIAN 3 SPANISH Advanced literary or cultural study in an author, a Courses in Literature and Civilization genre, a period, or a topic. Prerequisite: permission Courses in Language of instructor. G. Faustini, S. Smith FI 210. INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY FS 101. ELEMENTARY SPANISH I 4 ANALYSIS 3 FI 371, 372. INDEPENDENT STUDY 3, 3 Basic grammar, composition, conversation, and Reading and discussion of literary texts in the major Individual study projects under the guidance of the reading. Four hours of class, one hour of lab. genres—poetry, theater, and prose—through close department. The Department Presupposes no previous study of Spanish. textual analysis. This course emphasizes the devel- The Department opment of the analytical skills involved in doing a close reading and the critical skills needed for writing JAPANESE FS 102. ELEMENTARY SPANISH II 4 critical literary analysis. Regular papers required. Basic grammar, composition, conversation, and Prerequisite: FI202 or permission of instructor. Not FJ 101. ELEMENTARY JAPANESE I 4 readings. Four hours of class, one hour of lab. open to students who have taken FI207. (Fulfills Basic grammar, conversation, reading, and writing. The Department humanities requirement.) S. Smith The emphasis is upon thorough mastery of the basic structure of Japanese through aural-oral exercises FS 103. INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY SPANISH 4 FI 211. MASTERPIECES OF ITALIAN and practice. Four hours of class, one hour of lab. Intensive review of introductory reading, speaking, LITERATURE I 3 T. Hayashi oral comprehension, and grammatical structures of Study of modern Italian literature from the Enlighten- the language for those who still need to acquire the ment period to the Futurist Movement focusing on FJ 102. ELEMENTARY JAPANESE II 4 competency expected at the completion of the major authors and movements from the eighteenth Continuation of FJ 101. Basic grammar, conversa- equivalent of 102. Four hours of class, one hour of century to the mid-twentieth century. Prerequisite: tion, reading, and writing. Four hours of class, one lab. The Department FI202 or permission of instructor. Offered in alternate hour of lab. Prerequisite: FJ101 or permission of years. (Fulfills humanites requirement.) G. Faustini instructor. T. Hayashi FS 201. INTERMEDIATE SPANISH I 3 Review of grammar, practice in conversation, writing, and reading of selected texts. Three hours of class, one hour of lab. Prerequisite: FS102 or permission of department. The Department 100 FS 202. INTERMEDIATE SPANISH II 3 FS 212. SURVEY OF SPANISH AMERICAN FS 330. SPANISH AMERICAN ESSAY 3 Continuing review of grammar. Extensive practice in LITERATURE 4 A study of the development of Spanish American conversation, writing, and reading of selected texts. A study of the main currents of Spanish American thought from Independence to the present. Special Three hours of class, one hour of lab. Prerequisite: literature from Colonial times to the present. Such attention will be given to the intellectual trends FS201 or permission of department. authors as Sor Juana, Gallegos, Darío, Carpentier, contributing to independence, to the foundations of The Department Mistral, Neruda, Paz, and Cortázar will be studied. the new republics and their relationships to Europe, Prerequisite: FS208 or permission of instructor. and to the definition of Spanish-American identity and FS 203. INTENSIVE INTERMEDIATE SPANISH 4 (Fulfills humanities requirement.) P. Rubio, J. Lértora culture. Particular consideration will be afforded to Continuing intensive study of the structures of the the writings of Bolívar, Sarmiento, Bello, Lastarria, Spanish language. Extensive practice in conversation FS 313. LITERATURE OF THE GOLDEN AGE 3 Rodó, Mariátegui, Martí, Zea, and Paz, among and writing. Vocabulary building through the reading A study of the novel, drama, and poetry, centering on others. J. Lértora, P. Rubio of appropriate texts in the literature and culture. the picaresque novel, Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Four hours of class and one hour of lab. Tirso de Molina, Calderón de la Barca, Góngora, and FS 331. THE CULTURE OF SPANISH The Department Quevedo. Prerequisite: FS211, 212 or consent of AMERICA I 3 department. Offered every third year. G. Burton An exploration of the historical, cultural, and artistic FS 206. SPANISH CONVERSATION 3 development of Spanish America from discovery to Development of Spanish oral skills at the advanced FS 314. SPANISH LITERATURE OF THE independence. Students will also assess the impact intermediate level. Extensive practice in conversa- NINETEENTH CENTURY 3 of the encounter and development of the colonial tional idioms. Development of nonliterary, informal A study of poetry, drama, and the novel of the nine- empire on native American populations and the spoken vocabulary; of reading skills necessary to teenth century, centering on Espronceda, Duque de environment, from diaries and letters of conquerors comprehend authentic news materials; of aural Rivas, Zorrilla, Pérez Galdós, Valera, Pardo Bazán, and settlers. Particular attention will be given to the comprehension essential for understanding oral and Clarín. Prerequisite: FS211, 212, or consent of Jesuit missions in Paraguay, to the environmental speech at native speed. Prerequisite: FS202, 203 or department. Offered every third year. M. Mudrovic expeditions through the period, and the impact of the permission of department. The Department slave trade. Prerequisite: FS211 or 212 or permission FS 317. SPANISH LITERATURE OF THE of instructor. Offered in alternate years. P. Rubio FS 208. SPANISH COMPOSITION 4 TWENTIETH CENTURY 3 Review of grammar, idioms, and vocabulary. A study of the drama, novel, and poetry of the FS 332. THE CULTURE OF SPANISH Intensive practice in writing short essays. Prerequi- Generation of ’98 as well as selected novels and AMERICA II 3 site: FS 202 or 203 or permission of instructor. dramas since the Civil War. Prerequisite: FS211, An exploration of Spanish America's historical, The Department 212, or consent of the instructor. Offered every third cultural, and artisitic development from independence year. M. Mudrovic to the present. Students will focus on issues of nation FS 301. BUSINESS SPANISH 4 building and identity as expressed in fiction and An introduction to business institutions in the His- FS 319. SPANISH AMERICAN NARRATIVE OF nonfiction, and on the impact of both revolutionary panic world. The course focuses on economic geog- THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 3 movements and dictatorial regimes on the develop- raphy, correspondence, and government A study of the main characteristics of the contempo- ments of literature and art. Prerequisite: FS212 or requirements for business, as well as vocabulary rary Spanish-American novel and short story in the permission of instructor. Offered in alternate years. used in banking, advertising, stock market, insur- work of authors such as Borges, Asturias, Carpentier, P. Rubio ance, communications, and export and import. Cortázar, García Márquez, Onetti, Vargas Llosa, Primarily for students majoring in Spanish and Fuentes. Prerequisite: FS210, 211 or 212 or permis- FS 334. CERVANTES 3 business. P. Rubio sion of instructor. Offered every third year. A study of the prose, drama, and poetry of Miguel de P. Rubio, J. Lértora Cervantes in the light of the social and intellectual FS 303. SPANISH PHONETICS 3 currents of early seventeenth-century Spain. Particu- Intensive work on phonetics, intonation, and diction. FS 320. STUDIES IN SPANISH AMERICAN lar attention will be paid to Don Quijote. G. Burton Phonetic transcriptions of spoken Spanish and POETRY 3 practice in oral reading. Three hours of class, one A study of the development of Spanish American FS 363. SPECIAL STUDIES IN SPANISH 3 hour of discussion. Offered on demand. poetry from Modernismo to the present in the work of Advanced literary or cultural study in an author, a poets such as Darío, Nervo, Valencia, Mistral, Torres genre, a period, or a topic. Prerequisite: permission FS 304. ADVANCED CONVERSATION AND Bodet, Neruda, Paz. Prerequisite: FS211 or 212 or of instructor. The Department COMPOSITION 4 permission of instructor. Offered every third year. Intensive practice of oral and written Spanish to J. Lértora FS 371, 372. INDEPENDENT STUDY 3, 3 increase active vocabulary and fluency in spoken Individual study projects under the guidance of the Spanish and to develop further and refine writing FS 321. STUDIES IN SPANISH AMERICAN department. The Department skills. Three hours of class. Prerequisite: FS208 or DRAMA 3 209 or permission of instructor. A study of the development of Spanish American FS 374. THESIS 3 J. Lertora, P. Rubio, M. Mudrovic drama from the seventeenth century to the present An extended research project culminating in a paper including such authors as Alarcón, Sor Juana, Goros- based on readings and extensive individual confer- Courses in Literature and Civilization tiga, Eichelbaum, Usigli, Garro, Carballido, Wolf, ences. Required of all majors who wish to be consid- Gambaro, and Sánchez. Prerequisite: FS211 or 212 ered for departmental honors. Prerequisite: FS376, FS 210. INTRODUCTION TO THE READING OF or permission of instructor. J. Lértora, P.Rubio senior standing, permission of instructor, and 3.5 LITERARY TEXTS 4 grade point average in the major .The Department Reading and introduction of Hispanic literary texts to FS 323. SPANISH IN THE MEDIA 4 develop skills in literary analysis and critical writing A study of the Spanish-speaking world within its FS 376. SEMINAR 3 using examples from the three main literary genres. contemporary cultural context, especially as A detailed study of an author, a period, or theme Recommended for those planning to take FS211 or manifested in the media (newspapers, magazines, relevant to the understanding of Spanish and Span- 212. Three hours of class. Prerequisite: FS202, 206, radio, television). This course is designed to give ish-American literature and culture with special or permission of instructor. (Fulfills humanities students a more complex understanding of Hispanic attention to the essay. Frequent oral reports. Close requirement.) The Department culture. We will study such topics as political, social, attention to development, organization, and writing of and economic trends in the Spanish-speaking world, an extensive paper. Prerequisite: Senior status. FS 211. SURVEY OF SPANISH LITERATURE 4 the relationship between language and society, and The Department A study of the main currents of Spanish literature dialect as an expression of culture. Prerequisite: from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. FS 208. V. Rangil Representative works of such major literary move- ments as the Golden Age, Neoclassicism, Romanti- cism, Realism, the Generation of ’98, and the twentieth century will be studied. Prerequisite: FS208 or permission of instructor. (Fulfills humanities requirement.) G. Burton, M. Mudrovic 101 SELF-INSTRUCTIONAL LANGUAGE FL 263. SPECIAL TOPICS IN FOREIGN FL 265. LATINOS IN THE UNITED STATES 3 COURSES LITERATURE AND CULTURE 3 An examination from an interdisciplinary perspective Study of a special topic in which the interrelatedness of Hispanic society in the United States. Major Latino FX 171, 172. TUTORIAL BASIC STUDY 3, 3 of literature and other cultural representations is groups (e.g., Cubans, Mexicans, and Puerto Ricans) Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Korean, Portuguese, Russian. explored from a comparative and/or theoretical will be studied and special attention will be given to perspective. Interdisciplinary in nature, the course will the interaction between these groups and United FX 271, 272. TUTORIAL INTERMEDIATE STUDY 3, 3 bring together works of different cultural origin and States mainstream society. We will focus on the Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Korean, Portuguese, Russian. background. Intended for majors or minors in the historical, sociological, literary, and political aspects department. Prerequisites: Completion of department of cultural change in contact situations. Particular courses numbered 202, 203 or 205; or by permission attention will be paid to issues of prejudice and of instructor. discrimination. V. Rangil LITERATURE AND CIVILIZATION A. The Fantastic in Fiction. An introduction to COURSES TAUGHT IN ENGLISH FL 266. IMAGES OF REVOLUTION the Fantastic in literature and art as a mode of AND SOCIAL UPHEAVAL: representation whose ambiguous structure oscillates These courses are open to all students. Knowledge FRANCE 1789-1939 3 between the real and the imaginary. The magical is of a foreign language is not a prerequisite, with the Study through literary and historical texts, and via ingrained in ordinary experience thus expanding the exception of FL 399. artistic representation of the experience and conse- concept of reality, and emphasizing literary discourse quences of social change in France over a century as the locus of indeterminacy. Specific attention will FL 250. AN OUTLINE OF GERMAN and a half of upheaval. Beginning with the outbreak be focused on selected writers and theorists, but the CIVILIZATION: THE EIGHTEENTH of revolution in 1789, we will analyze the effects on course will also provide a diachronic and theoretical CENTURY TO THE PRESENT 3 French culture of the long and tormented path lead- background for the discussion of the Fantastic. An exploration of German life, culture, and politics ing to the establishment of Republicanism. Particular Readings from authors such as E.T.A. Hoffmann, from the eighteenth century to the present. The attention to the trials and tribulations of the Third Kafka, Borges, Cortazar, Garcia Marquez, Torrente course focuses on Germany’s quest for national Republic during the Dreyfus Affair and in the period Balester, Calvino, Buzzati, Gautier, Nerval, unity, emphasizing the relationship between between the world wars in order to discern the Maupassant, Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, and theorists Germany’s political development and its cultural life. evolution of specific cultural tendencies over time. such as Freud, Bessier, T. Todorov, and Roh. (Fulfills Course materials include historical readings, political Taught in English. (Fulfills LS2 requirement.) LS2 requirement.) J. Anzalone essays, musical compositions, art works, films, and J. Anzalone literary texts. Offered in alternate years. M. O’Brien B. Exoticism. This course will examine the FL 267. MODERN JAPANESE CULTURE cultural construction of the “exotic” as it emerges AND SOCIETY 3 FL 252. ITALIAN CINEMA: FROM FICTION primarily, but not exclusively, in nineteenth- and Introduction to modern Japanese culture and society, TO FILM 3 twentieth-century literary texts. The course will emphasizing the period 1945 to the present, and An examination of the literary and sociopolitical address questions such as: How are the relationships considering topics including education, family and trends of Italian culture as portrayed by the media of between colonialism, imperialism, and exoticism neighborhood, gender and work, and discrimination. literature and film. The course will focus on the dramatized via literature? How does the hegemonic The course analyzes social change in Japan over literary works of Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Moravia, De (i.e. France) and the non-hegemonic (i.e. Spain, or time in the course of Japan's modernization and Filippo, Bassani, and the cinematographic adapta- Latin America) positioning of a culture shape its internationalization, paying attention to the interplay tions of those works by such directors as Pasolini, particular notion of the exotic? How do cultures that between Japan's traditional cultural values and Lattuada, Visconti, and De Sica. The course also are viewed as exotic exoticize other cultures? What modern society. (Fulfills LS2 requirement; designated specifically examines the role in Italian cinema of role do other derminants such as gender, race, or a non-Western culture course.) T. Hayashi such director-authors as Fellini and Wertmuller and class play in the construction of the exotic? Readings the importance of Italian cinematic Neorealism in the from authors such as Baudelaire, Flaubert, Nerval, FL 268. ITALY TODAY: ON THE CUSP OF films of Rossellini, De Sica, and Visconti. Offered in Gautier, Dario, Casal, Tablada, Villaespesa, and THE YEAR 2000 3 2001-02 and alternate years. (Fulfills humanities Valle-Inclan. H. Jaouad requirement.) G. Faustini An exploration of life, culture, and politics in Italy today. C. The Fascist Aesthetic. The emergence and Topics include tangentopoli, Mafia, multiculturalism, FL 253, 254. ITALIAN CIVILIZATION IN significance of the fascist aeesthetic are explored via and the European Union. Materials include readings in TRANSLATION 3, 3 close study of the fundamental ideology of totalitari- cultural history as well as selections from Calvino, Study of the development of Italian civilization with anism in twentieth-century Europe. Concepts such as Sciascia, and Ginzburg. S. Smith emphasis on the historical, artistic, philosophical, the soldierly male, the leader principle, racial eugen- literary, musical, and sociopolitical background. Fall ics, community, modernity, and the fascination with FL 321. WOMEN IN FRANCE SINCE THE semester: late Medieval period to the Baroque. violence will be examined in film, literature, and the REVOLUTION 3 Spring semester: seventeenth century to the present. visual arts. Readings from among writer such as Analysis of women writers and female stereotypes G. Faustini Drieu la Rochelle, Celine, Tournier, Junger, and since the French Revolution as seen primarily D’Annunzio, and from such theorists of totalitarianism through novels and plays of such writers as de Staël, FL 257. MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE IN as Adorno, Freud, Zhelev, and Arendt. M. O’Brien Sand, Flaubert, Stendhal, Colette, Claudel, de TRANSLATION 3 Beauvoir, Duras, and Sarraute. Historical, sociologi- A critical survey of twentieth-century Chinese litera- D. The Fate of Forbidden Knowledge in cal and artistic documents will also be examined for ture up to the present. Readings include short stories, Literature and Science. An investigation of the what they reveal of the changing consciousness of novels, poetry, music, painting, and drama. Special perplexing ethical questions raised by this renais- women in France. Offered every third year. L. Gelber emphasis is placed on Chinese thought and culture sance shift in attitude toward the Faust legend. The compared to the Western tradition. (Designated a flirtation with forbidden knowledge will be studied by FL 322. THE FRENCH FILM 3 non-Western culture course; fulfills humanities drawing on religious, mythological, literary, philo- Study of some of the key features of the cinema of requirement.) M. Chen sophical, and scientific texts. Taking recent develop- France, beginning with an historical overview of the ments in genetic engineering as a case in point, we development of the idiom, from the silent films of the FL 258, 259. CHINESE CIVILIZATION 3, 3 will ask to what extent the pursuit of knowledge can Surrealists and René Clair, to the Golden Age of A survey of Chinese civilization from the Shang enhance or be damaging to human experience. sound in the thirties and concluding with the New dynasty to the present with emphasis on the These and other questions will be explored to show Wave and its posterity. The course will also study film historical, artistic, philosophical, literary, musical, how literary texts can contain moral issues of lasting as a language and use it as a means for exploring sociopolitical, literary, musical, sociopolitical back- concern for the scientific community and for society cultural identity. Students will view a selection of films ground. Fall semester: Shang dynasty (1766 B.C.) to at large. (Fulfills LS2 requirement.) R. Mayer by Clair, Dali/Bunuel, Vigo, Renoir, Carne, Duvivier, early tenth century. Spring semester: tenth century to Truffaut, Godard, Eustache, Tanner, and Rohmer, the present. Need not be taken in sequence. among others, and read criticism by directors, critics, M. Chen and theorists. Prerequisite: for credit in the French major, FF202 or 205. J. Anzalone

102 FL 371, 372. INDEPENDENT STUDY 3, 3 GE 101. PHYSICAL GEOLOGY 4 Individual study projects under the guidance of Geosciences The nature, formation, and change of Earth’s materi- department. The Department als and the major features of Earth’s crust and topography. Topics include minerals, rocks, igneous FL 374. THESIS 3 Chair of the Department of Geosciences: activity, earthquakes, mountain building, oceans, and An extended research project culminating in a paper Richard H. Lindemann shorelines, erosion, and deposition, glaciers, deserts, based on readings and extensive individual confer- and environmental geology. Three hours of lecture, Professors: Kenneth G. Johnson, John J. ences. Primarily for interdepartmental majors who two hours of lab a week, and one full-day field trip on wish to be considered for honors. Prerequisite: senior Thomas a weekend. Prerequisite: QR1. (Fulfills natural standing, permission of an instructor, and at least a Associate Professor: Richard H. Lindemann sciences and QR2 requirements.) J. Thomas 3.5 grade-point average. The Department Lecturer: Katharine Cartwright GE 102. THE HISTORY OF EARTH, LIFE, AND FL 376. SEMINAR 3 Teaching Associate: Kimberly Marsella GLOBAL CHANGE 4 A detailed exploration of a theme reflected in the Introduction to the deep time history of biospheric cultures of French, German, Italian, and Spanish By its very nature geology has a broad per- responses to changes in Earth’s climatologic and speaking civilizations. Frequent oral reports in spective, one that permits an undergraduate geologic systems. The course draws upon geologic English by members of the class. Close attention to principles and theories to explore the planet’s origin program in geology to provide not only for the development, organization, and writing of an exten- and the processes that perpetually modify the global sive paper. Required of all majors not enrolled in 374. needs of the student preparing for a career in environment. Topics also include the origin of life, the professional geology, but also for students causes and consequences of major environmental FL 399. PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP IN interested in such diverse fields as marine crises in Earth’s history, and the role of humanity as FOREIGN LANGUAGES 3, 6 or 9 science, environmental preservation, physical an agent of global change. Three hours of lecture, Professional experience at an advanced level for geography, and the environmental aspects of two hours of lab per week. (Fulfills natural sciences juniors and seniors with substantial academic and archeological research. requirement.) R. Lindemann, K. Cartwright cocurricular experience in the major field. With faculty sponsorship and departmental approval, students may THE GEOLOGY MAJOR: The major, which GE 104. DINOSAURS: EVOLUTION TO extend their educational experience into such areas as leads to a bachelor of arts degree, entails EXTINCTION 3 the communications fields, the media, pedagogy, and eleven required courses. The requirements Investigation into recent scientific theories about translation. Primarily but not exclusively for students include GE101, 102, 201, 202, 204, 304, 310, dinosaurs in an attempt to answer: who were they? participating in Skidmore’s Junior Year Abroad pro- 315, 316, a field geology course (GE 309, how did they live? where did they live? how did they grams. Prerequisite: advanced standing in the lan- Field Techniques, or a summer field course become extinct? what significance was their death to guage appropriate to the internship. Non-liberal arts. our own evolution? Topics include: dinosaur death, approved by the department), and a capstone burial, and preservation; evolution, ecology, and project consisting of a GE371 or 372 Indepen- extinction; and dinosaur myths in the media. dent Study research project that will focus on K. Cartwright the geologic interest of the student. Additional elective courses to consider including in the GE 112. OCEANOGRAPHY — INTRODUCTION geology major are GE207, 303, and 399. The TO THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT 4 courses GE114 and 115 cannot be applied Introduction to the interaction of physical, chemical toward the major. and biological processes operative in the great water bodies that cover nearly three-quarters of the earth’s The student who is going to go on to graduate surface. Three hours of lecture, two hours of lab a school will have to take MA111 and 113, week. (Fulfills natural sciences requirement.) CH105 and 106, and PY207 and 208. Others K. Johnson should consider strengthening their program by taking these courses or integrating the GE 113H. DANGEROUS EARTH: CLIMATOLOGIC AND GEOLOGIC geology major with a minor in a cognate DISASTERS 3 discipline. Introduction to the diverse ways in which climatologic and geologic phenomena influence human lives and THE GEOLOGY MINOR: The geology minor activities, the root cause of disaster phenomena, and includes six geology courses. At least two of the principles that render seemingly random natural these six courses must be at the 200 level and disasters comprehensible and predictable. Students at least two at the 300 level. will read eye witness accounts of natural disasters such as floods, droughts, hurricanes, volcanic erup- ES 105. FIELD STUDIES IN ENVIRONMENTAL tions, and earthquakes and will explore the extent to SCIENCE 4 which disasters and ephemeral events are regulated An interdisciplinary approach to the study of environ- by cyclic and/or periodic earth processes. This will mental issues. The primary focus of this course is the enable students to make predictions and develop drinking water supply for Saratoga Springs, scenarios to mitigate against potential effects of Loughberry Lake. The source of the lake's water, future natural disasters. Open to first- and second- chemical characteristics of the lake, and the nature of year students only. (This is an Honors course.) K. the land surrounding the lake are considered from a Cartwright, R. Lindemann geologic and chemical perspective. The course involves field work and emphasizes the scientific method, techniques, and theories used to measure and analyze changes in the environment. The course also explores energy use and conservation and the effects of an individual's lifestyle on the environment. Three hours of lecture, three hours of lab a week. Prerequisite: QR1. (Fulfills natural sciences and QR2 requirements.) J. Thomas, J. Halstead, S. Frey

103 GE 114. GREAT THEORIES OF THE EARTH 3 GE 303. REGIONAL GEOLOGY OF NORTH GE 351, 352. SPECIAL TOPICS IN GEOLOGY 3, 3 The study of the formulation, modification, and AMERICA 3 Advanced topics in geology offered to either small application of the major theories and principles of the Study of such regions as the Canadian Shield, groups of students or on an individual basis, allowing earth sciences including the origins of mountain Appalachians, Rocky Mountains, and western coastal the student to study in depth areas of the science chains and ocean basins, the origin and extinction of ranges from the standpoint of interpretation of geo- which are not offered on a regular basis. Specific species, the causes of climate change and ice ages, logic history using present structural and lithologic topics will vary each time the course is taught and and the origin, age, and history of Earth itself. These configurations. Prerequisite: GE101. J. Thomas might include hydrology, glaciology, micropaleontol- topics are pursued through readings of excerpts from ogy, or computer applications in geology. Prerequi- the primary literature in which observations of Earth GE 304. GEOMORPHOLOGY 4 site: permission of department. The Department phenomena were first recorded and used in the Analysis of the geologic and climatic factors that development of theories as well as from derivative control the evolution of topography. Lab study is GE 371, 372. INDEPENDENT STUDY 3, 3 literature. Subsequent study examines the modifica- concentrated on the physical character of the United An opportunity for qualified students to pursue tion and refinement of theories as new observations States and on the geologic configurations which independent research in the earth sciences under are made as well as how the theories themselves determine landform distribution and therefore are the the supervision of a member of the department. reshape concepts of the very nature of change and basis for physical subdivision. Two hours of lecture, Emphasis is placed on coordinated field, lab, and thereby redirect research programs. The course also three hours of lab a week. Prerequisite: GE101. Not library research. Prerequisite: departmental approval considers the historic context within which the major open to first-year students. Offered in 2000-01 and of a written research proposal. The Department theories we first postulated and the histories of the alternate years. K. Johnson acceptance or rejection of the ideas that they engen- GE 399. PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP IN der. This course cannot be applied toward the geol- GE 309. FIELD TECHNIQUES 4 GEOLOGY 3 or 6 ogy major. R. Lindemann An advanced course in the techniques used for Professional experience at an advanced subject level field mapping. The course concentrates on the for juniors and seniors with substantial academic and GE 115L. CLIMATOLOGY 4 instruments of mapping and how to use them, includ- cocurricular experience in the major field. With faculty Introduction to the basic components of Earth’s ing pace and compass, altimeter, plane table and sponsorship and department approval, students may climate system: the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere, alidade, topographic map and air photo base. In extend their educational experiences by working on lithosphere, and biosphere. The course nvestigates addition there is the study of some basic subsurface specialized research projects with outside profes- the basic physical processes that determine climate geologic techniques such as structural contour maps, sional earth scientists. Must be taken S/U. and the links among the components of the climate isopach maps, and well log analysis and correlation. The Department system, including the hydrologic and carbon cycles Two hours of lecture, three hours of lab, and one and their roles in climate, climate stability, and global hour of discussion a week. R. Lindemann change. Topics also include climate patterns and forecasting climate, as well as their applications and GE 310. PALEOBIOLOGY 4 human impacts. This course cannot be applied An advanced study of the morphology, taxonomy, toward the geology major. Three hours of lecture, two and evolution of fossil organisms; the major events in hours of lab per week. (Fulfills natural sciences the 3.6 billion-year history of Earth’s biota; and the requirement). R. Lindemann, K. Cartwright processes of fossil preservation/destruction. The ecology of fossil organisms, reconstruction of paleo- GE 201. MINERALOGY 4 environments and paleocommunities, as well as the Fundamentals of crystallography, crystal chemistry, forcing mechanisms that perpetually alter Earth’s and systematic mineralogy with the study of mineral marine and terrestrial environments are emphasized associations, occurrences, genesis, and phase throughout. Laboratory and field work provide first- relationships; hand sample identification, introductory hand experience in the application of the fundamental optical mineralogy, and thin section identification of concepts and principles of paleobiology to the obser- minerals. Prerequisites: GE101 or permission of vation, analysis, and interpretation of ancient life instructor. Three hours of lecture, three hours of lab a forms. Offered 2000-01 and alternate years. Three week. J. Thomas hours of lecture, three hours of lab a week. R. Lindemann

GE 202. IGNEOUS AND METAMORPHIC GE 311. PALEOCLIMATOLOGY 3 PETROLOGY 4 An advanced course that examines the history of Petrology and petrography of igneous and metamor- Earth's climate, the physical processes that influence phic rocks; origin, crystallization, and differentiation of it and their interaction, as well as controlling mecha- magmas; metamorphism, metamorphic facies and nisms. Emphasis is placed on biogeochemical cycles, the factors controlling metamorphism. The study of atmospheric and oceanic chemistry and circulation rocks in hand sample and thin section. Intermediate patterns through time, the influences of volcanic optical mineralogy. Prerequisite: GE201.Three hours aerosols and asteroid impacts on climate, icehouse of lecture, three hours of lab a week. J. Thomas and greenhouse cycles, and the climates of Phanerozoic. K. Cartwright GE 204. STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY 4 The recognition, origin, and interpretation of the GE 315. SEDIMENTOLOGY 4 various structures present in the earth’s crust. Study Introduction to terrigenous clastic, carbonate and of structure is directed toward reconstruction of evaporite sedimentary rocks. Topics include weather- stresses involved in ancient periods of tectonism. ing, erosion, transport and deposition of particle Three hours of lecture, three hours of lab a week. systems. Emphasis on Holocene depositional models Prerequisite: GE101 or permission of instructor. and their use in recognition of ancient sedimentary Offered 2000-01 and alternate years. J. Thomas environments. Prerequisite: GE101, 102. Three hours of lecture, three hours of lab a week. Offered 2001-02 GE 207. ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY 3 and alternate years. R. Lindemann An introduction to the application of geological information to human problems encountered in the GE 316. STRATIGRAPHY 4 physical environment. K. Johnson Study of lithologic and biologic units of sedimentary strata, their classification, correlation, and use in environmental and geographic reconstructions. Emphasis placed on the respective roles of organ- isms, geosynclines and tectonic events in the devel- opment of continents and sedimentary basins. Prerequisite: GE315. Three hours of lecture, four hours of lab a week. Offered 2001-02 and alternate 104 years. R. Lindemann THE GOVERNMENT MAJOR: Requirements GO 103. CRITICAL ISSUES IN WORLD Government for a major in government are a minimum of POLITICS 3 nine courses and thirty credit hours. These An introduction to critical issues in comparative courses include: government, international relations, and political Chair of Department of Government: Ronald theory. Three broad issues will be featured: dictators P. Seyb A. GO101 and 103 and democrats, individuals and communities, and B. At least one course in each of the following war and peace. The course covers the workings of Professors: Aldo C. Vacs, Joseph C. Pala- four areas: dictatorships, parliamentary and presidential democ- mountain Professor of Government; Steven A. 1. American Government: GO211, 213, racies, and such major political ideologies as liberal- Hoffmann; Roy H. Ginsberg 222, 223, 224, 251C, 252, 305, 311, 312, 313, ism, socialism, conservatism, and those of the Associate Professors: Stuart K. Witt, Ronald P. 314, 316, 333, 334, 352, 353, 362, 367; “radical right.” The course deals with such interna- Seyb LS2 053 tional relations topics as collective security, conflict 2. Comparative Government: GO203, 209, management, the Cuban missile crisis, and Vietnam. Assistant Professors: Beau Breslin, Timothy W. 227, 239, 240, 241, 251A, 327, 328, 344, 355, (Fulfills social sciences requirement.) Burns, Katherine E. Graney, Robert C. Turner 365 S. Hoffmann, R. Ginsberg, A. Vacs, K. Graney Lecturers: *Donald J. McCormack, 3. International Relations: GO201, 219, GM 201. GLOBAL SECURITY IN AN AGE OF *Christopher Whann 225, 228, 251B, 301, 309, 318, 319, 320, 338, INVENTION 3 339, 356, 366 The evolution of two twentieth-century technological A lively interest in politics, in how political 4. Political Theory: GO236, 251D, 303, 304, achievements, nuclear weapons and digital comput- systems work, and in how we can make them 308, 351, 354; or GH322 ing. This course explores the roles of scientists and work better in contemporary political issues in C. Three additional government courses the institutions that foster these achievements, and the United States and the world, in interna- examines the cooperation of scientists and policy tional relations and foreign policies, in political Note: To fulfill college maturity-level require- ments, at least six credits of 300-level govern- makers who convert these technologies into instru- theory or law—these are all ingredients for the ments of international politics and global competition. ment course must be taken in the senior year. government student. Our department offers a The course is intended to help students understand comprehensive program, reflecting the broad the relationships between technological develop- discipline of political science, as students take INTERDEPARTMENTAL MAJORS: In con- ments and selection of policies that shape interna- two required introductory courses and then a junction with the relevant departments, the tional affairs. Prerequisites: GO103, QR1, and one variety of intermediate and advanced courses Government Department offers majors in course in computer science or lab science. in each of four areas: American government political economy, government-history, govern- R. DeSieno and politics, international relations, compara- ment-philosophy, government-sociology, tive politics, and political theory. These business-government, government-French, GO 201. PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS 4 courses satisfy those wishing to concentrate in government-German, and government-Span- A survey of the patterns of relations among nation- a particular area, those with definite graduate ish. The department participates in the interna- tional affairs minor. states from the Congress of Vienna to the 1960s. The plans, and those who are simply exploring the course will introduce key concepts and frameworks to field of politics. HONORS: To be recommended for honors in explain international politics, and identify major the department, a student must have received factors that cause and prevent war. Prerequisite: Our main goal as a department is to improve GO103 or permission of instructor. R. Ginsberg students' quality of mind in special reference to at least an A- on an honors research paper in a 300-level government course. Specific require- political issues, offering them access to the GO 203. COMPARATIVE POLITICS OF necessary knowledge in the areas mentioned ments for this paper are established by the WESTERN EUROPE 3 above, helping them to acquire and use effec- department. An honors research paper in An introduction to the basic concepts of comparative tively the analytical skills required to examine government is also required for interdepart- politics with a focus on the European Union, France, political issues, and encouraging them to mental majors. Germany, and the United Kingdom. Prerequisite: develop and enhance their abilities to critically GO101 or 103 or permission of instructor. assess political situations and problems from THE GOVERNMENT MINOR: The government R. Ginsberg the empirical and normative perspectives. In minor consists of five courses with a minimum GO 209. THE LATIN AMERICAN PUZZLE 4 terms of knowledge we aim at providing the of fifteen credits to be determined in consulta- tion with the department chair and the student's A comprehensive analysis of Latin American political, students with the historical and contemporary social, and economic processes and institutions from information required to understand the evolu- government-faculty advisor. At least two of these courses must be taken at the 300 level. a multidisciplinary perspective. The course examines tion and current features of national and inter- Latin America's political development, ethnic prob- national political structures, behaviors, and PI SIGMA ALPHA, Tau Gamma Chapter. lems, gender roles, and economic strategies as well ideas. In terms of analytical skills we want to as the changing role of institutions such as the state, Founded in 1920 as the national political offer the students the methodological and socioeconomic organizations, the church, and the technical skills required to read texts carefully, science honor society, Pi Sigma Alpha military. It considers how Latin American societies collect data, analyze and interpret it, and receives into membership students of political changed after independence while noting those communicate the results in an effective and science and related disciplines who attain political, social, and economic aspects that remain elegant manner, orally and in writing. In terms high standards of scholarship and academic unchanged. The objective of the course is to provide of critical abilities we want to encourage the distinction. Eligibility requirements include: a critical examination of the evolution and transforma- students to cultivate their skills to critically six government and/or government-history tion of Latin America while offering the analytical elements necessary to interpret similar processes in examine political issues and problems in a courses; a 3.5 grade-point average in these courses; and a 3.25 cumulative grade-point other geographical areas and historical periods. creative and independent manner, becoming (Fulfills LS2 requirement.) A. Vacs able to assess political ideas, systems and average. behaviors from empirical and ethical view- points, and to offer policy recommendations GO 101. UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS 3 aimed at improving political participation, An analysis of United States national government processes, and outcomes. with emphasis on constitutionalism, the Presidency, Congress, and the Judiciary. Reference will also be made to the impact of political parties and pressure groups on the contemporary political system. (Fulfills social sciences requirement.) R. Turner, B. Breslin, R. Seyb 105 GO 211. COURTS, POLITICS, AND JUDICIAL GO 225. MILITARY AND POLITICAL LESSONS GO 240. POLITICAL MODERNIZATION: THE PROCESS IN THE UNITED STATES 3 FROM WORLD WAR II 4 CASE OF INDIA 3 A survey of the role of courts in contemporary A selective study of the crucial events of the twentieth A study of problems inherent in modernizing political American politics and society. Students will explore century aimed at finding appropriate lessons for systems, as exemplified by the development of mass the organization and functions of state and federal people who will live in the twenty-first century. Topics politics in India, the relationship of political to courts and their relation to other political institutions include: importance of incorporating technological economic development in this major “third world” and to society generally. Topics will include the advances into military doctrine, how “blitzkrieg” nation, and the rise of Indian nationalism under the decision-making processes of judges, attorneys and offensives work and how to defeat them, and ad- nonviolent concepts of Mahatma Gandhi. The course litigants in various judicial settings, the role and vances in aerial and undersea warfare from 1939 to provides background necessary for a sound under- impact of courts as policy-makers, the selection and the present day. Interprets World War II as what standing of India’s movement to independence as a recruitment of judicial personnel, access to judicial military planners now call a “Revolution in Military modern nation-state. (Designated a non-Western power, courts and the media, and contemporary Affairs,” shows how that RMA still governs strategy culture course.) S. Hoffmann trends in litigation. B. Breslin and tactics today, and how the next RMA is already visible on the horizon. Prerequisite: One of the GO 241. ETHNIC CONFLICT AND THE GO 213. CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE 3 following: GO101, 103, 201, HI105, 106, 222, SO101, GLOBAL SYSTEM 4 An exploration of criminal justice systems in the or permission of instructor. S. Hoffmann An exploration of the major approaches to the study United States with emphasis on governmental power and understanding of ethnic conflict and nationalism. to define, investigate, and punish criminal activity. GO 227. RUSSIA: A CENTURY OF CHANGE 3 Students examine sociobiological and psychological Topics will include aspects of the substantive law A comparison of traditional Russian society with “primordialist” theories, realist and instrumentalist concerning crimes against persons and property, Soviet society after 1917. The course will focus first approaches, and normative/ideational explanations. requirements of proof of legal guilt, insanity and on the political, economic, and social characteristics These theoretical approaches will be illustrated related defenses, and the politics of criminal justice of the authoritarian tsarist empire. Then we will turn through case studies, which may include: “troubles” reform. Open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. to the revolutionary changes initiated by Lenin, the in Northern Ireland; sovereignty movements in B. Breslin terror of Stalin, the reforms of Khrushchev, and the Quebec and Chechnya; ethnic violence in Indonesia, stagnation under Brezhnev. Three areas of change Nigeria, and the former Soviet bloc; indigenous GO 219. POLITICAL ECONOMY OF EUROPEAN will be examined in detail: political structures and people’s movements in Mexico; separatism, racism, INTEGRATION 3 participation; economic organization and equality; and anti-immigrant violence in Europe; or others. An introductory survey of how economics, history, gender roles, both public and private. Readings will Prerequisite: GO103 or permission of instructor. law, and politics together help explain the growth and include novels, memoirs, and press translations. (Fulfills social sciences requirement.) K. Graney development of the European Union over time. The (Fulfills LS2 requirement.) K. Graney course focuses on common institutions and decision- GO 251. TOPICS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE 3 making, internal and external policies, issues of GO 228. UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY IN Topically organized courses focused on selected national and European identities, and place of A CHANGING WORLD 4 problems, areas, and issues of special interest in Europe in the wider world. (Fulfills LS2 requirement.) This course examines the development and current political science at the intermediate level. Topics vary R. Ginsberg features of American foreign policy focusing on the from year to year, depending upon specialization and international challenges and opportunities faced by research interests of the instructor. Students may GO 222. STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT 4 the United States after the end of the Cold War. It take the course more than once, with the approval of The study of state and local government, politics, and analyzes some of the major patterns of United States the department, if the topic is different each time. policies within the United States federal system. foreign policy, reviews some important interpretations Prerequisite: for A, B, and D, GO103 or permission of Emphasis on connections between government and methodological approaches to the study of instructor; for C, GO101 or permission of instructor. structure, politics, and the economy, with special United States foreign policy, discusses the ideologi- A. Comparative Politics attention to questions of public policy. R. Turner cal components of these policies, examines the B. International Relations foreign policy actors and the decision making process C. American Politics GO 223. CURRENT ISSUES IN PUBLIC in which they participate, and evaluates the changing D. Political Theory POLICY 4 objectives and circumstances shaping recent Ameri- An analysis of the public policy process through an can international initiatives. Special attention will be GO 252. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF POLITICS 3 examination of several current policy issues. The devoted to the impact of the end of the Cold War and An examination of how citizens’ and public officials’ course will begin with a study of the fundamentals of the rise of interdependence and globalization on attitudes, values, beliefs, experiences, and cognitive policy formation, and will then investigate specific recent United States economic, strategic, and envi- capacities shape political behavior and influence the policy issues. Issues may include AIDS, drugs, ronmental foreign policies as well as in the formula- actions of American political institutions. Topics affirmative action, and welfare. Students will partici- tion of specific approaches to different regions of the include political socialization, political personality, pate in a mock legislative session. Prerequisite: world. Prerequisite: GO103 or permission of instruc- attitude formation and change, and political decision- GO101 or permission of instructor. The Department tor. R. Ginsberg, A. Vacs making. Prerequisite: GO101 or permission of instructor. R. Seyb GO 224. AMERICAN INDIAN POLITICS GO 236. AMERICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT 3 AND POLICY 3 An examination of the writings of selected thinkers in GO 299. PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP IN Examines contemporary American Indian politics and the American political tradition. The course will place GOVERNMENT 3 policy. The course will begin with a brief overview of particular emphasis on the thought of the framers and Internship in government, political, or legal offices for colonial Indian policy and early United States Indian on the response of succeeding political leaders and students with appropriate academic preparation. The policy, and will then investigate such topics as thinkers to the framers’ principles. Prerequisites: intern is required to produce a substantial research sovereignty, treaty rights, taxation, land claims, and GO101 or 103, or permission of instructor. T. Burns paper related to the area of the internship, on a topic gaming. Students will produce a video. (Fulfills LS2 approved by the faculty sponsor and the on-site requirement.) The Department GO 239. NATIONALISM AND POLITICS IN supervisor. Prerequisite: GO101 or 103 (depending THE MIDDLE EAST 4 on the area of the internship) and one other govern- Introduction to the basic problems and trends of the ment course in the area of the internship (American, major “confrontation” and oil states of the Middle comparative, or international). East, including leadership, instability, modernization, nationalism, and war. Covers Egypt, Israel, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Turkey, and the Palestinians. In-depth coverage of the Arab- Israeli conflict. Prerequisite: GO103 or permission of instructor. (Designated a non-Western culture course.) S. Hoffmann

106 GO 301. CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL GO 311. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 4 GO 320. CASES IN TWENTIETH CENTURY POLITICS AND LAW 4 A survey of the American constitutional system SUPERPOWER RELATIONS 3 An analysis of changes in international politics and emphasizing sources and uses of governmental An analysis of Cold War and post-Cold War interna- law from the Cold War to the present. Topics include power, the political role of the Supreme Court, the tional politics focusing on United States-Russian regional conflict; multilateral peacekeeping; prolifera- Court’s jurisdiction, and the allocation of powers confrontations with each other and with their allies. tion of weapons of mass destruction; international between the federal government and the states. Students will use cases to examine the evolution of law; human rights; and the structure, function, and Prerequisite: GO101 or permission of instructor. international security issues including arms control, role of international organizations and nongovern- B. Breslin regional conflicts from Cuba to Vietnam to Afghani- mental organizations. Students actively engage in stan, and the new challenges of the post-1989 era global problem-solving exercises utilizing theoretical GO 312. CONTEMPORARY CONSTITUTIONAL such as the wars in the Persian Gulf and the former concepts, case studies, policy briefs, and policy PROBLEMS 3 Yugoslavia. Prerequisite: GO103 or permission of debates. This course may be taken in conjunction An examination of selected constitutional issues, instructor. K. Graney with participation in Model United Nations, Model including the proper role of the Supreme Court in our European Union, or other intercollegiate simulations. political system. The course covers theories of GH 322. THE HISTORY AND POLITICAL Prerequisite: GO103 or permission of instructor. judicial review, as well as many of the complexities of THOUGHT OF THE AMERICAN R. Ginsberg modern civil rights and civil liberties. Prerequisite: REVOLUTION 3 GO212 or permission of instructor. B. Breslin The creation of a new nation, 1763-1789. This GO 303. CLASSICAL POLITICAL THOUGHT 4 course will give special attention to the political Political thought of Plato and Aristotle. This course GO 313. POLITICS OF CONTEMPORARY ideas which gave direction to the American Revolu- will treat the character of the political thought that UNITED STATES SOCIAL tion and the Constitution. Prerequisite: GO101 or Socrates initiated. Consideration will be given to the MOVEMENTS 4 permission of instructor. T. Kuroda reasons for the original tension between wisdom and A study of the civil rights, black nationalist, black politics and to the manner in which theory can inform power, black liberation, American Indian, women’s, GO 327. POLITICS IN RUSSIA AND THE practice. Selected Greek comedies and tragedies, as and queer movements in the United States. The SOVIET SUCCESSOR STATES 4 well as Roman and medieval political thought may course will look at the history of the emergence of An analysis of politics in Russia and in the post- also be considered. Prerequisite: GO103 or permis- these movements and the impact these movements communist republics of the former Soviet Union. sion of instructor. T. Burns have had on public policy and social change. Particu- After analyzing the disintegration of the U.S.S.R. lar consideration will be given to movement ideology. under Gorbachev, the course will focus on the GO 304. MODERN POLITICAL THOUGHT 4 Students will prepare a research design and a final attempts since 1991 to create democratic political Political thought of the Renaissance to that of the late paper. Open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. systems. Special attention will be paid to elections, nineteenth century. Selected thinkers include The Department constitutions, political party formation, parliaments, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Wollstone- leadership strategies, and nationalism. Prerequisite: craft, Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche. Particular empha- GO 314. CIVIL LIBERTIES 4 GO103 or permission of instructor. K. Graney sis will be placed on the aspirations of liberalism and An analysis of recent Supreme Court decisions the criticism these aspirations inspired. Prerequisite: interpreting our civil liberties, civil rights, guarantee of GO 328. NATIONALISM, COMMUNISM, AND GO103 or permission of instructor. T. Burns due process of law, and equal protection of the laws. DEMOCRACY: POLITICS IN EAST B. Breslin EUROPE 4 GO 305. INTEREST GROUPS AND GO 316. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 4 East European politics from 1918 to the present. The PUBLIC POLICY 3 An examination of the administration of public policy course analyzes democracy and fascism before An examination of political theories and contempo- in the United States, with attention to government World War II, the rise and fall of communism, and the rary practices of interest groups in the making of organization, budgeting, personnel, procurement, rebirth of democracy and nationalism after 1989. public policy in the United States. The course regulation, due process, intergovernmental rela- Major topics include modernization and political includes a review of theoretical approaches to inter- tions, and reform. Students will select one federal development, nationalism and political culture, one- est groups, models of policy-making, a survey of agency or program for study in depth. Prerequisite: party dictatorships, and multiparty presidential and groups active in selected policy areas, and GO101 or permission of instructor. R. Turner parliamentary democracies. Prerequisite: GO103 or techniques of influence. Prerequisite: GO101 or permission of instructor. K. Graney permission of instructor. R. Turner GO 318. COMPARATIVE FOREIGN POLICY 3 A comparative examination of the foreign policies of GO 333. AMERICAN POLITICAL RESEARCH 4 GO 308. CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and other A senior seminar in which each student will conduct THOUGHT 4 European states within the contexts of United individualized research into a topic or question in Political thought of the twentieth century. Primary States-European relations, the North Atlantic Treaty contemporary American politics. Each student will attention will be given to the influence of Nietzsche as Organization, and the European Union. Prerequisite: prepare a research design, class progress reports, reflected in existentialism, post-modernism, and post- GO103 or permission of instructor. R. Ginsberg and a final paper. Special attention will be given to modern feminism. Additional topics might include the primary sources, such as government documents, influence of Freudianism on political thought, the GO 319. WHAT THE UNITED STATES DOES and to computer-based research techniques and debate between Rawls and Nozick on social justice, WRONG IN THE WORLD: resources, such as Internet and data bases. Prereq- and the claims of communitarianism. Prerequisite: VIEWS FROM INDIA AND ANSWERS uisite: Senior government major status, or permission GO103 or permission of instructor; recommended FROM WASHINGTON 4 of the instructor. R. Turner preparation: GO303 or 304. T. Burns Outside the United States, and outside Western Europe, the role of the United States in the world is GO 334. THE UNITED STATES PRESIDENCY 4 GO 309. LATIN AMERICA AND THE often called “dominant,” “hegemonic,” “discrimina- An analysis of the Presidential role in United States UNITED STATES 3 tory,” and even “trigger-happy.” One source for this politics. The course will examine the expansion of the An examination of the relations between Latin critique is India, a democracy now seeking great constitutional and political powers of the President in America and the United States, including their politi- power status in the world. Many informed Indian the light of contemporary politics. Prerequisite: cal, strategic, and economic aspects. The course strategic thinkers believe that the United States will GO101 or permission of instructor. R. Seyb reviews some of the major theoretical interpretations block the rise of new great powers by such means as of these relations and analyzes some crucial histori- preventing the international movement of high tech- cal events and developments before focusing on nology. Is there substance to these changes? Can crucial contemporary topics including collective the United States government make a persuasive security, revolutionary change, imperialism and reply? These are the central issues of the course. nationalism, economic issues, human rights and Prerequisite: GO103 or permission of instructor. democracy, drug traffic, and migration. Prerequisite: S. Hoffmann GO103 or permission of instructor. A. Vacs

107 GO 338. INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC GO 354. FEMINIST POLITICAL THOUGHT 3 GO 366. TOPICS IN INTERNATIONAL NEGOTIATIONS 4 A critical exploration of contemporary feminist politi- RELATIONS 4 An exploration of the techniques and practice of cal thought. The course will focus on the different Selected issues, regions, and research in interna- diplomatic negotiations as a peaceful way of resolv- conceptions of subjectivity found within feminist tional relations. Topics will vary from year to year, ing international disputes. The course addresses a thought and the implications of those conceptions for depending upon specialization and research interests variety of international negotiating problems (political, political society. Readings will come from a wide of the instructor. Possible topics: Commonwealth of strategic, environmental, and economic) that involve range of approaches including postmodernism, Independent States (former Soviet Union), conflict different kinds of actors (great, intermediate, and psychoanalytic theory, and standpoint theory. Pre- and compromise; United States and Japan, allies in small powers; intergovernmental and nongovernmen- requisite: GO101 or 103, or permission of instructor. collision. Students may take the course more than tal organizations; and private groups) from various The Department once, with the approval of the department, if the topic parts of the world in diverse settings (global, regional, is different each time. Prerequisite: GO103 or permis- and local). Theoretical materials and case studies are GO 355. AFRICAN POLITICS 4 sion of the instructor. The Department used to gain insight into the issues and questions An analysis of states and societies of Africa during involved in diplomatic negotiations. Prerequisite: the colonial and independent periods. Topics to be GO 367. TOPICS IN AMERICAN POLITICS 4 GO103 or 201 or permission of instructor. A. Vacs covered include: the effect of colonialism on state Selected issues, periods, and research in American structures, social groupings, and ethnic identities; politics. Topics will vary from year to year, depending GO 339. INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL regime types and domestic politics; pressures to upon the specialization and research interests of the ECONOMY AND THE ENVIRONMENT 4 populate regions that are not easily habitable; the instructor. Possible topics include: urban government, Explores changes in international politics that lend effects of disease, starvation, and natural disaster on politics of AIDS, political role of the labor movement, more weight to economic and environmental issues the continent's demographics; and public policies to etc. Students may take the course more than once, and analyzes the responses to those changes of master water and land. Prerequisite: GO103, or with the approval of the department, if the topic is developed and developing countries and regional, permission of instructor. (Designated a non-Western different each time. Prerequisite: GO101 or permis- international, and nongovernmental organizations. culture course.) C. Whann sion of the instructor. The Department Students examine different theoretical perspectives on international political economy issues, engage in GO 356. AFRICA IN INTERNATIONAL GO 371, 372. INDEPENDENT STUDY 3, 3 problem-solving exercises, and conduct a major AFFAIRS 4 An opportunity for qualified majors to do special research paper or prepare for participation in Model Africans and outsiders with interests in Africa have studies in the field of political science beyond or United Nations, Model European Union, or other been concerned with matters of land, water, plants, outside of the regular departmental offerings. The simulation exercises. Prerequisite: GO103 or permis- and other natural resources. State and nonstate student’s study program is supervised by a member sion of instructor. R. Ginsberg, A. Vacs actors have sought to manage, control, or extract of the department. Written work and regular periodic them for economic gain or use them as weapons of discussion meetings are required. The Department GO 344. COMPARATIVE POLITICS AND political control. Topics to be covered in this course CULTURE: INDIA AND JAPAN 4 include the political economy of conflict; human and GO 375. SENIOR THESIS 4 A comparison of the political systems of the two environmental control; African cash crop production, Optional for government majors. Particularly recom- major Asian democracies, India and Japan, with an mining, and oil drilling; the politics of famine and mended for majors wishing to develop a problem or emphasis on the role of culture in explaining political drought; and regional and international control of theme in depth and for those working toward profes- behavior and economic development. Special atten- water. These topics will be analyzed in the context of sional careers or in preparing for graduate work. The tion is paid to the problems being experienced by the theories of international relations and foreign policy student’s work is supervised by a member of the Indian and Japanese versions of parliamentary making. Prerequisite: GO103, IA101 or consent of department. Individual and, if appropriate, group democracy, and to the economic policies favored by instructor. (Designated a non-Western culture conferences will be held during the term. Written the two governments. Prerequisite: GO103 or permis- course.) C. Whann work and regular periodic discussion meetings are sion of instructor. (Designated a non-Western culture required. Proposals for the senior thesis must be course.) S. Hoffmann GO 357. SEXING GLOBAL POLITICS: GENDER prepared in consultation with a government faculty AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 4 thesis-sponsor, approved by the sponsor and the GO 351. TOPICS IN POLITICAL THOUGHT 4 An exploration of how the theory and practice of student’s advisor, and submitted to the chair for A seminar devoted to a particular issue or a particular international relations is gendered. Students examine approval during the semester preceding the one in thinker. Topics will vary from year to year. Recent how the fundamental international relations concepts which the student wishes to work on the thesis. topics have included “The ‘Public’ and ‘Private’ in of security and defense are defined in gendered Application deadlines precede registration periods; Modern Political Thought,” “Machiavelli’s Political ways, and how the practice of diplomacy, war- see the department calendar for specific dates. Thought,” and “Shakespeare’s Rome." The course making, and international economic development are The Department may be repeated with the approval of the department. gendered. Special focus on the environmental Prerequisite: GO103 or permission of instructor. impacts of international relations’ gendered past and GO 399. PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP IN Recommended additional preparation: GO303 or 304. present, and how women’s and environmental GOVERNMENT 3, 6, or 9 The Department organizations work together to challenge traditional Internship experience at an advanced level in patterns of global governance. Prerequisite: GO103 government, political, or legal offices for students GO 352. WOMEN AND THE LAW 4 or permission of the instructor. K. Graney with substantial academic preparation. The intern The rights of women under constitutional and statute must produce a major research paper related to the law in the United States. Examines changing patterns GO 362. POLITICS OF THE CONGRESS 4 area of the internship, on a topic approved by the in the legal status of women, legal protection against A seminar devoted to the examination of the faculty sponsor and the on-site supervisor. Prereq- public and private discrimination, and the effective- congressional system through research, class uisite: GO101 (if internship is in the area of national ness of law as an instrument of social change. discussion, and written work. Prerequisite: GO101 politics or a legal office), or GO103 (if internship is Students will participate in a moot court Prerequisite: or permission of instructor. R. Seyb in the area of comparative or international politics), GO101 or permission of instructor. The Department and at least two advanced courses in the appropri- GO. 365. TOPICS IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS 4 ate field for the internship. GO 353. SEX AND POWER 4 Selected issues, regions, and research in compara- Examines changing patterns in the regulation of sex, tive politics. Topics will vary from year to year, sexuality, and representations of sex and sexuality depending upon specialization and research under constitutional and statute law in the United interests of the instructor. Possible topics: post- States. Attention will be focused on how these authoritarian transitions in Eastern Europe; party regulations support or challenge power relationships. politics in Israel. Students may take the course Students will participate in a moot court. Prerequisite: more than once, with the approval of the depart- GO101 or permission of instructor. The Department ment, if the topic is different each time. Prerequisite: GO103 or permission of the instructor. The Department

108 THE HISTORY MINOR: A minor in history HI 106. TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPE: AGE History consists of twenty credits in history including OF CONFLICT 4 the colloquim and six additional credits at the An intensive examination of the political, economic, 300 level. social, and cultural history of Europe from World War Chair of the Department of History: Tadahisa I. Emphasis on world wars, fascism, Nazism, commu- Kuroda Credits toward the major: Courses success- nism, the Holocaust, new nations and nationalism, the fully completed through Advanced Placement, Cold War, and the collapse of Soviet communism. Professors: *Patricia-Ann Lee; Tadahisa (Fulfills social sciences requirement.) M. Hockenos Kuroda, David H. Porter Professor courses completed at other accredited institu- tions, and course credit received in programs Associate Professor: Margaret J. Pearson HI 107. WRITING ABOUT HISTORY 4 abroad may, with the permission of the A brief study of a number of significant issues in Assistant Professors: David E. Baum, Jennifer chair, be counted toward history require- history. Students will be introduced to the discipline of Delton, Matthew D. Hockenos, Jordana Dym, ments. Of the work submitted for the major, history and will have an opportunity to develop and Joseph Hodge interdepartmental majors, and the minor, the improve writing skills. (Meets expository writing department requires that at least half be Visiting Assistant Professor: Daniel Cohen requirement for students who placed at EN105 level courses taught in the Skidmore History Depart- or who have completed EN103; fulfills social sciences Lecturer: David Eyman ment and listed in the Skidmore catalogue. requirement.) A. The Liberal Arts College in America from “An unexamined life is not worth living.” The department will treat as equivalent to one Harvard to Skidmore T. Kuroda Socrates course toward the major or minor in history six B. United States Environmental History T. Kuroda credits of Advanced Placement in either History is a way by which men and women American or European history accepted by HI 108. COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA 4 come to understand who they are as human Skidmore College. Explores Latin America society from initial encounters beings. The study of history is a vital part of a between Europeans and Native Americans to early- liberal arts education. Encompassing the The following courses provide both Liberal nineteenth-century wars of independence. Focuses whole range of human experience, the disci- Studies credit and credit toward the history on interactions among native American, African, and pline of history employs established methods major or minor: LS2 113, 124. European peoples and institutions. Topics include of investigation and research to deal critically conquest and colonization; church, crown, and with processes of change. The Skidmore PHI ALPHA THETA: Alpha Delta Tau Chapter. commoner; labor and environment; class and caste; women; and commerce in principal Spanish districts History Department expects its students to Founded in 1921, Phi Alpha Theta is an inter- (Peru, Central America, and Maya lands), Portuguese acquire a broad knowledge of the past and to national history honor society and a profes- Brazil, and French Saint Domingue (Haiti). (Fulfills be able to work in depth in areas and at topics sional society for students and historians. Phi social sciences requirement.) J. Dym of an individual's particular interest. Students Alpha Theta recognizes academic excellence should develop the capacity to identify major in the study of history. Eligibility requirements HI 109. CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICA 4 historical problems, interpret varying bodies of include: completion of a minimum of four Introduces the economic, political, social, and intellec- knowledge, deal critically with a range of courses in history; a 3.10 cumulative grade- tual history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin historical sources and present their ideas in a point average in history; and a 3.0 cumulative America. The course material is organized both clear, vigorous, and graceful form. Courses grade-point average in two-thirds of all other thematically and chronologically, focusing on a series offered by the department explore the pasts of courses. of topics that are key to understanding the emergence the United States, England, Europe, Asia, and of the former colonies of Spain, Portugal, France, and Latin America, and range from the ancient First-year students are welcome in all courses England into a group of distinct nation-states. Topics world to the present. History students are numbered 103 through 247. include legacies of empire, political participation, and encouraged to develop areas of interest in national identity in multicultural contexts, as well as related disciplines and programs such as HI 103. MEDIEVAL EUROPE 4 dictatorship and democratization. (Fulfills social sciences requirement.) J. Dym international relations, American and Asian The formation of Europe: from the breakdown of Roman political authority in the West in the fourth studies, government, and philosophy as well HI 201. GREEK HISTORY 3 as to study abroad. century to the rise of national states and their con- flicts in the fourteenth. (Fulfills social sciences re- A study of Greece from the Mycenaean age to the quirement.) D. Baum Trojan War to Alexander the Great. The course THE HISTORY MAJOR: A major requires focuses on the heroic age, the development of the thirty-two credits in history, including the collo- HI 104. EARLY MODERN EUROPEAN city-state, the origins of democracy, the nature of quium and nine additional credits at the 300 HISTORY 4 imperialism, intellectual and cultural achievements, level. Students should take additional colloquia The evolution of modern European politics, society, economic conditions, and family life. Special empha- if possible. and thought: from the Renaissance and Reformation sis is given to the study of the ancient sources: to the French Revolution. (Fulfills social sciences literary, historiographic, archaeological, and numis- In cooperation with the advisor, a student requirement.) D.Baum matic. (Fulfills social sciences requirement.) majoring in history should construct a program M. Arnush to include a broad knowledge of history in HI 105. NINETEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE: general, as well as specific knowledge of one IDEOLOGY AND REVOLUTION 4 HI 202. ROMAN HISTORY 3 A study of Rome from its foundation by Romulus to area of history in greater depth. The program An intensive examination of the revolutions in eco- the principate of Justinian and the end of antiquity. should include a variety of approaches to the nomics, politics, and society in Europe from 1789 to 1914. Emphasis on the French and industrial revolu- The course focuses on the Etruscan world, the rise of study of history and should demonstrate the Rome in Italy, the impact of Hellenism, social and ability to work at different levels. tions; the rise in nationalism, liberalism, socialism, imperialism, and the women's movement; interna- political institutions in the Republic, imperialism under tional rivalry and diplomacy culminating in World Augustus, the evolution of Roman culture and the INTERDEPARTMENTAL MAJORS: In War I. (Fulfills social sciences requirement.) spread of Christianity. Special emphasis is given to conjunction with the relevant departments, M. Hockenos the study of the ancient sources: literary, historio- the History Department offers majors in graphic, archaeological, and numismatic. (Fulfills government-history and history-philosophy. social sciences requirement.) M. Arnush See Interdepartmental Majors. Other interde- partmental majors can be arranged. The department participates in the Asian studies major and minor, the international affairs minor, and the law and society minor. 109 HI 210. CREATING A NATION — MEDIEVAL HI 223. AMERICA AND THE WORLD: A HI 298. HISTORY WORKSHOP 1 ENGLAND: KINGS, LORDS, AND HISTORY OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY 3 A topical workshop, seminar, discussion group or lab/ PEOPLES 3 America’s interactions with the rest of the world studio experience, which can link to a regular History Out of the mingling of different peoples, laws, from the 1870s, when the United States first began Department course offered at the 200 level or serve languages and cultures, an English state was forged to question its traditional posture of aloofness and as a freestanding course. in the middle ages and ideas of rights, constitutional- define a new role for itself in international affairs. A. American History J. Delton, T. Kuroda ism, and the rule of law emerged which have Course will trace the development of the U.S. from B. English History P.A. Lee profoundly affected the American experience from its position as a peripheral force in world affairs to C. Medieval History D. Baum the colonial period to the present day. Through its role as an international superpower: how and D. Modern European History M.Hockenos documents, readings, discussion, and writing assign- why did American leaders devise policies to protect, E. Russian History ments, the class will reflect upon processes of change manage, and extend U.S. interests abroad, who F. Ancient History M. Arnush which were social and cultural, as well as political. opposed these policies, and what factors inhibited G. Literature and Philosophy of History (Fulfills social sciences requirement.) P.A. Lee the implementation of these policies. (Fulfills social H. Latin American History J. Dym sciences requirement.) J. Delton I. African History HI 211. STATE AND PEOPLE: ENGLISH REVOLUTIONS, 1485-1832 4 HI 228. RACE, CLASS, AND ETHNICITY IN HI 299. PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP IN Between 1485 and 1832 England (Britain) underwent LATIN AMERICA 3 HISTORY 3 a series of revolutions—religious, political, and Looks at how difference ideas about race and Internship opportunity for students whose curricular economic. This process transformed a society that ethnicity have shaped Latin American politics and foundations and cocurricular experience have pre- was still feudal in many respects into a modern state societies from colonial times to the present. Themes pared them for professional work related to the major with increasingly broad representation and one which covered include: interactions of Iberian, American, field. With faculty sponsorship and department was poised for the move toward democracy in the African, and Asian peoples; official and unofficial approval, students may extend their educational nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Students will management of multiethnic and multicultural societ- experience into such areas as archives, museums, examine processes of change which were social, ies; scientific racism; and the relation between galleries, libraries, historical societies, preservation, cultural, and economic, as well as political. (Fulfills theories of race and development of ideas about and other professional areas. Prerequisite: previous social sciences requirement.) P.A. Lee class, gender, and nation. J. Dym study related to the area of the internship experience.

HI 215. TOPICS IN HISTORY 3 HI 241. INTRODUCTION TO IMPERIAL CHINA 3 Topically organized courses based on problems and An introductory survey of the major cultural, political, NOTE: Courses on the 300-level are open to issues of special interest at the introductory level. and ideological developments in China from earliest sophomores only with permission of instructor. The specific themes to be examined may differ from times to the fall of the last Chinese dynasty, with year to year. Recent offerings include “The History of focus on several important eras and their contribu- HI 301. EARLY MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATION 3 Science from Newton to the Present,” “Victorian tions to Asian civilizations. (Designated a non- The culture and society of Europe: 300 to 1100. People,” “Electing the President,” and “Europe: Western culture course; fulfills social sciences Special emphasis upon the development of the early Politics and Culture 1870-1914.” This course with a requirement.) M. Pearson Christian church, the thought of Augustine of Hippo, different topic may be repeated for credit. the rise of Charlemagne’s Frankish Empire, and the A. American History J. Delton, T. Kuroda HI 242. INTRODUCTION TO MODERN CHINA 3 economic revival of Europe in the eleventh century. B. English History P.A. Lee An introductory survey of the major political, D. Baum C. Medieval History D. Baum economic, and social developments in China, from D. Modern European History M. Hockenos the foundation of the last imperial dynasty in 1644 to HI 302. THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES 3 E. Russian History the present. Emphasis is on the major stages of the European civilization: 1100 to 1400. Special empha- F. Ancient History M. Arnush revolution, from the Opium War to the present. sis upon the Renaissance of the twelfth century; the G. Literature and Philosophy of History (Designated a non-Western culture course; fulfills rediscovery of Aristotle; the thought of Peter Abelard, H. Latin American History J. Dym social sciences requirement.) M. Pearson Thomas Aquinas and William of Ockham; the Roman I. African History Church at its height; the breakdown of Christian unity. HI 247. THE RISE OF JAPAN 3 D. Baum HI 216. TOPICS IN HISTORY: An introductory survey of Japanese history and NON-WESTERN 3 culture from its beginnings through World War II. HI 303. INTELLECTUAL HISTORY — Topically organized courses based on problems and Focus is on ways in which Japanese women and MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE 3 issues of special interest at the introductory level. men have transformed borrowings from other cul- The principal currents of Western European thought: The specific themes to be examined may be different tures to create their unique forms of government, the Middle Ages, the Italian Renaissance, and the from year to year. This course with a different topic society, and the arts. Sources include a diary, short Renaissance of the North. D. Baum may be repeated for credit. stories, legal documents, and films. (Designated a A. Chinese History M. Pearson non-Western culture course; fulfills social sciences HI 304. RENAISSANCE DIPLOMACY AND B. Japanese History M. Pearson requirement.) M. Pearson THE FORMATION OF THE EARLY C. Islamic History MODERN STATE 3 D. Other HI 254. INTELLECTUAL HISTORY — The emergence of early modern political practice and (Designated non-Western culture courses.) MODERN EUROPE 3 theory. This course traces the development of Re- The principal currents of modern European thought: naissance diplomacy from its origins among the HI 221. AMERICAN HISTORY TO THE the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Italian city-states of the early fifteenth century to its CIVIL WAR 4 M. Hockenos maturation in the courts of the great seventeenth- An exploration of major issues and problems of the century monarchs, including Louis XIV. The course American past: the colonial experience to the Civil HI 261. AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIFE AND will also examine the relationship between the War. (Fulfills social sciences requirement.) J. Delton POLITICS, 1619 TO THE PRESENT 3 development of diplomatic cultures and practices A history of black people in America from slavery (which includes a consideration of the Renaissance HI 222. AMERICAN HISTORY SINCE through emancipation to the present. The course archetypes of prince, courtier, and diplomat) and the THE CIVIL WAR 4 examines such topics as: slave culture, black resis- formation of the first modern states. D. Baum An exploration of major issues and problems of the tance, the Harlem Renaissance, the development of American past: from the Civil War to the present. jazz, blues, and soul music, the civil rights movement (Fulfills social sciences requirement.) J. Delton and its aftermath, and the crisis of the inner cities to understand how black people have defined their place in American life. (Fulfills social sciences re- quirement.) J. Delton

110 HI 305. SCIENCE AND THE CHURCH: EUROPE HI 328. AMERICA IN THE AGE OF REFORM: HI 361. TOPICS IN HISTORY: WESTERN 3 FROM LUTHER TO VOLTAIRE 3 1876 TO THE NEW DEAL 3 Topically organized courses based on problems and The emergence in early modern Europe (1500-1800) The United States' response to industrialization, issues of special interest at the advanced level. The of two competing world views: Christianity and immigration, urbanization, and economic crisis in the specific themes to be examined may differ from year scientific rationalism. The course will examine the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This course to year. Recent offerings include “The Historian as competition between these two ideologies for control use a variety of primary and secondary materials to Detective,” “Utopias and Science Fiction,” and “The of the political, economic, and social machinery of examine how Americans deal with the problems of Fifties.” This course with a different topic may be European culture, especially as represented by the modernity. J. Delton repeated for credit. modern state, and for the right to define the principal A. American History J. Delton, T. Kuroda modes of cultural expression—the literary, plastic, HI 329. THE AMERICAN CENTURY 3 B. English History P.A. Lee and performing arts. D. Baum A cultural and political study of the United States' C. Medieval History D. Baum years as a world power, from the Second World War D. Modern European History M. Hockenos HI 306. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND to the end of the Cold War. The course uses a variety E. Russian History NAPOLEON, 1789-1815 3 of primary and secondary source material (including F. Ancient History M. Arnush A study of the causes and course of the Revolution in films, music, and novels) to examine how Americans G. Literature and Philosophy of History France, the reign of Napoleon, and the effects of the fought over the changing meaning of affluence, world H. Latin American History J. Dym Revolution and Napoleon on other European states. power, gender, race, and democracy in the last half I. African History D. Baum of the twentieth century. J. Delton HI 362. TOPICS IN HISTORY: HI 310. AGE OF THE TUDORS 3 HI 332. RUSSIA TO 1855: FROM TSAR TO NON-WESTERN 3 A detailed examination of the political, economic and EMPEROR 3 Topically organized courses based on problems and social process which transformed late medieval Course deals with origins of Russia, growth of Mus- issues of special interest at the advanced level. The England into the bureaucratic state and secular covy; establishment of absolutism and serfdom; the specific themes to be examined may differ from year society which are the basis of the modern British Russian empire to the nineteenth century; reforms to year. Recent offerings include “The Middle East in system. Attention will be given to social change and and counterreforms; and cultural changes. the Twentieth Century,” “Islamic 'Fundamentalism' to the iconography and ideology of kingship. P.A. Lee The Department and Revolution,” “The Han Dynasty.” This course with a different topic may be repeated for credit. HI 311. AGE OF THE STUARTS 3 HI 333. HISTORY OF SOVIET SOCIETY 3 A. Chinese History M. Pearson Political, economic and social change in the period of The evolution of Soviet society from just before the B. Japanese History M. Pearson the early and later Stuarts, with emphasis on the 1917 revolutions to the present with concentration on C. Islamic History remaking of the English Constitution and emerging economic and social changes, the history of nationali- D. Other concepts of political and social rights. Attention will be ties, the cultural revolution of the 1930s, and social (Designated non-Western culture courses.) given to the developments of this period as a back- changes to the present. The Department ground for American ideas and institutions. HI 371, 372. INDEPENDENT STUDY 3, 3 P.A. Lee HI 335. GERMAN HISTORY SINCE 1814 3 Research in any period or topic in history not avail- The German Confederation, the revolutions of 1848, able in existing course offerings. Consent of the HI 312. MODERN ENGLAND: WHIGS AND unification, the German Empire, Weimar Germany, department is required. TORIES 3 Nazi Germany, the postwar period. M. Hockenos An intensive examination of the early industrial state HI 375. COLLOQUIA IN HISTORY 3 in its political and economic development but also HI 343. THE CHINESE REVOLUTION 3 Each year the department will offer colloquia in with reference to its appearance in art and literature. An examination of the major issues and events in the several of the areas listed below, the specific theme Attention will be given not only to the development of Chinese Revolution, from the foundation of the in an area to be announced before registration. Each party government and the emergence of an industrial Republic in 1911 to the present, with emphasis on colloquium will require readings for the weekly society but to diverse impulses toward reform. the relationships between social, economic, and discussion meetings, oral reports, and a paper based P.A. Lee political goals; the methods used to gain them; and on the student’s research. All colloquia are open to the impact of changes on personal and intellectual any student meeting the prerequisite of twelve credit HI 321. AMERICAN COLONIAL HISTORY 3 freedom. (Designated a non-Western culture course.) hours in history. At least six credit hours of prior work From the age of discovery to 1763. This course M. Pearson should be in the same area (i.e., American, English, examines the evolution of mature American societies Medieval, etc.) as the colloquium chosen. from their European origins, and gives special atten- HI 347. JAPAN’S MODERNIZERS: SAMURAI, By permission of the instructor only. tion to the increasingly shared experiences, ideas, WEAVERS, WRITERS, AND A. American History J. Delton, T. Kuroda and institutions of the thirteen diverse colonies which PROSTITUTES 3 B. English History P.A. Lee later became the United States. T. Kuroda The lives and works of men and women who trans- C. Medieval History D. Baum formed nineteenth-century Japan from feudalism to D. Modern European History M. Hockenos GH 322. THE HISTORY AND POLITICAL modernity, and from weakness and isolation to E. Russian History THOUGHT OF THE AMERICAN international prominence. Autobiographies, novels, F. Ancient History M. Arnush REVOLUTION 3 films, and conventional histories will be used to show * G. Chinese History M. Pearson The creation of a new nation: 1763-1789. This course how Japan was able to change so rapidly. (Desig- * H. Japanese History M. Pearson will give special attention to the political ideas which nated a non-Western culture course.) M. Pearson I. Literature and Philosophy of History gave direction to the American Revolution and the J. Early Modern Europen History D. Baum Constitution. T. Kuroda HI 355. CASE STUDIES IN LEADERSHIP 3 * K. Colloquium in Islamic History This course will use case studies to examine the * Designated non-Western culture courses.) HI 323. THE NEW AMERICAN REPUBLIC 3 nature of leadership in its social, political, and histori- From Washington through Jackson, 1789-1840. This cal contexts over time and in a number of different HI 399. PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP IN course will examine the United States as an emerging cultural/historical frameworks. Participants will HISTORY 3 nation in search of security and stability in the face of examine models, successful and unsuccessful Professional experience at an advanced level for political, economic, social, and international pres- leaderships, as they occur in situations of national juniors and seniors with substantial academic and sures, and study how that republic evolved to become and international crisis. P.A. Lee cocurricular experience in the major field. With faculty the democracy of the Jacksonian age. T. Kuroda sponsorship and department approval, students may extend their educational experience into such areas HI 324. CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION 3 as archives, museums, galleries, libraries, historical Division and reunification, 1840-1877. This course will societies, preservation, and other professional areas. examine the importance of sectionalism, the break- Prerequisite: previous study related to the area of the down of national institutions, the revolutionary impact internship experience. of the war, and the dilemmas attending reconciliation. Special attention will be given to the role of race in shaping popular attitudes and public policy before, during, and after the war. T. Kuroda 111 HF 101. FIRST-YEAR HONORS Honors Forum COLLOQUIUM 1 Interdepartmental Majors A weekly discussion group for first-year members of the Honors Forum. Topics might include the evolving Each semester the faculty offer ten to twenty goals and methods of higher education, the nature of BIOLOGY-CHEMISTRY designated sections of courses as Honors. research and the ethics of scholarship in the acad- The courses come from the full spectrum of emy, competing and complementary modes of The combined major in biology-chemistry the curriculum, are often introductory in nature, inquiry, the intellectual demands of collaborative and provides a foundation in both disciplines for and are usually open to first-year students. interdisciplinary learning, and the myriad forces that students who have a serious academic interest With prior approval, students may design seek expression and balance as we create a college in each of the two areas, or an interest in independent projects to investigate further community. The course will focus on objects of study preparation for graduate study or professional topics introduced in prior courses. Recent drawn from the arts, sciences, humanities, and social training in biology or biochemistry. The major sciences. Materials may include readings from Honors Forum course offerings have included: leads to a bachelor of arts degree. various fields of study, films, performances, lab demonstrations, case studies, exhibits, historical Course requirements for the major: AH 101, 102. Surveys of Western Art artifacts, and site visits. Student work will include 1. Biology requirements include six courses AH 265. History of Modern Design participating in panel discussions and writing essays selected in consultation with the student's AM 232. New England Begins that address aspects of the major disciplinary foci. AN 101. Introduction to Cultural Anthropology biology faculty advisor. At least two AN 242. North American Indians HF 200. HONORS FORUM WORKSHOP 1 courses must be chosen from the Biology AR 115. Fiber Arts A topical workshop, seminar, discussion group or Department's core curriculum of BI190, BU 224. Foundations of Organizational lab/studio experience sponsored through the Honors 233, 236, and 237. The remaining four Behavior Forum. HF200 may be offered as an optional courses may include any combination of CH 107. Intensive General Chemistry "honors" credit linked to a regular course offering at core courses not already taken and/or 300- CL 200. The Classical World the 200 level, or as a freestanding academic experi- level biology courses; some students may CL.220. Classical Mythology ence open to Honors Forum and other highly moti- wish to study the full breadth represented DA 230. Introduction to Dance, History, vated students. Prerequisites: as determined by the in the core, and others may wish to take Literature, and Repertory instructor and the Honors Forum Council, concurrent EC 104. Introduction to Microeconomics only the core courses that prepare them for enrollment in a particular 200-level course, or com- pursuit of a specialized interest at the 300 ED 200. Child Development and Learning pletion of a prerequisite course. EN 105. Expository Writing: “America, level. For example, a student might take all four core courses, and then choose two In Extreme,” “Conceptions ofthe Self,” HF 271, 272. HONORS INDEPENDENT STUDY 1-4 additional courses at the 300 level. Or, a and “Utopian Vision” An independent research or project opportunity for EN 211. Fiction unusually well qualified first-year or sophomore student wishing to focus on animal physiol- EN 213. Poetry students working at honors level. In consultation with ogy might take BI233 and 236, followed by EN 303. Peer Tutoring in Expository Writing a sponsoring faculty member, the student proposes BI305, 306, 323, and 346 to complete the EN 351. English Romanticism to the Honors Council a project that builds upon the six-course requirement. FF 221. Twentieth Century French Literature student’s academic background and interests and FL 263A. The Fantastic in Literature 2. Chemistry requirements include CH105, concludes in an honors paper or project to be shared 106 (or 107, 214), 221, 222, 341, and one GE 113. Dangerous Earth with the wider student community. The Honors HI 221. American History to the Civil War 300-level elective chosen in consultation Independent Study may not be substituted for avail- with the student's chemistry faculty advisor. ID 201. LS 1 Tutoring Project able Honors courses. LS2 150. Literacy and Social Power 3. Minimum of one semester of capstone LS2 194. Genocide, War Criminals, and Justice HF 300. HONORS FORUM SEMINAR 1 research in either biology or chemistry MA111, 113. Calculus I, II An honors seminar for more advanced students (BI375 or CH371 or CH372). MA125, 225, 325. Problem Solving in Mathematics centered on a topic, research project, or other aca- 4. Two credit hours of seminar in biology and/ PH 103. Introduction to Philosophy demic activity pertinent to one of the academic or chemistry (BI377, 378, CH377, 378). PY 221. Galaxies and Cosmology disciplines. Prerequisites: open to junior and senior SO 101. Sociological Perspectives Honors Forum students and other highly motivated 5. MA111, 113 and PY 207, 208 are strongly students with advanced standing, appropriate course recommended. For students preparing to background, or permission of the instructor. attend health professional schools, these HF 100. HONORS FORUM WORKSHOP 1 are required courses. A topical workshop, seminar, discussion group or lab/ HF 301. SENIOR HONORS SYMPOSIUM 1 studio experience sponsored through the Honors Weekly discussions, readings, and presentations for To be eligible for honors in this major, a stu- Forum. HF100 may be offered as an optional honors seniors who are working on their culminating disci- dent must maintain the required College and credit linked to a regular course offering at the 100 pline-based or interdisciplinary projects. As students department averages and sucessfully com- level, or as a free-standing academic experience present their emerging research projects, they plete a BI375, CH372 or CH 372 project. Other open to Honors Forum and other highly motivated explore different modes of inquiry among the various factors, such as academic integrity, will bear students. Prerequisites: as determined by the instruc- academic disciplines, compare processes of discov- on the decision to award honors. tor and the Honors Forum Council, concurrent ery and methods of research, and examine claims enrollment in a particular 100-level course, or made by disciplines for the value of their modes of BIOLOGY-PHILOSOPHY completion of a prerequisite course. apprehension and expression. Discussions will provide highly motivated seniors with an opportunity The major will complete a minimum of six to reconnect with interdisciplinary linkages introduced courses in each department and a total of in Liberal Studies and cross-disciplinary debate. fifteen courses in both. The courses chosen S. Bender, J. Ramsey from philosophy must include PH203, 204, and 375. Students seeking honors in the major HF 371, 372. HONORS INDEPENDENT STUDY 1-4 must complete either BI375 or PH376 in the An independent research or project opportunity for senior year with a grade of A- or better (these well-qualified junior or senior students working at will be counted toward the requisite total of 15 honors level. In consultation with a sponsoring faculty courses). Honors distinction also requires a member, the student proposes to the Honors Council positive recommendation from both depart- a project that builds upon the student’s academic ments. The major will have an advisor from background and interest and concludes in an honors each department, and the program must be paper or project to be shared with the wider student approved by both chairs. The biology-philoso- community. Honors Independent Study may not be substituted for available honors courses. phy major leads to the bachelor of arts degree. 112 BIOLOGY-PSYCHOLOGY BUSINESS-GOVERNMENT ECONOMICS-FRENCH The major will complete a minimum of six The following courses are required for the Requirements in economics include EC103 courses in each department. Biology courses major: BU107, 214, 224, 234, 235, 306, 338, and104; two courses chosen from EC235, must include BI190, 233, 236, and three 300- 349, and EC237. The government courses 236, 237; and six additional credit hours in level courses, one of which must be a include: GO101 and 103, two 300 level gov- economics at the 300 level. The requirements physiology course (BI305 or 306), BI316, or ernment courses, and three additional govern- in French include FF 208 and 210; one course 326. BI377 or 378 cannot substitute for these ment courses. To be eligible for honors, a covering material prior to 1800 from among courses. No more than one lab/field research student must have received at least an A- on FF213, 214, 216, 224; one course covering opportunity (BI371 or 375) may substitute for a an honors research paper in a 300-level busi- material after 1800 from FF219, 221, 223; required 300-level course. Psychology courses ness or government course that integrates the FF376; and one additional 300-level French must include PS101, 216, 217, 304, 306 and two disciplines. The major leads to a bachelor course. Students are also urged to include one other psychology course. CH105 and 106 of arts degree. FF301. In constructing the major, the student, are required. In the senior year, the student with the help of an advisor in each department, may undertake a tutorial research project with BUSINESS-MATHEMATICS should select complementary courses from the a research advisor chosen from either The following business courses are required two fields to facilitate the integration of the two department and a thesis reader chosen from for the major: BU107, 214, 224, 234, 235, 306, disciplines. To be eligible for honors in econom- the other department (see BI375 and PS375, 338, and 349. Mathematics/computer science ics-French, a student must receive at least an 376 course descriptions for requirements). courses include: MA111, 113, 200, 204; CS106; A- on a thesis acceptable to both departments Successful completion of a tutorial study is a and one additional 300-level course in mathe- that integrates the two disciplines. The major requirement for consideration for honors in the matics or computer science. In addition, the leads to a bachelor of arts degree. major. An academic advisor is to be chosen student must elect two other courses at the from each department upon entering the major. 300 level relating to this major and approved ECONOMICS-GERMAN The major leads to a bachelor of arts degree. by the chair of each department. To be eligible Requirements in economics include EC103 for honors, a student must have received at and 104; two courses chosen from EC235, BUSINESS-ECONOMICS least an A- on a thesis that integrates the two 236, 237; and six additional credit hours at the The following courses are required for the disciplines and is acceptable to both depart- 300 level. Required among the six German major: BU107, 214, 224, 234, 235, 306, 338, ments. The major leads to a bachelor of arts courses are FG215 and 376 (senior year) and 349, and one 300-level elective in business; degree. four other courses, one of which may be desig- and EC103, 104, 235, 236, 237, and at least nated FL or LS. Students are also urged to six additional credit hours at the 300 level in BUSINESS-SPANISH include FG301. In constructing the major, the economics. To be eligible for honors, a student The major requires fifteen courses, nine in student, with the help of an advisor in each must receive at least an A- on a thesis business and six in Spanish. In business these department, should select complementary acceptable to both departments. The thesis include BU107, 214, 224, 234, 235, 306, 338, courses from the two fields to facilitate the must be defended before a joint committee 349, and EC237.In Spanish these include integration of the two disciplines. To be eligible from the two departments. The major leads to FS208, 211 or 212, 301, 376 and two addi- for honors in economics-German, a student a bachelor of arts degree. tional Spanish courses above 203, none in must receive at least an A- on a thesis accept- translation. To be considered for honors, the able to both departments that integrates the two BUSINESS-FRENCH student must receive at least an A- in FS374 disciplines. The major leads to a bachelor of The major requires fifteen courses, nine in "Thesis," to be written in Spanish,which inte- arts degree. business and six in French.In business these grates the two disciplines and is acceptable to include BU107, 214, 224, 234, 235, 306, 338, both departments. The major leads to a bach- ECONOMICS-MATHEMATICS 349, and EC237. In French these include FF elor of arts degree. The requirements in economics are: EC103, 208, 210, 301; one course covering material 104, 235, 236; and at least nine additional prior to 1800 from FF 213, 214, 216, 224; one DANCE-THEATER credit hours in economics, at least six of which course covering material after 1800 from FF The qualified student of dance wishing to are at the 300 level. The mathematics-com- 219, 221, 223; and FF376. To be considered pursue a liberal and technical education may puter science courses must include MA111, for honors, the student must receive at least do so, beginning in the first or sophomore 113, 200, 202, 204; either MC316 or MC302; an A- in FF374 "Thesis," to be written in year, in an interdepartmental dance-theater and one additional 300-level course in math- French, which integrates the two disciplines program leading to a bachelor of science ematics or computer science. A senior thesis and is acceptable to both departments. The degree. The basis for dance study is modern or project integrating both disciplines (pre- major leads to a bachelor of arts degree. dance and ballet. Requirements in dance are sented to both departments) is required for as follows: eighteen credit hours of technique honors. The major leads to a bachelor of arts BUSINESS-GERMAN including four credit hours outside primary degree. The major requires fifteen courses, nine in discipline; DA230; and one course from among business and six in German. In business these DA227, 228, 335, 376M, 376B. Theater re- ECONOMICS-PHILOSOPHY include BU107, 214, 224, 234, 235, 306, 338, quirements include TH103, 129, 231, 250; and In philosophy, students must take PR200, 349, and EC237.In German these include two courses from among TH229, 230, 341.In the PH203, 204, and three 300-level philosophy FG215, 301, 376, and three more German senior year, either TH376 (senior project com- courses, including PH375. Requirements in courses above FG202, at least one of which is bining dance and theater) or two courses from economics are EC103, 104, at least two 200- at the 300 level. one German course may be among DB393, 394, DM393, 394. level courses chosen from EC235, 236, and designated FL or LS. To be considered for 237, and at least six additional credit hours at honors, the student must receive at least an A- the 300 level in economics. To be eligible for in FG374 "Thesis," to be written in German, honors, a student must receive a grade of at which integrates the two disciplines and is least A- on an honors thesis that integrates the acceptable to both departments. The major two fields. The thesis must be defended before leads to a bachelor of arts degree. the faculty. Approval of the program is required by the chairs of both departments. The major leads to a bachelor of arts degree.

113 ECONOMICS-SOCIOLOGY ENGLISH-GERMAN ENGLISH-SPANISH The economics-sociology major must success- The major requires twelve courses equally The major requires twelve courses equally fully complete at least twenty-one credit hours divided between the two disciplines. The six divided between the two disciplines. The six in sociology, including SO101, 226, 227, 324 required courses in English include EN201 and required courses in English include EN201 and or 325, and 375. Students may substitute 202, taken in sequence before 300-level En- 202, taken in sequence before 300-level En- EC237 for SO226, but must still complete a glish courses; two 300-level courses chosen glish courses; two 300-level courses chosen minimum of twenty-one hours of course work from "Advanced Courses in British and Ameri- from "Advanced Courses in British and Ameri- in sociology. The economics requirements are can Literature" or "Senior Tutorial Studies"; can Literature" or "Senior Tutorial Studies"; EC103, 104, 235, 236, 237 (or SO226) and at one additional 300-level English course; and one additional 300-level English course; and least six credits in 300-level economics one other English course above the 100 level. one other English course above the 100 level. courses. Courses are to be selected in consul- The requirements in German include FG215 Spanish requirements include FS208, 211, tation with advisors in each discipline. In con- and 376 (senior year); two additional 300-level 212, 376, and two additional Spanish courses structing the major program, the student German courses; and two additional German above FS203, none in translation. Each stu- should select complementary courses as a courses above 202, one of which may be dent will have advisors in both departments step toward integration of the two disciplines. designated FL or LS. Each student will have who will pay particular attention to the intellec- To be eligible for honors, the student must advisors in both departments who will pay tual coherence of his or her work in English earn at least an A- on a thesis acceptable to particular attention to the intellectual coher- and Spanish literatures. Majors seeking hon- both departments (EC371 or 372 or SO376). ence of his or her work in English and German ors must write a thesis while enrolled in either The thesis must be defended before a joint literatures. Majors seeking honors must write a FS374 or EN390 and must receive at least an committee determined by the thesis advisor. thesis while enrolled in either F374 or EN390 A- for the thesis, a portion of which must be in The major leads to a bachelor of arts degree. and must receive at least an A- for the thesis, a foreign language. Only students with a a portion of which must be in a foreign lan- cumulative average of 3.5 or higher are eligible ECONOMICS-SPANISH guage. Only students with a cumulative aver- to write a thesis. The major leads to a bach- Requirements in economics include EC103 age of 3.5 or higher are eligible to write a elor of arts degree. and 104; two courses chosen from EC235, thesis. The major leads to a bachelor of arts 236, 237; and six additional credit hours at the degree. GOVERNMENT-FRENCH 300 level. Spanish requirements include The major requires twelve courses, six in each FS208, 211, 212, 376, and two additional ENGLISH-PHILOSOPHY department. Among the six courses in govern- Spanish courses above FS203, none in trans- The major will complete a minimum of twelve ment are GO103, and 203 or 219, and four lation. Students are also urged to include courses, six in English and six in philosophy. other courses chosen in consultation with the FS301. In constructing the major, the student, The six course required by the English Depart- advisor. The requirements in French include with the help of an advisor in each department, ment (totalling a minimum of twenty semester Ff208 and 210; one course covering material should select complementary courses from the hours) must be above the 100 level and must prior to 1800 from among FF213, 214, 216, two fields to facilitate the integration of the two include EN201 and 202 (in sequence) taken 224; one course covering material after 1800 disciplines. To be eligible for honors in econom- before 300-level courses in English. At least from FF219, 221, 223; FF376; and one addi- ics-Spanish, a student must receive at least an three must be taken on the 300 level in the tional 300-level French courses. In construct- A- on a thesis acceptable to both departments junior or senior year but no fewer than two in ing the major, the student, with the help of an that integrates the two disciplines. The major the senior year. Two of the three must be from advisor in each department, should select leads to a bachelor of arts degree. the categories Advanced Courses in British complementary courses from the two fields to and American Literature or Senior Tutorial facilitate the integration of the two disciplines. ENGLISH-FRENCH Studies; one must be either EN361 or To be eligible for honors, a student must The major requires twelve courses equally PH330E. The six course required by the De- receive at least an A- in FF374 and an A- on divided between the two disciplines. The six partment of Philosophy and Religion (totalling an honors research paper in a 300-level gov- required courses in English include EN201 and a minimum of nineteen semester hours) must ernment course. The major leads to a bachelor 202, taken in sequence before 300-level En- include PR200, PH203, 204, and three 300- of arts degree. glish courses; two 300-level courses chosen level courses, including PH375 and either from "Advanced Courses in British and Ameri- PH330E or EN361. Both PH330E and EN361 GOVERNMENT-GERMAN can Literature" or "Senior Tutorial Studies"; may be taken for credit toward the interdepart- The major requires twelve courses, six in each one additional 300-level English course; and mental major. Approval of the program is department. In constructing the major, the one other English course above the 100 level. required by the chairs of both departments. To student, with the help of an advisor in each The requirements in French include FF208 be eligible for honors, a senior major who has department, should select complementary and 210; one course covering material prior to maintained the College required grade-point courses from the two fields to facilitate the 1800 from among FF213, 214, 216, 224; one average for departmental honors must also integration of the two disciplines. Among the course covering material after 1800 from achieve at least an A- on a senior thesis, six courses in government are GO103, and FF219, 221, 223; FF376; and one additional senior project, or research-seminar paper, by 203 or 219, and four other courses chosen in 300-level French courses. Each student will agreement of an appropriate faculty reader consultation with the advisor. Required among have advisors in both departments who will from each department, or as designated by the the six courses in German are FG215, 376, pay particular attention to the intellectual respective chairs. The major leads to a bach- and four other German courses at the 300 coherence of his or her work in English and elor of arts degree. level, one of which may be designated FL or French literatures. Majors seeking honors LS. To be eligible for honors, a student must must write a thesis while enrolled in either receive an A- on an honors research paper in FF374 or EN390 and must receive at least an a 300-level government course and at least an A- for the thesis, a portion of which must be in A- in FG374, "Thesis." The major leads to a a foreign language. Only students with a bachelor of arts degree. cumulative average of 3.5 or higher are eligible to write a thesis. The major leads to a bach- elor of arts degree.

114 GOVERNMENT-HISTORY HISTORY-PHILOSOPHY Required in government are six courses, at The major will complete a minimum of fourteen Interdisciplinary least one of which is at the 300 level.Required courses equally divided between history and in history are HI375and six additional courses, philosophy. In constructing the major program, IN 100. EXPLORATION INTERNSHIP 3 which may include LS2 030 and LS2 050.In the student should select complementary Internship experience for students in all classes who wish to constructing the major, the student should courses from the two fields as a step toward gain professional or vocational experience within an select complementary courses from the two integrating the two disciplines. The major is educational context at an entry level, or who wish to have fields as a step toward integrating the two required to take PH203, 204, a history collo- educational and work experience in a field not directly disciplines. Approval of the program by the quium, and the senior seminar in philosophy. related to an academic department at Skidmore. Proposals chairs of both departments is required. To be Approval of the program by the chairs of both require faculty sponsorship and are reviewed for credit by eligible for honors, the student must have departments is required. The major leads to a the Curriculum Committee. Not for liberal arts credit. received at least an A- on an honors research bachelor of arts degree. ID 201H. LIBERAL STUDIES I TUTORING paper in a 300-level government course. The PROJECT 4 major leads to a bachelor of arts degree. POLITICAL ECONOMY An introduction to the theory and practice of collaborative learning as they relate to the interdisciplinary issues raised GOVERNMENT-PHILOSOPHY Required among the six government courses are GO339 and five additional courses. In in Liberal Studies 1. The course examines the role of tutors, Required among the courses in government economics, students must take EC103 and the ethics of tutoring, and common tutoring problems. are GO303, 304, and twelve additional credit 104; two courses chosen from EC235, 236, Students engage in an intensive reconsideration of the readings and topics in LS1, placing them in wider intellec- hours in government. Philosophy requirements and 237; and at least six additional credit include PH203, 204, 375,and three additional tual and pedagogical contexts, and undertake a term hours at the 300 level in economics.In con- project on an LS1 topic. Required for all students as philosophy course, two of which must be at the structing the major program, the student preparation for serving as an LS1 tutor. (This is an Honors 300 level.In constructing the major, the student should select complementary courses from the course.) C. Berheide, Sociology, should select complementary courses from the two fields as a step toward integrating the two Anthropology, and Social Work; M. Marx, English two fields as a step toward integrating the two disciplines. To be eligible for honors in political disciplines. Approval of the program is re- economy a student must receive at least an A- ID 271, 272. INTERDISCIPLINARY quired by the chairs of both departments. To on an honors research paper in a 300-level INDEPENDENT STUDY 3, 3 be eligible for honors, the student must have at government course. In addition the student Independent work for sophomores or more advanced least an A- on an honors research paper in a must submit a paper to the Economics Depart- students with an approved self-determined major, and 300-level government course or in PH376. The ment that integrates the two disciplines, and whose plan of study requires an interdisciplinary approach major leads to a bachelor of arts degree. must successfully defend that paper before the beyond the academic structures available through estab- economics faculty. The major leads to a bach- lished departmental courses. The student must have GOVERNMENT-SOCIOLOGY elor of arts degree. background appropriate to the proposed study, must have completed LS1 and at least one other interdisciplinary Requirements in government include GO101 course at Skidmore, must carefully define a plan of study, and 103; two 300-level courses; and nine PSYCHOLOGY-SOCIOLOGY and must enlist the guidance of one or more faculty as additional credit hours in governement. Sociol- The psychology-sociology major must suc- appropriate. Proposals for ID271 and 272 are reviewed by ogy requirements include SO101, 226, 227, cessfully complete twenty-one credit hours in the chair of the Self-Determined Majors Subcommittee. 375; SO324or 325; and four additional credit psychology and twenty-one credit hours in hours in sociology (SO222 and 328 are sociology, including PS101; SO101 and 375; ID 351. TOPICS IN INTERDISCIPLINARY strongly recommended). The student selects either PS205 or SO 202; either SO324 or 325; STUDIES 3 Topically organized courses based on themes or problems courses in consultation with advisors in each either PS217 and 306 or SO226 and 227. To discipline. In constructing the major, the stu- that bring together the perspectives of multiple disciplines. be eligible for honors, the student must com- The specific themes or problems may differ from year to dent should select complementary courses as plete a senior thesis in psychology or sociol- year. Examples include "the family” as a biological, psycho- a step toward integration of the two disciplines. ogy (PS375 and 376, or PS378 or SO376) or logical, sociological, and artistic construct; science and To be eligible for honors, the student must receive at least an A- in SO375.. The student music; and creativity in the arts and in the sciences. The have at least an A- on an honors research selects courses in consultation with advisors in course with a different theme/topic may be repeated for paper in a 300-level government course, each discipline. In constructing the major, the credit. complete a senior thesis in government or student should select complementary courses sociology (GO375 or SO376), or earn at least as a step toward integration of the two disci- ID 371, 372. INTERDISCIPLINARY INDEPENDENT an A- in SO375.The major leads to a bachelor plines. The major leads to a bachelor of arts STUDY 3, 3 of arts degree. degree. Independent work for juniors and seniors with an approved self-determined major, and whose plan of study requires an GOVERNMENT-SPANISH interdisciplinary approach beyond the academic structures available through established departmental courses. The The major requires fourteen courses, seven in student must have background appropriate to the proposed each department. In constructing the major, study, must have completed L S 1 and 2, must carefully the student, with the help of an advisor in each define a plan of study, and must enlist the guidance of one department, should select complementary or more faculty as appropriate. Proposals for ID 371 and courses from the two fields to facilitate the 372 are reviewed by the Self-Determined Majors Subcom- integration of the two disciplines. Among the mittee chair. six courses in government are 103,and 203 or 209, and four other courses chosen in consul- LI 100. ELECTRONIC INFORMATION tation with the advisor. Required in Spanish RESOUCES 1 are six courses above FS203, none in transla- An introduction to electronic information retrieval and evaluation. A team-taught course aimed at the refinement tion, including FS208, 211, 212, and 376. of online searching skills using a variety of electronic data Recommended courses: FS331 and/or332. To bases. Although primarily tool-oriented, the course will be eligible for honors, a student must receive at address the issues of the structure of disciplinary informa- least an A- in FS374 and an A- on an honors tion systems, the selection of proper information resources, research paper in a 300-level government and the evaluation of search results. Some of the social course. The major leads to a bachelor of arts implications of the information revolution will also be degree. discussed. Library Faculty 115 THE INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS MINOR: CLUSTER I: International Politics, Diplomacy, International Affairs The minor consists of eight international- and Conflict affairs-designated courses. One core course (IA101) is required as a common experience CC 365. Topics in Classical Studies: Director of the International Affairs Program: for all minors, five international affairs courses International Affairs in Antiquity K. Gary McClure from outside the student's major (in addition to GM 201. Global Security in an Age of Invention the core course), and two international affairs GO 103. Critical Issues in World Politics GO 201. Principles of International Politics Affiliated Faculty: courses from within the major. GO 251B. International Relations Anthropology: Gerald Erchak, Michael Ennis- GO 301. Contemporary International Politics and These eight courses must include: Law McMillan, Jill Sweet 1. The core course, “Introduction to Interna- Art History: Lisa Aronson GO 309. Latin America and the United States tional Affairs” (IA101); GO 318. Comparative Foreign Policy Chemistry: Vasantha Narasimhan 2. One Skidmore College foreign language GO 320. Cases in Twentieth-Century Superpower Chinese: Mao Chen course (or equivalent) at the level of 206 or Relations Classics: Michael Arnush above; GO 338. International Diplomatic Negotiations Computer Science: Robert DeSieno 3. One course from at least three disciplines HI 104. Early Modern European History Economics: Tim Koechlin, Mehmet Odekon outside the major (in addition to core course); HI 105. Nineteenth-Century Europe: Ideology English: Regina Janes, Rajagopal 4. One course from each of three clusters: and Revolution Parthasarathy International Politics, Diplomacy, and Conflict; HI 106. Twentieth-Century Europe: Age of Environmental Studies: Judith Halstead International Political Economy and Business; Conflict French: John Anzalone, Cynthia Evans, Lynne and Comparative/Contextual Analysis. HI 109. Contemporary Latin America HI 201. Greek History Gelber, Hedi Jaouad, Marc-André 5. Two 300-level international-affairs courses HI 202. Roman History Wiesmann among the five outside the major; Geosciences: Kenneth Johnson HI 215A. Topics in History: American History 6. Two international-affairs courses from within HI 215D. Topics in History: Modern European German: Reinhard Mayer, Mary-Elizabeth the major. O’Brien History HI 215E. Topics in History: Russian History Government: Timothy Burns, Roy Ginsberg, Students are also required to attend and HI 215H. Topics in History: Latin American Katherine Graney, Steven Hoffmann, participate in twice-yearly international-affairs History Aldo Vacs, Christopher Whann colloquia and are strongly encouraged to study HI 223. America and the World: A History of U.S. History: David Baum, Jennifer Delton, David abroad or in Washington, do internships with Foreign Policy Eyman, Matthew Hockenos, Tadahisha an international focus, and participate in on- HI 242. Introduction to Modern China Kuroda, Patricia-Ann Lee, Margaret and off-campus internationally related HI 247. The Rise of Japan Pearson, Jordana Dym cocurricular activities. HI 304. Renaissance Diplomacy and the Italian: Giuseppe Faustini, Shirley Smith Formation of the Early Modern State HI 306. The French Revolution and Napoleon, Japanese: Takahiko Hayashi International Affairs Curriculum Management and Business: Betty Balevic, 1789-1815 Martin Canavan, Mary Correa, Elzbieta HI 332. Russia to 1855: From Tsar to Emperor IA 101. INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL Lepkowska-White, James Kennelly, K. HI 333. History of Soviet Society AFFAIRS 3 HI 335. German History since 1814 Gary McClure An introduction to the field of international affairs. The Mathematics: Una Bray HI 343. The Chinese Revolution course explores the relationships among the disci- HI 355. Case Studies in Leadership Philosophy: Joel Smith plines within international affairs. Examines key HI 361A. Topics in History, Western: American Sociology: Catherine White Berheide concepts that describe and explain international History Spanish: Grace Burton, Juan Carlos Lertora, relationships and issues, explores the diversity of HI 361D. Topics in History, Western: Modern Patricia Rubio, perceptions of international issues across national European History Theater: Lary Opitz and cultural boundaries, and engages students in in- HI 361E. Topics in History, Western: Russian class global problem-solving exercises. (Fulfills LS2 History The international affairs minor introduces requirement.). International Affairs Faculty HI 361H. Topics in History, Western: Latin students to the study of relations between and American History among nation-states, regions, and other inter- HI 375 J. Colloquia in History: Early Modern national actors as influenced by business, European History culture, economics, geography, history, and LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT LS2 103. Science, Technology, and National politics. The minor, which is open to any Security FC 371, 372. Independent Study LS2 119. South Africa and Race student majoring in anthropology, business, FF 208. Advanced Grammar and Composition economics, government, history, or foreign LS 2 163. China and the West: The Myth of the FF 301. Business French Other languages and literatures, or to interdepart- FF 306. Translation and Stylistics mental majors in at least one of the above FG 208. Advanced German Conversation and CLUSTER II: International Political Economy and departments, stresses the importance of an Composition Business international education in an increasingly FG 301. Business German interdependent world and enhances students’ FI 208. Italian Conversation and Composition BU 306. Foundations of Business in the preparation for further work or study in the field FI 301. Business Italian International Environment of international affairs. FI 304. Advanced Conversation and BU 335. International Business Law Composition BU 344. International Marketing Self-determined majors may also minor in FJ 206. Advanced Intermediate Japanese II BU 345. Global Financial Management international affairs with the consent of their FJ 371, 372. Independent Study BU 346 Global Sales and Merchandising advisor and the director of the International FS 206. Spanish Conversation Management Affairs Program. Self-determined majors should FS 208. Spanish Composition BU 359. Global Financial Institutions consult with their advisor and the program FS 301. Business Spanish BU 364. Manufacturing Strategy and director early in the self-determined major FS 304. Advanced Conversation and International Competitiveness application process in order to take into account Composition EC 234. International Economic Theory the requirements of both the major and the EC 314. International Economics minor. EC 315. Open Economy Macroeconomics EC 316. Economics of Development EC 317. The Economies of East Asia 116 EC 334. International Political Economy HI 312. Modern England, Whigs and Tories EC 361. Advanced Topics in Economics: HI 335. German History Since 1814 Law and Society “Religion and Economics” HI 343. The Chinese Revolution GO 219. Political Economy of European HI 347. Japan’s Modernizers: Samurai, Integration Weavers, Writers, and Prostitutes Director of the Law and Society Program: GO 339. International Political Economy and the HI 361C. Topics in History, Western: Medieval Beau Breslin Environment. History LS2 137. Business and the Natural Environment HI 361F. Topics in History, Western: Ancient Affiliated Faculty: SO 331. Women in the Global Economy History HI 362A. Topics in History, Non-Western: American Studies: Joanna Zangrando Chinese History Economics: Sandy Baum CLUSTER III: Comparative and Contextual HI 362B. Topics in History, Non-Western: Government: Beau Breslin, Ronald Seyb, Aldo Analysis Japanese History Vacs LS2 106. Latin America: Stability and Change History: Patricia-Ann Lee, Matthew Hockenos AN 101H. Introduction to Cultural Anthropology LS2 109. The Image of the Enemy in German Management and Business: Christine Kopec AN 101N. Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Film, 1919-45 AN 227. Ethnology of Sub-Saharan Africa LS2 113. Change in Early China Psychology: Mary Ann Foley AN 243. Latin American Indians LS2 124. Athenian Democracy: Tradition and Social Work: Jacqueline Azzarto, Margaret AN 251. Themes in Anthropology: Mesoamerican Social Change from 560 to 399 B.C Tacardon, J. D. Chesire Cultures LS2 132. African Arts From the Old World to the Sociology: David Karp AN 325. Applied Anthropology New AN 345. Ecological Anthropology LS2 147. Art and Politics in Weimar Germany, The law and society minor involves students in AN 351. Topics in Anthropology: Anthropology 1918-1933 the interdisciplinary study of law and justice, and Environmental Health LS2 153. Politics of Non-Western Literature focusing on the interaction of law and legal BU 314. Organizational Design and Structure LS2 160. A Green World institutions with social, economic, and political BU 347. Comparative Management LS2 164. History and Novel in China systems. Students in the program examine the EC 245. Comparative Economic Systems LS2 165. Modern China and Japan in Narrative historical and philosophical foundations of law ES 100. Envrionmental Concerns in Perspective and Film FF 223. Introduction to Issues in the and the social forces influencing the making, LS2 166. Human-Land Interaction interpretation, and enforcement of laws. The Francophone World LS2 171. The French Revolution: The First law and society minor is designed to help FF 224. French Civilization: Gaul to 1815 Revolution FF 321, 322. French Civilization LS2 173. Italy, Fascism, Jews students gain an understanding of the role of FG 358. The Contemporary German-Speaking LS2 193. Spanish American Women law in society, approach questions from an World LS2 194. Genocide and Justice interdisciplinary perspective, and think critically FL 249, 250. An Outline of German Civilization LS2 197. Images of Contemporary Italian Women about issues of social justice. FL 253, 254. Italian Civilization in Translation LS2 207. Seeds of Change:Perspectives on FL 255. Italy Today: On the Cusp of the Year Global Food and Nutrition THE LAW AND SOCIETY MINOR: The minor 2000 SO 316. Women in Modern Society consists of a minimum of eighteen credit hours FL 258, 259. Chinese Civilization SW 338. Social Policy and Social Justice including: FL 266. Images of Revolution and Social Upheaval: France 1789-1939 1. LW 200. Introduction to Law, Citizenship, FL 267. Modern Japanese Culture and Society and Justice FL 268. Italy Today: On the Cusp of the Year 2000 FS 331, 332. The Culture of Latin America 2. Twelve additional credit hours from the GO 203. Comparative Politics of Western Europe courses listed below as part of the Law and GO 209. The Latin American Puzzle Society Program. These courses must GO 227. Russia: Century of Change come from at least three different disci- GO 239. Nationalism and Politics in the Middle plines and at least two of the courses must East be at the 300 level. No more than one GO 240. Political Modernization: The Case of course in the minor may also count toward India the student's major. GO 328. Nationalism, Communism, and Democracy: Politics in East Europe 3. A capstone experience, usually taken in the GO 344. Comparative Politics and Culture: India student's senior year, which may be either and Japan an independent study or an internship: GO 355. African Politics The independent study may be either in GO 365. Topics in Comparative Politics Law and Society (LW371 or LW372), or HI 210. Creating a Nation—Medieval England: Kings, Lords, and Peoples within a specific department participating in HI 211. State and People: English Revolutions, the law and society minor. Designed by the 1485-1832 student in consultation with a faculty advi- HI 215C. Topics in History: Medieval History sor participating in the program, the inde- HI 215F. Topics in History: Ancient History pendent study will consist of intensive HI 216A. Topics in History, Non-Western: research from an interdisciplinary perspec- Chinese History tive on an aspect of law and society. HI 216B. Topics in History, Non-Western: An internship may be substituted for the Japanese History independent study as a capstone experi- HI 241. Introduction to Imperial China HI 242. Introduction to Modern China ence. The internship must involve a sub- HI 247. The Rise of Japan stantive work experience as well as a HI 254. Intellectual History—Medieval Europe significant academic component. HI 301. Early Medieval Civilization Students must obtain prior permission from HI 302. The High Middle Ages the director of the program for either an HI 303. Intellectual History—Medieval and independent study or an internship to count Renaissance toward the minor. HI 305. Science and Church: Europe from Luther to Voltaire 117 Law and Society Curriculum AM 260. Themes in American Culture: “Civil Rights in Twentieth Century U. S.” Liberal Studies The following courses may be used to satisfy the BU 333. Business Law I requirements of the minor. BU 334. Business Law II BU 335. International Business Law Director: Joanna Schneider Zangrando LW 200. INTRODUCTION TO LAW, EC 320. Law and Economics LS1 Coordinator: Michael Marx CITIZENSHIP, AND JUSTICE 4 GO 211. Courts, Politics, and Judicial Process Explains the interrelationship between law and this in the United States All Liberal Studies courses are interdisciplinary country’s social institutions. The course will concen- GO 212. Introduction to the Bill of Rights in perspective. Faculty participate not only as trate on three core topics: (1) law as an instrument of GO 311. Constitutional Law specialists in particular fields of knowledge, but social control; (2) justice, and the legal institutions GO 312. Contemporary Constitutional Problems as models of people who have themselves whose responsibility it is to protect and preserve this GO 352. Women and the Law been liberally educated, and are thus able to fundamental principle; and, (3) those institutions of GO 362. Politics of the Congress apply basic patterns of thought and sensibility HI 210. Creating a Nation—Medieval England: society that both influence the law, and are ultimately to a variety of new as well as familiar experi- influenced by it. B. Breslin Kings, Lords, and Peoples HI 311. Age of the Stuarts ences. Readings in major primary texts play a significant role in Liberal Studies courses. LW 361. LAW AND SOCIETY: CAPSTONE LS2 111. Poor Law to Welfare State SEMINAR 1 LS2 194. Genocide, War Criminals, and Justice Provides students the opportunity to tie together the PH 314. Philosophy of Law course work and independent study in which they SO 213. Criminology LS1: HUMAN EXPERIENCE have engaged. Students will discuss over-arching SO 314. Deviance (4 semester hours) issues in law, citizenship, and justice and will exam- SW 218. Prisons in America An introduction to integrative, interdisciplinary ine the different contributions of various disciplines to SW 338. Social Policy and Social Justice learning and a foundation and context for these topics. Seminar presentation of individual future college studies, including LS2 courses. student work will be a central component of the Weekly team-planned and team-taught pre- course. This course is required of students who minor sentations (lectures, panels, performances, or in law and society. Prerequisites: LW200 and at least films) for the entire course and small group three other courses in the Law and Society Program. discussion sections deal with several perspec- tives on human beings, as, for instance, bio- LW 251. SPECIAL TOPICS IN LAW AND logical organisms, socially-constituted beings, SOCIETY 3 and creators of culture. Written assignments An examination at the intermediate level of special topics, methods, and areas in law and society. include personal reaction and formal argumen- Specific topics vary by instructor, discipline, program, tation. Required of all first-year students in and semester. their first semester. This course must be taken for a letter grade. LW 351. ADVANCED SPECIAL TOPICS IN LAW AND SOCIETY 3 An examination at the advanced level of special LS2: INTEGRATIVE TOPICS topics, methods, and areas of law and society. These courses make explicit connections to LS1 by applying the key questions and the LW 371, 372. INDEPENDENT STUDY IN interdisciplinary skills learned in LS1 to a more LAW AND SOCIETY 3 closely focused topic or problem. Every stu- Advanced level reading and research in law and dent must take one LS2 course. In addition to society under the guidance of a faculty member. the LS courses described below, these Prerequisite: LW 200 and two additional courses from courses fulfill the LS2 requirement: the law and society curriculum. Requires approval of law and society director. CC 200. The Classical World ED 216. History of Education in the United LW 399. PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP IN States LAW AND SOCIETY 3 or 6 ED 217. Alternative Education in the United Professional experience at an advanced level in law States: Political and Social and society. With faculty sponsorship and approval of Perspectives the program director, students may extend their law- ES 100. Environmental Concerns in related liberal arts experience into work in profes- Perspective sional settings such as law firms, the criminal justice FL 263. Special Topics in Foreign Literature system, and relevant social service and governmen- and Culture: tal agencies. No more than three semester hours of A. “The Fantastic in Fiction” LW 399 may be used to satisfy the minor requirements. D. “The Fate of Forbidden Knowledge Prerequisite: LW200 and two additional courses from in Literature and Science” the law and society curriculum. Non-liberal arts FL 266. Images of Revolution and Social Upheaval: France 1789-1939 FL 267. Modern Japanese Culture and Society GO 219. Political Economy of European Integration GO 224. American Indian Politics and Policy GO. 227. Russia: A Century of Change IA 101. Introduction to International Affairs RE 205. Women, Religion, and Spirituality RE 220. Encountering the Goddess in India SW 214. Death and Dying SW 217. Obsessions and Addictions SW 218. Prisons in America WS 101. Introduction to Women’s Studies

118 LS2 101H. THE VICTORIAN ILLUSTRATED LS2 104. THE NEW YORK SCHOOL: PAINTING, LS2 109. THE IMAGE OF THE ENEMY IN BOOK: A MARRIAGE OF IMAGE POETRY, CRITICISM 3 GERMAN FILM, 1919-45 3 AND WORD 3 Cases in the interaction of painting, poetry, and Focusing on the capacity of mass media to simulta- A study of the wedding of literature to the visual arts criticism from the beginnings of abstract expression- neously reflect and shape public opinion, this course in the Victorian period, focusing on exemplary illus- ism to its apparent repudiation in the sixties move- examines the changing image of the enemy in trated novels, picture-poems, and critical studies in ments of Pop and “post-painterly abstraction.” German Cinema from 1919 to 1945. Viewing film as aesthetics and literature which either discern how a Special attention will be paid to such painters as a symbolic language which inscribes cultural identity, poem is like and different from a picture (the “ut Pollock, deKooning, Hartigan, Rivers, and Newman, we will explore anti-semitism, xenophobia, jingoism, pictura poesis” tradition) or comment upon the such poets as O’Hara and Ashbery, and such critics misogyny, and fascism as well as changes in the collaboration of image and word as an art form. as Greenberg and Rosenberg during the period public perception of the enemy that contributed to Special attention will be given to the poem and 1945-1965. Weekly assignments will explore the World War II and the Holocaust. M. E. O’Brien, painting pairs of D.G. Rossetti, the illustrated fiction differences and similarities between expository and Foreign Languages and Literatures of Dickens, Carroll, Thackeray, and Potter, the creative discourse. (Meets expository writing require- essays of Horace and Lessing, and current criticism ment for students who placed at EN105 level or who LS2 110. METROPOLIS BERLIN 3 by Meisel and Steiner. Weekly writing assignments have completed EN103.) T. Diggory, English An examination of Berlin as a fiercely unique city, will encourage students to “read” illustrations and which typifies change and growth in European texts much like their Victorian audience once did and LS2 105. MOTION AND EMOTION IN THE society. Berlin has housed the major forms of govern- to explore different modes of exposition. (Meets TEMPORAL ARTS 3 ment: a monarchy, a republic, a fascist dictatorship, a expository writing requirement for students who How do works of art express feelings that “move” us? divided government, and a united capital of a new placed at EN105 level or who have completed And how do we experience “movement” in particular order. Culturally, Berlin has served not only as a EN103.) C. Golden, English art forms and works of art? This course explores center of European Romanticism, but as the mecca major examples of those art forms—literature, film, of the avant-garde. After an introduction to the LS2 102. ROMANCE AND GENDER drama, dance, and music—that reveal their structures concept of city, the course will study Berlin through DIFFERENCES 3 sequentially, demanding that the reader or audience the lenses of literature, film, architecture, and politics. This course will focus on one literary genre, the experience them in a specific order in time. By The course focuses on 1800 to the present and modern romance narrative, as a means to explore (1) directly examining selected works, (2) under- incorporates representative personalities and their how gender differences have been and are con- standing through these works how each art form images of Berlin. Included are eighteenth-century structed in America in the twentieth century. It creates feeling, and (3) analyzing the pattern of saloniere Rahel Varnhagen, author Theodor Fontane, reaches back to the tradition of the British romance feeling in each work as it unfolds in time, we will actress Marlene Dietrich, dictator Adolf Hitler, poet novel and the history of romantic love in Britain as explore the nature of aesthetic experience—how the Wolf Biermann, and artist Christo. important background; and it incorporates fiction, “movement” of particular art forms “moves” us. The R. Mayer, Foreign Languages and Literatures criticism, and social theory as part of its study of the course’s major critical question is not so much what contemporary patterns of heterosexual romance a novel or dance or concerto is as how it works and LS2 111. FROM POOR LAW TO WELFARE within which (or against which) many of us shape our what it does. The course integrates close analysis of STATE: AMERICAN SOCIAL WELFARE personal relationships. Our guiding questions: To the works of art with readings in aesthetics and FROM 1647 TO THE PRESENT 3 what extent and to what ends are gender differences criticism that specifically focus these issues of feeling This course will acquaint each student with: (1) the culturally constructed in such fictional paradigms? and movement in each of the arts. philosophical principles and social values repre- What other cultural differences interconnect with J. Rogoff, Liberal Studies sented in social welfare decisions, (2) the history and gender? How have the paradigms changed over structure of the social welfare system in the U.S., (3) time? To what extent are they still with us? LS2 107. CHANGE IN SPORT AND SOCIAL contemporary critiques of the social welfare system, (Meets expository writing requirement for students INSTITUTIONS 3 and (4) life on “welfare.” This course begins with a who placed at EN105 level or who have completed A reflective examination of American sport since the philosophical consideration of social welfare. It then EN103.) S. Goodwin, English seventeenth century. Focusing initially on the classi- considers how history, cultural beliefs, and economic cal roots of the Western conception of sport, the conditions have interacted to create the U.S. social LS2 103. SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND course will explore ways in which the structure and welfare system, and how that system affects both NATIONAL SECURITY 3 culture of American sport have changed over the last recipients and society. T. Oles, In the second half of the twentieth century, the United four-hundred years. Focusing on the relationship Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work States accelerated its dependence upon science and between sport and a variety of other social institu- technology in the service of national security. Starting tions, the course will address the significance of LS2 113. CHANGE IN EARLY CHINA 3 with World War II, basic research, technological sport as a personal endeavor and as a feature of This course examines a period of Chinese history achievement, and public policy have delivered American society. Finally, by studying historical, (551-221 BC), during which China changed from nuclear weapons, radar, ballistic missiles, satellite literary, philosophical, and sociological treatments of many feudal states into one centralized bureaucracy. surveillance, and many other technologies that have sport, we hope that students will not only see the Profound social, economic and political changes of renewed the means and definition of national secu- connections between past and present, but will also this period were influenced by and reflected in the rity. In the late 1980s, the nation departed the Cold learn to view sport as a subject for serious academic writings of Confucius, Mencius and rivals. These War and moved on to a new international order, still study. (Meets expository writing requirement for works continue to influence the cultures of East Asia. influenced heavily by technological accomplishment. students who placed at EN105 level or who have (Designated a non-Western culture course.) Now our nation encounters new challenges in the completed EN103.) P. Boshoff, English, or M. Pearson, History definition of national security. Nonproliferation of J. Segrave,Exercise Science, Dance, and Athletics nuclear weapons, environmental safety, and techno- LS2 114. CRISES IN LIFE: THEORY AND logical competitiveness are examples of challenges LS2 108. COMING OF AGE 3 PRACTICE OF MASS EXTINCTION 4 that summon new means for assuring national This course considers how the process of coming of Extinction of the dinosaurs and other terrestrial security. Beginning with nuclear weapons, this course age has been documented by psychologists and how giants, such as the ice age mammoths, has fasci- explores several examples of scientific and techno- it has been portrayed imaginatively in short stories, nated people for more than a century, resulting in logical achievements that serve national security and novels, and films. Students will be required to theories of proximal cause ranging from terminal examines the public policy that guides and supports respond to the readings and films in writing and will stupidity to death star radiations. Recently it has the role of these achievements. Prerequisites: QR1 analyze the techniques employed by psychologists, become evident that mass extinctions are common- and EN103. R. DeSieno, writers, and film makers to describe the journey from place, possibly even cyclic, in the history of life on Mathematics and Computer Science adolescence to adulthood. J. Douglas, Psychology Earth and extinction theories have proliferated. This course explores the context within which the reality of extinction events was originally realized, social influences on the formulation of extinction theories, the test of these theories against the record of life’s history, and the contemporary role of Homo sapiens as agents of mass extinction. R. Lindemann, Geosciences 119 LS2 117. CLASS, RACE, AND LS2 123. JAZZ: A MULTICULTURAL LS2 127. MUSIC AND POLITICS IN INDIA: LABOR HISTORY 3 EXPRESSION 3 THE HISTORICAL STRUGGLE FOR A critical investigation of several crucial, defining Jazz music, often referred to as the only truly IDENTITY AND ART IN THE WORLD’S moments in United States labor history. Special American art form, has a rich and unique history of LARGEST DEMOCRACY 3 attention will be given to issues related to class and interaction among many diverse cultures, classes, An examination of the relationship between musical race. Between 1900 and the mid-twentieth century, a ethnicities, and geographically distant peoples. The change and social, economic, and political change in number of dramatic social conflicts erupted that emergence of Jazz in the first decade of this century, India. Special reference will be given to the sweeping reconfigured fundamental political, economic, and as a separate, unique and profound musical expres- changes since the 1980s, including the opening up of social relationships. The course will begin with a sion is a direct result of the combination of African, India's economy and the resulting changes in Indian critique of capitalism, encompassing an investigation African-American, European, Latin-American and culture. Of particular interest is the longstanding of the roles of capital, labor, and the state. Students American folk influences. These combinations rivalry between Hindus and Muslims and the effects will also investigate the sources and implications of continued to feed Jazz through each decade and of this rivalry on Indian music and Indian identity. racial antagonism in the context of class conflict, “era” that followed. This course will explore the most (Designated a non-Western culture course.) examining the factors that contribute to interracial vivid demonstrations of these multicultural interac- G. Thompson, Music accord and solidarity among workers versus interra- tions as they contributed to the development of what cial strife. Historical events such as the Great Steel is now considered to be “American Classical Music.” LS2 128. THE AESTHETICS OF SCIENCE Strike of 1919, the Panhandle War of 1927, and the L. Rosengarten, Liberal Studies FICTION 3 Memorial Day massacre of 1937 will provide compara- An examination of significant works of science fiction tive contexts for such investigation. The theoretical LS2 124. ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY: as well as examples of critical responses such works and methodological tools of several social scientific TRADITION AND SOCIAL CHANGE have generated. Among authors and critics studied fields will be utilized to investigate these issues. FROM 560 TO 399 B.C. 3 are Asimov, Clarke, Wells, Zamyatin, Lem, Smith, J. Brueggemann, The literary, artistic, political, and social climate of the Blish, Capek, and LeGuin. The course will also Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work first seat of democracy from the mid-sixth century examine a number of science fiction films. (Meets until the death of Socrates in 399 B.C. provides the expository writing requirement for students who LS2 119. SOUTH AFRICA AND RACE 3 framework for a multidisciplinary study of the pro- placed at EN105 level or who have completed The course traces the origins and evolution of race found changes in ancient Athens. The theme of the EN103.) A. Wheelock, English and ethnicity in the history of South African society. course will focus upon the representation and self- Discussion moves from an examination of the pre- awareness of the individual in classical Athens LS2 129. MIND: METAPHORS AND THEORIES 3 European cultures of southern Africa to the arrival of against the background of traditional Greek ways of Explores the major metaphors and analogies which the first European settlers, and then considers the thought and expression, and subsequently the have informed different theories of the mind’s nature segregationist policies of 1652-1948 that ultimately changing relationship between the individual and and functions. The mind has, for example, been resulted in the apartheid government of 1948-90. The history’s first democracy over a span of 160 years. described as a clock, a switchboard, an aviary, a course concludes with an analysis of present-day M. Arnush, Classics mechanical robot, an iceberg, and a cow’s belly. South Africa, and the problems it faces in building a Personal biases, social values, and research findings post-racial society. Throughout the course, the major LS2 125. SALOME VERSUS ST. JOHN 3 have not only promoted these and other metaphors ethnic groups that comprise modern South Africa are A study of John the Baptist and Salome: his decapita- but have been heavily influenced by such explanatory studied separately as well as in their interaction. tion, her dance, their strange and violent story as it images. Our goal is to see how society and scientific (Designated a non-Western culture course.) G. Erchak, appears in stories, painting, and music. Told and inquiry interact, shaping our theories of mind. (Meets Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work retold for 2000 years, the story seems to have served expository writing requirement for students who different purposes for different audiences, and can placed at EN105 level or who have completed LS2 120. SEXUAL SCIENCE: CONTROVERSIES serve as a model for the ways key stories in Western EN103.) M.A. Foley, Psychology IN THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF HUMAN culture have changed over time and in different SEXUALITY 3 media. In this case, the media range from Gospel LS2 130. THE SYMBOLIC HUMAN OTHER 3 Human sexuality derives from both biology and narratives to Renaissance painting and nineteenth- Both in art and in social and institutional life humans culture. This dual nature gave rise to the “nature vs. century music and literature. We want to see what create symbolic representations of what is acceptable nurture,” “learned vs. inborn” controversy which some of those purposes and audiences have been, or unacceptable human form and behavior. The bedevils scientific studies of human nature, including what is at stake in the different accounts, and positive model tends to be “me and my group,” the human sexuality, to this day. The course explores whether this story, with so much past, has a future. negative example is “the other.” Because of the this and other controversies, proposing that the R. Janes, English complementary relationship of self and other, we are nature vs. nurture opposition is a false one, and that both attracted to and repelled by, fearful of and scientific understanding of human sexuality can only LS2 126. LOVE IN ART AND IDEA 3 fascinated by society (e.g., the disabled hunchback be achieved by utilizing the methods of both the An examination of the various ways that love has or demonized Ethnic) and attempts to understand the natural and the social/behavioral sciences. Topics been represented and accounted for in Western connection of those symbols to the individual psyche explored include the evolution of sexuality, primate culture. From the dialogues of Plato to contemporary and particular cultures over time. For our examination sexuality, sex and gender, culture and sexuality, theories of rhetoric, myth, evolution, psychology, and and analysis, we will draw upon sources from litera- heterosexuality, homosexuality, and other topics biochemical interactions, we will study conceptual ture and film, and also from anthropology, psychol- varying each semester. G. Erchak, explanations for what may or may not have anything ogy, and cultural history. W. Hall, American Studies Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work to do with ideas. Having established theoretical approaches, we will consider this possible dishar- LS2 131. DARWIN AND DARWINISM 3 LS2 122. MAJOR STYLISTIC SIMILARITIES mony between analytical method and subject matter An examination of the scientific method underlying BETWEEN MUSIC AND VISUAL ART by exploring artistic forms which have sought to the theory of evolution by natural selection presented OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 3 represent more than interpret love. Artistic forms will in Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, and of the This course will examine major twentieth-century include Toni Morrison's novel Beloved, the films scientific and social contexts that were affected by styles in both music and visual art which display Dangerous Liaisons and The Fisher King, short and/or serve to illuminate Darwin’s theory. similar aesthetic inclinations. Direct comparisons will stories from Tolstoy and Kundera, rock music, a T. Diggory, English be made among the Expressionists: Munch, Beethoven sonata, selections from operas by Puccini Kandinsky, Schoenberg, Berg; the Dadaists/Surreal- and Wagner, and The Romance of Tristan and Iseult. LS2 132. AFRICAN ARTS FROM THE OLD ists: Duchamp, Magritte, Satie, and Cage; the Ab- F. Bonneville, English WORLD TO THE NEW 3 stract Expressionists: Pollack, DeKooning, Cage, and An examination of continuities and changes in visual, Brown; the Minimalists/1960’s: Judd, Warhol, Reich, verbal, and musical arts transmitted from Africa to the Adams; and the Postmodernists/Neo-Romantics: New World through the transatlantic slave trade. The Anderson, Andrejevic, Gorecki, Pärt. An understand- course compares the arts in a traditional African ing will be developed of these styles and their expres- context with those assimilated in New World cultures sive relationship to the concerns and focus of the of the United States, Cuba, Haiti, and Brazil to twentieth century. L. Rosengarten, Liberal Studies demonstrate constraints particular to each of the four areas. The question of change relative to the type and function of each medium will also be addressed. 120 (Designated a non-Western culture course.) L. Aronson, Art and Art History LS2 133. THE OLYMPIC GAMES 3 LS2 140. CHANGES IN FAMILIES 3 LS2 147. ART AND POLITICS IN WEIMAR An interdisciplinary study of the Olympic Games: their This course examines changes in the family as an GERMANY, 1918-1933 3 history, ideology, problems, and future. One of the institution in the United States over the past half- An examination of the artist, focusing on the arts in most visible expressions of modern sport, the Olym- century as well as how individual families experience the Weimar Republic during the rise of Nazism. pics represent the zenith of accomplishment for the widespread changes in family structures, roles, and Movements (such as DaDa and Expressionism) and world’s athletes. The Olympics are distinct in that relationships. These topics are explored using both artists (such as Brecht, Mann, and Grosz) responded they boast a rich history and unique ideology. This empirical studies and expressive narratives about to a period of perpetual crisis due to war, revolution, course begins with an examination of the ancient family transformations. Differences and points of and counterrevolution; economic and governmental Games and their place in both Greek and Roman intersection between social scientific and literary failure; massive unemployment; and political strife culture. It then considers the re-establishment of the approaches to families undergoing transition are abroad. Students will study the works and lives of Games in the late nineteenth century and examines analyzed throughout the course. S. Walzer, selected artists in music, dance, painting, literature, their successful yet troubled history throughout the Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work theater, film, and architecture in relationship to the twentieth century. J. Segrave, political, economic, and social history of this period. Exercise Science, Dance, and Athletics LS2 142. GENETICS AND GENERATION 3 L. Opitz, Theater Explanations of the generation of organisms will be LS2 135. LATIN AMERICAN AND LATINO examined from historical and scientific perspectives. LS2 148. KNOWING TIBET: MAPPERS, CINEMA 3 The course begins with ancient Greek accounts of MOUNTAINEERS, AND This course is a historical survey of a unique cin- generation, considers a variety of ideas about gen- MILITARISTS 3 ematographic movement,” the new Latin American eration in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, A history of the inscription of Tibet onto the maps and cinema,” and a study of its repercussions/manifesta- and shows how these eventually led to the discovery imaginations of Euro-Americans. The course will tions in the United States through Latino film. We will of genes in the nineteenth century. The course ends explore the Himalayas from multiple perspectives: study the political, ideological, formal, and theoretical with a consideration of changing perspectives in geography, geology, and their histories (explorations, factors that contributed to the emergence and devel- twentieth-century biology on the role of genes in the anthropological surveys, and mapping); mountaineer- opment of a movement that rejected the Hollywood development of organisms. B. Possidente, Biology ing; and colonial history (British and Chinese inva- studio and European commercial movies, and that sions). The course will consider the narratives of gave rise to a cinema engaged within cultural and French, British, and American explorers, seekers, historical specificities. V. Rangil, LS2 143. MADE TO MOVE: THE HUMAN BODY scientists, soldiers, and mountaineers who, in the Foreign Languages and Literatures IN A PHYSICAL AND CULTURAL course of scientific, political, and sporting excursions, CONTEXT 3 imposed on Tibet a symbolic image as a sacred LS2 136. AMERICAN WOMEN This course will explore the human body as a biologi- place. In turn, the romantic image of Tibet in novels ENTREPRENEURS 3 cal entity and study how human movement is deter- and films is exposed with the help of the Orientalist A historical and sociological examination and mined and defined by late twentieth-century culture. discourse theory of Edward Said. The political and analysis of the entrepreneurial accomplishments of Emphasis is placed on the physiological functions economic consequences of Euro-American fascina- American women from 1776 to the present in the necessary to produce human movement and the tion with Tibet and the Tibetan culture will also be broad categories of agriculture and mining; construc- cultural influences that determine patterns of physical explored. R. Linrothe, Art and Art History tion; communications; manufacturing; service, both activity. Pathological conditions resulting from for profit and not-for-profit; transportation; and whole- inadequate or excessive physical activity will be LS2 149. ART AND IDEAS IN ITALY: ANCIENT sale and retail trade. Their contributions to the United considered in relation to contemporary cultural ROME TO THE RENAISSANCE 3 States and global economies will be assessed expectations. P. Arciero, P. Fehling, Continuity and change in Italian culture from the through the critical lens of the social, political, and Exercise Science, Dance, and Athletics Classical Age of the Roman Empire in the first legal constraints within which they lived. century through the rise of Christianity during the B. Balevic, Management and Business LS2 144. AMERICANS AT PLAY: Middle Ages to the synthesis of the classical world ENTERTAINMENT AND AMUSEMENT and Christianity during the Renaissance of the LS2 137. BUSINESS AND THE NATURAL IN AMERICAN SOCIETY, 1850-1960 3 sixteenth century. Central ideas expressed by Italian ENVIRONMENT 3 This course will explore popular adult amusements art, literature, and philosophy, such as the changing This course broadly examines and appraises the role and entertainments in nineteenth- and twentieth- conception of human and divine beings, the relative of business enterprise in relation to the current, and century American society. These entertainments will impor tance of the physical world versus the meta- future, state of the global natural environment. It aims include family and community celebrations and physical, and the influence of Aristotle and Plato on to foster awareness, sensitivity, and literacy regard- festivals, carnivals and exhibitions, popular literature the Middle Ages and Renaissance, will be explored. ing the major forces and challenges that bear upon and music, and other amusements in the public arena. The course culminates with a close examination of these multiple and complex relationships. Environ- The course will analyze these within the context of the Sistine Chapel ceiling. P. Jolly, Art and Art History mental issues are examined in relation to managerial social change in the United States from 1850-1960, a decision making in the areas of manufacturing, period during which leisure time increased dramati- LS2 150H. LITERACY AND SOCIAL POWER IN marketing and advertising, strategic planning, general cally, the country changed from a rural agricultural THE UNITED STATES 4 management, and other business disciplines. Topics society to an urban industrial one, and its citizens’ This course is based on an observation and a ques- include a review of sustainable development, indus- identities shifted from being members of local com- tion. The observation: different social/cultural groups trial ecology, total quality environmental manage- munities to participants in mass culture. Changes in (racial, ethnic, socioeconomic) historically have had, ment, “green” marketing, and others. J. Kennelly, gender, class, ethnicity, education, and technology and continue to have, different ‘access’ to literacy Management and Business will be examined as factors creating and promoting and this access has important social, educational, diverse forms of entertainment. (Meets expository and personal repercussions. The question: why is LS2 139. MUSIC AND CONTEMPORARY writing requirement for students who placed at this so? By focusing on literacy as a social achieve- AMERICAN SOCIETY 3 EN105 level or who have completed EN103.) ment, this course both explores important questions This course will explore the rich variety of music’s P. Hardy, Liberal Studies of difference among racial, ethnic, and socioeco- role in contemporary America while considering the nomic groups in the United States and continues to impact on, and place it has in, various dimensions of LS2 146. ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES 3 develop a number of themes and topics introduced in our society. Music has many functions in contempo- An exploration of the interaction between humans LS1, specifically, those of culture and social context. rary American society. It provides popular entertain- and the environment with special emphasis on (Meets expository writing requirement for students ment, is of aesthetic value, and also is connected to differing points of view toward solutions of environ- who placed at EN105 level or who have completed various specific events and practices. There is music mental problems. Issues such as population, the EN103.) J. Devine, English that induces us to buy, that aids in religious expres- environment and technology, global warming, biologi- sion, and that reconfirms our sense of patriotism. cal diversity, and economic survival will be addressed These various musics will be considered from princi- through the perspectives of economics and ecology. pally sociological and musicological perspectives. Prerequisite: QR1. W. Brown L. Rosengarten, Liberal Studies

121 LS2 152. WOMEN AND MUSIC 3 LS2 156. THE GOOD LIFE IN ANCIENT GREEK LS2 161. RADICAL VISIONS: THE THIRTIES 3 A survey across time and cultures of the ways in PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE 3 A study and an exploration of literature and the arts in a which women have participated in music. The course An examination of ancient Greek views of what it time of political upheaval in America, 1929-41. The will take a historical approach to the development of means to live a morally good and happy life from the course focuses on those writers and artists whose work European art music (musicology), and an anthropo- distinct perspectives of the poet and of the philoso- laid bare the contradictions of industrialism, capitalism, logical approach to music-making in non-Western pher. Some of the basic questions explored in this and the misery of the Great Depression, but which also cultures and European folk music (ethnomusicology). course are: What is the relationship between human envisioned an America structured on a more equitable Special attention will be given to gender-based excellence and human happiness? To what extent is and human sociopolitical basis. Videos, slide shows, divisions of musical activity, and to the assumptions living a good life something within our power? What and films supplement course readings. Prerequisite: and values underlying those divisions. The readings role do external factors play in the good life? The EN105 or 107. A. Wheelock, English and discussions will address a variety of related authors studied are Homer, Plato, Aristotle, issues, including the conflict between public and Aristophanes, Sophocles, and Aeschylus. LS2 162. FAITH AND SCIENCE 3 private spheres for women, and cultural beliefs about F. Gonzalez, Philosophy and Religion An examination of historically changing relationships women and musical creativity. (Meets expository between religion and science in crosscultural perspec- writing requirement for students who placed at LS2 157. COMPUTERS, ETHICS, AND SOCIETY 3 tive, but with an emphasis on Western culture. The EN105 level or who have completed EN103.) The intrusion of computers into almost every aspect course focuses on two questions: (1) Why did modern D. Rohr, Music of our modern lives raises many interesting and science originate in Western Europe and not else- difficult ethical, legal, and social issues. By examining where? and (2) What is the fundamental nature of LS2 153. POLITICS OF READING some aspects of computer science and some specific contemporary relationships between science and NON-WESTERN LITERATURE: incidents and circumstances (such as the 1988 religion? The questions are addressed from an interdis- THE EXAMPLE OF INDIA 4 “Internet worm” incident, the 1988 stock market ciplinary perspective, drawing upon the history of The literature of India has traditionally been read crash, the Strategic Defense Initiative, and the F.B.I. science, sociology, psychology, and religion. in terms of Western aesthetics, an inappropriate National Crime Information Center), the course will K. Szymborski, Library approach originating with the political aims of Pax provide a better understanding of how computers Britannica. This course attempts to set right the work, the impact they have on human lives, the many LS2 163. CHINA AND THE WEST: imbalance by reading Indian literature in terms of difficult issues which they raise, and finally the THE MYTH OF THE OTHER 3 Indian aesthetics, and in the context of the Hindu limitations which society, in turn, puts on their further Students will examine the experience of the Other from worldview, including mythology, religion, philosophy, development. G. Effinger, both Chinese and Western standpoints. The image of and politics. It will then examine the possibilities of Mathematics and Computer Science the Other has been historically shaped to represent using the insights offered by Western aesthetics. This values that are considered different from one’s own. bifocal approach will help the reader see the literature LS2 158. SELF AND DESIRE: A STUDY OF Our perception of the Other is largely determined by with greater clarity, and prepare the ground for a new DON JUAN 3 historical and ideological givens. In this course, we will literary history of India. (Designated a non-Western This course will study the figure of Don Juan as a look at China as an idealized utopia in the eyes of culture course.) R. Parthasarathy, English representation of the desiring self. The general aim of eighteenth-century Europeans, and as a land of igno- this course is to examine the nature and modalities of rance as described in early modern literature and other LS2 154. MOVING THE PUBLIC: RHETORIC, desire and its role in the constitution of the human media. We will also explore various Chinese responses MEDIA, AND MANIPULATION IN subject. An examination of the figure of Don Juan will to the West. In addition, we will look at China’s environ- AMERICAN POLITICS 3 serve to question the relation of the self to self, of self mental issues from the points of view of both Chinese An examination of the development of “media poli- to the other, of desire to (self) mastery, of pleasure to and Western critics. In studying several cases and tics” in the United States and its impact on public pain, and of imagination to reality. Readings and discussing such issues as orientalism vs. occident- opinion, political campaigns, political debate, and examples drawn from various artistic media will alism, and cultural relativism vs. universalism, we will public policy. The course traces the history of politi- provide the foundation for the study. R. Lilly, examine the polemics of cultural difference in ethical cians’ efforts to influence public opinion or “move the Philosophy and Religion terms. (Designated a non-Western culture course.) public,” touching on changes in the nature of public M. Chen, Foreign Languages and Literatures opinion, in understandings of the public’s proper LS2 159. VICTORIAN CHILDHOOD: CHANGES influence on government, in the preferred techniques IN IDEALS AND SOCIETY 4 LS2 164. FACTUAL AND FICTIONAL: HISTORY for communicating with the public, and in the effec- This course studies changes in ideals of childhood AND THE NOVEL IN CHINA 3 tiveness of those techniques. Students will be en- in Victorian England in relation to the evolution of This course will examine several Chinese novels in couraged to assess critically the proposition that the society's institutions, work place, laws, and literature terms of their special narrative modes and the history growing presence of television, pollsters, speech- for children. The course examines literature and that each mode implies. The course will consider how writers, and political consultants on the American historical, religious, sociological, and artistic works each novel reveals the changing history of modern political scene has had lamentable consequences for that emphasize continuing tension between conflict- China. At the same time, it will also explore how each political debate and public policy. ing ideologies of childhood and the reality of novel makes its unique contribution to Chinese litera- R. Seyb, Government children's lives. Attention is given to how the notion ture. Students will discuss such issues as: history in the sinful child is challenged by the romantic ideal of literature, history outside literature, literary histories, LS2 155. AFRICA THROUGH ITS CHANGING innocence and how childhood gradually becomes a factual and fictional as literary categories, and the CINEMA 3 more secure and happy time for the young of Victo- historical novel. M. Chen, This course explores through film and other visual rian England and the following generations. (Meets Foreign Languages and Literatures documents the causes of colonialism on the African expository writing requirement for students who people, their society, and their culture. The colonial placed at EN105 level or who have completed LS2 165. MODERN CHINA AND JAPAN IN experience, in all its political and psychological EN103.) C. Golden, English NARRATIVE AND FILM 3 aspects, provides a historical, economic, social, and This course will introduce masterworks of modern aesthetic context in which to study and understand LS2 160. A GREEN WORLD: HUMAN/PLANT Chinese and Japanese literature and film to students African film. Although our main focus is sub-Saharan COEVOLUTION 3 who possess no knowledge of East Asian languages. Africa from the Second World War to the present, we This course will deal with the ways humans have The intrinsic value of individual works will be examined will refer, whenever pertinent, to the North African derived invaluable resources from plants and fungi in the light of both East Asian and Western literary filmmaking experience in our discussions. We will such as the agricultural staffs of life and other impor- traditions. We will read novels and novellas from also examine the practice of filmmaking in Africa and tant commodities (e.g. paper, cotton, coffee). The modern China and Japan and, besides studying each the factors and forces that shape and influence the thrust of the course will be to display how the employ- text’s distinct literary features, we will discuss questions direction of this practice, and discuss a number of ment of constantly evolving scientific methodology in concerning the individual’s relationship to society theories and strategies of reading this creative plant/fungal studies has led to important, symbiotic during a given historical moment. We will also focus on medium. (Designated a non-Western culture course.) interactions between humans, plants, and fungi. the study of cinema as a narrative art, and its interrela- H. Jaouad, Foreign Languages and Literatures Topics to be covered include: humankind’s early tions with disciplines such as painting, music, psychol- botanical experimentation, the development of the ogy, and cultural history. There will be a film screening sciences of botany and mycology, agricultural meth- and a discussion session each week. (Designated a ods and practice and the diverse methods of applied non-Western culture course.) technologies to production of botanical commodities M. Chen, Foreign Languages and Literatures 122 for human use. D. Domozych, Biology LS2 166. HUMAN INTERACTION WITH THE LS2 174. SOCIETY AND SOCIAL LS2 178. BORN IN AMERICA 3 LAND — ATTITUDES AND IMPACTS 3 RESPONSIBILITY 3 An exploration of the changing ways in which Ameri- An introduction to the interrelationships between In this course, we will ask what makes a “good can women have experienced contraception, abor- human attitudes and values and human management society”? Central to this question is the problem of tion, pregnancy, and childbirth, from 1587 to the of the land and its essential resources. The class will promoting both individual freedom and preserving present. The course examines developments in examine the historical patterns of ways in which social order. Should individuals sacrifice their own technology, law, medicine, the economy, and the role various societies have substantially modified the interest in service of the collective good? To what and position of women and the family in society as natural landscape—sometimes with a sense of extent does our contemporary liberal democracy they influenced the reproductive lives of American stewardship, sometimes with a sense of anthropo- depend on the socially responsible action of its women, using sources from the history of medicine, centric arrogance. K. Johnson, Geosciences members? To make the readings and class discus- social history, literature, legal and constitutional sions concrete, students will be required to volunteer studies, government, and sociology. (Meets exposi- LS2 170. MEMORY AND THE SELF 3 in the community and reflect on their role in the larger tory writing requirement for students who placed at Memory, and the images that make up our memories, society. D. Karp, Sociology, Anthropology, and EN105 level or who have completed EN103.) may be the primary component of what we call self- Social Work M. Lynn, American Studies hood. In this course we will read about memory and study memories, exploring the role of the image in LS2 175. LIBERTY AND ENLIGHTENMENT 3 LS2 179. THE KU KLUX KLAN IN AMERICAN storing and releasing remembered time. Among the An examination of the various ways the critical SOCIETY 3 questions we will consider: What are the aspects of concept of “liberty” was evoked by European (particu- A study of the Ku Klux Klan in American society. In memory that elude analytic writing? What do we learn larly English and French) writers, artists, and thinkers the course we will examine variation in the strength about ourselves and our pasts if we study the process during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. and the popularity of the Ku Klux Klan over time and of memory analytically? How are individual memories Liberty was a hallmark slogan of the Enlightenment, across space. The central question that will be and images embedded in collective ones? Students the justification for political revolutions, scientific addressed has to do with determining what leads will write both analytic and creative papers about exploration, the rejection of established religion, and people to act upon their prejudices through collective memory, exploring different mental processes and trying the publication of erotica. Above all, liberty meant action with other like-minded individuals. The course to understand them. Authors read will include Jung, freedom for individuals outside social and govern- is explicitly interdisciplinary. Particular attention will Freud, Plato, Locke, Hume, the Wordsworths, Hardy, E. mental constraints. We will investigate this concep- be given to the theoretical and methodological Bronte, and Shakespeare. We also will examine paint- tion of the free Enlightenment self primarily through contributions of history, psychology, economics, ings by Constable. (Meets expository writing requirement an examination of the concept of social, political, political science, and sociology. R. McVeigh, for students who placed at EN105 level or who have sexual, and artistic liberty in the seventeenth and Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work completed EN103.) S. Goodwin, English eighteenth centuries. Through the close reading of political theory such as Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes LS2 180. IMAGES OF THE TWELVE CAESARS: LS2 171. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: THE (1651), erotic novels such as John Cleland’s Fanny PERSPECTIVES OF THE EMPEROR IN FIRST REVOLUTION 3 Hill (1745), and the close observation of political EARLY IMPERIAL ROME 3 The revolution that began in France in 1789 changed caricature and portraits, we will attempt to define The lives of the twelve Caesars have been romanti- the meaning we assign to the word “revolution.” First liberty and understand the multiple freedoms this cized by biographers, artists, playwrights, novelists, used to describe the movement of the planets and the concept entailed for Enlightenment Europeans. and filmmakers from antiquity to recent times. We will seasons, “revolution” had to come to mean a momen- (Meets expository writing requirement for students examine the nature of Roman society and the chang- tous change in any sphere, and in politics, the replace- who placed at EN105 level or who have completed ing depiction of these twelve Roman emperors, their ment of one set of rulers by another. But with the EN103.) A. Rauser, Art and Art History wives, and children, as represented in literature, the revolution in France, the word took on its modern fine arts, and cinema. The course begins with the sense of a fundamental alteration in the form of LS2 176. THE ASIAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE 3 tradition embodied by Julius Caesar of the rule of government, coupled with social and economic inno- An examination of the social, political, economic, and might and virtue. It then examines the deification of vation. So contemporaries saw it, and so historians cultural experiences of Asian Americans in the United Caesar for political purposes by his successor have seen it since. But while everyone agrees the States and their encounters with Americans of Augustus, the degradations of the imperial throne by event was momentous, there was at the same time European descent. Beginning with an analysis of the the depraved Caligula, the even-handed reign of the and there has been since considerable dispute as to experiences of the Chinese and Japanese immi- stammering idiot Claudius, the violent excesses of whether it was momentously good or momentously grants before World War II, the course continues with Nero, the restoration of the honor of the emperor evil. The course will explore some of the contradictory a critical and interdisciplinary look at the international under Vespasian, and then finishes with the brutal, and conflicting interpretations of this first modern context of one or more of the more recent waves of repressive tyranny of his son Domitian. (Meets revolution through works of political theory (e.g., Burke Asian immigration (which may include Korean, expository writing requirement for students who and Paine), literature (e.g., Wordsworth, Buchner, Filipino, East Indian, Vietnamese, and Cambodian placed at EN105 level or who have completed Carpentier), painting (e.g., David, Goya, Delacroix) migrants, in addition to whose who continue to arrive EN103.) L. Mechem, Classics and film. (Meets expository writing requirement for from China and Japan) and proceeds to an explora- students who placed at EN105 level or who have tion of the causes and legacies of anti-Asian senti- LS2 181. HOW DO WOMEN LOOK?: completed EN103.) R. Janes, English ments in the U.S. and Asian American responses to WOMAN AS OBJECT/SUBJECT IN violence and assimilatory pressures from prejudice CONTEMPOR-ARY AMERICAN LS2 172. THEORIES OF THE UNIVERSE 3 and institutional racism. Systemic connections VISUAL CULTURE 3 Western speculations on the origin and structure of between stereotyping past and contemporary Asian In this course we will examine how women appear in the cosmos and the place of thought/mind within it Americans, the vicissitudes of a contested American a range of visual culture, including high art, mass from early Greek beginnings to modern times. The identity, and the struggle for cultural and political culture (magazines and television), and films in course will provide an introduction to cosmological expression in a multicultural America will also be contemporary United States (1950s-90s). While we reasoning and the impact of ideals of natural order on considered. J. Ling, Liberal Studies will be concerned with how women look — images both its form and content. might present women as objects for consumption, for LS2 177. HUMAN COLONIZATION OF SPACE 3 example — we will also consider how women look at LS2 173. ITALY, FASCISM, AND JEWS 3 Our exploration of space points to eventual extra- these images, speculating whether they do so in This course examines the Fascist takeover of the Italian terrestrial human colonies. In fact, much of the active or passive ways. (Meets expository writing government in 1922 from several disciplinary perspec- technology to begin small colonies already exists, requirement for students who placed at EN105 level tives and based upon a variety of sources. Crucial to and some anthropologists argue that it is the nature or who have completed EN103.) this examination is the civil war against fascism, the of humankind to explore and settle new “lands,” even K. Hauser, Art and Art History Partisan Resistance movement initiated during World when that means leaving the earth. This course War II, and the changing status of Jews in Italy from surveys the issues involved in making policy deci- their integration into Italian life and culture beginning in sions in this area, including technological limitations, 1861 to their dis-integration, and ultimately their mass political and economic motives, the possible cata- deportation to Auschwitz in 1943. Course materials for strophic destruction of earth, and the biological and investigating Italian fascism, the resistance against it, psychological development of individuals within a and the attempts by Jews to survive the fascist small, extremely isolated society. M. Crone, government’s mass deportation policy include diaries of Chemistry and Physics witnesses, history texts, memoirs, novels, films, and 123 political documents. S. Smith, Foreign Languages and Literatures LS2 182. AVANT-GARDE AND TECHNOLOGY IN LS2 186. BEGINNINGS OF MODERNISM: THE LS2 190. THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 3 TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE AND OF EXILE 3 This course will address the notion of the Avant- JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER 3 This course will explore, through appropriate texts garde in twentieth-century art and its interface with In the mid-nineteenth century, a new mood began to and from the interdisciplinary perspective, five areas technology. Film, television, sound recording, photog- sweep through Europe giving rise to strong chal- which each relate in an exemplary way to exile raphy, computers, etc. are just a few of the most lenges to the status quo in science, religion, philoso- experience, highlighting both the different and unify- significant innovations of the past century — techno- phy, and art. What began as "outsider" movements ing aspects of this multifaceted topic. Using as a logical advancements greatly altering almost every gradually impinged on the social order at large and point of departure the traditional understanding of aspect of daily life. These varied technologies have eventually challenged the prevailing values. In the exile as persecution and banishment from home also been important in numerous art movements of early days of the Modernist movement, the establish- (exemplified in the Jewish suffering from exile the twentieth century — Dada, Futurism, Pop Art, ment found their experiments amusing, but in time throughout the course of history), we will examine the Fluxus — shifting the notion of artistic production they were seen to present a serious and dangerous U.S. as a country of refuge and as one of forced exile from the easel to any number of possibilities. This challenge. The break between nineteenth-century within its expansion (slavery). Further, exile experi- course will place the Avant-garde in the context of the conservatism and twentieth-century openness is ence will be explored in relation to existentialism. We dramatic shifts in our culture that have also been symbolized by the two great aesthetic trials of James will then look at specific manifestations of exile affected by (and affect) human interaction and McNeill Whistler and Oscar Wilde. Although both experience in humans' "normal" life cycles. Connec- perception. C. Stainback, Liberal Studies artists suffered as a result of their trials, their tions between exile and creativity will also be exam- struggles were instrumental in freeing the twentieth- ined. This course, in its multifaceted approach, LS2 183. AMERICAN RADICAL THEATER IN century modernist from moral and aesthetic restric- suggests that exile experience, in its different mani- THE 1930S, 1960S, AND 1990S 3 tions. Students will examine and analyze materials festations, has significance in our everyday lives, A study of American social and political activist from art, literature, music, philosophy, psychology, even if we may not be aware of it. U. Giguere performance in the 1930s, 1960s, and 1990s from and social history. L. Ries, Liberal Studies Liberal Studies the perspectives of history and performance. Major events and issues in three decades of American LS2 187. THE ART OF ECSTASY 4 LS2 191. DANTE’S DIVINE COMEDY 3 history will be examined along with the various types This course explores the literature and visual art An examination of Dante’s Divine Comedy from an of theatrical performance that emerged to move produced and inspired by medieval visionaries, interdisciplinary perspective, including literature, social and political agendas forward. Through close focusing on representations of ecstatic experience in history, politics, philosophy, and theology. Course readings from history, performance theory, primary medieval mystical literature, manuscript illumination, topics will include concerns of the medieval world sources such as play texts, theater reviews, diaries, painting and sculpture, and on analytical discussions such as allegory, love, justice, secular and spiritual letters, and speeches, as well as videos and films of of ecstasy in theology, literature and history, and in authority, images of women, education, and the performance, we will address the concepts of activ- the social and natural sciences. Medieval mystics relationship between philosophy and religion. Supple- ism as performance and performance as activism ventured into a realm inaccessible to the normal mentary readings will provide a context for the C. Anderson, Theater processes of sensation and reasoning and well medieval world, its life and literature, and will also beyond the grasp of faith itself. In order to communi- demonstrate how Dante’s text reflects the Zeitgeist of LS2 184. STRAVINSKY AND BALANCHINE: cate their experiences they and their followers the Middle Ages. The course will also take into A UNION OF MINDS 3 “reinvented” language or turned away from verbal account Dante’s Divine Comedy in relation to the Igor Stravinsky and George Balanchine emerged expression in favor of the visual arts. (Meets exposi- visual arts by viewing several illustrations from as two of the most powerful forces in shaping the tory writing requirement for students who placed at Botticelli and Renaissance illustrators to Gustave direction of music and ballet in the twentieth century. EN105 level or who have completed EN103.) Dore, and selected modern and contemporary This course will explore the close collaboration of K. Greenspan, English paintings inspired by Dante’s poem. G. Faustini, these two men through study of selected composi- Foreign Languages and Literatures tions and prose writings by and about each artist. LS2. 188. THE DEBATE ABOUT WOMEN IN THE Special attention will be given to the nature of their MIDDLE AGES 4 LS2 192. THE CHAOTIC UNIVERSE 3 collaborations, including their similar views about The medieval debate about women had enduring A careful study of chaos theory and of discrete creativity, movement, the rhythm of time, and the impact upon Western ideas about gender and author- dynamical systems is made in an interdisciplinary balance of visual and aural events. Analyses of the ity. In this course, we will study questions raised by setting, requiring a background of only high school structural and stylistic elements of music and chore- medieval theologians, philosophers, poets, artists, algebra. The ultimate goal of the course is to get to a ography, especially as they are linked to one another, and critics about the nature of women, their abilities, working definition of chaotic behavior, and to under- will also be examined. The historical roots of the virtues and vices, their power, and their proper stand the reasons why chaotic behavior is so perva- musical and balletic styles of the Ballets Russes, relation to men. We will explore the implications of sive in our world. Indeed chaotic behavior is inherent from which their partnership emerged, will also be these questions both in medieval terms and in the in population dynamics, in the weather, in the stock explored. Emphasis will be given to the writings of light of modern critical, historical, and especially market, and in the motion of the planets in our solar both men, with discussion of their individual and feminist discussions. (Meets expository writing system, to cite just a few instances of its occurrence. shared artistic philosophies. Ballets to be viewed and requirement for students who placed at EN105 level Secondary goals include looking at the reasons why studied include The Firebird, Petrushka, The Rite of or who have completed EN103.) chaotic behavior was neglected by the scientific Spring, Apollo, Jewels, Violin Concerto, Orpheus, K. Greenspan, English community until recently, and using discrete dynami- and Agon. A field trip to New York City for a perfor- cal systems as a window to understanding the more mance of a Stravinsky-Balanchine ballet will normally LS2 189. THE SEARCH FOR SYMMETRY complicated continuous dynamical systems. Prereq- be arranged. C. Joseph, Music AND PATTERN 3 uisite: QR1. (Fulfills QR2 requirement.) D. Vella, I. Brown, Exercise Science, Dance, and Athletics This course examines the role and significance of Mathematics and Computer Science symmetry and pattern in diverse domains of nature LS2 185. HOLLYWOOD GOES TO WAR: and of human endeavor. It is surprising how broad a LS2 193. SPANISH AMERICAN WOMEN 3 HISTORY VERSUS ART IN THE variety of disciplines share a common canon of An examination of the changing situation of women in WORLD WAR II COMBAT FILM 3 criteria for a “good” design: repetition, harmony, and three distinct periods of Spanish American history: Motion pictures about periods of war are as much a variety. The study of examples from the earth and the the Inca Empire, Spanish conquest and colonialism, reflection of the culture in which they are produced as heavens, from human visual and auditory art, from and the post-Independence era, with an emphasis on they are portrayals of the armed conflict. This course language and literature, and from rhetoric and rea- the twentieth century. Students will study the ways in will examine attitudes toward World War II as re- soning will show symmetry (or a lack of it) as a which male-dominated social and political institutions flected in motion pictures produced during and after crucial component of form and content. D. Hurwitz, have affected the status and development of Span- the war, looking at such issues as historical accuracy, Mathematics and Computer Science ish American women; and the ways in which women the use of propaganda, treatment of characters, and have responded to such pressures and sought to the overall artistic impact of the films. counteract them. P. Rubio, D. Eyman, Liberal Studies Foreign Languages and Literatures

124 LS2 194. GENOCIDE, WAR CRIMINALS, LS2 198. IMAGES OF LATINAS 3 LS2 203. SEXUALITIES/TEXTUALITIES 4 AND JUSTICE 3 This course will focus on the experience of Latinas An exploration of the centrality of the written word to An examination of the genesis of international human as portrayed in their literary work. In studying the the creation, promulgation, and enforcement of human rights, the legal mechanisms and institutions devel- interplay of cultural, historical, political, and socio- sexualities. The course examines the text as a place oped to enforce these rights, and the strategies used economic factors affecting Latinas’ roles and gender where an otherwise amorphous network of desires by societies to come to terms with massive human- relationships, we will be able to identify the unique- gets clarified and organized, deployed and policed. rights abuses. We explore how individual societies and ness of their experiences and its expression within The main focus will be nineteenth- and twentieth- international bodies have struggled to balance the the diverse multicultural society of the United States. century America, although this period will be posi- need for justice and stability when confronting perpe- Interdisciplinary perspectives include literature, tioned in the context of its Classical and European trators of human-rights abuses. Using a variety of literary criticism, history, and cultural studies. influences, as well as its early-American prehistory. sources and engaging texts from the intersecting and V. Rangil, Foreign Languages and Literatures Topics may include: the textual emergence of gender; overlapping fields of law, history, politics, sociology, the creation of hetero- and homosexuality; the literary and religion, we analyze several countries (Germany, LS2 199. ITALIAN RENAISSANCE WOMEN 3 romance; the scientific treatise; guidebooks for the Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, and South Africa) where Changes in the lives and activities of Italian women young; sex laws; the psychology of sex; health manu- systematic and unspeakable crimes were committed from the late Middle Ages to the Renaissance. als; love poems; sex and the memoir; and sex and the and examine how the United Nations, the international Considering the period from 1400 to 1600, the course church. (Meets expository writing requirement for courts, domestic legal systems, and truth and recon- uses materials from different disciplines (literature, art students who placed at EN105 level or who have ciliation commissions sought to come to terms with history, philosophy, music, and economic history) to completed EN103.) M. Stokes, English these atrocities. M. Hockenos, History show the new activities of women in the Italian Renaissance. Change is documented by examining LS2 204. THE ETHICS OF TOBACCO AND LS2 195. REPRESENTATIONS OF THE such figures as the sainted writer-of-histories in the ALCOHOL ADVERTISING: JOE CAMEL HOLOCAUST 3 nunnery in the medieval period and the empowered IS DEAD, ARE THE BUDWEISER An examination of the problems and controversies patrician patroness of the arts in the mid-1500s. The LIZARDS NEXT? 3 surrounding the depiction of the Nazi period in material is separated into three large categories: Examination of the social, economic, political/legal, German history from the perspectives of historians, women as makers of culture (writers, poets, artists, and ethical implications of tobacco and alcohol playwrights, poets, film directors, and artists con- and musicians), women as shapers of culture (reli- advertising. Particular attention will be given to the structing memorials in commemoration of the Holo- gious women and the relationship with the bourgeois persuasive techniques that advertisers use to influ- caust. Students will analyze significant works, culture in the earlier and later periods), and women ence people’s attitudes and opinions toward theses including the historians Maier on the Historians’ as participants in socio-economic structures (bour- products. Students will examine societal and eco- Debate in Germany in the 1980s; Finkelstein, Birn, geois women, their dowries, and new property laws). nomic trends, political, legal, and ethical principles in and Browning on Goldhagen’s Hitler’s Willing Execu- Finally, the question of whether or not there was a terms of the extent to which they have had an impact tioners: Stannard and Katz on the question of the Renaissance for Italian women is treated. S. Smith, on, and been influenced by, the advertising of to- uniqueness of the Holocaust; and Novick on the role Foreign Languages and Literatures bacco and alcohol products. C. Page of the Holocaust in American life. They will also study Management and Business playwrights Brecht and Frisch; poets Celan, Sachs, LS2 200. GROWTH AND RESPONSIBILITY IN Fried, et al.; film makers Renais, Wertmuller, Chaplin, COLLEGE 4 LS2 205. PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES OF Spielberg, and Benigni; and philosophers Habermas, An examination of theoretical and research ap- SOCIAL JUSTICE: APPLICATIONS TO Adorno, and Nietzsche. R. Mayer, proaches to understanding the factors that influence LAW AND BEHAVIOR 3 Foreign Languages and Literatures adjustment and achievement during the college years This course will focus on psychological theories of by reviewing how various disciplines have considered social justice and their application to law and behavior. LS2 196. READING AND SEEING: THE VISUAL the following questions: What does it mean to be Psychological research has demonstrated that people IN THE WRITTEN 3 educated? Why be educated? And, What makes for are strongly affected by their judgments of what is fair In the Western world, there exists a long tradition of personal growth during young adulthood? Answers and unfair in their dealing with others. Judgments of written literary texts that describe visual works of art and will contribute to formulating a model of the ideal fairness include (a) assessments of who deserves and compel their readers to reflect upon the differences of college experience. In addition to considering the who does not deserve various kinds of resources in reading and seeing as interpretive activities. This course views of psychologists, historians, and economists, society (who should get what and why), (b) analyses of will use a variety of disciplines to explore thematically the scientific method and quantitative approaches to the processes through which different types of alloca- and historically such written representations of visual understanding adjustment and growth will be empha- tion decisions are made, and (c) considerations of how representations, and to determine the complex implica- sized. Students will conduct a quantitative assess- people should be treated when they break agreed tions of such a verbal-visual interaction for early twenty- ment of contemporary student life at Skidmore upon justice rules and norms. This course will examine first century readers. We will closely examine the Greek College. Prerequisite: QR1. (Fulfills QR2 require- theoretical models of social justice from each of these and Roman foundations of this tradition and the Antique ment.) P. Colby, Psychology three perspectives. We will then use these theoretical theories associated with it. We will then move to the frameworks as a guide for analysis of a range of Renaissance, an age deeply marked by the ancient LS2 202. PSYCHOACTIVE DRUGS: SCIENTIFIC different types of social issues and case law decisions. texts and literary theories. In turn, this background will AND SOCIAL CONTEXTS 3 Issues examined will include such topics as affirmative allow students to explore the phenomenon in the This course will trace the interaction between scien- action, health care spending, divorce law, welfare nineteenth- and twentieth-century literatures of Europe tific knowledge and social responses to such knowl- reform, and death penalty rulings. and America, and to come to conclusions about the edge regarding the use of psychoactive drug V. Murphy-Berman, Psychology characteristics of the modes of knowledge seeing and substances. After a consideration of the nature of reading imply. M. Wiesmann, consciousness, and introduction to the structure and LS2 206H. SLEEP AND DREAMS 3 Foreign Languages and Literatures the function of the nervous system, and exposure to The course is an examination of the experience of some basic pharmacological concepts, we will study sleep and dreaming. Dreaming is a curious phenom- LS2 197. IMAGES OF CONTEMPORARY the specific psychological and physiological effects of enon in that we experience vivid sensations, thoughts, ITALIAN WOMEN 3 various psychoactive substances (e.g., caffeine, and emotions, but have muscular paralysis and usually An exploration of contemporary Italian women as nicotine, alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and are unaware of being asleep. Humans in many cul- portrayed through both the words and images of LSD). Psychological, historical, and cultural influ- tures, and ages have been interested in dreaming and women artists. A first grouping of artistic works ences of drug use and the social regulation of drug have constructed narratives to understand the role of (novels and films) illustrates some of the themes use will then be examined to demonstrate that the dreaming in human life. We will consider texts from particularly relevant to Italian women’s lives: family, distinction between legal and illegal substances is some of the narratives that humans have constructed socialization, sexual politics, Catholicism, friendship, social rather than pharmacological, and that social to make sense of the dreaming, including accounts and solitude. This first heading shows women either attitudes and legal proscriptions of drug substances from neuroscience, nonempirical Western psychology, as perpetrators of a system of morality or as individu- are not based on scientific and/or pharmacological and a few non-Western cultures. Class participants als who either accept the status quo or propose concerns. Finally, the general nature of the social use also will spend several nights in a sleep laboratory in alternatives. A second grouping shows women as (or in this case, nonuse) of scientific knowledge will order to experience dreaming as both an outside artists: women shapers of cultures. One of the topics be explored. G. Goodwin, Psychology observer (i.e., an experimenter) and as a participant explored under the second thematic heading is (i.e., a sleeper). Holly Hodgins, Psychology “women as writers"; the critical work directs attention to the debate on “gender and genre.” S. Smith, 125 Foreign Languages and Literatures LS2 207. SEEDS OF CHANGE: PERSPECTIVES PI MU EPSILON, New York Alpha Theta ON GLOBAL NUTRITION 4 Mathematics Chapter: Incorporated in 1914, Pi Mu Epsilon A broad survey of the role of the social, economic, is a national honorary society whose purpose political, cultural, nutritional, and environmental is the promotion of scholarly activity in math- factors that influence the food choices of individuals Chair of the Department of Mathematics and ematics. Undergraduate students are qualified and societies in different parts of the world at different Computer Science: Mark Hofmann for membership if they meet one of the follow- times in history. Topics such as the global interde- Mathematics and Computer Science Faculty: ing criteria: 1) upperclassmen who have pendence of food production and distribution, the completed at least two years of college math- environmental impact of changes in food habits and Professors: *Robert DeSieno, R. Daniel ematics, including calculus, with at least a B production techniques, the use of food as a tool to Hurwitz, Mark E. Huibregtse, Alice M. Dean, average and who are in the top third of their enforce religious and political beliefs, the worldwide Gove W. Effinger effect of the introduction of modern food technology, class in general college work; 2) sophomores, etc. will be addressed through analysis of specific Associate Professors: Richard Speers, Pierre majoring in or intending to major in mathemat- case studies. von Kaenel, Mark Hofmann, Una Bray, David ics, who have completed at least three semes- U. Bray, Mathematics and Computer Science C. Vella ters of college mathematics, including one V. Narasimhan, Chemistry and Physics Lecturer: *Frank Clark year of calculus, with a straight A record and who are in the top quarter of their class in LS2 208. IS THE MELTING POT BOILING OVER? general college work. DIVERSITY IN THE AMERICAN THE MATHEMATICS MAJOR: Students majoring in mathematics fulfill the departmen- WORKPLACE 3 Note regarding mathematics and science An examination of the many challenges and issues tal requirements by completing eight courses in mathematics or computer science at the 200 majors: Most frequently, prospective math- raised by the growing diversity and multiculturalism of ematics or science majors elect MA111 in the the North American workplace. The course provides level or above, to include MA200, 202, 215, fall semester and 113 in the spring semester of a brief historical introduction to the patterns of immi- 303, 319, 376, and two additional courses, at gration that affected different workplaces and offers least one of which is at the 300 level. Under their first year. Prospective mathematics or an overview of the legal structures that deal with exceptional circumstances, and only with the science majors with weak preparation in math- questions of difference in work organizations (e.g., consent of the department, MA371, 372, 381, ematics may choose to take MA105 in the fall the Equal Employment Opportunities Act). It also or 382 may be counted as the additional 300- semester followed by 111 in the spring. First- examines how organization structures and cultures level course. CS318 may not be counted year students with advanced placement who influence the reception, inclusion, and experiences of toward the major. Courses counting toward take MA113 in the fall should register for 200 different social identity groups along dimensions of the major may not be taken satisfactory/ at the same time if they plan to continue into gender, race, age, ethnicity, disability, and sexual unsatisfactory. 202 in the spring. preference. Recent workplace movements that promote and oppose greater diversity are also Students interested in learning how to use discussed. P. Prasad, Management and Business HONORS: Students wishing to qualify for departmental honors in the mathematics major computers to solve problems in the quantita- must: 1) complete all departmental require- tive disciplines should consider the courses: LS2 210. TRAVELERS AND TRAVEL LIARS IN CS102A, 103, 106, and MS104. LATIN AMERICA, 1500-1900 ments for the mathematics major and have a Examanition of the ideas and impact of European grade-point average of 3.5 or higher for all and North American travel narratives on Latin course work (MA, MC, and CS) taken in the MA 100. QUANTITATIVE REASONING 3 America and the Caribbean from the sixteenth department; 2) have a grade-point average of Study of practical arithmetic and geometry, data through early twentieth centuries. The course studies 3.0 for all course work taken at Skidmore; gathering and analysis, introductory probability and how writings by conquerors, diplomats, missionaries, 3) file with the department, by the end of the statistics, size and bias in sampling, hypothesis scientists, pirates, and others reflected and influ- official add-drop period of the spring semester testing, confidence intervals and their use in statisti- enced the creation of historical, anthropolological, of the senior year, a declaration of intention to cal analysis, linear relationships, interpolation and scientific, political, and economic knowledge in and qualify for honors; and 4) submit an honors extrapolation, correlation, linear and exponential about Latin America, Europe, and North America. thesis or project to be read by a review com- growth with practical applications. The course is J. Dym, History mittee, and give an oral presentation of the primarily intended to fulfill the first part of the quanti- tative reasoning requirement (QR1). Prerequisite: LS2 251. SPECIAL TOPICS 3 thesis or project to the department. placement by department or permission of instructor. Special Topics courses are interdisciplinary and The Department make explicit reference to the themes and issues The review committee will evaluate the thesis considered in LS1. They are typically offered on a or project to determine if it is of the exceptional one-time-only basis. quality which merits honors; the committee’s NOTE: Courses numbered MS104, MC115, 302, recommendation will be submitted to the 306, 316, and MA101 through MA382 have as a department for final adjudication. prerequisite QR1 or permission of the department.

INTERDEPARTMENTAL MAJORS: The MA 101. ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICAL department offers an economics-mathematics MODELING 3 major in cooperation with the Department of An introduction to mathematical topics applicable in Economics and a business-mathematics business, behavioral and social sciences. Finite sets major in cooperation with the Department of and counting principles, systems of linear equations, Business. See Interdepartmental Majors. matrices, linear programming, probability and statis- tics. (Fulfills QR2 requirement.) The Department THE MATHEMATICS MINOR: Students minor- ing in mathematics fulfill the departmental requirements by completing MA113 and 200 or the equivalent; MA215; MA303 or 319; and two more courses in mathematics at the 200 level or above. MC306 may be substituted as one of the elective courses.

126 MA 102. MATHEMATICS IN CONTEXT 3 MA 110. SKILLS FOR CALCULUS 1 MA 200. LINEAR ALGEBRA 4 A set of courses exploring interesting questions from Study of the algebra and geometry of elementary Vector spaces, matrices and linear transformations, a variety of disciplines with the aid of mathematics; functions used in calculus. Primarily for students who determinants, solution of linear equations. Prerequi- primarily intended for students seeking to fulfill the are concurrently enrolled in MA111 who have not had site: high school preparation including trigonometry or College’s requirement in Quantitative Reasoning adequate preparation. Prerequisites: QR1 and consent of department. Offered fall semester. (Fulfills (QR2). Courses including the following are offered placement by the department or permission of QR2 requirement.) The Department periodically depending on faculty availability. A instructor. Offered S/U only. The Department student may take more than one of these courses for GM 201. GLOBAL SECURITY IN AN AGE OF credit. MA 111. CALCULUS I 4 INVENTION 3 Derivatives, integrals and their applications. Tech- The evolution of two twentieth-century technological A. Statistical Controversies. It is often said that niques of differentiation. Integration and differentia- achievements, nuclear weapons and digital comput- one can prove anything using statistics. Indeed, the tion of exponential, logarithmic and trigonometric ing. This course explores the roles of scientists and reading of any newspaper or news magazine pre- functions. Prerequisite: high school preparation the institutions that foster these achievements, and sents one with bold statements about important including trigonometry or consent of department. examines the cooperation of scientists and policy topics (economic, political, and health issues, etc.) (Fulfills QR2 requirement.) The Department makers who convert these technologies into instru- based on statistical studies, together with strong ments of international politics and global competition. opposition to those statements – in a phrase, statisti- MA 111W. CALCULUS I 4 The course is intended to help students understand cal controversies. This course aims to study many Derivatives, integrals and their applications. Tech- the relationships between technological developments such controversies to try to understand how they niques of differentiation. Integration and differentia- and selection of policies that shape international arise, what statistics lie behind them, and how at tion of exponential, logarithmic and trigonometric affairs. Prerequisites: GO103, QR1, and one course in least some of them might be avoided by proceeding functions. Prerequisite: high school preparation computer science or laboratory science. R. DeSieno with greater care. Intended for students with little or including trigonometry or consent of department. no experience with statistics. (Fulfills QR2 requirement; meets expository writing MA 202. CALCULUS III 4 B. Modeling Epidemics. This course uses requirement for students who placed at EN105 level Multivariable calculus. Prerequisite: MA111, 113, and several mathematical techniques for modeling or who have completed EN103.) The Department 200 or consent of department. Offered spring epidemics, including differential equations and semester. The Department statistical methods. MA 113. CALCULUS II 4 Inverse trigonometric functions and hyperbolic MA 204. PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS 3 C. Serious Games: Conflict, Voting and Power. functions. Systematic study of integration. Series Elementary probability, discrete and continuous Mathematics is often applied to situations where the and Taylor series. Polar coordinates. Indeterminate random variables, theory of expectation, analysis of players (which can be individuals, teams, corpora- forms, L’Hôpital’s rule and improper integrals. Pre- distribution functions. Prerequisite: MA111 or consent tions, or entire nations) have conflicting interests. requisite: MA 111 or consent of department. (Fulfills of department. Spring 2003 and alternate years. Players attempt to determine the best course of QR 2 requirement.) The Department (Fulfills QR2 requirement.) The Department action without knowing what their opponent(s) will do. In this course, students study game theory, a field of MA 113W. CALCULUS II 4 MA 214. THEORY OF NUMBERS 3 mathematics that was developed to analyze conflict Inverse trigonometric functions and hyperbolic Topics in classical and modern number theory and competition. Game theory can be applied in a functions. Systematic study of integration. Series including congruencies, Diophantine equations, wide variety of situations, such as choosing a location and Taylor series. Polar coordinates. Indeterminate quadratic residues. Prerequisite: MA111 or 200 or to open a business or understanding tactical choices forms, L’Hôpital’s rule and improper integrals. Pre- consent of department. Spring 2002 and alternate made in the Cuban missile crisis and the Yom Kippur requisite: MA 111 or consent of department. (Fulfills years. (Fulfills QR2 requirement.) The Department war. In addition to game theory, students explore QR2 requirement; meets expository writing require- other social and political issues susceptible to math- ment for students who placed at EN105 level or who MA 215. BRIDGE TO ADVANCED ematical analysis, such as the assessment of the have completed EN103.) The Department MATHEMATICS 3 fairness of various voting schemes or the measure- An introduction to mathematical proof and to con- ment of political power. MC 115. INTRODUCTION TO DISCRETE cepts of abstract mathematics, including elementary MATHEMATICS 3 logic, methods of proof, set theory, functions, and MS 104. INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS 4 An introduction to the study of discrete (as opposed relations. Prerequisite: one mathematics course An introduction to fundamental concepts in statistical to continuous) mathematical systems. These include numbered MA113 or above, or permission of the reasoning. Students will consider contexts, both systems that are essential in computer science as instructor. Offered spring semester. The Department historical and modern, in which statistical approaches well as in more advanced mathematics courses. arose and methodologies developed. Topics consid- Mathematical reasoning and algorithms are funda- MA 225,226. PROBLEM SOLVING ered will include organization and analysis of data, mental themes of the course. Topics include logic IN MATHEMATICS 1,1 the drawing of inferences from these data, and the and sets, complexity of algorithms, computer arith- Intermediate level. Students will work collaboratively careful presentation of these inferences. Examples metic, arrays, mathematical proofs and induction, on problems posed in various undergraduate math- will be drawn from a variety of disciplines. (Fulfills elementary combinatorics, and discrete probability, ematics journals and other sources. Solutions to QR2 requirement.) The Department graphs, and trees. Prerequisite: high school prepara- journal problems will be submitted to the journal tion including intermediate algebra or consent of editors for acknowledgment and possible publication. MA 105. PRE-CALCULUS MATHEMATICS 4 department. (Fulfills QR2 requirement.) Problems are taken from all areas of specialty within Study of the real number system, elementary func- The Department mathematics. During fall semesters, students will tions and their graphs, and coordinate geometry. have an opportunity to compete in the annual William Primarily for students who intend to take calculus but MA 125,126. PROBLEM SOLVING Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. Prerequi- who have not had sufficient preparation. (Fulfills QR2 IN MATHEMATICS 1, 1 site: QR2. Offered S/U only. May be repeatef for requirement.) The Department Introductory level. Students will work collaboratively credit. The Department on problems posed in various undergraduate math- MA 107. CONCEPTS OF MATHEMATICS 3 ematics journals and other sources. Solutions to MA 270. DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS 4 An introductory course for liberal arts and education journal problems will be submitted to the journal An introduction to the theory and applications of majors or anyone seeking a general, nontechnical editors for acknowledgment and possible publication. differential equations. Prerequisite: MA113 and 200. overview of mathematics. Topics covered include Problems are taken from all areas of specialty within Offered spring semester. The Department set theory, review of number systems, geometry mathematics. During fall semesters, students will concepts, basic concerns of probability and statistics, have an opportunity to compete in the annual William and introductory number theory. (Fulfills QR2 require- Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. Prerequi- ment.) The Department site: QR1. Offered S/U only. May be repeated for credit. The Department

127 MA 276. SELECTED TOPICS IN MA 319. ALGEBRA I 4 MATHEMATICS 3 Survey of algebraic structures; groups, rings, fields, Music Topics that complement the established lower level vector spaces, and linear transformations. Prerequi- course offerings in mathematics will be selected. site: MA200 and 215 or consent of the department. Emphasis will be on the nature of mathematical Offered fall semester. The Department Chair of the Department of Music: Richard thought. May be repeated for credit. Offered on Hihn sufficient demand. The Department MA 320. ALGEBRA II 3 Selected topics in advanced algebra. Prerequisite: Professor: Charles M. Joseph MC 302. GRAPH THEORY 3 MA319 or consent of department. Spring 2002 and Associate Professors: Thomas Denny, An introduction to the theory and applications of alternate years. The Department graphs. Topics may include graphs and digraphs, Anthony Holland, Deborah Rohr, Gordon R. connectivity, trees, Euler and Hamiltonian cycles, and MA 323. REAL ANALYSIS 3 Thompson graph embeddings. Prerequisite: MC115 or MA200 or Selected topics in real analysis. Prerequisite: MA303 Artists-in-Residence: Pola Baytelman, Joel permission of instructor. Fall 2002 and alternate or consent of department. Spring 2002 and alternate Brown, Richard Hihn, John Nazarenko, Anne years. The Department years. The Department Turner, Jan Vinci MA 303. ADVANCED CALCULUS 4 MA 324. COMPLEX ANALYSIS 3 Lecturers: *Yacub Addy; *Ann Alton, *Christo- Rigorous treatment of foundational issues in analysis. Analytic functions, complex integration, complex pher Brubeck; *Veena Chandra, *Nancy Jo Topics may include set theory, the real number sequences and series, and conformal mapping. Davidsen, Charles D'Aloia, *Carol Ann Elze, system, sequences, series, limits and continuity, Prerequisite: MA303 or consent of department. *Michael Emery, *Mark Foster, *Gene Marie theory of differentiation and integration, and elemen- Spring 2003 and alternate years. The Department Green, *Elizabeth Huntley, *Eric Latini, tary notions of topology. Prerequisite: MA113 and *Patrice Malatestinic, *Susan Martula, *David 215 or consent of the department. Offered fall MA 325, 326. PROBLEM SOLVING Rives, *Rich Syracuse, *Benjamin Van Wye, semester. The Department IN MATHEMATICS 1,1 *Mark Vinci Advanced level. Students will work collaboratively on MC 306. THEORY OF COMPUTATION 3 problems posed in various undergraduate mathemat- Accompanists: * Michael Clement, Carol Ann A study of the major theoretical models of computa- ics journals and other sources. Solutions to journal Elze, *Patricia Hadfield tion. Topics include automata, nondeterminism, problems will be submitted to the journal editors for regular and context-free languages, Turing machines, acknowledgment and possible publication. Problems The Department of Music offers courses in unsolvability, computational complexity, and NP- are taken from all areas of specialty within mathemat- four areas of musical study: music technology, completeness. Prerequisite: MC115 and CS106, or ics. During fall semesters, students will have an musicology (ethnomusicology as well as music permission of instructor. The Department opportunity to compete in the annual William Lowell history and literature), performance, and Putnam Mathematical Competition. Prerequisite: theory-composition. Courses are offered to MA 309. ELEMENTS OF MODERN GEOMETRY 4 QR2. Offered S/U only. May be repeated for credit. meet the needs of music majors and minors Study of various topics in modern geometry, with The Department emphasis on the axiomatic method. Fall 2002 and and students whose concentration lies in alternate years. Prerequisite: MA113 and 215 or MA 371, 372. INDEPENDENT STUDY 3, 3 another discipline. consent of instructor. The Department Special study in mathematics outside the regular department offerings. Prerequisite: consent of depart- THE MUSIC MAJOR: Students majoring in MA 310. HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS 3 ment. The Department music receive a bachelor of arts degree. Study of the development of mathematical ideas. Students contemplating a major should consult Prerequisite: MA113 and 215 or permission of the MA 376. SEMINAR 3 as early as possible with the department chair instructor. Offered on sufficient demand. Research, discussion, and presentation of selected and with an instructor in the musical area of The Department topics at an advanced level, to provide a capstone greatest interest to formulate a course of study. experience for the mathematics major; primarily MA 311. DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY 3 intended for seniors. Prerequisites: MA303 and 319 Students majoring in music are required to An introduction to differential geometry in a classical or consent of the department. This course may be complete the following: (1) MU151, 152, 251, setting: the study of n-surfaces, embedded in Euclid- repeated for credit with permission of the department. 252, normally to be completed by the end of ean space. Offered on sufficient demand. Prerequi- The Department the sophomore year; (2) MU208 and 255; (3) site: MA200, 202, 215, or consent of the department. MA270 recommended. The Department MA 381, 382. SENIOR THESIS 3, 3 any two MU surveys chosen from: MU304, Optional for mathematics majors. Recommended for 306, 307, 309, 312, 314, 315, 316, 317, 318, MA 313. INTRODUCTION TO TOPOLOGY 3 those working toward professional careers or gradu- 320; (4) two Junior Seminars (MU344 and/or Selected topics in topology such as metric spaces, ate study in mathematics, and required for those 345); (5) MU363; (6) eight semester hours of point set topology of Euclidean spaces, introduction seeking to satisfy the criteria for departmental private musical instruction in one area of to algebraic topology. Prerequisite: MA113 and 215 honors. The Department performance (MP281, 281H, 282, 282H, 283, or consent of the department. Spring 2003 and 283H, 284, 284H); and (7) four semester hours alternate years. The Department MA 399. INTERNSHIP IN MATHEMATICS 3 or 6 of ensembles selected from course offerings Professional experience at an advanced level for listed under Skidmore Ensembles. MC 316. NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS 3 juniors and seniors with substantial academic An introduction to using computation to obtain ap- experience in mathematics. With faculty sponsorship To enroll in MU151, students must pass a proximate solutions to mathematical problems. A and departmental approval, students may extend diagnostic exam administered during the variety of algorithms are studied, as are the limita- their educational experience in pure or applied first week of the fall semester. The department tions of using computational methods. Topics include mathematics. This course may not be used to satisfy strongly urges majors to acquire keyboard algorithms for solving equations, systems, and the requirements of any major or minor in the differential equations; approximating functions and department. Prerequisites: MA200, two additional skills as early as possible in their musical integrals; curve fitting; round-off errors and conver- courses in mathematics numbered 115 or higher, and studies. Before enrolling in MU251, students gence of algorithms. Prerequisites: CS106 and permission of the department. Non-liberal arts. must demonstrate keyboard proficiency by MA111 or permission of instructor. Offered in 2001 passing a departmental exam or by success- and alternate years. The Department fully completing MP197. Students lacking the required proficiency must enroll in MP197 concurrently with MU251.

128 During the spring semester of the junior year, MU 208. MUSIC AND CULTURE 3 MU 316. MUSIC IN THE CLASSICAL AND each music major will meet with a committee An intercultural introduction to music as culture. ROMANTIC ERAS 3 of the department faculty. These interviews will Topics include voice types, instrument categoriza- A survey of the major compositional genres and consist of: (1) a comprehensive oral review of tions, pitch and time systems, musical structure, stylistic trends in Western music from 1750 to 1900. all course work completed; (2) a discussion of transcription/notation, and ethnography.Prerequisite: Prerequisite: MU152 or consent of instructor. curricular options for the senior year, including MU151 (or current enrollment in MU151) or permis- T. Denny recommended course work and possible sion of instructor. (Fulfills humanities requirement; meets expository writing requirement for students MU 317. MUSIC IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY3 independent study, composition, recital or who placed at EN105 level or who have completed Beginning with the major composers of the turn of the thesis projects. EN103.) G. Thompson century, such as Debussy, Mahler, and Ives, the course examines the important trends before 1950: HONORS: Departmental honors for senior MU 220. BRITISH ROCK AND POPULAR impressionism, neoclassicism, and twelve-tone music majors are recommended on the MUSIC IN THE 1960S 3 technique; also more recent developments in elec- basis of a distinguished academic career docu- An introduction to the musicians and musical styles of tronic, serial and “theater” music. Prerequisite: mented by department GPA (3.5 or higher for British rock and roll and pop music in the 1960s. MU152 or consent of instructor. C. Joseph all work in MP courses; 3.5 or higher for all work Subjects will include the antecedents of British rock, in MU courses), faculty recommendation, and a the social contexts in which it flourished, and the MU 318. MUSIC IN SUBSAHARAN AFRICA 3 high level of accomplishment on a department evolution of the musical styles and forms in this A survey of traditional music in SubSaharan Africa approved senior project (recital, thesis, compo- milieu. (Fulfills humanities requirement.) G. Thompson with emphasis on performance practice and the role sition, or music-technology project). of music within the society. Topics to be covered MU 304. AMERICAN MUSIC 3 include the study of families of instruments, rhythm THE MUSIC MINOR: Students are required to A survey of American music from its beginnings to its and groups, such as the women singers of the contemporary developments; includes study of the Sudan. (Designated a non-Western culture course.) complete the following: (1) MU151, 152; (2) influence of folk music, jazz, and rock upon the The Department MU208; (3) two additional MU offerings from mainstream of American musical life. (Fulfills humani- the following: MU100, 103, 106, 220, 255, 304, ties requirement.) C. Joseph MU 319. TOPICS IN MUSICOLOGY † 3 306, 309, 312, 314, 315, 316, 317, 318, 320, Selected topics and issues in musicology, to be 344, 345, and all LS II and LS III courses MU 306. HISTORY OF JAZZ IN AMERICA 3 announced when offered. Prerequisite: Consent of taught by Music Deparment faculty; (4) six A study of the evolution of jazz in America from its instructor. The Department semester hours of private musical instruction roots in various types of black folk music to its even- in one area of performance (MP281, 281H, tual emergence as an eclectic, contemporary art MU 320. POPULAR MUSIC IN THE AGE OF 282, 282H, 283, 283H); (5) three semester form. Special emphasis will be placed on the socio- ROCK AND ROLL 3 hours of ensemble selected from course offer- logical implications of jazz as a genre of serious black A selective survey and analysis of the musical forms, ings listed under Skidmore Ensembles. music. Some consideration may be given to gospel, styles, and figures associated with rock and roll in the soul, and rock music, all of which are close relatives 1950s and 1960s. Included is a discussion of the PRIVATE INSTRUCTION IN MUSICAL of jazz. Prerequisite: MU101, equivalent knowledge musical antetypes of rock and the impact and import PERFORMANCE: Private instruction in of music notation and theory, or permission of of sociocultural and technological change on the instructor. T. Denny popular music of this era. Class involves extensive instrumental or vocal performance is available listening assignments, musical analyses, and essays. to all students on an audition/interview basis MU 307. MUSIC AND SOCIETY 3 Prerequisite: MU101, equivalent knowledge of music and as studio space permits. The fee for An introduction to interdisciplinary approaches to the notation and theory, or permission of instructor. private instruction is $450 per semester for study of music including the sociology, anthropology, G. Thompson forty-five-minute lessons, $600 per semester and psychology of music. These approaches will be for one-hour lessons. Students majoring in applied in selected areas such as education, religion, MU 321. MUSIC IN EAST ASIA 3 music are exempt from these fees during their non-Western music, and popular music. (Fulfills An introduction to the traditional dramatic, court, four required semesters of private instruction. humanities requirement.) G. Thompson religious, and chamber musics of China, Korea, and Scholarship aid is available for all students; Japan with reference to the historical and cultural see the department chair for details. MU 309. MUSIC IN SOUTH ASIA 3 contexts of performance and the development of their An examination of the major musical phenomena of interrelated theory systems. Prerequisite: MU101 or the Indian subcontinent and their historical and permission of instructor. (Designated a non-Western MUSICOLOGY cultural background. Topics include Hindustani and culture course.) G. Thompson Karnatak classical musical styles, religious music, popular music, and selected regional genres. Prereq- MU 100. INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC 3 uisite: MU 101 or permission of instructor. (Desig- THEORY-COMPOSITION An introduction to concepts of musical style and nated a non-Western culture course.) G. Thompson structure in compositions representative of different MU 101. RUDIMENTS OF MUSIC 3 historical periods with an aim to deepen the musical MU 312. A HISTORY OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN An introduction to musical notation, sightsinging and listening experience. Examination of the relationship MUSIC 3 ear training, and rudimentary concepts of music of music to the humanities. Primarily for nonmajors. An examination of the role, development, and perfor- theory. Mastery of this material is a prerequisite to (Fulfills humanities requirement.) The Department mance of African-American music. Aspects of its further study in music theory (MU151), some areas of history and style are traced beginning with its African performance, and other courses. Open to students MU 103. THE SYMPHONY 3 heritage and continuing from its newly found home in with no prior musical experience. (Fulfills humanities Major symphonic works from Haydn, Mozart, and the colonial era into the contemporary period. requirement.) Non-liberal arts. The Department Beethoven to Brahms, Mahler, and composers of the The Department twentieth century. (Fulfills humanities requirement.) MU 107. AURAL SKILLS † 1 The Department MU 314. MUSIC IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND Development of ear training skills by means of RENAISSANCE 3 exercises in singing (prepared and at sight) and aural MU 106. GREAT COMPOSERS † 3 Major compositional genres and stylistic trends in analysis (including dictation). Will require extensive A course focused on the music of one or two great Western music from its beginnings through the practice outside of class and performance in class. composers. Recent offerings have included Mozart, sixteenth century. Prerequisite: MU152 or consent of Prerequisite: MU101; or completion or current Bach, Debussy and Ravel, and Schubert. (Fulfills instructor. T. Denny, D. Rohr enrollment in MU151; or permission of the instructor. humanities requirement.) T. Denny Non-liberal arts. A. Turner MU 315. MUSIC IN THE BAROQUE AND PRE- MU 205. SPECIAL STUDIES IN MUSIC 3 CLASSICAL ERAS 3 LITERATURE † The Department A survey of major compositional genres and stylistic † This course may be repeated for credit at the trends in Western music from about 1600 to 1750. discretion of the department. Prerequisite: MU152 or consent of instructor. T. Denny, C. Joseph 129 MU 151, 152. MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES MU 357, 358. COMPOSITION 3, 3 MP 375. SENIOR RECITAL 3 OF WESTERN MUSIC I 3, 3 Writing in smaller forms for various media. Prerequi- Independent study and musical preparation culminat- An exploration of fundamental compositional tech- site: MU252 or consent of instructor. A. Holland ing in a public recital, a written discussion of the niques of Western European music literature from the repertoire performed, and an oral symposium presen- Middle Ages through the Baroque, viewed within a MU 359, 360. ADVANCED COMPOSITION 3, 3 tation regarding some aspect of the recital. Includes historical context. Analytical and compositional Continuation of MU357, 358 including writing in larger weekly one-hour lessons. Approval for presenting projects utilizing the compositional techniques of forms. Prerequisite: MU357, 358 or consent of senior recitals is determined by audition, normally each stylistic period. Correlative studies in sight- instructor. A. Holland held in the semester preceding the recital before the singing and ear training. (Fulfills humanities require- department faculty. Students may not enroll concur- ment.) C. Joseph, D. Rohr MU 361. TOPICS IN RECORDING rently for MP Private Instruction. Prerequisite: ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER MU363, may be taken concurrently Lesson fee: $600. MU 251, 252. MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES MUSIC TECHNOLOGY † 3 Non-liberal arts. OF WESTERN MUSIC II 3, 3 The study and practical application of advanced An exploration of compositional techniques of music technology topics chosen at the discretion of MU 376. SENIOR PROJECT IN MUSIC Western European music literature from 1750 to the the instructor. Topics may include advanced MIDI TECHNOLOGY 3 present, viewed within an historical context. Empha- applications; recording engineering, production, and Independent project culminating in a substantial sis placed upon structural analysis of selected marketing; digital synthesis, recording, and editing; product in an appropriate medium and format, and an representative works from the Classic, Romantic, and intelligent synchronization; programming languages oral symposium presentation. Project proposal must Contemporary literature. Analytical and compositional for synthesis and studies in psychoacoustics. Course be submitted to the chair for departmental approval projects designed to further the understanding of the may be repeated for credit with the permission of the by November 15 of the senior year. Prerequisite: stylistic techniques of each period. Advanced studies department. Prerequisites: MU255, 353. Studio fee: MU363. Non-liberal arts. The Department in sightsinging and ear training. Prerequisite: Key- $35.Non-liberal arts. A. Holland board proficiency or concurrent enrollment in MU 399. PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP IN MP197. C. Joseph, D. Rohr MUSIC 3, 6, 9 SEMINARS AND INDEPENDENT PROJECTS Professional experience at an advanced level for MU 255. MUSIC TECHNOLOGY I: juniors and seniors with substantial academic and INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONIC MU 299. PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP IN cocurricular experience in the major field. With faculty MUSIC, COMPOSITION, AND MUSIC † 3 sponsorship and department approval, students may RECORDING STUDIO TECHNIQUES 3 Internship opportunity for students whose curricular extend their educational experience into such areas Introduction to basic music technology, electronic foundations and cocurricular experience have as arts administration, recording, and archival work. music, and professional recording studio techniques prepared them for professional work related to the Prerequisite: Previous study related to the area of the and equipment. Study of elementary acoustics, MIDI, major field. With faculty sponsorship and department internship experience. Permission of the supervising synthesizers, microphones, analog and digital multi- approval, students may extend their educational faculty member and approval by the department. track recording, sound mixing, and processing. experience into such areas as arts administration, Non-liberal arts. Introduction to works in various styles by established recording, and archival work. Prerequisite: Permis- electronic composers. Weekly studio/lab work. sion of the supervising faculty member and approval Prerequisites: ability to read music and QR1. (Fulfills by the department. Non-liberal arts. PERFORMANCE QR2 requirement.) Studio fee: $35. A. Holland MU 344, 345. JUNIOR SEMINAR † 3, 3 MP 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188. MU 353. MUSIC TECHNOLOGY II: ADVANCED Specialized studies in topics to be announced each CLASS STUDY OF VOICE 1, 1 ELECTRONIC MUSIC, COMPOSITION, semester. Primarily for juniors and qualified sopho- Use of the singing voice. Study and application of the AND RECORDING STUDIO mores. Prerequisite: MU152 or permission of instruc- principles and techniques of singing: breathing, tone TECHNIQUES 3 tor. (The topic “Music of North India” is designated a production, resonance and diction, pronunciation, Development of original compositions using non-Western culture course.) The Department articulation, intonation, attack of tone, legato and advanced studio techniques. Areas of study include sostenuto, flexibility, dynamics, and phrasing. advanced MIDI projects, computer algorithms for MU 363. SENIOR SEMINAR 3 Repertory chosen to illustrate different stylistic composition and sound synthesis, synthesizer Offered in the fall semester. Advanced group study periods. Students participate in a recital at the end of programming, audio (SMPTE) and video (VITC) time of a topic to be identified by the department in the the semester. (MP181 and 182 fulfill arts require- code synchronization, digital sampling, digital multi- preceding spring semester. Intensive work on indi- ment.) N. Davidsen track recording, automated digital mixing, digital vidual research, which may serve as the foundation mastering for compact disk, and audio for video. for a Senior Project or Thesis. Preliminary discussion MP 191. CLASS STUDY OF PIANO 2 Study of works in various styles by established of the self-determined research area will begin in the For students with no special background in music or electronic composers. Weekly studio/lab work. preceding spring semester. piano. Emphasis is on reading skills and develop- Prerequisite: MU255 or permission of instructor. ment of keyboard technique. Fundamental concepts Studio fee: $35. A. Holland MU 371, 372. INDEPENDENT STUDY † 3, 3 of music theory (rhythm, intervals, scales, chords, An opportunity for qualified students to pursue keys) will be included. (Fulfills arts requirement.) MU 354. ANALYSIS OF TONAL MUSIC 3 independent study, under the supervision of a mem- Non-liberal arts. C. A. Elze Development of analytical techniques relevant to ber of the department, in any field of music. Prereq- music of the tonal era. Prerequisite: MU252 or uisite: Consent of the instructor and approval of the MP 193. CLASS STUDY OF GUITAR 2 consent of instructor. C. Joseph, D. Rohr department. The Department For those with little or no guitar experience, this course is designed to prepare the student for private MU 355. ORCHESTRATION 3 MU 373. SENIOR THESIS 3 lessons. The course covers all aspects of guitar Study of the capabilities of orchestral instruments and Independent study and research culminating in an technique including scales, arpeggios, chords, and ways they may be combined. Detailed examination of extensive paper and an oral symposium presentation. right hand styles. Musicianship skills including note scores. Orchestration projects. Prerequisite: MU252 Thesis proposal must be submitted for departmental and rhythm reading will be stressed. Each student or consent of instructor. A. Holland approval by November 15 of the senior year. Prereq- must provide her or his own acoustic guitar. (Fulfills uisite: MU363. The Department arts requirement.) Non-liberal arts. J. Brown MU 356. TONAL COUNTERPOINT 3 Study of the contrapuntal style of J. S. Bach and his MU 374. SENIOR COMPOSITION PROJECT 3 contemporaries. Analysis and writing of inventions, Independent creative project culminating in one or chorale preludes, and fugues. Prerequisite: MU252 or more compositions and an oral symposium presenta- consent of instructor. C. Joseph, D. Rohr tion (with performance, if possible). Project proposal must be submitted for departmental approval by November 15 of the senior year. Prerequisite: MU363. Non-liberal arts. The Department

130 MP 195. CLASS STUDY OF JAZZ PIANO 2 MP 277, 278. VOCAL CHAMBER ENSEMBLE † 1,1 Study of jazz piano voicings, scales, and modes for A select ensemble, drawn from members of the Philosophy improvisation. Left-hand chording patterns, harmonic Skidmore College Chorus, performing a wide range structures, and accompanying scales will be empha- of repertoire from all periods, including madrigals, sized. Other areas of study will include diatonic and part-songs, choral works, and operatic ensembles. Chair of the Department of Philosophy and chromatic voice leading, phrasing and solo develop- Limited to twelve singers; open by audition only. Religion: Reginald Lilly ment, functional harmony, bass lines, and solo jazz Philosophy Faculty: piano technique. Class will read selected jazz charts MP 279, 280. WEST AFRICAN DRUM ENSEMBLE † and listen to and analyze contemporary and historical 1,1 Associate Professors: Joel R. Smith, Francisco jazz pianists. (Fulfills arts requirement.) Non-liberal An ensemble devoted to the performance of tradi- Gonzalez, Reginald Lilly arts. J. Nazarenko tional drum music from Ghana. (Fulfills arts require- ment.) Fee: $50. Non-liberal arts. Y. Addy Assistant Professor: Suma Rajiva MP 197. KEYBOARD SKILLS 1 Lecturer: William Lewis Application of fundamental theoretical concepts at the MP 285, 286. SKIDMORE GUITAR ENSEMBLE † 1, 1 keyboard. Functional skills to include control of An ensemble devoted to the performance of classical The earliest endeavors of the Western intellec- simple diatonic and chromatic chordal harmony, guitar music in combination with other instruments tual tradition were concerned with understand- independent voicing, modal and scalar patterns, and voice. Open by audition only. (Fulfills arts re- ing nature, understanding the human elementary transposition and sight-reading. Course quirement.) Non-liberal arts. J. Brown encounter with the divine, understanding materials are keyed to concepts covered in MU151 human nature, and understanding the whole— and 152. Successful completion of MP197 will satisfy MP 287, 288. SKIDMORE CHORUS † 1, 1 the cosmos —within which each of these the department’s keyboard proficiency requirement A large ensemble open to men and women singers. encounters occurred. Accordingly, philosophy for all music majors. Prerequisite: MU151 or permis- Annual tours and invitational concerts provide oppor- and religion were among the central concerns sion of instructor. P. Baytelman tunities to sing major choral works with other colleges of intellectual life, and indeed the first academy and universities. Open by audition. (Fulfills arts was a philosophical institution that brought MP 198. CLASS STUDY OF INSTRUMENTAL requirement.) Non-liberal arts. these endeavors under one ‘roof.’ Thus the PERFORMANCE 1 Department of Philosophy and Religion hark- Group instruction in instrumental performance areas, MP 289, 290. SKIDMORE ORCHESTRA † 1, 1 including jazz improvisation, not covered by MP181- One three-hour rehearsal per week. Open by audi- ens to a mission that quite literally was at the 188 or 191-197. To be announced when offered. tion. (Fulfills arts requirement.) A. Holland historical origin of the academy (indeed, of Permission of instructor required. (Fulfills arts re- Western civilization) and proves, no less today quirement.) MP 293, 294. SKIDMORE JAZZ ENSEMBLE † 1, 1 than 2,500 years ago, to be an animating One two-hour rehearsal per week. Open by audition. principle of intellectual life and culture. Today MP 281, 282, 283, 284, 381, 382, 383, 384. (Fulfills arts requirement.) M. Vinci this traditional mission has been broadened to PRIVATE MUSICAL INSTRUCTION 2, 2 include philosophy and religion as they have Individual forty-five-minute weekly instruction in MP 297, 298. CHAMBER MUSIC † 1, 1 developed in East Asia and South Asia. voice, piano, harpsichord, organ, fortepiano, guitar, Qualified students in piano, harpsichord, strings and orchestral instruments, sitar, tabla, and jazz improvi- woodwinds may participate in smaller ensembles: Given this broad mission and the inherent sation. Prospective students accepted by audition / trios, quartets, quintets, etc. Open by audition. difficulty of accomplishing it, we see the follow- interview. (Fulfills arts requirement.) The fee for forty- (Fulfills arts requirement.) M. Emery, G.M. Green, ing objectives as crucial: the development of five-minute private instruction is $450 per course. J. Vinci critical, analytical habits of mind in our stu- dents through the close reading of major works MP 281H, 282H, 283H, 284H, 381H, 382H, 383H, 384H. in the history of philosophical and religious PRIVATE MUSICAL INSTRUCTION 2, 2 thought and contemporary reflections upon Individual sixty-minute weekly instruction in voice, them; the development of communicative piano, harpsichord, organ, fortepiano, guitar, orches- skills—both oral and written—that produce the tral instruments, sitar, tabla, and jazz improvisation. self-confidence to engage in sustained exami- At least one semester of sixty-minute lessons is nation of difficult ideas, through classroom required for any student preparing a full recital. engagement in discussion and extensive Prospective students accepted by audition /interview. writing assignments, whether through essay (Fulfills arts requirement.) The fee for sixty-minute examinations, response papers, journals, term private instruction is $600 per course. papers, extensive research papers, or senior theses; the development of a sense of con- MP 385. CONDUCTING 3 text—historical and conceptual—that saves Basic techniques of orchestral and choral conducting. critical analysis from becoming historically Prerequisite: MU 152. A. Holland irrelevant or idle logic-chopping, through the requirement that all courses be grounded in SKIDMORE ENSEMBLES and make ready reference to the historical intellectual concerns of the two disciplines; the MP 273. OPERA/MUSICAL THEATER development of the capacity to synthesize WORKSHOP † 1 ideas and to create new wholes in response to A course/performing ensemble designed to equip singers new (and/or renewed) intellectual concerns with acting and movement skills for the stage. Classes through assignments that engage students and rehearsals will culminate in public performance of where they are in their own lives, while recog- scenes or complete works from the opera/musical theater nizing that this entails sharing the responsibil- repertoire. Open by audition and interview only. (Fulfills ity for the choice of those assignments with the arts requirement.) Non-liberal arts. A. Turner students themselves as epitomized in the Senior Thesis course; and the development in MP 275, 276. SMALL JAZZ ENSEMBLE † 1,1 each student of a critical appreciation of her or Jazz improvisation and performance in a small combo his own intellectual growth through the building setting. Open by audition. (Fulfills arts requirement.) Non- of a portfolio of essays and term and research liberal arts. J. Nazarenko papers written under the direction of the de- partment faculty and accumulated from the moment of declaration of the major through the † This course may be repeated for credit at the senior capstone experience. discretion of the department. 131 THE PHILOSOPHY MAJOR: Minimal require- PH 204. HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY: PH 306. NINETEENTH-CENTURY ments for a major in philosophy are the gen- EARLY MODERN 3 CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY 4 eral College requirements, plus nine courses A study of the ideological foundations of the modern An examination of the philosophy of G. W. F. Hegel in philosophy, including PH203, 204, either world as developed in the period from the Renais- and a selected number of nineteenth-century re- 206 or 207, 329, 375, and PR200. The remain- sance through Kant. Discussion will concentrate on sponses to his legacy, such as Schopenhauer, Marx, metaphysics and epistemology, covering such topics Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche. Prerequisite: PH204 or ing three courses must be chosen from 300- as the debates between dualism and materialism and permission of instructor. R. Lilly level philosophy offerings (PH or PR). At least between rationalism and empiricism. Will include five of the total courses for the major must be readings from such philosophers as Hobbes, PH 307. TWENTIETH-CENTURY at the 300 level, with at least two at the 300 Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY 4 level taken in the senior year. Courses must and Kant. (Fulfills humanities requirement.) An examination of a selected number of twentieth- total at least thirty credit hours. F. Gonzalez, S. Rajiva century reponses to Hegel. Representative thinkers include Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, Lyotard, INTERDEPARTMENTAL MAJORS: In PH 206. CRITICAL REASONING 3 and Foucault. Prerequisite: PH204 or permission of conjunction with the relevant departments, the An introduction to the principles and methods of instructor. R. Lilly Department of Philosophy and Religion offers informal logic including the study of fallacies, induc- majors in biology-philosophy, economics- tive forms of reasoning, syllogistic logic, and critical PH 311. EXISTENTIAL PHILOSOPHY 4 philosophy, English-philosophy, government- writing. Emphasis will be placed on learning these A study of the central concepts of existential philoso- philosophy, and history-philosophy. See skills and techniques through practical application to phy as found in the writings of such thinkers as Interdepartmental Majors. everyday issues. The Department Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Camus, and Marcel. Concepts such as freedom, facticity, dread, nothing- PH 207. LOGIC 4 ness, the absurd, being-for-itself, being-in-itself will HONORS: Majors are encouraged to write a A study of the principles and methods of modern be examined. Prerequisite: PH204 or permission of thesis in the second semester of their senior logic for determining the validity and invalidity of instructor. Offered alternate years. J. Smith year. A grade of A- or better on such a thesis arguments and a discussion of the philosophical is required for departmental honors. basis and use of those principles. (Fulfills QR2 PH 314. PHILOSOPHY OF LAW 3 requirement.) The Department Analysis and discussion of various topics and ap- Courses in religion are offered in the Depart- proaches to the philosophy of law or jurisprudence. ment of Philosophy and Religion as electives PH 210. AESTHETICS 3 Readings may be chosen from classic philosophers for the entire student body and may count A study of the aesthetic dimension of life in relation to as well as from modern legal positivists and realists. toward a major in religious studies but may not the artist, the art object, the audience, and human Prerequisite: junior or senior standing or permission be counted toward a philosophy major. experience in general. Several important and diverse of instructor. Offered alternate years.The Department theories of the aesthetic will be analyzed, discussed, THE PHILOSOPHY MINOR: Requirements for and used in examining examples of art. Prerequisite: PR 324. PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION 4 a minor in philosophy are PH203, 204, and one course in philosophy, or a course in one of the An investigation of the fundamental paradoxes of arts, or permission of the instructor. (Fulfills humani- religious belief. Questions to be considered will PR200, plus three additional courses in phi- ties requirement.) The Department include the arguments for the existence of God, the losophy at least two of which must be at the problem of suffering and evil, the nature of mystical 300 level. The philosphy minor must total at PH 215. BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY 3 knowledge, and the rise of modern religious skepti- least eighteen credit hours. An introduction to selected themes, schools, and cism. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy or thinkers of the Buddhist philosophical tradition in religion or permission of instructor. Offered alternate PH 103. INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY 4 India, Tibet, China, and Japan. Buddhist metaphysics years. J. Smith A study of some of the basic questions of philosophy and ethics are examined with reference to the nature such as: the nature of the self and one's relation to of reality and the person, causality and action, PR 325. JAPANESE RELIGIOUS others, the value and meaning of existence, the wisdom and compassion, emptiness and nihilism. PHILOSOPHIES 4 status and extent of knowledge, and the nature of Comparisons are made to Western philosophers, A study of selected classical and contemporary reality. Selections from both classical and contempo- especially regarding the Buddhist critique of sub- Japanese thinkers who see philosophy as intertwined rary authors are read and discussed. Open to first- stance and the Buddhist ideal of compassionate with religious praxis. Emphasis will be on Buddhist and second-year students only. (Fulfills humanities openness to the world. Offered alternate years. thinkers such as Kukai, Dogen, Shinran, and Nishi- requirement.) The Department (Designated a non-Western culture course.) J. Smith tani. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy or religion or permission of instructor. Offered alternate years. PR 200. RESEARCH METHODS 1 PH 230. TOPICS IN PHILOSOPHY 3 (Designated a non-Western culture course.) J. Smith Introduction to research methods in philosophy and The study of a selected topic in philosophy. Course religious studies. Topics will include identifying and may be repeated with permission of the department. PR 326. TIBETAN BUDDHISM 4 focusing a research topic, conducting library re- (Fulfills humanities requirement.) The Department A study of selected classical and contemporary search, using correct scholarly form, and maintaining Tibetan thinkers who see philosophy as intertwined academic integrity. Required for majors and minors in PH 303. ETHICS 4 with religious praxis. The course focuses on the philosophy and religious studies; open to others by A critical examination of the nature and principles of Vaj-rayana form of Mahayana Buddhism that is the permission of the instructor. The Department some of the major ethical theories proposed in the central element in the culture of Tibet, as well as its history of Western thought. Theories studied may Mahayana Buddhist background in India. Emphasis PH 203. HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY: GREEK include virtue ethics, natural law, deontological is on the central ideas of wisdom, compassion, PHILOSOPHY 3 ethics, social contract, and utilitarianism. The course emptiness, dependent arising, and the two truths in A basic grounding in the history of Western philoso- may also include some consideration of the applica- such thinkers as the Prajhaparamita, Nagarjuna, phy through reading and discussion of selected tion of the theories studied to selected contemporary Candrakirti, and the Dalai Lama. Prerequisite: one works of Plato and Aristotle. (Fulfills humanities moral issues. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy course in philosophy or religion or permission of requirement.) F. Gonzalez or permission of instructor. Offered alternate years. instructor. Offered alternate years. (Designated a The Department non-Western culture course.) J. Smith

PH 304. SOCIAL-POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 4 A study of the nature of political community and of social institutions. Topics to be discussed include the nature and purposes of political community, the relation of ethics to political life and social institutions, the notions of equality, liberty, power, and justice, and the nature of rights. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy or permission of instructor. Offered alternate years. The Department 132 PH 327. GREAT PHILOSOPHERS 4 PY 107. LIGHT AND COLOR 4 A course in depth in the philosophy of a single great Physics This course traces the evolution of our understanding philosopher: of light and color from the earliest recorded ideas to A. Plato N. Sartre the present. It will emphasize the crucial roles of B. Aristotle O. William James Chair of the Department of Chemistry and experimentation and mathematical modeling in the C. Aquinas P. Wittgenstein Physics: Raymond J. Giguere creation and refinement of the contemporary theory D. Descartes Q. Merleau-Ponty Physics Faculty: of light, and will give students the opportunity to E. Locke R. Nietzsche observe and to experiment with many of the impor- F. Hume S. Spinoza Associate Professors: David Atkatz, William J. tant properties of light and color. The course will also H. Hegel T. Leibniz Standish give students a sense of the importance of light as a I Marx U. Shankara technological tool in the modern world. Three hours Assistant Professor: Mary Crone, Charles J. Kierkegaard V. Nargarjuna of lecture, two hours of lab a week. This course may K. Whitehead W. Nishitani Lubin Family Professor for Women in Science not be applied toward the major in physics.(Fulfills L. Heidegger X. Levinas Visiting Assistant Professor: Gerardo Rodriguez natural sciences requirement.) W. Standish M. Dewey Y. Husserl Teaching Associate: Jill A. Linz PY 108. SOUND AND MUSIC 3 Course may be repeated with a different philosopher. The physical principles of sound—how it is produced, Prerequisite: PH203 or permission of instructor. THE PHYSICS MAJOR: Students majoring in propagated, and perceived. Illumination of principles The Department physics are required to: will emphasize examples from music. Mechanisms PH 328. METAPHYSICS 4 used to produce different types of musical sounds will A study of the most fundamental concepts of being 1. Fulfill the general College requirements. be discussed as well as the physical principles be- as developed in several major philosophers from the 2. Complete the following: hind the reproduction of music in its many forms such Greeks to the present. Discussion will focus on such as radio, tape recorders, and CD players. (Fulfills topics as God, time, space, substance, essence, a. a minimum of ten courses in physics includ- QR2 requirement.) J. Linz existence, process, causality, and value. Prerequi- ing PY207, 208, 210, 341, 345, 346, 348, 373 site: PH204 or permission of instructor. or 374, and two additional courses from PY 109. SOUND AND MUSIC WITH LAB 4 R. Lilly, F. Gonzalez among PY211, 212, 213, 351, 352 or 399. The physical principles of sound—how it is produced, propagated, and perceived. Illumination of principles PH 329. SEMINAR IN KANT 4 b. MA111, 113, 200, 202, and 270. will emphasize examples from music. Mechanisms A study of Immanuael Kant, the pivotal thinker of used to produce different types of musical sounds will modern Western philosophy. Kant offers a critique Students planning to pursue graduate work be discussed as well as the physical principles and synthesis of the preceding rationalist (Descartes, should also take a two-course sequence in behind the reproduction of music in its many forms Leibniz, Spinoza) and empiricist (Locke, Berkeley, another lab science. such as radio, tape recorders, and CD players. The Hume) traditions and sets the agenda for nineteenth- laboratory component will include measurement of and twentieth-century philosophers, all of whom For a physics major combined with an engi- the speed of sound, frequency analysis of musical respond to his critique of theoretical and practical neering program, see Preparation for Profes- instruments, and sound recording. (Fulfills QR2 and reason in one way or another. Prerequisite: PH 204 sions: Engineering for additional requirements. natural sciences requirements.) J. Linz or permission of instructor. S. Rajiva PY 192. PRINCIPLES OF ASTRONOMY 3 PH 330. ADVANCED TOPICS IN PHILOSOPHY 4 THE PHYSICS MINOR: Students minoring in An introduction to planets, stars, galaxies, and The study of a selected topic in philosophy. physics are required to complete six courses: evolution of the universe. This course also introduces A. American Philosophy PY207, 208, 210, and three elective courses in astronomical methods, from simple stargazing to B. Philosophy of Language physics, two of which are at the 300 level. modern telescopic techniques. Prerequisite: QR1. C. Freedom and Necessity These electives must be approved by the (Fulfills QR2 requirement.) M. Crone D. Feminist Philosophy student’s physics advisor before they can be E. Philosophy of Literature (The Philosophy and applied toward the minor. PY 194. PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF Religion Department will accept EN361 as the ASTRONOMY 4 equivalent of PH330E.) PY 103. ORIGINS OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS 4 Supplements the lectures of PY192 with telescopic Course may be repeated with a different topic. Designed for the nonscience student. This course observations, laboratory experiments, and analysis of Prerequisite: one course in philosophy or permission presents the development of physics up to the other astronomical data. Three hours of lecture, two of instructor. R. Lilly beginning of the twentieth century. Topics include hours of lab a week. Prerequisite: QR1. (Fulfills QR2 gravity and motion, matter and energy, sound and and natural sciences requirements.) M. Crone PH 371, 372. INDEPENDENT STUDY 3, 3 light. Three hours of lecture, two hours of lab a week. A reading course in an area or a philosopher not Prerequisite: QR1. (Fulfills QR2 and natural sciences PY 207. GENERAL PHYSICS I 4 available in this depth in other courses. Prerequisite: requirements.) M. Crone, J. linz A calculus-based introduction to the concepts and permission of department. The Department principles of mechanics, emphasizing translational PY 105. BREAKTHROUGHS IN MODERN and rotational kinematics and dynamics, work and PH 375. SENIOR SEMINAR 4 PHYSICS 3 energy, conservation laws, and gravitation. Hands-on A close study of comparative overviews of the sever- Designed for the nonscience student. This course exploration of physical systems using computer- ally different modes, methods, and systems of presents the development of modern physics starting interfaced laboratory equipment and spreadsheet philosophy possible. Offered each spring. from the beginning of the twentieth century. Topics modeling techniques are used to elucidate physical The Department include atomic and nuclear physics, relativity, quan- principles. Prerequisite: QR1. Corequisite: MA111. tum mechanics, and superconductivity. Prerequisite: Six hours of lecture, guided activities, laboratory PH 376. SENIOR THESIS 3 QR1. (Fulfills QR2 requirement.) M. Crone experiments and problem solving a week. (Fulfills Individual conferences with senior majors in the QR2 and natural sciences requirements.) areas of their research projects. The Department PY 106. BREAKTHROUGHS IN MODERN The Department PHYSICS WITH LAB 4 Designed for the nonscience student. This course PY 208. GENERAL PHYSICS II 4 presents the development of modern physics starting A continuation of PY207 into the areas of oscillations, from the beginning of the twentieth century. Topics electricity, and magnetism. Prerequisite: PY207. include atomic and nuclear physics, relativity, quan- Corequisite: MA113. Six hours of lecture, guided tum mechanics, and superconductivity. Three hours activities, laboratory experiments, and problem of lecture, two hours of lab a week. Prerequisite: solving a week. The Department QR1. (Fulfills QR2 and natural sciences require- ments.) M. Crone

133 PY 210. FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN PY 341. ADVANCED THEORY AND METHODS PHYSICS 4 IN PHYSICS RESEARCH 4 Psychology The significant historical discoveries leading to the A series of experiences involving the lab and development of atomic theory and quantum mechan- mathematical techniques used by practicing physi- ics. Topics include discovery of the electron, black- cists. Areas covered will include familiarization with Chair of the Department of Psychology: Mary body radiation, the photoelectric and Compton information resources, methods of measurement, Anne Foley effects, spectra, the Rutherford-Bohr atom, deBroglie data recording and analysis, instrumentation and Professors: Robert M. Oswalt Joan Delahanty waves, and Schrödinger’s equation. Three hours of mathematical techniques in theoretical physics lecture, two hours of lab a week. Prerequisite: research. Two hours of lecture, four hours of lab a Douglas, Sheldon Solomon, *John J. Berman, PY208. The Department week. Prerequisite: PY210. D. Atkatz, W. Standish Hugh Foley Visiting Professor: Virginia Murphy-Berman PY 211. THERMAL AND STATISTICAL PY 345. MECHANICS 4 PHYSICS 3 Classical mechanics at the advanced level. Emphasis Associate Professor: Holley Hodgins A study of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics is placed on the mathematical formulation of physical Assistant Professors: Patricia M. Colby, Denise (both classical and quantum), and kinetic theory from problems and on the physical interpretation of the L. Evert, Grant Gutheil, Flip Phillips, Gregory A. a modern perspective. Using statistical concepts and mathematical solutions. Topics include Newton’s Goodwin stressing the microscopic point of view, the relation- laws of motion, gravitation, kinematics and dynamics ships among pressure, volume and temperature of of a particle and of systems of particles, rigid-body Visiting Assistant Professors: Amy Jo systems are discussed, as well as the transfer of motion, introduction to generalized coordinates, and Stavnezer, Cay Anderson-Hanley, Jennifer energy among thermal systems. Prerequisite: PY210. Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics. Three hours Mistretta Hampston Offered in spring 2000 and every third year there- of lecture, one hour of discussion a week. Pre- after. The Department requisites: PY210, MA270. The Department Lecturers: *Christopher J. Anderson, *Wallace Brent Bzdell PY 212. OPTICS 4 PY 346. ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM 4 A survey of geometrical, physical, and quantum A study of the theory of classical electromagnetism. The mission of the psychology major is to optics. Topics include reflection and refraction of light Topics include electrostatics, boundary-value provide students with a foundation of con- by plane and spherical surfaces, ray tracing, interfer- problems, dielectrics and conductors, steady cur- cepts, issues, discoveries, and methodologies ence, Fraunhofer and Fresnel diffraction, the electro- rents, magnetostatics, magnetic materials, electro- for the scientific study of psychological pro- magnetic character of light, polarization, absorption, magnetic induction, Maxwell’s equations and their cesses. In part, this foundation is achieved by scattering and dispersion of light, photons, lasers, solutions. Three hours of lecture, one hour of discus- exploring a number of perspectives within the magneto-optics and electro-optics. Prerequisite: sion a week. Prerequisites: PY208. Co-requisite: field including biopsychological, perceptual, PY210. Three hours of lecture, two hours of lab a MA270 W. Standish cognitive, developmental, social, and clinical week. Offered in spring 2001 and every third year phenomena. Faculty expect that Skidmore thereafter. The Department PY 348. QUANTUM MECHANICS 4 psychology majors will acquire basic knowl- The basic postulates of quantum mechanics and their PY 213. ELECTRONICS 3 meaning, Schrödinger’s equation and its solutions for edge about several areas and gain quantitative An introduction to solid-state electronics. Discrete finite and infinite square well and spherical well and research skills necessary to make in- circuit elements and integrated circuits are discussed potentials, the harmonic oscillator, and the hydrogen formed judgments about psychological re- and employed in both digital and analog applications. atom. The structure and behavior of simple molecu- search. In addition, students will learn to Circuit analysis, amplifiers, signal processing, logical lar, atomic, and nuclear systems are studied . Three evaluate, integrate, and think critically about networks, and practical instrumentation are studied. hours of lecture, one hour of discussion a week. theoretical and applied issues and to commu- Prerequisite: PY210. Six hours of lab a week. Offered Prerequisites: PY210, MA270. D. Atkatz nicate their knowledge of psychology effec- in spring 2002 and every third year thereafter. tively through written and oral forms. Thus, The Department PY 351, 352. ADVANCED TOPICS IN PHYSICS 3, 3 students are encouraged to take writing- A variety of physics topics at the advanced level. intensive courses as preparation for the major. PY 221H. GALAXIES AND COSMOLOGY 3 Possible options include biophysics, condensed- An overview of large-scale structure and modern matter physics, nuclear and particle physics, and Faculty encourage students to distinguish cosmological models, from nearby galaxies to the advanced quantum mechanics. The selection of a between the minimum requirements for a entire observable universe. Topics include galaxy particular topic will be adjusted to student interest major in psychology and the preparation nec- surveys, quasars, dark matter, and the early and background. Prerequisite: PY210 and permission universe. Prerequisite: PY192 or PY194. This is an of the department. The Department essary for graduate study in psychology. honors course. (Fulfills QR2 requirement.) M. Crone Those students who plan to pursue graduate PY 373, 374. SENIOR RESEARCH IN work in psychology should also consider PY 251, 252 SPECIAL TOPICS IN PHYSICS 3 PHYSICS 3, 3 choosing to complete a significant laboratory A variety of topics at the intermediate level, available An opportunity for qualified seniors to pursue re- experience in addition to PS306. Several to students with an interest in physics. Some search in physics under the supervision of a member opportunities for this lab experience are avail- examples of topics are: exploring the universe, of the department. Prerequisite: PY341 and permis- able to majors including advanced lab courses astronomy beyond the Milky Way, atomic and mo- sion of the department. (e.g., PS304, 320), advanced statistics lecular physics, and particle physics. Specific choice (PS318), independent study, or a summer of topics will depend on student interest and back- PY 399. PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP IN collaborative research experience. A course in ground. Prerequisite: prior physics course and PHYSICS 3 or 6 mathematics or computer programming might permission of the department. The Department Professional experience at an advanced level for be particularly helpful. juniors and seniors with substantial academic and PY 299. PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP IN cocurricular experience in physics. With faculty PHYSICS 3 sponsorship and department approval, students may Internship opportunity for students whose curricular extend their educational experience into such areas foundations and cocurricular experience have pre- as physics research, environmental or material pared them for professional work related to the major science, or electrical engineering. Only three semes- field. With faculty sponsorship and department ter hours may count toward the major or minor in approval, students may extend their educational physics. Prerequisite: PY210 experience into such areas as physics research, environmental and material science, or electrical engineering. Prerequisites: PY207, 208.

134 THE PSYCHOLOGY MAJOR: To complete a PS 101. INTRODUCTION TO GENERAL PS 217. STATISTICAL METHODS IN major, students must take a minimum of thirty PSYCHOLOGY 3 PSYCHOLOGY I 4 credits in psychology. Only three of these An introduction to the science of psychology through A survey of methods used to describe, correlate, and courses may be taken at another institution. a survey of theories, methods, facts, and principles of make inferences about frequency distributions, Included among the thirty credits are the behavior. Open to first-year students. The Department including the use of binomial distribution, normal following required ones: PS101, 217, 306, and distribution, t-distribution, chi-square, sign tests, and at least ten credits from three different clusters NS 101. NEUROSCIENCE: the analysis of variance. Three hours of lecture, two listed below: MIND AND BEHAVIOR 4 hours of lab a week. Prerequisite: PS101 or consent An interdisciplinary examination of the neurobiologi- of instructor. J. Douglas, H. Foley, F. Phillips 1. Biopsychology: NS101, PS231 cal bases of behavior and mental processing. Topics 2. Social—Developmental Psychology: include the structure and functioning of the nervous PS 222. PSYCHOANALYSIS AND SIGMUND system, brain-behavior relationships, and hormonal PS205, 207 FREUD 3 and genetic effects on behavior and mental process- An introduction to Sigmund Freud and his theory of 3. Perceptual—Cognitive Processes: PS305, ing. Laboratories develop students’ understanding of personality psychoanalysis. The course will examine 324, 325 functional neuroanatomy, neural transmission, and cultural, social, and intellectual antecedents; entail 4. Personality—Abnormal Psychology: human psychophysiology. (Fulfills natural sciences readings by and about Sigmund Freud; and explore requirement). Psychology and/or Biology Faculty PS210, 211, 308 ways in which Freud’s ideas have had a profound influence on other disciplines. Prerequisite: PS101 or Of the thirty credits presented toward the PS 204. EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY 3 consent of the instructor. R. Oswalt major, these credits should include at least The application of psychological principles to problems four courses at the 300 level. of student learning, student achievement, teaching PS 231. NEUROPSYCHOLOGY 3 methods, and educational assessment. Prerequi- An introduction to the relationship between the brain Only one regular semester course taken on a site: PS101 or consent of instructor. G. Gutheil and mind through the assessment of human patients satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis may count (and animals) with brain damage. This focus will toward the major. None of the required PS 205. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 4 show how scientists are better able to understand courses or any 300-level psychology course, A survey of theory and research on the nature and components of the mind (i.e., processes related to causes of individual behavior (thoughts, feelings, except PS399, may be taken by majors on a attention, perception, cognition, personality, emotion, actions) in social situations. Prerequisite: PS101. memory, language, consciousness) and behavior, S/U basis. H. Hodgins, S. Solomon, P. Colby and how this information can be used to refine theories of psychological functioning. A case-study The grade-point average for the thirty credits PS 207. INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN approach of humans with brain damage will be presented toward the major must meet the DEVELOPMENT 4 adopted in this course. Prerequisite: PS101. D. Evert minimum requirement of 2.0. Of these credits, Theories and research evidence as well as method- only one course may have been completed ological problems will be re viewed as they relate to NS 277. INTEGRATIVE SEMINAR IN with a grade of D. physical, psychological, and social development of NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH 1 the individual from birth through adolescence. A study of selected areas of neuroscience research INTERDEPARTMENTAL MAJORS: In Prerequisite: PS101 or consent of instructor. and techniques. Both primary source articles and first conjunction with the relevant departments, J. Douglas, G. Gutheil person accounts by faculty in the Biology and Psy- the Psychology Department offers majors in chology departments are used to introduce the biology-psychology and psychology-sociology. PS 210. PERSONALITY 4 theoretical and practical aspects of neuroscience See Interdepartmental Majors. Considers major theories of personality to gain an research. Emphasis will be placed on understanding understanding of how genetic and environmental the multiple levels (e.g. molecular to behavioral) at factors interact to influence human behavior. Prereq- which research topics in neuroscience can be ad- HONORS: To be eligible for departmental uisite: PS101. S. Solomon, P. Colby dressed and also the ways in which research tech- honors in psychology, a student must meet the niques define the types of questions that can be requisite grade point average, complete a PS 211. APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY 3 asked at a given level of analysis. Prerequisites: research project in Senior Research Project I The application of the principles of psychology to NS101 and at least two of the following: BI233, 236, and II or a major paper in Senior Seminar, and individual and social problems in such areas as CH105, PS217, 306, or 304. be recommended for departmental honors by business and industry, law, health, the environment Psychology and/or Biology Faculty the department. and consumer behavior. Prerequisite: PS101. The Department PS 302. ADULT DEVELOPMENT 4 PSI CHI: Psi Chi is the national honor Psychological aspects of human growth and function society in psychology, founded in 1929 for PS 212. THEMES IN CONTEMPORARY from maturity to senescence, with consideration of the purpose of encouraging scholarship and PSYCHOLOGY 3 research procedures and problems as well as recent advancing the science of psychology. Eligibility Introductory exploration of selected themes in findings and relevant theory. A field project is re- requirements include major interest in psychol- contemporary psychology with special attention to quired. Prerequisites: PS207 and 217, or permission major trends of theoretical interest and research ogy, completion of at least four psychology of instructor. J. Douglas activity. Such themes might include decision-making, courses, a grade-point average of 3.5 or narratives in psychology, health psychology, environ- PS 304. PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY 4 higher in psychology, and a grade-point aver- mental psychology. (This course may be repeated for The study of physiological structures of the central age of 3.3 in all college courses. credit with focus on a different theme.) Prerequisite: nervous system, muscles, and glands in humans PS101. The Department and animals with emphasis on the use of animal There is no formal program for a minor in models to understand human psychopathologies psychology. Those interested in taking some PS 213. HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR 4 such as anxiety, depression, and drug addiction. psychology courses without actually complet- An introduction to the study of how hormones coordi- Laboratory sessions are used to test various animal ing a major are encouraged to select a set of nate the behavioral and physiological components of models of psychopathology to better understand their courses relevant to their needs. Members of important psychological processes like reproduction, validity and limitations. Three hours of lecture, two the department are happy to assist in this defense, aggression, learning, and emotions. A hours of lab per week. Prerequisites: NS101 and selection process. comparative approach (cross-species) is used to PS306. G. Goodwin explore the endocrine system and many of the effects of hormones on both the body and the brain. When- ever possible, research findings in humans are integrated into the discussion. To help illustrate hormone/behavior relationships, several in-class experiments are conducted using both animal and human subjects. Prerequisite: PS101 G. Goodwin 135 PS 305. COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT 4 PS 320. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY PS 375. SENIOR RESEARCH PROJECT I 3 The systematic study of the development of intellec- INVESTIGATONS OF THE SELF 4 Students will work with an individual faculty member tual capacities in the child. Current theories and This course offers an opportunity to acquire hands-on to develop a major research project. This develop- research relevant to the child’s development and use research experience and experimental skills in a ment will include definition of topic, review of the of symbolic, mediational, and linguistic processes will small laboratory group. Students will read journal scientific literature, the learning of any necessary be surveyed. Prerequisites: PS101 and 207, or articles on selected topics in social psychology, research techniques, execution of any necessary consent of instructor. G. Gutheil design a study, collect data, and use a computer data preliminary research, and submission of a written analytic statistical package to analyze their data. proposal to the faculty supervisor. Each student will PS 306. EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY 4 Three hours of lecture and two hours of lab a week. make an oral presentation of the proposal to other A theoretical and empirical introduction to psychology Prerequisite: PS217, or consent of instructor. senior thesis students. Prerequisites: PS306 and as a natural science. Emphasis will be on the basic H. Hodgins consent of instructor. phenomena in physiological psychology, cognition, perception, and social psychology and the principal PS 321. MOTIVATION AND EMOTION 3 PS 376. SENIOR RESEARCH PROJECT II 3 experimental paradigms employed in their investiga- An examination of the principal constructs employed Students will work with an individual faculty member tion. Three hours of lecture, three hours of lab a in theories of motivation and emotion. The current to complete the major research project developed in week. Prerequisites: QR1, PS101, 217. (Fulfills QR2 status of both biologically based and psychologically Senior Research Project I. A final project will be and natural sciences requirements.) H. Foley, based theories will be reviewed. Prerequisites: submitted in thesis form to the faculty supervisor at M. Foley, F. Phillips PS101 and 306 or consent of instructor. H. Hodgins least two weeks before the end of the term. Prereq- uisite: PS375. May not be taken concurrently with PS 307. ADVANCED PERSONALITY 3 PS 323. PSYCHOLINGUISTICS 4 PS378. Senior Research Project II may be used to A detailed examination of factors that influence An examination of the acquisition of language in the fulfill the thesis requirement for departmental honors personality development. Attention is devoted toward light of milestones in sensorimotor and cognitive in psychology. understanding how different aspects of human development. The relationship of language to thought personality can account for the development of will be of central concern. Also covered will be PS 378. SENIOR SEMINAR 3 various social institutions. The development and bilingualism and disturbances of linguistic develop- Students work with course instructor to complete a evaluation of hypotheses to understand personality ment. Prerequisite: PS101. J. Devine major, written project. The project can be a synthe- processes, and strategies to induce change are also sis of the literature in a particular topic area of considered. Prerequisites: PS210 and 306. PS 324. COGNITION 3 psychology, or an original theoretical formulation. S. Solomon, P. Colby The study of the way in which people acquire and The final project should demonstrate a conceptual use information in a variety of circumstances. Topics integration of the material, and should demonstrate PS 308. ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY 3 include attention, pattern recognition, language, both originality and independence of work. In An introduction to the history and study of abnormal memory, skill acquisition, problem solving, decision addition to the written project, each student will behavior including neurosis, psychosis, character making, and artificial intelligence. Prerequisite: make an oral presentation summarizing the project. disorders, addiction, sexual dysfunction, mental PS101 . M. Foley The written version of the project will be submitted retardation, brain damage, psychological assess- at least two weeks before the end of the spring ment, and psychotherapy. Prerequisite: PS 101 or PS 325. PERCEPTION 4 semester. Prerequisite: PS306. This course may be consent of instructor. R. Oswalt The study of the way in which people use sensory used to fulfill the thesis requirement for departmen- input to identify and interpret information in the world. tal honors in psychology. May not be taken concur- PS 312. ADVANCED SEMINAR IN MAJOR The course will examine contributions of sensory, rently with PS376. ISSUES OF PSYCHOLOGY 3 neural, and cognitive factors to perceptual experi- A critical examination of fundamental areas of contro- ence. Discussions will cover general perceptual PS 399. PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP IN versy in current theories, research findings, and principles, but will emphasize visual and auditory PSYCHOLOGY 3 applications of psychology. Such topics might include processes. Three hours of lecture, two hours of lab a Professional experience at the advanced level for consciousness, autobiographical memory, or nonver- week. Prerequisite: PS101. H. Foley, F. Phillips juniors and seniors. This experience may include bal behavior. (This course may be repeated for credit work-study projects in one of several professional with focus on a different issue.) Prerequisites: three PS 326. HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY 3 settings, including mental hospitals, nursing homes, courses in psychology and consent of instructor. A study of the relationships between psychological schools, developmental centers, advertising agen- A. Infant Development G. Gutheil 4 factors and well-being using biopsychosocial per- cies, laboratories, and communication agencies. spectives. This multidisciplinary approach integrates Requires faculty sponsorship and department PS 315. CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY 3 knowledge from physiology, psychobiology, personal- approval. Prerequisites: five courses in psychology An introduction to the history and methods of clinical ity, social psychology, and sociology to understand (specified by the faculty according to the nature of diagnosis and treatment of abnormal behavior health, illness, and well-being. The primary objective the internship). Must be taken S/U. including Freudian psychoanalysis, client centered of this course is to familiarize students with the therapy, group psychotherapy, and behavior modifi- conceptual basis, research methods, and research cation. Prerequisite: PS308. R. Oswalt findings in the field of health psychology. Pre- requisites: PS101 and 217. P. Colby PS 317. PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING 3 An introduction to the history, theory, administration PS 331. PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN 3 and interpretation of psychological tests, including Examination and analysis of a number of important tests of intelligence, achievement, interests and ideas regarding women’s psychological experience. personality. Prerequisite: PS101 or consent of Topics to be studied include theories of female instructor. R. Oswalt development, self-concept, sexuality, psychological disorders, violence against women, and mother- PS 318. STATISTICAL METHODS IN daughter relationships. Prerequisite: PS207. PSYCHOLOGY II 4 J. Douglas A study of advanced techniques and controversial issues in experimental design and analysis. The PS 371, 372. INDEPENDENT STUDY 3, 3 course will emphasize computer analysis of a range Individual reading and/or research under the of experimental designs. Three hours of lecture, two guidance of a member of the staff. Prerequisites: hours of lab a week. Prerequisites: PS 217 and 306. PS101 and consent of instructor. The Department H. Foley

136 The Department of Philosophy and Religion RE 204. RELIGIOUS ETHICS: JUDEO- Religious Studies offers students the opportunity to major or CHRISTIAN 3 minor in religious studies. Courses in religion A survey of the development of Western religious are offered as electives for the entire student ethics. Areas studied will include Biblical ethics, Chair of the Department of Philosophy and body but may not be counted toward a major Monastic and Talmudic ethics, the ethics of Augustine Religion: Reginald Lily, Ph.D. in philosophy. Majors are encouraged to focus and Aquinas, Reformation ethics, Puritan ethics, their studies around particular themes, such as nineteenth-century frontier church ethics, and the Religion Faculty: modern ethical systems of American Protestantism, investigating the relationship of religion to art, Associate Professors: Joel R. Smith, Mary Roman Catholicism, and Judaism. Offered alternate culture, or women. Zeiss Stange years. The Department

Assistant Professor: Nicola Denzey THE RELIGIOUS STUDIES MAJOR: Minimal RE 205. WOMEN, RELIGION, AND requirements for a major in religious studies SPIRITUALITY 3 The earliest endeavors of the Western intellec- are the general College requirements, plus An exploration of women’s religious experience in tual tradition were concerned with understand- completion of nine courses, seven of which crosscultural and historical terms with primary empha- ing nature, understanding the human must be selected from the religion offerings sis on images and roles of women in the Western encounter with the divine, understanding (RE or PR), and must include RE103, 241, cultural traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. human nature, and understanding the whole— 375, and PR200. The remaining two courses Considering religious mythology, belief, and practice the cosmos—within which each of these en- may be chosen from RE or PR offerings or against the background of broader social and political counters occurred. Accordingly, philosophy may be selected from a list of courses from realities, the course devotes special attention to and religion were among the central concerns other disciplines that has been authorized by contemporary developments in feminist theology and of intellectual life, and indeed the first academy the religion faculty. At least five of the total the tension between traditional and alternative modes of spirituality. (Fulfills LS2 requirement.) was a philosophical institution that brought courses for the major must be at the 300 level M. Stange, N. Denzey these endeavors under one ‘roof.’ Thus the with at least two at the 300 level taken in the Department of Philosophy and Religion hark- senior year, one of which must be in religion. RE 213. RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS OF INDIA 3 ens to a mission that quite literally was at the Courses must total at least thirty credit hours. An introduction to the thought and culture of India historical origin of the academy (indeed, of through its religious traditions. The course empha- Western civilization) and proves, no less today HONORS: Students wishing to qualify for sizes the history, beliefs, rituals and symbols of Hindu than 2,500 years ago, to be an animating honors in the department must successfully traditions and gives attention to the Jain, Buddhist, principle of intellectual life and culture. Today complete RE376, Senior Thesis, and earn a Islamic, and Sikh traditions in India. (Designated a this traditional mission has been broadened to grade of A- or better. non-Western culture course; fulfills humanities re- include philosophy and religion as they have quirement.)J. Smith developed in East Asia and South Asia. THE RELIGIOUS STUDIES MINOR: Require- ments for a minor in religious studies are RE 214. RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS OF CHINA Given this broad mission and the inherent RE103, 241, 375, and PR200 plus two addi- AND JAPAN 3 difficulty of accomplishing it, we see the follow- tional course in religion designated RE or PR, An introduction to the thought and cultures of China and Japan through their religious traditions. The ing objectives as crucial: the development of at least one of which must be at the 300 level. course emphasizes the history, beliefs, rituals, and critical, analytical habits of mind in our stu- The religious studies minor must total a least symbols of Buddhist traditions and gives attention to dents through the close reading of major works nineteen credit hours. the Confucian, Taoist, and Shinto traditions. (Desig- in the history of philosophical and religious nated a non-Western culture course; fulfills humani- thought and contemporary reflections upon RE 103. RELIGION AND CULTURE 4 ties requirement.) J. Smith them; the development of communicative An introductory study of the nature of religion, the skills—both oral and written—that produce the interaction of religion and culture, and the function of RE 220. ENCOUNTERING THE GODDESS self-confidence to engage in sustained exami- religious belief in the life of the individual. Considera- IN INDIA 3 nation of difficult ideas, through classroom tion will be given to such phenomena as myth and An introduction to the Hindu religious culture of India engagement in discussion and extensive ritual, sacred time and space, mysticism, evil, conver- through a study of major Hindu goddesses. The vision sion, and salvation. Readings will be drawn from writing assignments, whether through essay (darsan) of and devotion (bhakti) to the feminine classical and modern sources. (Fulfills humanities divine image will be explored. An interdisciplinary examinations, response papers, journals, term requirement.) The Department papers, extensive research papers, or senior approach will explore the meaning of the goddess in theses; the development of a sense of con- literature, painting, poetry, religion, and sculpture. PR 200. RESEARCH METHODS 1 (Designated a non-Western culture course; fulfills LS2 text—historical and conceptual—that saves Introduction to research methods in philosophy and requirement.) J. Smith critical analysis from becoming historically religious studies. Topics will include identifying and irrelevant or idle logic-chopping, through the focusing a research topic, conducting library re- RE 230. TOPICS IN RELIGION 3 requirement that all courses be grounded in search, using correct scholarly form, and maintaining The study of a selected special topic in religion. May and make ready reference to the historical academic integrity. Required for majors and minors in be repeated with the approval of the department. intellectual concerns of the two disciplines; the philosophy and religious studies; open to others by The Department development of the capacity to synthesize permission of the instructor. The Department ideas and to create new wholes in response to RE 241. THEORY AND METHODOLOGY IN THE new (and/or renewed) intellectual concerns RE 201. HEBREW SCRIPTURES 3 STUDY OF RELIGION 3 through assignments that engage students An introduction to the Old Testament and the begin- An introduction to the theory and methodology of the nings of the Talmud. In addition to the primary sources, where they are in their own lives, while recog- study of religion. The course will provide an overview commentaries and special studies will be used. Particu- nizing that this entails sharing the responsibil- of basic theoretical approaches such as the historical, lar attention will be given to the Jewish ideas of theol- sociological, anthropological, phenomenological, ity for the choice of those assignments with the ogy, history, and ethics and to their effect on later students themselves as epitomized in the philosophical, and comparative. Issue identified by Christian thought. Offered alternate years. N. Denzey theorists from traditionally marginalized groups will be Senior Thesis course; and the development in explored, as well as strategies for examining religion each student of a critical appreciation of her or RE 202. CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES 3 in relation to various forms of cultural expression such his own intellectual growth through the building An introduction to the New Testament and the state- as literature and the arts. The Department of a portfolio of essays and term and research ments of the early church councils. In addition to the papers written under the direction of the de- primary sources, commentaries and special studies partment faculty and accumulated from the will be used. Particular attention will be given to the moment of declaration of the major through the Christian ideas of theology, history, and ethics. senior capstone experience. Offered alternate years. N. Denzey 137 RE 303. RELIGION IN CONTEMPORARY HONORS: Students desiring departmental AMERICAN SOCIETY 4 Social Work honors in social work must meet the requisite A study of the backgrounds and contemporary forms grade-point average and must be recom- of American religions. Attention will be given to the mended by their agency field instructors and institutional, liturgical, and doctrinal patterns of these Chair of the Department of Sociology, the faculty coordinator of field instruction. religions and the application of their principles to such Anthropology, and Social Work: William Fox social problems as the state, education, the family, Director of the Social Work Program: SW 212. SOCIAL WORK VALUES AND sex, human rights, and war. Prerequisites: two Jacqueline Azzarto POPULATIONS-AT-RISK 3 courses in the following: philosophy, religion, history, This course introduces social work values; it provides economics, psychology, and sociology, or permission Social Work Faculty students an opportunity to identify and clarify conflict- of instructor. Offered alternate years. ing values and ethical dilemmas; and, it examines the The Department Associate Professors: Margaret N. Tacardon, Thomas P. Oles, Jacqueline Azzarto impact of discrimination, economic deprivation, and oppression on groups distinguished by race, ethnicity, PR 324. PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION 4 Visiting Assistant Professor: J. D. Chesire culture, class, gender, sexual orientation, religion, An investigation of the fundamental paradoxes of physical or mental ability, age, and national origin. religious belief. Questions to be considered will The Social Work Program is accredited by the Students learn assessment and intervention skills that include the arguments for the existence of God, the Council on Social Work Education at the bac- enable social workers to serve diverse populations problem of suffering and evil, the nature of mystical and to promote social and economic justice. (Fulfills knowledge, and the rise of modern religious skepti- calaureate level. The major has two primary objectives: to prepare students for beginning- social sciences requirement.) cism. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy or M. Tacardon religion or permission of instructor. Offered alternate level generalist social work practice; and to prepare students for graduate study in social years. J. Smith SW 214. DEATH AND DYING 3 work. The social work curriculum stresses Analyses of death and dying from historical, cultural, PR 325. JAPANESE RELIGIOUS integrating knowledge of human behavior, and religious perspectives. Examination of theories of PHILOSOPHIES 4 social welfare policy and services, and re- grief and mourning processes and of death-related A study of selected classical and contemporary search, with the values and skills of the social practices such as wills and funerals. Review of Japanese thinkers who see philosophy as intertwined work profession. approaches to and strategies for working with the with religious praxis. Attention will be given to Motoori dying and their families. Students may examine their Norinaga’s Shinto view, but emphasis will be on THE SOCIAL WORK MAJOR: The major own attitudes toward death and dying. (Fulfills LS2 Buddhist thinkers such as Kukai, Dogen, Shinran, leads to a bachelor of science degree. The requirement.) J. Azzarto and Nishitani. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy social work major must successfully complete or religion or permission of instructor. Offered alter- the following ten courses in social work for a SW 217. OBSESSIONS AND ADDICTIONS 3 nate years. (Designated a non-Western culture Approaches to individual situations and cultural course.) J. Smith total of thirty-nine credit hours: SW212, 222, 241, 253, 333, 334, 338, 340, 381, and 382. variations in compulsive and addictive behaviors related to such matters as drugs, gambling, love, PR 326. TIBETAN BUDDHISM 4 POLICIES AND PROCEDURES work, and material success. This course uses a A study of selected classical and contemporary comprehensive view of human addictions that Admission: Students must apply for admission Tibetan thinkers who see philosophy as intertwined involves a person’s expectations, values, sense of with religious praxis. The course focuses on the to the social work major during their sopho- self-worth, and alternative opportunities for gratifica- Vajrayana form of Mahayana Buddhism that is on more year. Selection is based on demon- tion and treatment. (Fulfills LS2 requirement.) central element in the culture of Tibet, as well as its strated academic competence, a willingness to M. Tacardon Mahayana Buddhist background in India. Emphasis abide by the profession’s code of ethics, and is on the central ideas of wisdom, compassion, suitability for beginning professional practice. SW 218. PRISONS IN AMERICA 3 emptiness, dependent arising, and the two truths in Applications for admission are available from An examination of the American prison system. The such thinkers as the Prajhaparamita, Nagarjuna, social work faculty. Students planning on going course presents an historical review of prisons, as Candrakirti, and the Dalai Lama. Prerequisite: one abroad should talk with the program director in well as theoretical and practical perspectives on the course in philosophy or religion or permission of their first year. current state of penal institutions. Specific topics instructor. Offered in alternate years. (Designated a include prison reform, the purpose of incarceration, non-Western culture course.) J. Smith Senior-Year Field Experience. The social work and a variety of criticisms currently directed at the major culminates in a field experience in the prison system. (Fulfills LS2 requirement.) M.Tacardon RE 330. ADVANCED TOPICS IN RELIGION 4 spring semester of the senior year. Students The study of a selected special topic in religion. May must complete all course prerequisites prior to SW 219. VOLUNTEERISM 3 be repeated with the approval of the department. enrolling in the field practicum. In addition, the A course designed to involve the students in commu- Prerequisite: one course in religion or the approval of nature of the field experience requires that the nity service and to encourage reflection on their the instructor. The Department department reserves the right to deny enroll- experiences. Students volunteer their services in local nonprofit agencies for six to eight hours a week. RE 371, 372. INDEPENDENT STUDY 3, 3 ment in the field practicum to any student, if in Students learn to assume the role of a volunteer: to A reading course in a religious topic, tradition, or the judgment of the faculty that student’s understand the history of the voluntary sector; to thinker not available in this depth in other courses. academic or personal preparation for begin- examine the role of voluntary activity on American Prerequisite: permission of department. ning professional practice is insufficient. life; to research the needs and problems of the The Department Students serve as beginning social workers four population they serve; and, to demonstrate an aware- days per week. This experience provides them ness of the salience of race, ethnicity, gender, and RE 375. SENIOR SEMINAR 4 with opportunities to apply knowledge and skills class in the performance of community service. Advanced study of a topic that reflects upon religion gained in the classroom in an agency setting. J. Azzarto and the study of religion. Prerequisite: senior stand- ing in religious study major. They are integrated into the field experience as SW 222. INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL WORK J. Smith, M. Stange, or N. Denzey regular staff and assume the functions of begin- ning social work practitioners in such roles as AND SOCIAL WELFARE 3 Introduction to social welfare and the field of social RE 376. SENIOR THESIS 3 counselors, advocates, and researchers. They work from a historical, educational, and theoretical Individual conferences with senior majors in the receive supervision from agency field instruc- perspective. The course explores the values, knowl- areas of their research projects. Prerequisite: senior tors and support through ongoing monitoring of edge and skills required in the profession, along with standing in religious study major. the placement by the social work program. their practical application in the field, and factors J. Smith, M. Stange, or N. Denzey Students also meet in a weekly seminar to affecting social work practice, e.g., class, gender, discuss their field experiences and professional race. (Fulfills social sciences requirement.) development. J. Azzarto

138 SW 224. SPECIAL STUDIES IN SOCIAL WORK 3 SW 334. SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE WITH One topic of current interest in an area of social work. GROUPS, ORGANIZATIONS, AND Sociology Topics will vary from year to year depending on COMMUNITIES 4 interests of faculty and needs of students, and might Course designed to prepare students for entry-level include social work practice with alcoholism and generalist social work practice with treatment and Chair of the Department of Sociology, narcotic addiction, social work in correctional set- task groups, organizations, and communities. Stu- Anthropology, and Social Work: William Fox dents will gain the knowledge, skills, and values tings, social work with the developmentally disabled, Sociology Faculty social work with the aged, advocacy in social work, or needed for beginning practice during all phases of the dynamics of racism in social work practice. the helping process. Critical thinking skills and the Professors: William Fox, Catherine White The Department use of research-based knowledge will also be em- Berheide phasized. The additional credit hour will provide SW 225. SOCIAL WORK WITH CHILDREN students with opportunities to observe social work Associate Professor: John Brueggemann AND ADOLESCENTS 3 practice in a field setting that facilitates observation of Assistant Professors: Susan Walzer, Rory M. Reviews conceptions of and approaches to working practice at mezzo and macro levels and completion McVeigh, David R. Karp with troubled children and adolescents. Topics of integrative assignments. Prerequisites: SW212, include divorce, child abuse, learning difficulties, 222, and permission of instructor. Non-liberal arts. Lecturers: Miliann Kang, *Stephanie Bennett, substance abuse, delinquency, foster care, and The Department *Jason D. Scott parent-child conflict. T. Oles SW 338. SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIAL Sociology is the scientific study of the way SW 241. RESEARCH FOR THE HUMAN JUSTICE 4 groups are organized, how they function, how SERVICES 4 The study of social policy, welfare program planning, Examination of the research process used by human and social service implementation, evaluation, and they change, and how they influence and are service professionals. Students learn about social analysis. Included are reviews of selected policies on influenced by human behavior. The sociology science methodology from the perspective of a future federal, state, and local levels. Students will compare curriculum analyzes both small-scale social practitioner and research consumer. Topics include: the social policies of the United States with those in interaction and large-scale social structures. problem formulation, measurement, design, qualita- other countries. The value, political, and societal The sociology major includes course work in tive and quantitative modes of observation, data issues that underpin policies and programs are social theory as well as research methods and collection and analysis. The course addresses questioned and specific attention is given to the statistics. Seniors carry out empirical research practical issues such as single-subject design, evaluation of policies by using research skills and by projects in the Senior Seminar offered each fall. program evaluation and the ethical dilemmas in- applying the principles of social justice. The addi- A sociology major prepares students for gradu- volved in conducting human subject research. Labo- tional hour provides students with the experience of ate education in sociology, law, business, ratory time is used for students to work directly with participating in a research study. Prerequisite: criminal justice, urban planning, social work, instruments and data. J. Azzarto or J. Chesire SW222 or permission of instructor. and other fields requiring knowledge of social J. Azzarto or J. Chesire science as well as for careers in teaching, SW 253. HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND THE SOCIAL research, business, law, and other professional ENVIRONMENT 4 SW 340. FIELD PREPARATION SEMINAR 1 A multidisciplinary examination of theories and Provides historical and current context for under- fields related to the graduate programs cited. knowledge of human bio-psycho-social development standing the requirement of field instruction in social Most importantly, though, a sociology major from birth through later years. The course draws on work programs. The course answers questions about increases students' awareness of social forces research from biology, psychology, sociology, anthro- student preparation for the field practicum, the affecting their lives, thereby increasing compe- pology, and political science to study the impact of partnership with social service agencies, supervision, tence in dealing critically and constructively with biological, psychological, social, and cultural systems finding and selecting a placement, and provides personal as well as public issues. on health and well-being. Students explore the range information and suggestions for enriching the of social systems in which individuals live (families, practicum experience. Prerequisite: Permission of THE SOCIOLOGY MAJOR: The sociology groups, communities, and organizations) and study instructor. Open only to senior social work major must successfully complete at least the importance of ethnicity, culture, gender, disability, majors. Non-liberal arts. M. Tacardon thirty-two credit hours in sociology, including and other elements of diversity in human develop- SO101, 226, 227, either 324 or 325, and 375. ment. J. Azzarto or J. Chesire SW 371, 372. INDEPENDENT STUDY 3, 3 SO226, 227, and 324 or 325 must all be com- Individual reading and/or research in social work pleted by the end of the junior year. These SW 299. PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP IN under the guidance of a member of the department. courses are prerequisites for SO375, which is SOCIAL WORK 3 or 6 Open with consent of the department to qualified Internship opportunity for students whose academic students. Individual conferences to be arranged. taken in the fall of the senior year. Courses and cocurricular work has prepared them for profes- The Department designated sociology-anthropology may be sional activity related to social work. With faculty taken for either sociology or anthropology sponsorship and department approval, students may SW 381. SOCIAL WORK FIELD PRACTICUM credit, but not both. design experiences in such areas as direct work with SEMINAR 3 specific populations, community organizations, and Provides discussion and analysis of practicum- THE SOCIOLOGY-ANTHROPOLOGY social welfare management, administration, and related experiences and professional issues. A major MAJOR: The sociology-anthropology major research. Prerequisite: SW333 or 334 or permission purpose of the seminars is the development of must successfully complete SO101; either of faculty sponsor. Non-liberal arts. The Department professional judgment through examination of cases AN101 or 102; either SO324, 325, or AN270; and practice situations encountered in field instruc- either AN326 or 327 or SO226 or 227; either SW 333. SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE WITH tion. Prerequisites: all required social work courses AN366 or SO375; and twelve credit hours of INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES 4 and permission of instructor. Open only to senior electives in sociology and twelve credit hours social work majors. Non-liberal arts. Course designed to prepare students for entry-level of electives in anthropology. Courses desig- generalist social work practice with diverse individu- J. Azzarto or M. Tacardon nated sociology-anthropology may be taken for als and families. Students will gain the knowledge, skills, and values needed for beginning practice SW 382. SOCIAL WORK FIELD PRACTICUM 9 credit in either sociology or anthropology, but during all phases of the helping process. Critical Thirty-five hours per week spent in social service not both. thinking skills and the use of research-based knowl- agencies and related organizations in Saratoga edge will also be emphasized. The additional credit County and the surrounding area. Specific place- INTERDEPARTMENTAL MAJORS: In hour will provide students with opportunities to ments made according to academic interests and conjunction with relevant departments, the observe micro social work practice in a field setting needs of individual students. Prerequisites: all re- Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and and complete integrative assignments. Prerequisites: quired social work courses and permission of instruc- Social Work offers majors in economics- SW 212, 222, and permission of instructor. Non- tor. Offered only to senior social work majors. sociology, government-sociology, and psychol- liberal arts. The Department Non-liberal arts. J. Azzarto or M. Tacardon ogy-sociology. See Interdepartmental Majors.

139 HONORS: Students desiring departmental Collaborative Learning SO 201. SOCIAL ISSUES 3 honors in sociology must meet the requisite This exploration in sociology requires that stu- Analysis of contemporary social issues such as racial grade-point average, receive a grade of at least dents spend three hours each week in addition and gender inequalities, environmental protection, A- in SO375, and present a senior seminar to class time in small group activities, working and crime. Attention is given to the roots and dimen- project for approval by the sociology faculty. collectively or independently to contribute to sions of these issues by introducing core sociological Students desiring departmental honors in group projects. This time will be devoted to theories and methodologies. The course also in- sociology-anthropology must meet the requisite group meetings, independent work, and meet- cludes critical examination of current social policies grade-point average and must complete a senior ings with the instructor to advance group that address these issues. (Fulfills social sciences requirement.) D. Karp thesis under the supervision of a member of the projects. Products of this work will be assessed department. by the instructor via group presentations or SO 202. THE INDIVIDUAL IN SOCIETY 3 project papers written collaboratively, in aggre- A variety of social psychological approaches to the ALPHA KAPPA DELTA, the international sociol- gation (each student writes a section of the experiences of individuals as they influence or are ogy honor society, encourages and recognizes paper), or independently (each student writes influenced by social interactions and structures. The academic achievement in sociology. Founded in an independent paper based on the group course introduces a sociological orientation known as 1920, the society has over 300 chapters at project). This module accommodates a wide "symbolic interactionism," which assumes that among colleges and universities throughout the world. array of cooperative group structures varying by the key elements in the social environment are the Eligibility requirements for membership in Alpha length, membership, and size, as well as vary- symbols and understandings possessed by people in Kappa Delta include a demonstrated interest in ing formats for assessment including individual the group. (Fulfills social sciences requirement.) sociology, completion of at least four sociology and group grades. One example of a collabora- S. Walzer courses, a grade-point average of 3.2 or higher tive project is the assignment of a different in sociology, and a cumulative grade-point research article to each group, with each group SO 206. COMMUNITIES 3 average of 3.0 or higher in all college courses. developing and offering a presentation to the Comparative analysis of different types of communities and their relationships to each other—from rural towns class based on its article. Another example is a and communes to the crowded metropolis. Prerequi- THE SOCIOLOGY MINOR: The sociology minor semester-long group assignment in which site: SO101 or permission of instructor. W. Fox must successfully complete at least eighteen rotating team leaders are responsible for deliv- credit hours in sociology or sociology-anthropol- ering discrete project reports (oral and/or writ- SO 208. SOCIAL INEQUALITY 3 ogy, including SO101 and at least two courses at ten) based on various concrete tasks (e.g., Analysis of social classes, power, and status groups, the 300 level. One of the courses must be Web-based research, off-campus interviews, and their origins and functions, within a historical, SO226, 227, 324, or 325. The student should data analysis, and field trips). comparative, and contemporary framework. Pre- requisite: SO101 or permission of instructor. select a minor advisor who will assist the student Research J. Brueggemann in constructing a program of study. Students are This exploration in sociology requires that encouraged to declare the sociology minor by students spend three hours each week in the end of the junior year. SO 211H. SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATIONS 4 addition to class time engaging in independent A review of “great works” that have made an impact or collaborative research projects that are in the field of sociology. This course will examine a EXPLORATIONS IN SOCIOLOGY: Selected related to the course material. This time will be 200- and 300-level sociology courses each number of classic and contemporary social scientific spent developing research questions, reviewing books. Students will investigate the content and semester incorporate exploration in sociology relevant literature, collecting data, analyzing perspective of sociology, the defining questions of the through special emphasis on service learning, data, and presenting research findings in writ- discipline, and the “sociological imagination.” This will collaborative learning, research, or writing ten reports, oral presentations, or other media. entail exposure to important sociological ideas and (designated S, C, R, or W, respectively, in the Courses incorporating this module may provide arguments as well as some sense of the intellectual master schedule listing). Courses integrating more intensive introductions to specific ele- history of the field.This course will emphasize in- an exploration in sociology carry four rather ments in the research process or particular formed and engaged discourse about the big ideas of than three credit hours. methodologies such as content analysis or data these great works. Prerequisite: SO101 and permis- sion of instructor. J. Bruggeman Service Learning analysis. Students will meet regularly with the This exploration in sociology requires that stu- instructor to report on their progress and to SO 212. SOCIOLOGY OF WORK AND dents spend three hours in addition to class time receive advice and feedback from the instruc- OCCUPATIONS 3 volunteering for a campus or community non- tor. Students' research will be evaluated based An analysis of the nature and conditions of work and profit organization for a minimum total of thirty- on their finished products (research papers, oral the relationship between work and the individual nine hours of community service. Faculty expect presentations, etc.). worker. Issues covered include the meaning of work that some of these hours at the beginning and Writing and leisure, alienation, and job satisfaction. Selected end of the course will be spent on logistics such occupations and professions are considered in terms This exploration in sociology requires a fourth as identifying and interviewing prospective of such factors as their social origins, how the occu- classroom contact hour each week. Students will service opportunities. This module assumes that pation became a profession, typical career patterns, undertake writing assignments integrated with students' service work will be integrated with the and social characteristics of members. Discrimination the subject matter of the course. Writing assign- academic component of the course. Faculty will on the basis of sex, race, education, and social class ments and their evaluation will be consistent with assess service work through various strategies are examined. Prerequisite: SO101 or permission of guidelines for the Skidmore's writing-intensive requiring students to reflect on their service work instructor. C. Berheide courses. in light of course materials and related academic SO 213. CRIMINOLOGY 3 projects such as (a) research papers that re- An introduction to the sociology of crime. This course SO 101. SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES 3 spond to service issues, (b) journals or field examines contemporary crime trends and problems in The basic concepts and principles of major socio- notes analyzing service work to be turned in to the measurement of crime; major theories that logical perspectives. Attention is given to how these the instructor, (c) integrative essay questions or explain criminal behavior; and topical foci on various perspectives have been developed and used by exams, (d) in-class oral presentations, or (e) types of crime such as homicide, sexual assault, social scientists to explain social phenomena. combinations of the above. organized crime, white collar crime, property crime, or Recommended as an introduction to the discipline. juvenile delinquency. Prerequisite: SO101 or LW200. (Fulfills social sciences requirement.) D. Karp The Department

140 SO 214. FAMILY AND GENDER 4 SO 251. SPECIAL TOPICS IN SOCIOLOGY 3 SB 315. WORK, FAMILY, AND An analysis of family and gender as social institu- An examination at the intermediate level of special ORGANIZATIONS 3 tions, sites of interaction, and sources of identity. The topics, methods, and areas in sociology, such as The analysis of various white-collar and blue-collar course examines how families in the United States population dynamics, collective behavior, juvenile occupations and their relationship to work and family are influenced by definitions of femininity and mascu- justice system, and social control. Specific topics to life. Topics include the changing nature of work; linity as well as how meanings and experiences vary by instructor and semester. The course, in a professionalization; working within organizations; and associated with gender are reproduced and revised different subject area, may be repeated for credit. occupational socialization, careers, and mobility. in families. Family life courses, roles and relation- Prerequisite: SO101 or instructor’s permission. Prerequisite: SO101 or BU224 or permission of ships, and intersections between work and family are The Department instructor. C. Berheide among the topics examined. Prerequisite: SO101 or permission of instructor. S. Walzer SO 299. PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP IN SO 316. WOMEN IN MODERN SOCIETY 3 SOCIOLOGY 3 or 6 An examination of the effects of social construction of SO 218. ETHNICITY AND INEQUALITY 3 Internship opportunity for students whose curricular gender on women in modern societies. The course Examination of the emergence and maintenance of foundations and cocurricular experience have pre- analyzes the intersection of race, class, and gender ethnic identities such as African American, Hispanic pared them for professional work related to sociology. in women’s lives. The changing social status of American, Italian American, and Jewish American. With faculty sponsorship and department approval, women in the United States today is compared to that This course analyzes the dynamics of relations students may extend their educational experience of women in other countries. Particular contemporary among ethnic communities with special attention to through internships in human service agencies, the women’s issues emphasized each year may vary, but issues related to inequality. Prerequisite: SO101 or criminal justice system, business, governmental, and typically include economic issues, such as occupa- permission of instructor. other formal organizations, community groups, and tional segregation and unequal pay, family issues, J. Brueggemann, R. McVeigh related areas. Prerequisite: SO101. Non-liberal arts. such as power relations and violence, and political The Department issues, such as women’s grassroots political activism SO 220. SOCIOLOGY OF CITIES AND TOWNS 3 and national policies. Prerequisite: SO101 or WS101 Sociological study of urban places ranging from small SO 304. SOCIOLOGY OF EMOTIONS 3 or permission of instructor. C. Berheide towns to large metropolitan areas. Topics include Analysis of how human emotions influence and are development of cities, historical and crosscultural influenced by the social and cultural environment. SO 321. AMERICAN SOCIAL CHANGES 3 variations in cities, uses of urban space, and processes The course examines the physiological and social An examination of the structure and process of social by which people create urban environments that in turn psychological components of human emotion, the change by comparing changes in several areas, such affect social behavior and relationships. Prerequisite: crosscultural and historical variability of emotions, as economic structure and relations, race, gender, SO101 or permission of instructor. W. Fox emotional socialization and the emotional aspects of urban community, education, the state. The specific social interaction, relationships and institutions. historical periods covered in the course will vary SO 222. POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY 3 Prerequisite: SO101 and one other social science according to the changes under consideration. Focus upon the causes and consequences of power course. S. Walzer American social changes will be addressed from a distributions within and between societies and the variety of theoretical perspectives within sociology, factors leading to stable or changing allocations of SO 305. SOCIOLOGY OF FOLKLORE 3 including Marxist and other conflict approaches, power. Some concepts to be considered: state and Analysis of the social context of folklore, with special world-systems, functionalist, cultural, and social- civil society; the structure, distribution, operation, and emphasis on contemporary American folklore. Social psychological perspectives. Prerequisite: SO101 and conflict over power; ruling class; class struggle; scientific theories of folklore, the social bases and two other social science courses or permission of pluralism; democracy—formal and/or substantive. dynamics of folk groups, folklore and processes of instructor. W. Fox, R. McVeigh Prerequisite: SO101 or permission of instructor. social change, and folklore research methodologies. R. McVeigh Prerequisite: two social science courses. W. Fox SO 324. THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIOLOGICAL THOUGHT 3 SO 225. QUANTIFYING WOMEN 3 SO 306. SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION 3 Analysis of the philosophical foundations, central An introduction to the empirical study of changes in An examination of the sources, meanings, and principles, and historical development of sociological women’s experiences in areas such as work, family, implications of religious phenomena. This course theory from its origins in late-nineteenth-century Europe health, religion, and politics. The diversity of women’s explores myth, ritual, and symbol in social contexts to the present. The course critically examines the attitudes, behaviors, and experiences in the United with special consideration for the contemporary sociological theories of Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and States are explored using the logic and mathematics American scene. Attention is given to religious Mead and their relationship to a number of more of social research. Students use microcomputers and evolution in the light of social modernization; how contemporary social theories. Prerequisite: SO101 and statistical software to analyze sociological data sets religious organizations are related to other social two other social science courses. J. Brueggemann that investigate a series of issues related to women, institutions will also be considered. Prerequisite: such as the gender gap in politics, pay differences SO101 or instructor’s permission. J. Brueggemann SO 325. CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THEORY 3 between men and women, and attitudes toward An examination of contemporary social theories such abortion rights. Prerequisite: QR1. (Fulfills QR2 SO 312. MODERN ORGANIZATIONS 3 as functionalism, symbolic interactionism, conflict and requirement.) C. Berheide Analysis of modern organizations using theories of social exchange theory. In addition, recent theoretical bureaucracy. Issues covered include formal and trends in sociology such as the feminist and environ- SO 226. SOCIAL RESEARCH ANALYSIS 4 informal structure, functions and dysfunctions, the mental perspectives, and the biosocial and humanist Examination of quantitative analysis in the social tension between democracy and hierarchy within approaches are discussed. Prerequisite: SO101 and research process. This course involves the study complex organizations. The behavior of individuals in two courses in the social sciences or permission of and application of statistics for solving problems in organizations is examined in relation to the groups instructor. J. Brueggemann, R. McVeigh the social sciences. Students use computers as tools within which they interact and the organization’s for social research as they analyze sociological data structure. Specific organizations including factories, SO 328. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND sets. Prerequisites: QR1 and two courses in the public agencies, corporations, and total institutions COLLECTIVE ACTION 3 social sciences, or permission of instructor. (Fulfills are considered. Prerequisite: SO101 or permission of An exploration of the causes and consequences of QR2 requirement.) W. Fox instructor. C. Berheide social movements and episodes of collective action. Many people are dissatisfied with existing economic, SO 227. SOCIAL RESEARCH DESIGN 3 SO 314. DEVIANCE AND SOCIAL CONTROL 3 political or social arrangements, yet relatively few Examination of methods employed in the investiga- An introduction to the sociology of deviance. This individuals attempt to bring about social change by tion of sociological problems. This course analyzes course examines sociological theory and evidence participating in organized social protest. What is it the research process as an integral whole including that explain deviant and/or nonconforming behavior that differentiates those who participate from those political and ethical issues in conducting research. in society. Attention is given to forms of deviance that who do not? In this course we will be approaching Topics include conceptualization, measurement generate conflicts over values or between groups in this central question from a variety of theoretical approaches, design of surveys, and methods of society and to the mechanisms of social control that perspectives. Movements as diverse as the civil interviewing and observation. Students design increase conformity to social norms. Prerequisite: rights movement and the Ku Klux Klan will be exam- studies using various methodological techniques. SO101 or LW200. D. Karp ined. Prerequisite: SO101. R. McVeigh Prerequisite: Two courses in the social sciences or permission of instructor. S. Walzer 141 SO 329. CRIMINAL JUSTICE 3 SO 375. SENIOR SEMINAR IN SOCIOLOGY 4 Sociological analysis of the criminal justice system, The capstone course for the sociology major. The Theater including policing, the courts, and corrections. This course functions as a research practicum in which course examines criminal justice responses to crime students share the process of conducting an original problems, and alternative perspectives. Topics vary by research project. To do the research, students must Chair of the Department of Theater: Gautam semester and may include critical analysis of police build upon previous work in sociology, especially Dasgupta use of force, racial disparities in sentencing, the death theory, methods, and statistics. Therefore, students penalty, juvenile justice, the prison experience, or must have completed the required statistics, meth- Professors: Gautam Dasgupta, Carolyn community justice. Prerequisite: SO101 or LW 200. ods, and theory courses for the sociology major Anderson D. Karp before enrolling in Senior Seminar. Students writing Associate Professor: Lary Opitz the Senior Thesis are encouraged to begin thesis SO 331. WOMEN IN GLOBAL ECONOMY 3 research in the Seminar. Prerequisites: SO226, 227, Artists-in-Residence: Alma Becker, Philip A comparative analysis of women’s roles in the global and 324 or 325; or permission of instructor. Open Soltanoff, Scott Feldsher economy. The course examines how global eco- only to sociology majors and sociology interdepart- nomic transformations affect women as well as how mental majors. The Department Lecturers: *Patricia Culbert, *Barbara Opitz, women affect those processes. Topics include the *Patricia Pawliczak, *David Yergan, Garett effect of economic development on women’s partici- SO 376. SENIOR THESIS IN SOCIOLOGY 3 Wilson pation in various forms of economic activity, including Independent research leading to a thesis examining a Theater Manager and Technical Director: agriculture, microenterprises, and manufacturing, and sociological question in depth. Students work under David Yergan on gender relations in families throughout the world, the direction of a thesis advisor and a second reader. Theater Management Coordinator: Joan Lane with particular emphasis on countries of the Southern Required of candidates for department honors. Costume Manager: Patricia Pawliczak Hemisphere. In addition, the course considers the Prerequisite: SO375 and permission of instructor. environmental issues women face during the process Open only to sociology majors and sociology interde- Assistant Technical Director: Garett Wilson of economic development, such as sustainable partmental majors. The Department Dance-Theater Advisor: Isabel H. Brown, development, population policies, and women’s Associate Professor of Dance environmental activism. Prerequisite: SO101 or SO 399. PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP IN WS101. C. Berheide SOCIOLOGY 3, 6, or 9 The Theater Department offers an opportunity Internship experience at the advanced level for to pursue a serious study of the theater arts SO 332. STUDYING STUDENT WORLDS 4 juniors and seniors with substantial academic and within a liberal arts setting. Courses within An in-depth introduction to qualitative research cocurricular experience related to sociology. With the department afford training in the basic methods as vehicles for exploring and describing faculty sponsorship and department approval, stu- demands of the discipline — physical and social experiences, focusing in particular on the lives dents may extend their educational experience vocal control, technique in acting and direct- of students. Course topics include field research, through internships in human service agencies, the ing, technical and design skills—as well as the qualitative interviewing, and the role of the re- criminal justice system, business, governmental, and opportunity for advanced study, practical searcher. Students examine ethnographic studies of other formal organizations, community groups, and production experience, and off-campus intern- academic settings and collect and analyze qualitative related areas. Prerequisite: nine credit hours in ships. The liberal arts requirements help the data about Skidmore’s culture. Prerequisite: SO101 sociology. Non-liberal arts. The Department or permission of instructor. S. Walzer student to understand the moral, intellectual, and political context in which any artist SO 351. ADVANCED SPECIAL TOPICS IN practices. SOCIOLOGY 3 An examination at the advanced level of special All theater majors take certain basic courses topics, methods, and areas in sociology. Specific in each of the department’s areas of study. topics vary by instructor and semester. The course in For the best possible training, students in the a different subject area may be repeated for credit. upper divisions are urged to concentrate in Prerequisite: SO101 or permission of instructor. performance, directing, or design and techni- The Department cal theater. Students with specific interests that fall outside these concentrations may SA 355. LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY 4 develop a specialized course of study in Examination of the varied aspects of the social consultation with their advisors and the de- organization of language using techniques from partment. Such interest might include sociological, anthropological, psychological, and linguistic theory. Special attention is given to regional, playwriting, special studies in dramatic theory social, and individual variation; nonstandard dialects and criticism, theater management, or arts and their social impact; the relationship of language, administration. thought, and culture; the role of language in socializa- tion and in the maintenance of social structures; and THE THEATER MAJOR: Requirements for a the type and extent of cultural variation in language major in theater are: use. Prerequisite: SO101 or AN101 or permission of 1. The following eight courses: TH103, 129, instructor. J. Devine 229, 230, 231, 250, 235, and 335. SO 371, 372. INDEPENDENT STUDY 3, 3 2. At least two courses in dramatic literature: Individual reading and/or research in sociology under EN215, 339, 343, 345, 346, 359; FF318; the guidance of a member of the department. Open FG356; FS321; or CL222, 223. Other with the consent of the department to qualified courses may be acceptable with permis- students. Individual conferences to be arranged. sion of the department. The Department 3. Eighteen additional semester hours in the Theater Department.

142 AREAS OF CONCENTRATION: The following TH 334. SPECIAL STUDIES IN THEATER TH 203. INTERMEDIATE ACTING 3 is a recommended sequence of study in each HISTORY AND THEORY † 3 Emphasis on deepening of the actor’s imagination, area. An in depth examination of a specific topic drawn concentration, awareness, and presence through from the related fields of history and theory. Topics rigorous physical improvisation. Students experience Acting: TH101, 104, 198, 203, 204, 211 or might include a specific period or trend in theater the integration of physical improvisation with textual 298, 303 or 304. history (for example, the avant-garde) or key artists work as the semester progresses. Students are Directing: TH104, 203, 204, 231, 332, 333, (for example, women in the American theater) or exposed to a variety of theatrical approaches. Prereq- 375. exploration of theater in relationship to other arts or uisites: TH101 or 198, and TH104. Corequisites: media (for example, from theater to film) or writing TH101 or 198, or permission of instructor. Non-liberal Design and Technical Theater: TH216, 228 about performance and art. Prerequisite: permission arts. S. Feldsher, P. Soltanoff or 238, 337, 305; AR 103, 105. of instructor. C. Anderson, G. Dasgupta TH 204. INTERMEDIATE ACTING 3 HONORS: Departmental honors are based on TH 341. THE AMERICAN THEATER: Through textual analysis, object exercises, and scene a quality point average of 3.5 in all major CRITICAL ISSUES 3 work, students experience the development of a role courses, satisfactory completion of “Senior An intensive study of key themes and issues in the through the exploration of text and its relationship to the body in space. Students will develop their ability Project” (TH376), and high quality work on development of the American theater and their direct relation to evolving concerns and practices in the to read theatrical texts as they plan for their spatial, other departmental projects. contemporary theater. Discussions and readings will rhythmic and emotional work as performers. Students focus on such topics as, the American theater’s quest are exposed to a variety of theatrical approaches. INTERDEPARTMENTAL MAJOR: In conjunc- for realism and its affects on contemporary casting Prerequisites: TH101 or 198, and TH104. Corequi- tion with the Department of Exercise Science, and production; the relationship of the American sites: TH101 or 198, or permission of instructor. Non- Dance, and Athletics, the Theater Department theater to experimentation on Broadway to Off-Off liberal arts. S. Feldsher, P. Soltanoff offers a major in dance-theater. See Interde- Broadway; decentralization of the American theater partmental Majors. from New York to regional theater, and economic and TH 211. VOICE FOR THE ACTOR 2 social life as it relates to the American theater. Students explore the power of language through the THE THEATER MINOR: A minor in theater is Recommended preparations: TH103, 229 or 230 or reading of prose and verse. Exercises learned in this available for students interested in a general permission of instructor. C. Anderson, G. Dasgupta course continue to move the student toward a cen- education in theater but not necessarily inten- tered, natural placement of the instrument, and the sive training in a single concentration. Twenty- TH 371, 372. INDEPENDENT STUDY 3, 3 development of standard non-regional speech, articu- five semester hours are required: TH103, 129, Independent study and production projects under the lation, and flexibility. Introductory tools are learned in the reading of verse and standard dialect work. Re- 231, 235, 250; one of the following courses: guidance of the department. Hours to be arranged. Prerequisite: permission of department. This course hearsal-specific warm-up programs are developed with 229, 230, 341; one additional course in theater may or may not be credited in liberal arts, at the students and used regularly. Written evaluations, beyond the introductory level; and two courses discretion of both the department chair and the critiques, and observations by the student are as- in dramatic literature. registrar (and, in exceptional instances, the Curricu- signed to increase awareness of the voice and use of lum Committee of the College). The Department vocal vocabulary. Prerequisite: TH101 or permission of Those students interested in combining a instructor. Non-liberal arts. P. Culbert study of theater with art, dance, literature, or music should consult with the Theater Depart- PERFORMANCE TH 303. ACTING STYLES 3 ment and their advisors in the formulation of a Concentrated scene study from major periods in self-determined major. TH 101. VOICE AND SPEECH IN THE THEATER 2 theatrical history. Emphasis on the knowledge and The student will learn voice-production techniques discovery of each particular period through the study and theories principally for the actor. This course and use of masks, costumes, and props. Prerequi- THEORY, HISTORY, AND PLAYWRITING seeks to develop a free and natural speaking voice in sites: TH203, 204 or permission of instructor. Non- the student and will provide the fundamentals of liberal arts. A. Becker TH 103. INTRODUCTION TO THEATER 4 natural voice placement. Extensive exercises in An introduction to the art of the theater that seeks to breathing, support, resonance, flexibility, and projec- TH 304. SPECIAL STUDIES IN ACTING † 3 answer the question, “Why theater?” Topics will tion will be learned toward the development of a An open series of acting studies capable of ranging include: analysis of significant play texts; examination personal vocal warm-up. (Fulfills arts requirement.) from Shakespearean scene study to musical comedy, of theater structures, forms and styles; study of P. Culbert from Grotowski training to acting for the epic theater. responsibilities of the theater artist within the context The specific area of study could be determined by the of collaboration and production; and the history of TH 104. INTRODUCTION TO ACTING 3 opportunities of a particular production season, by the world theater from the primitive period to 1700. The student is exposed to exercises designed to free training of a visiting artist, or by the interests of faculty (Fulfills humanities requirement.) the imagination through improvisation and theater or a given group of students. May be repeated three C. Anderson, L. Opitz, and the Department games. Secondarily, training is offered in the basic times for credit. Prerequisites: TH203, 204 or permis- skills of physical and vocal mastery, analytical insight sion of instructor. Non-liberal arts. A. Becker TH 229, 230. THEATER AND CULTURE I, II 3, 3 into the text, and the ability to synthesize techniques, TH 229: Theatrical Foundations: so that the student may acquire discipline in each DIRECTING Classical to 1800; TH 230: Genesis of area. Prerequisite: TH 103. (Fulfills arts requirement.) Theatrical Modernisms: Nineteenth A. Becker, P. Soltanoff TH 231. DIRECTING FOR THE THEATER 3 and Twentieth Centuries An intensive introduction to the craft of directing for A study of major periods of Western theater which TH 198. MOVEMENT FOR THE THEATER † 2 the stage. The fundamentals of script analysis and explores how theater’s components—plays, acting, Physical training for the actor-performer taught from interpretation, and production research and prepara- design, theory, management—combine to express an varying points of view depending on the instructor. tion will be explored in a seminar setting, while the idea of theater that reflects its culture’s dominant Work in this course might include physical training, studio will be the laboratory for developing clear lines values. Architecture, painting, sculpture, music, and dance for actors, mime, stage combat, circus tech- of action and the world of play through composition, dance—the constituent arts of the theater—will be niques. Instructors also direct students in the devel- picturization, and improvisation, as well as exploring examined both within and outside the theatrical opment of a personal, physical warm-up. This course the collaborative process with actors and designers. context to explore the aesthetic, socioeconomic, and may be repeated for a maximum of eight semester By semester’s end students will be prepared to political values that shape a culture’s idea of theater. hours. Non-liberal arts. (Fulfills arts requirement.) undertake the staging of a workshop production. (Fulfills humanities requirement.) G. Dasgupta B. Opitz Prerequisites: TH103, 129, and permission of instructor. C. Anderson, A. Becker, P. Soltanoff TH 325. PLAYWRITING 3 A workshop course in the making of theater scripts in preparation for public readings. This course may be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. C. Anderson and Guest Playwrights 143 TH 332. ADVANCED DIRECTING 3 TH 238. COSTUME DESIGN 3 TH 299. PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP IN An exploration of the director’s interpretive task A studio course in the principles and practice of stage THEATER 3 or 6 through the process of conceptualization and design costume design, including an historical survey of Internship opportunity for students whose curricular with various play and production styles. Designed as clothes, moral conventions, and theatrical costume. foundations and cocurricular experience have pre- an advancement of the skills and knowledge acquired The process of design development from concept to pared them for professional work related to the major in TH231, special emphasis is placed on the collabo- completed plates will be encountered through a field. With faculty sponsorship and department rative process. Interpretive and formal skills are series of assigned projects. Offered every other fall approval, students may extend their educational shaped in such studio projects as the collaboration semester. Prerequisite: TH129. Alternates with experience into such areas as stage managing; with a playwright to stage a reading or an original TH337 in fall semester. Non-liberal arts. P. Pawliczak lighting; scene design and construction; costume script, and shaping through improvisation with an design, construction, and restoration; sound design acting ensemble an unscripted performance. Not TH 305, 306. SPECIAL STUDIES IN DESIGN AND and implementation; acting; directing; and theater open to first-year students. Prerequisite: TH231 and TECHNICAL THEATER † 3, 3 management and promotion. Prerequisite: one of the permission of instructor. Recommended: TH129. A series of specialized and advanced level courses in following courses pertinent to the chosen area of the Non-liberal arts. C. Anderson, A. Becker, design and technical theater. The opportunities internship: TH103, 129, 231, 228, or 235, or 335. S. Feldsher, P. Soltanoff, offered in a particular production season, the exper- tise of available visiting artists, and the needs of TH 335. THE SKIDMORE THEATER TH 333. THE DIRECTOR AS COLLABORATIVE qualified students will determine the offering(s) each COMPANY † 2 ARTIST 3 term. Permission of instructor required. Non-liberal Participation for theater majors and non-majors An advanced seminar course stressing the relation- arts. interested in theater production. Advanced level work ship of the director’s insights to the insights and work A. Scenic Painting D. Scenic Projection is usually: working as a designer, as a director, of actors, designers, stage managers, composers, B. Make-up E. Advanced Scenic Design performing in a substantial role, in a leadership and musicians. Students examine a variety of directo- C. Costume F. Advanced Lighting capacity or specialist on crews or management rial models and theories. Students also analyze their Construction Design areas. All company members are a part of the pro- own collaborative efforts and directorial strategies in G.Advanced Costume duction process from concept to design to execution various workshop productions. Prerequisite: TH230 Design and evaluation. This course may be repeated for a or 231, or permission of instructor. Non-liberal arts. L. Opitz, P. Pawliczak, D. Yergan, and Guest Artists maximum of four semester hours. (Normally this G. Dasgupta or the Department course is only open to seniors.) Prerequisite: TH235. TH 336. ADVANCED THEATER PRODUCTION 3 Non-liberal arts. TH 375. ADVANCED DIRECTING This course, structured on an individual basis, pro- D. Yergan and the Department PRACTICUM † 3 vides leadership experience in the areas of stage Independent work on a theatrical production. Under management, properties, sound, and technical TH 376. SENIOR PROJECT † 3 faculty supervision, the student will choose, cast, and direction. Theories and strategies are studied, then This course provides a culminating experience for the mount a dramatic work which will be presented to the applied to work on a major production assignment. theater major. In consultation with faculty, each public. Prerequisite: TH332 and permission of the Prerequisite: TH129 and permission of instructor. student will submit a project proposal during the department. Recommended: TH333. Non-liberal arts. Non-liberal arts. L. Opitz or D. Yergan junior year. Projects should be based upon the The Department student’s past work and provide an appropriate next TH 337. SCENIC DESIGN 3 challenge for the student’s development as a theater A studio course in advanced theories and practices artist. Projects will be supervised by an appropriate DESIGN AND TECHNICAL THEATER of scenic design. Study and projects will involve the faculty member. Possible projects include: development of conceptual approaches, research, a. Preparing a thesis (research paper, design TH 129. DESIGN AND PRODUCTION 3 sketches, and preservation techniques. Students will project, etc. An introduction to the principles and techniques of serve as assistant designers on Skidmore Theater b. Performing in a seminar or faculty directed theater production and design for the stage. Theater productions. Prerequisites TH129 and 216, or per- studio production production is explored through the study of organ- mission of the instructor. Non-liberal arts. L. Opitz c. Directing a studio production ization, the physical plant, scenic construction, stage d. Designing a studio or seminar production lighting, stage management, painting, and the use of e. Serving in one of a number of approved plans. Half of the course is devoted to investigating PRODUCTION production positions such as general manager, the process by which the designer interprets plays production manager, technical director, etc. Students and develops effective designs. Students will fulfill a TH 235. THE SKIDMORE THEATER unable to accomplish projects due to the casting or two hour lab requirement and will work on at least COMPANY † 1 nature of available production will revise proposal one Skidmore Theater production. Theater majors Participation for theater majors and non-majors during the senior year. Prerequisites: TH250; are required to complete this course by the end of the interested in theater production. Each company senior status as a theater major; senior minors may sophomore year. Prerequisite: TH103. member will acquire a breadth of training across all participate with permission of department. G. Wilson, D. Yergan areas of theatrical production, as well as make The Department essential contributions to the ongoing work of the TH 216. THEATER GRAPHICS 3 company. All company members are a part of the TH 399. PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP IN A studio course which explores the graphic tech- production process from concept to design to execu- THEATER 3, 6, or 9 niques involved in theater design and technology. tion and evaluation. This course may be repeated for Professional experience at an advanced level for Topics include drawing, painting, drafting, and model- a maximum of six semester hours. Non-liberal arts. juniors and seniors with substantial academic and making. Non-liberal arts. (Fulfills arts requirement.) D. Yergan and the Department cocurricular experience in the major field. With faculty L. Opitz sponsorship and department approval, students may TH 250. PRODUCTION SEMINAR † 3 extend their educational experience into such areas TH 228. STAGE LIGHTING 3 All students enrolled in this course will have major as stage managing; lighting; scenic design and A study of the theory, equipment, and technique responsibilities on the Skidmore Theater seminar construction; costume design, construction, and involved in stage lighting. Topics include optics, production to be presented near the end of the restoration; sound design and implementation; acting; vision, electricity, color, aesthetics, and design semester. In addition to fulfilling specific production directing; and theater management and promotion. procedures. This course consists of lectures, working responsibilities, all students will participate in a Prerequisite: student must have completed all inter- labs, and assigned responsibilities on Skidmore weekly seminar class through which the production mediate level theater courses appropriate to the area Theater productions. Non-liberal arts. (Fulfills arts work will be synthesized with the liberal arts. These of the internship and be recommended by an instruc- requirement.) L. Opitz seminars will deal with the study of pertinent theatri- tor in the chosen area of study. The Department cal, literary, philosophical, social, political, and economic aspects of the play. This course may be repeated for credit at the discretion of the department † This course may be repeated for credit at the and may include other departmental productions. discretion of the department Prerequisite: permission of department. Non-liberal arts. (Fulfills arts requirement.) The Department 144 Students majoring in women’s studies must Women’s Studies Curriculum Women’s Studies successfully complete nine courses, at least three of which must be at the 300 level, for a WS 101. INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN’S total of at least thirty credit hours, including: STUDIES 3 Director of the Women’s Studies Program: An introduction to the origins, purpose, subject Patricia Rubio I) An Introduction to Women’s Studies. This matters, and methods of women’s studies. Through requirement may be fulfilled in one of two an interdisciplinary investigation of the evolving body Affiliated Faculty ways: of scholarship by and about women, this course American Studies: Wilma Hall, Mary Lynn, 1. WS101, Introduction to Women's Studies presents a survey of women’s social, psychological, Joanna Schneider Zangrando historical, political, and cultural experiences. The goal Anthropology: Susan Bender, Michael Ennis- 2. In exceptional cases and only with per- of the course is to help students develop a critical McMillan, Gerald Erchak, Jill Sweet, mission of the director of the Women’s Studies framework for thinking about gender and sexuality, Art History: Lisa Aronson, Katherine Hauser, Program, two entry-level courses in the with special attention to issues of class, race, and Penny Jolly women’s studies curriculum in different areas ethnicity. (Fulfills LS2 requirement.) (social sciences, humanities, or the sciences). Classics: Leslie Mechem WS 201. FEMINIST THEORIES AND Dance: Mary DiSanto-Rose Students who take this option must success- fully complete eleven courses for the major. METHODOLOGIES 3 Economics: Sandy Baum A critical exploration of the history, development, English: Carol Batker, Barbara Black, Joanne II) WS 201, Feminist Theories and Methodolo- impact, and implications of feminist theory. Beginning Devine, Catherine Golden, Sarah gies. Prerequisite: WS101. with seventeenth- and eighteenth-century proto- Webster Goodwin, Kate Greenspan, feminism, the course moves through the “first and III) At least one course from the women’s Susan Kress, Phyllis Roth, Linda second waves” of the women’s movement in the studies curriculum including works by or about Simon, Mason Stokes nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and looks toward French: Lynne Gelber, Adrienne Zuerner, women of color or women from other cultures. the future through consideration of current trends in Government: Katherine Graney This category includes courses with a non- feminist theory and method. Emphasis is placed on Italian: Shirley Smith, Western focus (e.g., “Issues of Gender in the crossdisciplinary nature of feminist inquiry, and Library: Ruth Copans African Art,” “Latin American Women”) as well the specific ways in which particular methodologies Management and Business: Pushkala Prasad. as those that deal centrally with culturally arise from or relate to specific theoretical positions. Mary Taber diverse groups within the United States. Prerequisite: WS101 or permission of instructor. Music: Deborah Rohr IV) Five additional courses in the women’s WS 371, 372. INDEPENDENT STUDY 3, 3 Philosophy: Joel Smith, studies curriculum. Courses should reflect the A program of individual reading and research under Psychology: Joan Douglas, Holley Hodgins interdisciplinary nature of women’s studies by the direction of the women’s studies faculty. Prerequi- Religion: Mary Zeiss Stange drawing from at least three different disci- site: approval of the director of women’s studies. Sociology: Catherine White Berheide, plines. Electives should be selected in consul- Lorraine Hawkins, Susan Walzer tation with the program director so as to WS 375. SENIOR SEMINAR IN WOMEN’S Spanish: Viviana Rangil, Patricia Rubio, constitute both exploration and concentration. STUDIES 4 Theater: Carolyn Anderson A concentration, normally three courses at Exploration of primary and secondary sources in the least one of which is at the 300 level, may be interdisciplinary examination of a particular theme or THE WOMEN’S STUDIES MAJOR: Women’s designed to focus on a discipline, a theme, a topic in women’s studies. The focus is on advanced studies is an interdisciplinary academic field time period, or an issue. research, and close attention is paid to the develop- that draws on feminist theories and scholar- ment, organization, and production of a major project. V) WS375: Senior Seminar in Women’s Stud- Students will present their research to the seminar; ship by and/or about women to analyze the ies. Prerequisites: WS101 and WS201. experiences, perspectives, and contributions those intending to write an honors thesis will present their thesis proposals. Prerequisite: WS101 and 201. of women and systems of gender relations in HONORS: Students desiring honors in various cultural settings and time periods. women’s studies must meet the requisite WS 376. SENIOR THESIS 3 The women’s studies major is a multi- grade-point average and must complete a Independent study and research leading to a thesis disciplinary program that involves students in senior thesis under the supervision of a examining, from an interdisciplinary perspective, a the exploration of topics such as the social women’s studies faculty member. The thesis topic relevant to women's studies. Students will work construction of gender, women’s historical and must be approved for honors by the Women’s under the direction of a faculty advisor as well as a contemporary experiences, and their roles Studies Advisory Board. second reader. Open to women's studies majors within various societies. only, and required of candidates for program honors. THE WOMEN’S STUDIES MINOR: A minor Completion of the major strengthens students’ WS 399. PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP IN consists of five courses (at least eighteen WOMEN’S STUDIES 3 preparation for further work in fields including semester hours), including: either WS101 or women’s studies, law, public and international Internship opportunity for students whose academic 201; WS375, Senior Seminar in Women’s and cocurricular experience has prepared them for affairs, social sciences, the humanities, com- Studies; and three additional courses chosen munications, and the arts. Through the major, professional work related to women’s studies. With from the women's studies curriculum in consul- faculty sponsorship and approval of the director of students also gain a foundation for under- tation with the program director. the Women’s Studies Program, students may extend standing the social, intellectual, and political their educational experience into such areas as forces that shape their personal and profes- counseling, education, crisis intervention, health care sional lives. The major leads to a bachelor of delivery, business and management, and other areas arts degree. relevant to women’s studies. Academic assignments will be determined by the faculty sponsor in consulta- tion with the on-site supervisor. Prerequisites: Two courses in women’s studies, at least one of which is at the 200 or 300 level.

145 The following list may be revised with the approval of the director as departments offer additional courses Self-Determined Major Preparation for Professions and in women’s studies and as appropriate Liberal Studies courses become available. Affiliated Programs A qualified student may pursue an interest AH 369. Women in the Visual Arts through a program not necessarily contained The undergraduate program at Skidmore AH 375.D. Seminar: Theory and Methodology within or related to a major department. The affords preparation for graduate work either in “Gender Issues in Late Medieval and self-determined major is neither a double the liberal arts or in the professions. Students Renaissance Art“ major nor an interdepartmental major. In interested in advanced degrees should consult AH 376. E. Colloquia in Art History recent years, self-determined majors have the appropriate department as soon as pos- “Issues of Gender in African Art" included such areas as medieval studies, arts sible in their undergraduate careers. A number AM 340. Women and Work in America administration, sports management, environ- AM 363. Women in American Culture of preprofessional programs, such as premed mental studies, law and society, and Italian and prelaw, are supported by special advisors AN 242. North American Indians studies. The degree program must contain a AN 260. Southwest Indians at the College. AN 351. Topics in Anthropology core of not fewer than ten courses pertinent to “Kinship and Gender” the student’s central interest, one of these Catalogues of graduate and professional AN 352. Topics in Archaeology being an independent study project that inte- schools are available on microfiche in the “Women in Prehistory” grates this core of courses, or a senior semi- Scribner Library. Notices of graduate fellow- CC 365. Topics in Classical Studies: nar or colloquium in which a main project ships and assistantships from many institu- “Sex in the Ancient World” achieves the same goal. Self-determined tions are on file in the Office of The Dean of “Family in Antiquity” majors must meet the all-college requirements, Studies and are posted on departmental “Women in Antiquity” including the maturity-level requirement. bulletin boards. EC 351. Women in the Economy EN 208. Language and Gender The student proposes a course of study to Most graduate schools require an appropriate EN 223. Women and Literature the Subcommittee on Self-Determined Majors entrance exam: the MCAT for medical school, EN 227. Introduction to African American through the chair of the subcommittee. Nor- Literature the LSAT for law school, the GMAT for busi- mally, a student will apply during the spring of ness school, and the GRE for most other EN 316. Nineteenth-Century Novel the sophomore year. A self-determined-major EN 360. Women Writers graduate programs. Information on specific EN 363. Special Studies in Literary History proposal must be submitted no later than entrance requirements and application forms B. "The James Circle" October 15 of the junior year or its equivalent. are available in the Office of Career Services. C. "Manhattan in the Twenties" Many graduate programs in an academic GO 223. Current Issues in Public Policy Students seeking departmental honors at discipline leading to an M.A. or Ph.D. require GO 313. Politics of Contemporary United States graduation may submit their final project to the competence in one or two foreign languages. Social Movements subcommittee for evaluation. There are two GO 352. Women and the Law conditions for giving a final project honors: Most professional schools advise students to GO 353. Sex and Power (1) the advisors assess it to be excellent and obtain a sound foundation in the liberal arts, in GO 354. Feminist Political Thought of honors caliber; addition to the necessary preprofessional GO 357. Sexing Global Politics: Gender and (2) the Self-Determined Majors Subcommittee, courses, as the best preparation for admission. International Relations based on the advisors’ assessments and its This holds true for engineering, law, medicine, LS2 102. Romance and Gender members’ judgments, deems it worthy of social service, and teaching certification. LS2 108. Coming of Age honors. In instances when the subcommittee LS2 120. Sexual Science is not sufficiently knowledgeable about the LS2 136. United States Women Entrepreneurs LS2 140. Changes in Families subject of a final project to assess it, a faculty BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION LS2 145. Gender and the Scientific Process member knowledgeable in the subject will LS2 152. Women and Music advise them. The 4 + l M.B.A. Program with Clarkson LS2 178. Born in America University LS2 181. How Do Women Look? Woman as Detailed procedures for establishing a self- Object/Subject in Contemporary determined major may be obtained from the In this program, students earn a baccalaureate American Visual Culture Office of the Dean of Studies or from the chair from Skidmore and a master’s degree in busi- LS2 188. The Debate About Women in the Middle of the subcommittee. ness administration from Clarkson in the year Ages following Skidmore graduation. Normally, the LS2 193. The Forgotten Half: Latin American M.B.A. requires two or more graduate years to Women Before and After Spanish complete. Colonization LS2 197. Images of Contemporary Italian Women LS2 198. Images of Latinas Under special agreement, students plan their LS2 199. Italian Renaissance Women undergraduate programs to include certain LS2 208. Is the Melting Pot Boiling Over? foundation courses normally taken in the first Diversity in the American Workplace year of study in an M.B.A. program. PS331. Psychology of Women RE205. Women, Religion, and Spirituality Foundation requirements include satisfactory RE 220. Encountering the Goddess in India completion of a total of twenty-seven semester RE 330. Advanced Topics in Relgion: “Feminist hours in each of the following subjects: Theologies” SB 315. Work, Family, and Organizations Foundation Skidmore Courses SO 214. Family and Gender Requirements (or Clarkson equivalent) SO 225. Quantifying Women SO 316. Women in Modern Society Business and Society BU 333. Business Law I SO 331. Women in Global Economy Economics EC 103. Introduction to TH 334. Special Studies in Theater History and Macroeconomics Theory: “Women in American Theater” EC 104. Introduction to Microeconomics Management BU 224. Foundations Principles of Organizational 146 Behavior Accounting BU 234. Foundations of students each year to the graduate program. At the end of the fall semester of the sopho- Accounting I Any qualified applicants beyond the six admit- more year the student shall apply to the Engi- BU 235. Foundations of ted may, with Management and Business neering Advisory Committee for consideration. Accounting II Department support, also apply to the pro- The Committee will recommend to Dartmouth Computer BU 319. Management gram, and their admission will be at the discre- only those students whom it believes are likely Information Systems tion of Rensselaer. to profit from the program. Programming Statistics and EC 237. Economic and In addition to the course and formal program Outlined below is the course of study required Probability Business Statistics; or requirement, 3/2 students are required to for the 3/2 program comprising first, second, MA 204. Probability and complete a summer work-internship at a and senior years at Skidmore and the junior Statistics company or agency. and fifth year at Dartmouth. PS 217. Statistical Methods of Psychology I Mathematics/Engineering Major ENGINEERING Calculus MA 111. Calculus I Physics/Engineering Major Marketing BU 214. Foundations of Skidmore College offers qualified students the First Year Marketing opportunity to earn dual degrees in liberal arts MA 111. Calculus I and engineering through its cooperative 3/2 MA 113. Calculus II Finance BU 338. Foundations of PY 207. General Physics I Program with Dartmouth College or its 3 + 2 Finance PY 208. General Physics II Program with Clarkson University. These are LS1. Human Experience In addition to completing the foundation challenging programs designed for the student LS2. Integrative Topics equivalents, students will meet Clarkson’s who has strong preparation in mathematics EN 105 or 107. Writing Seminar II or III; or a prescribed admission standards. and physical sciences, and above average writing-intensive course problem solving skills. Foreign language or breadth component course Second Year The 3/2 Bachelor’s M.B.A. Program with It is desirable to select either the 3/2 or the MA 200. Linear Algebra Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, School of 3+2 program at the earliest possible date, MA 202. Calculus III Management preferably during the first year, to ensure MA 270. Differential Equations (for physics meeting the prerequisite requirements. There- major) In this program, students earn a baccalaureate fore, interested students are encouraged to MA 215. Bridge to Advanced Mathematics (for from Skidmore and a master’s degree in busi- discuss the engineering programs with the mathematics major) ness administration from Rensselaer. Students engineering coordinator as soon as possible. PY 210. Foundations of Modern Physics spend generally three to three and one-half Physics Elective (for physics major) years at Skidmore completing their particular Skidmore Engineering Advisory Committee: Junior Year at Dartmouth major as well as the undergraduate equivalent Professors William J. Standish, Coordinator; During the junior year, while in residence at Thayer M.B.A. course requirements for which Richard L. Speers, Pierre von Kaenel. School, Dartmouth College, students are required to Rensselaer grants credit. Then one and one- take: half to two years are spent at Rensselaer 3/2 Program with Dartmouth College ENGS 21. Introduction to Engineering completing the M.B.A. requirements. ENGS 22. Systems I Through a cooperative arrangement with the Seven additional engineering courses, science and/or Under special agreement, students plan their Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth mathematics electives should be chosen in consulta- undergraduate programs to include certain College, students majoring in mathematics or tion with the student’s advisor at Skidmore and with courses normally taken in the first year of physics at Skidmore may earn both the bach- the Thayer School at Dartmouth. study in an M.B.A. program. elor of arts degree from Skidmore at the end of Senior Year (Mathematics/Engineering) the fourth year and, at the end of the fifth year, MA 303. Advanced Calculus Courses taken at Skidmore that may substitute the bachelor of engineering degree from MA 319. Algebra I as undergraduate equivalent courses in this Dartmouth. MA 376. Seminar M.B.A. program are: Two additional mathematics courses (at least one of An additional one or two years may lead to which is at the 300 level) selected in consultation with EC 103, 104. Macro, Micro Economics the master of engineering and/or the master the student’s advisor. BU 214. Marketing of business administration degree from Electives BU 224. Organizational Behavior Dartmouth. Senior Year (Physics/Engineering) BU 234, 235. Financial, Managerial Accounting PY 341. Advanced Theory and Methods in EC 237, PS 217. Statistics REQUIREMENTS Physics Research BU 319. Management Information Systems A student entering this combined program PY 345. Mechanics BU 343, 345. Financial Management must major in mathematics or physics, must PY 346. Electricity and Magnetism (equivalent to BU 355. Business Ethics have a grade point average of at least 3.0 in ENGS 23) MA 105, 111. Pre-Calculus, Calculus I science and mathematics, and must have ap- PY 348. Quantum Mechanics proval of the Engineering Advisory Committee. PY 373. Senior Research in Physics Admission to the program will normally be One additional physics course selected in consulta- made during the first semester of a student’s Students interested in this program must tion with the student’s advisor. third year at Skidmore. To qualify for admis- Electives sion (without GMAT tests) applicants must have the necessary course background before have at least a 3.0 cumulative grade point entering Dartmouth in the junior year. There- Fifth Year at Dartmouth average and will have met the following mini- fore it is desirable to select the program at the During this year engineering courses are mal prerequisites: MA105, 111, EC 103, 104, earliest possible date, preferably during the available that will allow the student to concen- CS102, and one other course in computer first year, to ensure meeting the prerequisite trate in a particular area of engineering sci- science or computer applications approved by requirements. The Engineering Advisory ence and/or to prepare for graduate study in Rensselaer. The chair of the Management and Committee does not recommend students advanced engineering or business. These Business Department, in consultation with accelerate in the program. courses should be selected in consultation appropriate faculty of the department, and a with the student’s Dartmouth advisor. faculty member from the student’s major department may admit as many as six 147 The 3 + 2 Program with Clarkson University The law and society minor involves students in The Health Professions Advisory Committee at the interdisciplinary study of law; the curricu- Skidmore offers counseling to pre-health The 3 + 2 Program in Engineering, offered in lum for the minor includes courses from the professions students in their undergraduate cooperation with the School of Engineering at Departments of Management and curriculum planning and application process to Clarkson University, combines three years of Business; Economics; Government; History; health professional schools. Students who are study at Skidmore with two years of additional Philosophy and Religion; and Sociology, interested in health professions must contact study at Clarkson. During their senior year in Anthropology, and Social Work. the chair or any member of the Health Profes- absentia, while continuing their studies at sions Advisory Committee to discuss their Clarkson, students fulfill the bachelor of arts Practically all law schools require the Law interests and seek advice regarding their requirements (including major and all-college School Admission Test (LSAT) of the Educa- academic and cocurricular planning. requirements) and receive their degrees from tional Testing Service. Students should submit Students with an interest in the health profes- Skidmore at the end of the fourth year of the several applications early in the fall of their sions should register with HPAC. The HPAC program. Upon successful completion of the senior year. office is located in Dana Science Center, room additional year of prescribed study, qualified 172, and is online at www.skidmore.edu/ students will be eligible for the bachelor of A prelaw advisor counsels students preparing academics/health science degree in engineering from Clarkson. for law, assisting them in evaluating law schools and in preparing effective applications. REQUIREMENTS SECONDARY EDUCATION A student entering this combined program The Accelerated Law School Program must major in either mathematics, chemistry, The 4 + 1 M.A.T. Program with Union or physics, have a grade-point average of at Through a cooperative arrangement with the College least 3.0 in science and mathematics, have Cardozo Law School of Yeshiva University, approval of the Engineering Advisory Commit- qualified Skidmore students may obtain a Students accepted into the program earn a tee, and be accepted for admission by bachelor’s degree from Skidmore and a law baccalaureate degree from Skidmore and a Clarkson. Students interested in this program degree from Cardozo in six years rather than Master of Arts in Teaching degree from Union must have the necessary course background the average time of seven years for completion College. Admission is competitive and before entering Clarkson in the senior year. To of both degrees. Students admitted to the students are selected according to the follow- ensure meeting the prerequisite requirements, program complete a full first year of profes- ing criteria: undergraduate major in a discipline students should take the following courses sional legal education during the summers represented in the Union M.A.T. Program; during their first year at Skidmore. before and after their final year of undergradu- ED103, 323 and PS204; 3.0 grade point aver- ate study. With careful course selection and age in the major and overall; and demon- MA 111. Calculus I departmental and Committee on Academic strated interest and suitability for teaching. MA 113. Calculus II Standing approval, Skidmore will accept up to CH 105. Chemical Principles I fifteen hours of Cardozo credit toward the The Union program includes the following CH 106. Chemical Principles II Skidmore degree. The student then becomes secondary (grades 7-12) subjects: biology, PY 207. General Physics I a second year law school student during the chemistry, earth science, English, French, PY 208. General Physics II fall semester after graduation from Skidmore. general science, German, Latin, mathematics, LS1. Human Experience EN 105. Writing Seminar II physics, social studies, and Spanish. HEALTH PROFESSIONS Courses for the sophomore and junior years at Students interested in the program should Skidmore will be chosen by the student in consult with the chair of the Education Health Professions Advisory Committee: consultation with the engineering coordinator, Department. Professors Raymond Giguere, Roy S. Meyers, based on the student's engineering interests Vasantha Narasimhan, Bernard Possidente (e.g., electrical, mechanical, civil). (chair), Jon R. Ramsey, and Elaine C. Rubenstein. At the beginning of the junior year, the student applies to the Engineering Advisory Committee Students who plan to apply to medical, dental, for consideration. The committee will recom- veterinary or other health professional schools mend only those students it believes are likely should consult with a member of the Health to profit from the program and who have met Professions Advisory Committee early in their all prerequisite requirements. college careers and before registration each semester so that they can plan their courses at Skidmore to include those that will help them LAW succeed in the standardized admissions tests required by various health professional The law school admissions process is highly schools. The following courses are recom- competitive. While there is no prescribed mended by the majority of health professional course of study for the undergraduate who schools as minimum requirements: plans to attend law school, a strong academic record is the best preparation. 1. Two courses in English 2. Two courses in biology (most successful Law schools emphasize the importance of a applicants complete four to six courses) broad liberal arts education. The ability to 3. Two courses in general chemistry analyze critically, and synthesize material, and 4. Two courses in organic chemistry the power of organization, clear expression 5. Two courses in calculus and sound judgment are desirable. Well- 6. Two courses in physics developed skills in reading, speaking, and Students should be aware that additional writing are essential. Students are encouraged specific requirements may be set by individual to choose courses widely, concentrating in an medical, dental, veterinary, and osteopathic area that is of most interest to them. schools and physician’s assistant and physical therapy programs. 148 SEMESTER IN INDIA Skidmore Study Abroad Programs Higher Education Opportunity The New York State Independent College Consortium for Study in India (Skidmore, Program Many program opportunities are coordinated Bard, Hartwick, St. Lawrence, and Hobart and Academic Opportunity Program through the Office of International Programs William Smith Colleges) offers a one-semester and the Dean of Studies Office. Skidmore academic program in India every fall that Director: Susan Layden offers foreign-study programs in Madrid, Spain; carries seventeen semester hours of credit. Paris, France; Stratford-upon-Avon and Lon- Associate Directors: Monica Minor, Victor Students live and study in two locations — Gonzalzez don, England; and Jaipur and Mussoorie, India. Mussoorie, in the foothills of the Himalaya, The programs are designed to develop a and the city of Jaipur. deeper understanding of cultures different from The Higher Education Opportunity Program one’s own and to broaden perspectives on (HEOP) recruits and admits talented and Courses offered (see Asian Studies for de- motivated students from New York State who one’s own culture through daily contact with scriptions): foreign teachers, students, and institutions. otherwise, owing to academic and financial AS 101, 102. Language and Culture in India circumstance, would be unable to attend AS 201. Historical, Cultural, and Social Skidmore College. SKIDMORE IN PARIS Background of Indian Development The Academic Opportunity Program (AOP) AS 202. Contemporary Issues in Indian Coordinator: Office of International Programs recruits and admits students who are HEOP- like in their academic and economic profiles, Director: Alain Matthey de l'Etang Social and Cultural Development AS 376. Directed Field Study in India yet are not eligible for support from the pro- Representative courses: gram because they reside in states other than AH 371, 372. Studies in the History of French Art Information on the Semester in India may be New York or have income levels slightly above BU 385, 386. Topics in Business obtained from the director of the Asian Studies the HEOP economic eligibility guidelines. A. Marketing Program or the Office of International Programs. B. Investments Holistic in the approach to student develop- C. Management ment, both programs provide developmental, D. Accounting SEMESTER IN LONDON tutorial, financial, and counseling services, E. Production beginning with a required, prefreshman, on- EC 381, 382. Studies in Economics Skidmore offers a variety of study programs in campus summer program. The Summer Aca- FF 280. French Conversation and Phonetics the heart of London each spring semester. The demic Institute strengthens students' academic FF 309, 310. French Composition and study skills and prepares them for an FF 381, 382. Advanced Language Study program is accompanied by a Skidmore faculty academically and personally successful col- FF 383, 384. Studies in French Literature director. Applicants must have strong Skidmore FF 385, 386. Theater in Paris faculty references and normally an achievement lege experience. FF 323 Contemporary French Society record of 3.0 or higher. Courses in the London FF 377. The City of Paris program are pre-approved for transfer credit. FF 378. The French Cinema The total cost of the program is equivalent to SUMMER COURSES FL 323. Contemporary French Society tuition, room, and board in Saratoga Springs. FL 391, 392. Field Experience Abroad Skidmore students on financial aid may apply HE 100. ACADEMIC WRITING 3 GO 381, 382. Studies in Politics their loans and significant portions of their schol- A course designed for HEOP/AOP students that HI 381, 382. Topics in History arship awards to the program. Information and includes work on grammar, sentence structure, MU 335, 336. Studies in Music application forms are available from the Office of paragraph development, and ESL concerns. It will SO 381, 382. Topics in Sociology International Programs. introduce interpretation and documentation of aca- demic texts from a variety of disciplines. Students will move from short papers and revisions to a final analytical five-page paper. SKIDMORE IN MADRID SHAKESPEARE PROGRAMME Coordinator: Office of International Programs MA 100. QUANTITATIVE REASONING 3 This fall semester program offers in-depth Study of practical arithmetic and geometry, data Director: Joan Berenguer Shakespeare studies in London and Stratford- gathering and analysis, introductory probability and Assistant Director: upon-Avon. Students earn from twelve to statistics, size and bias in sampling, hypothesis eighteen semester hours of credit. Admission Representative courses: testing, confidence intervals and their use in statisti- is selective. For additional information, consult AH 371, 372. Studies in the History of cal analysis, linear relationships, interpolation and Spanish Art Professor Lary Opitz, Theater Department. extrapolation, correlation, linear and exponential BU 385, 386. Topics in Business growth with practical applications. This course is A. Marketing Courses offered: primarily intended to fulfill the first part of the quanti- B. Investments EN 314. Contemporary Poetry tative reasoning requirement. C. Management EN 316. Nineteenth Century Novel D. Accounting EN 343. Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama HPB. BASIC MATHEMATICS E. Production EN 345. Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, This course addresses quantitative skills such as: EC 381, 382. Studies in Economics and Romances number relations, computations, percents, word FL 391, 392. Field Experience Abroad EN 346. Shakespeare: The Tragedies problems, statistics, and the interpretations of graphs. FS 381, 382. Advanced Language Study TH 230. Theater and Culture II: Genesis of It is intended to prepared students for MA100. FS 383, 384. Studies in Spanish Literature Theatrical Modernism FS 385, 386. Contemporary Spanish Civilization TH 231 Directing HPE. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND GO 381, 382. Studies in Politics TH 303. Acting Styles EXPLORATION WORKSHOP HI 381, 382. Topics in History TH 304. Special Studies in Acting: This course uses a discussion/seminar format to MU 335, 336. Studies in Music Shakespeare discuss a variety of topics related to the college SO 381, 382. Topics in Sociology TH 325 Playwriting experience. Using a problem-solving paradigm, TH 381, 382. History of Spanish Theater TH 334. Special Studies in Theater History students will explore the challenges inherent in and Theory: Criticism making the transition from high school to college. For more information, consult the study-abroad brochure. 149 HPG. PRE-LIBERAL STUDIES/ GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION – FALL 2000 STUDY SKILLS WORKSHOP Enrollment Statistics This course follows the format of Liberal Studies1: Arizona ...... 5 The Human Experience. Students are introduced to California ...... 31 a variety of classroom settings, including lectures, Colorado ...... 23 guest lectures, discussion meetings, and perfor- RETENTION Connecticut ...... 233 mances. The study skills component of this course Delaware ...... 2 uses the content of the pre-LS readings and discus- Information on retention is available from the District of Columbia ...... 10 sions to help students improve reading comprehen- Office of the Registrar. Florida ...... 11 sion, time-management, note taking, analytical, and Retention rates for the 1999-2000 academic Georgia ...... 9 library skills. year (fall to fall): Hawaii ...... 2 Illinois ...... 36 HPC. LANGUAGE SKILLS This is a remedial Junior Class — 94.1% Indiana ...... 3 course that includes both basic grammatical skills Sophomore Class — 95.6 % Iowa ...... 2 and the writing of one- and two-page essays. The First-year Class — 88.7% Kansas ...... 5 instructor reviews sentence structure, usage, some All-College Average — 92.5% Kentucky ...... 3 ESL techniques, and paragraph development. The Louisiana ...... 3 student progresses to longer essays and the creation Maine ...... 60 of a portfolio of his/her best work. DEGREES CONFERRED IN 1999-2000 Maryland ...... 52 Massachusetts ...... 412 Skidmore College conferred 378 B.A. and 191 Michigan ...... 9 B.S. degrees from August 1999 through May ACADEMIC YEAR COURSES Minnesota ...... 20 2000. In addition, 24 B.A. and 23 B.S. degrees Mississippi...... 1 were conferred on graduates of the Skidmore HE 100. ACADEMIC WRITING 3 Missouri ...... 8 College University Without Walls program. Ten A course designed for HEOP students that includes New Hampshire ...... 82 work on grammar, sentence structure, paragraph M.A. degrees were awarded graduates of the New Jersey ...... 191 development, and ESL concerns. It will introduce Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program for New Mexico...... 3 interpretation and documentation of academic texts 1999-2000. New York...... 615 from a variety of disciplines. Students will move from North Carolina...... 5 short papers and revisions to a final analytical five- Ohio...... 41 page paper. GRADUATION RATES** Oregon...... 7 Pennsylvania...... 84 Initial Cohort, Fall 1994 HPF. STUDY SKILLS Puerto Rico ...... 2 Total full-time first-year students 610 This course is offered to first-year students as a Rhode Island...... 33 Graduates by August 1998 430 continuation of the study skills workshop offered South Carolina...... 3 Additional graduates by August 1999 23 during the summer program. The focus of this course South Dakota...... 1 Additional graduates by August 2000 4 remains the development of time- management, Tennessee...... 2 Total graduates by August 31, 2000 457 note-taking, test-taking, and reading-comprehension Texas...... 15 skills; however, the content of the course will be Utah...... 3 based upon first semester courses. Percentage of students receiving Vermont ...... 80 baccalaureate degrees within period of Virginia ...... 18 six academic years: 75 % Virgin Islands ...... 1 Washington ...... 5 **UWW students not included West Virginia ...... 1 Wisconsin ...... 4 Wyoming ...... 2

Austria ...... 2 Bahrain ...... 1 Bermuda ...... 2 Brazil ...... 1 Canada ...... 4 Ecudor ...... 1 Egypt ...... 1 England ...... 4 France ...... 3 Germany ...... 1 Greece ...... 1 Holland ...... 1 Hong Kong ...... 3 India ...... 1 Ireland ...... 1 New Zealand ...... 1 Nigeria ...... 1 Philippines ...... 1 Singapore ...... 3 Switzerland ...... 3 Taiwan ...... 1 Thailand ...... 1 Turkey ...... 1

TOTAL ...... 2174

150 ROBERT M. LADD Emeriti Tucson, Arizona Board of Trustees B.A., Bard College; MYLES A. CANE LL.D. ’98 M.A., Trinity College; 2001-2002 Ed.D., University of Virginia CARLETON A. CLEVELAND JR. GEORGE H. COLTON LL.D. ’86 JOAN LAYNG DAYTON ’63, Chair KIM P. MACALISTER ’76 Wayzata, Minnesota Los Angeles, California JUDITH PICK EISSNER ’64 LL.D. ’95 B.S., Skidmore College B.S., Skidmore College IRVING HARRIS FLORENCE ANDRESEN ’57 SCOTT M. MARTIN ’79 Saratoga Springs, New York Los Angeles, California JAMES H. INGERSOLL B.A., Skidmore College; B.A., Skidmore College; PENNY KANICLIDES ’59 M.S., Hofstra University M.A., J.D., American University; LL.M., Columbia University ESTHER ANDERSON LACEY ’48 BARBARA McILVEEN BALDWIN ’61 Short Hills, New Jersey BEVERLY HARRISON MILLER ’67 ROBERT P. LARSON B.A., Skidmore College Concord, Massachusetts B.A., Skidmore College; CATHERINE MATHER SUSAN GOTTLIEB BECKERMAN ’61 M.A., Fairfield University JAMES E. McCABE LL.D. ’91 New York, New York B.A., Skidmore College; JOHN S. MORRIS Litt. D. ’91 KATHERINE SCRANTON ROZENDAAL M.B.A., Baruch College Hamilton, New York L.H.D. ’71 B.A., University College of South Wales ROSEMARY BOURNE ’60 and Monmouthshire; JEAN POSKANZER RUDNICK ’44 Oyster Bay, New York M.A., The University of Cambridge; INEZ ZAGOREOS SCRIBNER ’62 B.A., Skidmore College; M.A., Colgate University; New York University Graduate School of Business Ph.D., Columbia University JESSICA WEIS WARREN ’48 CHARLES B. BUCHANAN DAVID J. MURPHY ’93 Glenmont, New York Brighton, Massachusetts B.A., Dartmouth College; B.A., Skidmore College; M.B.A., Harvard Business School J.D., Georgetown University Law Center JEAN BERNHARD BUTTNER SARA LUBIN SCHUPF ’62 Westport, Connecticut New York, New York B.A., Vassar College; B.A., Skidmore College, University Without Walls Certificate of Business Administration, Harvard- Radcliffe Program of Business Administration JAMIENNE S. STUDLEY Saratoga Springs, New York DALE OWEN COXE ’64 B. A., Barnard College; Marblehead, Massachusetts J.D., Harvard Law School B.A., Skidmore College; M.A., Brown University KAY YEE TAI ’72 Singapore WILLIAM P. DAKE B.A., Skidmore College Saratoga Springs, New York B.M.E., Cornell University SUZANNE CORBET THOMAS ’62 Summit, New Jersey ANN MOSES DOUGLAS ’56 B.A., Skidmore College Princeton, New Jersey M.S.W., Columbia University B.A., Skidmore College; M.S., Bank Street College of Education M. ELIZABETH TIDBALL L.H.D. ’84 Adamstown, Maryland TANYA S. FANDIÑO ’95 B.A., Mount Holyoke College; West Warwick, Rhode Island M.S., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison; B.S., Skidmore College; M.T.S., Wesley Theological Seminary Computer Applications Certificate, Bryant College WILMA STEIN TISCH ’48 LL.D. ’90 JOHN J. P. HOWLEY ’80 New York, New York Colonia, New Jersey B.S., Skidmore College B.A., Skidmore college; J.D., New York Law School EDGAR WACHENHEIM III Rye, New York LINDA JACKSON-CHALMERS ’73 B.A., Williams College; Albany, New York M.B.A., Harvard University B.S., Skidmore College; M.S., University at Albany, State University CHARLES V. WAIT of New York Saratoga Springs, New York B.A., Cornell University; PENELOPE DAMMANN JOHNSTON ’63 Stonier School of Banking, Rutgers University Riverside, Connecticut B.A., Skidmore College; JANET LUCAS WHITMAN ’59 Teaching Credential, San Francisco State College Summit, New Jersey B.S., Skidmore College, University Without Walls PAMELA SCHICK KELSEY ’70 Princeton, New Jersey SUSAN KETTERING WILLIAMSON ’59 B.S., Skidmore College L.H.D. ’98 Lyme, New Hampshire PAULINE SKOGSBERG KISIEL ’62 Skidmore College Sherborn, Massachusetts B.S., Skidmore College 151 MARGARET K. GUYDER, Ph.D. JOAN C. SIEGFRIED, Ph.D. Associate Professor Emerita of Mathematics Associate Professor Emerita of Art History Faculty EDWARD G. HAUSMAN, M.S. BARBARA E. SMITH, M.L.S. Professor Emeritus of Music Professor Emerita, Library Emeriti WARREN J. HOCKENOS, Ph.D. FELIX SMITH Associate Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Technical Director and Lecturer in Dance Emeritus DANIEL BALMUTH, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of History J ARTHUR HONEYWELL, Ph.D. ROBERT F. SMITH, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Professor Emeritus of Government PETER B. BARUZZI, M.F.A. Professor Emeritus of Art HAROLD H. HOWARD, Ph.D. FREDERICK A. SPEAR, Ph.D. Associate Professor Emeritus of Biology Professor Emeritus of French PARKER B. BAUM, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Chemistry DOUGLAS C. HUSTON, Ph.D. RICHARD UPTON, M.F.A. Associate Professor Emeritus of Physics Professor Emeritus of Art BEVERLY J. BECKER, Ph.D. Professor Emerita of Physical Education SONJA P. KARSEN, Ph.D. PAUL H. L. WALTER, Ph.D. Professor Emerita of Spanish Professor Emeritus of Chemistry WILLIAM S. BROWN, Ph.D. Associate Professor Emeritus of Biology JAMES K. KETTLEWELL, M.A. ERIC J. WELLER Professor Emeritus of Art History Associate Professor Emeritus of Philosophy WILLIAM BRYNTESON, Ph.D. Dean of the Faculty Emeritus Professor Emeritus of History ALLEN F. KIFER, Ph.D. Associate Professor Emeritus of History ISABELLE WILLIAMS, Ph.D. JEAN H. CAMPBELL, R.N., Ed.D. Professor Emerita of Music Professor Emerita of Nursing RUTH C. LAKEWAY, M.M. Professor Emerita of Music ELISABETH CARROLL Associate Professor Emerita of Dance KIE BOK LEE, Ph.D. Associate Professor Emeritus of Economics REGINA CASALLS, Ph.D. Associate Professor Emerita of Spanish WILLIAM LeFURGY, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Psychology RALPH A. CIANCIO, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of English ERWIN L. LEVINE, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Government DENTON W. CROCKER, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Biology VICTOR LIGUORI, M.F.A. Professor Emeritus of Art NANCY B. DAVIS, M.S. Associate Professor Emerita of Physical Education GEORGE W. LOWIS, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Sociology THOMAS R. DAVIS, Ph.D. Associate Professor Emeritus of Religion AUGUSTUS R. LUMIA, Ph.D. Chaplain Emeritus Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychology DORIS DILLER, R.N., M.A. ROBERT P. MAHONEY, Ph.D. Professor Emerita of Nursing Professor Emeritus of Biology HELGA B. DOBLIN, Ph.D. ROBERT A. McGILL, Ph.D. Professor Emerita of Foreign Languages Associate Professor Emeritus of English JEFFREY L. ELGIN, M.F.A. SHIRLEY S. MURPHY, M.S. Professor of Art Assistant Professor Emerita of Business ANNE R. FAIRBANKS, M.S. ANTHONY M. NAZZARO, Ph.D. Associate Professor Emerita of Physical Education Professor Emeritus of French ALBERTA LEE FEYNMAN, Ph.D. MADELAINE ORTOLEVA, Ph.D. Professor Emerita of English Professor Emerita of French MARY ELLEN FISCHER, Ph.D. RICHARD H. PAGE, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Government Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychology ROBERT FOULKE, Ph.D. DAVID H. PORTER, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of English President Emeritus HENRY C. GALANT, Ph.D. HARRY PROSCH, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Government Professor Emeritus of Philosophy ALVIN F. GAMAGE, M.L.S. EDWARD REAGEN, Ph.D. Associate Professor Emeritus, Library Professor Emeritus of Economics CHARLOTTE M. GOODMAN, Ph.D. JOHN L. REED, Ph.D. Professor Emerita of English Professor Emeritus of Education ELEANOR A. SAMWORTH, Ph.D. Professor Emerita of Chemistry STANLEY SAXTON, M.M. Professor Emeritus of Music

152 Teaching Faculty 2001-2002 DIANA BARNES 3 BARBARA BLACK Lecturer in Foreign Languages and Literatures Associate Professor of English * YACUB ADDY B.A., University of Alaska, Fairbanks; A.B., Bryn Mawr College; Lecturer in Music M.A., Washington State University M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia * ANN ALTON CAROL BATKER RICHARD BONANNO Lecturer in Music Visiting Associate Professor of English Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian B.M., M.M., The Juilliard School; B.A., Pacific Lutheran University; B.A., University of Massachusetts; D.M.A., Manhattan School of Music M.A., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University Amherst 2 CAROLYN ANDERSON FRANCOIS BONNEVILLE Professor of Theater DAVID E. BAUM Visiting Assistant Professor of English B.A., Middle Tennessee State University; Assistant Professor of History B.A., University of Massachusetts; M.A., University of Illinois B.A., University of Dallas; M.A., Colorado State University; M.A., M. Phil., Ph.D., Yale University Ph.D., University at Albany, State University of CAY ANDERSON-HANLEY New York SANDY BAUM Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology 2 B.S., Gordon College; Professor of Economics; PHILIP BOSHOFF M.S., Ph.D., University at Albany, State Chair, Department of Economics Associate Professor of English; University of New York B.A., Bryn Mawr College; Director, Honors Forum M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University Director, Writing Center *CHRISTOPER J. ANDERSON B.A., State University of New York Collegeat Lecturer in Psychology POLA BAYTELMAN Oneonta; A.A., Hudson Valley Community College; Artist-in-Residence, Music M.A., Ph.D., Purdue University B.A., Binghamton University; B.M., University of Chile; M.A., University at Albany, State University of M.M., Artist’s Diploma, New England Conserva- ROBERT BOYERS New York tory of Music; Professor of English D.M.A., University of Texas at Austin Tisch Professor of Arts and Letters JOHN ANZALONE B.A., Queens College; Professor of French; ALMA BECKER M.A., New York University Ciancio Prize for Excellence in Teaching, 2001-02 Artist-in-Residence, Theater KAREN BRACKETT B.A., University of Massachusetts, Boston; SUSAN BELDEN M.A., Ph.D., Tufts University Lecturer in Education; Associate Professor of Management and Business Director, Skidmore Early Childhood Center PAUL J. ARCIERO B.S., Ph.D., University of Utah B.S., Skidmore College; Associate Professor of Exercise Science *SUSAN BENDER M.S., University at Albany, State University B.S., Central Connecticut State University; Associate Professor of Anthropology; of New York M.S., Purdue University; Associate Dean of the Faculty *BETSY BRANDT M.S., University of Vermont; B.A., Goucher College; D.P.E., Springfield College Visiting Assistant Professor of Art M.A., Ph.D., University at Albany, State B.F.A., Philadelphia College of Art; MICHAEL F. ARNUSH University of New York M.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago Associate Professor of Classics; *STEPHANIE BENNETT UNA BRAY B.A., Stanford University; Lecturer in Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania Associate Professor of Mathematics B.A., M.A., University at Albany, State University B.A., City College of New York; LISA ARONSON of New York M.A., Brooklyn College of City University Associate Professor of Art History; * ANGEL BERENGUER of New York; Director, Art History Program Lecturer in Spanish; Ph.D., Polytechnic Institute of New York B.A., Wayne State University; Assistant Director, Skidmore in Madrid M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University * DONNA BRENT Lic., University of Grenada; Lecturer in Education DAVID ATKATZ D. es L., University of Paris III B.A., M.A., M.S., Ph.D., University at Albany, Associate Professor of Physics * JOAN BERENGUER State University of New York B.S., M.A., Ph.D., State University of Lecturer in Spanish; 2 New York at Stony Brook BEAU BRESLIN Director, Skidmore in Madrid Assistant Professor of Government; 1 JACQUELINE AZZARTO L. es L., M. es L., University of Paris III; Director, Law and Society Program Associate Professor of Social Work; D. es L., University of Barcelona B.A., Hobart College; Director, Social Work Program CATHERINE WHITE BERHEIDE M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania B.A., St. Joseph College; Professor of Sociology M.S.W., University at Albany, State University of REGIS C. BRODIE B.A., Beloit College; Professor of Art; New York; M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University Ph.D., Rutgers University Director, Summer Six Art Program *JOHN J. BERMAN B.S., M.Ed., Indiana University of Pennsylvania; BETTY V. BALEVIC Professor of Psychology; M.F.A., Tyler School of Art of Temple Associate Professor of Management and Business Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the University B.S., Syracuse University; Faculty ISABEL H. BROWN M.S., University at Albany, State University of B.A., Xavier University; New York Associate Professor of Dance M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University A.B., Vassar College; *CYNDY BARBONE *IAN BERRY M.S., Smith College Lecturer in Art and Art History Lecturer in Art and Art History; B.S., State University College of New York at JOEL BROWN Curator of Exhibitions, Tang Teaching Museum and Artist-in-Residence, Music Oneonta; Art Gallery M.F.A., California College of Arts and Crafts B.M., Philadelphia College of Performing Arts; B.A., University at Albany, State University of M.M., Ithaca College New York; M.A., Bard College P. TIMOTHY BROWN Professor of Exercise Science; Key to symbols DONALD BIBBY 1 Director of Athletics Absent on leave fall semester 2001 Teaching Associate in Biology B.S., Keene State College; 2 Absent on leave spring semester 2002 A.B., St. Michael’s College; 3 M.S., P.E.D., Indiana University 153 Absent on leave for the year 2001-2002 M.S., University at Albany, State University of * Part-time faculty New York *CHRISTOPHER BRUBECK NGINA S. CHITEJI GAUTAM DASGUPTA Lecturer in Music Assistant Professor of Economics Professor of Theater; A.B., Brown University; Chair, Department of Theater JOHN BRUEGGEMANN Ph.D., University of North Carolina B.S., Jadavpur University; Associate Professor of Sociology M.F.A., M.A., University of Connecticut B.A., Earlham College; MICHAEL CLAPPER M.A., Ph.D., Emory University Assistant Professor of Art History * NANCY JO DAVIDSEN B.A., Swarthmore College; Lecturer in Music TIMOTHY W. BURNS M.F.A., Washington University; B.A., Barnard College Assistant Professor of Government M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University B.A., Boston College; KATHRYN DAVIS M.A., Ph.D., University of Toronto *FRANK CLARK Professor of English Lecturer in Mathematics B.A., Goddard College GRACE M. BURTON B.S., Siena College; Associate Professor of Spanish M.S., University at Albany, State University LORI A. DAWSON B.A., Bucknell University; of New York Technical Director of Dance Theater Ph.D., Duke University B.A., University of Akron; DANIEL COHEN M.F.A.,University of Massachusetts at Amherst * WALLACE BRENT BZDELL Visiting Assistant Professor of History Lecturer in Psychology B.A., Tel Aviv University; ALICE M. DEAN B.S., Union College; M.A., Ph.D., New York University Professor of Mathematics M.Ed., Springfield College B.A., Herbert H. Lehman College of the City PATRICIA M. COLBY University of New York; VICTOR L. CAHN Assistant Professor of Psychology M.A., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Professor of English B.A., University of Houston; A.B., Columbia College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Davis LENORA DE LA LUNA M.A., Ph.D., New York University Visiting Instructor in Education RUTH COPANS B.A., Binghamton University, State University of MARTIN J. CANAVAN, C.P.A. Associate Librarian, Humanities Librarian New York; Associate Professor of Management and Business B.A., M.A., University of Massachusetts; M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign B.B.A., Siena College; M.L.S., University at Albany, State University of M.S., University at Albany, State Universityof New New York JENNIFER DELTON York Assistant Professor of History 2 PAUL J. CORR, C.P.A. B.A., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; *KATHARINE CARTWRIGHT Associate Professor of Management and Business M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University Lecturer in Geosciences B.A., State University of New York at Buffalo; B.A., College of Charleston; M.S., University at Albany, State University of THOMAS DENNY M.S., Syracuse University New York; Associate Professor of Music M.A., Ph.D., Washington University B.A., Haverford College; JANET G. CASEY M.A., Ph.D., Eastman School of Music, University Visiting Associate Professor of English MARY ELIZABETH CORREA of Rochester B.A., College of the Holy Cross; Associate Professor of Management and Business 3 M.A., Ph.D., University of Delaware B.S., Boston College; NICOLA F. DENZEY Assistant Professor of Religion ABBEY BLOCK CASH M.S.N., Yale University, School of Nursing; Ph.D., Purdue University B.A., University of Toronto; Visiting Assistant Professor of Education M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University B.A., Hunter College; JOHN COSGROVE M.S., Ph.D., University at Albany, State University Visiting Associate Librarian * ROBERT P. DESIENO of New York B.A., State University of New York, College at Professor of Computer Science; Oneonta; Assistant to Dean of Faculty for Faculty Development and * VEENA CHANDRA Sponsored Research Lecturer in Music M.A., M.L.S., University at Albany, State University of New York B.S., M.S., Union College; B.T., M.A., Agra University; Ph.D., University of California, Davis M.M., Prayay Sangit Samiti MARY M. CRONE JOANNE DEVINE ADAM YUET CHAU Assistant Professor of Physics Charles Lubin Family Professor for Women in Science Associate Professor of English Luce Lecturer in Asian Studies B.A., Trinity College; B.A., Williams College B.S., College of William and Mary; Ph.D., University of Michigan M.A., Ph.D., Michigan State University MAO CHEN TERENCE DIGGORY Associate Professor of Chinese; *PATRICIA CULBERT Lecturer in Theater Professor of English, Director, Asian Studies Program Chair of the Department of English; B.A., Beijing Second Foreign Languages Institute; B.A., Tufts University; M.F.A., Boston Univeristy Courtney and Steven Ross Professor of Inter- M.A., Ph.D., State University of New York at disciplinary Studies Stony Brook 3 JOHN CUNNINGHAM JR. B.A., Yale University; *MARY HONG-YU CHEN Robert Davidson Professor of Art D. Phil., Oxford University Lecturer in Foreign Languages and Literatures B.A., Kenyon College; B.F.A., M.F.A., Yale University MARY DISANTO-ROSE Advanced Teaching Certification, Beijing; Associate Professor of Dance; M.A., Queens College, City University of DANIEL CURLEY Director, Dance Program New York; Assistant Professor of Classics B.S., St. Lawrence University; Certificate of Advanced Study in Music Education, B.A., Beloit College; M.Ed., Ed.D., Temple University New York University A.M., Washington University; University of Washington, Seattle CATHERINE DOMOZYCH J. D. CHESIRE Senior Teaching Associate in Biology Visiting Assistant Professor of Social Work *CHARLES D’ALOIA B.A., Glenville State College; B.A., Loyola College of Maryland; Lecturer in Music Ph.D., Miami University M.S.W., Loyola College of Chicago School of Social Work; *JOHN DANISON DAVID DOMOZYCH Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University Lecturer in Art Professor of Biology B.A., Empire State College; B.S., Southern Connecticut State University; M.A., University at Albany, State University of Ph.D., Miami University 154 New York 2 JOAN DELAHANTY DOUGLAS * D. LESLIE FERST BARRY GOLDENSOHN Professor of Psychology Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Professor of English B.S., Cornell University; B.A., Skidmore College; B.A., Oberlin College; M.S., State University of New York M.F.A., Boston University M.A., University of Wisconsin College at Brockport; Ph.D., University at Albany, State University DANIEL FLORES-GURI FRANCISCO GONZALEZ of New York Lecturer in Economics Associate Professor of Philosophy B.A., Universitat de Barcelona; B.A., Northern Illinois University; BARBARA T. DOYLE-WILCH M.A., Boston University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Toronto

College Librarian Diploma in Tourism, Universitat Autonoma de 1 B.A., M.A., Jordan College of Music, Butler Barcelona GREGORY A GOODWIN University; Assistant Professor of Psychology M.A., Graduate School of Librarianship and HUGH J. FOLEY B.A., Rhodes College; Information Service, University of Denver Professor of Psychology M.A., Wake Forest University; B.A., St. John Fisher College; Ph.D., Binghamton University, State University of JORDANA DYM Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook New York, Assistant Professor of History B.A., M.A., Stanford University; MARY ANN FOLEY SARAH WEBSTER GOODWIN M.Phil., Ph.D., New York University Professor of Psychology, Professor of English Chair, Department of Psychology A.B., Harvard University; GOVE W. EFFINGER B.A., Nazareth College of Rochester; M.A., Ph.D., Brown University Professor of Mathematics Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony B.A., Williams College; Brook KATHERINE E. 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FREEMAN-GALLANT of New York Assistant Professor of Anthropology Assistant Professor of Biology B.S., Northern Michigan University; A.B., Bowdoin College; * GENE MARIE GREEN M.A., Ph.D., Michigan State University Ph.D., Cornell University Lecturer in Music B.M., Oberlin College Conservatory GERALD M. ERCHAK STEVEN T. FREY Professor of Anthropology Assistant Professor of Chemistry KATE GREENSPAN B.A., Ohio State University; B.S., Ithaca College; Associate Professor of English, A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University Associate Chair, Department of English B.A., Skidmore College; CYNTHIA A. EVANS *JOHN GALT M.A., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst Lecturer in French; Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Director, Foreign Language Resource Center B.A., State University of New York College at GRANT GUTHEIL B.A., Central Washington University; Cortland; Assistant Professor of Psychology M.A., Arizona State University M.F.A., University of Pennsylvania B.A., State University of New York College at Geneseo; DENISE L. EVERT MICHAEL J. GARCIA Ph.D., University of Michigan Assistant Professor of Psychology Teaching Associate in Athletics, B.A., Gettysburg College; Athletic Trainer DEBORAH R. HALL M.A., Wesleyan University; B.A., State University of New York College at Assistant Professor of Art M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University Potsdam; B.F.A., Rochester Institute of Technology; M.S., Alfred University M.F.A., Vermont College DAVID H. EYMAN Professor of Liberal Studies; LYNNE L. GELBER *WILMA B. HALL Lecturer in History Professor of French Visiting Associate Professor of American Studies A.B., M.A., Ohio University; B.A., M.A., Bryn Mawr College; B.A., Bucknell University; A.M.L.S., Ph.D., University of Michigan Ph.D., University of Colorado M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania GIUSEPPE FAUSTINI RAYMOND J. GIGUERE Professor of Italian; Professor of Chemistry; JUDITH A. HALSTEAD Chair, Department of Foreign Languages and Chair, Department of Chemistry and Physics Associate Professor of Chemistry; Literatures B.A., Kalamazoo College; Director, Environmental Studies Program B.A., Immaculate Conception College; Dr. rer. nat., University of Hannover B.A., Binghamton University, State University of M.A., Middlebury College; New York Ph.D., Harvard University * UNDINE GIGUERE Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Lecturer in Liberal Studies PATRICIA FEHLING Ph.D., University at Albany, State University of *JOHN HAMPSHIRE Associate Professor of Exercise Science New York Visiting Assistant Professor of Art B.S., M.S., Northern Illinois University; B.S., Skidmore College; Ph.D., University of Illinois ROY H. GINSBERG M.F.A., University at Albany, State University of Professor of Government New York SCOTT A. FELDSHER B.A., Bradley University; Artist-in-Residence, Theater M.A., Ph.D., George Washington University B.A., University of California, San Diego CATHERINE GOLDEN DEBRA FERNANDEZ Professor of English Associate Professor of Dance A.B., Brown University; 155 B.A., University of South Florida Ed.D., Harvard University; Ph.D., University of Michigan JENNIFER MISTRETTA HAMPSTON LISA HOFFMASTER MILIANN KANG Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology Lecturer in Dance Lecturer in Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work B.A., Binghamton University, State University of B.A., Elmira College; B.A., Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges; New York; B.S., Russell Sage College; M.A., New York University

M.S., Ph.D., University at Albany, State M.A., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; 3 University of New York M.F.A., University of Utah DAVID KARP Assistant Professor of Sociology PATRICIA HAN MARK HOFMANN B.A., University of California, Berkeley; Visiting Assistant Professor of French Associate Professor of Mathematics; M.A., Ph.D., University of Washington B.A., Haverford College; Chair, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University B.S., Bates College; * KAREN KELLOGG M.S., Ph.D., University of New Hampshire Lecturer in Environmental Studies *BRIAN HANRAHAN B.S., University of Iowa; Lecturer in Management and Business ANTHONY HOLLAND Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University B.S., Siena College Associate Professor of Music B.M., Baldwin-Wallace College; JAMES J. KENNELLY * PHILIP J. HARDY M.M., D.M.A., Cleveland Institute of Music Assistant Professor of Management and Business Lecturer in Liberal Studies and Case Western Reserve University B.S., Montclair State College; B.A., Otterbein College; M.B.A., Ph.D., New York University M.A., Ohio University; GREG HRBEK Ph.D., Bowling Green State University Writer-in-Residence JAMES KIEHL B.A., Vassar College; Associate Professor of English TIMOTHY L. HARPER M.F.A., University of Iowa B.A., Washington and Jefferson College; Visiting Instructor in Management and Business Ph.D., Syracuse University

B.S., M.B.A., Bowling Green State University MARK E. HUIBREGTSE 1 Professor of Mathematics TIM KOECHLIN KATHERINE HAUSER B.A., Haverford College; Associate Professor of Economics Assistant Professor of Art History Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology B.A., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst B.A., University of California, Davis; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles *ELIZABETH HUNTLEY * CHRISTINE KOPEC Lecturer in Music Lecturer in Management and Business *DIANA HAWKINS B.A., Union College; A.B., Ripon College; Lecturer in Management and Business M.A., Boston University; J.D., Albany Law School B.A., St.Bonaventure University; M.M., New England Conservatory of Music M.A., University of Harford SUSAN KRESS R. DANIEL HURWITZ Professor of English; *LORRAINE J. HAWKINS Professor of Mathematics Class of 1948 Professor for Excellence in Teaching Lecturer in Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work B.A., Macalester College; B.A. Manchester University; B.A., Florida Atlantic University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Illinois Ph.D., Cambridge University M.A., Louisiana State University DEBORAH HUTTON TADAHISA KURODA TAKAHIKO HAYASHI Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History Professor of History, Lecturer in Foreign Languages and Literatures B.A., Pennsylvania State University; Chair, Department of History; B.A., Rikkyo University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Minnesota David H. Porter Professor at Skidmore College M.A., University of Tsukuba B.A., Yale College; REGINA M. JANES M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University *PATRICIA HENDERER Professor of English Lecturer in Dance A.B., University of California, Berkeley; * ERIC LATINI M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University Lecturer in Music RICHARD HIHN B.M., New England Conservatory of Music Artist-in-Residence, Music; HÉDI A. JAOUAD Chair, Department of Music Associate Professor of French * SUSAN B. LAYDEN B.M., Eastman School of Music; B.A., University of Tunis; Lecturer in Liberal Studies; M.M., University of Michigan; M.A., La Sorbonne Nouvelle; Director, Higher Education Opportunity Program and D.M.A., University of Colorado Ph.D., Temple University Academic Opportunity Program 3 B.A., Siena College; MATTHEW D. HOCKENOS KENNETH G. JOHNSON M.S., College of St. Rose Assistant Professor of History Professor of Geosciences B.A., Connecticut College; B.S., Union College; KATE LEAVITT M.A., Ph.D., New York University M.S., Michigan State University; Assistant Professor of Art Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute B.F.A., University of Southern Maine; JOSEPH M. HODGE M.A., M.F.A., University at Albany, State Assistant Professor of History PENNY JOLLY University of New York B.A., University of Waterloo; Professor of Art History; M.A., University of Guelph; Kenan Professor of Liberal Arts; *PATRICIA-ANN LEE Ph.D., Queens University at Kingston Edwin M. Moseley Faculty Research Lecturer, 2001-02 Professor of History; B.A., Oberlin College; B.S., Kean College; HOLLEY S. HODGINS M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University Associate Professor of Psychology M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania B.S., Roberts Wesleyan College; 2 ROBERT J. JONES SUSAN S. LEHR M.A., St. Bonaventure University; Associate Professor of Economics Professor of Education, Ph.D., University of Rochester B.A., St. John’s University; Chair, Department of Education M.A., M. Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University B.A., Concordia Teachers College; STEVEN A. HOFFMANN M.A., St. Louis University; Professor of Government *CHARLES M. JOSEPH Ph.D., Ohio State University B.A., Harpur College, State University of Professor of Music; New York at Binghamton; Associate Dean of the Faculty ELZBIETA LEPKOWSKA-WHITE M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania B.M., West Virginia University; Assistant Professor of Management and Business M.M., University of Illinois; B.S., M.S., University of Olsztyn; Ph.D., University of Cincinnati College- M.S., University of Florida; Conservatory of Music Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst 156 JUAN CARLOS LÉRTORA MARY C. LYNN 1 MARGO MENSING Professor of Spanish Professor of American Studies Assistant Professor of Art Prof. de Castellano, Valparaiso; B.A., Elmira College; B.A., M.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Ph.D., University of Alberta Ph.D., University of Rochester M.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago RUTH ANDREA LEVINSON * PATRICE MALATESTINIC ROY S. MEYERS Associate Professor of Education; Lecturer in Music Professor of Biology B.A., Sarah Lawrence College; B.A., University at Albany, State University A.B., Brown University; M.S.Ed., Bank Street College of Education; of New York; Ph.D., State University of New York, Ph.D., Stanford Graduate School of Education M.M., College of St. Rose Downstate Medical Center 1 MURRAY J. LEVITH * ADRIANA MARKOVSKA 1 PAUL MICHALEC Professor of English Lecturer in Dance Assistant Professor of Education B.A., Washington and Jefferson College; Diploma, Conservatory of Music, Kosice; B.S., Cornell University; M.A., University of Nebraska; M.M., Charles University, Prague M.A., Mankato State University; Ph.D., Syracuse University Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder KIMBERLY A. MARSELLA ERIC ELLIOTT LEWIS Teaching Associate in Geosciences DAVID J. MILLER Assistant Professor of Management and Business B.S., Bates College; Ella Van Dyke Tuthill '32 Professor of Studio Art; B.S., Siena College; M.S., University of Vermont Director, Schick Art Gallery M.B.A., Ph.D., Union College B.F.A., Art Institute of Chicago; * SUSAN MARTULA M.S., University of Wisconsin 1 THOMAS S. W. LEWIS Lecturer in Music Professor of English; B.A., Smith College; DORETTA MILLER Quadracci Professor of Social Responsibility M.M., Manhattan School of Music Professor of Art B.A., University of New Brunswick; B.A., Ripon College; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University MICHAEL S. MARX M.A., Ed.D., M.F.A., Northern Illinois Associate Professor of English; University WILLIAM LEWIS Coordinator, Liberal Studies 1 Lecturer in Philosophy and Religion B.A., Columbia University; STEVEN MILLHAUSER B.A., Skidmore College M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan Professor of English B.A., Columbia College REGINALD LILLY ALAIN MATTHEY de l’ETANG Associate Professor of Philosophy, Lecturer in French; *BRADLEY MOODY Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion Director of Study Abroad Program, Paris Lecturer in Art and Art History B.A., University of Vermont; B.A., University of Paris VIII; B.S., Skidmore College; M.A., Ph.D., Duquesne University B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Paris I Sorbonne M.F.A., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute DENISE WARNER LIMOLI REINHARD MAYER JOHN L. MOORE Associate Professor of Dance Visiting Associate Professor of German Senior Artist-in-Residence, Art

1 B.A., Tufts University; B.F.A., M.A., Kent State University RICHARD H. LINDEMANN M.A., Eberhard-Karls Universität, Tübingen; Associate Professor of Geosciences, Ph.D., Northwestern University MICHELE MORANO Chair, Department of Geosciences Visiting Assistant Professor of English B.S., State University of New York College K. GARY MCCLURE B.A., University of Bridgeport; at Oneonta; Associate Professor of Management and Business; M.A., State University of New York at New Paltz M.S., Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Director, International Affairs Program B.S., United States Naval Academy; *DEBORAH MORRIS *JACK TAK FOK LING M.B.A., Dartmouth College; Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Lecturer in Liberal Studies; Ph.D., University of Central Florida B.F.A., Arizona State University; Director, Office of Diversity and Affirmative Action M.F.A., California State University

B.A., M.A., Indiana University; * DONALD J. MCCORMACK 3 Ph.D., Duquesne University Associate Professor of Government; W. MICHAEL MUDROVIC Dean of Special Programs Associate Professor of Spanish RICHARD LINKE B.A., Bucknell University; B.A., University of Missouri; Associate Professor of Art M.A., Ph.D., University at Albany, State M.S., Washington University; B.S., B.A., St. Lawrence University; University of New York Ph.D., University of Kansas M.F.A., Ohio University *VIRGINIA MURPHY-BERMAN 3 RONALD MC EACHEN ROBERT LINROTHE Teaching Associate in Athletics Visiting Professor of Psychology Associate Professor of Art History B.S., West Virginia University; B.A., Pennsylvania State University; B.A., University of Minnesota; M. Ed., Westchester State University M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago JOYLIN NAMIE JULIA MCGINNIS JILL A. LINZ Assistant Librarian Lecturer in Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work Teaching Associate in Physics B.A., Wellesley College; B.A., Skidmore College; B.S., Stockton State College; M.I.L.S., University of Michigan M.A., University of California, San Diego M.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute VASANTHA NARASIMHAN DENISE BROOKS MCQUADE JEANETTE L. LIPPITT Teaching Associate in Biology Professor of Chemistry Lecturer in Management and Business B.A., Wellesley College; B.S., M.S., Madras University; B.B.A., Siena College; M.S., University of Connecticut, Storrs Ph.D., University at Albany, State University M.S., Graduate Management Institute, Union of New York College RORY M. MCVEIGH Assistant Professor of Sociology JOHN NAZARENKO PATRICIA LYELL B.A., University of Arizona; Artist-in-Residence, Music Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and Liberal Studies M.A., Ph.D., University of North Carolina, B.A., Skidmore College; B.S., Skidmore College; Chapel Hill M.S., University at Albany, State University M.F.A., Maryland Institute of Art of New York LESLIE MECHEM *RICHARD F. LYMAN Lecturer in Classics, Lecturer in Education Lecturer in Art History; B.S., State University of New York, Brockport; Chair, Department of Classics 157 M.A., Syracuse University B.A., Douglass College, Rutgers University BARBARA NORELLI DAVID PETERSON *DAVID M. RIVES Assistant Librarian, Social Science Librarian Associate Professor of Art Lecturer in Music B.A., M.L.S., University at Albany, State B.A., State University of New York College B.M., Florida State University; University of New York at Geneseo; M.M., Cincinnati Technical College; M.F.A., Indiana State University D.M.A., Ohio University MARY-ELIZABETH O’BRIEN Associate Professor of German GREGORY M. PFITZER GERARDO RODRIGUEZ B.A., California State University, Long Beach; Associate Professor of American Studies; Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles Chair, Department of American Studies B.S., M.S., University of Puerto Rico; A.B., Colby College; Ph.D., Cornell University MEHMET ODEKON A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University Associate Professor of Economics * JAY ROGOFF B.A., Bogazici University; 1 FLIP PHILLIPS Lecturer in Liberal Studies M.A., Ph.D., University at Albany, State Assistant Professor of Psychology B.A., University of Pennsylvania; University of New York B.F.A., M.A., Ph.D., Ohio State University M.A., D.A., Syracuse University *THOMAS P. OLES *JERRY PHILOGENE DEBORAH ROHR Associate Professor of Social Work; Lecturer in American Studies Associate Professor of Music Dean of Student Affairs B.A., Parsons School of Design; B.A., Bennington College; B.A., Utica College of Syracuse University; M.A., New York University M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania; M.S.W., Syracuse University Ph.D., Eastman School of Music, University of RONALD PLOURDE Rochester * BARBARA OPITZ Teaching Associate in Athletics Lecturer in Theater B. A., St. Joseph’s College; * LEWIS ROSENGARTEN B.A., Queens College, City University of New York; M.S., Frostburg State University Lecturer in Liberal Studies M.A., Teachers College, Columbia University B.A., Colgate University; BERNARD POSSIDENTE M.M., Ithaca College; LARY OPITZ Professor of Biology D.M., Indiana University Associate Professor of Theater B.A., Wesleyan University; B.A., Queens College, City University of Ph.D., University of Iowa PHYLLIS A. ROTH New York Professor of English PUSHKALA PRASAD 2 A.B., Clark University; ROBERT M. OSWALT Professor of Management and Business, M.A., Ph.D., University of Connecticut Professor of Psychology Zankel Professor of Management for Liberal Arts Students B.A., DePauw University; B.A., Stella Maris College, University of Madras; ROY J. ROTHEIM M.A., Ph.D., Louisiana State University M.B.A., Xavier University (India); Professor of Economics; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst Chair, Department of Management and Business CHRISTINE M. PAGE B.A., Ohio University; Assistant Professor of Managment and Business JOHN QUATTROCCHI M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University B.S., M.S., Ph.D., University of Colorado at Teaching Associate in Athletics Boulder B.A., M.A., University at Albany, State University *ELAINE C. RUBENSTEIN of New York Professor of Biology * VICTORIA PALERMO B.A., State University of New York at Buffalo; Visiting Assistant Professor of Art SUMA RAJIVA Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania B.S., Skidmore College; Assistant Professor of Philosophy M.F.A., Bennington College B.A., M.A., Concordia University, Montreal; JOYCE RUBIN Ph.D., University of Toronto Lecturer in Education LORETTA M. PARSONS B.A., M.S., Hunter College; Senior Teaching Associate in Biology *JON R. RAMSEY Professional Diploma in Administration/ B.A., College of St. Catherine; Associate Professor of English; Supervision, City University of New York M.S., Case Western Reserve University Dean of Studies B.A., San Diego State University; PATRICIA RUBIO *JUNE PARTCH M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Riverside Professor of Spanish; Lecturer in Music Director, Womens Studies Program VIVIANA RANGIL RAJAGOPAL PARTHASARATHY Prof. de Castellano, Valparaiso; Assistant Professor of Spanish Ph.D., University of Alberta Associate Professor of English B.A., Insituto Padre Gabriel Tommasini; B.A., M.A., Bombay University; M.A., Universidad Nacional de Tucumán; 1 PAUL SATTLER Postgraduate Diploma, Leeds University; Ph.D., University at Albany, State University of Assistant Professor of Art Ph.D., University of Texas New York B.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago; M.F.A., Indiana University * PATRICIA PAWLICZAK AMELIA RAUSER Lecturer in Theater Assistant Professor of Art History REGINA SCHROEDER B.S., College of St. Rose B.A., University of California, Berkeley; Lecturer in Foreign Languages and Literatures STEVEN J. PEARLMAN M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University B.A., Iberoamerican University, Mexico City; M.A., University of Maryland at College Park Lecturer in English MONICA RAVERET RICHTER B.A., M.A., American University Associate Professor of Biology; *JASON D. SCOTT MARGARET PEARSON Chair, Department of Biology Lecturer in Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work Associate Professor of History B.A., M.S., University of Wisconsin; B.S., Roberts Wesleyan College; B.A., Smith College; Ph.D., Cornell University M.A., University at Albany, State University of New York M.A., Ph.D., University of Washington * LAWRENCE R. RIES CHRISTINE PEPPIATT Lecturer in Liberal Studies JEFFREY O. SEGRAVE Teaching Associate in Athletics, B. A., Thomas More College; Professor of Exercise Science; Aquatics Director M.A., Ph.D., Southern Illinois University Chair, Department of Exercise Science, Dance, and B.S., University of Maine Athletics JANIS SKOG RITORTO B.Ed., University of Exeter; Senior Teaching Associate in Chemistry M.S., Washington State University; B.A., Skidmore College Ph.D., Arizona State University

158 RONALD P. SEYB 3 MASON STOKES * BENJAMIN VAN WYE Associate Professor of Government; Assistant Professor of English Lecturer in Music Chair, Department of Government B.A., University of South Carolina; B.Mus., University of Texas; B.A., University of California, Irvine; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia M.A., Ohio State University;

M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University 1 M.M., University of London, King’s College; JILL D. SWEET D.M.A., University of Illinois LINDA L. SIMON Professor of Anthropology Associate Professor of English; B.A., M.F.A., University of California, Irvine; LYNDA D. VARGHA Director, Expository Writing Program M.A., Ph.D., University of New Mexico Assistant Professor of Economics B.A., Queens College; A.B., Wellesley College; M.A., New York University; * RICH SYRACUSE M.Ed.,Harvard University; Ph.D., Brandeis University Lecturer in Music M.S., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison B.A., Manhattan School of Music DENISE L. SMITH DAVID C. VELLA Associate Professor of Exercise Science KRZYSZTOF SZYMBORSKI Associate Professor of Mathematics B.S., Houghton College; Associate Professor, Science Librarian B.A., American International College; M.S., Ph.D., University of Illinois M.S., Warsaw University; Ph.D., University of Virginia M.L.S., University of Illinois; JOEL R. SMITH Ph.D., Polish Academy of Sciences JOANNE M. VELLA Associate Professor of Philosophy Associate Professor of Art B.A., Carleton College; MARY ELIZABETH TABER B.F.A. (Art Education), B.F.A. (Painting), M.A., Ph.D., M.A., Vanderbilt University Assistant Professor of Management and Business M.F.A., University of Illinois A.B., Vassar College; 2 SHIRLEY SMITH M.P.P.M., Yale School of Management; JAN VINCI Associate Professor of Italian Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana Artist-in-Residence, Music B.A., M.A., University of Wisconsin; B.M., Bowling Green State University; M.A., Ph.D.; Harvard University MARGARET N. TACARDON M.M., Cleveland Institute of Music; Associate Professor of Social Work D.M.A., The Juilliard School 3 SHELDON SOLOMON B.A., State University of New York College Professor of Psychology; at Plattsburgh; * MARK VINCI B.A., Franklin and Marshall College; M.S.W., University at Albany, State University of Lecturer in Music M.A., Ph.D., University of Kansas, Lawrence New York PIERRE vonKAENEL PHILIP SOLTANOFF MARC J. TETEL Associate Professor of Computer Science; Artist-in-Residence, Theater Assistant Professor of Biology Director, Mathematics-Computer Science Laboratory B.A., Kenyon College B.A., Northwestern University; B.A., Hamilton College; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst M.A., Ph.D., Syracuse University JANET SORENSEN Associate Professor of Art JOHN J. THOMAS ANNE M. WAGNER B.F.A., Kansas State University; Professor of Geosciences Senior Teaching Associate in Chemistry M.A., M.F.A., University of Iowa B.A., Williams College; B.S., Marymount College; M.A., Northwestern University; M.A., Binghamton University, State University of RICHARD L. SPEERS Ph.D., University of Kansas New York Associate Professor of Mathematics B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Kansas GORDON R. THOMPSON RENEE B. WALKER Associate Professor of Music Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology PETER STAKE B.M., University of Windsor; B.A., Indiana University of Pennsylvania; Associate Professor of Art; M.M., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; M.A., Ph.D., University of Tennessee Chair, Department of Art and Art History Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles B.F.A., Arizona State University; SUSAN WALZER M.F.A., California State University JOSEPH THORNTON Assistant Professor of Sociology Assistant Librarian A.B., Brown University; *CHARLES STAINBACK B.S., Villanova University; M.S.W., Smith College; Professor in Liberal Studies; M.L.S., University at Albany, State University of Ph.D., University at Albany, State University of Dayton Director,Tang Teaching Museum and Art New York New York Gallery B.F.A., Kansas City Art Institute; JAMES P. TUCCI DAVID WEIS M.F.A., State University of New York at Buffalo Teaching Associate in Athletics Assistant Professor of Chemistry B.S., Jacksonville University B.A., Earlham College; WILLIAM J. STANDISH Ph.D., Indiana University Associate Professor of Physics ANNE Z. TURNER B.A., Harpur College; Artist-in-Residence, Music *CHRISTOPER WHANN M.A., Ph.D., Binghamton University, B.A., Eastman School of Music, Lecturer in Government State University of New York University of Rochester; B.A., Ph.D, University of Wisconsin, Madison; M.A., California State College M.A., University of Delaware 1 MARY ZEISS STANGE Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Religion ROBERT C. TURNER ALAN WHEELOCK A.B., M.A., Ph.D, Syracuse University Assistant Professor of Government Visiting Associate Professor of English B.A., Middlebury College; A.B., Queens College; AMY JO STAVNEZER Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison A.M., Hunter College; Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology Ph.D., University at Albany, State University B.S., Allegheny College; ALDO C. VACS of New York M.S., Ph.D., University of Connecticut, Storrs Joseph C. Palamountain Professor of Government; B.A., Universidade de Sao Paulo; MARC-ANDRÉ WIESMANN * SARAH STEBBINS M.A., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh Associate Professor of French Lecturer in Philosophy and Religion B.A., University of California, Berkeley; B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, SUE VAN HOOK M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Berkeley Senior Teaching Associate in Biology Angeles B.A., M.A., Humboldt State University STEVE STERN Professor of English B.A., Southwestern at Memphis; M.F.A., University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 159 GARETT WILSON REGINA HARTMANN Athetics Personnel Lecturer in Theater Language Assistant (Arabic) B.A., University at Albany, State University of Ph.D., University of Erlangen Athletics Director: P. Timothy Brown New York Assistant Athletics Director: TBA YONGSOO JANG Athletic Trainer: Michael Garcia STUART K. WITT Language Assistant (Korean) Assistant Athletic Trainer: TBA Associate Professor of Government M.S., University at Albany, State University of Aquatics Director: Christine Peppiat B.A., Columbia University; New York Facilities Coordinator: Paul Dion M.A., Ph.D., Syracuse University CARL LANDA Equipment Manager: Sherry Ankeny * MARC WOODWORTH Accompanist in Dance Administrative Assistant: Sharon Shearman Lecturer in English B.A., Bennington College B.A., Skidmore College; Head Coaches: M.A., Ohio University POLINA SHVARTSMAN Language Assistant (Russian) PAUL ARCIERO * DAVID YERGAN B.S., M.S.M.E., Odessa Institute of Technology Men’s Tennis Lecturer in Theater; *HILDA ARRECHEA B.S., Skidmore College Research Associates Women’s Volleyball MARK A YOUNDT RUTH GREENE-MCNALLY TIMOTHY BROWN Assistant Professor of Management and Business Research Associate, Scribner Library Men’s Golf B.A., Gettysburg Collge; B.F.A., University of Massachusetts; M.B.A., Rollins College; M.F.A., Vermont College TERRANCE CORCORAN Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University Men’s Lacrosse, Women’s Soccer HELMUT V. B. HIRSCH JOANNA SCHNEIDER ZANGRANDO Research Associate in Biology PAUL DION Professor of American Studies; A.B., University of Chicago; Men’s Ice Hockey Douglas Family Professor of American Culture, Ph.D., Stanford University History, Literary and Interdisciplinary Studies; CINDY FORD Director of Liberal Studies WAYNE RICHTER Director of Coed Riding Program B.A., M.A., Wayne State University; Research Associate in Biology RONALD MC EACHEN Ph.D., George Washington University B.A., Wesleyan University; Men’s Soccer M.S., University of Iowa SUSAN H. ZAPPEN JOHN E. QUATTROCCHI Associate Librarian ROGER TRIENENS Men’s Basketball B.A., M.A., University of Missouri Research Associate in Library B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University; CHRISTINE PEPPIATT ADRIENNE ZUERNER M.A. in L.S., University of Michigan Women’s Swimming and Diving Associate Professor of French; Men’s Swimming and Diving Coordinator, Self-Instructional Languages Program SHEILA TUTTLE A.B., University of California, Santa Barbara; Research Associate in Biology RONALD PLOURDE M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan B.A., George Mason University; Baseball M.S., Antioch New England Graduate School JEFFREY SEGRAVE Department Assistants Women’s Tennis University Without Walls SHERRY ANKENY JAMES TUCCI Assistant in Athletics Assistant to the Director and Coordinator of Men’s and Women’s Crew B.A., Pace University Academic Records: Mary E. Cogan TBA Financial Aid Officer and Budget Manager: HILDA ARRECHA Field Hockey Aimee K. Paquin Softball Assistant in Athletics Assistant for Student Service: Mary K. Moore B.S., University of Puerto Rico Women’s Basketball Administrative Assistant: Kirstie Szlasa Women’ Lacrosse MANOEL CARTAGENES Staff Assistant: Ellen Eldredge Language Assistant (Portuguese) CORNEL J. REINHART A.A., Rio De Janeiro Industrial College Director CHRIS CASERTINO B.A., Parsons College; Assistant in Biology and Psychology M.A., University of South Dakota; Ph.D., University of Oklahoma VEENA CHANDRA Language Assistant (Hindi) KENNETH KLOTZ B.T., M.A., Agra University; Academic Advisor M.M., Prayay Sangit Samitri B.A., M. Phil., Ph.D., Yale University MICHAEL CLEMENT DEBORAH MEYERS Accompanist in Music Academic Advisor B.M., University of Arizona A.B., Harvard University; M.A., New York University CAROL ANN ELZE Accompanist in Music and Dance KIRSTEN E. MISHKIN B.A., Crane School of Music, State University of Academic Advisor New York at Potsdam A.B., Harvard University; J.D., Yale Law School PAIGE FAUBEL Assistant in Riding SARAH STEBBINS B.A., Hamilton College Academic Advisor B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University PATRICIA HADFIELD of California, Berkeley Accompanist in Music B.M., Crane School of Music, State University of CHRISTOPHER A. WHANN New York at Potsdam Academic Advisor B.A., M.A., University of Delaware; 160 Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison Administration Alumni Association Special Programs DONALD J. McCORMACK, Ph.D. Office of the President The Skidmore College Alumni Association Dean of Special Programs promotes the interests of the college and encour- JAMIENNE S. STUDLEY, J.D. SHARON ARPEY ages a lifelong relationship between Skidmore and President Director, Community Education and Summer its alumni. Membership includes all graduates and JAMES D. GETTE, J.D. Conferences former students and numbered over 24,500 in Director, Office of the President 2000-2001 Through an elected board of directors, JAMES CHANSKY, Ph.D. the association functions as a department of the JACK TAK FOK LING, Ph.D. Director, Summer Sessions and Summer Special college and conducts class and club programs, the Director, Diversity and Affirmative Action Programs annual fund , and programs (on and off campus) DAVID P. GLASER, Ph.D. that address educational and/or social issues. Academic Affairs Director, External Master’s Program in Liberal Studies JOHN J. BERMAN, Ph.D. Board of Directors 2001-02 Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the CORNEL J. REINHART, Ph.D. Faculty Director, University Without Walls Beverly Harrison Miller ’67 President SUSAN BENDER, Ph.D. Associate Dean of the Faculty Dale Conron Ahearn ’75 Student Affairs Alumna Trustee CHARLES M. JOSEPH, Ph.D. Associate Dean of the Faculty THOMAS P. OLES, M.S.W. Jeffrey Anderson ’93 Dean of Student Affairs Chair, Alumni Admissions ROBERT P. DESIENO, Ph.D. Assistant to the Dean for Faculty Development and TBA Florence Andresen ’57 Sponsored Research College Chaplain Alumna Trustee and Vice President, Annual Alumni Giving BARBARA T. DOYLE-WILCH, M.A. GLENN EGELMAN, M.D. College Librarian Director, Health Services Neil Astmann ’00 Chair, Young Alumni and Undergraduate Activities ANN L. HENDERSON, M.A. CORI FILSON, M.A. Registrar; Director of Institutional Research Director, Office of International Programs Vincent Catalano ’83 Chair, Awards CHARLES STAINBACK, M.F.A. DONALD HASTINGS, M.S. Director, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery Associate Dean of Student Affairs; Ann Moses Douglas ’56 Director, Residential Life Alumna Trustee Admissions and Student Aid SUSAN B. LAYDEN, M.S. Kenneth Freirich ’90 Director, Higher Education Opportunity Program and Member-at-Large Academic Opportunity Program MARY LOU W. BATES, A.B. Sibyl Waterman Haley ’71 Dean of Admissions and Student Aid JUDY McCORMACK, M.S.W. Chair, Reunion Giving Director, Counseling Center ROBERT D. SHORB, M.S. Josephine Leach Lewis ’57 Director, Student Aid and Family Finance MICHAEL PROFITA, M.A. Chair, Alumni Clubs Director, Career Services Advancement Anthony Llano ’97 JON R. RAMSEY, Ph.D. Chair, Diversity MICHAEL CASEY, B.A. Dean of Studies Vice President for Advancement Scott Martin ’79 ANITA L. STEIGERWALD, M.S. Alumnus Trustee ROBERT S. KIMMERLE, M.A. Associate Dean of Student Affairs for Leadership Director, College Relations Activities and Dean for First-Year Students Amy O’Leary ’92 Director, Campus Life Chair, Alumni Reunion MARNY KRAUSE, B.A. Director, Development PATRICIA ROLLINS TROSCLAIR, B.A. Robert Resnick ’88 Assistant Dean for Multicultural Students Vice President, Alumni Outreach BARRY M. PRITZKER, M.A. Director, Foundation and Corporate Relations Jill Richardson ’92 Chair, Young Alumni Giving MICHAEL SPOSILI, B.A. Director, Alumni Affairs Barbara Sabia ’80 Chair, Nominating Business Affairs Carol Strickland ’72 KARL W. BROEKHUIZEN, M.B.A. Chair, Friends of the Presidents Vice President for Business Affairs and Treasurer Terrill Tiffany Sullivan ’62 BARBARA E. BECK, M.A. Vice President, Alumni Involvement Director, Human Resources Jeffrey Treuhaft ’91 MICHAEL F. HALL, B.S. Member-at-Large Director, Financial Planning and Budgeting BRET INGERMAN, M.S. Director, Center for Information Technology Services CHRISTINE KACZMAREK, M.S. Director, Business Services MARK STRUSS Director, Facilities Services 161 Map of Skidmore Campus

Barrett Center (25) Bernhard Theater (6) Bolton Hall (31) Case Center (13) Castle Baseball Diamond/Ingram Park/ Jarvis Pavilion (41) Clinton Street Entrance (39) Colton House (37) Dana Science Center (32) Dance Center (9) Eissner Admissions Center (1) Falstaff’s (34) Filene Music Building (4) Greenberg Child Care Center (7) Harder Hall (33) Haupt Pond/South Park (10) Hoge Heating Plant (36) Howe Hall (26) Jonsson Tower (23) Kimball Hall (19) Ladd Hall (14) Main Entrance (3) McClellan Hall (16) Moore Hall (42) Murray and Aikins Dining Halls (21) North Hall (35) Palamountain Hall (30) Penfield Hall (18) Rounds Hall (27) Saisselin Art Building (5) Scribner House (38) Scribner Library (12) Parking Lots Scribner Village Apartments (22) Skidmore Hall (17) A West Lot A (v) Sports and Recreation Center (8) B West Lot B (v) Starbuck Center (20) C West Lot C (v) Surrey Williamson Inn (2) D Lodge Lot Tang Museum (11) E Sports Center Lot Tisch Learning Center (29) F Case Lot Van Lennep Riding Center (40) G Filene Lot (v) Wait Hall (24) H Trades-only Lot Wilmarth Hall (15) I North Hall Lot Wilson Memorial Chapel (28) J North Woods Lot K Palamountain Lot L Wait Lot M Tower Lot N Scribner Village Lots

(v) denotes visitor parking

Handicapped parking areas are designated in all parking lots. 162 163 Directory of Offices and Academic Departments

Academic Affairs: Government Department–Ladd Hall Office of the Dean of the Faculty–Palamountain Hall; Gymnasiums–Sports and Recreation Center Office of the Dean of Studies–Starbuck Center Health Services–Jonsson Tower Admissions Office–Eissner Admissions Center Higher Education Opportunity Program/Academic Advancement Office–North Hall, Colton House Opportunity Program–Starbuck Center Alumni Affairs Office–North Hall History Department–Tisch Learning Center American Studies Department–Tisch Learning Center Honors Forum–Ladd Hall Apartments (student)–Scribner Village Human Resources Office–Barrett Center Archives–Scribner Library Intercultural Center–Case Center Art Collection, Permanent–Tang Museum International Programs Office–Starbuck Center Art and Art History Department, Saisselin Art Building Library–Scribner Library Art Gallery, Schick–Saisselin Art Building Management and Business Department–Palamountain Hall Art History Program–Scribner Library Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Progam–Ladd Hall Biology Department–Dana Science Center Mathematics and Computer Science Department–Harder Hall Bookstore (Skidmore Shop)–Case Center Media Services–Palamountain Hall Business Affairs Office–Barrett Center Multicultural Students Office–Ladd Hall Campus Safety–Jonsson Tower Museum–Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery Career Services–Starbuck Center Music Department–Filene Music Building Center for Information Technology Services–Harder Hall Pavilion, Student–Falstaff’s Chapel–Wilson Chapel Philosophy and Religion Department–Ladd Hall Chemistry and Physics Department–Dana Science Center Post Office–Case Center Child Care Center–Greenberg Child Care Center President’s Office–Palamountain Hall Classics Department–Ladd Hall Psychology Department–Tisch Learning Center College Events Office–North Hall Recital Hall–Filene Music Building College Relations Office–Dana Science Center Registrar’s Office–Starbuck Center Counseling Center–Jonsson Tower Residence Halls–Kimball, Penfield, McClellan, Wilmarth, Dance Theater and Studios–Dance Center Wait, Howe, Rounds, Moore, Skidmore, and Jonsson Dining Halls–Murray and Aikins Dining Halls Tower Diversity and Affirmative Action–Palamountain Hall Residential Life Office–Starbuck Center Early Childhood Center–Palamountain Hall Religious Life Office–Case Center Economics Department–Harder Hall Salmagundi Magazine–Palamountain Hall Education Department–Palamountain Hall Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work Department– English Department–Palamountain Hall Tisch Learning Center Exercise Science, Dance, and Athletics Department–Sports The Spa–Case Center and Recreation Center Special Programs Office–Palamountain Hall Facilities Services–North Hall Stables–Van Lennep Riding Center Faculty, Office of the Dean–Palamountain Hall Student Affairs Offices–Case Center Financial Services–Barrett Center Student Aid and Family Finance Office–Starbuck Center Food Services–Murray Dining Hall Student Accounts Office–Starbuck Center Foreign Languages and Literatures Department–Palamountain Theater Department–Bernhard Theater Hall University Without Walls–Ladd Hall Foreign Language Resource Center–Bolton Hall Geosciences Department–Dana Science Center

164 Statements of Policies and Procedures

Administrative Complaints campus safety. This report follows the guidelines of Public Law 101-542, the “Student Right-to-Know and Campus We view Skidmore students as emerging adults responsible for Security Act,” and related amendments. Skidmore distributes managing, with our support and guidance, their academic and this information to all current students and employees, and personal affairs. While we are often inclined toward solving makes it available upon request to anyone applying for admis- problems for our students, we try instead to help them acquire sion or employment at College, and to the general public. the information and strategies they need to explore possible remedies for their concerns. We ask parents to trust to this educational effort whenever possible, rather than intervene with Statement of Nondiscrimination an office or program on the student’s behalf. It is the policy of Skidmore College to prohibit discrimination When a student has questions about College policy or practice, for or against any individual or group of its students, prospec- we expect the student to review the appropriate policies and tive students, employees, or prospective employees on the handbooks and to pursue their concerns directly with the basis of race, color, religion, gender, disability, age, national appropriate office or program. For example, students should or ethnic origin, or sexual orientation. The College has direct questions about housing to the Office of Residential Life, established mechanisms to provide prompt, fair, and impartial while questions related to financial aid should go to the staff of consideration of any complaint of discrimination. Inquiries Student Aid and Family Finance. The Office of the Dean of concerning application of this policy should be directed to the Student Affairs is available to advise any student about the director of diversity and affirmative action initiatives in the appropriate office and best strategy in any particular circum- President’s Office: 518-580-5943. stance (as are many members of the Student Affairs staff).

If a student remains dissatisfied with the decision of an office or The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act program, the student can ask the dean or vice president Policies of Skidmore College responsible for the area of concern to review the decision or policy. However, the dean or vice president will not change a The 1974 Family Education Rights and Privacy Act detailed decision that seems consistent with general principles of students’ rights of access to their official educational records. fairness, equity, and college policy. In the majority of academic The legislation gives current and former students of Skidmore situations, moreover, the faculty exercise final authority for College the right to inspect, review, and copy their own decisions of the classroom, course requirements, and academic permanent records. At Skidmore, the permanent records standards and expectations. covered by the Act include: the student’s application for admission; high school and/or former college transcript(s); SAT scores; correspondence with the Skidmore Office of In most cases of complaint resolution, the dean or vice Admissions; documents pertaining to grade reports; dates of president’s decision is final. If students or parents remain attendance; approval of leaves of absence; correspondence with dissatisfied with the decision, they may ask the President to the Deans; senior audits; and the materials contained in the review the practice or policy. Students and parents should write student’s career planning file. to the President, explaining the circumstances and describing the conversations that have taken place with other College staff. The Act includes a list of types of records not open to student If the appropriate dean or vice president has not yet reviewed inspection. These are parents’ financial statements; confidential the decision, the president’s office will generally direct the letters and recommendations written before January 1, 1975; student and parent to the campus office most directly respon- letters and recommendations written after January 1, 1975 but sible for the area of concern. The President only reviews specifically designated as confidential; ancillary records of situations or problems of substantial consequence to the student instructional, supervisory and administrative personnel; confi- or parent and of broad concern to the College. dential law enforcement records; and records written by physi- cians, psychiatrists, psychologists, and other recognized profes- Campus Security Report sionals or paraprofessionals. Students and former students may request a doctor of their choice to review their medical records. Skidmore College publishes an annual Campus Security Report Colleges are allowed to publish “directory information” to inform the Skidmore community, campus visitors, and the including the student’s name, address, telephone number, general public of the College’s policies and procedures for e-mail address, date and place of birth, major field of study, 165 participation in officially recognized activities and sports, to register for classes or make up any examination, study or weight and height of members of athletic teams, dates of work requirements which he or she may have missed because of attendance, enrollment status, degrees and awards received, and such absence on any particular day or days. No fees of any kind the most recent previous educational institution attended. If any shall be charged by the institution for making available to the current Skidmore student does not want such directory infor- said student such equivalent opportunity. mation to be disclosed he or she must notify the Registrar’s Office in writing of the specific information not to be released. 4. If registration, classes, examinations, study or work require- Such notification is necessary within ten days of the first day of ments are held on Friday after four o’clock post meridian or on classes of the fall semester annually. Saturday, similar or makeup classes, examinations, study or work requirements or opportunity to register shall be made Except for parties identified as having legitimate access as available on other days, where it is possible and practicable to defined by the Act, Skidmore College must obtain the written consent of the student before disclosing personally do so. No special fees shall be charged to the student for these classes, examinations, study or work requirements or registra- identifiable information from the educational records. Specifics tion held on other days. related to the disclosure process are available upon request in the Registrar’s Office. Students or former students may gain 5. In effectuating the provisions of this section, it shall be the access to their credential files in the Career Services Office only duty of the faculty and of the administrative officials of each if they have established a non-confidential (or open) file. institution of higher education to exercise the fullest measure of Upon request, their open file will be made available for their good faith. No adverse or prejudicial effects shall result to any inspection. Copies of the file are available for a nominal fee. student because of his or her availing himself or herself of the A student or former student who believes that information provisions of this section. contained in the permanent record is inaccurate, misleading, 6. Any student who is aggrieved by the alleged failure of any or in violation of his or her privacy may request Skidmore to faculty or administrative officials to comply in good faith with amend the record. Such a request must be made in writing and the provisions of this section, shall be entitled to maintain an must contain specific information. Details related to this appeal action or proceeding in the supreme court of the county in process are available through the Registrar's Office. which such institution of higher education is located for the enforcement of his or her rights under this section. (Printed in compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act Policies) 6-a. It shall be the responsibility of the administrative officials of each institution of higher education to give written notice to students of their rights under this section, informing them that Regulations Regarding Students Unable to Register each student who is absent from school, because of his or her or Attend Classes Because of Religious Beliefs religious beliefs, must be given an equivalent opportunity to register for classes or make up any examination, study or work Effective July 30, 1992, the People of New York State, repre- requirements which he or she may have missed because of such sented in the Senate and Assembly, amended the Education absence on any particular day or days. No fees of any kind shall Law as follows: be charged by the institution for making available to each student such equivalent opportunity. 1. No person shall be expelled from or be refused admission as a student to an institution of higher education for the reason 7. As used in this section, the term “institution of higher educa- that he or she is unable, because of his or her religious beliefs, tion” shall mean any institution of higher education, recognized to register or attend classes or to participate in any examination, and approved by the regents of the university of the state of New study or work requirements on a particular day or days. York, which provides a course of study leading to the granting of a post-secondary degree or diploma. Such term shall not include 2. Any student in an institution of higher education who is any institution which is operated, supervised or controlled by a unable, because of his or her religious beliefs, to attend classes church or by a religious or denominational organization whose on a particular day or days shall, because of such absence on the educational programs are principally designed for the purpose of particular day or days, be excused from any examination or any training ministers or other religious functionaries or for the study or work requirements. purpose of propagating religious doctrines. As used in this section, 3. It shall be the responsibility of the faculty and of the the term “religious belief” shall mean beliefs associated with any administrative officials of each institution of higher education corporation organized and operated exclusively for religious to make available to each student who is absent from school, purposes, which is not disqualified for tax exemption under because of his or her religious beliefs, an equivalent opportunity section 501 of the United States Code. 166 Index

Academic program, 9 Computer Career Institute, 16 Sports and recreational, 21 Academic requirements and Computer Science, 80 Residence, 23 regulations, 47-51 Computer services (CITS), 13 Faculty, 152-160 Academic standards and review, 51-56 Correspondence, inside front cover Family Educational Rights and Acceleration, 49 Counseling, 25 Privacy Act Policies, 165 Accreditation, 57 Course credit, 58 Federal aid programs, 42 Administration, 161 Course loads, 35, 50 Fees and expenses, 34-38 Admission, 29-34 Course numbering, 58 Financial aid, 38-47 Deadlines, 33 Credit by examination, 50 Skidmore College, 39 Early admission, 31 Credit hour fee, 35 Federal, 42 Early decision, 29 Culture-centered inquiry requirements, New York State, 43 Guidelines, 29 11, 49 Foreign Languages and Literatures, 96 Interviews, 30 Curriculum, 10-12 Foreign language requirement, 11, 49 Midyear admission, 31 Foreign Language Resource Center, 97 Requirements for, 30 Dance, 82 Foundation requirements, 10, 48 Standardized testing, 31 Dean of the Faculty message, 5 French, 98 Advising services, 22 Degree programs, 57 Affiliated programs, 13, 146 Degrees, requirements for, 47 Geosciences, 103 Alumni Association, 161 Directory of offices and academic German, 99 American Studies, 58 departments, 164 Government, 105 Anthropology, 61 Directions to campus, inside back Grades, 52 Art (Studio), 63 cover Grants, 39, 42, 44 Art History, 67 Disabilities, students with, 30 Greek, 79 Arts requirement, 11, 49 Dismissal, 56 Asian Studies, 69 Disqualification, 56 Health insurance, 36 Athletic facilities, 21 Health professions, preparation for, 148 Athletics, 27 Early Childhood Center, 86 Health services, 24 Athletics personnel, 160 Economics, 83 Higher Education Opportunity Attendance, 51 Education, 85 Program (HEOP), 16, 149 Audit, 36, 52 Early Childhood minor, 86 History, 109 Education Studies major, 86 History of Skidmore College, 6 Bachelor of arts degree, 47, 57 M.A.T. program, 148 Honor Code, 51 Bachelor of science degree, 47, 57 Employment on campus, 42 Honor societies, national Biology, 71 Engineering, 147 Alpha Kappa Delta (sociology), 140 Biosphere 2 Semester, 14 English, 88 Omicron Delta Epsilon (economics), 84 Board fee, 34 Enrollment statistics, 150 Phi Alpha Theta (history), 109 Breadth requirements, 11, 49 Environmental Science Semester, 14 Phi Beta Kappa, 54 Buildings, key to, 162 Environmental Studies, 92 Pi Mu Epsilon (mathematics), 126 Business, 74 Exercise Science, 94 Pi Sigma Alpha (political science), 105 Expenses, 34-38 Psi Chi (psychology), 135 Calendar, college, 3 Expository writing requirement, 10, 48 Sigma Delta Pi (Spanish), 97 Campus Life, Office of, 23 External degree programs Honors, 53 Campus Security Report, 165 Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, 17 Honors Forum, 12, 54, 112 Career Services, 25 University Without Walls, 17 Housing, 23, 36 Chemistry, 77 Hudson-Mohawk Association, 13 Chinese, 97 Facilities Humanities requirement, 11, 49 Classics, 79 Academic, 19 Cocurricular activities, 26 Academic departments, 164 India, semester in, 15, 149 Community education, 16 Administrative offices, 164 Information resources Complaint procedure, 165 Cocurricular, 21 Intercollegiate teams, 28, 160

167 Scribner Library, 13, 19 Merit awards, 42 Social integrity, 52 Center for Information Technology Minors, 49 Social sciences requirement, 11, 49 Services (CITS), 13 Mission statement, 8 Social Work, 138 Integration requirements, 10, 48 Multicultural students, 22 Sociology, 139 Intercollegiate teams, 28, 160 Museum, Tang, 20 Spanish, 100 Interdepartmental majors, 112 Music, 128 Special students, 36 Interdisciplinary courses, 115 Standards for continuation, 55 Interdisciplinary programs Natural sciences requirement, 11, 49 Student Government Association, 26 Asian Studies, 69 New York State aid programs, 43 Student life, 26-28 Environmental Studies, 92 Nondiscrimination statement, 165 Student opportunity funds, 55 International Affairs, 116 Nonmatriculated students, 34 Student services, 22-25 Law and Society, 117 Non-Western culture requirement, 12, 49 Study abroad, 14, 22, 149 Liberal Studies, 118 Summer credits and grades, 56 Women’s Studies, 145 Off-campus programs, 13 Summer programs, 17-18 Interdisciplinary study requirements, Overload fee, 34 AP/Art, 18 10, 48 Camp $tart-Up, 18 International Affairs, 116 Paris, study abroad, 14, 149 Center for Talented Youth, 19 International programs, 14, 22, 149 Part-time status, see Course loads, 50 International Women’s Writing International students, 32 Payment plans, 35 Guild, 18 Internships, 12 Performing opportunities, 27 Jazz Institute, 18 Intramurals, 28 Periclean, 54 Judaic Studies Program, 19 Italian, 100 Philosophy, 131 Precollege program for high Physics, 133 school students, 18 Japanese, 100 Policies and procedures, 165 Summer academic sessions, 17 President’s message, 4 Summer SIX, 17 Latin, 79 Prizes, academic, 54 Summer dance workshops, 19 Law, preparation for, 148 Probation, 55 Summer Life Science Institute for Law and Society, 117 Psychology, 134 Girls, 18 Leaves of absence, 37, 50 Summer theater workshop, 19 Liberal arts requirement, 47 Quantitative reasoning requirement, Summer writers institute, 18 Liberal Studies 10, 48 LS1, 10, 118 Theater, 142 LS2, 10, 118-126 Readmission, 56 Transcripts, 57 Library, Scribner, 13, 19 Reclassification, 49 Transfer of credit, 50 Loans, 42,46 Recreation opportunities, 28 Transfer applicants, 32 London, semester in, 15, 149 Refunds, 37 Trustees, board of, 151 Registration, 51 Tuition fee, 34 Madrid, study abroad, 15, 149 Religious Studies, 137 Tuition insurance, 36 Majors, 57 Religious life, 23 Interdepartmental, 112 Requirements for degrees, 47 Underloads, 35 Self-determined, 146 Reserve Officer Training Corps, 14 University Without Walls, 17, 160 Requirements for, 12, 49 Residential life, 23 Management and Business, 74 Riding center, 21 Visiting student programs, 13 M.B.A. programs, 146 Room fee, 34 Visiting students, 34 Maps, 162, inside back cover Volunteer Office, 23 Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, 17 Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory, 52 Mathematics, 126 Science center, Dana, 19 Washington Semester, 14 Maturity level requirement, 48 Self-determined major, 146 Withdrawal, 56 Meal plans, see Board, 34 Self-instructional languages, 97 Women’s Studies, 145 Media opportunities, 26 Shakespeare Programme, 15, 149 Work Study, 43

168 printed on recycled paper Visits to the College

Visitors to Skidmore are welcome and are requested Skidmore College, in Saratoga Springs, is approximately to make an appointment in advance with the Office of 180 miles from New York City, Montreal, and Boston. The Admissions for an interview and/or a guided tour of the city is most conveniently reached by automobile via the New campus by writing (815 North Broadway, Saratoga York State Thruway and the Adirondack Northway (Exit Springs, NY 12866), calling (800-867-6007 or 518-580- 15). The Greyhound and Adirondack Trailways bus lines as 5570,) or e-mailing ([email protected]). well as Amtrak offer daily service to and from New York City and Montreal, and several major airlines have regular The Eissner Admissions Center is located on North flights to Albany International Airport. Broadway across from the main entrance to the College.

TRAVEL DIRECTIONS: Exit 15 from the Adirondack Northway (Interstate 87) leads to the Skidmore Campus. After the exit, follow Route 50 toward the city of Saratoga Springs, turning right onto East Avenue. Make another right turn where East Avenue intersects with North Broadway and proceed north about a quarter of a mile to the College’s main entrance.

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